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"Some say it is merely a sneeze
But I see, with Ms. Toby, on skis,
'Tis more weak, shivering knees
In a bleak, freezing breeze..."
[here he disappears into the trees]
TORKHAM IMPASSE MAY BE RESOLVED, GATE COULD OPEN TODAY – After over a week of insults and threats being traded between both Pakistan and the Taliban, it appears the crossing may be reopened today. Reports vary significantly as to what may have led to an agreement and both sides have claimed that the other side capitulated to demands made in the discussions. However, it seems that Pakistan may have gotten the better part of the deal by forcing the Foreign Minister of the Taliban to announce (again) that Afghan soil would not be used for attacks against Pakistan. A source in Rawalpindi could not provide many details about the deal that was reportedly struck but did say that Pakistan retained its rights to strike TTP militants should further incursions into Pakistani territory be made. Apparently, the Taliban acquiesced on this point but may have secured some kind of ‘notification of intent to take action’ commitment from Pakistan. What this may mean is unclear but Pakistan is rumored to have carried out two high-profile assassinations of noted TTP Commanders in recent days (1 in Afghanistan, 1 in Pakistan) that could have been sanctioned by Kabul. As has been seen in previous instances where the borders have been closed, there is often violence that has occurred in the aftermath of a reopening and this could take place at Torkham in the coming days. Afghans intending to pass through Torkham should it reopen should remain alert for another potential clash.
MANY AFGHANS DETAINED IN PAKISTAN RELEASED FROM DETENTION, HUNDREDS REMAIN IMPRISONED – Pakistan announced it had detained close to 500 Afghans over the past week in several operations that were primarily focused in Sindh Province. The announcement was significantly higher than previous estimates suggested and raised alarms among refugee-centric organizations in Pakistan. Many of those detained reputedly have legitimate visas and/or UNHCR refugee cards and were said to have been picked up illegally. Authorities in Pakistan said they had released 120 of those detained over the past five days and it seems they were not deported but were allowed to return to their accommodations freely. A small number of Afghans who were detained were implicated in street crimes, mainly the theft of cellular phones and a few mopeds. Pakistan intends to deport those involved in criminal activity. With the reputedly successful negotiations between Islamabad and Kabul over the border situation, the source in Rawalpindi believes that additional releases of Afghans will begin.
IRAN WARNS AFGHAN REFUGEES IN THE COUNTRY TO RESPECT HIJAB LAWS AND NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY POTENTIAL DEMONSTRATIONS – Tomorrow will mark the one-year anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in Iran and Iran has deployed thousands of security personnel to quickly put down any potential protests across the country. The regime warned foreigners residing in Iran who take part in demonstrations that they will face immediate prosecution and rapid deportation if they are caught participating in any instances of civil disobedience. As Afghans make up the largest bloc of refugees in the country, the risk they could incur the wrath of security forces is high. At-risk Afghans in Iran are encouraged to avoid any groups that begin forming.
MORE REPORTS OF INTERNATIONAL AID WORKERS ARRESTED IN GHOR – Offices of the International Assistance Mission in the Lal Wa Sarjangal District were reportedly raided by Taliban security personnel on 13 September and several men and women employed by the NGO were detained. There are discrepancies about the total number of those arrested and it is not currently clear how many are locally engaged staff (Afghans) and are foreign nationals. Most accounts agree that more than 10 people were arrested and taken to Kabul by agents from the local GDI office. There has been no word on what charges the personnel face and what may have prompted the Taliban's actions. Previous unconfirmed reporting suggested that other aid workers had been seized in Ghor and another Province in August and early September.
NEXT 24 HOURS
IRAN EXPECTED TO EXPERIENCE VIOLENCE – Few observers believe the anniversary of Amini’s death will pass peacefully and most anticipate violence to ensue tomorrow. We are confident at-risk Afghans in Iran are well aware of the threat and encourage those evacuation groups who have people in the country to make contact as sooon as possible and be warned that internet blackouts will almost certainly be instituted by the Iranian regime to disrupt protestors as well as attempt to control reports that are sent out of the country.
Ah, but will it stay open? The Afghan Taliban are still providing shelter and support to their Pakistan Taliban brothers.
[GEO.TV] After a more than week’s closure since cross-border attacks in Chitral, the Torkham border between Afghanistan and Pakistain is likely to reopen today (Friday), Geo News has learnt.
"The Torkham border will be opened for trade from tomorrow," customs officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity told Geo News on Thursday. They added that import, and export including the passageway of transit vehicles will be restored from Friday onwards.
The officials also added that "thousands of cargo cars" have been stuck on both sides of the border for nine days.
Yes, and much of their cargo of produce will have gone bad by now, and be unsalable.
They added that the border will also be opened for foot traffic.
The decision came after Acting Afghanistan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi met the Head of the Pakistain Mission in Kabul, Ubaid Ur Rehman Nizamani.
In the meeting, the Afghan authorities assured Pakistain that Afghan soil would not be used against Pakistain.
Sources, privy to the decision, said the decision to reopen the border came after this meeting.
[Garowe] A senior al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... financial operative has been killed in Somalia, the government announced on Wednesday, in what has been nodded as an "important milestone" in the ongoing crackdown against the bandidoshard boyz who are still dominant in central and southern Somalia.
The Ministry of Defence announced that the group's notorious financier in the Bay region was killed along with several other bandidoshard boyz as the national army mops up operations against the bad boys, who have been wreaking havoc in the Horn of Africa nation, which is seeking stability after three decades of turmoil.
Without revealing the identity of the suspect, the Ministry of Defence insisted the victim has been leading a gang of individuals in extorting unsuspecting citizens in various parts of the country including but not limited to Adegabow Garar, Warta Dolar, Weley Bagal, and Ey-Duray, all of which are situated in the Bay region.
According to the ministry, the operation was "satisfactory" and managed to neutralize the bandidoshard boyz who are notorious for waging coordinated attacks mostly targeting innocent civilians and security forces. The operation will continue in various parts across the region, the ministry said.
This comes after the government revealed that within the last seven days, at least seven al-Shabaab top commanders have been killed in operations launched across the country. Currently, operations have been activated in central areas with the military also planning similar outings in southern parts.
In which the Kavkaz Uzel reporter manages to make not many words carry the entire information load of almost no words at all.
[KavkazUzel] The court found a resident of Dagestan guilty of financing terrorism for providing monetary assistance to members of a terrorist organization and sentenced her to eight years in prison.
The investigation and the court established that in December 2021 and January 2022, a resident of Makhachkala participated in the activities of an international terrorist organization,
... ISIS, Al Qaeda, Hizb-ut Tahrir? Something else altogether? It really wouldn’t be that hard for the reporter to give us a hint...
providing financial assistance to its participants, the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for Dagestan reported.
The woman was found guilty of financing terrorism (Part 1.1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of Russia). She was sentenced to eight years of imprisonment in a general regime colony, according to today’s message on the department’s website.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that in July the court found a resident of the Khasavyurt district, Abdurakhman Abdurakhmanov,
...among other activities, he sent funds to ISIS jihadi Abdulkadir Masharipov, a Uighur, who killed 39 at the Reina nightclub in Istanbul on January 1, 2017...
guilty of promoting terrorism and participating in the activities of a terrorist organization for transferring a thousand dollars to a member of a terrorist organization and sentenced him to 5.5 years in prison.
[Dawn] A five-month-old baby boy drowned during a rescue operation off the Italian island of Lampedusa after a boat carrying migrants colonists across the sea from North Africa capsized, ANSA and other Italian news agencies reported on Wednesday.
The tragedy occurred as migrant landings on Lampedusa surged, leaving the small island struggling to cope.
About 1,850 new arrivals landed on Wednesday, bringing the total number of migrants colonists in Lampedusa to more than 6,700, according to ANSA.
The boat the baby was travelling on capsized shortly before it was intercepted by the Italian coastguard. All other passengers were rescued, including the baby’s mother, a teenager from Guinea, ANSA said.
The migrants colonists had set off from the Tunisian city of Sfax, a well-known launchpad for sea journeys to Europe.
Lampedusa, Italia’s southernmost point and a first port of call for people crossing from North Africa, has long been a flashpoint in Europe’s migration crisis.
Most of those staying there were being hosted at the island’s reception centre, which has an official capacity of around 400. Skirmishes between police and hundreds of migrants colonists trying to leave the island erupted on the docks but were quickly quelled, ANSA said.
STOP TAKING MIGRANTS COLONISTS
Germany said on Wednesday it has stopped taking in migrants colonists from Italia under a European voluntary solidarity plan, in what could shape up to be a new standoff over asylum seekers in the bloc.
[OneIndia] The Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... Police, on Thursday reported that they have encircled two Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (Let) terrorists, including Uzair Khan, responsible for the killing of three security officers in the Kokernag area of Anantnag district.
In a tragic incident, a fierce shootout with gunnies in the Kokernag area of Anantnag district in Kashmir led to the loss of an army colonel, a major, and a senior police official. Colonel Manpreet Singh, Major Ashish Dhonak, and Deputy Superintendent of Jammu and Kashmir Police Humayun Bhat were among the casualties.
Uzair Ahmad Khan (28) has been an active member of Let since July 2022.
Reportedly, the bodies of the colonel and major were recovered from the encounter site. The gunnies had taken refuge in a nomad hut, and upon receiving a tip from sources, they targeted the officers and their escort. During the operation, an AK-47 rifle, utensils, clothing, and ammunition were seized from the hut, which served as the terrorists' hideout in the Gadole jungles.
The operation was meticulously planned by the Commanding Officer (CO), company commander, and Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), catching the gunnies off guard as they approached the hideout from an unexpected and challenging route. The gunnies were cornered and engaged in indiscriminate firing, resulting in severe injuries to the three courageous officers. The treacherous terrain made the situation even more challenging, but the gunnies are currently trapped, and an ongoing operation is in progress to neutralize them.
The encounter happened on Wednesday morning as part of a mission to locate and apprehend gunnies believed to be hiding in the Gadole area. The operation initially commenced on Tuesday evening but was temporarily halted during the night for safety reasons. On Wednesday morning, authorities resumed their pursuit of the gunnies based on credible information regarding their concealed location. These details were shared by official sources with PTI, shedding light on the prevailing security challenges in the region.
As the joint forces' team closed in on the suspected location, the hidden gunnies initiated gunfire, sparking a confrontation.
[GEO.TV] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one that was led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spent more time running his madrassah until his secretary rubbed him out in a jealous rage. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... Fazl (JUI-F) leader Hafiz Hamdullah on Thursday sustained injuries in a blast that took place in Mastung, 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... According to initial reports, the blast took place near a vehicle which injured Hamdullah and several others.
Police rushed to the site of the incident and cordoned off the area.
Mustang Deputy Commissioner Abdul Razzaq Sasoli said several people were maimed in the Mustang blast and added that the three injured including the JUI-F leader had been shifted to a hospital in Quetta.
The official said the JUI-F leader was provided initial medical aid in Mastung before being shifted to the lovely provincial capital for further treatment.
He said the JUI-F leader’s condition is out of danger.
Speaking to Geo News, JUI-F spokesperson Aslam Ghauri said Hamdullah sustained injuries but his condition is not critical.
"He hasn't been critically injured. His button men and two of Hamdullah's party colleagues have also been injured but their condition is stable," he added.
Ghauri said that Hamdullah was travelling from Quetta to Kalat when he came under attack.
He also expressed ignorance about the nature of the blast.
According to a health department spokesperson, the 11 injured were shifted to Shaheed Nawab Ghous Bakhsh Raisani Memorial Hospital in Mastung.
The spokesperson added that one of the persons is at death's door.
The Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Mustang said 11 people including Hamdullah injured in the blast.
The nature of the Mustang explosion is being ascertained, the senior police official added.
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[Dawn] A suspected commander of the banned outfit ISIS was bumped off during an operation 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 Mastung area, the province’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) said on Wednesday.
In a blurb issued today, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, the CTD said it had received intelligence regarding a visit to Mastung of one of the leaders — Ghulam Din alias Shoaib — of ISIS’s Balochistan chapter to plan terrorist activity in the area and its surroundings.
CTD statements use the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) turban group.
It added that CTD personnel initiated an operation and surrounded the suspect, demanding his surrender. "He started firing and tried to flee the scene. But since planning has been done in advance so he was challenged by force and was killed in cross-firing," the statement added.
It said he was allegedly involved in several high-profile terrorist activities in the province, including the attack on Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... -Fazl leader Maulana Ghafoor Haideri, the 2016 suicide kaboom on lawyers in Quetta, the suicide attack on Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... chief Sirajul Haq ...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that... , multiple suicide attacks on the Sibi Mela and Quetta police, as well as the "slaughter" of Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... coal miners in Mach.
The statement added that he joined ISIS in 2015 after receiving training in Wazoo from the proscribed Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP).
The CTD said further investigation was under way in the matter.
Last week, the police said five alleged TTP bad boyz were potted during an operation by the CTD in the Aghberg area of Quetta.
On Sep 2, the CTD said it had killed eight TTP and IS members in two intelligence-based operations conducted in Quetta and Washuk districts.
A UN report discussed at a Security Council meeting in New York last month had said the TTP and other groups affiliated with the Taliban and Al Qaeda were providing 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... -calibre weapons to IS.
[Shafaq News] The Central Criminal Court in Baghdad al-Rusafa Presidency of Appeal has issued a death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... for a convicted terrorist responsible for a bombing that targeted a convoy during the visit of two military leaders in 2022.
The Supreme Judicial Council's media center confirmed that the bombing in the Taji area north of Baghdad resulted in casualties and injuries. The convicted terrorist was also filming the incident as a member of the ISIS terrorist group.
The sentencing follows the provisions of Article Four of the Anti-Terrorism Law No. 13 of 2005.
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[IsraelTimes] Nadheer Dar Ahmad convicted of May 2022 stabbing at Damascus Gate in Old City of Jerusalem
The Jerusalem District Court on Thursday sentenced a Paleostinian terrorist to 20 years in prison for a May 2022 attack outside the Old City of Jerusalem during which he stabbed a Border Police officer in the neck.
Nadheer Dar Ahmad
...for some reason named in the article reporting the original attack as Nadheer Marzouq ...
was convicted of a terrorist act, attempted murder, possession of a knife, aggravated assault and entering Israel without a permit. He was also ordered to pay compensation to the officer he stabbed.
Dar Ahmad is from the West Bank town of Abwein, north of Ramallah.
According to court papers, Dar Ahmad entered Israeli territory without a permit,
...an illegal migrant, donchaknow, doing the work that Israelis won’t do...
and went to the Damascus Gate of the Old City where he sat on some steps for 30 minutes. Israel Police officers on duty at the site became suspicious of him but when they approached he began to move away, climbing the steps that lead away from the gate in the direction of Sultan Suleiman Street.
Officers halted Dar Ahmad and asked to see his identification papers.
Ahmad was evasive, telling the officers he did not have papers with him. The cops told him to enter a Border Police security booth in the area so they could carry out a more thorough examination. As the group entered the booth Dar Ahmad pulled out a knife and tried to stab one of the officers, who pushed him away. Another officer approached Dar Ahmad and the two began to wrestle, with Dar Ahmad repeatedly trying to stab the officer, until he eventually maimed him in the neck. Other officers then managed to shoot Dar Aham, disabling him, though he continued to try to harm the stabbed officer until he was eventually subdued.
The stabbed officer was rushed to the hospital where he was given life-saving medical treatment.
According to police at the time, Dar Ahmad had two knives in his possession.
Initially Dar Ahmad claimed he was only protecting himself from an assault by the officers but the prosecution was able to provide evidence that he had planned an attack. Dar Ahmad eventually confessed he had arrived at the location with the intention of stabbing a police officer.
There have been numerous knife and gun attacks by Paleostinians at the heavily policed Damascus Gate over the years, some of them deadly.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli customs announce that they foiled an attempt to smuggle 16 tons of chemicals that could be used to manufacture rocket fuel from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... to Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Among the containers that arrived at Ashdod port in July were some containing 54 tons of plaster for construction in Gaza.
Among these were hidden 16 tons of ammonium chloride, a dual-use chemical that Israel bars from Gaza due to its potential to be used to construct rockets.
Terror groups in the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,-ruled Strip have fired tens of thousands of rockets at Israel in recent years.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian fighters agree to a new ceasefire on Thursday after more than a week of deadly violence in Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s largest refugee camp, two Paleostinian officials tell AFP.
At least 17 people have been killed and around 100 maimed in the fighting in Ain al-Helweh refugee camp, on the outskirts of the port city of Sidon, according to the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy’s Lebanon branch.
The festivities have pitted fighters of Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... ’s Fatah movement, which controls the camp, against hardline Islamists.
"The two parties agreed to implement a ceasefire... starting today at 6 p.m. (1500 GMT)," Paleostinian camp official Fuad Othman tells AFP by telephone.
A Paleostinian official close to Fatah confirms the agreement, requesting anonymity because they are not allowed to speak to the press.
The agreement came after the speaker of the Lebanese parliament, Nabih Knobby Berri ...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... , met separately with Fatah’s Azzam al-Ahmad and Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,’s Mussa Abu Marzuk on Thursday.
Hamas is not involved in the fighting but is in contact with the Islamist hardliners, Othman said.
[AnNahar] Seven people were killed in festivities as a ceasefire fell apart on Wednesday evening in Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... 's largest Paleostinian camp, the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy's Lebanon branch said.
The Ain el-Helweh refugee camp, on the outskirts of the southern city of Sidon, has been rocked by violence since last week.
The festivities have pitted members of the Fatah movement, which controls the camp, against hardline Islamist bad boys, excluding Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,.
The renewed fighting on Wednesday killed seven people and maimed 16, Imad Hallak from the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy's Lebanon branch told AFP over the phone.
The latest deaths bring to at least 16 the number of people killed in the fighting since it broke out on Thursday, the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy said. Around 100 have also been maimed, it said.
Senior Paleostinian officials, including Fatah's Azzam al-Ahmad and Hamas's Mussa Abu Marzuk, met late Tuesday at the Paleostinian embassy in Beirut, a joint statement said.
They had expressed their "full commitment to consolidating the ceasefire" and agreed to "work to facilitate the return of those forced from their homes".
But the ceasefire collapsed on Wednesday, with an AFP correspondent in Sidon reporting violent mostly peacefulfestivities in the evening.
Bullets and shells fell on different parts of Sidon, he said, adding that he saw dozens of Paleostinian families fleeing the camp.
The latest deaths bring to at least 16 the number of people killed in the fighting since it broke out on Thursday, the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy said. Around 100 have also been maimed, it said.
Five days of fighting in Ain al-Helweh that began in late July killed 13 people and maimed dozens, in the deadliest outbreak of violence in the camp in years.
That fighting erupted after the death of an Islamist bad boy, followed by an ambush that killed five Fatah members, including a military leader.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...Arabic for 
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
