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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declared emergency rule in three northeastern states, giving sweeping powers to the security forces against Islamist insurgents he said were taking over parts of the region. More troops will be deployed to Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states with authority to arrest and detain suspects, take over buildings and search areas suspected to be used for terrorist activity, Jonathan said today in a national broadcast. “Some northern parts of Borno state [...] Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, and Raed Jaser, 35, were arrested yesterday
Canadian security forces have thwarted an al-Qaeda-backed terrorist plot to derail a New York City-bound passenger train as it crossed the Niagara River, just a few miles from Niagara Falls. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police yesterday arrested Chiheb [...] Radiation is leaking from Iran’s nuclear facility at Fordow, which suffered devastating explosions on Jan. 21, The regime has ordered millions of antidote iodine pills from Russia and Ukraine amid fears the radioactivity will spread. Many of the personnel, who arrived after the explosion to assist with the cleanup at the site, have been taken to a military hospital suffering from headache, nausea and vomiting, according to a source in the security [...] WATCH: Summary of FSA operation to liberate regime outposts and checkpoints on the Mutahaleq al-Janoubi in Damascus. Syria’s army has launched a fierce assault around Damascus, blasting rebel strongholds and sealing the main entrances to the capital, witnesses said, as prospects for peace talks dimmed. Shattering months of relative calm in the capital, Wednesday’s offensive coincided with two suicide car bombings that killed almost 20 members of the security forces in the [...] The Defense Department has no idea whether or not it is violating U.S. sanctions by indirectly purchasing Iranian oil for the Afghan security forces, according to a new report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). The United States paid for the purchase and delivery of fuel to the Afghan security forces for years, totaling $1.1 billion for just the Afghan army since 2007. But the Pentagon’s lack of internal controls [...] An explosion deep within Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility has destroyed much of the installation and trapped about 240 personnel deep underground, according to a former intelligence officer of the Islamic regime. http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/sabotage-key-iranian-nuclear-facility-hit/#criMoHjqqi5jGM8s.99 An explosion deep within Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility has destroyed much of the installation and trapped about 240 personnel deep underground, according to a former intelligence officer of the Islamic regime. … According to a source in the security forces protecting Fordow, [...] Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood called for protests across the country on Sunday to support President Mohammed Mursi, while the country’s judges urged for a nationwide strike against a decree they saw as granting Mursi new, extensive powers. The Brotherhood’s protest requests came as Egypt’s Judges Club, a body that represents judges throughout the country, called for “the suspension of work in all courts and prosecution administrations,” after several hours of emergency talks [...] General: We’re Staying in Afghanistan, No Matter What Obama Said Remember how President Obama said on the campaign trail that he would “responsibly end the war” in Afghanistan in 2014? Or when Vice President Biden said the president’s plan was “to end the war in 2014?” The general they want to lead that war is singing a much different tune. … “It’s a question of confidence in the Afghan people that we will [...] Here’s what retired Major General Jerry Curry (Ret) had to say to The Daily Caller in an article titled “Who Does The Government Intend To Shoot?” “In the war in Iraq, our military forces expended approximately 70 million rounds per year. In March DHS ordered 750 million rounds of hollow point ammunition. It then turned around and ordered an additional 750 million rounds of miscellaneous bullets including some that are capable [...] If a recently proposed law by the director general of Spanish police, Ignacio Cosidó, is actually enacted, it is likely that live (or replayed) webcasts, photos and any electronic recordings such as those seen recently from the Madrid anti-sovereignty riots may be a thing of the past. But not because they no longer exist: simply because very soon it may be illegal to actually record said events. El Pais reports [...] Iran deployed riot police at key Tehran intersections on Thursday, after tensions flared over the nation’s plunging currency in the most widespread display of anger linked to the country’s sanctions-hit economy. Iran’s rial has lost nearly 40 percent of its value against the U.S. dollar in the past week.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2012/1004/Iran-s-currency-plunges-40-percent-riot-police-called-out?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=DTN%20Iran: No shops were open in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar on Thursday, October 4, 2012, one day after shopkeepers and merchants went on strike to [...] KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber driving a motorcycle packed with explosives rammed his bike into a joint Afghan-American patrol on Monday morning in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least 14 people including three U.S. troops and their translator, officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast, which came a day after the U.S. death toll in the war in Afghanistan reached 2,000 troops. Such joint patrols are considered key [...] Armed militants have attacked a prison in the Iraqi city of Tikrit, killing at least 12 guards and freeing about 90 inmates, officials have told the BBC. They say a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb at the gates of Tasfirat prison and clashes between militants and security guards followed. Some of the escaped inmates were reportedly al-Qaeda members. The prison was later retaken from the gunmen by security forces, reports say. [...] Published today 22:36 EL-ARISH, Egypt (Ma’an) – Egyptian security services announced a state of high alert in Sinai on Wednesday evening after receiving information about possible attacks on officers in the peninsula, security officials said. Egyptian intelligence warned that “unprecedented attacks” were planned by jihadist groups against security headquarters in north Sinai over the next 48 hours, a security officer told Ma’an. The intelligence service learned of plans to attack targets in north Sinai [...] For months, if not years, Britain’s defence chiefs have made it clear they are desperate to get out of Afghanistan. They have clung to the increasingly implausible claim that training and mentoring Afghan security forces was going well, indeed better than expected. That claim has been shattered by Nato‘s decision, taken at the behest of the US, to suspend joint Nato-Afghan ground operations. The decision strikes at the heart of Nato and British [...] 1 killed as anti-US protesters rally near US consulate in Karachi – reports One person was reportedly killed and six others injured by police fire when anti-US protesters clashed with security forces outside the US consulate in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city. Police deployed water cannons, and fired tear gas and warning shots to disperse crowds of angry protesters, who threw rocks at the US consulate and set fire to a nearby police [...] Now this crosses the line when American values like junk food are disrespected. Time to call in the Carriers! http://rt.com/news/kfc-tripoli-lebanon-fire-140/ Security forces abandon the US Embassy perimeter in Cairo http://rt.com/on-air/cairo-clashes-us-embassy/ Protesters continue to rally outside the US Embassy in Cairo. Demonstrators are attacking police with stones and Molotov cocktails, while security forces fired tear gas and warning shots into the crowd. Over 220 demonstrators have been injured and at least 12 others arrested so far. http://rt.com/on-air/cairo-clashes-us-embassy/ An American staff member of the U.S. consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi has died following fierce clashes at the compound, Libyan security sources said on Wednesday…. http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/9/52597/World/International/Mob-sets-fire A US official has been killed and others wounded in Libya as an armed mob protesting over a film they said offended Islam attacked the US consulate in Benghazi. Libya’s Supreme Security Committee spokesman said: “One American staff member has died and a [...] Nearly 2,000 members of the Greek security forces attended rally in protest at austerity measures and proposed pay cuts Members of the Greek security forces staged a symbolic hanging in front of the nation’s [...] Guardian.co.uk A former CNN correspondent defies threats from her former employer to speak out about self-censorship at the network In late March 2011, as the Arab Spring was spreading, CNN sent a four-person crew to Bahrain to produce a one-hour documentary on the use of internet technologies and social media by democracy activists in the region. Featuring on-air investigative correspondent Amber Lyon, the CNN team had a very eventful eight-day stay in that small, US-backed kingdom. By [...] A spokesman for Spain’s Veuling airlines is denying reports one of its airplanes was hijacked, calling it “a miscommunication,” Reuters reports. The BBC had reported Dutch security forces have surrounded a hijacked plane at Amsterdam Schiphol airport that took from from Malaga. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/report-dutch-airforce-intercepts-possible-hijacked-plane-2012-8#ixzz24wGnUfgE From RT news: David S. Cloud and Shashank Bengali The Pentagon has made contingency plans to send small teams of special operations troops into Syria if the White House decides it needs to secure chemical weapons depots now controlled by security forces loyal to President Bashar Assad, senior U.S. officials said. President Obama warned this week that any effort by Assad to move or use his arsenal of chemical munitions in the country’s [...] While the Obama regime actively participates in the destabilization of Bashar al-Assad’s government, by aiding rebel groups and proxy governments to carry out a shadow war against Syria, the US government is also considering invading the country by putting 50,000 to 60,000 soldiers on the ground to “safeguard” the chemical weapons stockpile. Main stream media accused the Syrian government of illegally moving chemical weapons to publicly undisclosed locations in the country, [...] DEBKAfile The US and its allies are discussing a worst-case scenario that could require up to 60,000 ground troops to go into Syria to secure chemical and biological weapons sites following the fall of the Assad government, an unnamed American source said Thursday night, Aug.16. This scenario postulates the disintegration of his security forces, he said, leaving chemical and biological weapons sites vulnerable to pillaging. It assumes the sites could [...] KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A newly recruited Afghan village policeman opened fire on his American allies on Friday, killing two U.S. service members minutes after they handed him his official weapon in an inauguration ceremony. It was the latest in a disturbing string of attacks by Afghan security forces on the international troops training them. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_AFGHANISTAN Six militants wearing air force uniforms and suicide vests were killed in a fierce firefight with security forces after penetrating the high-securityPakistan Aeronautical Complex at Kamra, 45 miles north-west of the capital Islamabad. The assault early this morning has raised new questions over the security of the country’s nuclear weapons arsenal. The attack is the third on the air base since 2007, but is the most audacious and successful to date. The [...] Syrian security forces have killed a large number of terrorists attempting to enter the country from Turkey. The development comes as clashes continue between Syrian troops and foreign-sponsored armed gangs in the northwestern city of Aleppo. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/07/29/253370/syria-army-kills-terrorists-near-turkey/ Some of the main dissident republican terrorist factions in Northern Ireland are to unite as one to form a new version of the IRA, it’s been revealed. It is understood the merger is a fresh attempt at destabilising power sharing at Stormont and will come in the form of intensified attacks on security forces. According to the Guardian newspaper, Republican Action Against Drugs, the vigilante group which is most active in the [...] |
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