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http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/08/20118785421245255.html

Arab League condemnation - El Araby specifically mentioned Hama and Deir ez-Zor, but also referred to violence against protesters in all of Syria.

Sunday's deaths come as international condemnation of the violence against protesters - most recently from the Arab League - continued to mount.

The Arab League, through its secretary-general Nabil El Araby, expressed " growing concern" over the " deteriorating" situation in Syria.

Sunday,  Abdel Rahman said about 25 tanks and troop carriers had entered Hula and carried out military operations. Seven  people, including two children,  were also reported killed in the town of Al Holeh in the central Homs province with " dozens" of people being taken into custody.

Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human rights, told the AFP news agency.

teeth53      ( Date: 12-Jun-2011 23:53) Posted: Real politic battle, err...civil war is shaping and sharpening  in Arabic world. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/06/2011612101331904689.html  (Jisr al-Shughur) Clashes erupt after troops move in to avenge ambush that reportedly killed 120 security personnel. Syrian state television  has reported heavy clashes between  troops and  armed men  in the  restive town of Jisr al-Shughur in the country's north. " Army divisions entered Jisr al-Shughur and purged the state hospital of armed groups," said on Sunday. Syria creating humanitarian crisis Global community calls on Damascus to grant relief agencies access to civilians caught up in security crackdown. ( 12-Jun-2011 )

 

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/kadhafi-era-over-rebels-seize-most-tripoli-005629339.html

Tripoli. Libya fate  isit the  same as??. Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast-Central/West of  Africa) 

AFP news agency - Forgotten war, UN Security Council unanimously passed a resolution giving the 12,000-strong peacekeeping operation a stake.  While YJ Choi, the special representative of the United Nations secretary-general for Cote d'Ivoire told Al Jazeera " the war is over" .

" All the generals who are fighting for Gbagbo have deserted him. There is no army, there is no flighting,"

teeth53      ( Date: 05-Apr-2011 22:33) Posted: Stories  behind this forgotten war....Cote d'Ivoire: The forgotten war is looking for a ceasefire.?  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/04/20114513659812234.html As hundreds have been killed and thousands displaced, but the crisis has garnered little international attention.

 

China is ready to help, I suppose!

teeth53      ( Date: 12-Jun-2011 23:53) Posted: Real politic battle, err...civil war is shaping and sharpening  in Arabic world. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/06/2011612101331904689.html  (Jisr al-Shughur) Clashes erupt after troops move in to avenge ambush that reportedly killed 120 security personnel. Syrian state television  has reported heavy clashes between  troops and  armed men  in the  restive town of Jisr al-Shughur in the country's north. " Army divisions entered Jisr al-Shughur and purged the state hospital of armed groups," said on Sunday. Syria creating humanitarian crisis Global community calls on Damascus to grant relief agencies access to civilians caught up in security crackdown. ( 12-Jun-2011 )

 

Real politic battle, err...civil war is shaping and sharpening  in Arabic world.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/06/2011612101331904689.html  (Jisr al-Shughur)

 

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/05/201153185927813389.html

Hamza's mutilated, castrated corpse was riddled with bullet holes and burn marks  [YouTube/SFP]

Hamza's mutilated, castrated corpse was riddled with bullet holes and burn marks  [YouTube/SFP]

Tortured and killed: Hamza al-Khateeb, age 13

The mutilation and death in custody of a 13-year-old child has sparked further furious protests in Syrian city of Daraa. Hamza's mutilated, castrated corpse was riddled with bullet holes and burn marks  [YouTube/SFP] 

 

teeth53: Real politic battle, err...civil war is shaping and sharpening  in Arabic world.

The Shia movement  - which operates democratically in a democratic Lebanon  - employs as much realpolitik as anyone else in its domestic and foreign affairs. Oftentimes that means staying quiet and withholding public support when allies behave brutally.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/06/201161154932651488.html

Hamza al-Khateeb was kidnapped from the streets of Saida in Syria on April 29th. The boy was attending an anti-regime demonstration when he was seized by members of Bashar al-Assad's secret terror squad.  Nearly a month later, on May 24, his family received his mutilated corpse. He was tortured to death.
 
Here is how Al Jazeera English described the child's brutalised body:................................

I read the above lines and failed to comprehend the totality of the horror and violence perpetrated against Hamza. Gradually, a picture began to form in my mind. Here was a child, torn from his family and plunged into the darkest recesses of Assad's despotic state. Grown men  - adults  - separated him from everything sacred to him his mother, his father, his home and routine.
 
I try to imagine his blinding terror  - the kind that arrests your heart and mind  - at the first jolting blows to his face. I picture his savage beating and the implements of violence burning into his flesh. Can a child understand the blackness that infests the hearts of men? Was Hamza aware he could die? I pray he lost consciousness.

Visual diary shows Libyan soldier at war

New video gives insight into reality of war from perspective of government troops.

http://english.aljazeera.net/video/africa/2011/06/20116910501345686.html

Visual diary shows Libyan soldier at war

New video gives insight into reality of war from perspective of government troops.

 

[He had] lacerations, bruises and burns to his feet, elbows, face and knees, consistent with the use of electric shock devices and of being whipped with cable [...] Hamza's eyes were swollen and black and there were identical bullet wounds where he had apparently been shot through both arms, the bullets tearing a hole in his sides and lodging in his belly. On Hamza's chest was a deep, dark burn mark. His neck was broken and his penis cut off.

teeth53      ( Date: 23-Apr-2011 14:31) Posted: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/04/201141885827731124.html Commander Tahar Mohammed, (a clothes trader in peacetime), now leads 'Grand Lion' battalion" are running an operation to clear out snipers from part of Tripoli St and had recaptured a section of it Street that was previously under control  by Gaddafi forces. " We pushed them back 500 metres in four hours," Their intention is to clear the area, building by building, street by street and are enjoying laudable success. They now control 60km of Tripoli St, the areas closer to town have also been secured. Mohammed explains. Earlier. The rebels had sprung a multi-pronged attack: Firing heavy machine guns, rocket propelled grenades  and had cornered the snipers into one building. " We asked the snipers to surrender: They didn't, so we shot them. We killed eight and captured one," says fighter Sahah Mohammed Khalil. Khalil's head is bandaged with a bloody patch where he took a piece of shrapnel. " The snipers have rocket propelled grenades, rifles and grenades. When one got scared, the sniper threw a hand grenade," he says. Gaddafi has better weapons, but our morale is higher, say the rebels. " Gaddafi has the bravery of a bird, his people don't want to fight," Mohammed adds. In a Misurata medical clinic lays one of Gaddafi's fighters. A  19-year-old boy, who does not want his identity revealed, was a student of electrical engineering in Tripoli. When the fighting started and his lessons were cancelled  he says he was forced to join Gaddafi's troops. " We were kept locked inside camp, trained for  2 wks and they took us to Misurata," he explains. Told only.  We  are fighting foreign mercenaries, he recounts. When they came under heavy fire from the rebels, their officer turned and ran. The boy followed and says his own brigade soldier  shot him. " Clear instructions - nobody should go back as  I lay on the ground bleeding for one-and-a-half hours," he says. Breaking into tears, he adds: " I haven't seen my family in more than a month."

 

a bullet in the head.

olehze      ( Date: 02-May-2011 13:45) Posted: BBC NEWS:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13256943    The US dollar has rebounded, and stock markets have gained in Asia after US President Barack Obama said Osama Bin Laden was dead. Oil prices slid more than 1% the prices of gold and silver also dropped. Analysts said Bin Laden's death may lower security risks, and would help lift consumer sentiment in the US. However, they warned that it would do little to ease the longer-term risks hanging over the US and global economies. " There is some feel-good value and the market will like that," said Chip Hanlon of Delta Global Advisors. But he added that: " It doesn't change much about the energy situation and doesn't change much about the ongoing battle with radical Islamists." Stock index futures indicated that Wall Street's main S& P 500 index would rise when it opened later on Monday. In Asia during afternoon trading, Japan's Nikkei 225 index climbed above the 10,000 level for the first time since mid-March, when the country was struck by a deadly earthquake and tsunami. Many stock markets in the region, including those in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, were closed for a public holiday on Monday, and will react to the news of Bin Laden's death on Tuesday. teeth53      ( Date: 02-May-2011 13:08) Posted: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/al-qaeda-leader-osama-bin-laden-dead-tv-024851532.html Enlarge Photo File photo of Osama bin-Laden in Al Qaeda leaderOsama bin Laden was killed Sunday in a firefight with U.S. special  forces in Pakistan and his body was recovered. U.S. forces led a targeted operation that killed  Osama in Abbotabad north of Islamabad. Intelligence that originated last August provided the clues that eventually led to bin Laden's trail, the president said. A U.S. official said Obama gave the final order to pursue the operation last Friday morning. " Justice has been done," President Barack  Obama said, late-night White House speech announcing the death of the elusive mastermind. Sept 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington that killed nearly 3,000 people. It was at least a huge symbolic blow to al Qaeda, the militant organization that has staged bloody attacks in many western and Arab countries cities and has been the subject of a worldwide campaign against it.

 

SMX confirms resignation of CEO McMahon

 

SINGAPORE Mercantile Exchange (SMX) CEO Thomas McMahon resigned last Friday, the exchange said yesterday, confirming a newspaper report.

http://onefinanceasia.com/news.php?newsid=19898 

 

Stocks set for a pullback

U.S. stocks were set to open lower Tuesday, as investors shift focus back to the economy, and await auto sales and factory orders.

03 May 2011 07:37pm

One Finance Asia news: http://onefinanceasia.com/news.php?newsid=19938 

 

BBC NEWS:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13256943 

 

The US dollar has rebounded, and stock markets have gained in Asia after US President Barack Obama said Osama Bin Laden was dead.

Oil prices slid more than 1% the prices of gold and silver also dropped.

Analysts said Bin Laden's death may lower security risks, and would help lift consumer sentiment in the US.

However, they warned that it would do little to ease the longer-term risks hanging over the US and global economies.

" There is some feel-good value and the market will like that," said Chip Hanlon of Delta Global Advisors.

But he added that: " It doesn't change much about the energy situation and doesn't change much about the ongoing battle with radical Islamists."

Stock index futures indicated that Wall Street's main S& P 500 index would rise when it opened later on Monday.

In Asia during afternoon trading, Japan's Nikkei 225 index climbed above the 10,000 level for the first time since mid-March, when the country was struck by a deadly earthquake and tsunami.

Many stock markets in the region, including those in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, were closed for a public holiday on Monday, and will react to the news of Bin Laden's death on Tuesday.

teeth53      ( Date: 02-May-2011 13:08) Posted: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/al-qaeda-leader-osama-bin-laden-dead-tv-024851532.html Enlarge Photo File photo of Osama bin-Laden in Al Qaeda leaderOsama bin Laden was killed Sunday in a firefight with U.S. special  forces in Pakistan and his body was recovered. U.S. forces led a targeted operation that killed  Osama in Abbotabad north of Islamabad. Intelligence that originated last August provided the clues that eventually led to bin Laden's trail, the president said. A U.S. official said Obama gave the final order to pursue the operation last Friday morning. " Justice has been done," President Barack  Obama said, late-night White House speech announcing the death of the elusive mastermind. Sept 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington that killed nearly 3,000 people. It was at least a huge symbolic blow to al Qaeda, the militant organization that has staged bloody attacks in many western and Arab countries cities and has been the subject of a worldwide campaign against it.   teeth53      ( Date: 02-May-2011 12:55) Posted: Breaking news: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/bin-laden-dead-barack-obama-034110094.html Bin Laden dead: Barack Obama US President Barack Obama says the United States has killed Saudi terror kingpin Osama bin Laden.

 

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/al-qaeda-leader-osama-bin-laden-dead-tv-024851532.html

Enlarge Photo File photo of Osama bin-Laden in Al Qaeda leaderOsama bin Laden was killed Sunday in a firefight with U.S. special  forces in Pakistan and his body was recovered. U.S. forces led a targeted operation that killed  Osama in Abbotabad north of Islamabad.



Intelligence that originated last August provided the clues that eventually led to bin Laden's trail, the president said. A U.S. official said Obama gave the final order to pursue the operation last Friday morning.

" Justice has been done," President Barack  Obama said, late-night White House speech announcing the death of the elusive mastermind. Sept 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington that killed nearly 3,000 people.

It was at least a huge symbolic blow to al Qaeda, the militant organization that has staged bloody attacks in many western and Arab countries cities and has been the subject of a worldwide campaign against it.

 

teeth53      ( Date: 02-May-2011 12:55) Posted: Breaking news: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/bin-laden-dead-barack-obama-034110094.html Bin Laden dead: Barack Obama US President Barack Obama says the United States has killed Saudi terror kingpin Osama bin Laden.

 

Breaking news: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/bin-laden-dead-barack-obama-034110094.html

Bin Laden dead: Barack Obama

US President Barack Obama says the United States has killed Saudi terror kingpin Osama bin Laden.

 

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/04/201141885827731124.html

Commander Tahar Mohammed, (a clothes trader in peacetime), now leads 'Grand Lion' battalion" are running an operation to clear out snipers from part of Tripoli St and had recaptured a section of it Street that was previously under control  by Gaddafi forces. " We pushed them back 500 metres in four hours," Their intention is to clear the area, building by building, street by street and are enjoying laudable success.

They now control 60km of Tripoli St, the areas closer to town have also been secured. Mohammed explains.

Earlier. The rebels had sprung a multi-pronged attack: Firing heavy machine guns, rocket propelled grenades  and had cornered the snipers into one building. " We asked the snipers to surrender: They didn't, so we shot them. We killed eight and captured one," says fighter Sahah Mohammed Khalil.

Khalil's head is bandaged with a bloody patch where he took a piece of shrapnel. " The snipers have rocket propelled grenades, rifles and grenades. When one got scared, the sniper threw a hand grenade," he says.

Gaddafi has better weapons, but our morale is higher, say the rebels. " Gaddafi has the bravery of a bird, his people don't want to fight," Mohammed adds.

In a Misurata medical clinic lays one of Gaddafi's fighters. A  19-year-old boy, who does not want his identity revealed, was a student of electrical engineering in Tripoli. When the fighting started and his lessons were cancelled  he says he was forced to join Gaddafi's troops.

" We were kept locked inside camp, trained for  2 wks and they took us to Misurata," he explains.

Told only.  We  are fighting foreign mercenaries, he recounts. When they came under heavy fire from the rebels, their officer turned and ran. The boy followed and says his own brigade soldier  shot him.

" Clear instructions - nobody should go back as  I lay on the ground bleeding for one-and-a-half hours," he says.

Breaking into tears, he adds: " I haven't seen my family in more than a month."

 

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/04/2011422214612294169.html  Misurata

Drone missions: Libyan army 'to pull out' as US approves use of  armed drones against govt forces.

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/insidestory/2011/04/201141964916405691.html

Inside story: The siege of Misurata Inside besieged Libyan city

What more can Western powers do to help the rebels in their push towards Tripoli?. The 'grand lions' of Libya Gaddafi's troops may be better armed, but rebels in Misurata say their morale is higher.

 

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/03/2011329125911441807.html

NATO vows to protect Misurata amid criticism

Military alliance says besieged town--now its top priority after rebels accuse bloc of failing to protect civilians.

Protection via war is a perfect oxymoron. Despite the so-called legality of Western intervention in Libya, it would not have been necessary in the 1st place if Gaddafi hadn't  received  a second chance  [EPA]

Like all wars, the intervention in Libya is questionable. The conduct of war for the ''protection of civilians'' provides further proof of how war makes no sense even when executed with the best intentions in mind, the absurdity of ''protection'' calls for questioning the context of the current military intervention in Libya.

Of course, this one war where academic intervention gives no comfort to Libyans threatened with death at the hands of Gaddafi's murderous forces and lijan thawriyyah – or revolutionary committees.

Nonetheless, it is still a war with many a paradox.  A war that is  inevitably solidifies the cynicism in many minds that the realist paradigm still prevails in international relations as ever, might is right, the same logic which Gaddafi has deployed to save his dynasty and oppress his people.

The intervention in Libya confirms not the assumed diplomatic equation that ''legal'' war is ''right''. That is, the motivation behind the war may not be flawed, but the reasoning behind it defies logic.

  http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/04/201146821269546.html  Supply lines reopened to Mistara

Doctors said last wk--200 people had been killed in Misurata since the uprising began on Feb 17, a figure that is likely to have risen in recent days.

Wed--Gerard Longuet, French defence minister, " Libyan rebels would now be able to supply the city by sea."

" We are going to ensure that aid comes from Benghazi and that at no moment Gaddafi's military forces will be able to stop this," he told France Inter radio.

 

Unlike...Libya's. Gaddafi and son is fighting on.....?. Gaddafi targeted civilians: Hague

The International Criminal Court has evidence Muammar Gaddafi's govt planned to put down protests by killing civilians before the uprising in Libya broke out, the ICC's prosecutor said.  Full  Article 

Other related news--Moscow questions use of force in Ivory Coast

Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast-Central/West of  Africa)  While in this forgotten war, where U.N. has station 12,000 " to use all necessary means to carry out its mandate to protect civilians under imminent threat of physical violence ... including to prevent the use of heavy weapons against the civilian population." .

UN Security Council unanimously passed a resolution giving the 12,000-strong peacekeeping operation a stake.

Tuesday--AFP news agency troops had stopped fighting and requested a ceasefire after UN and French troops,.  UN and French aircraft attacked key targets in Abidjan on Monday.

Meanwhile, YJ Choi, the special representative of the United Nations secretary-general for Cote d'Ivoire told Al Jazeera " the war is over" .

" All the generals who are fighting for Gbagbo have deserted him. There is no army, there is no flighting,"

 

Stories  behind this forgotten war....Cote d'Ivoire: The forgotten war is looking for a ceasefire.? 

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/04/20114513659812234.html

As hundreds have been killed and thousands displaced, but the crisis has garnered little international attention.

 

Three hot news currently making U.N., French and U.S. very busy....on the forgotten war.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/04/20114215401513945.html 

(Ivory Coast--forgotten war. French forces have taken over the airport in Abidjan as " Alert, alert... The French army is occupying since last night the airport of Felix Houphouet Boigny. France said its forces took over Abidjan airport on Saturday to facilitate the evacuation of foreigners and sent an additional 300 troops to the country, bringing its total deployment to 1,500.

" Massacre" as fighters follows up  an alleged massacre of hundreds in the small town of Duekoue in the west)

Alistair Dutton, the humanitarian director of Caritas, told Al Jazeera on Sunday that members of his organisation were on an investigating team, including UN officials and representatives of other NGOs.

" There they found the aftermath of a mass slaughter of somewhere between eight hundred and a thousand people who had been killed," he said up to 1,000 had been killed by unknown attackers wielding machetes and guns. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) earlier estimated the death toll at around 800 people.

It is not clear whether the 330 counted by ONUCI  were included in the figures.

 

 

Latest news update Libya live blog...

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/africa/libya-live-blog-april-4

Don't " shut the door" on arming the rebels, says former US President Bill Clinton. In remarks to ABC News, Clinton said he'd need to know more - presumably about the rebel makeup - before arming them, but wouldn't eliminate the possibility.

Italy appears to have become the 3rd country to effectively recognise the opposition Transitional National Council (TNC) as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people.

Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said the council was the only legitimate interlocutor and dismissed a message delivered by a Gaddafi envoy, Abdel Ati al-Obeidi, seeking to negotiate an end to the conflict.

" Tripoli's regime has no future," Frattini said.