“Bombing, shelling and shooting all night long,” said a 29-year-old resident of one besieged neighborhood who gave her name as Muhra. “Shooting all over the city and shelling over our heads. We hid inside our house and closed all the doors.”
Taking it from all sides now the Syrian people are in some deep trouble.
All that talking by the U.N. and a few Countries (the U.S. Included) has done nothing to deter Bashar al-ASSad from stopping.
With nobody willing to step in the Syrian People will either die or just give up.
The New York Times
In yet another escalation of its crackdown on dissent, the Syrian government unleashed navy vessels, tanks and a mix of soldiers, security forces and paramilitary fighters against the port city of Latakia on Sunday, killing at least 25 people, including three children, activists and residents said.
The attacks in Latakia marked the third weekend in a row that the government has defied international condemnations in its campaign to snuff out a remarkably resilient uprising, which began in March. The attacks have stoked fresh outrage, in part because they have come during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, traditionally a time of piety and festivity when observant Muslims fast from dawn to dusk.
The attacks grew in ferocity on Sunday, and activists and residents said for the first time that gunfire was coming from navy vessels anchored off the coast. As in Hama, activists said security forces fired anti-aircraft weapons at civilian buildings. In addition, the activists said, land line telephones and Internet connections were cut off to some neighborhoods of Latakia, a city of 650,000 that serves as Syria’s main port.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Syrian Navy Ships Join Attack on Coastal City
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Syrian forces push into Saraqib, death toll escalates
(CNN) -- Syrian troops rolled into the northwestern city of Saraqib early Thursday morning, just hours after evening prayers there called for an end to President Bashar al-Assad's reign, an opposition group said.
Residents reported heavy gunfire soon after the troops arrived in tanks and buses, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The latest military action comes as violence erupted in other towns and amid a growing chorus of international calls for Syria's government to end its brutal drive on peaceful protesters...
After evening prayers in Hama on Wednesday, an opposition activist says demonstrators took to the streets in the southern part of the city. Security forces opened fire, killing two people, according to the activist, who spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Rioting continues for third night in London
This is definitely more than just a few people pissed off over a shooting.
Can you say Anarchists? You know those little pieces of shit you see at all the riots, Dressed in black hoodies and their faces masked.
Xinhuanet
The streets of London were hit on Monday evening with a third night of violence as rioters attacked police, set fire to cars and looted shops in areas across the capital, which pressed Prime Minister David Cameron to cut short his holiday.
The districts of Peckham, Lewisham, Croydon and Deptford in south London saw violence, as well as Hackney in east London. Shops were set on fire in Peckham, a building set alight in Croydon and cars were torched in Lewisham and Deptford.
Police reported they had made arrests in the north London district of Kilburn.
Meanwhile, Cameron has decided to cut short his holiday to return to London due to the ongoing riots, his office said on Monday night.
Cameron, who is on vacation in Italy, will return overnight and hold a high-level meeting on the escalating riots on Tuesday, his office said in a brief statement.
For the first time since the violence began on Saturday evening, disturbances have been reported outside London.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Looting, rioting spreads in London
Second day of riots, 35 police injured.
No tanks, snipers or suicide bombings though; the police are just trying to calm them not kill them.
The Economic Times
Several instances of looting and clashes were reported across the city as mob angry over the killing of a man in north London combined with ennui over harsh economic conditions attacked police in a second night of violence, reminding many of racial unrest in the 1980s.
Over 100 people were arrested as the attacks that began in Tottenham spread to areas such as Enfield, Brixton, Dalston, Islington Walthamstow and Tottenham seemed to be coordinated. Oxford Circus was also targeted.
Police brought in additional forces to deal with increasing attacks on public property and maintain peace.
Monday, August 1, 2011
Fresh Uighur clashes in China leave 11 dead
Ah the Chinese are having a hissy fit again, the Uighers (Muslims) are just not happy with the way things are, so they gonna change it.
Not to worry though, the all powerful Chinese Government will take care of anybody creating a problem on the streets.
The Independent
Police shot dead four people yesterday in the far north-west of China, bhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifringing to 11 the death toll in a weekend of violence in one of the country's most troubled ethnic regions.
The four died during clashes that injured more than 10 people in what the state-run Xinhua News Agency called "an eruption of violence" in Kashgar. On Saturday, seven people were killed and 22 injured in the same Silk Road city...
On Saturday night, two knife-wielding men hijacked a lorry in the city, killing the driver. They then reportedly rammed the vehicle into a crowd before getting out to attack people in the street. People who came under attack retaliated, and one of the suspects was killed and the other caught, an official said. The hijackers' identities and motive were unclear. Seven people, including the suspect, died and 22 were injured.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Iraq Deadlier Now Than a Year Ago
To expect a bunch of savages to be civil to each other let alone to a foreign military is beyond comprehension, and a mistake.
You can not change these peoples minds, we give them peace and stability and all they want is death and destruction of their fellow neighbors because they are a different religious sect or from a different town.
The Shiites do not like the Sunnis, the Sunnis do not like the Shiites, they both hate the Kurds the Kurds hate both of them.
This is a good reason to pull out of these Muslim countries immediately after our missions are complete, and let them continue to kill each other off.
It is the Islamic way.
Foxnews
BAGHDAD – Frequent bombings, assassinations and a resurgence in violence by Shiite militias have made Iraq more dangerous now than it was just a year ago, a U.S. government watchdog concludes in a report released Saturday.
The findings come during what U.S. Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart W. Bowen Jr. called "a summer of uncertainty" in Baghdad over whether American forces will stay past a year-end withdrawal deadline and continue military aid for the unstable nation.
"Iraq remains an extraordinarily dangerous place to work," Bowen concluded in his 172-page quarterly report to Congress and the Obama administration on progress -- and setbacks -- in Iraq. "It is less safe, in my judgment, than 12 months ago."
The report cited the deaths of 15 U.S. soldiers in June, the bloodiest month for the U.S. military in Iraq in two years. Nearly all of them were killed in attacks by Shiite militias bent on forcing out American troops on schedule.
It also noted an increase in rockets launched against the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, where government offices and foreign embassies are located, as well as constant assassination attempts against Iraqi political leaders, security forces and judges.
Additionally, the report called the northeastern province of Diyala, which borders Iran and has an often volatile mix of Sunni and Shiite Muslims and Kurds among its residents, "very unstable" with frequent bombings that bring double-digit death tolls.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Yemen: 37 killed in Sanaa clashes
Not much yo say about Yemen, it is a cesspool.
I don't know who is right, or if anyone is right.
I just hope when it is over, Al Qaida does not have a state.
BBC
At least 37 people have been killed in overnight fighting in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, doctors and officials say.
Violence escalated after a ceasefire broke down between security forces and fighters loyal to Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar, head of a tribal confederation.
Analysts say the conflict threatens to drag Yemen into civil war.
Yemen is facing increasing unrest in several areas after President Ali Abdullah Saleh refused to step down.
Witnesses reported heavy fighting in the capital overnight as both sides blamed each other for breaking the ceasefire.
On Wednesday morning, witnesses also reported loud explosions coming from the north of Sanaa, but the reason was not clear.
The defence ministry accused tribesmen of seizing the headquarters of the ruling General People's Congress and other offices in Sanaa.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Ivory Coast's Gbagbo Detained by French Special Forces
Great news, one less murdering madman out of the way!
Now they just have to get Alassane Ouattara under arrest and they will have the other one!
Then they can start all over again!
Foxnews
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo was detained by French special forces Monday at his presidential compound in the country's biggest city Abidjan, state-run radio France Info reports.
"Gbagbo has been arrested by French special forces in his residence and has been handed over to the rebel leaders," Gbagbo spokesman Toussaint Alain told Reuters.
His capture came after French and UN armored vehicles were deployed on a road close to Gbagbo's besieged Abidjan residence on Monday.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Ouattara forces have killed in Ivory Coast
So who would be the better leader of the Ivory coast?
The one who is saying he one the election and having his people go around and kill his opponents people or...
The one who won the election and is having his people go around and kill his opponents people.
That's a tough one.
DUEKOUE, Ivory Coast (AP) — A human rights group says that forces loyal to Ivory Coast's democratically elected president have killed hundreds of civilians, raped his rival's supporters and burned villages in the country's west.
Human Rights Watch, in a report obtained by The Associated Press late Saturday, calls on Alassane Ouattara to investigate and prosecute abuses by his forces and those supporting rival Laurent Gbagbo.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Laurent Gbagbo 'to surrender within hours'
Maybe an end to the slaughter in the Ivory Coast.
About a thousand were Killed just last week alone, one of the preferred methods of killing, Being hacked to bits with a Machete.
How many have been killed overall, we may never know but
BBC
A British man in Ivory Coast describes being trapped in his home
Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo, besieged in his presidential compound in Abidjan, is still negotiating his departure with the UN and could surrender "within hours", France says.
However the French armed forces chief said military strikes against Mr Gbagbo could resume if he refused to go.
Mr Gbagbo is encircled by troops loyal to the recognised winner of November's disputed election, Alassane Ouattara.
Mr Gbagbo has denied he is surrendering saying he is only negotiating a truce.
French Armed forces chief Adm Edouard Guillaud told Europe 1 radio that Mr Gbagbo had twice been on the point of stepping down - on 1 April and 4 April - before pulling back.
He said negotiations with the UN had continued through the night without result.
"Unfortunately I can't see a way out for the time being, I think it's a matter of hours... in the course of the day," he said.
"He is locked in the [presidential] residence and it remains in the possession of his supporters."
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Yemen police fire on protests
More Muslim Unrest!
It is only fitting that some Muslim countries are in turmoil.
Rampant corruption, terrorism, human rights violations, daily shootings suicide bombings, Senseless murders, stonings...
Islam The Religion Of Peace
The Associated Press
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni security forces fired live bullets and tear gas on two pro-democracy demonstrations Saturday, killing three people — including a 15-year-old student — as the government clamps down on a growing protest movement, witnesses said.
The violence began with a pre-dawn raid on a central square in the capital, Sanaa, where thousands of pro-democracy protesters have been camped out for the past month to demand the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. An ally in the Obama's administration's fight against al-Qaida, Saleh has been in power for 32 years.
Doctors and eyewitnesses said security troops surrounded the square with police cars and armored personnel carriers shortly after midnight and began calling on protesters through loudspeakers to go home. At 5 a.m., security forces stormed in, firing tear gas and live ammunition.
One protester died from a bullet to the head, which may have come from a sniper on the rooftop of a nearby building, witnesses said. Abdelwahed al-Juneid, a volunteer doctor working with the protesters, said around 250 people were wounded.
"We were performing dawn prayers when we were surprised by a sudden hail of bullets and tear gas," said Walid Hassan, a 25-year-old activist. "The protesters began throwing rocks at security ... it was total mayhem, a real battlefield."
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Sudan army, Darfur rebel clash kills 17
Just one of the many ongoing uprisings in the world, more specific a certain part of the world that is just in turmoil.
(Reuters) - Darfur rebels attacked a Sudanese army supply convoy in the insurgents' mountainous Jabel Marra stronghold, leaving at least 17 people dead, the military said.
No one was immediately available for comment from the rebels group named by the military -- a faction of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) loyal to Abdel Wahed al-Nur which walked out of peace talks in 2006 and has refused to return.
Fighting has rumbled on for eight years in the remote western territory in the face of a string of failed ceasefires, international pressure and campaigns from celebrity activists.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Fresh air strikes hit eastern Libyan towns
Dictators are always good for creating havoc, Mommar Qaddafi, he is no different.
Airstrikes against his people, airstrikes on his oil fields, what a nut.
The U.S. Navy perched off the coast, Obama doing the Ostrich Dance, nothing will change, maybe nothing should.
Momad Qadaffy may still be in Charge after this.
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Two towns in eastern Libyan were bombed for a second day Thursday, witnesses said, hours after the government denounced reports of attacks on protesters and military facilities.
Two bombs were dropped on military camps in Ajdabiya, a tribal leader said. Another bomb fell in al-Brega between the oil facility and the airport Thursday, but there were no injuries or damage, witnesses said.
The attacks come a day after ground and air attacks on al-Brega, which has key oil and natural gas facilities.
On Wednesday, aircraft dropped bombs near the town and troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi launched a ground attack, witnesses said. Aircraft also bombed military camps on the outskirts of Ajdabiya on the same day, witnesses said.
Friday, February 25, 2011
UN rights body urges Libya action
Yeah yeah we must do everything within our powers to stop the Violence and Bloodshed in libya, we must step in vigorously and stop this.
Bring on the Sanctions.
That will make them stop.
Pure Genius.
Al Jizeera
The United Nation's top human rights official says reports of mass killings in Libya should spur world leaders to "step in vigorously" to end the violent crackdown in Libya, and that the 47-nation body should use "all means possible".
Friday's session is the first time that the UN Human Rights Council has held a special session to discuss actions against one of its members, with Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner on Human Right, giving support for an independent panel to investigate the alleged abuses by Libyan security forces.
"Today's brutal and shocking situation is the direct outcome of a callous disregard for the rights and freedom of Libyans that has marked the almost four-decade long grip on power by the current ruler," she said.
Her comments came just hours before a UN Security Council in New York meeting that will consider actions against the government of Muammar Gaddafi, which could include sanctions.
France has already urged the body to approve a draft resolution that calls for a "total arms embargo, sanctions and asking the International Criminal Court to proceed over crimes against humanity".
Guido Westerwelle, the German foreign minister, said his country was also preparing sanctions, including travel bans and asset freezes on Gaddafi's family, but dismissed economic sanctions on the country as a whole.
Britain's prime minister has also discussed the possibility of "multilateral measures" against Libya with Barack Obama, the US president.
China and Russia, traditionally reluctant to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, have supported a statement from the security council issued on Tuesday that condemned "the repression against peaceful demonstrators,'' and demanded an "immediate end to the violence".
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Fresh gun battles erupt in Ivory Coast's main city
The Ivory Coast? Just another African State that is in turmoil.
(Reuters) - Gunfire and explosions shook Ivory Coast's main city Wednesday as forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo pushed back into an area where gunmen backing his presidential rival repelled them a day before.
"There's firing everywhere. I'm hearing heavy weapons booming all over the place," said one resident of the Abidjan suburb of Abobo, where up to 15 Gbagbo loyalists were killed in an ambush Tuesday.
The clashes between Gbagbo's forces and backers of Alassane Ouattara, following a disputed election in November, threaten to reignite a conflict in the world's biggest cocoa producer and dash hopes of reuniting a country split by a 2002-3 war.
Residents said the fighting stopped after four hours of intense clashes. Pro-Gbagbo forces reported three men killed while there was no immediate comment from Ouattara supporters.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Muslims Raging on.
15 different Muslim countries.
that is the number you get when you count how many Muslim countries are in the middle of or have been raging out of control over the past few months.
CNN has a decent list going and some explanations of why the are out of control.
(CNN) -- Two months ago, a Tunisian fruit vendor lit a match, starting a fire that has spread throughout the Arab world. Muhammad Bouazizi's self-immolation prompted anti-government protests that toppled the regime in Tunisia and then Egypt. The demonstrations have spread across a swath of the Middle East and North Africa. Here are the latest developments, including the roots of the unrest:
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Iran MPs want death penalty for opposition leaders
That will teach em!
Probably won't go over to well with the Iranian People, but what do they Know eh?
Ahmalitlmunky's days are numbered, but I don't think this is the time.
(Reuters) - Iranian lawmakers urged judiciary on Tuesday to hand out death penalties to opposition leaders for fomenting unrest in the Islamic state after a rally in which one person was killed and dozens were wounded, state media said.
Clashes broke out between security forces and protesters when thousands of opposition supporters rallied in sympathy for popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia on Monday, reviving mass protests that shook Iran after a presidential vote in 2009.
"(Opposition leaders) Mehdi Karroubi and Mirhossein Mousavi are corrupts on earth and should be tried," the official IRNA news agency quoted lawmakers as saying in a statement.
The loose term "Corrupt on Earth," a charge which has been leveled at political dissidents in the past, carries the death penalty in the Islamic Iran.
Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei said: "Those who created public disorder on Monday will be confronted firmly and immediately."
Iranian authorities have repeatedly accused opposition leaders of being part of a Western plot to overthrow the Islamic system. The claim has been denied by Mousavi and Karroubi.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Pakistan's Karachi shut after 40 killed in clashes
Pakistan in Turmoil or Just another day in the Violent life of Muslims .
Islam The Religion of Peace !
(Reuters) - Clashes that killed at least 40 people overnight in Karachi scared residents off its streets on Tuesday as Pakistan's largest city was on alert for more violence after the shooting of a leader in a dominant political party.
Police said more than 90 people were wounded and dozens of vehicles and shops torched as mobs who took to the streets after Raza Haider, a member of the provincial Sindh Assembly from the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM), was gunned down on Monday along with his bodyguard while attending a funeral.
The government blamed the Taliban and the banned militant group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) for the killing of the lawmaker. Twenty people have been arrested in connection with the violence, federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik told the Senate on Tuesday.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Iran executes two over election unrest: agency
The two were among 11 people sentenced to death on charges including moharebeh (waging war against God)
WTF ? Protesting an Iranian Presidential election is now considered "Waging War against God " .
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran executed two people on Thursday over widespread street unrest that erupted after the Islamic Republic's disputed presidential election in June, an Iranian news agency reported.
The two were among 11 people sentenced to death on charges including moharebeh (waging war against God), trying to overthrow the Islamic establishment and membership of armed groups, the ISNA students agency said.
The executions were the first carried out for election-related incidents and may further increase tension in Iran ahead of possible new anti-government protests next month.
