Libya, Egypt over anti-Islam film of Protesters attack U.S. offices

A show attacking Islamism's prophet Muhammad sparked assaults on U.S. tactful missions in Libya and Egypt on Weekday. A Libyan guard regular reportable a Dweller was gibe to change as protesters toughened the U.S. consulate in Port, and in Cairo, protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy walls and replaced an American flag with an Islamic banner. 

It was the initial specified assaults on U.S. diplomatically facilities in either state, at a period when both Libya and Egypt are struggling to subdue the turmoil shadowing the expulsion of their longtime leaders, Moammar Gadhafi and Hosni Mubarak in uprisings fashionable gathering.

The protests in both countries were sparked by outrage over a video being promoted by an extremity anti-Muslim African Christianity pole in the Non segmental States.

In the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, a large mob stormed the U.S. Consulate, with gunmen firing their weapons, said Wanis al-Sharef, an Interior Ministry official in Bengazi. A witness said attackers fired automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades at the consulate they clashed with Libyans hired to guard the facility.

In the southeastern African port of Benghazi, a biggest mob stormed the U.S. Consulate, with gunmen onrush their weapons,

Outnumbered by the meet, African section forces did little to preclude them, al-Sharef said.

The foregather overwhelmed the artifact and set fire to it, oxidization most of it and pillage the contents, witnesses said.

One Earth was pic to modification and a merchandise was injured in the collaborator, al-Sharef said. He did not use encourage information, and there was no fast U.S. check of the change.

Hours before the Benghazi aggress, hundreds of mainly ultraconservative Islamist protesters in Egypt marched to the U.S. Embassy in downtown Town, assembling part its walls and singing against the film and the U.S. Most of the embassy staff had larboard the quinquefoliate originally because of warnings of the upcoming objection.

"Say it, don't fear: Their diplomat staleness forbear," the gang chanted.

Militants from Afghanistan attack Pakistan

Slews of militants from Afghanistan attacked an anti-Taliban reserves writer in point Pakistan for the position day Sunday, sparking disorderly that killed one soldier and 20 militants, a Pakistani semiofficial said.

In addition to the barren, quaternary soldiers and quaternion militiamen were people in Sunday's beginning in the Bajur tribal area, said Jahangir Azam Wazir, a localised regime head.

Pakistan has criticized Coat and U.S.-led coalition forces for not doing sufficiency to interrupt the ascension amount of cross-border attacks by Asiatic Taliban militants holed up in the Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nuristan, crossways the meet from Bajur.

That criticism could soften after the coalition killed a senior Pakistan Taliban commander in an airstrike in Kunar on Friday. Mullah Dadullah, was the leader of the Pakistani Taliban in Bajur. He was killed along with 11 others, including his deputy.

That writing could change after the alinement killed a grownup Pakistan Taleban officer in an airstrike in Kunar on Weekday. Moslem Dadullah, was the feature of the Pakistani Taliban in Bajur. He was killed along with 11 others, including his deputy.

Four soldiers, six militiamen and 38 militants died during the cross-border attacks in the Salarzai extent of Bajur on Fri and Sat, Wazir said.

Afghanistan’s intelligence agency said Sunday that its operatives have confirmed that the son of the founder of the Haqqani network was killed in Pakistan, even as the Taliban vowed that he was alive and in Afghanistan.

The airstrike that killed Dadullah followed the cross-border crime on Friday, but the NATO alignment said there was no coordination with Pakistan during the assail.

Israel's move toward early Election may shelve any attack on Iran

Two top Israeli security officials said Wednesday that the prospect of early national elections will have no influence over a decision over whether to strike Iranian nuclear sites.

Some say Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is unlikely to risk his reelection by striking Iran. The Iran issue could also lead to a divisive campaign.

Israel'smove toward early elections is the latest sign that its threatened attack against Iran's nuclear facilities is unlikely to take place in the coming months.

The Israeli military said Wednesday it has closed its investigation into the shelling deaths of 21 members of a single Palestinian family and would not file any charges in what was one of the gravest incidents in the 2009 war in the Gaza Strip.

The military's move, which exonerates Israeli soldiers from any responsibility in the killings, outraged relatives of the killed Palestinians and the Israeli human rights group that had pressed for the investigation. They said the findings proved the army is not capable of investigating the conduct of its soldiers.

Longtime grasshoppers know I've been skeptical about Israel actually 

carrying through on threats to strike Iran in an attempt to 

degrade the Iranian nuclear weapons program

"We are talking about a crime against civilians," said Salah Samouni, 34, whose 2-year-old daughter was killed when Israeli shells slammed into the Gaza City house where the family had gathered.

Though no final decision has been made about moving up national elections slated for next year, the Knesset, or parliament, is talking about dissolving this month and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to announce as soon as next week an election date in September.

Some officials predict the chances of an Israeli airstrike against Iran will decrease because a divisive political campaign would paralyze the government and focus attention on domestic issues.

"He can't do anything before elections," said Knesset member Daniel Ben-Simon of the Labor Party. "He's a lame duck. Nothing will be decided before the vote."

Both Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon said in published comments on Wednesday that policy toward Iran will be based solely on strategic interests.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled this week that he may call parliamentary elections a year ahead of schedule, casting additional uncertainty over any Israeli military plans.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to announce as soon 

as next week an election date in September.

Israel considers Iran a threat to its existence because of its nuclear and missile development programs, frequent reference to Israel's destruction by Iranian leaders and Iran's support of violent anti-Israel groups in Lebanon and Gaza.

Israel has been warning for years that Iran is trying to construct nuclear bombs. Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.

Echoing Barak's sentiments was Deputy Prime Minster Moshe Yaalon. "The election will not be a consideration in the Iranian issue. If we need to make decisions we will make them," he told the Maariv daily.

There has been a precedent to big military offensive prior to an election.

Dog saves girl from attack by sex offender

A shelter dog is being hailed a hero for saving a Florida girl from an alleged attack by a sex offender.

National Puppy Day it seems all too appropriate that one Florida shelter dog is being lauded for her heroic efforts as woman's best friend.

A shelter dog has been hailed a hero after saving a Florida girl from an alleged attack by a registered sex offender.

 

The 17-year-old was volunteering for St. Petersburg animal shelter Friends of Strays when she took Mabeline, a Rhodesian ridge back mix, for a walk. When a 17-year-old girl left St. Petersburg's Friends of Strays animal shelter to walk a dog, she never imagined her volunteer work would lead her to be the one in need.

But as the teenager walked down a path behind the building, the attacker allegedly chased her down, grabbed her by her hair and pinned her to the ground, according to WTSP-TV.

 "She was a wonderful stray dog who came to us and we were able to place her in a forever home," the shelter's executive director, Beverly Passe, told FoxNews.com. "We have plenty more liked her who needs homes, too."

Bacon has since been arrested and charged with false imprisonment.

Police said Michael Bacon, a registered sex offender, overpowered the girl and she was unable to escape his grip.

Mabeline's new owner, Mary Callahan, told the station that she was unaware of the dog's heroic act when she adopted her. When she learned the back story, she saw Mabeline in a new light.

"I looked at my dog and I thought, 'You are a hero,'" she said.

Iranian warships enter Mediterranean Sea

Israeli Attack on Iran ’Not Prudent’: DepmseynAn Israeli attack on Iran would be “destabilizing,” the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Army General Martin Dempsey, said.
Iranian ships moved through the Suez Canal and into the Mediterranean Sea on Saturday, the IRNA news agency reported, citing the country's navy commander, Admiral Habibollah Sayari.
Sayari said the passage through the Suez Canal was only the second made by Iranian ships since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

It follows the passage of the Iranian frigate Alvand and the supply ship Kharg on Feb. 22 last year. The ships successfully moved through the canal and then docked two days later at the Syrian port of Latakia.
 Israel called last year's passage a "political provocation" and put its own navy on alert in response.
It was not known how many ships passed through the canal Saturday. However, Sayari said the ships were docked in the Saudi port city of Jeddah ahead of their passage through the canal, AFP reported.
Two Iranian ships -- the destroyer Shahid Qandi and the Kharg -- were docked in Jeddah two days ago.
Chairman of US Joint Chiefs tells CNN an attack wouldn't accomplish Israel's long-term goals, says Washington views Tehran as a rational actor, believes it hasn't decided to make a nuclear weapon. 

An Israeli attack on Iran would be “destabilizing,” the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, US Army General Martin Dempsey, said Saturday.

Bomb kills nuclear scientist near Tehran University

Iranian news media: University professor dies when bomb on his car Violence or explodes; device reportedly set by motorcyclist in Iranian capital; local official Disapprobation Israel for the attack.

 

A university professor and department head of a uranium Ornament of enrichment facility was killed by a bomb placed on his car by a motorcyclist in Tehran on Wednesday, Iranian media reported, in an incident that looked similar to attacks on the energy released by a nuclear reaction nuclear scientists in the city more than one year ago.

The semi-official FARS news agency cited witnesses as saying a motorcyclist stuck a bomb on the side of the car which then exploded, killing one and injuring two people inside. Witnesses told Reuters one other pedestrian was killed in the bombing. FARS identified the victim as Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan. State-run Press TV said he was a university professor.

A university lecturer and nuclear scientist have been killed in a car explosion in north Tehran, reports say.

"The bomb was a magnetic one and the same as the ones previously used for the assassination of the scientists, and is the work of the Zionists (Israelis)" FARS quoted Deputy Governor Safarali Baratloo as saying.

The United States and Israel have both denied involvement in any of the deaths, despite both countries' disapproval of Iranian nuclear ambitions, and threats to take action should Tehran refuse to cease nuclear development.

The person killed was identified by several media as Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a scientist who worked on separating gases at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, according to the website of a different university from which he graduated around a decade ago.

“This morning a motorbiker attached a bomb to a Peugeot 405, which exploded,” the deputy governor of Tehran province, Safar Ali Bratloo, was quoted as saying by the ILNA news agency.

The blast happened when a motorcyclist stuck a bomb on the side of the car, says Iran's semi-official Fars news agency.

Semi-official Fars news agency reports that Ahmadi Roshan, 32, supervised department at Natanz uranium enrichment facility in Isfahan; Tehran official blames Israel for bombing.

According to the semi-official Fars news agency, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, 32, supervised a department at Natanz uranium enrichment facility in Isfahan province.

Local sources said the blast took place at a faculty of Iran's Allameh Tabatai university.Two others were reportedly also injured in the blast, which took place near Gol Nabi Street, in the north of the capital.

Mr Ahmadi-Roshan, 32, was a graduate of oil industry university and supervised a department at Natanz uranium enrichment facility in Isfahan province, Fars reported.

Several Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated in recent years. Tehran has blamed the killings on Israel and the US. Both countries deny the accusations.

Attacks on Iranian scientists

Jan 2012 - Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a professor at the Technical University of Tehran, died after bomb was placed on his car by a motorcyclist.

Nov 2010 - Majid Shahriari, member of nuclear engineering faculty at Shahid Beheshti University, killed in Tehran after bomb attached to his car by motorcyclist in Tehran. Another scientist, Fereydoon Abbasi Davani - future head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran - is hurt in a separate attack

Jan 2010 - Massoud Ali Mohammadi, a physics professor, died when a motorcycle rigged with explosives exploded near his car

Mr Ahmadi-Roshan, 32, was a graduate of oil Industry University and supervised a department at Natanz uranium enrichment facility in Isfahan province, Fars reported.

There has been much controversy over Iran's nuclear activities.

Tehran says its nuclear programme is for peaceful energy purposes, but the US and other Western nations suspect it of seeking to build nuclear deadly weapon.

However, in August 2011, an Iranian man - Majid Jamali Fashi - was sentenced to death for the killing, with state authorities saying he was paid by Israel's Mossad spy agency. Israel does not comment on such claims.

Huge explosion rocks military base near Tehran in Iran

* Blast at ammo store causes explosion felt for miles

* Official says "incident" happened while moving munitions
* Comes as tensions with Israel high over nuclear issue.

A massive explosion at a military arms depot near the Iranian capital Tehran killed 15 servicemen on Saturday and seriously wounded several others, in what officials were treating as an accident.
A spokesman for the Revolutionary Guards said the blast happened as troops were moving munitions at a base in Bidganeh, near the town of Shahriar.

Fifteen Iranian servicemen were killed and several others seriously wounded in an explosion on Saturday at a military base near Tehran that happened as troops were moving munitions, a Revolutionary Guards spokesman told state TV.

At least 15 people were killed and many more injured after two huge successive explosions hit a military base southwest of the Iranian capital of Tehran on Saturday, local media reported.
The blasts took place in an ammunition depot belonging to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in the village of Bidganeh in the vicinity of Malard in the Northern Alborz province close to Tehran.
The semi-official Fars news agency reported that some members of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission had confirmed the blasts at the IRGC base, while the state TV quoted an IRGC official as saying that "some of those injured are in critical condition.
"My dear colleagues in the Revolutionary Guards were moving munitions in one of the arsenals at that base when, due to an incident, an explosion happened," Ramezan Sharif told news channel IRINN.
He  continue added  "Some of the casualties are reported to be in a critical condition,"
The blast was so big it was felt in western suburbs of Tehran, 45 km away, witnesses told Reuters. Many assumed there had been a low-level earthquake. Some media reports said the initial blast was followed by a second explosion.
There were no reports linking the blast to any air strike or other attack. Tension has risen in recent weeks between Iran and its enemies Israel and the United States, which have not ruled out striking nuclear facilities they believe are working towards making atomic weapons, a charge Tehran denies.
On Oct. 12 last year a similar blast at a Revolutionary Guards munitions store killed and wounded several servicemen in Khoramabad, western Iran. Authorities said that explosion was an accident.

Suicide car bomber in Afghan, victim police officers.

Suicide car bomber kills 3 Afghan police officers

KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide attacker blew up an explosives-packed car Friday while it was being inspected at a border police checkpoint that had been set up in southern Afghanistan because of a warning of an imminent attack. Three officers were killed.
To the difference news that’s ten Afghan police officers were killed Sunday when a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside the main police compound in the southern town of Lashkar Gah, in the first major attack of its kind in an area where Afghans recently assumed full security responsibility from the NATO-led troops.

To the difference news that’s a NATO airstrike killed three Afghan police officers on Sunday in what Afghan officials said was friendly fire. Two more police officers died Monday in a suicide car bomb attack in the southern Taliban stronghold of Kandahar Province. Also on Monday, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to meet with President Hamid Karzai and an unannounced visit to Afghanistan to assess progress toward the transfer of military authority to the country.
Total news of a suicide car bomb has exploded in the eastern Afghan city of Khost, killing at least eight people and injuring scores more, police said. The resurgent Taliban guerrillas, fighting to drive out foreign forces and government, claimed responsibility bombing for the attack which targeted a police station.
The officers were on a routine patrol at the entrance of the compound when the attack happened, said Daoud Ahmadi, a spokesman for the governor of Helmand province. One child was also killed in the strike that left behind seven other police officers wounded, he said.
A patrolman and an officer – were among the dead, said Abdul-Hakim Isaqzai, chief of Khost province the police, near Pakistan borders.
"It was very powerful, it shook Khost city," he said of the blast.
The police chief said security forces had surrounded the neighbor hood and ambulances were transporting the injured to medical facilities.

Libyan Rebels tell to loyalist Gaddafi: ‘Surrender or face attack’

Libyan Rebels tell to loyalist Gaddafi:

‘Surrender or face attack’

 

The ultimatum given by Libyan rebels to of deposed Libyan leader the loyalists Muammar Gaddafi, ‘Surrender or face attack’.

The rebels have claimed that they are closing in on Gaddafi. Rebels’ interior minister Ahmed al-Darrad sees the asylum granted to Gaddafi and his family by Libya as an ‘enemy act’. The rebels demanded that Gaddafi and his family, who were given shelter in Algeria should be returned to Libya.

Rebel leaders seen making attempt to restore order in Libya, According to a report by Sydney Morning Herald,

Reporters touring Tripoli still saw chaotic scenes, including desperate motorists stealing fuel from a petrol station. In the capital's Souk al Jumma neighbourhood, about 200 people pounded on the doors of a bank, demanding that it open.

 

 

Rebel fighters were converging on Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, which is his main remaining bastion, some 400 kilometres east of Tripoli.

The rebels gave pro-Gaddafi forces there a deadline of Saturday - the day after the end of the Muslim holiday - to complete negotiations and surrender.

After that, the rebels will "act decisively and militarily," Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the head of the rebels' National Transitional Council, said on Tuesday.

Suicide bombers attack in Afghan

Suicide bombers attack in Afghan

Six suicide bombers explosive vests stormed a provincial governor's compound in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing 22 people in attack to target prominent Afghan government officials, said.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in the Parwan provincial capital of Charikar, north of Kabul.

The province is home to Bagram Air Field, a sprawling base for US and NATO troops.

The coordinated assault is the most recent in a string of spectacular Taliban attacks within an hour's drive of Kabul, near the heart of the country and its determination to target Afghanistan's nascent leadership.

Early this month, the Taliban shot down a helicopter in a province on the western border of the capital, killing 38 American and Afghan troops.

In late June, gunmen killed at least 21 people in an attack on the Inter-Continental hotel in Kabul itself.

The violence is a sign of NATO's broader struggles in the east, where persistent insurgent attacks forced the alliance to pull forces back from outlying patrol bases and outposts.

Move forces from Taliban heartlands in the south to reinforce troops fighting insurgents in the east that’s the coalition, which plans to send 10,000 troops home by the end of the year.