Manufacturing Terror: ‘Underwear Bomber’ Was Working for CIA

21st Century Wire says…

Few Americans will even question the following: why is it that almost all of these so-called “terrorist” bomb plots seem to feature a CIA, FBI, MI6, or Saudi Intelligence operative as the central protagonist?

Is it possible that the security state is responsible for manufacturing terror, in order to justify the largest share of domestic and overseas expenditures by countries like the US and Great Britain? How many careers depend on this synthetic narrative to continue indefinitely?

We can see the feedback loop here very clearly. And so do millions of people, and that number is growing by the day.

This decade long campaign of developing an opposition and keeping the fear level ever higher, will eventually come to an end – we hope.

Now for the truth about the great “Underwear Bomber”.

The Guardian report below details what we are dealing with here…
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Bomber involved in plot to attack US-bound jet was working as an informer with Saudi intelligence and the CIA, it has emerged

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Paul Harris and Ed Pilkington
Guardian
A would-be “underwear bomber” involved in a plot to attack a US-based jet was in fact working as an undercover informer with Saudi intelligence and the CIA, it has emerged.The revelation is the latest twist in an increasingly bizarre story about the disruption of an apparent attempt by al-Qaida to strike at a high-profile American target using a sophisticated device hidden in the clothing of an attacker.
The plot, which the White House said on Monday had involved the seizing of an underwear bomb by authorities in the Middle East sometime in the last 10 days, had caused alarm throughout the US.
It has also been linked to a suspected US drone strike in Yemen where two Yemeni members of al-Qaida were killed by a missile attack on their car on Sunday, one of them a senior militant, Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso.
But the news that the individual at the heart of the bomb plot was in fact an informer for US intelligence is likely to raise just as many questions as it answers.
Citing US and Yemeni officials, Associated Press reported that the unnamed informant was working under cover for the Saudis and the CIA when he was given the bomb, which was of a new non-metallic type aimed at getting past airport security.
The informant then turned the device over to his handlers and has left Yemen, the officials told the news agency. The LA Times, which first broke the news that the plot had been a “sting operation”, said that the bomb plan had also provided the intelligence leads that allowed the strike on Quso.
Earlier John Brennan, Barack Obama’s top counter-terrorism adviser and a former CIA official, told ABC’s Good Morning America that authorities are “confident that neither the device nor the intended user of this device pose a threat to us”.
US officials have said the plot was detected in its early stages and that no American airliner was ever at risk.
The FBI is conducting forensic tests on the bomb as a first step towards discovering whether it would have cleared existing airport scanning systems. Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic senator for California who heads the Senate intelligence committee, gave an early hint when she said that she had been briefed about the device which she called “undetectable”…

The Russian Public Has a Totally Different Understanding of What Happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

Did you know Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was full of corpses when it took off from Amsterdam? Did you know that, for some darkly inexplicable reason, on July 17, MH17 moved off the standard flight path that it had taken every time before, and moved north, toward rebel-held areas outside Donetsk? Or that the dispatchers summoned the plane lower just before the crash? Or that the plane had been recently reinsured? Or that the Ukrainian army has air defense systems in the area? Or that it was the result of the Ukrainian military mistaking MH17 for Putin’s presidential plane, which looks strangely similar?
Did you know that the crash of MH17 was all part of an American conspiracy to provoke a big war with Russia?
Well, it’s all true—at least if you live in Russia, because this is the Malaysia Airlines crash story that you’d be seeing.
READ: I Slept Next to the Wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17As the crisis surrounding the plane crash deepens and as calls for Vladimir Putin to act grow louder, it’s worth noting that they’re not really getting through to Putin’s subjects. The picture of the catastrophe that the Russian people are seeing on their television screens is very different from that on screens in much of the rest of the world, and the discrepancy does not bode well for a sane resolution to this stand-off.
Western media has been vacillating for days between calling Putin a murderer and peppering their coverage with allegedlys, telling the heart-rending tales of the victims, scrounging for anonymous leaks to link the Russians to the downed jet, and punditizing about exit ramps.
But in Russia, television—most of it owned or controlled by the Kremlin—is trying to muddy the water with various experts who insist that there is no way that an SA-11 missile system could possibly have downed a plane flying that high. And, mind you, this is not part of a larger debate of could they, or couldn’t they; this is all of Russian television and state-friendly papers pushing one line: The pro-Russian separatists we’ve been supporting all these months couldn’t have done this. Watching some of these Russian newscasts, one comes away with the impression of a desperate defense attorney scrounging for experts and angles, or a bad kid caught red-handed by the principal, trying to twist his way out of a situation in which he has no chance.
READ: Malaysia Air Corpses Used as Sickening PR Stunt for Rebels' Fake RepublicAnd that’s when they’re not simply peddling conspiracy theories, which have become a kind of symbiotic feedback loop between state TV and the most inventive corners of the Internet. The best of the bunch is, of course, an elaborate one: MH17 is actually MH370, that Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared into the Indian Ocean. According to this theory, the plane didn’t disappear at all, “it was taken to an American military base, Diego-Garcia.”

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Then it was taken to Holland. On the necessary day and hour, it flew out, bound for Malaysia, but inside were not live people, but corpses. The plane was flown not by real pilots; it was on autopilot. Or take-off (a complicated procedure) was executed by live pilots, who then ejected on parachutes. Then the plane flew automatically. In the necessary spot, it was blown up, without even using a surface-to-air missile. Instead the plane was packed with a bomb, just like the CIA did on 9/11.

The theory also notes that the passports of victims at the crash site all look brand new even though there was an explosion and a fire. “That is, the passports were tossed in [after the crash].” And, most damningly, all the victims’ Facebook pages were created in one day and the media is not showing any of the victims’ families, just the crash site. Though this is not true of Western media, Russian television has not featured any of this. “There’s very little talk about the human cost of this catastrophe,” says independent television analyst Arina Borodina, formerly of the prominent Russian daily Kommersant. “Instead we’re seeing these unbelievable versions. For example, that someone had actually been hunting for the president or that some of the locals saw parachutists coming down from a height of 30,000 feet.”
But though it may look unconvincing to us in the West, that is because we have seen and read other things that contradict it. The Russian media space has become so uniform and independent voices so cowed and marginalized that there is no counterweight and, when there’s no counterweight, if you repeat a thing often enough, it becomes the truth.

This isn’t an innocent you-say-tomato moment; this is a very problematic development. The result of all this Russian coverage is that Russians’ understanding of what happened is as follows. At best, the crash is an unfortunate accident on the part of the Ukrainian military that the West is trying to pin on Russia, which had nothing to do with it; at worst, it is all part of a nefarious conspiracy to drag Russia into an apocalyptic war with the West. So whereas the West sees the crash as a game-changer, the Russians do not see why a black swan event has to change anything or they want to resist what they see is a provocation. To them, after a few days of watching Russian television, it’s not at all clear what happened nor that their government is somehow responsible for this tragedy. And the more we insist on it, the less likely the Russians are to agree.
Floriana Fossato, a longtime scholar of Russian media, says that this, coupled with the media’s conscious use of the Soviet language of crisis—“traitors,” “fascists,” “fifth columns”—quickly brings to the surface the psychological demons of a society massively traumatized by the twentieth century, traumas that society has never adequately addressed. The result, she says, is a kind of collective PTSD-meets-Stockholm Syndrome.
In Russians' view, “Americans have recreated the situation where they have excuse for intervention,” Fossato says. “No one admits that they are afraid, but they are. They are panicked. And they are right in being afraid because they know what happened, and they know there must be an answer to what is going on. And so they lock onto Putin for protection. This is why they don’t turn to Putin and ask him to do something.”
But in addition to the Russian public not clamoring for decisive action from Putin, there is a far more serious problem. As The New Yorker's David Remnick noted in his column on the crash of MH17, Putin has become prisoner to his own propaganda machine, much as he’s become prisoner of the rebels he thought were doing his geopolitical dirty work in Ukraine.
After Putin’s ascent, media became the flexible element that could be readjusted for any twist or turn of the political rudder. “Today, it’s the opposite,” says Gleb Pavlovsky, a political consultant who helped Putin win his first election and was a Kremlin advisor for years afterwards. “It’s almost impossible to turn the rudder of the picture that’s formed on television because it would mean losing the audience they formed in this year” of sword-brandishing and imperialistic conquest.
This audience is now fired up and brandishing its own swords, and the propaganda apparatus, much like the rebels in eastern Ukraine, has rolled on and on, fed by inertia and paranoia, reproducing and magnifying itself with each newscast. The sensationalized newscasts are now neck-and-neck, ratings-wise, with the sitcoms. “It keeps people in a traumatized state,” Pavlovsky says. “It’s notable in media metrics, and in conversations with people. They lose their sanity, they become paranoid and aggressive.”
This has had a noticeable impact on the ruling class, Pavlovsky says, which has to watch this stuff in order to stay au courant. And they become less sane as a result, too, which limits their ability to adequately assess a situation such as this and devise a good way out of it.
“It’s noticeable that the Kremlin is much more tempered than Russian TV but can’t change it,” Pavlovsky says. “It’s fallen into a trap, so it's now trying to function within the strictures of this picture.” He cites the example of the PR contortions the Kremlin had to use just to announce that it would not send troops into eastern Ukraine. “In this seemingly controlled media, any rational political arguments of the state have to be hidden and packaged in idiotic, jingoistic rhetoric,” Pavlovsky says.
None of this looks very good for the West, which is clearly hoping that MH17 is the thing that will bring Putin to his senses and get him to agree to some kind of off-ramp, or, at least, a deescalation. But that’s hard to do if neither your public nor your political class see it as a game-changer or as anything that should force Russia to end this game.
“Of course it gets in Putin’s way. He has to be the hero of this TV material, he’s not free from it anymore,” says Pavlovsky. “I have a feeling he's not very comfortable right now.”
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Ahmad Said diugut dedahkan Salahlaku Politik Wang

Mohamad Salleh faces earlier trial on 23 June

KUALA LUMPUR, May 12 :  The trial of National Feedlot Corporation Sdn Bhd (NFCorp) executive chairman Datuk Seri Dr Mohamad Salleh, who is facing two charges of criminal breach of trust involving RM49.7 million, has been speeded up to June 23.

Sessions Court Judge Norsharidah Awang set the date after deputy public prosecutor Awang Armadajaya Awang Mahmud told the court that on May 5 the High Court had ordered the case to be heard earlier after dismissing Mohamad Salleh’s application to postpone the hearing pending an appeal to strike off the charges against him.

“I agree with the prosecution. We will proceed by calling for the first witness on June 23, as there has been no progress on this case since 2012,” she said.

Earlier in the proceedings, Awang Armadajaya had applied to the court to set the hearing for June as Mohamad Salleh’s case had been delayed since 2012.

Mohamad Salleh’s lawyer, Wan Shahrizal Wan Ladin, however, applied for a Nov date to accommodate Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, who was the lead counsel for the defence team.

The court set May 26 for a pre-trial consultation between both parties and June 13 for case management.

Awang Armadajaya said the prosecution would call on 70 witnesses and present a total of 1,200 documents.

On March 12, 2012, Mohamad Salleh, 65, as director of NFCorp was alleged to have committed criminal breach of trust by misappropriating RM9,758,140 in four cheques to make part payment for the purchase of two units at ‘One Menerung’ condominium in Kuala Lumpur.

The offence was allegedly committed between Dec 1 and 4 at the CIMB Islamic Bank, Jalan Burhanuddin Helmi in Taman Tun Dr Ismail.

He also faces a second charge of transferring a RM40 million cheque into the National Meat & Livestock Corporation Sdn Bhd account of which he and one of his children were joint account holders at the same bank between May 6 and Nov 16, 2009.

Both charges were under Section 409 of the Penal Code which provides for a maximum jail sentence of 20 years and caning, as well as fine, upon conviction. – BERNAMA

Rela berkampung demi Ahmad Said?

Krisis kemanusiaan Syiria

Berikut adalah laporan dari Dr. Omar Al Hakim, dari pusat perubatan Moadamiyeh, Damascus, Syria.   “Bandar ini sangat teruk dimusnahkan regim bashar assad sejak dari permulaan revolusi. Hampir 10 bulan Mujahideen FSA menangkis serangan daripada tentera assad yang berulang kali menyerang bandar ini.   Mereka mengenakan kepungan, kesihatan orang disini merosot, dimana kita mengalami kehabisan bekalan makanan. Penduduk hanya makan tumbuh-tumbuhan sahaja. Bandar ini adalah benar-benar kosong dari makanan. Terdapat kira-kira 12,000 orang awam yang terperangkap sejak 10 bulan lalu, tepung kehabisan 7 bulan lalu, roti kering kehabisan 5 bulan lalu, dan kini semua bahan makanan telah habis.  Selain kehilangan keseluruhan bahan-bahan perubatan, rawatan kecederaan terpaksa menggunakan alat primitif dan ubat-ubatan antibiotik hanya diberikan kepada pesakit yang benar-benar dalam keadaan yang tersangat memerlukan. Bandar ini dalam krisis kemanusiaan yang besar.”   Sabda Rasulullah S.A.W;  “Barangsiapa tidak mengambil berat tentang saudaranya sesama Islam, mereka bukan termasuk dalam kalangan kami.”

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Perasmian Kecemerlangan Akademik SK Sultan Omar oleh Ketua Perhubungan UMNO Bahagian Dungun

Akhbar Mesir melabel Abdul Hadi pengganas

Abdul Hadi dijangka akan Mengadakan Satu Sidang Media hari ini menjawab Akhbar Watan Mesir yang melabel beliau pengganas sebagaimana yang dilabelkan kepada Ikhwan Muslimin . 

Ketua Penolong Pengarah Bahagian Penguatkuasa Jaip, Ahmad Raflie Ab Malik mati ditembak

Ketua 
Penolong Pengarah Bahagian Penguatkuasa Jabatan Agama Islam Pahang 
(Jaip
) Ahmad Raflie Ab Malik mati ditembak selepas terkena tiga das tembakan di hadapan rumah di Indera Mahkota 2 kira-kira pukul 2 petang hari ini.

Menurut sumber polis,
Raflie yang berasal dari Chenor, meninggal dunia di tempat kejadian kira-kira jam 2 petang.

Ketua Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah Pahang SAC Mohd Zakaria Ahmad yang mengesahkan kejadian itu berkata, tiga suspek lelaki dipercayai terbabit dalam kejadian.

Ketiga-tiga suspek itu dipercayai melarikan diri dengan menaiki sebuah kereta jenis Proton Wira Aeroback berwarna putih selepas menambak mangsa.

Beliau berkata, polis masih menyiasat kejadian itu.

Sebelum ini Raflie dikatakan begitu giat menggeledah tempat-tempat ajaran sesat dan Syiah seluruh negeri Pahang.

Tambahan maklumat

- Makuman..
Ketua penguatkuasa agama pahang baru shj meninggal dunia akibat ditembak sebanyak 3 das di dada dan diperut dirumahnya di tmn indera mahkota kuantan. Dipercayai akibat ketidak puasan hati ttg operasi gerak gempur syiah yg dilaksanakan baru2 ini. (WaAllahu Aklam)
Marilah sama2 kita sedekahkan al-Fatihah. Semgoa rohnya dicucuri rahmat Allah. Al-Fatihah.
- Penembak..pakai jacket hitam bertopi. Saspek pertama pakai baju melayu berkopiah..bagi salam..konon2 hulur surat....masa tu penembak kuar dr kete. Tembakan pertama x kena. Kedua n ketiga yg kena.perut n dada.
Now di bilik mayat. Masih menunggu bedah siasat. Mandi di sini jg atas permintaan ayah arwah.
Baru lpas gempur di syiah di keratong
Dpt ugutan
Seminggu x g keje takut
Org cr kt umah
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Pembunuh pegawai Ambank ditahan PDRM

KUALA LUMPUR: Pengawal keselamatan yang menembak mati pegawai Ambank Norazita Abu Talib, 37, dalam kejadian rompakan di Ambank cawangan Subang Jaya pada 23 Okt lepas, telah berjaya ditangkap polis pagi ini.

Perkara ini disahkan oleh Ketua Polis Negara Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar dalam laman Twitternya apabila beliau mengucapkan tahniah kepada pasukan Ops Cantas Bukit Aman yang dikatakan telah berjaya menangkap suspek di Johor Baharu.

Pasukan Cantas PDRM berjaya menangkap suspek pada jam 7.00 pagi 10 Novemver bertindak atas maklumat awam di Kampung Belungkor, Kota Tinggi, Johor. 


Dalam kejadian pada pukul 6.18 petang itu, Norazita, maut ditembak oleh suspek ketika beliau membuka peti besi di dalam bilik kebal bank berkenaan, bersama-sama seorang lagi pegawai wanita.

Mangsa yang sudah berkerja selama 16 tahun di bank itu meninggal dunia di tempat kejadian susulan kecederaan parah pada bahagian kepala akibat ditembak dengan 'pump gun' oleh suspek.

Suspek kemudian melarikan sejumlah RM450,000 dari bilik kebal itu.

Rakaman video selama 32 saat, yang dipercayai sedutan CCTV memaparkan insiden itu, telah tersebar dengan meluas di laman sosial ekoran kejadian tersebut..

Pasar Minggu Pesisir Sungai Kuala Berang tahun 70an

Photo: Pro Morsi yang terkorban

EGYPT UPDATE: Egypt seethes under curfew after hundreds killed - REUTERS

CAIRO: Security forces struggled to clamp a lid on Egypt on Thursday after hundreds of people were killed when authorities forcibly broke up camps of supporters protesting the ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, in the worst nationwide bloodshed in decades.

Pro-Islamist demonstrators shout slogans during a rally in support of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi in central Istanbul August 14, 2013. The U.S. on Wednesday condemned a bloody government crackdown on protesters in Egypt that killed at least 149 people and Turkey urged the U.N. Security Council and Arab League to act quickly to stop a "massacre". The placard reads, "Pharaohs who seized power in a coup will be drowned in the bloodshed". REUTERS/Murad Sezer

Islamists clashed with police and troops who used bulldozers, teargas and live fire on Wednesday to clear out two Cairo sit-ins that had become a hub of Muslim Brotherhood resistance to the military after it deposed Mursi on July 3.

The clashes spread quickly, and a health ministry official said about 300 people were killed and more than 2,000 injured in fighting in Cairo, Alexandria and numerous towns and cities around the mostly Muslim nation of 84 million.

The crackdown defied Western appeals for restraint and a peaceful, negotiated settlement to Egypt’s political stand-off, prompting international statements of dismay and condemnation.

The Muslim Brotherhood said the true death toll was far higher, with a spokesman saying 2,000 people had been killed in a “massacre.” It was impossible to verify the figures independently given the extent of the violence.

The military-installed government declared a month-long state of emergency and imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on Cairo and 10 other provinces, restoring to the army powers of arrest and indefinite detention it held for decades until the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak in a 2011 popular uprising.

The army insists it does not seek power and acted in response to mass demonstrations calling for Mursi’s removal.

Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who lent liberal political support to the ousting of Egypt’s first freely elected president, resigned in dismay at the use force instead of a negotiated end to the six-week stand-off.

“It has become difficult for me to continue bearing responsibility for decisions that I do not agree with and whose consequences I fear. I cannot bear the responsibility for one drop of blood,” ElBaradei said.

Other liberals and technocrats in the interim government did not follow suit. Interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi spoke in a televised address of a “difficult day for Egypt” but said the government had no choice but to order the crackdown to prevent anarchy spreading.       

“We found that matters had reached a point that no self-respecting state could accept,” he said.

Islamists staged revenge attacks on Christian targets in several areas, torching churches, homes and business after Coptic Pope Tawadros gave his blessing to the military takeover that ousted Mursi, security sources and state media said.

Churches were attacked in the Nile Valley towns of Minya, Sohag and Assiut, where Christians escaped across the roof into a neighboring building after a mob surrounded and hurled bricks at their place of worship, state news agency MENA said.      

The United States, the European Union, the United Nations and fellow Muslim power Turkey condemned the violence and called for the lifting of the state of emergency and an inclusive political solution to Egypt’s crisis.

An EU envoy involved in mediation efforts that collapsed last week said the authorities had spurned a plan for staged confidence-building measures that could have led to a political solution.

The Brotherhood publicly rejected any plan that did not involve Mursi’s restoration to office. An Egyptian military source said the army did not believe the Islamists would eventually agree to a deal and felt they were only stringing the diplomats along to gain time.

In Cairo, police and soldiers aided by self-styled “popular committees” of civilian vigilantes armed with clubs and machetes enforced the curfew, searching cars and checking identity cards of people passing through makeshift checkpoints made of tires and concrete blocks.

Despite the lockdown, hundreds of Mursi supporters tried to gather at El Iman mosque in the Cairo neighbourhood of Nasr City in an attempt to start a new sit-in to replace the main camp dispersed at nearby Rabaa al-Adawiya square, MENA reported.

They chanted “down, down, military rule” and “police are thugs,” a Reuters witness said.       

The protesters converted part of the mosque into a field hospital to tend to the wounded from the other sit-in, it said.

“They killed us, those coup makers and their thugs. Help us people, help us!” shouted Magda Ali, a woman marcher who was forced to leave the Rabaa camp.

Egyptian state television broadcast aerial footage of the burning remains of sprawling tent cities, as well as images of handmade guns it said were found at the sites. It also showed some video of alleged armed protesters shooting at police.

Reuters witnesses saw no protesters armed with more than bricks, stones and sticks as black-clad central security police in riot gear poured out of vans firing teargas and snipers fired from rooftops.

Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim told a news conference 43 members of the police force were killed in the clashes.

He vowed to restore Mubarak-era security after announcing, in a statement last month that chilled human rights campaigners, the return of notorious political police departments that had been scrapped after the 2011 revolution.

Wednesday’s death toll took the number of people killed in political violence since Mursi’s fall to about 600, mostly Islamist supporters of the ousted president.

Violence rippled out from Cairo, with Mursi supporters and  security forces clashing in the cities of Alexandria, Minya, Assiut, Fayoum and Suez and in Buhayra and Beni Suef provinces.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called the bloodshed in Egypt “deplorable” - a word U.S. diplomats rarely use - and urged all sides to seek a political solution.

A U.S. official told Reuters that Washington was considering cancelling a major joint military exercise with Egypt, due this year, after the latest violence, in what would be a direct snub to the Egyptian armed forces.

The “Bright Star” exercise has been a cornerstone of U.S.-Egyptian military relations and began in 1981 after the Camp David peace accords between Egypt and Israel. The United States has already halted delivery of four F-16 fighter jets in a signal of its displeasure.

Islamist militants with no direct link to the Brotherhood have staged almost daily attacks on security forces in the lawless Sinai Peninsula bordering Israel since Mursi’s fall.

In the latest violence, gunmen shot dead two policemen outside their station in El Arish in northern Sinai on Wednesday evening, MENA reported. -- REUTERS

EGYPT UPDATE: Journalists among those killed, injured

CAIRO: A cameraman for British broadcaster Sky News and a Dubai-based newspaper reporter were killed during violence in Egypt Wednesday, their employers said.

This is a an undated handout photo issued by British broadcaster Sky News of their cameraman Mick Deane who the broadcaster said was killed covering the clashes in Egypt on Wednesday Aug. 14, 2013. Sky said Mick Deane, 61, was shot and wounded while covering the violent breakup of protest camps in the capital, Cairo. It said he was treated for his injuries but died soon after. The rest of the Sky crew was unhurt. (AP Photo/Sky News

AP reports quoted Sky saying that Mick Deane, 61, was shot and wounded while covering the violent breakup of protest camps in the capital, Cairo. It said he was treated for his injuries but died soon after. The rest of the Sky crew was unhurt.  

 

The Gulf News, a state-backed newspaper in the United Arab Emirates, reported on its website that journalist Habiba Ahmed Abd Elaziz, 26, was shot dead near the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque in Cairo as security forces moved in on a sit-in by supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi.  

 

The newspaper said she had been on annual leave and was not on assignment at the protest for the XPRESS, a sister publication that she worked for.  

 

Sky said Deane had worked for the broadcaster for 15 years in the United States and the Middle East. He was married with two sons.  

 

Dozens of people have been killed across Egypt Wednesday in clashes between security forces and supporters of Morsi.  

 

Sky news chief John Ryley said Deane was “the very best of cameramen, a brilliant journalist and an inspiring mentor to many at Sky.”  

 

British Prime Minister David Cameron said he was “saddened to hear of the death” and said his thoughts were with Deane’s family and colleagues.  

 

The Gulf News said it spoke to the UAE journalist’s younger sister Arwa Ramadan, who confirmed her death.  

 

“My mom spoke to her close to (early morning prayers), but when she called again at 12 noon, there was no response,” the sister said. “She called again, and somebody picked up the phone and told her Habiba was dead. My dad, who is in Egypt right now, confirmed it later.”  

 

The Gulf News quoted deputy editor Mazhar Farooqui as saying the publication was in shock.   

 

“It’s hard to believe she’s gone,” Farooqui said. “She was passionate about her work and had a promising career ahead.”  

 

Meanwhile, a Reuters photographer was shot in the foot in Cairo on Wednesday while covering an operation by Egyptian security forces to clear protesters demanding the reinstatement of deposed President Mohamed Mursi.

 

Asmaa Waguih was receiving treatment for the bullet wound.

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Mesir: egypt update 149 killed in clashes across nation

Mesir: egypt update 149 killed in clashes across nation

Foto: Perdana menteri Palestine Ismail Haniyeh tidak bersolat di belakang orang-orang Syiah .

Perdana menteri Palestine Ismail Haniyeh tidak bersolat di belakang orang-orang Syiah .

TOI photo: Income disparity between rich, poor growing rapidly

Income disparity between rich, poor growing rapidly

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Foto Mesir: Seorang ibu yg turut mmbantu anaknya untuk persiapan sebelum berjihad pada jalan Allah...walaupun dia tahu bahawa anaknya mungkin tidak akan pulang

Seorang ibu yg turut mmbantu anaknya untuk persiapan sebelum berjihad pada jalan Allah..inilah suasana keluarga yang memahami hakikat sebuah perjuangan...walaupun dia tahu bahawa anaknya mungkin tidak akan pulang menemuinya lagi..tp di tempat kita??anak2 nk belajar agama pn mak bapak x bagi...

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