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OUR DAILY MIDDLE EAST VIOLENCE 4.3.2014…….

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Egyptian policeman killed, two injured in clashes

File photo of Egyptian police

File photo of Egyptian police
Mon Mar 3, 2014 2:29PM GMT

A police officer has been killed and two others injured in separate violent incidents in Egypt as attacks on police continue around the country.

Unidentified gunmen riding a motorcycle shot dead Sergeant Hassan Said Hussein outside the security directory in the Egyptian city of Beni Suef on Monday, the Ministry of Interior’s media office reported.

Meanwhile, an officer was injured after armed assailants shot at a police car in Mansoura, the capital of Daqahleya located north of Cairo.

A third policeman was also wounded by unidentified men in the city of Giza, while a vehicle belonging to security forces was set on fire in Aswan, state-run al-Ahram  news agency said.

The clashes broke out between police and army forces after army soldiers gunned down an officer on Friday, sparked by a quarrel allegedly over sacrilegious remarks.

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Egyptian policemen jailed for killing blogger

 Updated: March 3, 2014 23:39:00
 ALEXANDRIA // Two Egyptian policemen were sentenced to 10 years in jail on Monday for the killing of a blogger whose death rallied protesters in the 2011 revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak.

The two were sentenced following a retrial for the manslaughter and torture of Khaled Said in June 2010, when they had unlawfully arrested him at an internet cafe in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria.

The two police, Mahmoud Salah Mahmoud and Awad Ismail Suleiman, had initially been sentenced to seven years in October 2011 for excessive brutality.

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Syria: Hizbollah recruitment surge as sectarian conflict spreads

Bomb attacks by Sunni extremists in Lebanon have seen an increase in volunteers for the Shia militia that supports President Assad

Bomb attacks by Sunni extremists in Lebanon have seen an increase in volunteers for the Shia militia that supports President Assad  Photo: AP

By Ruth Sherlock in Hermel  8:00PM GMT 02 Mar 2014

Hizbollah, the militant Lebanese Shia group, is seeing a surge in recruitment as sectarian conflict spreads from the Syrian civil war, members of the group have told the Telegraph.

A spate of car bomb attacks against Shia towns and villages in Lebanon has caused a spike in the number of young men volunteering to fight for the group in Syria as the minority sect increasingly sees its own survival as tied to that of President Bashar al-Assad.

“All the men from this area are getting guns and asking to fight in Syria, whether they are already members of Hizbollah or not,” said one supporter of the militia, who asked not to be named. “We are in a critical situation and we have to fight for the sake of the Shia.”

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5 militants killed in Khyber Agency airstrikes

03 March, 2014

PESHAWAR: Warplanes bombed the hideout of a militant leader, killing five insurgents, the military said on Sunday, only a day after the Pakistani Taliban declared a one-month ceasefire to pursue stalled peace talks with the government.

The target of the attack, Mullah Tamanchey, directed a deadly assault against a convoy carrying a polio vaccination team and security forces on Saturday in which 12 people were killed, the military said. “The government is not going to tolerate any act of terror and any act will be replied to,” said a Pakistani security official who asked not to be identified. Hours after the attack on the convoy, the Taliban had said they would observe a one-month ceasefire to try to revive peace talks that failed last month.

It also called on other militant groups to observe the ceasefire. A government negotiator told Reuters they were open to restarting peace talks as long as the Taliban and its affiliates honoured the ceasefire. Tahir Ashrafi, head of the country’s largest alliance of clerics, said that the Taliban should release kidnap victims, safeguard polio workers and produce the bodies of slain paramilitary forces to demonstrate their sincerity.

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Yemen drone strikes, ambushes kill 10

ADEN Mon Mar 3, 2014 3:50pm EST

(Reuters) – At least four suspected al Qaeda militants were killed in air strikes in Yemen on Monday, following the deaths of several soldiers in the south of the country, local officials and state news agency Saba reported.

The U.S.-allied country which shares a long border with Saudi Arabia has been raked with lawlessness and violence since 2011, when mass protests forced long-serving President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down.

State news agency Saba said armed men set upon the soldiers in a pair of ambushes, killing six, after the soldiers had foiled a mortar and rocket propelled grenade attack on a gas pipeline in the southern Shabwa province.

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