Well-informed security sources about counterterrorism issues unveiled that US security forces northern Mali tried to eliminate Mokhtar Belmokhtar alias Khaled Abu Al Abbas, who has escaped many murder attempts the most recent one in September 2006 in an ambush set by Malian agents in Kidal. The same sources added that Belmokhtar has escaped the operation while he lost four men. The US forces track of the GSPC Northern Mali and in the Sahel countries in tight collaboration with local populations and arms smugglers.
I can't figure out who's more of a character, the first lady of Kenya, Lucy Kibaki, or her husband the President... who apparently can not only handle this woman but also one on the side.
First Lady Lucy Kibaki has proven herself a fast lady.
The mother of the nation has, for the second time and in full views of TV cameras, swung a slap at someone.
Unlike in 2005, when she paid the Nation Media Group’s headquarters a late-night visit and ended up slapping a photo-journalist, this time round her husband was in the dignified gathering at State House.
The First Lady was so piqued by her introduction by the principal administration secretary in the Office of the President, Mr Francis Musyimi, as "First Lady Mama Lucy Wambui", that she left the podium to administer instant justice.
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There is no way of knowing how the slip came to be. The man nursing the trauma of making her cross was probably just nervous and had his train of thought distorted by the aura of power around him. He ended up speaking a name considered a taboo subject in State House.
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There is also the time she took on the then Sports minister Mr Ochilo Ayacko saying there were frogs in the swimming pools at the Kasarani Sports Complex.
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But there is a side of the First Lady we may never fathom, the sudden gush of rage and the loud silence that follows. I have come across many theories but I am always convinced, given her position, restraint is more rewarding.
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Not even the outrageous confiscation of cameras from the hands of journalists and forceful erasure of the evidence of this assault will help lighten the situation.
Everything about this boggles the mind.
Here's why I don't want anyone to show this tape to Dick Cheney. We don't need him to get the idea that when something dark happens, you can just confiscate and erase the tapes. Still you have to admire the package Kenya's NTV put together on the farce.
In a move that may spell trouble with Nigeria's eastern neighbour, the Senate yesterday nullified last year's controversial ceding of the Bakassi Peninsula and other parts of Nigeria's territory to the Republic of Cameroon
It requested President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua "to forthwith stop any further transfer of any part of this country unless the agreement is ratified by the National Assembly."
Bakassi was handed over to Cameroun by former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, allegedly out of respect for a ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
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Senators also unanimously rejected a prayer by the movers of the motion calling for restraint in a possible confrontation with the Republic of Cameroon. It was therefore resolved that "Senate sympathises with the people of Bakassi and other parts of the country for the hardship caused them by the unfortunate cession of their ancestral homes to Cameroon and calls on the Federal Government to immediately take steps at ameliorating their suffering."
It appears the CIA has seen him..;. but like most of the folks our spooks are seeking, Mokhtar Belmokhtar alias Khaled Abu Al Abbas got away again.
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