Fill Out The Call Of The HOUSE, Nurpati Will Not Attack Behind Mahfud M. D.

Jakarta -Ex member of the Election Commission, Andi Nurpati today will meet the Mafia HOUSE Election call Panja. He said giving a description of the alleged ready-to-counterfeit letters were dragging him. CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

"God willing, to present appropriate invitation to 14.00. I will clarify everything. How to track, what I personally experienced and what the ELECTION COMMISSION, "said Andi Nurpati told the detikcom, Friday (30/6/2011).

However, Nurpati would not like the former constitutional judge, Arsyad Sanusi who attacked behind the Chairman of the Constitutional Court, Mahfud MD. Nurpati only will clarify many things about the fake letter that drags his MK

"I guess I was a bit different (with Arsyad-red). I'll talk about the process that is said to make false papers. Is it really as charged regarding the false letter. ELECTION COMMISSION did not know about the fake letters. That I will explain. It is important, "he said.

If any need to consider the Panja konfrontir from various parties who provide different information, Nurpati was ready to serve. However, he hoped that the police are dealing with this issue.

Andi Nurpati is now the Chairman of the Public Communications Division of the Democratic Party. A case of dragging his name is likely to not have defence means from the Democratic Party. Panja Mafia Election formed and running smooth without resistance from the party having the star of mercy.

But Nurpati denied if the Democrats do not support it in this case. He claimed to have met Chairman Anas Urbaningrum, PD, and given a referral.

"Because he (Anas) former member of the ELECTION COMMISSION of course understand. He said it was already explained, we are dealing with just these things, "he said.

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The Intercontinental attack Kabul: the Taliban Clear message (Time.com)

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Ali Omar and his son Ali Omar had returned to Kabul for a visit. The father had moved to the U.S. years ago and the son was born there. On Tuesday, they were having dinner by the pool of the Intercontinental Hotel in the Afghan capital where they were staying during their trip. It was a festive evening with several parties of well-to-do Afghans celebrating birthdays and other occasions. Then came the sound of gunfire. "The police told us it was some kids messing around and not to worry about it," says Ali Omar the younger, the owner of an Afghan restaurant in Fremont, California. "Then the gunshots kept getting closer and closer." His father adds, "At first, it was one or two shots from far away. After 15-16 minutes it was wild. War. Everyone was escaping."

Nine Taliban fighters had entered the heavily fortified Intercontinental Hotel in a brazen attack on foreigners and Afghan provincial officials who were in town to prepare for the wind-down of coalition forces set to begin in July. Once the intruders got past three heavily defended security checkpoints up a winding road and into the hotel - still decorated in a decaying, late 1970s style of plate glass windows, marble and heavy velvet curtains - there was chaos. Ali Omar the restaurant owner began videotaping what he saw. "I recorded it up to the point where a guy came in and started shooting into the crowd, then it was a free-for-all," he says. The video shows police standing on the pool deck with AK-47 rifles. People walk by the camera and Omar points out a policeman who he said was shot and killed minutes later. The tape cuts off as a loud explosion is heard. (See "The Taliban's War in Pakistan.")

Eyewitnesses say about 60-to-70 people, including women and children, were on the pool deck having dinner when men in white headscarves, carrying AK-47s and grenades and apparently suicide vests ran in shouting in Pashto and started shooting. The people on the pool deck all ran and jumped off the back wall, onto a steep, wooded hillside that leads down to a main road. The crowd had to knock down a section of a wall topped with barbwire to make it to safety on the street, according to the younger Omar, who recounted the episode, still in a blood spattered shalwar kimeez. Diners and hotel guests tell TIME the attack began around 10 p.m. Most of the fighting did not end until around 4 a.m., after NATO helicopter gunships killed three insurgents on the roof of the hotel. But the siege only came to a close early in the morning when the last bomber, who had been hiding out in the hotel, blew himself up.

The assault left between 18 and 21 dead and 13 wounded, Ministry of Interior spokesman Sadiq Sadiqi told TIME. Local news said nine civilians, two policemen, one Spanish national and nine suicide bombers were killed and that 13 civilians, five government officials and two NATO soldiers were wounded.

The Taliban had its official version. The group's spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid tells TIME that "eight suicide attackers entered from the west gate of the Intercontinental Hotel. One of them blew himself up at the gate. He killed some guards and police and destroyed the gate." Mujahid tells TIME that "only 13 foreigners were killed" without mentioning any Afghan fatalities. "The suicide attackers were contacting me while they were attacking and told me how many foreigners they were killing." He continues, "then they heard the helicopters coming. They went to the windows to shoot at them and they were killed by the helicopters. It was around 4 AM when we lost connection with them. Every five minutes they were calling us to tell us about the casualties."

The attack came a day after the end of a high-level meeting in Kabul that was preparing for the Bonn 2 Conference, a 50-nation meeting that will be held to discuss the upcoming security transition in July and the withdrawal of foreign military forces in 2014. Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, told TIME that the target of the attack was guests staying at the hotel: governors and mayors from the three provinces and four cities - Kabul, Bamyan and Panjsher provinces and the cities of Mazar-e-Sharif, Herat, Lashkar Gah and Mehtarlam - that will be the first to see the security transitions from coalition to Afghan forces in July. (See "In Afghanistan, Civilians Help Soldiers in Counterinsurgency.")

As the transition draws near, the attack on the hotel has only reinforced the belief of Afghans and foreigners that Afghan forces are not ready to take over security responsibilities. "We heard shooting and we saw the police dropping their weapons and running from the area," says Noor Mohammad, a member of the National Directorate of Security who was still in uniform and had been at the hotel for his boss' birthday party. "I can't trust them. How can I trust them? They dropped their weapons because they heard some shooting. How can they ensure security for us? How can they fight against the Taliban? No way, I don't trust them at all," he says quietly as he cradled a hand that had been cut by barbwire as he helped his boss' children escape down the hillside.

"In any way possible, the program will be successfully implemented. Our enemies know that they don't have the capability to hurt our national intention," said Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, the Chief of the Security Transition Program. "Our country is ready to take any sacrifice necessary on this path," Ahmadzai said today at the government's first security handover conference, Tolo TV reported. But in light of today's attack many Afghans will continue to disagree.

Sahel Wafa, an Afghan who now works for a pharmaceutical company in London after having fled the fighting in the 1980s, watched the attack unfold from the roof of his parents' house. He saw the entire assault and the police reaction from his vantage point across the street from the entrance to the hotel. "I don't think they're ready to take over security. I suppose that as soon as the Americans troops leave, you will see a lot of chaos. Not only from the Taliban, but within the Afghan people, the society. I don't think the security forces are ready to take over at all."

(See "Osama bin Laden's Legacy: 13 Years of Terrorist Attacks.")

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At least 10 killed in attack on landmark hotel in Kabul (Reuters)

KABUL (Reuters)-at least 10 Afghan civilians were killed when suicide bombers and the heavily armed Taliban insurgents attacked a hotel frequented by Westerners in the Afghan capital late Tuesday, Afghan officials said.

Helicopters from the NATO-led force killed the last three insurgents in a final battle on the roof, said a spokesman for the coalition. Smoke rose from the roof of the hotel Intercontinental as the Sun rose above Kabul after a battle lasting several hours.

"At least 10 civilians, including hotel staff, were killed when suicide bombers attacked the Intercontinental", Mohammad Zahir, head of Kabul police crime unit, told Reuters.

Sediq Sediqqi, a spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry, said he had been killed at least six Afghans.

The attack was the night before the start of a Conference on the transition of civil responsibility and militarily by foreign forces of Afghans. The hotel was one of the sites to be used by the Conference or his delegates, said an official of the Afghan Government.

It was even a week after President Barack Obama announced plans for the withdrawal of 10,000 u.s. troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year, with another 23,000 to leave by the end of 2012.

Reuters has heard witnesses at least seven explosions during more than two hours, with volleys of gunfire heard during the attack until late at night the Intercontinental, one of the two main Hotels used by foreigners and Afghan Government officials in Kabul.

The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said there had been gunfire from inside the hotel.

"Two helicopters ISAF. .. have engaged three individuals on the roof," coalition spokesman Major Tim James said. "The indications are that killed three people on the roof".

A Reuters witness said smoke could be seen rising from the hotel, although not fires were visible. Afghan security forces surrounded the hotel and firefighters arrived after the last of the insurgents were killed.

Sediqqi said six or seven rebels had been involved in the attack, one of the worst in the Afghan capital in months. "All were killed," he said.

Zahir also said three police officers had been wounded as they cleared the Western outskirts of the city.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that several fighters from the Islamic Group had attacked the hotel.

Mujahid, who spoke to Reuters by phone from an undisclosed location, said had been inflicted heavy casualties.

The Taliban often exaggerate the number of victims of the attacks against Afghan Government targets and Western.

FLARES, TRACER ROUNDS

A blast was heard at the beginning of the attack and then three more at least an hour later, a Reuters witness said. Bursts of gunfire were heard over the same period and eruptions lit up the sky above the hotel.

Reuters television footage showed police firing tracer rounds in the air as other officers moved through the hotel. Power was cut in the hotel and in surrounding areas after the attack.

The hotel, built on a hill in West Kabul with heavy fortifications all around it, is often used for conferences and by Westerners visiting the city.

Police threw up roadblocks immediately after the explosion, people from approaching the area.

Violence has flared in Afghanistan since the Taliban announced the beginning of a spring offensive in early may, although Kabul was relatively quiet.

The last major attack on a hotel used by foreigners in Kabul was in January 2008, when some Taliban gunmen killed six people in a commando-style raid on the nearby hotel Serena.

The increase in violence comes as NATO-led forces prepare to hand security responsibility to the Afghans in seven areas from next month at the beginning of a process of gradual transition that will end with all foreign troops, leaving Afghanistan by the end of 2014.

The two-day Conference to discuss the transition process was due to start in a building in the city centre, the Government Wednesday.

Violence in Afghanistan in 2010 was already at its worst levels since the Taliban were ousted by Us-backed Afghan forces in late 2001.

(Additional reporting by Omar Sobhani, Alistair Scrutton and Akram Walizada; Writing by Paul Tait; Editing by Sugita Katyal)

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A crowd of Caterpillar Attack House of Citizens in the

The -a crowd of thousands of Caterpillar attacked a number of houses in the Village Of fortification, Parak Karakah, the city of Padang, West Sumatra (West Sumatra). A flock of Caterpillar is out of the House Jim drunkenly hitting on citizens since four days ago and getting more and more severe in the last two days.

According to the detikcom monitoring to the scene, Weeks (26/6/2011), three houses in RT 2 RW 8 Parak Karakah Meadow experienced the worst attacks. These houses belong to the respective Masni, Nurma, and Arni. One of the primary school which is located adjacent to the three houses were also not spared from attack.

"This is already the fourth day and in the last two days were more and more. We were forced to close the House for fear of more that goes into, "said Masni (51).

Masni said, before the attack to the House, thousands of Caterpillar is initially only clustered in an empty land in front of their home. See many Caterpillar, citizen initiative committing arson. However, once burned thousands of caterpillars are quite loose and moved Jim drunkenly hitting on houses.

"Every time it swept over several minutes, the caterpillars-the caterpillars return to roam the walls of the House. Yesterday afternoon the Pack RW already do the spraying, but does not seem to catch fire. The health officers also have been coming here to give us drugs itch, "said Masni.

A resident of the other, Defrizal (31) said in addition to their homes, some Jim drunkenly hitting on Caterpillar also rested on the plant around the House.

"It feels uncomfortable. Moreover, here a lot of children. Adults only if it's gatalnya where honey Caterpillar for mercy and make agency Red-Red, "he said.

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