It became obvious that Egypt’s referendum over the new constitution is in the wrong direction, not because the result is going to be accepting or rejecting the constitution, but because the referendum continues to lead to clashes in the streets. The National Salvation Front proved that there are sever violations happened during the first and the second phases of the vote over the constitution, while Islamists backing President Mohamed Morsi insist that the vote result will be “accepting” the constitution because of the people’s hope to find stability.

The Muslims Brotherhood is Egypt have been working hard in the past week to gather as much acceptors as it can, hoping to see a big difference in votes between accepting and rejecting the new constitution. On the other side, Egypt’s opposition detected fraud and violations took place during the voting process in its first and second phases such as, having fake judges observing the voting centers, as a lot of voting centers were being managed by teachers or University professors, which is against the law in Egypt.

Moreover, unofficial results for the first round of voting released by Freedom and Justice party, which is the Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm, showed that 56% said “yes” for the new constitution, while 44% said “No”, knowing that the majority in Cairo said “No” and this clearly annoyed the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. In case the trend continued today, it is expected to see massive marches all over Egypt refusing the constitution and the fraud took place by Islamists who support President Morsi.

We should say that the opposition announced that the first round’s result was 66% for “No” and 34% for “Yes”. The opposition also reported what it called “unprecedented rigging” which included more than 700 violations in only 10 governorates, amid the absence of judicial observation.

Clashes were seen in different governorates during the voting phases and it was said that a man was killed with gun shot in Qina during fights between supporters and the opposition. Civilian Organizations monitoring the referendum said that a number of Christians were stopped from going to their voting center, as Islamists closed the centers and threatened Christian families, knowing that almost all Christian citizens in Egypt are rejecting the new constitution. However, the Police managed to open some of the closed voting centers, but Islamists are still warning Christians from going to vote, especially in Al Minia.

It is expected that we will see a number of demonstrations in the coming hours, before announcing the referendum result, while deadly clashes remain expected. It was said that the Muslim Brotherhood members are preparing to stay in the streets tonight and tomorrow to celebrate the result that should come showing Egyptians agreed on the constitution, as they expect, while the opposition is expected to call for a demonstration in Tahrir square tomorrow, after the preliminary signs of the referendum results appear.

The Egyptian army started to secure the main buildings all over Egypt, and it is increasing the number of soldiers around Ittehadya Palace that witnessed deadly clashes before between Islamists and the opposition.

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Police clashed with members of the English Defence League during protests in Walsall town centre today.

During speeches given by leaders of the EDL, the crowd surged towards police lines on Leicester Street. Officers with riot gear used batons and shields to hold back the demonstrators. Scores of missiles – including bricks, bottles and litter bins – were hurled at police.

At 3pm officers cleared Lichfield Street with a shields charge as members of the EDL were herded on to buses to transport them away from the town centre.

West Midlands Police said they have no power to ban a static protest and the right to protest peacefully was a sign of a healthy democracy.

Birmingham Mail, 29 September 2012

See also "28 arrested following EDL demonstration in Walsall", ITV News, 29 September 2012

And "EDL's Walsall flop is another nail in its coffin", UAF news report, 29 September 2012

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After the recent series of conflicts, Taliban have been bouncing back to U.S. forces and attacking them. Muslims in Afghanistan have been facing several hardships in past many many years; U.S. forces invaded and destroyed the already existent setup which had been prevailing in Afghanistan. But U.S. has also taken measures to build and transform the entire region and made equip mentally strong and efficient.

The recent killings of 9 women while they were working on mountains to collect firewood had been brutally killed down by U.S. forces. These women were of different age groups and left their families in great shock. This activity angered Taliban and Muslim of Afghanistan who have been bouncing back to the U.S. forces.

U.S. forces and the NATO forces believe that Taliban commanders are driving their suicide bombers towards the locations like U.S. embassies and well-fortified NATO bases to break them down with several attacks. U.S. forces believe that Taliban are showcasing desperation and have begun killing their forces.

“Insurgent leaders, they say, have redoubled a campaign to assassinate key Afghan government and security officials who are likely to play leadership roles in the country once foreign troops depart. And by happenstance or meticulous planning — U.S. military officials are not sure which — the Taliban has managed to kill numerous Western troops by joining the ranks of the Afghan army.

“The Taliban are fighting a political war while the United States and its allies are still fighting a tactical military war,” said Joshua Foust, a former U.S. intelligence analyst who has worked in Afghanistan and is now a fellow with the American Security Project. “We remain focused on terrain. They are focused on attacking the transition process and seizing the narrative of victory.”

U.S. officials say that they are planning on the setting up of new plans to protect their forces from the further attacks. Previously, U.S. official expressed their ideas about the finishing this quarrel and said that U.S. and Afghan forces must not fight between themselves as it will distract the both teams from their desired goals. Moreover, U.S. and NATO coalition partners have decided to leave Afghanistan before 2014. They both should behave in a cordial manner and let these fights reach an end. U.S. and NATO have decided to hand over the national security into the hands of Afghan forces which have been trained by them so that once they leave Afghan forces must fulfill their requirements themselves.

After the making of an anti-Islam film in America, there are more likely to be having attacks on U.S. forces and NATO by Afghan forces. Already, there have been several attacks conducts on the American forces by the people of Afghanistan but the anti-Islam film surely will be another reason for the further attacks on American forces.

The officials said the operational commander will probably ease the restrictions in coming days if tensions over the video subside.

“Protecting the force for the moment protects the mission and the campaign later,” said a senior U.S. official in Kabul, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal military decision-making

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