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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336063 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Inscrutable Birthday Gam Shot 12/02

Lucy Liu [Filmography](age 44)


Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 12/03/2012 11:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Birthday Gam Shot

Keegan Connor Tracy [Canuck][Filmography](age 41)



Moulting would be good!
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 12/03/2012 12:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Now how would you like to take her to the prom. She has class.
Posted by: Dale || 12/03/2012 15:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Lucy Liu I am referring to.
Posted by: Dale || 12/03/2012 15:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Bet Sophia was a better cook.
Posted by: Shipman || 12/03/2012 16:50 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Suicide Car Bomber Kills 3 in Uruzgan
[Tolo News] Provincial officials say a suicide car boomer killed three civilians and maimed another six in Afghanistan's southern Uruzgan province.

Abdullah Himmat, a front man for the provincial governor, said Saturday's blast occurred near the police headquarters of Uruzgan's Dehra Wood district.

Fareed Ayal, a front man for the provincial police, says the car apparently detonated prematurely before it reached the gate of the headquarters.
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336080 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
At least 26 killed in Somali clan battles

[Al Ahram] Fierce fighting between heavily armed rival clans in war-torn Somalia has killed at least 26 people in a dispute over grazing land and water, officials said Sunday. "There are many casualties, the initial reports are of 26 people killed," said Mohamed Abdi Shire, a senior commander of the Ahlu Sunna militia in central Somalia, which controls the region. Clashes broke out Saturday in the central Galgadud region, around the villages of of Marer and Balalder, he added.
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336067 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
Egypt judges refuse to oversee constitutional poll, say judicial sources
[Al Ahram] Judicial sources within Egypt's Judges Club told Al-Ahram's Arabic-language news website on Sunday evening that club members had agreed to boycott Egypt's upcoming constitutional referendum -- slated for 15 December -- and would refuse to supervise the voting process. They arrived at the decision during a judges' meeting held before the presser that is currently taking place.
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336080 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  "Sorry, boys - not gonna play your reindeer games."
Posted by: mojo || 12/03/2012 11:16 Comments || Top||

#2  They're going to be replaced by islamic judges anyway.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/03/2012 15:26 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Boko Haram burns more churches in NE Nigeria
Suspected members of the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram set fire to churches and border posts in north-eastern Nigeria on Sunday, residents said, but it was not immediately known if there were casualties.

Around 50 gunmen in cars and on motorcycles carried out the attacks on three churches and border posts with neighbouring Cameroon, opening fire on police and chanting Allahu Akbar, (God is Greatest), residents said.
When do the Christians in the region start fighting back? If the bad boys are on motorbikes just string some wire neck-high across the road. If the bad boys have guns, use your own guns and get into a good sniping position near the road. Let the bad boys know that if they come into your neighborhood to burn your church that they're going to die. You'll be amazed how quickly the bad boys go elsewhere.
Among the security posts burned were offices for immigration, customs and the secret police and a quarantine building in the city of Gamboru Ngala, about 140 kilometres (80 miles) from the Boko Haram stronghold in Maiduguri.

"The gunmen believed to be Boko Haram were around 50 in number and came in cars and on motorcycles around 8:30 am and attacked the security offices at the border posts, burning them," resident Modugana Ibrahim told AFP.

"They opened fire on the security personnel but it is hard to say if anybody was hurt or killed," Ibrahim said.

Another resident, Hamidu Ahmad, said the gunmen went into town "chanting 'Allahu Akbar' and burnt down the divisional police station and three churches".
Posted by: Steve White || 12/03/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336066 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This has been their latest pattern - large numbers of motivated jihadists on motorcycles and in cars. They have hit banks for money, and police stations for weapons. Right now - it's working for Boko Haram. But if this keeps up - Nigeria will be in full-scale civil war (north vs. south).
Posted by: Raider || 12/03/2012 16:13 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Businessman Slain in Eastern Yemen, Security Equipment Cargo Seized in West
[Yemen Post] The Yemeni authorities found on Sunday the body of a domestic businessman who was kidnapped by unknown people the prior day in the Mukalla city, the capital of the eastern Hadramout
...the formerly independent Qu'aiti state and sultanate, annexed by Communist South Yemen in 1968, encompassing a region along the Gulf of Aden, extending eastwards to the borders of the Dhofar region of Oman. The people are called Hadhramis and speak Hadhrami Arabic. The city Tarimis estimated to contain the highest concentration of descendants of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI) anywhere in the world, approximately seven in every square yard...
province, the state-run September 26 website reported.

The website quoted security sources as saying the body of Abdullah Al-Amoudi, a honey dealer, was found on one of the streets early Sunday but those behind the crime have not been known yet.

"The killers called relatives and friends of Al-Amoudi through his cell phone to come and take his body after the murder," it quoted a statement by relatives of the businessman.

State media including the official agency Saba said President Abdrabu Mansour Hadi has ordered to investigate the murder and hunt the killers.

Separately, the authorities at the Hodeida seaport seized early Sunday a security equipment cargo imported from China, the website said.

The cargo included anti-riot equipment, bullet-proof shields, bullet cartridges and army helmets, it said, pointing out the cargo was imported by a company called Ritag.

The seizure comes amid thriving arms and drugs trade in Yemen which is experiencing an alarming security disorder casting a cloud on the West-backed power transition.

In recent weeks, the authorities seized several arms cargoes including the one of firearms imported from Turkey inside biscuit boxes.
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336081 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  A honey dealer? Probably not.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/03/2012 9:52 Comments || Top||


Yemen's army bombards saboteur's house in Marib
[Yemen Post] The Yemeni army bombarded on Sunday the house of an oil pipeline saboteur, Mohammad Kalfoot, in Wadi Abida of Marib governorate.

Local sources said that some population of Wadi Abida left their homes amid fears that they would have been raided.

Kalfoot, who is accused of attacking oil pipelines on Friday, responded to the military's bombardment of targeting the electricity towers.

The oil pipelines were subjected to attacks three times in Wadi Abida.

A number of Yemeni governorates are now living in darkness after the gas-run power station was assaulted by Kalfoot hours after his home was raided by the army.

Yemen's electricity supplies have been damaged many times since the eruption of the eleven-month-old protests. Yemen have lost billions of rials as a result of recurring attacks, official statistics say.

Yemeni officials and analysts accused the former regime led by President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
of supporting those saboteurs who target power lines.
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336082 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia


High-ranking commander escapes assassination attempt
[Yemen Post] A high-ranking Yemeni commander escaped an liquidation attempt on Sunday in the southern governorate of Lahj.

Military sources affirmed that a gunman in a four-wheel vehicle assaulted the commander of the Al-Anad military base Mohammad al-Subaihi.

They said that the escorts of Al-Subaihi could injure the attacker and arrest him.

"Nobody was hurt in the armed attack, but two cars of the convoy were pockmarked by bullets," local sources said.

Military sources anticipated that al-Qaeda was behind the event, citing that al-Subaihi is pursuing a military offensive against al-Qaeda in Abyan
...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues...
governorate.

Al-Qaeda had claimed its responsibility for the liquidation of senior Yemeni commander including the commander of the Southern Military Region Salem Qatan who was killed in last June.

More than 60 Yemeni officers, most of them are intelligence officers, were killed across Yemen since the beginning of 2012.

Most liquidations carried out against intelligence officers have occurred in Aden and Sana'a which experience alarming insecurity since the popular uprising erupted against the former regime in early 2011.

Yemeni analysts say that Al-Qaeda failed to target Yemeni strategic facilities and it resorted to assassinate high-ranking officers as a simple option.

Leaders of political parties and ministers were frequently to subjected to liquidation attempts in Sana'a and other major cities.

Al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula had called its members to use cycle of violences and avoid using vehicles after US drones increased against them.

The Interior Ministry has directed to ban cycle of violences with no registration plates in all Yemeni governorates as most liquidations were carried out by gunnies on cycle of violences.
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336065 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia


Europe
Mum set for trial after sending son named 'jihad' to nursery with 'I am a bomb' jumper
A MUM who sent her three-year-old son named "Jihad" to nursery school wearing a top bearing the words "I am a bomb" is to go on trial in France. Beneath the boy's name on the back of the jumper were the words "Born on the 11 September" - the date of the 9/11 terror attacks on New York's twin towers.

The muslim mum was reported to police by the boy's outraged teacher and has now been charged with supporting a terrorist act.

Thierry Lagneau, the mayor of the southern French town of Sorgues, said: "We fully support charges being brought against this woman for provoking hatred and terrorism in one of our schools.

"This was an utterly irrespoinsible act by the boy's mother, who used their son to promote a violent political belief of her own."

The divorced mother said the jumper was a gift to her from the boy's uncle and has insisted the message on the top was not meant to be provocative.
Oh no, of course not, no true believer would be upset, and who cares what infidels think, anyway?
She also told police her son's genuine birthdate was September 11, 2009.

The 32-year-old woman will appear in court in Avignon on December 19, when she faces a suspended prison sentence and fine of up to 800 pounds.
Posted by: Steve White || 12/03/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336066 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Kind of like naming your kid Adolph Hitler.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/03/2012 9:56 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm impressed with the english language skills of the french people to have been able to read the message on the shirt.
Posted by: Blossom Thinerong6539 || 12/03/2012 10:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Fuck You is pretty much the same in all languages.
Posted by: Shipman || 12/03/2012 11:55 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Three PKK members killed in Turkey
Three members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed during a raid of Turkish army in the province of Elazig on Saturday, the Dogan agency reported.

Over 10 months, Turkish security forces rendered harmless
Oh, what a politically correct term!
716 PKK militants in different parts of the country, including 496 terrorists that have been killed, 21 wounded, 44 arrested and 155 surrendered to the authorities. During the reporting period, the security forces held six large and 19 local operations against militants.
Posted by: Steve White || 12/03/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336083 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: WoT
Iraqi refugee jugged over explosion in Casa Grande
Hat tip Patrick Poole at PJ Media.
CASA GRANDE, Ariz. - A 47-year old Iraqi refugee is in federal custody Saturday in connection with an explosion at a Social Security office in Casa Grande.

A source close to the investigation says he'll likely face a litany of federal and state explosive and arson charges on Monday.

"I'm positive in my heart and my soul he had nothing to do with this," said Swannee Welsh. Welsh believes her neighbor, Abdul Latif Aldosary is being unfairly targeted. She says he's a refugee from Iraq.

"I've never seen him with a match even, he doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, he doesn't move, he doesn't go to the mosque," said Welsh.

But Saturday, federal agents were still searching Aldosary's home at 47th Street and Lemon in Coolidge. The 47-year old is being held in connection with an explosion at the Social Security office in Casa Grande Friday morning.

Investigators believe someone threw an explosive out a car window, causing the entry door to become blackened and charred. The office was closed and no one was hurt but the blast shook those nearby.

"He was just in that neighborhood because he goes to unemployment offices and other government buildings over there but he hasn't any problems against America; he's very thankful he got to be a refuge somewhere," said Welsh.

Friday evening, dozens of homes near where Aldosary lives were evacuated as a precaution as agents served a search warrant.

"It's kind of a surprise, wouldn't expect a neighbor across the street to be involved in something like that," said Jerry Vining, Aldosary's neighbor.

"I'll be the most stunned person if it turns out he did something like that," said Welsh.

Aldosary has served time for aggravated harassment after he threatened an employer who wasn't giving him enough hours. FOX 10 spoke with that employer Saturday and they say Aldosary made threatening calls and sent letters, but none mentioned explosives.

Aldosary is expected in federal court Monday.
More here. Since he's a refugee expect the national media to ignore this.
Posted by: Steve White || 12/03/2012 08:14 || Comments || Link || [336081 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don't expect the GOP to 'deftly pin' this on Democrat muslim sympathizers & appeasers.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 12/03/2012 16:12 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Handler, 'would-be suicide bombers' killed in KP
[Dawn] Three would-be jacket wallahs and one of their handlers were killed in two separate incidents when their vests detonated prematurely, according to security sources.

The first incident took place in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
's Dir colony area where a cycle of violence-riding suicide bomber was being equipped with the boom vest by his handler.

According to security sources, the explosives detonated while the handler was camouflaging the boom jacket with another jacket. Both the handler and bomber were killed in the blast.

The incident took place near a security check-post, which was presumed as the target of the would-be attackers. The faces of the suspects were unrecognisable as a result of the blast.

In the second incident, two suicide-bombers were killed prior to reaching their destination in Garang area of Pandiali Tehsil in Mohmand tribal area, according to security officials.

In another unrelated incident Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) personnel defused explosives planted on a cycle of violence on main GT road in Tarnab Farm area in the outskirts of Peshawar.

According to BDS official Zahid Khan the cycle of violence was fitted with remote-controlled detonator as well as a mobile phone detonator. The ignition system of the cycle of violence was also connected to the bomb which had six to seven kilograms of kaboom and the was filled with pellets to increase the devastation caused by the blast.

The cycle of violence was found parked a few yards away from security checkpost which was presumed as the target for the attack.
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336066 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan

#1  Air gets dry this time of year. Watch out for static cling boom...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/03/2012 10:22 Comments || Top||


Peace body member found slaughtered in Mohmand
[Dawn] The body of a member of local peace committee was found in Shagai area of Haleemzai tehsil of Mohmand Agency
... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
on Tuesday.

Officials said that the victim, Raad Gul, was kidnapped by unidentified persons outside his house last night. His body was dumped in a playground in Shagai, they added.

Raad Gul was an active member of Haleemzai Peace Committee.

The officials of political administration shifted the body to agency headquarters hospital in Ghalanai and later handed it over to his family.
They said that the victim was slaughtered.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain front man Ihsanullah Ihsan grabbed credit of the killing of the volunteer.

He told local journalists by telephone that all those people who were supporting the peace committees and the government, would be targeted.

The political authorities brought sniffer dogs to trace the killers of the peace volunteer.

The dogs entered the house of a primitive, whose sons are already in the custody of security forces for their alleged involvement in a blast at Chanda about three months ago.

The security forces conducted search operation in Babikhel area and set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
seven rustics including shopkeepers and shifted them to Ghalanai lockup.
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336075 views] Top|| File under: TTP

#1  What? No kubaya. What's not to like about peace?
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/03/2012 9:55 Comments || Top||

#2  You can't shoot me, I'm on the peace committee!
Posted by: tu3031 || 12/03/2012 16:14 Comments || Top||

#3  didn't say they shot him, nor that his body was...
intact
Posted by: Frank G || 12/03/2012 18:24 Comments || Top||

#4  You can't hack me to pieces, I'm on the peace committee!
Posted by: tu3031 || 12/03/2012 18:56 Comments || Top||

#5  heh
Posted by: Frank G || 12/03/2012 19:35 Comments || Top||


Three members of outlawed group held
[Dawn] The CIA police claim to have incarcerated
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
three cut-throats belonging to a banned beturbanned goon organization.

CIA DSP Tariq Kayani
... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI...
told the media on Saturday that the police arrested three cut-throats in Lorry Adda when they were planning terror activities. He said Arshad Ali, Umar Zaib and Amjad were activists of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain.

The police recovered seven kilogramme kaboom, four hand-grenades, one Kalashnikov and Rs160,000 in cash besides hate literature from their possession.

"They belonged to the Ghulam Rabbani group of the TTP and wanted to hit targets during Muharram," DSP Kayani said. He said Lahore CCPO Aslam Tareen on the basis of the intelligence reports directed DIG Investigation Chaudhry Shafiq to trace the terrorists.

CIA SP Umar Virk formed teams of CIA officials who after hectic efforts nabbed the beturbanned goons. The DSP said the funds recovered from them were to be handed over to their commander, Ghulam Rabbani.

Building collapse: A portion of an old and dilapidated building collapsed in the Lohari Bazaar area on Saturday. However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese...
no casualties were reported.

The residents said they had complained to the authorities concerned to either demolish or repair the building, but to no avail. They said cracks had appeared in several parts of the building due to seepage of sewerage water, adding that Wasa officials had failed to locate the actual problem.
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336066 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Rangers raid on Manghopir localities: 'Bomb factory', arms seized
[Dawn] With helicopters hovering overhead, some 2,000 Rangers personnel, including women members, in vehicles guarded by armoured personnel carriers moved into the Manghopir and Sultanabad localities for a pre-dawn 'targeted-operation' on Saturday.

Officials claimed the operation was a 'major success' that led to the seizure of a crude bomb-making factory, huge caches of arms and explosives with stocks of bearing balls and deadly chemicals as had been used in kabooms during Muharram.

The more than four-hour-long operation triggered a brief protest from area residents, who accused the paramilitary troops of violating the privacy of their family lives.

"It was planned on specific information to arrest some wanted terrorists," said a front man for the Sindh Rangers. "The targeted operation started early in the morning in the Manghopir and Sultanabad areas, which was attended by the 2,000 troops along with APCs (armoured personnel carriers)."

Saturday's operation was the second consecutive exercise by the Rangers in as many days.

On Friday, the troops cordoned off the neighouring Kunwari Colony in the same district and rounded up several suspects after hours-long search of the densely-populated locality.

"Today (Saturday) a difficult and hilly area was targeted. It was a well-planned operation with aerial cover for monitoring of the operation. Today a major success has been made," said the front man.

Manghpoir has emerged as a hotbed of suspects associated with the banned outfits in recent months and the recent raids by the police and Rangers that resulted in deadly encounters and arrest of alleged faceless myrmidons reflected the alarming influx of criminal elements into the locality.

Only on the eve of Ashura last week, the anti-extremist cell of the Sindh police's crime investigation department claimed to have tossed in the calaboose
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
a suspected krazed killer, Ataullah alias Saddam, in an encounter that killed his aide Gul Muhammad Mehsud and led to the recovery of more than 100 kilograms of explosive stated to be meant for use in an attack on the main Ahsura procession on M. A. Jinnah Road.As claimed by the Sindh Rangers front man, the seizure after the paramilitary operation suggested well-organised presence of suspected faceless myrmidons in the suburb of the metropolis.

"During the operation an IED making facility has been found," he said. "Important recoveries include substantial amount of ball bearings, cycle of violence batteries, aluminum powder, aluminum nitrate, nitric acid concentrated, circuits without detonators, mobile phones without SIMs and approximately 70 weapons of different caliber with ammunition."

Though the number of suspects arrested was not explained by the Rangers, the front man hinted that the operation helped in pursuing investigations in line with recent terrorist attacks in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...

"Leads have been found with recent IED kabooms in Bloody Karachi. This success will lead to operations in other areas as well," he said. After the Rangers personnel returned with the 'major success', area people erupted into the streets and blocked the main road in protest against the operation.

Traffic remained suspended in the area that was revived only after talks between some area leaders and senior coppers.

However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
the Sindh Rangers front man thanked the Manghopir and Sultanabad residents for their support during the operation.

"Sindh Rangers thank the inhabitants of Sultanabad and Manghopir for their support during the operation. We regret any inconvenience caused due to the prolonged operation," he added.
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336076 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Two shot dead in Orangi
[Dawn] A shopkeeper and a Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) worker were rubbed out in different parts of Orangi Town on Saturday, police said.

The two killings within the remit of the Iqbal Market cop shoppe were reported within in span of few hours. "In the first half of the day two men riding a cycle of violence pulled up close to the shop of 40-year-old Mohammad Daraz in Sector 10 near Awami Chowk," said an official at the Iqbal Market cop shoppe.

"One of the riders got off the two-wheeler, walked close to the shop owner and fired multiple shots at him before speeding away with his accomplice."

The victim sustained three gunshot wounds and was struck down in his prime, the official said, adding that the body was later shifted to the Abbassi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.

Following the post-mortem examination, the body was taken to the Edhi morgue as the victim's family lived in Punjab.

"The victim was married. He was an area resident and originally hailed from Punjab. The police were waiting for his family from Punjab before lodging the FIR," the police official said.

Shortly before sunset, another gun attack in Orangi Town left a KMC worker dead, the police said.

They added that Abdul Hameed, 43, had come to see a friend in the Toori Bangash area, where gunnies riding a motorbike fired at him and sped away. "The victim was shifted to the Abbassi Shaheed Hospital, where he died during treatment," said Iqbal Market SHO Inspector Mohammad Sabir.

Only a few years ago, Hameed had moved from Orangi Town to North Nazimabad. He was a KMC employee and father of three.

The SHO said that police Sherlocks were not yet soure about the motive for the killing as investigation was under way.
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336066 views] Top|| File under:


Southeast Asia
Defense volunteer gunned down in southern Thailand
Defense volunteer Ahamatole Dolo was ambushed by members of an terrorist insurgent group while returning home on a motorcycle from his job at a rubber plantation in Pattani province. Cartridges from an assault rifle and a 9 mm pistol were found on a local road near Ban Baruere.

Police think Ahamatole was targeted by a terrorist militant group because he worked as an informant.

In another development, 332 schools in Pattani will today resume classes after a six-day closure. The reopening comes after enhanced security was promised for teachers, according to the Confederation of Teachers of Southern Border Provinces.

The widespread closure was ordered by the confederation to force authorities to institute better security strategies for teachers, who are among the prime targets of terrorists insurgents. On Nov 22 terrorists insurgents killed a school director in Pattani's Nong Chik district.

The confederation said the killing was the final straw. Confederation chairman Bunsom Thongsiphrai said, "The temporary closure was done in the hope that officers will protect the lives of our fellow teachers. If the situation [continues] the way it is, teachers' morale will plunge further."

The organization agreed to reopen the schools after talks with security officers, the deputy prime minister and the education minister.

Many teachers returned to their schools yesterday to prepare their classrooms and teaching materials ahead of lessons. However, those at Ban Maruat school in Pattani province had to find temporary locations to hold class after the two-story school building was torched by arsonists on Thursday.

School director Muhammat Jelo said teachers agreed to resume lessons by using the library and the prayer room as temporary classrooms. He said, "We don't want students to lose the chance to study any further."
Posted by: ryuge || 12/03/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336066 views] Top|| File under:


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Rumour: Assad dead or debunked
Unusual activity was reported by western intelligence at Syrian chemical weapons sites amid rumors Syrian president Bashar al Assad is either dead or fled . Neither is confirmed, however, the rebels have in recent days made major strategic gains and begun to turn the tide of war against’s Assad forces.
We should run a sweep on the method. Lead poisoning is too obvious. I'll go for car accident on the road north from Damascus.
Posted by: phil_b || 12/03/2012 02:06 || Comments || Link || [336106 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Assad has been debunked? You mean his existence was a rumor all along?
Posted by: gromky || 12/03/2012 2:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Brain fade

I meant 'Decamped'
Posted by: phil_b || 12/03/2012 2:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Suuuuuure you did.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 12/03/2012 7:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Debunk: An explosion in a bunker.
Posted by: Grunter || 12/03/2012 7:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Debunkered?
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 12/03/2012 7:53 Comments || Top||

#6  When the russkies arrive to take away the chemicals the jig will officially be up. Probably a matter of days now.
Posted by: Jonathan || 12/03/2012 9:38 Comments || Top||

#7  Chemical weapons = Hillary Clinton deodorant...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/03/2012 10:20 Comments || Top||

#8  Gone to Moscow 'to get help?'
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2012 11:51 Comments || Top||

#9  He'll be right back with the Cavalry.
Posted by: Shipman || 12/03/2012 11:54 Comments || Top||

#10  Upper debunked or lower debunked?
Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division || 12/03/2012 12:42 Comments || Top||

#11  I don't think he's dead. He'll use those Chemical Weapons before he gets killed.
Posted by: Charles || 12/03/2012 13:40 Comments || Top||

#12  It won't be from hanging; his neck is way too long.
Posted by: airandee || 12/03/2012 14:42 Comments || Top||

#13  Syria Prepping Chemical Weapons, according to WIRED.

Think about it, you have your back to the wall and you have two choices: fly to Russia or use the chemical weapons. What are you gonna do? What was the point of having those weapons if you can't use them when your life and the lives of your people are on the line? And just exactly what does Hillary plan to do about it?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 12/03/2012 16:09 Comments || Top||

#14  So ... can I take him off my Christmas card list?? No point in spending the extra postage.
Posted by: Raider || 12/03/2012 16:11 Comments || Top||

#15  If Assad really has those weapons and if he is desperate enough to use them it will become clear that arming those rebels and staking US credibility on them was a very dangerous game. Is it possible Putin would conclude that Obama doesn't have the balls for a real fight? And then what? Does Obama back down and make us all look ridiculous or does he get us into WWIII? Would China loan us the money for it? Syria isn't worth it. If we had to face Russia it should have been over Iran and we should have made it clear from the get go that we meant business. That would have given the Russians a chance to back down without losing face.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 12/03/2012 16:26 Comments || Top||

#16  Curious question -- will the left treat more harshly the fellow whose foreign policy resulted in the use of WMD, or the fellow who believed all the information available and mistakenly believed there were WMD?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/03/2012 16:46 Comments || Top||

#17  Your comments are well thought out EU6305, what do you think of the option of letting them kill themselves like 12 rats in a 3 rat cage? One side might need gas, so might the other.
And shitloads of it too.
Posted by: Shipman || 12/03/2012 16:53 Comments || Top||

#18  Everything the Champ does, every action he takes
has a political dividend which will benefit him and his regime. I can see no political dividend with regard to any aspect of US involvement in Syria, bugs and gas or no bugs and gas.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/03/2012 17:04 Comments || Top||

#19  I'm all in favor of letting them do whatever they want to each other. But Hillary told them not to use gas. Isn't that kind of a line in the sand? So my question is: what is her boss gonna do about it if they do? Is he gonna show himself to be impotent or is he gonna risk a confrontation with Putin? And if he risks a confrontation with Putin, what is Putin gonna do about it?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 12/03/2012 17:57 Comments || Top||

#20  So my question is: what is her boss gonna do about it if they do?

Stage a diversion.
Posted by: Pappy || 12/03/2012 18:29 Comments || Top||

#21  Golf?
Posted by: tu3031 || 12/03/2012 18:56 Comments || Top||

#22  Stage a diversion.

Works for me. Shameful, but then, the man has no shame.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 12/03/2012 19:20 Comments || Top||

#23  As per FREEREPUBLIC, Israel has repor asked permission from JORDAN to attack Syria's CHEMWAR sites, + the Bammer has warned Syria that iff it does resort to using its CHEMWAR weapons there "will be serious consequences', inferring possible US, UNO mil intervention to which both Russia + China will have a hard time disagreeing to.

IRAN per se may not do anything iff only an Israeli air strike(s) agz Assad's ChemFacs, not agz Assad himself, because even Iran doesn't want a Syria ally par or stronger than itself in alliance, but IMO Iran may de facto militarily intervene iff the US + regional rivals Turkey, KSA send ground troops into Syria, even under UN auspice, AS SYRIA IS IRAN'S LINK TO AIR, NAVAL PORTS IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN.

The key as always will be RUSSIA.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 12/03/2012 19:30 Comments || Top||

#24  If anyone busts out wmd in Syria, then the US should use vast amounts of small precision bombs, deep penetrating ordnance, followed up with an incendiary over-strike to destroy and sterilize every wmd site in the country.

20 B-1s and a carrier's worth of strike aircraft could do it all in an hour. And it would be better to do it all again 12 hours later.

There is no down side to putting the hammer down on any tinpot dictator using wmd on civilians, and there is real value in going all out to break something hard.
Posted by: rammer || 12/03/2012 21:00 Comments || Top||

#25  Here I mean, "break something hard" not as in

"break something hard to break", but instead

"break something fragile, with such exponentially excessive force as to cause Iran to pause and re-consider their ways."
Posted by: rammer || 12/03/2012 21:06 Comments || Top||

#26  #24 If anyone busts out wmd in Syria, then the US should...

Personally, I can't see the present Admin doing *anything* that calls for an actual decision, much less decisive action.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/03/2012 22:10 Comments || Top||


Car bomb in Syria's Homs kills 15: State media
[Al Ahram] Fifteen non-combatants were killed on Sunday in a car kaboom in a regime-held district of the central Syrian city of Homs, state media reported. "A terrorist attack struck the Hamra district of Homs," official news agency SANA said, giving a casualty toll of 15 dead and 24 maimed. State television said it was a car booming.
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336109 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Syrian shells land in Turkey border town
[Al Ahram] Several shells fired from Syria hit a Turkish border town late Saturday but caused no casualties, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported.

The shells landed near the Reyhanli town in southeastern Turkey near the Syrian border amid festivities between troops loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Scourge of Qusayr...
and rebel forces in Syria's Bab al-Hawa border post with Turkey, Anatolia said Sunday.

It was not immediately clear whether Turkish border units struck back at Syria after the incident.
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336066 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Syria rebels say captured missiles downed army aircraft
[Al Ahram] Syrian rebels say a former army missile specialist in their ranks used captured shoulder-launched weapons to down two government aircraft in as many days last month.

Rebel commanders said that the army helicopter shot down on November 27 and the fighter jet shot down the following day were both hit with Russian-made surface-to-air missiles captured from an army base west of Syria's second city Aleppo
...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins...
in mid-November.

Defence analysts cited by the Western media had said that the aircraft were likely brought down with surface-to-air missiles provided from abroad, including by the Gulf state of Qatar, an outspoken champion of arming the rebels, over the opposition of the United States.

The rebels said the expertise to use the SA-16 Gimlet missiles, which they said they captured from Base 46 along with other heavy weaponry, came from within their own ranks in the form of a former army missile specialist.

"This is Musa Abu Omar. He shot down both of the aircraft," said Abu Abdel Rahman, a leading rebel commander in the town of Darret Ezza, 30 kilometres (20 miles) northwest of Aleppo, as he introduced the fighter to AFP.

"Both the missiles came from Base 46," Abu Omar said. "We've got enough of them now to bring down the whole Syrian air force," he boasted, refusing to give any specific numbers.

Asked where he got his training on the use of the SA-16, a missile most famous for its use by Saddam Hussein's forces against coalition aircraft during the 1991 Gulf war, Abu Omar said: "It was my specialism in the army during my three year service."

The 27-year-old showed AFP a photograph of himself holding a shoulder-launched missile that he said was one of the two he fired. The picture's authenticity could not be independently verified.

Abu Omar said instruction was now being given to other rebel fighters.

"We'll impose our own no-fly zone without any need from help from foreign governments," he added in reference to the repeated refusals of Western governments to heed opposition calls to intervene to close the skies to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Horror of Homs...
's warplanes as they did in Libya last year.

Abu Omar recalled how on November 27 the rebels received intelligence that a government helicopter was due to carry out a resupply mission to the massive Sheikh Suleiman base, near Darret Ezza, which has been under rebel siege for months.

"Our information was that it would resupply the base, then return to Aleppo with some generals and other senior officer. So we laid in wait and I fired when the aircraft took off again," Abu Omar told AFP in an interview.

"We knew that the regime would attempt to retaliate the following the day... so we laid a new ambush," the 27-year-old said.

The rebels' acquisition of surface-to-air missiles poses a significant threat to the government's increasing reliance on its air power in its war against the rebels, particularly in their stronghold in the northwest.

"It's a turning point," said Riad Kahwaji of the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis (INEGMA) told AFP after the two aircraft were downed.

But there have been contradictory reports about the likely source of the missiles with the Washington Post reporting on Thursday that they were likely part of a consignment of up to 40 supplied from abroad.

Some of the missiles were supplied by Qatar, the newspaper reported, citing two Middle Eastern intelligence officials it did not identify.

"It should be worrying to everyone," one of the officials said. "When Assad is finished, Islamic fascisti could end up with these, and commercial flights would be at risk."

Washington has consistently opposed providing SAMs to the rebels for fear they could fall into the wrong hands.
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336078 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  Look Chuff, there can only be one. You ain't it.
Posted by: Shipman || 12/03/2012 11:58 Comments || Top||


Syria troops step up attacks on Damascus suburbs
Syrian government troops Sunday intensified attacks on pro-rebel suburban areas of the capital, Damascus, reported opposition activists, dpa reported.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that President Bashar al-Assad's troops shelled the towns of Jassrin, al-Maleeha and Deir Sulaiman on the outskirts of Damascus, causing an unspecified number of casualties. Clashes between al-Assad's troops and rebels were underway in the same area, added the organization.

State television said that troops had "eliminated" scores of rebels in a crackdown on the suburban areas of Damascus. The broadcaster called the rebels "terrorists" with alleged links to al-Qaeda.

Fighting, meanwhile, continued between government forces and rebels in the vicinity of Damascus for the fourth straight day, said activists. They reported explosions and a big fire in a nearby area, resulting in a power outage at the airport.

The violence has prompted several foreign airlines to suspend flights to and from Syria. The state-owned carrier is the only airline still operating at the Damascus airport. On Sunday, EgyptAir said it will resume flights to Damascus and Aleppo airports on Monday after a three-day halt.

"The decision comes after coordination with the Egyptian embassy in Damascus and the EgyptAir office in Syria and asserting that security conditions are stable right now in Syria, especially on the roads leading to Damascus and Aleppo airports," the head of EgyptAir, Roshdy Zakaria, said in a statement.

Elsewhere, at least 15 civilians were killed and 24 injured in a car bombing in the central province of Homs, according to Syrian television. The Observatory said residents of the district of al-Hamra, where the bombing had occurred, are opponents of al-Assad's regime.

At least 105 people were killed nationwide, mostly in Damascus and its suburbs, according to the Local Coordination Committees, a group of activists documenting violence on the ground.
Posted by: Steve White || 12/03/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336068 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Listening to a FOX interview of Darth Bolton, appears chemical weapons are being moved or relocated in Syria and could be used by Assad very soon.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/03/2012 13:07 Comments || Top||


Syrian regime resembles armed militia - Turkish FM
The Syrian regime has degenerated into an "armed militia" that resorts to brutality in an attempt to stay in power, Turkey's foreign minister said Saturday at a meeting with top Arab diplomats, AP reported.

The officials at a one-day summit in Istanbul described the Syrian regime as a threat to peace and security in the region, and they also expressed support for the Palestinians after the United Nations endorsed an independent state for them on Thursday.

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu of Turkey said the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad had lost its legitimacy after 20 months of conflict that started with peaceful protests against the regime and evolved into a civil war after pro-Assad forces cracked down.

"It has turned into an armed militia power that resorts to all kinds of brutal methods just to stay in power," Davutoglu said.
'Turned into'? When was Assad-led Syria, father or son, ever anything other than a kleptocratic thugocracy?
"The Syrian regime, which is a serious threat to the future of its own people and country, with each passing day increases the threat it poses to the well-being of our region, through its actions that target peace and security beyond its borders."

Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour agreed that the Syrian war has "negative ramifications" for the region. But he advocated dialogue as the only solution to the crisis, contrasting with Turkey's calls at the United Nations for an internationally protected "buffer zone" inside Syria that would protect civilians. Such a zone would likely require military action to secure it, including a no-fly zone.

"There should not be any external military or any other kind of intervention," said Mansour, current chairman of the Arab League.

He said the meeting of a dozen foreign ministers as well as other delegates, titled the Turkish-Arab Cooperation Forum, was a positive sign for a region traditionally plagued by a lack of political unity. Turkey launched the annual meeting in 2007.

"This was important in the aftermath of the 1990s, when we did not have a lot of activity," Mansour said.
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