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"Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is."
Nine Taliban militants were killed in a gunfight early Monday by Afghan and NATO troops in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, a senior police official said. The gunfight erupted after Taliban-linked militants attacked Afghan and NATO security forces in the restive province's Panjwayi district, the top police commander for southern Afghanistan, Ghulam Ali Wahdat, told AFP. The troops were on a routine patrol when they came under attack, he said.
"We were conducting an operation in the area. Taliban attacked one of our patrols. We engaged them and nine Taliban were killed," Wahdat told AFP. Kandahar is one of the most troubled regions in Afghanistan, and one where Taliban militants are most active.
Meanwhile, British, Afghan and coalition forces captured four key Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan during a massive operation that saw them fight at close quarters, knee-deep in mud, reports late Sunday said. Britain's Ministry of Defense released details of the operation, which was fought over 18 days around the town of Nad-e-Ali in Helmand Province and left five members of the British forces and around 100 Taliban fighters dead.
More than 1,500 troops were involved, making it one of the largest operations mounted by the Royal Marines since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. It culminated in a battle on December 25, Christmas Day.
"Almost every day we were involved in intense firefights ranging from rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms 'shoot-and-scoots' to four-hour battles with the enemy forces as close as 30 meters," said Captain David Glendenning, commander of the Royal Marines' artillery support team.
Some of the British troops had to trudge more than 60 kilometers through mud while fighting insurgents, the Ministry of Defense said.
One marine recalled his experience: "I was in Nad-e-Ali for just over two weeks ... Some of the places we stayed in were a nightmare - sleeping in the mud was the worst.
"[At times] we were exposed and moving ahead of our infantry protection. It felt like we were being watched and it was difficult to tell who the enemy was - it was pretty scary."
The ministry said the operation was aimed at improving security in the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, ahead of a voter registration program due to start early this year. It involved Danish, Estonian and Afghan troops, and saw the marines at one point fight hand-to-hand in a "360-degree battle," the ministry said. The deaths during the operation of four British servicemen and an Australian serving with the British forces were announced at the time.
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how do you say "good hunting" in British?
Our allies (brits, aussies, danes, estonians) continue to do good and unheralded work.
BEIJING, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A Sierra Leone cargo ship with 32 Chinese crew members on board outran four pirate boats in the Gulf of Aden Monday, Chinese officials in Beijing said. The China Maritime Search and Rescue Center said the pirates gave chase in the eastern region of the gulf about 3:50 p.m., with speeds reaching 19 nautical miles per hour, Xinhua reported.
Nearby warships dispatched to protect the ship found it secure about 40 minutes later, the state-run Chinese news agency reported.
The center said the cargo vessel was loaded with more than 10,000 tons of silicate and oil equipment bound from Singapore to the Republic of Djibouti in northeastern Africa.
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WORLD MIL FORUM > seems RUSSIA plans to sizably comlement/increase its naval presence agz SOMALI PIRACY, espec vee redeployment of its PETER THE GREAT battlecruiser???
Getting crowded down there, and serious for the Pirates.
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Djibouti does NOT have any significant known or discovered oil fields - makes me wonder what was REALLY on that Chinese freighter. Maybe Djibouti is buying some of the nice weapons that Singapore produces, mainly 5.56mm stuff.
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First the Russ, ala PETER THE GREAT etal. now China.
WORLD MIL FORUM > IIUC TRANSPORT MINISTRY: CHINA SHIPPING HAS 15 MERCHANT CARRIER APPLICATIONS REQUESTING PLAN NAVAL ARMED ESCORT AGZ SOMALI PIRATES???
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OTOH, and also from WMF > IIUC JAPAN ORDERS FULL-SCALE EXPLORATION AND SURVEY OF SEABED RESOURCES WITHIN EXCLUSIVE EEZ, DISPUTED ISLANDS IN EAST CHINA SEA. SEEN AS JAPANESE COUNTER-RESPONSE TO RECENT CHINESE-LED EXPLORATION EFFORTS AND PLAN NAVAL INCURSIONS. POSSIBLE JAPAN-CHINA CONFLICT SCENARIO OVER CHINA SEA RESOURCES MAY DEV WITHIN TEN YEARS [2019 = 2020 r.o.]???
Boy oh boy, US EnviroLefties-Anarchists, Globies, + anti-US International protagonists, etc. JUST LOVE THAT SECOND DECADE 2010 - 2020 [2015-20], DON'T THEY!?
TOULOUSE - ATTACKERS launched two cars packed with petrol bombs at a synagogue in France's south-western city of Toulouse on Monday night, causing damage but no casualties, officials said.
One car was set on fire and pushed by the other until it hit the door of the synagogue, at a time when about a dozen people were attending a class with a rabbi. The building caught fire but all those inside escaped unharmed.
Police found unexploded petrol bombs inside the second car, which did not catch fire. They said they were investigating the attack and had not made any arrests.
Earlier, Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie met leaders of France's Jewish and Muslim communities and security chiefs to deliver a message that the Gaza Strip conflict should not lead to violent acts in France.
You're a little late to the party, Michele ...
In recent years, flare-ups between Israel and the Palestinians have been followed by acts of violence against Jewish people or buildings in France, which has large Jewish and Muslim communities.
Some analysts have attributed the problem to a build-up of resentment among children or grandchildren of immigrants from Arab countries who feel they are poorly integrated into French society and are victims of discrimination in the job market.
Gee, wonder why they haven't integrated into French society? Maybe the Franco-french haven't been very accommodating. Maybe the immigrants haven't been interested. Maybe both.
Such frustrations, coupled with feelings of solidarity towards the Palestinians, have resulted in attacks on Jewish targets that have been strongly condemned by almost everyone in the French political establishment.
An Interior Ministry source said Ms Alliot-Marie was keen to avoid a repeat of such events. 'The past has shown that there are sometimes risks and it was better to make an appeal for calm. Events in the Middle East must not lead to community conflicts on French soil,' said the source, declining to be identified.
Worked well tonight, didn't it ...
The head of an umbrella body of Jewish groups, the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, said in an interview with Le Figaro that aggressive behaviour by some protesters at pro-Palestinian marches had worried him. 'We must really not import the conflict here. It must not, it cannot happen,' said Richard Prasquier, who was among those who attended the meeting with Ms Alliot-Marie.
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Btw, "voitures-béliers", stolen cars filled with gas bottles is a very common tool used by "Youths" to torch schools, swimming pools, etc, etc, even the odd police station (whereas when not used as an incendiary weapon, it's a lmost a trademark of gypsies to break into shops & warehouses), so it's almost a signed act.
Anyway, waayyy to late to lament having imported the muddle east conflict in France, this was done systematically by the Chattering Class over the last decades, setting the israelis as bullies and the paleos as downtrodden "David" fighting the imperialistical "Goliath", exactly as the soviet propaganda about "liberation struggle" & "decolonization" wished. There always since have been random acts of terrorism by leftist groups such as AD, but the genie got out of the bottle in 2000, when the Youths reached critical mass (about 15% of the french population muslim???? More as one looks at younger age groups), and this really backfired onto shirak & co, especially during the 2005 ramadan riots. Not that french cops didn't warn long before that that in their minds, Youths (be they black or arab, but heavily muslim regardless) were re-enacting the "intifada", with them cops as the israeli.
Anyway, France, among others, including the USA with others specs, has got itself a deadly demographic & cultural timebomb, and while the wingnuts blame the Joooooooos or the Capitalists for this mass-immigration of a demanding and asserting and even colonizing third-world into their homelands, I'd say the french (the english, the germans, the americans,...) have no one to blame but *themselves*. Congratulations, dudes and dudettes!
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a5089 is right. When the history of our age gets to be written, it will be the story of what happens to societies when they lose social cohesion. The change from, we are all in this together as a country despite our differences, to, I only owe/need my family/clan/ethnic group/religion. It won't be a pretty story.
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All the 'integration' in the world wont make you prosperous if you are an illiterate, ex-felon that can't speak the language of the country you were born in. You have to be reasonable about your expectations in life.
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Fear, intimidation and prolific procreation are methods the muzzies have always used to spread their death cult. This is but one small example. Yeah, if and when the French finally wake up it won't be pretty but it's about damn time they did.
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I would say nearly every large city in America has had demonstrations in the last week or so. Nothing set afire yet. We have time to act. But, we aren't. Just as freakin' dumb as the EU's.
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There was a whopping 200 people protesting in San Francisco yesterday, and many of those were the professional International ANSWER types. And reaction on the SF Chron forums was decidedly in favor of the Israelis and against both hamass and the protestors. (Note that these same forums would be rabidly anti-Bush...not a conservative hangout.) We are not done yet, by any stretch.
EnCana's natural gas infrastructure in northern British Columbia has been the target of a fourth explosion, but officials with the Calgary-based energy giant still don't know why it is the focus of a bomber's anger. Guess. What do you need, a written manifesto published in the New York Times?
Gas line workers discovered a partially destroyed metering shed on Sunday at a wellhead near the community of Tomslake, southeast of Dawson Creek on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains.
There was no damage to the wellhead and no leak, said a spokesman with EnCana. An amateur bomber who only knows to blow up the shed, not actually destroy the equipment inside?
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Start blowing up wellheads, and someone will get REALLY pissed. That's when people in delapidated old pick-ups start randomly driving around, with a loaded rifle on the floorboards.
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NEW DELHI: Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) apparently has plans to destabilize India by influencing developments in the north and west of the country, particularly in Mumbai, as part of its multi-pronged strategy.
Terrorists arrested in Jammu have made these revelations.
According to an article published in the latest issue of the Power Politics magazine, the ISI has circulated two maps to the Pakistan Army to boost troop morale by giving them a target to destabilize India by 2020.
One of the maps targets North India, and projects a desire to convert that region into 'Islamic Republic of Pakistan' by 2020. It mentions South India as disputed territory and treats Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal as its neighbouring countries. The other map indicates a drastic change of Mumbai's topography, turning the metropolis into 'Muslimabad' by 2012.
The magazine carries the photographs of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) activist Ghulam Fareed, identified as Pakistani soldier, (Belt No 4319184, 10 Azad Kashmir Regiment) from Ruperi village in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir's (PoK's) Bhimber district and the other two--Mohammad Abdullah from North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Mohammad Imran from Dera Nawab in Pakistan's Punjab--belonged to Harkat-ul-Jehad (HuD) terrorists group. They travelled from Karachi to Dhaka to enter India from Kolkata and they landed at Jammu from there.
The write up further states that according to the plan, ISI has been attempting to place India under seige both from the sea and land routes simultaneously.
Pakistan has moved its army to forward areas in Lahore strengthening international border and LOC with India to protect its vital installations.
The article, written by a Kashmir expert, carries both maps to substantiate the revelations.
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Pakistanis sure like making maps...
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In fact the person who actually coined the word Pakistan came up with this map
When Pakistan was actually created, Jinnah called it "moth eaten".
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Rehmat Ali's concept of Pakistan was nebulous, impractical and fantasy-ridden. It was to include the entire northwest of India, Kashmir, the Kathiawar peninsula, Kutch, and several enclaves deep within UP, including Delhi and Lucknow. There were to be two independent Muslim states besides Pakistan: Bangistan comprising Bengal and Assam in the east and Osmanistan in the south. These two were to form a federation with Pakistan. The 243 principalities or Rajwaras were to be divided among caste Hindus and "others" and then herded together in a ghetto called Hanoodia. As for the Sikhs, they were to be pushed into an enclave called Sikhia. Other races and religions were to inhabit an encampment by the name of Hanadika. Every non-Muslim was to remain subservient to the master race he called "The Paks". And yes, the subcontinent was to be renamed Dinia. He did not say how he was going to bring all that about.
Looks like somebody in the ISI is also infected with the cartographic bug...
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Sounds like the ISI might wanna call a doctor, as their erection has defintely lasted more then four hours.
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ok i know this is off topic buti have said it before about the muslim bride ads. I sit a joke i don't get or advertising from someone who the founders of rantburg don't get too choose. Now i'm seeing an add too buy minutes on a phone too call pakistan. Is it a joke or am I going crazy or possibly am i misunderstanding that this site was set up too get real news about the WOT and not the usual bullshit from the MSM?
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BTW...don't know if any readers here would be interested. I'm reminded of this by 3dc's map: the Maldivies has been in the news of late (for those paying attention to the march of islam).
I wrote to a Hitlon resort in the Maldivies recently making inquiry about a reservation for the MONTH of February. I advised the reservationist at the Hilton that my wife is a staunch Catholic and wanted to know where she could attend Mass on Sundays. The response I got from the "nice islamic reservationist" is a hoot given the purported "tolerance" of islam.
Say the word - anyone - and I will post the tolernat islamic response here, in full, freudian typos and all.
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rabid whitetail: I don't like seeing the muslim adverts on this website either. But Mr. Fred has to pay for this priviledge we take advantage of.
What I would like to know...Fred...are you there...how much $$$$ do you get from the muzz to post there ads?
I'd like to know so then I know how much we need to send Fred so he does not have to take $$$ from the muzz advertizers.
It's none of my business. I understand that. But I am dusturbed to see muzz adverts here or anywhere.
As for the ads, they respond to key words in the website text. Since we do write about Muslims an awful lot, therefore we get ads about Muslims. Were we to write a great deal more about Israel (Joooooos and Juice don't cut it), we might get the lovely matchmaking applet I've seen at the Jerusalem Post. Master Fred doesn't choose the ads himself, just allows them to be placed on his site for some sort of fee or kickback.
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With regard to the muzz adverts that appear on this website ...I don't pretend to understand how it works. I was thinking Fred gets $$$ to put them up. Maybe he doesn't. Lord knows I don't click on the muzz chicks (though some do look hot....anybody here remember Grace from Ranger Up...where is she?)
Anyway..I was thinking...if Fred was getting paid to play the muzz adverts...then maybe we needed to know what it would cost us to pay Fred to take them off.
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MarkZ & others who object to the ads - howzabout Fred keeps the ads (however much they bring in, it isn't enough) AND we pay him.
Don't like 'em? Don't look at 'em. I'm very adept at totally ignoring website ads, and I'm not even coordinated.
One question, though, Fred (or mods, if they know) - I was once told that websites get more money if we clicked on the ads. Is that true? If so, I'll make it my business to click on the ads, though goodness knows I'm not interested in any of them. (Except Amazon - I try to remember to always come here first and click through to Amazon when I'm going to buy something there.)
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i wasn't saying frd shoudn't get the money from the adverts , but the last time i mentioned it alot of ppl acted like i was crazy or was just messing with me. I'm not an expert on how the adverts are selected so i didn't know that key words typed would bring certain ones up. But thanks for clarifying this for me everyone. Now i'm off too see my muslim bride. j/k
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By popular demand (hat tip to TW)...you will now read a response I received from a female muslim receptionist (Moli) in the Maldives after I made inquiry about renting a resort cottage for the month of February, 2009.
The resort I contacted was once upon a time branded a HILTON Resort (yes Paris...your trust fund is in good dhimmi shape). The name has been changed to The Conrad (as in Conrad Hitlon).
I made inquiry with two points in mind: the alledged love muslims have for children and alledged muslim tolerance of other religions.
I report. You decide. I have made no changes to the email I received from Moli, except the spelling of my last name. Note the Freudian slips.
Dear Mr. Z- - - - - -:,
Greetings from Conrad Maldives Rangali Island
Many thanks for your interest to spend the holidays at our Resort
The resort is Children friendly and we do have a Kids club " Maaja " for the kids between 03-12yrs. We are more than happy to welcome kids to this Paradise
Each villa is capable to accommodate 03 adults or 02 adults and 02 children . There is only one bed room with one king size bed and extra beds will be placed for the children. Checking the availability, we do have 02 Beach villas only from 02/03/09 onwards. Only our Beach villa has interconnecting villas. ( Deluxe beach villa are only adjoining ) Please note that we are not able to guarantee Beach villas interconnecting in advance as per hotel policy, but we do out utmost to assign accordingly.
Maldives is a 100% Muslim county, but there are many foreigners live in the county only for work. Non Muslims are not allowed to practice or propaganda their religion or principles in the country. There is no Church/Temples are allowed in the country. No Bible , or status /idols belongs to a religion are allowed to bring to the country. However, you can pray at your villa, ( absolutely should be respect to others )
Maldives is a whole year around Tourist destination and very friendly county. We do enjoy our life here without any issues. They respect all people with thief culture and life style.
Trust the above are in order, please let me know if you need any further details
Wishing you and family a merry Xmas and prosperous New year
Kind regards
Moli
Moli Rajeev
Reservations Manager
Conrad Maldives Rangali Island
P.O Box 2034
South Ari Atoll
Republic of the Maldives
Telephone main: [+960] 668 0629
Mobile: [+960] 790 5175
Fax main: [+960] 668 0619
Email: Moli.rajeev@conradhotels.com
ConradHotels.com ConradMeetings.com
The stunning twin island resort of Conrad Maldives Rangali Island has a host of new services and experiences for honeymooners, spa aficionados and gourmet travellers alike.
Any of our foreign friends who think about spending a dime (or your currency of choice) in the Maldives, I ask that you reconsider. Don't sdpend money on anythoing muzz. Please. I know the Maldivies is a beautiful place. I have seen the pictures of same on the internet. It is. The muzz there think allah created the Maldivies for the muslims forgetting that a hindu and buddhist culture centuries old (who lived in harmony with one another) was wiped out by muzz aggression.
Please: do not go to the Maldivies for vacation. A price needs to be extracted for intolerance. Do not tolerate the intolerant.
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Your point is well taken Barabra. But I don't like to see muzz adverts on this or any other website. I'd rather ante up to Fred so he doesn't need muzz adverts. Is that wrong?
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Too bad, MarkZ. The real bummer for surfing idiots like myself is that Maldives are a well known surfing destination. I understand it isn't the highest priority for most people but it sucks. Places like the Maldives and Indonesia are often featured in magazines like SURFER but I myself would also consider them strictly off limits, especially after incidents like the bombing of that nightclub in Bali. Tiger sharks in the water are bad enough, I don't want to have to deal with terrorists when I get out of the water. The Seychelles are still safe, aren't they?
Gandhi should have gone ahead and fought those bastards instead of letting them have their way. It certainly would have been a horrendous war but at least they didn't have nukes like they do now. I understand he believed in peace and love and all that and his methods worked with the Brits. But then, the Brits are civilized and rational people.
Perhaps you're approaching this in the wrong way. Every time you see an ad you don't like (for whatever reason), laugh at them for the money they're paying to a website that doesn't support them.
A year or so ago, on Tim Blair's old website, there appeared PETA anti-whatever ads. We laughed at them, disparaging discussing them in the comments. Even Tim mentioned them and made fun of them. This went on for days (or maybe weeks, I'm not sure anymore). And all the while he was getting paid by PETA - who undoubtedly hated everything he and most of his commenters stand for (starting with eating meat). Someone said Tim would get paid more if we clicked on the ads, so we set about to drain the PETA treasury. Dunno if it worked or not, but the ads eventually stopped.
Instead of getting annoyed, try laughing at them and their waste of money. :-D
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Blogads attempts to target the displayed ad to the most relevant audience.
The software does this by looking the content of the page.
It however is full of references to Gaza, India, Pakistan, Islamic, Waziristan etc, words suggesting a certain target audience.
That Rantburg's audience is interested in those words for a particular reason is not apparent to the software. The plain fact is that the vast majority of people looking at web pages with the words being displayed on the Burg now, would probaly be interested in the muslim marriage service.
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Ebbang...Dude...not that long ago the maldivies was populated by hindus and buddhists...comapred to muzz a very tolerant people. F*ck it. Tell your boyz the maldivies is off the rotation. Please.
Barbara...I get your point. I really do. Fred is maybe making jack off the muzz and we ain't buying. I just shake my head...
(BTW Barbara...thought of you Saturday night. Don't know you, but thought of you. I had "kettle pop corn" doused with sugar. Delicious. Thought to myself: the pop corn lady at RB would appreciate this...)
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Actually, Mark Z, sweet Moli sums it up in her email to you in this sentence,*ahem* and I quote:
They respect all people with thief culture and life style.
Thief culture and lifestyle. Doesn't get more real than that, heh.
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Ima thinkin the Islamic Republic of Pakistan will be collected in a cave-housed tribal society with inbreeding, little education, females prohibited from venturing beyond their brood-lair-hives, and a profound reverence for those with the forehead-knot. Kinda like today....without deoderant or pomade for old ISI-leftovers
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The Taliban in North Waziristan Agency on Monday killed two Afghans and a Pakistani national, on suspicion they were spying for the United States. Bodies of the two Afghans - Umar Siddiq and Qasim Khan - and Azizur Rehman, resident of Bannu, were found on the Bannu-Miranshah Road near Norak, around 20 kilometres east of Miranshah. The bodies of the Afghan citizens were found hanged upside down from a tree, while Aziz's body lay on the ground. A note left nearby by the Taliban said the bodies were "a gift from Mujahideen to the US secretary of state. Anyone who goes hunting for dollars would be treated the same way".
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Suspected Taliban shot dead two people in Swat on Monday, while a journalist said his house was blown up five days ago.
AFP reported one of the two dead people was a female dancer who did not heed the Taliban's warnings to abandon her profession, local officials said. The bodies of the two civilians shot dead on Monday were dumped in the valley's main town, Mingora, a security official said on condition of anonymity.
Meanwhile, journalist Hameedullah told Daily Times on Monday his house in Swat was blown up by unidentified men.
The Shakar Dara village in Matta tehsil was vacated of residents last week after security forces launched an operation to clear Taliban from the area. The residents were allowed to return on Monday after the troops' negotiations with local elders.
Upon returning, Hameedullah found his house had been razed to the ground. Assailants had also torched Hameedullah's shop in Mingora last year.
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The Taliban in Mohmand Agency on Monday took an 11-member delegation of tribal elders from Bajaur Agency hostage, sources told Daily Times. The sources said the elders of the Mandal tribe had gone to the Anbar mountains to meet the Taliban and discuss rocket attacks in Mandal area of Bajaur from Anbar area of Mohmand. Officials of Bajaur's political administration confirmed the abduction. Mandal tribesmen asked the Taliban to free all the hostages, and threatened to advance on Anbar tehsil if the demand was not met.
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The Punjab government will take action against the banned Jamaatud Dawa (JD), Information Minister Sherry Rehman said in a TV interview on Monday.
Talking to a private TV channel, she said any action by the government must follow certain procedures. Proof against the JD had been shared with the Punjab government, which had assured the federal government of cooperation, she said. "I am absolutely sure the Punjab government will act."
In a statement issued after the interview, Special Assistant to Punjab Chief Minister Pervaiz Rashid said the provincial government had put five top JD leaders -- Mufti Abdur Rehman, Hafiz Saeed, Ameer Hamza, Colonel Nazir and Yasin Baloch -- under house arrest, sealed 61 offices of the charity and had taken over 19 dispensaries and 10 schools it ran. "Necessary measures are also being taken for assuming control of the central headquarters of Jamaatud Dawa at Muridke," he added.
Talking to India's NDTV channel, Sherry said locating Jaish-e-Muhammad chief Masood Azhar was like looking for a "needle in the haystack".
"He is certainly not strolling around outside my office. If we see him, we will nab him," she said, adding Pakistan was committed to taking action against any non-state actors found involved in the Mumbai attacks.
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India on Monday handed to Pakistan what it said was evidence linking the country to the militants who attacked Mumbai in November and it expected a prompt investigation India's foreign minister said. The government also said it was launching a major diplomatic offensive to maintain international pressure on Islamabad, which has so far rejected New Delhi's demands to hand over a list of terror suspects.
"What happened in Mumbai was an unpardonable crime. As far as the Government of Pakistan is concerned, we ask only that it implement the bilateral commitments that it has made at the highest levels to India, and practices her international obligations. These are clear," Pranab Mukherjee said.
"It is our expectation that the Government of Pakistan will promptly undertake further investigations in Pakistan and share the results with us so as to bring the perpetrators to justice."
The material includes details of interrogation of Mohammed Ajmal Amir Iman -- also known as Mohammed Ajmal Kasab -- who was the lone surviving gunman and who India says is a Pakistani national.
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damn - are they gonna build a warehouse for all this "deniable" evidence?
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WORLD MIL FORUM > IIUC, seems INDIA's LARGEST OPPOSITION PARTY [BJP] has called for INDIA TO SEAL/WALL OFF ITS BORDER AREAS WID BANAGLDESH, BHUTAN, AND MYANMAR to protect from illegal incursions by CHINESE-ARMED MILITANTS ala MUMBAI???
Aswat al-Iraq: Unknown gunmen killed a leading figure of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan [PUK] under President Jalal Talabani, the chief of the local police said on Monday. "Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a member of the PUK, Subhi Hassan, in Jemen region, north of Kirkuk," Brig. Sarhad Qader told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "The gunmen also killed and injured two other men who were accompanying him," he added.
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Aswat al-Iraq: Police patrols on Monday found a stockpile of ammunitions, containing 100 mortar shells in the north of Kirkuk, a senior police officer said. "Police patrols found on Monday afternoon (Jan. 5) a large depot in Shawan region in the north of Kirkuk," Brigadier Sarhad Qader told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "The cache contains 100 mortar shells," he added.
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Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi army forces on Monday found a weapons depot in Muqdadiya district in the northeast of Baaquba, a security source said. "Army forces found on Monday (Jan. 5) scores of Katyusha rockets, mortar shells, and bombs in a stockpile of weapons and explosives in Muqdadiya district, northeast of Baaquba," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
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Palestinian officials had initially said that 40 people were killed in the attack, but UN sources put the number at 30 killed and 55 wounded this will be front page stuff in the Islamic and terrorism apologist world tomorrow
An IDF spokesman said that troops had fired mortar rounds at the school, after militants barricaded inside shot mortar shells at the Israeli forces.
"Initial checks ... show that from inside the school mortars were fired at Israeli forces," a spokesman said. "In response, the forces fired a number of mortar rounds into the area."
The army said that the bodies of numerous Hamas militants were found inside the school following the attack. we'll see how many report this
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Considering the whole building was thoroughly booby trapped, I feel grateful the IDF didn't have to go in and take it. Hamas did the clearing job for them.
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Agreed with Barbara - when they line up behind children Space Invaders deep, they are knowingly putting them in danger and actually counting on it. Premeditated enough for me.
Bet that for every armed dude behind civvie shields there are 2 dudes, seperate, taping them from a distance.
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Two off-topic questions:
1) I see photos of IDF soldiers with some kind of big floppy helmet cover. What is that?
2) I also see photos of IDF infantrymen carrying some kind of really short assault carbine. What is it?
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My best guess is that the short assault rifle you see is most likely the T.A.R. 21.
The shower cap or mitznefet covering the helmet flops about taking on an irregular form that is harder to recognize in a shadow or out of the corner of your eye.
7. The presence or movements of the civilian population or individual civilians shall not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations, in particular in attempts to shield military objectives from attacks or to shield, favour or impede military operations. The Parties to the conflict shall not direct the movement of the civilian population or individual civilians in order to attempt to shield military objectives from attacks or to shield military operations.
Deliberately endangering civilians by hiding amongst them is a war crime, Bright Pebbles. The use of a civilian building by combatants renders it a combatant position, instantly removing its Geneva Rights protections. I'm sure there are plenty Rantburgers who can quote the appropriate chapter and verse.
The Israeli army said its soldiers came under fire from militants hiding in the school and responded. It accused Gaza's Hamas rulers of "cynically" using civilians as human shields. Residents confirmed the account, saying militants were seen staging attacks from the area.
In a statement, the Israeli army said an initial investigation found that "mortar shells were fired from within the school at IDF soldiers. The force responded with mortars at the source of fire. The Hamas cynically uses civilians as human shields."
The army said two Hamas militants Imad Abu Askar and Hasan Abu Askar were among the dead.
Two neighborhood residents confirmed the Israeli account, saying a group of militants fired mortars from a street near the school, then fled into a crowd of people in the streets. Israel then opened fire.
The residents, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they feared for their safety, said the Abu Askar brothers were known low-level Hamas militants.
Lions Of Islam (TM), they is, they is!
Excerpt: The sources also said that senior Hamas officials have been spotted more than once wandering around the maternity ward of Gaza City's Shifa Hospital and even using the hospital to hold press conferences, on the theory that it offers a safe haven from Israeli fire. For the same reason, Hamas forces have taken refuge near buildings that serve as headquarters for various international organizations, such as the Red Cross and the United Nations.
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I would imagine that Israel has a plan for this. Using civilians for human shields and cannon fodder is part of the propaganda playbook for terrorists.
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the "plan" for this is actually quite simple:
Kill the bad guys where ya find 'em!
Especially in Israel's case, since:
(a) the worldwide media is going to criticize them no matter what they do
(b) if the Israelis DON'T actually kill civilians then the bad guys will just stage "massacres" anyway!
The Palestinians themselves will (eventually) prevent Hamas from using their children as shields if enough children die! Sad and sorry math but very true.
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Lets hope that Israel learned from the 2006 war with the Hezbos and have a plan for handling this.
One thing they need to do is get the media to actually admit - on the air - that Hamas is activly doing these things. Hiding behind women an children. Using Mosques, hospitals, and the like as cover.
And therein lies the problem - its going to get hard to trun the MSM against their allies.
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My guess is the plan is shoot carefully, but still shoot. For all the IDF knows the "Civilians" are actually volunteers with a illness or suicidal, who want to help out by sacrificing themselves for Allah since they can't shoot very well.
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The IDF has some really good snipers, including several women as instructors, plus they have been watching the American success with the Designated Marksman rifles and scopes in Iraq. Expect to see a lot of Hamas dead with head shots from 5.56mm shots at about 300 meters.
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Charles Gibson opened up his news tonight with "reports of deaths as Israeli soldiers attack shelters" Along with (undoubtedly HamAss Supplied) pictures of dead civilians...
After hearing that I changed the channel - my blood pressure can't take his lying ass.
BTW - has he ever, ever, reported on the situation in Sderot? Or even mentioned it?
A Golani soldier managed to single-handedly foil an attempt to kidnap him during nocturnal operations in the Gaza Strip overnight Sunday, Israel Radio reported.
Soldiers from the IDF's Golani infantry brigade were fighting in the northern part of the Gaza Strip when they entered a house on which they had previous intelligence indicating that it was used as a Hamas command center. Upon entering the house, the soldiers discovered entrances to several tunnels, which the Hamas terrorists holed up in the house had used to escape underground to neighboring houses. According to the report, the terrorists were shooting into the building when the soldiers entered.
One of the soldiers reportedly followed the gunmen into a tunnel and managed to contain several Hamas fighters in an underground firefight, before teaming up with his comrades again. Two IAF helicopters were scrambled to support the infantrymen, Israel Radio said.
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Israeli troops engaged in heavy gun battles late Monday with Hamas fighters in Gaza City for the first time since the start of the army's ground offensive, military sources and witnesses said. Large explosions and heavy exchanges of fire rocked Shejaiya neighbourhood of eastern Gaza City as Israel pressed its campaign to halt Hamas rocket attacks.
Hamas said in a statement that its fighters had fired missiles at seven tanks in the same district. The Islamic Jihad movement said several of its members were killed in the fighting.
Israeli military sources confirmed that troops were involved in heavy clashes in that area.
Fifty Palestinians -- including 12 children -- were killed in the Israeli offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Monday, the head of the territory's emergency services told AFP. Israeli fire killed a mother and four of her children in Gaza City after a rocket hit their house, medics said.
The official, Muawiya Hassanein, said 555 Palestinians have now been killed since the start of Israel's offensive to halt Hamas rocket fire on Dec. 27. He added that 2,700 people have been wounded in air raids and tank shelling.
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including 12 children
Most of whom were shooting at the Israelis or carrying ammo for those who were. The rest were being used as human shields. At least that would be my bet.
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Fifty Palestinians -- including 12 children -- were killed in the Israeli offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Monday
I wonder how many of those were killed by indiscriminate fire by Hamass TOWARD the Israelis, and how many were killed by the Israelis returning fire. I'd bet at LEAST 50/50, if not weighted heavily against Hamass.
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Imprimus, Glenmore & OP: you've only Paleos (via their mouthpieces) word for 12 children.
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Most of whom were shooting at the Israelis or carrying ammo for those who were. The rest were being used as human shields. At least that would be my bet.
I'm so confused! I thought they loved Death and all? So, you give them free Martyrdom, and they whine about it? Talk about being forced-fed chocolate! That's what this guy sez, too :
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Im sick of hearing about civilian deaths... Based on new reports from gaza every single death was an innocent women or child. The fact is once you strap a bomb vest to your women and children.. They are no longer Off limits!
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Even France 2 has bee fooled by Hamas propaganda
PARIS: Frances public broadcaster was forced to apologize to viewers yesterday after it mistakenly used amateur footage shot in 2005 to illustrate a report on the current Gaza conflict.
France 2 television on Monday broadcast part of an amateur video presented in a voiceover commentary as showing the fallout from an Israeli air strike on a civilian area in Gaza on January 1.
Dating from September 2005, the video, which has been widely circulated on the Internet, actually shows civilians wounded in the accidental explosion of a pick-up truck loaded with Hamas rockets at a rally in Jabaliya refugee camp.
As Israel pounded Gaza with live ammunition for the second straight week, hackers waged their own war online, infiltrating Israeli sites and posting videos, photos, and slogans that condemned the aggression.
Hackers rewrote the content of several well-known Israeli websites and posted items about the atrocities committed by the Israeli army in Gaza. The hackers were thought to be operating from Lebanon, Morocco, Iran, and Turkey, the London-based newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported Sunday.
The hackers targeted websites of small companies as well as government bodies, including the Israeli Defense Forces and the Israel Discount Bank, according to Israeli radio.
One of the hackers, who calls himself T@ke Sn!per, said his group targeted government sites and managed to hack more than 30, including websites of political parties and banks.
More than 10,000 pages were hacked, with one hacker managing to infiltrate about 2,485 websites.
Hackers also targeted the websites of several Israeli newspapers like Maariv and Yediot Aharonot where they posted pictures of dead Palestinians and of Iraqis tortured in American prisons.
The Israeli army has been posting videos of its airstrikes on Gaza and of Hamas rocket attacks inside Israel on You Tube. The virtual war could also be seen in debates on internet forums.
In October, Hamas announced a competition with cash prizes to encourage techies to break hard-line Israeli political organizations' websites.
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Israel has some of the best programmers in the world. They'll want to get on top of this quickly, before worse is done.
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Similar to our recent election cycle where the Soros supported "KOS Kiddies" took charge to get "The One" elected.
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The virtual war could also be seen in debates on internet forums.
Judging by the performance of the trolls who vented here at Rantburg I'd say they need to do a lot more work before anyone could call them effective. A little bit of logic would help but that doesn't seem to be their strong suit.
Major clashes between IDF troops and Hamas gunmen reportedly took place late Monday evening in the northern Gaza Strip.
The clashes marked the first time the IDF extended its ground operation into the densely populated Gaza urban centers.
Live footage from Al-Jazeera showed numerous explosions and fires in the area where the soldiers were said to be operating. Heavy firepower could be heard, and reports told of dozens of artillery shells, as well as air support which had been concentrated in the area.
Just over an hour earlier, the IAF bombed at least 40 smuggling tunnels along the Philadelphi Corridor on Gaza's southern border with Egypt. There were no immediate reports of casualties in the strikes.
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4:51 PM A senior IDF officer in the Gaza Strip said, "Many houses in the area are booby-trapped and underground tunnels were built under them meant to enable the kidnapping of soldiers."
According to the officer, forces discovered a booby-trapped mosque, and among the weapons, found motorcycles meant to be used for kidnapping soldiers. (YNET)
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Any observed evidence of booby traps, retreat. Call in 1000 lb JDAMs, or even better, bring up a tank and fire away from 300-500 yards. Keep pumping them in until it's just a smoking mass of rubble. Mosks have priority. Destroy them all. Take down all their hovels if necesssary. These dimwits elected this trash and fully support them in every way. Time to show them what that vote meant.
Mahmoud Zahar, a top Hamas strongman in Gaza, on Monday urged Hamas fighters to "crush" IDF forces who have invaded the territory. He also hinted at greater efforts to attack Israeli civilians.
Speaking on Hamas's Al-Aqsa TV, Zahar praised Hamas fighters and urged them to "crush your enemy." He promised that Hamas would ultimately emerge victorious in the fight against Israeli forces.
He said Israelis "have legitimized the killing of their children by killing our children. They have legitimized the killing of their people all over the world by killing our people."
Zahar added that "the rockets launched by resistance fighters have broken Israel's security perceptions."
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Buck Russell: Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you.
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Related story from non-collaborationist media here, including the additional detail that Zahar made his victory proclamation from a secret hideout, where he is cowering with some fellow rats.
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the word is that all the Gaza based hamas leadership, being in hiding, is now completely cut off both from Hamas troops and from diplo activity. Both troops and diplo activity (such as it is) are being directed from Hamas leadership in Damascus. This has implications, perhaps, for issues of who has control on the ground in those parts of Gaza where the IDF is not currently present.
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He said Israelis "have legitimized the killing of their children by killing our children. They have legitimized the killing of their people all over the world by killing our people."
The name Samir Kuntar ring a bell, you ugly prick?
Let's hope there's an Israeli JDAM with his name on it.
Separatist militants shot dead five people in Thailand's Muslim-majority south, where a bloody jihad insurgency marked its fifth anniversary at the weekend, police said Tuesday.
An unknown number of terrorists militants attacked a military base in troubled Pattani province early on Tuesday, sparking a 10-minute gun battle that left a 47-year-old ranger dead, said police.
New Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva vowed soon after he was elected by parliament on December 15 to ease the southern tensions. His Democrat Party counts the south as one of its strongholds.
CHENNAI: A day after the Sri Lankan army took over Kilinochchi, pushing the LTTE fighters to the northern jungles of Mullaittivu, India sent a select team of the Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) on a secret aerial surveillance mission across the Palk Straits.
Sources told TOI that the aircraft belonging to the Air Research Centre (ARC), a top secret wing of RAW, took off from Chennai airport around 3am on Saturday. Sources refused to confirm if the ARC exercise was on the request of the Sri Lankan government.
"The ARC aircraft, which took off from Chennai with high-tech espionage equipment, flew quite close to the Sri Lankan coast and got back to another airport without returning to Chennai," a source said. ARC, which has a fleet of Boeings and Embraers fitted with some of the best cameras for high-altitude photography, can fly well above 40,000 feet.
The vision of the cameras, made on the lines of satellite cameras, can penetrate clouds and get photographs of spatial resolution of less than one metre, which means a small vehicle or even a person on the ground could be photographed from those heights. For civilian flights, there are internationally accepted preset codes. The ARC aircraft uses codes and call signs other than these and keeps changing them before every exercise.
The exercises are so secretive that ARC uses its own pilots and not even those from the Indian Air Force. While it uses civilian and IAF airports across the country, there is no fixed air base for ARC, which remains more of a dynamic arrangement than an organisation. "There was little notice for Saturday's mission. The flight came from some other airfield and took off in the early hours," an airport source said.
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I suppose the could call it Air India, but that's already taken.
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As per WORLD MIL FORUM > Article claims that Sri Lanka's Army, upon its move into the LTTE HQ area, allegedly discovered not only large caches of CHIN-SUPPLIED ARMS, BUT ALSO EVIDENCIAS OF CHIN ADVISORS [PLA?] HELPING THE LTTE???
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ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > INDIA'S MASSIVE MILITARY BUILDUP: NEW DELHI THINKS CHINA HAS A MILITARY BASE IN CHITTAGONG [e.g. Bangla BNS Osman Miss/RocFac is a covert Chinese-controlled MISSLE LAUNCHING FACILITY]; + DOES BANGLADESH HAVE AN ARMY/AIR FORCE BASE IN SOUTHERN CHINA?
Sri Lankan troops battling Tamil rebels yesterday captured part of the highly strategic Elephant Pass in a second major success just days after taking the guerrillas' political headquarters, the army said.
Military spokesman Udaya Nanayakkara said the southern part of Elephant Pass, a causeway linking the northern Jaffna peninsula to the mainland, fell to troops advancing north from Kilinochchi which was seized on Friday. "Troops are now consolidating in the southern part of Elephant Pass," he said.
Tamil Tiger rebels had held the Elephant Pass since April 2000. There was no immediate comment from the ethnic rebels, who have seen their northern fiefdom crumble in recent months in the face of a massive government onslaught.
The Sri Lankan army's advance to the causeway, if confirmed, would deal another serious blow to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The fall of Elephant Pass would enable government troops from the south to link up with government forces in Jaffna who have been cut off from the rest of the island by LTTE positions. The advance also further isolates Tamil Tiger rebels in a section of northeastern coastal jungle around Mullaittivu, the last remaining town in the hands of the LTTE.
An army statement said government troops were now advancing with "high morale" following the fall of Kilinochchi and were causing "heavy damages to the terrorists."
Just a few dozen people were still in Kilinochchi when government soldiers secured the town after months of heavy fighting. One resident told an AFP reporter who was flown to the town by the military on Sunday that the guerrillas had ordered civilians to shift to Mullaittivu, where the rebels are known to have their main military facilities.
For their part, the pro-rebel Tamilnet website said Tigers were putting up stiff resistance to the military advance on Mullaittivu and said they killed 53 soldiers and wounded another 80.
The military official leading the government assault said his forces were now advancing on Mullaittivu and LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. "We are taking the offensive to the Mullaittivu jungles where Prabhakaran is hiding," Major General Jagath Dias told reporters.
Sri Lanka officially marked on Monday the capture of Kilinochchi by flying the national flag and observing two minutes of silence to honour the security forces, officials said. The flag fluttered from homes and rooftops of government buildings as people stood still at shops and offices in the capital Colombo, witnesses said.
"State television and radio stations blacked out their regular bulletins to mark the occasion. It was two minutes of silence across the airwaves," said Anusha Pelpita, director of the government's information department. Private television channels stopped their live programmes and played patriotic songs followed by the national anthem, officials said.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Nine Taliban militants were killed in a gunfight early Monday by Afghan and NATO troops in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, a senior police official said. The gunfight erupted after Taliban-linked militants attacked Afghan and NATO security forces in the restive province's Panjwayi district, the top police commander for southern Afghanistan, Ghulam Ali Wahdat, told AFP. The troops were on a routine patrol when they came under attack, he said.
BEIJING, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A Sierra Leone cargo ship with 32 Chinese crew members on board outran four pirate boats in the Gulf of Aden Monday, Chinese officials in Beijing said. The China Maritime Search and Rescue Center said the pirates gave chase in the eastern region of the gulf about 3:50 p.m., with speeds reaching 19 nautical miles per hour, Xinhua reported.
As Israel pounded Gaza with live ammunition for the second straight week, hackers waged their own war online, infiltrating Israeli sites and posting videos, photos, and slogans that condemned the aggression.
Mahmoud Zahar, a top Hamas strongman in Gaza, on Monday urged Hamas fighters to "crush" IDF forces who have invaded the territory. He also hinted at greater efforts to attack Israeli civilians.
