[Quqnoos] The US is going to send thousands of more anti-mine vehicles to protect American troops against roadside bombs
The top US officer, Admiral Mike Mullen Thursday said that Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) have become the sophisticated Taliban attacks against the new deployed troops in Afghanistan. According to Mullen, the US army will soon send thousands of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) armored vehicles - built specifically for Afghan mission.
US top military commander predicated that the casualties of US personnel will spike during the upcoming tough months in the country, ahead of Afghan presidential and provincial council elections in August. "From an equipment standpoint, there's no higher priority than to get these vehicles in theater as rapidly as we can," Mike Mullen said.
"We're working hard to get the right vehicle in the right place at the right time," Mullen said. "But in the meantime, we're flowing thousands ... to Afghanistan to meet the needs that are there right now," he said.
Planting roadside bombs have turned to a usual tactical style for the Taliban militants in which many foreign forces have been harmed across the country.
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My understanding is the the original MRAP's are too large and cumbersome for much of Afghanistan and that they don't operate well on unpaved roads. There is a new rush program for a smaller version (MRAP A1 I think it is called) but who knows how long these will take to get into theater. Rough weeks ahead for our boys.
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I guess I am just too brutal. If I were POTUS, I would care more about the sons and daughters of my country I have put in harms way than anything else.
[Iran Press TV Latest] The British premier claims the country's troops are 'succeeding' in Operation Panther's Claw aimed at removing the Taliban militants from southern Afghanistan.
"Despite the tragic losses from the battle the current operations are succeeding in their objectives," Reuters quoted the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown as saying on Saturday.
Operation Panther's Claw is aimed at rooting out the Taliban from the central parts of the violence-ravaged Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan.
15 British soldiers have died in the province over the past ten days, bringing British mortalities to 184 since 2001. "Morale remains high. They are having a marked impact on the Taliban in central Helmand," Brown said.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The police headquarters has sent a proposal to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) for formation of a 3,125-member specialised and technology-based police unit to combat militancy and terrorism.
Sources said the proposed unit, National Police Bureau of Counter Terrorism, will have forces having expertise in information technology (IT), modern banking and cyber crime to safeguard the country from terrorist strike, cyber-based attack and high-tech crimes.
The specialised police unit will also work to know in advance about any possible threat on the life of prime minister and other high profile political personalities.
Sources in the police headquarters said a plan has been prepared to recruit 32,031 police personnel in the next three years between 2009 and 2011 in line with the present government's decision. The proposed police unit has been included in the plan.
The recruitment plan was sent to the PMO through the home ministry on June 11 for consideration of the prime minister, the sources added.
The police headquarters initiated the move to form the specialised unit after the prime minister gave a positive nod during her meeting with top police officials in the Police Week in April.
The organogram for the proposed police unit has already been finalised. An official of the rank of inspector general [a post proposed in the draft police ordinance which is awaiting government approval] will be at the helm of the unit.
The proposed activities of the unit include counter intelligence, stopping terror financing, running continuous anti-militancy campaign, terrorist tracking and maintaining a central database. To root out militancy, the bureau will work taking into consideration all elements of the criminal justice administration system.
The proposed police unit pledged in its proposal to work without minimum violation of human rights and other basic rights enshrined in the constitution.
The bureau activities will cover the whole of the country, as it will have a 30-member district attached office headed by an additional superintendent of police at all districts.
Apart from the IG, it will have two additional IGs, four deputy inspector generals (DIGs), 15 additional DIGs, 23 superintendents of police (SPs), 110 additional SPs, 19 senior Assistant Superintendent of Police (senior ASPs), 306 ASPs, 115 inspectors, 720 sub-inspectors/sergeants, 386 ASIs, 128 Nayeks and 1,142 constables.
The police unit will also have medical officer, budget officer, audit officer, accountant and cashier, 11 computer operators, three data entry operators, 66 cook and 69 sweepers from civilians.
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A Muslim civil servant suspended amid claims that he used his personal website to justify the killing of British troops in Iraq has returned to work at the Treasury. Azad Ali, an IT worker and president of the Civil Service Islamic Society, was suspended on full pay for six months following comments on his blog.
In one post Mr Ali quoted an interview with an Islamic militant who said: 'If I saw an American or British man wearing a soldier's uniform inside Iraq I would kill him because that is my obligation.
'If I found the same soldier in Jordan I wouldn't touch him. In Iraq he is a fighter and an occupier, here he is not. I respect this as the main instruction in my religion for jihad.'
Sir Gus O'Donnell, Britain's most senior civil servant and patron of the Civil Service Islamic Society, ordered that Mr Ali be suspended while an investigation was carried out. It is understood there were concerns that Mr Ali may have breached the Whitehall code of practice that restricts civil servants from political activities.
The investigation has now finished and Mr Ali has returned to his job. A Treasury spokesman said last night: 'Azad Ali is back at work. The Treasury has dealt with the matter in accordance with our disciplinary procedures. We will not comment on individual cases.'
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So, what would happen to a white civil servant who posted 'Kill Muslims' on his personal website citing the various acts of terror carried out daily in the name of their religion? /rhetorical question
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Mouse, again, prayers and best wishes to your son. God bless and stay safe
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Some are more equal than others...
Ain't that the truth, Bright Pebbles. After all she was only a humble clerk and he is president of the Civil Service Islamic Society, with Sir Gus O'Donnell, Britain's most senior civil servant in their back pocket. No contest in my view.
TOKYO (AFP) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is suffering from a "serious disorder" of the pancreas, a Japanese television network reported Friday, quoting a South Korean intelligence official. The 67-year-old's condition has been the focus of much speculation since he reportedly suffered a stroke last August.
Pancreatic cancer? That would be serious alright. Pancreatic pseudocyst? Oh, those can be painful. Pancreatitis with a phlegmon due to too much cognac? Painful indeed. Gallstone lodged in the pancreatic duct? Oh yeah, mega-pain with that one.
The TBS network reported that Kim has been resting and is being treated at his villa in the southeasten area of Wonsan by a team specialists. The unidentified official told TBS Kim would be aware of the disorder which was made known to US and South Korean intelligence authorities in March.
Kim is believed to have been receiving treatment since he attended the first meeting of the country's new parliament in April, the official was quoted as saying. In that month, he was shown in video footage by state media for the first time since August. He appeared to have lost weight in the film.
On Wednesday, a gaunt-looking Kim made a rare televised appearance as he paid homage to his late father Kim Il-Sung at a national memorial service. The film showed Kim's hair was thinning and he had developed a slight limp.
[Kyodo: Korea] North Korea's No. 2 leader, Kim Yong Nam, arrived in Beijing on Saturday en route to Egypt, where he will take part in a summit of non-aligned countries starting the same day.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry welcomed Kim, the president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, North Korea's parliament, at Beijing Capital International Airport, but it is unknown whether he will hold talks with Chinese officials.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Some Muslim Uighurs in this restive Chinese city remain in hiding nearly a week after deadly unrest as they are afraid of being attacked by Han Chinese or arrested, residents said yesterday.
Thousands of people Friday tried to flee Urumqi in China's Xinjiang region after deadly ethnic unrest with many mosques ordered shut for the Muslim day of prayer.
The exodus came as the authorities raised the toll from the violence that erupted on Sunday to more than 180 in the midst of growing international anger, especially in the Islamic world, at the plight of Xinjiang's Uighurs. Authorities said they had put on extra bus services out of the regional capital Urumqi, but demand outstripped seats and scalpers told AFP they were charging up to five times the normal price for tickets.
"It is just too risky to stay here. We are scared of the violence," said Xu Qiugen, a 23-year-old construction worker from central China who had been living in Urumqi for five years and had bought a bus ticket out with his wife.
Halisha, an eye doctor who works in the Uighur part of town, said he was too afraid to return to his home in a district of Urumqi city where mainly people from China's dominant Han ethnic group live.
"I am still scared because, you know, there are a lot of Han where I live," the 30-year-old Uighur told AFP after six nights staying at his employer's clinic. "I am afraid of getting beaten because there have been a lot of Uighurs beaten up there. All of us just hope that everything can return to normal soon."
One Uighur businessman, who did not want to be named, said several of his staff were sleeping at his workplace because they believed they could be unfairly caught up in the sweep by Chinese security forces. "Some of them don't want to go home because they are afraid they will be arrested," he told AFP.
Thousands of Uighurs protested on Sunday amid frustration over what they say has been decades of repressive Chinese rule. The protest turned violent with attacks on Han Chinese and the government said 184 people died in Sunday's riots.
Han Chinese then took to the streets early in the week wielding knives, poles, meat cleavers and other makeshift weapons and vowing vengeance against the Uighurs.
One Uighur owner of a store that sells leather goods such as saddles said on Saturday staff were also hiding at his shop. "They are afraid of possibly getting beaten by Han. There is also still a lot of fear about being arrested," he told AFP.
China said on Tuesday 1,434 people had been detained for their involvement in Sunday's unrest. But exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer estimated that as many as 5,000 people had been imprisoned in a massive security sweep that was rounding up innocent people.
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This is how it works: malcontents poke government in the eye, government retaliates against ordinary people, ordinary people get pissed, and malcontents rally more people to their cause. Che did it, Mao did it. You just have to really enrage the host population with sickening behavior so that they'll hit back.
Texans have had occasion this week to witness the eruption of a billboard war waged between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel grassroots organizations vying to tell Houston commuters their side of the story.
On Monday, two pro-Israel groups put up two giant roadside billboards bearing the message: "Save Gaza from Hamas. Teach peace, not hate." The signs - featuring a picture of two boys, an Arab and an Israeli, sitting arm-in-arm and smiling - was put up in response to an earlier roadside campaign by a pro-Palestinian group under the banner "Pray for Gaza," featuring crying Arab children.
The 10 pro-terrorism pro-Palestinian signs were put up throughout the city after January's Operation Cast Lead by an organization called the "Houston Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine." The billboards pointed onlookers to a web site praising the intifada and quoting critics of Israel, such as Jimmy Carter and Richard Falk. According to the site's "Facts" section, in carrying out Operation Cast Lead - launched in response to Palestinian rocket fire - Israel "broke first" the cease-fire it had with Hamas. The site's "History" section says Zionists began as "an extremist minority" of Jews, and accuses them of "sabotaging efforts to place Jewish refugees in Western countries" during the Holocaust.
"Many Houstonians were upset by the 'Pray for Gaza' propaganda campaign," observed Ira Bleiweiss, founder of Bridge Houston, a local pro-Israel group. "But they didn't know what to do," Bleiweiss told the local Jewish Herald Voice. Talking to Haaretz, Bleiweiss said that "people are delighted that someone finally took a stand in public," made possible by a joint low-key fundraising campaign Bridge Houston launched together with the international Israel-advocacy group StandWithUs.
"Organizations that misrepresent the struggle for peace in the Middle East should be placed on notice that groups like ours will stand up to them," said Roz Rothstein, international director of StandWithUs. "We believe in confronting big lies about Israel head-on, and they don't come much bigger than on a billboard," said U.K.-born Michael Dickson from Jerusalem, head of the organization's Israel branch. "Pray4Gaza, via their campaign and their Web site, deliberately twist facts and distort history to demonize Israel. People should pray for Gaza; pray for it to be free from Hamas' tyranny."
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The phrase in the above posting "Domains by Proxy" is a service that allows you to register domain names without using your own name. I court order can force the revelation of the owner's name but I think we all know you won't get that without cause.
"India has failed in providing details about the SIMs, the GPRS system used in the attacks and some other relevant information."
investigation into the Mumbai attacks, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday. Well, damn them!
Talking to reporters after meeting Indian High Commissioner Man Preet Vohra, the interior minister said New Delhi had not provided Islamabad any significant details regarding the attacks. "We're kinda vaguely aware that something happened, but we're not sure what it wuz or who dunnit."
Demanding that India expedite the investigation, Malik said, "India has failed in providing details about the SIMs, the GPRS system used in the attacks and some other relevant information." "All that stuff that could be changed in the next attack so that the finger wouldn't point quite so unequivocably at us."
He said the trial of five men accused in the Mumbai attacks is likely to start next week. Malik said the five accused included Hamaad Amin Sadiq, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, Mazhar Iqbal, Abdul Wajid and Shahid Jamil Riaz, adding that the men's second challan would be submitted in court on July 20.
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A planned military operation in Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud's stronghold South Waziristan will heavily rely on air power rather than a ground offensive.
According to a report published in the US-based McClatchy Newspapers, the planned approach will likely be ineffective in eliminating the Taliban leader and is likely to disappoint the country's western allies, Pakistani officials and analysts told the paper.
The military is ending its operation against the Taliban in Swat, is soon expected to initiate one against Baitullah in Waziristan, but it would be much different to the strategy in Swat, which 20,000 troops swept across the region.
Ground troops: The military plans to use artillery, jet fighters and helicopter gunships to target the Taliban, with ground troops playing a limited role in the mountainous Waziristan, which largely favours traditional guerrilla warfare that the Taliban resort to.
The paper said the operation was unlikely to destroy the enemy, but was likely to raise questions about the country's seriousness to fight the insurgents. "The nature of the operation is totally different from what we did in Swat," a senior Pakistani security official told the paper on condition of anonymity. "It is just blocking the entrance. Nothing goes in, nothing comes out. We'll keep punishing (the enemy) with long arms, air (power), Cobra (helicopters)." "The tactics have been reversed. Initially they (the Taliban) used to wear us out; now the army is planning to wear them out."
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Let's "loan" them a half-dozen six-ship ARCLIGHT strikes, just because we're neighborly. I'm sure we can find some good targets. Cleaning up afterwards will be left to the Taliban.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] India's prime minister says he is keen in resolving differences with Pakistan, but Islamabad must first clamp down on militants involved in the Mumbai attacks.
"We will do all that is necessary to resolve all outstanding issues that have bedeviled India's relations with Pakistan," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday after a G8 summit.
But, he said to solve the current disputes, credible action on the part of Islamabad should be taken to deal with terrorist elements directing their energy to disrupt and destabilize India's 'economy and polity'.
He said India should also clamp down on militants who vandalized Mumbai for three days - November 26-29 - killing more than 170 people in various attacks across the city.
India says the assault on Mumbai was carried out by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) militants and has asked Pakistan to deal firmly with such groups.
"If they do that, we are willing to walk more than half the distance to normalize our relations," Singh was cited as saying.
Singh is scheduled to have a meeting next week with his Pakistani counterpart Yusuf Raza Gilani in Sharm-el-Sheikh in Egypt, on the sidelines of a Non-Aligned Movement summit.
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The leadership of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Swat is secure and the government's claims about Mullah Fazlullah being injured are baseless, TTP spokesman Maulvi Umar claimed on Saturday. He told reporters via telephone that Fazlullah was safe, adding the Taliban leadership had gone underground during the operation in Buner, Dir and Swat as part of their overall strategy. He said none of the organisation's top leaders had been killed by the military. Umar also warned lashkars to cease activity against the TTP, adding his organisation was not behind the fighting in Bajaur. Looks like another satisfied customer of "Pie Hats R' Us".
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Where'd Henry VIII tie in here?
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[Iran Press TV Latest] The Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas says he is willing to accept any Egyptian proposal on the reconciliation process going on between Palestinian factions.
Abbas said that Fatah's negotiators in the Palestinian unity talks have been instructed to accept any Egyptian proposal that 'would end the siege on the Palestinian people', the Egyptian magazine October reported on Saturday.
"Egypt is the only country that knows how to deal with the Arab-Israeli conflict," said Abbas, adding that he would not accept any other country as a mediator.
Cairo is currently playing a mediatory role in both the Israeli-Palestinian and inter-Palestinian talks.
The differences between the Islamic Hamas movement and Fatah reached their peak in June 2007 when Hamas took over the Gaza Strip to 'foil an attempted coup by some Fatah elements'.
Abbas, in response, dismissed the Hamas government headed by Ismail Haniya who came to power after winning the elections in 2006.
The two sides are now making efforts to set aside their differences and form a unity government.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] The Iranian Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani stresses that the solution to the Palestinian problem lies in collective and serious resistance against the Zionist regime.
"Due to firm and strenuous resistance shown by the Lebanese Hezbollah movement as well as the Palestinian nation, Palestinians and Arabs could witness considerable and impressive achievements in the struggle against Zionist expansionist policies," Larijani remarked in a meeting with the visiting Omani Foreign Minister Yusef Bin Alawi Bin Abdullah, in Tehran on Saturday.
The prominent Iranian official meanwhile reiterated that Tel Aviv has never paid heed to legitimate Palestinian demands. He also condemned Israel's continued expansion of settlements in the West Bank.
Larijani's comments come a day after the German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will not be formulated as long as Tel Aviv continues to erect settlements in the West Bank.
"A solution has to be found ... but a solution will not be found as long as the settlements continue to be expanded," the German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told foreign journalists in Berlin on Friday.
Under the 2002 Roadmap for Peace that was brokered by the United States, the European Union, the United Nations, and Russia, Israel has to 'dismantle settlement outposts erected since 2001 and also freeze all settlement activity'.
More than 285,000 Israelis currently live in the settlements — considered by the international community as having been illegally constructed. The settlements are erected on occupied lands that the Palestinians claim for a future state.
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If resistance has been the key for the last 60 years, how is it working out for you? Not working at all.
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The Palestinians already have a nation state, Jordan. Israel should unilaterally cede Gaza to Egypt; cede the parts of the West Bank they don't want to Jordan; and keep Jerusalem as their capital while offering resettlement to all the arabs remaining within Israel.
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If the Palis want the 'right of return' back to Israeli territory, it would only be fair to allow the 'right of return' to the larger number of Jews expelled from neighboring Arab lands at the same time.
Oh Noes
Funny how no one ever discusses that.
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The "palestinian" question will be solved immediately after the world acknowledges there is no such thing as a "palestinian". They're just another tribe of Arab, with roots all over, brought together by the Ottomans 800 years ago. The best thing Israel could do is to force all muslim arabs to leave Israel. That includes those living in the "West Bank" and "Gaza Strip". Let them live with their arab brothers in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. Nuke any group that gets too feisty. It may take another thousand years, but eventually they'll get the point.
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The slap across my jaw from behind me made my ears sting red with anger and embarrassment. I was being punished for daring to glance around the room where I was being questioned - accused of being a spy for Britain.
A few days earlier I had been brought, blindfolded, to the heart of Evin Prison, to begin what my captors believed would be the simple process of establishing my guilt. I was told to sit down, and keep facing the bare wall in front of me, before my blindfold was removed. On a sheet of official notepaper I was to scribble answers to my interrogator's questions. What had I been doing in the days since the disputed Iranian election? Who were my contacts? Who had I interviewed and what had they told me?
When he stepped outside to talk to intelligence ministry colleagues, I briefly craned my neck to see whether the interrogation suite was equipped with a camera. It was a mistake: quick as a flash the official was back, and I was being punished for my disobedience. My face still smarting, I whirled round to confront him. It was a visceral reaction and the only time in a week of almost daily interrogations that I stared straight into the face of one of my captors. What I saw was not reassuring. A scruffy white-flecked beard, a contemptuous mouth curling to reveal a flash of gold fillings, and eyes fixed at me in white anger. "Didn't I tell you never to turn around?" he snapped. "Now turn away from me."
My first interrogator was like that. Sometimes his carefully cultivated voice oozed false sympathy. Occasionally, his solicitousness appeared downright sarcastic. When I refused to reveal the names of my Iranian contacts, he assured me that they need not fear. "They are fellow Iranian citizens like myself, Mr Iason," he purred. "Why would I ever hurt my own flesh and blood?" At other times he flew into blind rages, prodding me aggressively in the back while making a point - perhaps about the perfidy of supporters of Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the presidential candidate who is still disputing the outcome of the election. "You think you're treated so badly," he snapped at me, "but what is our treatment in London or Heathrow? Every time in that airport it is four or five hours interrogation for us."
[Iran Press TV Latest] Iran will execute 12 Jundullah members who were involved in terrorist activities at the behest of the terror group's notorious ringleader Abdolmalek Rigi. "Sistan Baluchestan's revolutionary and appellate courts have ordered the execution of 12 members of the Jundullah terrorist group on charges of terrorism. One member of the group has been sentenced to five years of imprisonment in a remote town," the Chairman of Sistan and Baluchestan's Justice Department Ebrahim Hamidi, told the ISNA news agency in Zahedan on Saturday.
Hamidi added that among the charges leveled against the defendants were the responsibility for the killing of 22 people in the Tasuci incident, setting up armed roadblocks on Chabahar road, kidnapping foreign nationals, and carrying out armed robberies.
Abdolhamid Rigi - the brother of Jundullah Leader Abdolmalek Rigi - who is among the convicted had told Press TV in an interview that "since 2003, Jundullah members have masterminded fifty to sixty terrorist operations, including mass murder, hostage takings, bombings, raids, car thefts, and other acts of sabotage against civilians and the government."
Did he have any of his fingernails left when he said that?
"I was under strict orders to take part in most of these missions," he explained, while adding that he killed at least four innocent civilians with his own hands in one particular raid.
He asserted that if he had refused to conform to his brother's orders he would have been faced with serious consequences. "I would be labeled as a traitor and therefore condemned to death."
Abdolhamid Rigi was arrested by Pakistani forces and handed over to Iranian officials early last year.
Jundullah is a Pakistan-based terrorist group comprised of some members of the Baluch ethnic minority. The terrorist group is closely affiliated with al-Qaeda.
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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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Iran Press TV Latest] The British premier claims the country's troops are 'succeeding' in Operation Panther's Claw aimed at removing the Taliban militants from southern Afghanistan. 
A Muslim civil servant suspended amid claims that he used his personal website to justify the killing of British troops in Iraq has returned to work at the Treasury. Azad Ali, an IT worker and president of the Civil Service Islamic Society, was suspended on full pay for six months following comments on his blog.
TOKYO (AFP) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is suffering from a "serious disorder" of the pancreas, a Japanese television network reported Friday, quoting a South Korean intelligence official. The 67-year-old's condition has been the focus of much speculation since he reportedly suffered a stroke last August.
Texans have had occasion this week to witness the eruption of a billboard war waged between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel grassroots organizations vying to tell Houston commuters their side of the story. 
A planned military operation in Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief 
The leadership of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Swat is secure and the government's claims about 
The slap across my jaw from behind me made my ears sting red with anger and embarrassment. I was being punished for daring to glance around the room where I was being questioned - accused of being a spy for Britain. 
[Iran Press TV Latest] Iran will execute 12 
