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With Joan, the less she shows the more you want her.
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GB, the pics of Joan were okay -- in fact, Fred has used at least one for the 'Bloid in the past. But I'm happy to see that my <DEL>lecture</DEL> post helped!
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Interesting lead off photo at the link, reminds me of the NBA uniforms.
Good on the crew for not rolling over. Too bad the 'buzzing helicopters' didn't sink the boats the bad guys used, they would have had to make a real choice then.
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WORLD MIL FORUM [GOOGLE Chinglish translation] > SOMALI AMBASSADOR: SOAMLIA WOULD LOVE IT IFF FRIEND CHINA CAN SEND LARGE 100 SHIP-FLEET, ARMY FORCES TO FIGHT PIRACY, which is prob why WMF repors the USA is "WORRIED" about the size and intent of China's potential mil contribution agz Somali = Regional Piracy.
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OTOH, REDDIT > seems a SOMALI PIRATE BAD-BOY was having serious troubles getting the local Babes to notice him until after he became a Pirate - now a lady friend(s) seeming can't keep her hands off of him.
And yet JACK SPARROW struck out ...
SOMALI PIRATE SEX > D *** NG IT, THEY WERE MARRIED ONLY AFTER HE BECAME A PIRATE = $$$, BUT HE JUST DIDN'T KNOW IT!?
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ION CHINA > CHINESE MIL FORUM > THE "THIRD KOREA" YANBIAN [Yanbian Autonomous Perfecture] IS BEING INCREASINGLY SINICIZED [no longer seeing themselves as Koreans per se].
ALso, WORLD MIL FORUM > US REPORT:JAPAN QUIETLY SEEKS GREATER NATIONAL INFLUENCE, GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ROLE IN CHINA.
The owners of the Biscaglia, a Liberian-flagged chemical tanker, paid thousands of dollars for three guards to protect it from Somali pirates.
It didn't work. Brigands struck on Nov. 28, seizing the 27,350-ton vessel and its crew of 25 Indians as it headed toward the Suez Canal. After failing to repulse the pirates with deafening sonic devices, the unarmed guards jumped ship to escape and were plucked from the Gulf of Aden by a German navy helicopter. "We responded as quickly as we could, but it was all over," said Christophe Prazuck, a spokesman for the French military, which also sent a chopper. "It does make you wonder about the utility of some of these security teams." Put me on a ship opposing a couple boatloads of turbans waving guns and rocket launchers with nothing but a honker and I'll show you my back, too.
Piracy off Somalia's coast has created a flourishing market for security companies that promise to protect ships from speedboat-borne brigands armed with AK-47 assault rifles and grenade-launchers. Hired by shippers facing increased costs for insurance, alternative routes and ransoms, the guards are prompting concern that they will provoke violence because some carry weapons.
"There are about a dozen companies providing security teams and many others trying to jump on the bandwagon," said Giles Noakes, head of maritime security at BIMCO, the world's largest ship-owners' association. "While I understand the temptation, placing armed guards on board creates a severe risk of escalation."
Pirates have attacked about 125 ships this year off Somalia's east coast and in the Gulf of Aden sailing to and from Egypt's Suez Canal, a route used by 20,000 ships a year carrying a 10th of world trade. About 45 were seized. There were 37 reported attacks in 2007, the French government said.
The attacks have prompted the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the U.S., India, Russia and France to dispatch about 15 warships to the pirate-infested area, which is three times the size of Texas.
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...the guards are prompting concern that they will provoke violence because some carry weapons.
Oh, Heaven forfend! So pirates storming a ship with AK's and RPG's aren't already acting violent? Who the hell writes this crap?
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Surrender when the pirates show up, then when they come alongside you hit them with the flame thrower, or moltovs into their boats. They dont tend to have large enough numbers to have some pirates stand off and firing and RPG at close range will probably kill the person holding the RPG and his friends.
And the cruel and inhumane part of burning them alive, well that's a feature, not a bug.
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what is it with them always wanting too use sound devices against armed men ? I would think a bullet hurts a helluva alot worse than that big ass horn
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Unfortunate byproduct of having children grow up watching the Smurfs. Send them the entire Roadrunner-Coyote collection.
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Put 3 ex-navy SEALs on there with only a cigarette lighter and I guarantee that the pirates would come out on the worse end of that arrangement.
I suspect they'd end up jumping ship as well. Military guys stateside end up getting knocked off by gangsters all the time. Heck, a special forces team along with some Afghan platoons going up against the Taliban almost got wiped out while trying to get away. And they had light weapons, grenades, air support and motor vehicles to get away.
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The article as shown below leaves out some good tidbits.
"In addition to increasing the possibility of violence, armed guards on ships carry legal risks, said John Kimball, a maritime law expert at Blank Rome in New York.
A warship from any sovereign nation has the right under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea to kill pirates in international waters. But when a private security firm does it, you are in a gray area, he said. Putting a security force on a ship raises all sorts of issues I think that ship-owners should want to avoid.""
See also:
http://www.maritimeaccident.org/arming-ships-the-blackwater-factor/
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Wow!
I guess the "legitimate government of SomaliaPuntlandEastShitholeia Pirateland" would have to lay claim to the homegrown miscreants and their supposed abuse? Nice try, Jaique.
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(AKI) - Yemeni tribesmen who kidnapped three Germans have added the release of a jailed cleric to their previous demands, tribal mediators said on Thursday. The mediators said the kidnappers' leader Sheik Abed Rabbo Saleh al-Tam told them he wants the release of Sheik Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayad, who was sentenced to 75 years in prison in the US for supporting terrorism.
Chief kidnapper al-Tam earlier demanded authorities release his son and brother from jail, where they are serving terms for abducting five Yemeni engineers and holding them captive for six months last year. Al-Tam has also reportedly demanded that the Yemeni government pay him 200,000 dollars compensation for a property in Sanaa whose ownership he disputed with an influential businessman.
The hostages - a couple and their adult daughter - are reported to be in good health.
The tribal mediators said they met on Wednesday with the kidnappers, who are are all tribesmen from the powerful Bani Dhabyan tribe.
Yemeni security forces are reported to have completely surrounded the kidnappers' hideout in a mountain village some 60 kilometres east of Sanaa, where they are holding the Germans captive. The German embassy is said to have received assurances from the Yemeni government that force will not be used to free the hostages.
The hostages are a female employee of the German Technical Cooperation agency GTZ who works in Yemen and her parents. The kidnappers reportedly snatched the family from their car on Sunday at gunpoint outside the historic city of Radaa located in a remote area 130 kilometres southeast of the capital, Sanaa
Yemen's tribes have abducted over 200 foreigners in the impoverished country over the past 15 years in a bid to extract concessions from the central government, whose rule is hard to impose in lawless rural areas. Most foreigners abducted by disgruntled tribesmen in Yemen have been released unharmed, including a German diplomat and his family held for five days in December 2005.
However, four Western tourists died in 1998 during a botched attempt to free them from their Islamist militant captors in Yemen's southern Abyan governorate.
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SAN'A, Yemen Kidnappers released on Friday three Germans abducted in Yemen after the Yemeni government paid a $100,000 ransom and agreed to another demand to release tribesmen from prison, officials and a mediator said.
The Germans an aid worker and her visiting mother and father arrived in the capital San'a after their release and met with Yemen's ministers of tourism and interior as well as Germany's deputy ambassador to Yemen, Yemeni security officials said.
The mediators had said the kidnappers' leader, Sheik Abed Rabbo Saleh al-Tam, had also demanded the release of a cleric, Sheik Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayad, jailed in the United States on terrorism charges.
Al-Moayad was sentenced in 2005 in New York to 75 years in prison for supporting terrorism. In October, an appeals court overturned his conviction and ordered a retrial because of inflammatory testimony about unrelated terrorism cases in his first trial. The demand to release al-Moayad was in addition others made by al-Tam for the release of his son and brother from Yemeni jails.
(AKI) - In a groundbreaking ruling on Thursday, a British court convicted Pakistani-descended Rangzieb Ahmed of directing terrorism. He is the first person to be found guilty of the offence in the United Kingdom. Ahmed, 33 was also found guilty of belonging to Al-Qaeda and was a key link between British recruits and Al-Qaeda leaders.
The jury cleared him on seven other counts, which included claims that he had "hitlists" of possible high-profile targets including former Prime Minister Tony Blair and Ministry of Defence officials.
A second defendant, taxi driver Habib Ahmed, 29, was also convicted of the charge of belonging to Al-Qaeda. His wife was not guilty of attending a terrorist training camp in Pakistan in 2006 and arranging funding for the purposes of terrorism.
Rangzieb and Habib Ahmed showed no emotion as the verdict was read out. Their sentences will be announced on Friday. The two men are not related.
Manchester Crown Court in northern England heard during the trial that luggage belonging to Ahmed was found to contain diaries with the names and phone numbers of other Al-Qaeda operatives, some of which were written in invisible ink. The contacts in Ahmed's diary included Hamza Rabia, Al-Qaeda's suspected former third in command, who was killed in an explosion.
Police continued to monitor Ahmed when he returned to Britain after counter-terrorism officers in late 2005 placed him under surveillance in Dubai, where prosecutors said he had travelled on an aborted Al-Qaeda mission. Ahmed abandoned the mission when a senior Al-Qaeda leader was killed in a United States missile attack, prosecutors said.
Phone taps by British intelligence revealed Ahmed's high-level links to Al-Qaeda leaders in South Asia and his role as a trusted and experienced operative. He had been in contact with one of the men who carried out a botched suicide bombing mission on the London public transport on 21 July, 2005, according to prosecutors.
Ahmed also set up a terror cell in Manchester that backed insurgents in Afghanistan, but which was broken up by police last year.
Ahmed's lawyers say he was tortured during eight months of detention in Pakistan's notorious Adiala Jail after Pakistani police arrested him there in August 2006 over alleged links with Al-Qaeda. Ahmed claims a CIA officer was present during his arrest in Pakistan and that he was visited by British intelligence officers while he was in Adiala.
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Habib Ahmed
Hamza Rabia
Rangzieb Ahmed
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(AKI) -- Two members of the Muslim fundamentalist Wahabi movement accused of planning terrorist activities pleaded not guilty before a Belgrade court on Thursday. Before the court they praised Allah for showing them the right way and directed derogatory remarks at prosecutors and judges alike.
Adis Muric, 21, and Enes Mujanovic, 19, were arrested in September 2007 in the southern predominantly Muslim town of Novi Pazar on charges of having planned terrorist acts. Police discovered terrorist literature, videos, maps, explosives and weapons in their hide-out.
Another two members of the group, Nedzat Bulic (31) and Bajram Aslani (28), a Kosovar, are on the run and will be tried in absentia.
Muric and Mujanovic said they knew that they had been followed by police and that their phones were tapped. But denied any involvement in terrorist activities. Muric said he was followed just because he was "a believer". "The indictment could have been written only by someone who hates Islam and Muslims," Muric said. "The prosecutor looks like an American servant to me, not a Serb," he added.
He than read passages from the Koran in Arabic and thanked Allah for having showed him "the right way".
The trial was adjourned until February when prosecutors will present their first witnesses and evidence.
The Wahabi movement originated in Saudi Arabia and is relatively new in the Balkans. The fundamental Islamist ideology was brought to the Balkans by "mujahadeen" fighters from Muslim countries during 1995-1995 civil war in Bosnia. Wahabism has slowly gained support in Bosnia ever since, and many mujahadeen who remained there after the war have reportedly indoctrinated local youths with radical Islam.
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Bajram Aslani
Enes Mujanovic
Nedzat Bulic
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Moderate Kosovo muslims, huh?
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Wahabism was brought to the Balkans by Bill Clinton. They didn't exist until Wild Bill started protecting the muslim enemy.
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are the Serbians who you really want too start a fight with? i was young but i don't remember them as being like the rest of the euros and running away
(AKI) - Turkish police have detained 30 people suspected of belonging to the Al-Qaeda network, the Anatolian Agency reported. In raids conducted on Wednesday, anti-terrorist police detained 15 suspects in Istanbul and 15 more in two other regions of the country, the report said.
Police also seized documents and other materials during the operation which is part of an ongoing police investigation.
In August, eleven alleged members of Al-Qaeda were detained in southeastern Turkey, and accused of establishing a group named the Muslim Revenge Brigade in order to carry out attacks. They are due to be tried later this month.
According to the daily, Hurriyet, a Turkish prosecutor charged Wednesday two suspected Al-Qaeda members over an attack on the US Consulate in Istanbul in July. Three attackers and three police officers were killed in the incident.
Al-Qaeda militants were blamed for the deaths of more than 60 people in a series of bombings in Istanbul in 2003.
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TAMPA - The YouTube video was on the Internet only a few days but was viewed nearly 800 times before the Web site operators saw it and took it down, prosecutors said. "There's no way to know how far it went, to whom and what they did with it," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay Hoffer.
In the video, Ahmed Mohamed, then a student at the University of South Florida, showed how to modify a plastic toy car so it could be used to remotely set off a bomb. The idea, Mohamed has admitted, was to target "infidels," including American troops overseas, without "martyrs" having to sacrifice their lives.
For that, Mohamed was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison, the maximum allowed under the law for the charge he pleaded guilty to, providing material support to terrorists.
The video was shown in court today, its first public display since Mohamed was arrested Aug. 4, 2007, in South Carolina, along with fellow student, Youssef Megahed, after deputies found what prosecutors say was explosive materials in the trunk of their car. Megahed, who has not been implicated in the Youtube video, is awaiting trial on charges of transporting explosives. Mohamed's attorneys argued there was no evidence that anyone ever viewed the video and took action as a result, that there were no identified victims of this crime.
"I admit that the video was something that was not a wise idea," Mohamed said in a statement read by his attorney, Lyann Goudie, before he was sentenced. "I do apologize because I never intended to harm anybody in particular I am convinced that I have learned a lesson I am no more than a college guy." Pssssst...Ahmed. Big smile for the judge.
Mohamed, 27, asked U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday to show leniency, to allow him to go on to lead a good life and one day have children.
Mohamed, who is from Egypt, hung his head low as Merryday sentenced him.
"I hear no contrition that I find convincing," the judge said. "His objective was to cause others to have the knowledge needed to do damage including death to persons in the service of the United States," the judge said.
Defense attorneys portrayed Mohamed as leading an otherwise exemplary life. His background was so clean, said lawyer Linda Moreno, that he worked for American companies in Cairo, including Haliburton. Wouldn't that prove how...evil he is?
"While it's a terrible video, and it's a horrible video, in the context of what's happening in the world and in the context of what's happening in the Middle East, I can ask the court to consider it from that point of view," Moreno said. We did. Fifteen years. Buh bye.
Mohamed used USF equipment at night, when no one else was around, to upload the video onto the Web site, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Monk, who said Mohamed "embraces a violent and extreme ideology" and "has a particular dislike of Americans." Monk said Mohamed has said, "Americans are pigs. Americans are easy to deceive. Americans are scum." Well... not that easy.
Mohamed told an FBI agent, "You don't understand, you have made me a hero." He also said, "Americans are more stupid than pigs, and you cannot deny this." Might wanna learn to squeal like a pig, Ahmed. It'll make you popular with the stupid Americans who will be your new "friends".
According to Monk, Mohamed said, "It is the wish of every Muslim to die at the hands of the invaders, and he will get credit for this when he dies." Don't worry. There's still a pretty good chance that wish could come true.
Monk read from letters Mohamed wrote from jail to his parents and another person where he talked about the Muslim religion taking over the world.
The defense asked for an eight-year sentence, saying Mohamed has been mistreated while in the Falkenberg Road Jail awaiting disposition of his case. They said he was tortured in Egypt when he was imprisoned for four months without charges for donating money to the Red Crescent. Geez, nobody likes this guy...
Goudie appealed to the judge's sense of fairness. The defense attorney said her son is in the military and served two tours of duty in Iraq, during the initial invasion in 2003 and then in 2005 until September 2006. She said she told her son before he went, "Remember when you're putting on that uniform that you're representing the United States of America." She said she urged him not to "ever think it's proper to stoop down to anybody else's level. Remember that you're an American and that you're fair and you're just." I'll translate: I...got nuthin your honor.
The judge concluded Mohamed was a true adherent of his extreme religious beliefs. Such a view, he said, is not changeable through rehabilitation. Trying to persuade someone to change that viewpoint wouldn't be considered rehabilitative, the judge said. "It would be apostasy." Heh heh heh. Looks like that one came back to bite you in the ass, Ahmed.
India on Friday said it was obliged to "consider the entire range of options that exist" with the failure of Pakistan to deliver on its promise of not supporting terror activities.
"Terrorism remains a scourge for our region. If a country cannot keep the assurances that it has given, then it obliges us to consider the entire range of options that exist to protect our interests and people from this menace," External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said, without naming Islamabad.
"We have made repeated appeals to our neighbours over the years to ensure that they do not not provide support to terrorist activities and to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure...but our pleas have been ignored in spite of assurances given by them," Mukherjee said.
He said this in his message from New Delhi to the International Conference on 'Sub-regionalism Approach to Regional Integration in South Asia: Prospects and Opportunities' here.
It was read out by the Sikkim University Vice-Chancellor Prof Mahendra P Lama at the inauguration of the three-day conference.
Mukherjee said the terror attacks on the financial capital of the country reflected the extent to which the terrorists have spread their network in the neighbouring country.
The External Affairs minister, however, did not elaborate on the course of action to be taken by the government following Pakistan's failure to act on its assurance of dismantling terror infrastructure on its territory.
He also hinted that the state agencies of Pakistan may have provided assistance to the terrorists, whom he described as non-state actors, in carrying out the attack.
"The Mumbai terrorist attack is the latest instance of how sub-regionalism, regionalism and multilaterism are directly threatened by non-state actors with the aid of para-state apparatus," Mukherjee said.
He said that India would fine-tune its priorities to deal with terrorism.
Referring to India's assessment of political situation in Pakistan, Mukherjee noted that the internal security of that country continued to deteriorate "leading to emergence of multiple centres of power".
The emergence of multiple centres of power has been reflected in attempts at cross border infiltration as also the increase in ceasefire violations besides the appalling terrorist attacks in Mumbai recently, he said.
The issue of terrorism within Pakistan being deeply embroiled in its internal politics has been found true, the minister said.
"The infrastructure of terror remained unchallenged in Pakistan and so did the logistical support to anti-Indian terrorists from multiple hands due to emergence of multiple centres of power," Mukherjee said.
On India's vision for a developed and prosperous South Asia, Mukherjee said, New Delhi sought to promote an environment of peace and stability in the SAARC region and the world for accelerated socio-economic development and national security.
"At the same time, one cannot choose one's neighbour," he said in an apparent dig at Pakistan.
"The goal of the SAARC countries should be to create a peaceful periphery to enable all of us to pursue our own development," the union minister said and questioned the commitment of some neighbouring countries to pursue a common goal of peace and development in the South Asian region.
"The internal development in our neighbour countries, crossborder issues, ethnicities and migration among others make the bilateral relations a complex and sensitive issue as the domestic and foreign policy gets closely intertwined," he said.
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Sounds as if the Indians are trying to threaten without being specific, won't work.
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threaten w/specific target = mass evacuation, civilian hardship, since the Islamos tend to hide mil facilities among the "unwitting civilian casualties". It's permitted in Islam.
/things you won't read in the press coverage
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"Hmmm... Just kick their asses, or go for the nuts too...Hmmm..."
Criticising the new anti-terror laws passed by Parliament in the wake of November 26 Mumbai attacks, Amnesty International on Friday said such measures undermine the rule of law and respect for human rights.
In a statement, the Amnesty urged President of India to reject the new amendments to anti-terror laws which has provision for detaining suspects up to six months without bail.
The organisation called upon the President, Indian authorities and lawmakers to urgently review the new amendments to the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, and provisions of the new legislation aiming to set up a National Investigation Agency, exclusively meant to probe acts of terrorism in the country.
"While we utterly condemn the attacks and recognise that the Indian authorities have a right and duty to take effective measures to ensure the security of the population, security concerns should never be used to jeopardise people's human rights," Asia Pacific Programme Deputy Director at Amnesty International, Madhu Malhotra said.
The experience of other countries which have also rushed to pass sweeping anti-terror legislation in response to terrorist attacks has shown that such measures undermine the rule of law and respect for human rights internationally and do not enhance security, she said.
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for once i would love too see a legitimate government official from any gov. stand up and tell amnesty international too fuck off
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Did Amnesty International have anything to say about the terrorists who tortured and murdered all those people in Mumbai? The human rights of those people were surely violated.
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"tortured and murdered all those people in Mumbai? The human rights of those people were surely violated"
Jews and Westerners, Rambler - they don't count.
Didn't you get the memo?
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Its impossible for Muslims to _ever_ violate the human rights of any Infidel.
The Indian military says it has killed a senior military commander of banned Pakistani group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in Kashmir region.
The militant commander was identified as Iqbal Malik, the LeT's southern Kashmir commander, the military said in a statement released on Friday. It added that Malik and two other insurgents were killed earlier in the day as they were trapped in a cave during an exchange of fire in mountainous Doda district, south of Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir.
"Three LeT militants, including senior commander Iqbal Malik, who got holed up in a mountain cave were killed after a fierce eight-hour-long encounter today," Reuters quoted an unnamed army spokesman as saying. The spokesman added that an Indian soldier was also killed during the gunbattle at the cave.
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i always get that song that goes" anotherone bites the dust" in my head when i read these articles. Anyone know the name of the song or even what i'm talking about?
performed by Queen
written by John Deacon (Bass Guitarist)
lead singer Freddie Mercury (Farouk Balsara)
Steve walks warily down the street,
with the brim pulled way down low
Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet,
machine guns ready to go
Are you ready, Are you ready for this
Are you hanging on the edge of your seat
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
To the sound of the beat
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Hey, I'm gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust
How do you think I'm going to get along,
without you, when you're gone
You took me for everything that I had,
and kicked me out on my own
Are you happy, are you satisfied
How long can you stand the heat
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
To the sound of the beat
Chorus
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
There are plenty of ways you can hurt a man
And bring him to the ground
You can beat him
You can cheat him
You can treat him bad and leave him
When he's down
But I'm ready, yes I'm ready for you
I'm standing on my own two feet
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
repeating the sound of the beat
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I was always a Queen fan (and May in particular), heard their new stuff with Paul Rogers - sounds like Bad Company and Queen combined, not the same as with flamboyant Freddy, but good stuff
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Odd, I always think of Weird Al Yankovic's "Another One Rides the Bus".
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The crackdown on the Jamaatud Dawa charity continues and 55 of its senior leaders have been detained, a private TV channel reported the Interior Ministry as saying on Thursday.
Talking to the channel, an Interior Ministry spokesman said the names of 22 of those arrested had been placed on the Exit Control List. He said the detained men were being interrogated and no clues of their link to the Mumbai terror attacks had been found so far.
The spokesman said the Indian government had not provided any credible evidence against the Jamaatud Dawa until now. He said there was no information on the whereabouts of Jaish-e-Muhammad chief Masood Azhar, the channel added.
Earlier, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Azhar, who is wanted by the Pakistani authorities, was still at large. A Pakistani intelligence official told Reuters earlier that Azhar had been detained after the terrorist attacks in Mumbai last month.
India has blamed Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LT) and other 'elements' in Pakistan for the attack. It also blames LT and Jaish-e-Mohammad for an attack on the Indian parliament in 2001.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi had sowed confusion on Wednesday when he told a TV channel Azhar was in custody, even though Pakistan's top diplomat in New Delhi was reported as saying Azhar was not being held in Pakistan. Qureshi said on Thursday he had been mistaken. "That's not right. Other people have been detained but Masood Azhar is at large. We have no knowledge of his whereabouts," Qureshi told Reuters.
The Foreign Office clarified Qureshi's statement late on Wednesday night. "The foreign minister said Masood Azhar is wanted by the law enforcement authorities of Pakistan and is at large," it said. Analysts said the apparent confusion within the Pakistani government over Azhar did not bode well for bilateral ties. "For them to say we will give full co-operation and then say we cannot locate these people, shows why India and Pakistan have not built mutual trust for the last eight years," former Indian foreign secretary Shashank told Reuters in New Delhi.
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Responding to soaring public anger about security lapses before the Mumbai attacks last month, the lower house of India's Parliament on Wednesday approved tough anti-terrorism legislation and a plan to set up a national investigative agency.
Lawmakers debated and passed two key measures, the National Investigating Agency Bill and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendments Bill, which would facilitate investigation and prosecution of terrorism suspects. The bills head to the upper house, perhaps as soon as Thursday; they are expected to pass easily.
"You have captured the mood of the nation. The nation expects Parliament to pass these laws today and restore their confidence," Home Minister P. Chidambaram told the lawmakers after several hours of debate. When he presented the legislation in the morning, he said he was appealing to the lawmakers with "folded hands" to pass the bills in a bipartisan manner.
Chidambaram later acknowledged that the legislation would be unlikely to prevent attacks. "For a jihadi terrorist, this is no deterrent," he said. "He comes here to die, he comes here to kill. These laws give a sense of confidence to the people that criminals will be punished. All these are punitive laws and not preventive laws."
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Chidambaram should probably stick to Finance matters.
No terrorist attack, even by outsiders, is without local support. These laws will allow action against that support base.
The Muslim quarters of many Indian cities, where so many have a soft soft for the Islamic state of Pakistan (and occasionally wave the Pak flag after cricket matches) may see police action soon... unless another order from Sonia Gandhi comes for them to lay off (so as to avoid offending Muslim voters)
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Four persons, including a security force official, were killed and another injured in separate incidents of suspected sectarian violence in Hangu on Thursday, police said.
Imposition: The district administration imposed Section 144 restrictions to prevent public gatherings following the incidents. It ordered closure of all educational institutions for two days, and also closed the main Kohat-Hangu Road for traffic fearing further sectarian clashes.
Earlier, the Taliban killed abducted militia Naib Subedar Hilal Ali and dumped his body in Shaho area, spreading panic among the residents of the area.
Soon after the killing, unidentified men opened fire on a sixth grade student of Government High School Shaho, Mohammad Khan, killing him on the spot.
In another incident, armed men opened indiscriminate fire on people fleeing from the area, killing two persons, including police constable Fida Hussain. Security forces were later deployed in the city to counter possible sectarian clashes.
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At least 34 Iraqi security officials inside Iraq's Interior Ministry have been arrested, possibly in connection with corruption and working to rebuild an illegal party formed by supporters of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, according to several ministry officials.
Those arrested, both Sunnis and Shiites, include high-ranking generals at the Interior Ministry, which oversees the country's police and other security services. Most of those arrested -- at least 17 -- were members of the traffic police, including the general who leads the department, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
The arrests were made by a special counterterrorism task force that reports to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the officials said.
It was unclear precisely why the officials were arrested. Some said it was because they were involved in corruption involving the issuing of fake documents and car license plates. Others described a more diabolical plot to resurrect al-Awda, or the Return, a party composed of Hussein's loyalists that has been banned by the government. "It's a political group to resist against the government," said an Interior Ministry officer.
Also unknown was whether the officials were trying to plot the overthrow of Maliki, who has been trying to cement his power in recent months, raising tensions with various political parties. At least six additional officials were being sought for arrest, the officials said.
The New York Times Web site also reported that Gen. Ahmed Abu Raqeef, the Interior Ministry's director of internal affairs, was among those arrested. When reached by telephone, Raqeef denied the allegation and said he was still in his job. He blamed disgruntled rivals inside the ministry for spreading rumors to discredit him." I fired many officers and sent some of them to face justice," Raqeef told the Washington Post. "Probably this is why they are trying to destroy my reputation."
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(AKI) - Clashes between Palestinian militants and Israeli forces escalated on Thursday. Six rockets were fired from Gaza at Israel's western Negev desert by militants from the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the al-Quds Brigades, in retaliation for overnight attacks by the Israeli Air Force.
The latest rocket attacks took place only a day before the end of an Egyptian-mediated six-month truce between Israel and the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, and the Islamist movement pledged not to renew.
However, the intense tit-for-tat exchange of fire began on Monday with the assassination of one of the al-Quds Brigades leaders, allegedly by Israeli undercover forces in the West Bank.
During the Israeli Air Force attacks late Wednesday, a 53 year-old Palestinian man was killed.
Palestinian media reports said that F-16 fighter jets fired at a car near Khan Younis on Wednesday, and another in the Jabalya refugee camp, but no injuries were reported. In addition, Israeli helicopters were reported to have fired missiles in northern Gaza on Thursday.
Renewed clashes began on Monday, after Israeli undercover forces allegedly assassinated 23 year-old Ameen Jihad Nawahda, a leader of the al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the northern West Bank village of al-Yamoon, near Jenin.
Israeli media has said more than 40 rockets have been fired at southern Israel since Tuesday.
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you declare an end to the so-called truce, expect to reap the consequences.
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Beautiful friend
The end
My only friend, the end (AKI) - The Islamist Hamas movement declared on Thursday evening an end to a ceasefire with Israel in the Gaza Strip - one day before the truce was due to expire. The announcement was made soon after heavy clashes took place in Gaza between Palestinian militants and the Israeli Army. "The calm, which was reached with Egyptian sponsorship on 19 June and expires on 19 December, is finished because the enemy did not abide by its obligations," said Hamas official Ayman Taha.
The Egyptian-mediated truce had been scheduled to end on Friday. "The truce with Israel is finished. Today is the last day of it and there is no possibility of it being renewed," said Hamas MP Mushir al-Masri, quoted by a website affiliated with Hamas.
The intense tit-for-tat exchanges of fire between Israel and Gaza militants began on Monday with the assassination of one of the leaders of the al-Quds Brigades, armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group, allegedly by Israeli undercover forces in the West Bank.
In a separate incident, Israeli daily Maariv claims that assassinating Hamas leaders is an option being explored as Israeli forces prepare for the end of the ceasefire. According to the daily, unnamed Arab leaders have given Israel a go-ahead to assassinate Hamas leaders in case the group refuses to renew the truce. The list includes deposed Prime Minister in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh, deposed Minister of the Interior Said Siyam, and deposed Minister of Foreign Affairs Mahmoud Az-Zahhar, as well as Ahmad al-Jabary the head of the al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' armed wing. The list also features Gaza MP and leader of the Popular Committee against the Siege in Gaza, Jamal Al-Khudari.
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"...no possibility of it being renewed"
Until the next one, of course. At least we won't have to endure the "threatening the fragile truce" macro, at least for a little while.
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The fact that they have declared an end to the "Cease-fire" concerns me greatly. We really don't know how close Iran is to making nuclear weapons. Anyone who thinks they won't use them is a fool.
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"Anyone who thinks they won't use them is a fool."
Especially since Imahdinnahnutjob said he would.
So of course the Lefties don't believe him.
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(AKI) - Sporadic fighting was reported in northern Sri Lanka on Wednesday, a day after troops and separatist Tamil Tigers clashed in intense battles that left at least 140 dead and many others wounded.The Sri Lankan military said heavy fighting in the northern part of the island, a stronghold of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam reportedly left 120 rebels and 25 soldiers dead.
Fierce conflict was reported on Tuesday in the region of the so-called rebel capital of Kilinochchi and government forces claimed attacks against rebel positions gave it control over a stretch of a land between Paranthan and Kilinochchi.
The Defence Ministry said that security forces carried out simultaneous attacks against Tamil Tiger around Kilinochchi and on the Jaffna peninsula using ground troops and helicopter gunships.
In a rare statement regarding casualties, the ministry said that 25 troops were killed, while another 10 were missing and 160 others were wounded. It estimated 120 Tigers were killed and 250 wounded.
The Tiger Web site, TamilNet, however, claimed that 130 soldiers from the Sri Lanka Army were killed on Tuesday and another 300 were wounded in battles that raged on several fronts near Kilinochchi.
The website also published photos of dead soldiers that they claimed were child recruits to counter government claims that the Tamil Tigers had been forcing children to join the rebels.
The claims of either side could not be verified independently as the media is not allowed into the conflict areas.
The LTTE has been fighting for a separate state for ethnic minority Tamils from the majority Sinhalese community since 1983. In January the Sri Lankan government pulled out of a 2002 Norwegian-brokered truce.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) Sri Lankan forces captured critical Tamil Tiger fortifications protecting the rebels' de facto capital amid days of heavy clashes in the north, the government said Thursday.
The seizure of the northwestern section of a 17-kilometer-long earth berm and ditch barrier around Kilinochchi could help clear the way for a final assault on the town and force the rebels to seek refuge in the rapidly shrinking area under their control in the northeast. Other sections of the lengthy fortification remain in rebel hands.
The military has claimed for weeks that Kilinochchi's fall was "imminent," yet heavy rains and fierce resistance from the rebels has kept government forces from taking the town.
A coordinated offensive against the town Tuesday sparked hours of fierce fighting, with the rebels claiming to have killed 170 soldiers, while the government said 120 rebels and 25 soldiers were killed. Both sides routinely exaggerate enemy casualties and underreport their own.
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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.
The owners of the Biscaglia, a Liberian-flagged chemical tanker, paid thousands of dollars for three guards to protect it from Somali pirates. 
(AKI) - Turkish police have detained 30 people suspected of belonging to the Al-Qaeda network, the Anatolian Agency reported. In raids conducted on Wednesday, anti-terrorist police detained 15 suspects in Istanbul and 15 more in two other regions of the country, the report said.
The Indian military says it has killed a senior military commander of banned Pakistani group 
At least 34 Iraqi security officials inside Iraq's Interior Ministry have been arrested, possibly in connection with corruption and working to rebuild an illegal party formed by supporters of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, according to several ministry officials.
(AKI) - Clashes between Palestinian militants and Israeli forces escalated on Thursday. Six rockets were fired from Gaza at Israel's western Negev desert by militants from the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the al-Quds Brigades, in retaliation for overnight attacks by the Israeli Air Force.
(AKI) - The Islamist Hamas movement declared on Thursday evening an end to a ceasefire with Israel in the Gaza Strip - one day before the truce was due to expire. The announcement was made soon after heavy clashes took place in Gaza between Palestinian militants and the Israeli Army. "The calm, which was reached with Egyptian sponsorship on 19 June and expires on 19 December, is finished because the enemy did not abide by its obligations," said Hamas official Ayman Taha.
