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I'm working on a filter that will do away with our daily vowel movements. I'm going to display probability of spam in comments for a little while to make sure I've got it calibrated right.
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That seems to have been easy enough. I've taken the report on spam probability off the comments. Vowel movements should now self-destruct without bothering us, barring typos.
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Care to share your code with us? I always find Charles' programming tutorials on LGF very enlightening... it would be great to get some tips from you too.
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So, Anita Page is the one that instigated the "pig as pet" scenario. Can't blame her. My pig, Emily, was an extremely affectionate pet, and a wonderful friend. Also, at 700 pounds and seven feet long, a tremendous deterrent to those that might have dreamed of entering our property without permission. A dog has to bite to get your attention. A 700 pound pig just hits you once, and you know you're not where you should be.
Thanks, Anita!
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A friend has a small herd of mule footed pigs, and keeps them loose around the yard. Some of these get quite large, though 700 pounds might be pushing it. Smart beggars, and not below intimidating the unwary. Great watch dogs pigs.
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[On this spot at 16:50, dudgeEdgeda had a vowel movement. Rantburg software has
cleaned and disinfected the site of the accident. Have a nice day.]
Compare $nBadChars to $nChars however you wish. The regex in preg_replace just replaces all the ASCII letters and numbers of $x with nothing, thus deleting them, and storing the result in $nonAlphaNumeric.
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[On this spot at 22:09, Shittique had a vowel movement. Rantburg software has cleaned and disinfected the site of the accident. Have a nice day.]
KABUL, Dec 22 (KUNA) -- Three civilians were killed in a botched up suicide attack in Afghanistan's central province of Ghazni on Monday, officials said.
The suspected suicide bomber was sitting in mini-coach when the explosives fastened to his body went off prematurely.
Three civilians were killed and another four sustained injuries as a result while several nearby buildings were damaged, said police chief of Ghazni province Mohammad Zaman. He said the dead included driver of the mini-coach and two pedestrians. The bomber failed to reach his target, which might be a governmental building, some official or the foreign troops, informed the police chief.
Spokesman for Ghazni governor Ismail Jehangir told journalists that the blast took place in front of the building of the information and culture department in the morning.
Meanwhile the Afghan Defence Ministry claimed the Afghan and US troops had killed 20 militants during the past one month. The ministry's officials said the militants were killed in area between the Pakistani tribal region of Bajaur and the Afghan province of Kunar. The ministry officials said the militant casualties were apart from those being killed by the Pakistani security forces in their anti-Taliban operation in Bajaur.
Three people detained in and around Paris on suspicion of links to Islamic extremist groups that send fighters to Iraq were charged on Saturday, a judicial source said. The three, who were charged with "association with criminals with terrorist aims", were among seven people arrested on Tuesday. The other four have been released. French intelligence officers and anti-terrorist police first arrested a young Frenchman who had converted to Islam and then hauled in six people he associated with.
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Hundreds of youts youths who have rioted against police in the southern Swedish town of Malmoe for two straight nights this week gathered again late Friday but no serious clashes took place.
After cars and garbage bins were set ablaze and stones were thrown against police in violent clashes on Wednesday and Thursday in the heavily immigrant populated neighborhood of Rosengaard, youts youths assembled relatively quietly on Friday. They were watched by a large police deployment that had switched to a new tactic of engaging them in dialogue in a bid to prevent a third night of riots.
The troubles began as a quiet protest linked to the recent closure of an Islamic cultural centre in Rosengaard that housed a mosque, but have spread to become a general expression of discontent among disadvantaged youts youths.
The police "think they can appease us by joking with us, but they hassle us all the time, they arrest us for nothing and then they're surprised that we fight back," Ahmed Baccar, a 20-year-old unemployed Palestinian with a shaved head, told AFP.
"And they hit 11- and 12-year-old kids, set their dogs on us like they did yesterday, and then you want us to like them," said his friend Rached El Ali, an 18-year-old Palestinian.
Police reinforcements had been called in from Stockholm and Gothenburg.
While the evening was primarily calm, demonstrators did set off firecrackers and five cars and several large garbage bins were set on fire, police said. Five people were arrested.
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Ahmed Baccar, a 20-year-old unemployed Palestinian with a shaved head...Rached El Ali, an 18-year-old Palestinian.
Who knew the Jews had stolen Malmoe, the historical land of Palestinians too? /sarcasm off
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If these 'youths' are going to whine and cry anyway, perhaps the police should, as my Daddy used to say, "give them something to cry about."
If the 'youths' are going to throw projectiles at the police, the police should throw projectiles back at them, but faster - much faster.
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It occurs to me that there is a golden export opportunity here for American farmers. Most hog production these days occurs in massive confinement sheds where golden corn and other ingredients is processed by the piggies and washed down into holding tanks for disposal. This liquid pigshit would be a magic elixir for Malmo cops to load into their "water" cannons for dispersal over and around said "youts". Would end the wasting of so much hot air into the rather chill air.
CAMDEN, N.J. Five Muslim immigrants were convicted Monday of plotting to massacre U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix in a case the government said demonstrated its post-Sept. 11 determination to stop terrorist attacks in the planning stages. The defendants were acquitted of attempted murder charges but face life in prison for conspiring to kill military personnel. The federal jury spent about 38 hours deliberating over the past six days.
The men lived in and around Philadelphia for years. The government said after their 2007 arrest that an attack had been imminent and that the case underscored the dangers of terrorist plots hatched on U.S. soil. Although investigators said the men were inspired by Osama bin Laden, they were not accused of any ties to foreign terror groups.
Defense lawyers argued that the alleged plot was all talk that the men weren't seriously planning anything and that they were goaded by two paid FBI informants.
During the eight-week trial, the government relied heavily on information gathered by the informants, who infiltrated the group and secretly recorded hundreds of conversations.
Prosecutors said the men bought several assault rifles supplied by the FBI and that they trekked to Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains to practice their shooting. The government also presented dozens of jihadist speeches and videos that the men supposedly used as inspiration.
Convicted were: Jordanian-born cab driver Mohamad Shnewer; Turkish-born convenience store clerk Serdar Tatar; and brothers Dritan, Eljvir and Shain Duka, ethnic Albanians from the former Yugoslavia, who had a roofing business. A sixth man arrested and charged only with gun offenses pleaded guilty earlier.
Prosecutors in the Fort Dix case said the group chose the Army post because one of the defendants was familiar with it. His father's pizza shop delivered to the New Jersey base, which is 25 miles from Philadelphia and is used primarily to train reservists for duty in Iraq. The group's objective was to kill "as many American soldiers as possible," according to prosecutors.
"I think they were in the last stage of planning," then-U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie said at the time of their arrest. "They had training, they had maps, and I think they were very close to moving on this." He added: "This is what law enforcement is supposed to do in the post-9/11 era stay one step ahead of those who are attempting to cause harm to innocent American citizens."
The investigation began after a clerk at a Circuit City store told the FBI that some customers had asked him to transfer onto DVD some video footage of them firing assault weapons and screaming about jihad.
The FBI asked two informants both foreign-born men who entered the U.S. illegally and had criminal records to befriend the suspects. Both informants were paid and were offered help obtaining legal resident status. During the trial, federal prosecutor William Fitzpatrick defended the government's handling of the case. "The FBI investigates crime on the front end. They don't want to have to do it on the back end," he told the jury.
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Looks like the jury didn't buy their line that they were just funning around. I don't either.
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Maybe the feds can send them to the prison where the clowns who were caught in South Carolina with bombs in their car were sent after their recent conviction.
Think of all the fun times they could all have reminiscing about the good old days before the idiots got caught and jugged.
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India says the sole surviving gunman from last month's Mumbai (Bombay) attacks has sought help from Pakistan. Mohammed Ajmal Amir Qasab, who is in Indian custody, admitted in the letter that he and the other attackers were from Pakistan, Indian officials said.
The request came in a letter handed to Pakistani diplomats in Delhi. Pakistani officials say they are studying the contents of the letter. Islamabad has so far refused to acknowledge the gunmen were Pakistani.
Relations between the two countries have been severely strained since the attacks, in which more than 170 people were killed. Earlier, India's Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said the international community had not done enough to exert pressure on Pakistan, which denies any involvement in the attacks.
On Monday fighter jets flew low over three major cities in Pakistan amid the heightened tension.
This article starring:
Mohammed Ajmal Amir Qasab
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fighter jets flew low over three major cities in Pakistan
There are reports from India's Gujarat state of people being woken from sleep by earth tremors.
It seems the Indian air force is practicing massive bombing at one of their ranges there.
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Gujarat borders Pakistan, so I assume that some Pakistanis are being woken from sleep too. Punctuates the flyover message nicely.
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"I think we'rethey're headed to war."
Fixed.
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Anyone care to venture a guess at the odds that Pakistan can give just enough concessions to avoid massive destruction from India?
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OK, so I'm a contrarian, but does anyone else think it's slightly odd that one of the bunch surrendered so easily and is so anxious to blame Pak? I'm getting just a hint of "let's you and him fight."
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That was the whole point of last week's "taliban" attacks on the trucks supplying US-NATO.
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Yeah, the whole purpose of the Mumbai terroist attack was to incite war between India and Pakistan, and thus close the NATO supply line through the Khyber Pass.
JABALPUR: Scores of activists of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) rampaged a Nokia showroom for showing Kashmir as part of Pakistan's territory in its mobile navigation system. They barged into a Nokia showroom and snatched mobile phones and burnt them.
I guess they weren't interested in the family plan ...
Besides, they also set hoardings on fire outside the showroom. Dozens of policemen were present when the attack took place.
Should have seen the scene when he started selling iPhones ...
A BJP leader and a deputy in the state assembly demanded legal action against Nokia. "Nokia has introduced a software. When we heard about it, then the members of the BJYM protested in front of the Nokia showroom. This is a case of anti-nationalism. We demanded that the Nokia and other people involved in the conspiracy be booked for spreading anti-national activities. We will intensify the protest if this case has not been registered," said Sharad Jain, the BJP legislator.
Nokia's mobile mapping and navigation service, Nokia Maps, allows people to pre-plan their journey at home on their PC and synchronise with their mobile, giving access to pre-planned routes and favourite destinations while on the move. It also includes high-resolution aerial images and 3D landmarks for 216 cities and terrain maps.
"This software is developed by Nokia. This is the problem of Nokia and we are not concerned with it as we are merely shop owners, not the client of the company. But, the manner in which the mob entered and started torching the shop is bad," said Rafiq Khan, the Nokia showroom owner.
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Buying and then torching is ok. Just torching, no go.
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Why blame the vendor? However, I condone Indian nationalist protest of Nokia's stupidity.
A suspected US drone aircraft is reported to have killed at least seven people in two missile strikes in southern Pakistan, near the border of Afghanistan. US-operated pilotless drones have launched more than 20 missile attacks in tribal areas since August despite fierce objections in Pakistan.
According to local sources, a US drone destroyed a house and a car and three people were killed in one attack in South Waziristan. Another missile fired in the Azam Warsak area near Wana killed four people. It was not clear whether the missile attacks had targeted any senior Al-Qaeda or Taliban members.
US forces in Afghanistan, frustrated by a spreading Taliban insurgency drawing support from northwest Pakistan, have recently increased the number of strikes by pilotless drones. The drone attacks are believed to have been largely on target, hitting Taliban and Al-Qaeda hideouts in the volatile tribal region.
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attacks are believed to have been largely on target
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Drones have proven themselves to be extremely useful. When are we going to see other applications? Such as against Somali pirates? Or drug gangs. Mexico could use a little help getting some really bad guys.
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A suspected US drone aircraft is reported to have killed at least seven people in two missile strikes in southern Pakistan, near the border of Afghanistan.
A suspected US drone aircraft is reported to have killed at least seven innocent doe-eyed toddlers in an Al Qaeda day-care center, sixteen adorable kittens and an undetermined number of fluffy bunnies in two missile strikes in southern Pakistan, near the border of Afghanistan.
There. Fixed it.
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An attack by unidentified men destroyed an oil tanker in Bahadar Khel area of Khyber Agency late on Saturday, local sources said. No casualties were reported. The tanker was carrying 24,000 litres of fuel to a private company in Afghanistan. The sources said the tanker was attacked with a rocket and machine guns. Meanwhile, security forces fired at three suspected Taliban vehicles in Shagai area of Jamrud, official sources said. However, no casualties were reported.
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The Taliban in Mir Ali tehsil of North Waziristan Agency killed two Afghan refugees on Sunday, accusing them of spying for the United States. Officials said the bullet-ridden bodies of two brothers Hasan Muhammad and Akhtar Muhammad, both in their late forties, were found on Sunday morning near Shirah Talla area on Mir Ali-Tall Road. Hasan and Akhtar hailed from Khost in Afghanistan. A letter foun with the bodies said that the men were killed for spying for the US and anyone doing so would meet the same end.
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It would be hard to blend spies into Wazoo. Everybody thinks the same way there. Pluralism doesn't exist in that pig-pen.
An Iranian diplomat kidnapped last month in Peshawar is alive, Tehran's ambassador to Islamabad was quoted by a newspaper as saying on Sunday.
Gunmen kidnapped Hashmatullah Atharzadeh on his way to the consulate in Peshawar on November 13 and killed his local guard, AFP reported. "The embassy's efforts to locate him have been somewhat satisfactory and we have learned with Pakistani security officials' help that he is alive," Mashallah Shakeri said. "We hope he will return to his family soon," the Iranian ambassador added.
Earlier, diplomatic sources said the Iranian government and diplomats were concerned over the fate of the kidnapped envoy. They said Atharzadeh's whereabouts were still unknown.
"The Iranian embassy gets calls almost everyday from the relatives of Atharzadeh and the government in Tehran about the progress made in tracing him," the sources said. They said the Iranian government was concerned about the motive of kidnappers.
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On the orders of Interior Adviser Rehman Malik on Sunday, 10 police officials were arrested over the theft of a large cache of weapons from the Aabpara police station store.
Sources said Malik took a serious note of the weapons theft from the police station, which were seized by security forces during 'Operation Silence' at Lal Masjid in July last year and stocked in the Aabpara police station's heavily-guarded store. A private TV channel said the weapons had been stolen under 'mysterious' circumstances. It said all accused were suspended and later arrested.
The interior adviser also ordered the registration of a case against the Aabpara station house officer and 14 other officials on charges of criminal breach of trust, according to the channel. Those who were arrested include Aabpara Police Station Inspector Naeem Iqbal, four ASIs, one head constable and four constables, the police sources said.
The spokesman for the Interior Ministry said Aabpara ASP Dr Shehzad Asim, SSP Captain Ahmed Latif and the Aabpara superintendent of police had also been suspended. Headquarters SP Mir Waiz has been assigned as acting Islamabad SSP, the sources said.
They said over 100 assault rifles and other sophisticated weapons were found missing from the police station's store.
Malik had also ordered the termination of service of 11 policemen, including Inspector Naeem Iqbal, the sources said.
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Local Taliban announced to impose sharia and to ban cutting forest trees in several areas of Upper Orakzai Agency on Sunday, local sources said.
The sources said the announcements were made in sermons from mosques in Khangarpur, Ghundako, Kundi Mushti and Qaum Aakhel areas of Orakzai Agency, adding the local Taliban had also banned the cutting of forest trees in the agency.
The announcements directed the residents of the tribal region to contact local Taliban centres in Ghalju and Kundi Mushti to seek solutions to their disputes, adding all disputes would be decided in accordance with sharia.
The political authorities of Orakzai Agency could not be contacted for comments despite repeated attempts.
The sources said sharia had also been imposed in Ghalju, Ghundki, Nawakali Khangarpura, Amir Zai Kalay, Sultan Masay, Moorcha Ghari and Sahibzadagano Kalay areas. During the past year, the drive for sharia law implementation surged in Federally Administered Tribal Area and several settled areas of NWFP. While there have been several reports of Taliban setting up sharia or Qazi courts in Swat and Mohmand, Bajaur and Orakzai agencies, the NWFP government was also compelled by the locals in Malakand to pass a bill to establish such courts there in October.
The sources say tribesmen are turning to such forums because they are frustrated with the colonial system of Frontier Crimes Regulations, under which cases are still pending after decades of deliberations.
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Why not? Karzai told a German magazine that he "admired" Taliban "morality." Time for some scorched earth.
Pakistani fighter jets have pounded militant positions killing three as the army continued its offensive in the troubled Bajaur agency.
The air strike took place in the Mamoond district of the northwestern tribal agency on Sunday in the latest development since the launch of major military operations in the region in August.
Several dens and hideout were also destroyed as heavily armed security forces backed by gunships attacked militant positions, a Press TV correspondent reported.
The army has said more than 1,500 insurgents have been killed in the volatile region that is widely viewed as a militant safe haven after Taliban and al-Qaeda militants streamed across the border into Pakistan's tribal belt following the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan that toppled Taliban's regime.
The Pakistani army has praised the operations as proof that it is capable of handling the insurgency in Pakistan's tribal areas and has slammed the United States for repeatedly 'violating' its sovereignty in cross-border attacks from war-torn Afghanistan with under the pretext that it is also targeting militants.
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"The Pakistani army has praised the operations as proof that it is capable of handling the insurgency"
Three killed by Pakistani fighter jet "pounding". Seven killed by drone. It looks like we're more capable today.
BARMER: In a shocking breach of security, the existence of a cross-border tunnel underneath the fencing along the international border (IB) in Rajasthan has come to light through which drugs and fake currency were smuggled into Indian territory.
The sensational revelation was made by two alleged smugglers, Iliyas and Eklu, to BSF officers on Sunday. Sources said that a team of officers took the two to Aman Ka Par border outpost (BOP) along the IB in Barmer and asked them to locate the tunnel.
The two failed to do so as it was after sundown that they reached there, but confessed to meeting their Pakistani contacts and accepting consignments from them. Official sources said that a Pakistani national, Salem, came to the IB on the Pakistani side as recently as December 2 and delivered heroin to Iliyas and Eklu using the tunnel. He managed to return without being caught.
According to IG Jodhpur range, Rajeev Dasot, smugglers from both the sides prepared the plan jointly and transferred the consignments. It isn't clear how long the tunnel has been in operation. Dasot said the cops got wind of the breach during the interrogation of the recently-arrested Tanzanian drug-peddlers, Adam Godwin, Adam Mohammad and Umar Yousuf. He also said that the mastermind, Jamal Khan, a resident of Jaisalmer, along with Iliyas and Eklu, delivered the consignment to the Tanzanians in Jodhpur.
Dasot said Salem left his village, Bala, on the intervening night of December 1 and 2 with a 20-kg bag of heroin. Bala is around three km from the IB on the Pakistani side. He then entered Indian territory through the tunnel and, after staying near Aman Ka Par border outpost on Indian side for over an hour, slipped back into Pakistan after delivering the heroin to Iliyas and Eklu.
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Mumbai: Officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have grilled for over nine hours Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving Lashkar-e-Taiba militant involved in the November 26 terror attacks.
Sleuths of the U.S. agency tried to ascertain Ajmals role and handlers in Pakistan.
The FBI officials have been camping here for over three weeks.
They asked the arrested Lashkar terrorist minute details of his native place. Ajmal hails from the Ukkad area of Faridkot district in Pakistan. He was also asked to describe the area where his training took place, besides the people who had trained him in arms as well as those who indoctrinated him, the sources said.
The sleuths then prepared some sketches of Ajmals mentors and trainers , the sources said.
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Ya right! With a DOJ a$$ standing over him making sure the poor terrorist' feeling are not hurt.
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49Pan - I don't think so, not in India. The Indians have a very realistic view of terrorism and anti-terror operations. I'm sure Kasab is wishing he'd never been born.
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"I'm sure Kasab is wishing he'd never been born."
He's not the only one wishing that, OP.
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He is in the custody of the Mumbai ATS, who have lost their chief in the attack and are out for revenge.
The ATS have been accused in open court of torturing Lt. Col Purohit, who is still in their custody. If they can do that to a serving Indian army officer, Kasab is dog meat.
Kasab has a date with Scotland Yard then with Interpol.
Then he gets his date in court... waging war against India brings a death sentence, so the gallows awaits...
The British left a fine infrastructure for hanging, including boiled hemp ropes from Bihar state.
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John, wasn't it the British that introduced hanging to India? As in some British officer who, when told that suttee (pushing widows into the funeral pyre) was the Indian "custom", said something to the effect that the British also had a custom - of hanging people who killed innocent women. So the Indians could build their funeral pyres, and the officer would have his soldiers build gallows right next to them.
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Originally the British regulated sati. It could only be undertaken with their permission. This was the procedure adopted previously by the Delhi sultans and the Mughal emperors.
Both the Emperors Humayun and Akbar had banned sati.
The British, under Lord Bentinck banned it in 1829 after a rise in the numbers in Bengal - to about 60 a year.
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IIRC, re:Abu Grabme, the perps intentionally made sure that adult supervision was not present on station when they had their frat hazing. Adult supervision got in serious dodo because they weren't engaged in proper or adequate supervision to preclude such antics.
However, the article just reiterates the point that way too many people will 'pull the lever' which made the work of the national/international socialists the 20th Century bodycount what it was [100M+]. The protection against this is not to allow power and authority to centrally accumulate to levels that it threats everyone rather than the few.
Aswat al-Iraq: Policemen seized a cache of munitions and highly explosive material in an orchard in al-Numaniya district, 40 km north of the city of Kut on Sunday, a security source in Wassit province said. "The cache, which contained 30 cannon shells, five explosive charges and amounts of TNT, was seized based on intelligence tip-offs and local residents' assistance," the source told Aswat al-Iraq.
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Anyone else notice how rare the finding of weapon caches seems to be now. Supply must be getting tight. That is a very good thing and just one more sign that this war is effectively over.
Aswat al-Iraq: A joint Iraqi-U.S. force arrested four suspected members of the Special Groups during a security operation conducted south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the Multi-National Force (MNF) said in a statement on Sunday "A joint patrol of coalition and Iraqi police forces detained four suspected members of the Special Groups in the neighborhood of Abu Dshir, south of Baghdad, on Saturday on charges of involvement in murders and improvised explosive device attacks," read the statement as received by Aswat al-Iraq.
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Thai security forces killed an alleged separatist terrorist militant in a search operation in the country's restive south, while a Muslim man was shot dead in a drive-by attack, police said on Monday.
More than 300 soldiers, policemen and civil authorities clashed with a group of insurgents during the operation in troubled Yala province on Sunday, police said. A 25-year-old man was found dead at the scene and police said he was suspected of involvement in two bomb attacks in the region that wounded 11 people on Saturday. Four other people were arrested following the clash, they said.
In nearby Pattani province gunmen on motorcycles on Sunday shot dead a 50-year-old Muslim man as he was on his way home, police said.
Police inspected a checkpoint in Bacho district of the southern province of Naratiwat after suspected terrorists insurgents using automatic weapons attacked a checkpoint and engaged in a sustained gunfight before the presumed terrorists insurgents left the scene.
Police said the gun battle lasted for about 20 miniutes, with police manning the checkpoint calling for reinforcements from Bacho police and a nearby marine unit. Gunfire spraying from the attackers targeted hit the police post, but no casualties were reported. Meanwhile, police found many spent shell casings from M-16 and AK47 weapons in front of a automobile sparepart shop, opposite the checkpoint.
Authorities believed the assailants may have been led by Wahey Kading, a leader of the Runda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK) which has been responsible for other incidents in Bacho district in the past.
Sri Lanka launched airstrikes against the Tamil Tigers as government troops made a fresh bid to penetrate defences around the rebels' political capital, the military said on Sunday.
Planes carried out seven bombing sorties on Saturday in support of soldiers trying to capture Kilinochchi, the political headquarters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the defence ministry said. "Air force fighter jets made seven successive air strikes targeting LTTE defences and strategic locations in Wanni (of which Kilinochchi is the capital)," the ministry said.
The strikes came as the navy on Saturday destroyed a Tamil Tiger vessel carrying arms and other supplies off the island's northeastern coast, the ministry said. It said four more rebel craft in the area supporting the weapons-carrying ship were also attacked by navy patrol craft, but there were no details of casualties.
The Sri Lankan navy earlier said it had sunk virtually the entire fleet of arms-carrying ships of the Tiger guerrillas.
LTTE rebels said on Sunday they had mounted counter-attacks against government troops and killed at least 60 soldiers besieging their political headquarters. The LTTE said they had re-taken positions from government forces who have been closing in on Kilinochchi.
The pro-rebel Tamilnet website quoted Tiger officials as saying that they had killed 60 soldiers and wounded another 150 in Saturday's fighting. The rebels also claimed they had captured the bodies of 12 soldiers. The Tigers did not give details of their own casualties, but the defence ministry said the guerrillas suffered "heavy damages" when troops hit back.
The defence ministry rejected rebel claims of high military losses and placed security force casualties at 13 soldiers killed and 40 wounded.
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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.
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A suspected US drone aircraft is reported to have killed at least seven people in two missile strikes in southern Pakistan, near the border of Afghanistan. US-operated pilotless drones have launched more than 20 missile attacks in tribal areas since August despite fierce objections in Pakistan.
On the orders of Interior Adviser Rehman Malik on Sunday, 10 police officials were arrested over the theft of a large cache of weapons from the Aabpara police station store.
BARMER: In a shocking breach of security, the existence of a cross-border tunnel underneath the fencing along the international border (IB) in Rajasthan has come to light through which drugs and fake currency were smuggled into Indian territory.
Aswat al-Iraq: Policemen seized a cache of munitions and highly explosive material in an orchard in al-Numaniya district, 40 km north of the city of Kut on Sunday, a security source in Wassit province said. "The cache, which contained 30 cannon shells, five explosive charges and amounts of TNT, was seized based on intelligence tip-offs and local residents' assistance," the source told Aswat al-Iraq.
Sri Lanka launched airstrikes against the Tamil Tigers as government troops made a fresh bid to penetrate defences around the rebels' political capital, the military said on Sunday.
