I guess the gauntlet has been dropped. When will you be able to stump GBUSMC? Surely, there has to be someone in a bathing suit, lingerie or a feather boa that he cannot access.
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I think GB is Fred's alter ego. They are working this together in an effort to entertain us and fill our hard drives with great pin ups..
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The French navy has arrested nine suspected Somali pirates, foiling their attempt to hijack a cargo ship.
According to French military sources, the French Frigate Le Floreal, which was patrolling the waters off the coast of Somalia, dispatched a navy military helicopter on Tuesday after receiving a distress call from the cargo vessel African Ruby, which came under attack from armed men on board two speeding boats, AFP reported.
The navy helicopter pursued the pirate boats in international waters off the coast of the northern Somali region of Puntland.
However, French sources provided no information on the real owners of the African Ruby and where the arrested pirates may end up, a Press TV correspondent reported.
French warships are stationed in the Gulf of Aden as part of a multinational naval force set up to tackle the piracy menace on the transit route that connects to the Suez Canal.
The drastic decrease in pirate attacks over the past few weeks has been attributed to the presence of the international warships and self-protection measures taken by merchant ships en route to the Gulf of Aden.
Many shipping companies have been compelled to redirect their vessels after numerous ship seizures by pirates, who demand millions of dollars to release them.
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The drastic decrease in pirate attacks over the past few weeks has been attributed to the presence of the international warships and self-protection measures taken by merchant ships en route to the Gulf of Aden
..or the pirates are trying to figure out what species of money they want ransoms paid off in cause they don't want next month's version of Zim dollars or they're too busy having their lucrative money men putting together their TARP bailout papers.
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Rope, yardarm, neck. I'm sure there are French sailors who can do the work, or at least improvise. Then cruise slowly by the pirate's home port with the trophies proudly displayed for all those on shore to see. It'll take a few times, but eventually they'll get the message.
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(AKI) - Yemeni police have detained three men suspected of being involved in a shooting near the US embassy in the capital, Sanaa, on Monday.
The shooting is reported to have occurred at a checkpoint outside the embassy in Yemen, but several officials gave the media different accounts of the incident.
One security official said gunmen in the car had opened fire at the checkpoint, hours after the mission had received a threat. No injuries were reported.
Hours earlier, the US embassy said it had received several threats by e-mail and fax about a potential attack in the foreseeable future.
US officials have urged Americans to exercise caution in the Arab country that has previously witnessed attacks by militants on western interests.
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Yemen is coming up with Somalia as Countries to keep an eye on!
Iran,North Korea and Pakistan must be Obamas priority this term!
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Yeah, but from what I've read here before at Rantburg there are still people who flee to Yemen to escape Somalia. So my guess is Somalia still has Yemen beat.
(AKI/DAWN) - Militants in the volatile Pakistani area of Swat blew up a school and at least seven people were killed and several others injured as violence continued on Monday.
Pakistani authorities issued shoot at sight orders on Sunday for curfew violations in several areas of Swat, after banned militant group Tehrik-i-Taliban had issued a list of 40 people they wanted to appear in their 'court'.
In the list there were several Pakistani ministers and members of the national and provincial assemblies among others.
Two people were killed in Manglawar when a shell hit their houses. Ten people, among them children and a woman, were injured when a shell hit their house in the area of Charbagh in the North West Frontier Province.
Another civilian was shot dead for violating curfew in Charbagh.
Local people reported having seen four bullet-ridden bodies in fields in Nengolai area of Kabal, but could not remove them because of the curfew.
Most of the people named in the list said they would never appear before any illegal 'court' and were not scared of the threat. "We are ready to render any sacrifice and do anything required to protect the life and property of our people," an unnamed leader quoted by Pakistani daily Dawn said.
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Suspected US drones flew over various areas of North Waziristan Agency on Tuesday, a private TV channel reported. According to the channel, the pilotless aircraft made three to four flights over various parts of the agency, spreading panic among the tribesmen who are already concerned over the growing missile strikes in the Tribal Areas. Islamabad's hopes of the Obama administration stopping the drone strikes were dashed when two missile attacks in Waziristan killed 18 people on Friday in the first strike after the new US president's inauguration.
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The authorities have imposed an indefinite curfew in the main city of Swat, said a statement by the army's media centre in the valley on Tuesday -- hours after the security forces launched the third phase of a military operation in the valley.
Military sources said the third phase of Operation Rah-e-Haq had been launched in light of a list released by the Taliban which contains names of officials 'wanted' by the group.
After the operation began -- five civilians were killed by artillery and mortar fire. Locals said a man, a woman and three children were killed when mortar shells hit four houses in Mangalawar area of Charbagh tehsil on Monday night as security forces targeted Taliban positions.
After the start of the intensified operation late on Monday -- official sources and locals told Daily Times on Tuesday that the government had already imposed curfews in Nengolai, Bara, Koza Banadai, Shakar Dara and Charbagh towns for an indefinite period, and issued shoot-at-sight orders for violators.
The curfew in Mingora was imposed after about 100-150 Taliban stormed the streets of the town displaying arms. No violence was reported, but a private TV channel said the Taliban had taken over bus stands in Mingora. The report, however, could not be confirmed.
In Matta tehsil, a convoy of security forces was targeted in a remote-controlled bomb attack, but there were no casualties, according to the Online news agency.
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Twelve Taliban were killed in an operation in Darra Adam Khel on Monday, a press release by the military said on Tuesday. The operation was planned after the military was told that the Tor Chappar Valley, "is again witnessing terrorist activity", the statement said. It said, "The operation was planned and executed for one day."
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Gunmen killed a Shia Muslim in Dera Ismail Khan on Tuesday, police said, in at least the second sectarian-linked attack to blight the country in 48 hours. "Unidentified gunmen shot dead Athar Hussain Shah on the Dayal road while he was returning to town from his nearby farm and then escaped," local police official Tauqir Abbas said. Abbas said the victim was the son of a caretaker at a local Shia mosque. "It seems to be a sectarian killing," the official said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
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MUMBAI: Police and security agencies here have got a specific alert from the police of a North Indian state about RDX having been smuggled into the country as part of a cement consignment from Pakistan and the target being an oil refinery.
Officials said the high alert sounded at vital installations like railway stations and hotels in Mumbai last December was not a reaction to the 26/11 carnage but had its basis in this specific intelligence input.
Officials also told TOI that more RDX could be coming in as part of cement or other consignments. But the alert did not name any refinery that was supposed to be the target.
That explained the reaction by Delhi Police and Mumbai Police during the days following the terror attacks on Mumbai. The two closest refineries to Delhi are at Panipat and Mathura. But most of the major refineries are near the coast, including those at Vishakhapatnam, Paradip and Jamnagar.
The alert also mentioned railways as a possible soft target''.
Several ports, especially those in Vishakhapatnam and Ennore (Tamil Nadu), were also on a high alert on Tuesday. Shipping officials met home ministry and IB officials, agencies reported.
ATS joint commissioner of police Rakesh Maria was not available for comment and state intelligence chief D Shivanandan said he was not privy to the information.
Security was stepped up at all railway stations in National Capital Region following the threat. The police deployed extra Quick Reaction Teams at New Delhi railway station and other stations. "After 26/11, every input is taken seriously,'' said Delhi Police's DCP (crime and railways), Neeraj Thakur.
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Several previously intercepted arms/missile shipments have been concealed in cement. Time to track the cement?
Gunmen attacked and set fire to a voting station in an Iraqi province that was once the heartland of Sunni Islamist resistance to the US invasion, police said four days before milestone local polls.
The voting station set up in a school in a remote area 10 km south of the city of Falluja in the western province of Anbar was unoccupied and nobody was hurt in the attack on Tuesday, said police major Ahmad Al Falluji.
"Our forces, after receiving information, headed to the site and put out the fire. There was no one inside," Falluji said. "We don't know who is behind it. We expect this was a group that is trying to disturb the peace of the electoral process."
Iraq holds provincial elections on Saturday that will test recent security gains and see whether the country is able to resolve disputes at the ballot box rather than through violence.
The sectarian slaughter and insurgency unleashed by the 2003 US-led invasion have finally begun to fade and Iraqi troops and police are taking on primary responsibility for ensuring the safety of voters while US forces remain in their barracks. The vote will select provincial councils that pick powerful governors in 14 of Iraq's 18 provinces, and may also give some insight into the political strength of Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki ahead of parliamentary elections later in the year.
Anbar, a vast desert region bordering Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, was once the main battleground for Al Qaida and other Sunni Islamist groups fighting US soldiers.
But the province's tribal chiefs turned on Al Qaida because of its harsh measures, and joined up with the US military. Anbar has been quite peaceful of late though analysts warn that tensions have been rising before the vote.
The province's mainly Sunni Arab population boycotted the last vote in 2005 and its local council was appointed.
Some of the tribal chiefs whose US-paid fighters took on Al Qaida have entered the race, and hope to defeat the incumbent councillors, many of whom belong to or are allied with the main Sunni Arab parliamentary bloc, the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP).
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Officials say a car bomb has exploded near a Kurdish party's office in the northern city of Mosul, killing at least three Iraqi soldiers only days before pivotal elections.
Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack, which occurred amid rising tensions as the Kurds and mainly Sunni Arabs have been jockeying for power in Saturday's provincial elections.
The blast occurred near the offices of the Kurdish Democratic Party, or KDP, which is headed by Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani.
An army officer said Iraqi security forces became suspicious of the vehicle, which blew up as a team approached to inspect it.
The officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorised to release the information, said two soldiers and a civilian also were wounded.
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Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi army troops on Tuesday captured four gunmen from the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq in eastern Mosul, a military source said. "A force from the 3rd brigade of the Iraqi army on Tuesday (Jan. 27) arrested four al-Qaeda's Islamic state in Iraq gunmen," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency, noting that one of the detainees is a leader of the armed group. "They are residents of the Talafar district and one of them is wanted for perpetrating six murders in al-Karama neighborhood in eastern Mosul," he explained.
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Aswat al-Iraq: Joint police and army forces on Tuesday arrested two suspected gunmen during a crackdown operation in the north of Hilla city, said a police source. "Acting on intelligence information, joint police-army forces raided hideouts of gunmen in al-Ubeidi region in al-Mahaweel district, north of Hilla, where they arrested two suspected gunmen," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
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A high-ranking officer who served in a key role in the Israel Defense Forces' Southern Command during the IDF operation in the Gaza Strip has said that Israel missed an opportunity to defeat Hamas.
Brig. Gen. Zvi Fogel, who served as Southern Command artillery commander during the Gaza campaign told Haaretz Tuesday that he thought Israel had "lost a historic opportunity to defeat Hamas" when it decided not to broaden the offensive in the Gaza Strip. He also noted that a forceful response is essential in reaction to Tuesday's killing of an IDF tracker, explaining that absent such a response, the IDF will lose the deterrence factor that it established in the Cast Lead military campaign.
Fogel added that, "between the second weekend of the operation on January 10 and the inauguration of U.S. President Obama on the 20th, we had enough military personnel to broaden the offensive and to make additional significant gains. We were close to defeating Hamas."
Fogel said that Hamas had built a defensive network that employed tons of explosives, but in many places, Hamas was surprised at the direction from which the IDF approached. At the same time, Hamas didn't manage to inflict the kind of losses among Israeli forces that it had hoped. "This created tremendous frustration among Hamas," he said, "and that was when we should have expanded our operation. We were on the move and they were at the breaking point."
Fogel also said he regretted that Israel had not more forcefully hit the tunnels that Hamas has used to smuggle weapons from Egypt to Gaza. He estimates that a quarter to 50 percent of the tunnels were hit, but said that if the IDF had caused greater damage, Hamas' weapons program could have been set back by years instead of months.
Fogel's views are shared by other senior officers in the Southern Command and also among the commanders who fought on the ground in Gaza.
Unlike the others, however, he is a reserve soldier, and is therefore allowed to express his personal opinions. On the other hand, many on the IDF General Staff disagree with Fogel's point of view. The opposition of both the defense minister and the IDF chief of staff to an expansion of the military campaign influenced the cabinet in its decision to halt the operation.
Brig. Gen. Fogel returned to active service with the Southern Command a year and a half ago, in order to help develop the IDF's plan of attack in Gaza, along with GOC Southern Command Maj. Gen. Yoav Gallant and the commander at the time of the IDF Gaza Division, Brig. Gen. Moshe Tamir. Fogel noted that the work of the top brass in the Southern Command during the fighting was "exemplary."
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I think the operation was at the point that the IDF couldn't do any more damage to Hamas without inflicting huge numbers of civilian casualties. While that is Ok with Rantburgers, the rest of the world might actually take action against Israel.
Hamas was hurt, most of the equipment was destroyed and most objectives were accomplished. Hamas had gone to ground by that time and the ones that were left were dispersed in civilian areas dressed as civilians.
Not much else the IDF could do without leveling Gaza.
Politically, I think they called it off at the right time with the note that ANY rocket or mortar fired from Gaza will bring immediate pain. The added threats to Syria were a nice touch. The Arabs have been put on notice that Israel is done playing tit-for-tat and being a punching bag. They are ready to do the punching now.
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Inflicting huge numbers of civilian casualties is NOT ok with this Rantburger.
But let's be clear: when a civilian population actively aids, abets and supports their fighters, then they suffer along with their fighters. The people of Gaza overwhelmingly support Hamas. They elected Hamas to be their leaders, they provide men, money and sustenance to their military, they allow their land and buildings, even expressly civilian buildings like schools and hospitals, to be used by Hamas for military purposes, and they stand by Hamas even after Hamas has been flattened.
Well fine. As an American I'd stand by my military if it got whacked in a war.
But I'd also expect our enemy to have a less than completely charitable view of my conduct in that regard.
I don't support expressly targeting civilians. But Hamas and the Gazans want to be a country and to be recognized as such by the rest of the world. They've complained that the world won't recognize the election of Hamas, etc. Fine -- you want the rights and privileges of being a country, you get the responsibilities that go with it.
And one of those responsibilities is, you share in the pain and misery that your government and military create.
Hamas gunnies and hard boyz challenged the Israelis. They fired mortars and rockets at expressly civilian targets in Israel (world opinion, please note, didn't much care). They drew a line in the sand and the Israelis stepped across and whacked them. That's what happens when a government and a military start a war, and then lose it.
The world didn't much care about German civilians on May 8, 1945. The message was simple then: start a war, live with the consequences.
The Israelis, to their great credit, took substantial measures to avoid killing civilians. But the Arab world is indeed on notice: start a war, live with the consequences. And next time, that might include a lot less care to avoid civilian casualties. I'm not sure the Gazans got the message. It's hard for me to care.
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Might be more to the IDF strategy than meets the eye. IED's and things of that nature need a degree of attention when by-passed or while not in use.
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Let's remember a few dispositions of the Geneva convention:
1) Reciprocity: If you target enemey's civilians (eg Coventry, Sderot) your own civilians become a target. And there is no such thing as reuirement of proportionality: if it had been applied and given that in 1944 Germany was unable to do more than very small scales bombings on the United Kingdom and none on America it would have been impossible to bomb it and soften it before D-DAY.
Second: Nobody told that you have to smile and to allow the enemy to shoot you at leisure (and still less give him time for killing your civilians) becuase he is hiding behind his own civilians. What the Genava Conventions say is that you are allowed to say "Sorry", use all your might and after the combat sort civilians from bad guys, heal the former and shoot the later. These makes war crimes not pay and goes a long way for reducing their number.
3) You are a civilian as long as you try to stay away from combat. If you shoot (obvious), act as an oberver for artillery or air strikes, spy or purposefully stay in the area in order to restrict the enemy from using its full firepower you are no longer entitled to the protection given to civilians.
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steve it's alright with the majority of the rest of us because the civivlians are the ones who elected them into power and knew what their objectives where in the first place so that pretty much puts the in the same thought process or have the same agenda as Hamas does. tough shit they wanted it they got it
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The civilians are actively supporting, supplying and helping Hamas kill innocent Israelis. Therefore, they are targets as well and terrorists. That is more of what I was referring to as civilians being OK. Destroying the city of Cairo because they root for the other side, not OK.
The "civilians" of Gaza ceased to become non-combatants the day they elected Hamas and helped support them kill Israelis.
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I keep hearing that logistics is the most important factor in military success. Gazans are demonstrably the logistics arm of Hamas and therefore should be legitimate targets.
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ISRAEL FORUM > EGYPTIAN FM: HIZBOLLAH, HAMAS AND IRAN COOPERATE TO PROVOKE CONFLICT.
* OTOH, ISRAELI MIL FORUM > FORUM POLL asks Posters whether the BORDERS OF ISRAEL + NEIGHBORING ARAB/MUSLIM NATIONS [including for Paleos] SHOULD BE RENEGOTIATED = RE-DRAWN???
The U.S. navy was forced to release an Iranian boat detained in the Red Sea on suspicion of carrying arms to Hamas-ruled Gaza. Weapons of various kinds were found aboard the ship, which was flying the Cypriot flag when it was stopped January 19.
The ship was released Tuesday when it became apparent that there was no legal basis for holding it.
At a press conference in Washington, Admiral Mike Mullen, who heads the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said although American naval personnel boarded the ship and found the weapons, they had no legal authority to impound the arms. He suggested that more stringent resolutions by the UN Security Council would be required, stating clearly that Iran is violating standards against arms smuggling.
Mullen stressed involving Iran in solving regional problems, including the deteriorating condition in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but that ultimately the matter should be left to diplomats. With regard to the Obama administration's approach to the Iranian threat, he said that the military option is not off the table, but that it must remain the last option.
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See COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG - US strategic attention seen as shifting from fighting AL QAEDA IN IRAQ [AQI] to fighting IRAN's AGENTS [Iran local-regional influence = control by PRO-IRAN THIRD PARTIES].
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.....but that ultimately the matter should be left to diplomats. With regard to the Obama administration's approach to the Iranian threat, he said that the military option is not off the table, but that it must remain the last option
That's what the White House told him to say and he said it! Great initiative Admiral.
The Israel Air Force attacked targets in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday afternoon, hours after an Israeli soldier was killed and three others were wounded in a Palestinian-rigged bomb attack near the border.
Palestinian witnesses also said by late Tuesday afternoon that Israeli tanks could be seen rolling into the Gaza Strip.
The incident near the border was the first deadly attack carried out by Palestinian militants since a cease-fire went into effect in the coastal strip 10 days ago.
The soldier, who served as an NCO in the army, was killed when a roadside bomb exploded near an Israel Defense Forces patrol along the Gaza border, near the Kissufim crossing.
The wounded Israelis were identified as an officer, who sustained serious wounds, and an additional NCO and soldier, who were lightly hurt. The wounded were taken for treatment to the Soroka hospital in Be'er Sheva. The soldiers' families have been informed of the incident.
A Palestinian was reportedly killed in ensuing clashes between IDF soldiers and Gaza militants in the area. Heavy gunfire was audible along the border in central Gaza and Israeli helicopters hovered in the air, firing bursts from their machine guns, Palestinian witnesses said.
Gaza medical workers identified the Palestinian killed as a farmer.
Later Tuesday, the Israel Air Force targeted a motorcycle in the southern Gaza Strip, critically wounding two people, Hamas and Palestinian medical officials said. One of those wounded was a Hamas militant, said group spirces.
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Sitting a few time zones away from the Davos gathering, former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad spares a dry chuckle at the fall of the once mighty Western financial giants and masters of the universe.
They were doing everything that [multilateral agencies] were counseling developing countries not to do to stay out of crisis, he said about the parade of Western banks that have crumbled over the last six years due to heavy leveraging and bad assets. They were greedy and now people are having a big laugh.
Malaysias elder statement has delivered real zingers to the assembled luminaries at Davos conferences past, notably the view during the 2003 get together that the Bush administration was responsible for starting World War III.
This year, Mr. Mahathir isnt attending Davos. But that hasnt kept him from delivering a sermon from afar on one of his well-tread topics: cracks in the foundation of the Western-dominated international financial system need to be urgently fixed.
Mr. Mahathir has worked on for years lobbying to increase the weight of the developing world needs in international settings. And he had a stark message to the G-8 central banks and multilateral agencies, including the International Monetary Fund, which dictated terms of the economic bailout packages to Asian nations during the economic crisis there 10 years ago: those so-called financial wizards should have following their own prescription for economic health.
They told us there was a bubble [in asset and currency prices]. They told us not to increase borrowing. They told us to cut back government spending. Its advice they ignored in [their] own economies, he said to an appreciative audience of Arab businessmen who have their own gripes about what they see as American and European hypocrisy, especially when it comes to foreign policy in the Middle East.
Mr. Mahathir counseled his listeners to heed Asian values over Western values as governments in the Middle East work to keep their growth rates positive.
Our values are similar. Asia values the country over the individual. In the West, their capitalism is structured so that there is always one winner and always one loser, he said. The system in the West has many holes. It is painfully obvious now.
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Without the West, Mr. Mohamad, you'd be living in a thatched-roof shack, eating when you could catch something, and dying by age 50, if you lived that long. Laugh long and hard, Mr. Mohamad, but in the end, the West will prevail, and you will be just another POS whining muslim nobody.
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Without Western selfishness, overconsumption, and willingness to absorb imports, Malaysia would be a starveling struggling chaos of empty stomachs and clenched fists. How the hell does he think his intolerant shitstain of a country got out of the hole they dug for themselves in the late Nineties, austerity and civic virtue? It was the continued willingness of the developed nations to let them export their way out of their messes.
The good elder statesman can go fuck himself.
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I was in our local restaurant a half-hour or so ago, the news crawl said that banks are not lending because they're unable to lend.
And a light dawned, GOOD, people must live within their means now. (Like I do)
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They got sharia banks ready to move in and take over.
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 French navy has arrested nine suspected Somali pirates, foiling their attempt to hijack a cargo ship. 
(AKI) - Yemeni police have detained three men suspected of being involved in a shooting near the US embassy in the capital, Sanaa, on Monday.
(AKI/DAWN) - Militants in the volatile Pakistani area of Swat blew up a school and at least seven people were killed and several others injured as violence continued on Monday.
The authorities have imposed an indefinite curfew in the main city of Swat, said a statement by the army's media centre in the valley on Tuesday -- hours after the security forces launched the third phase of a military operation in the valley. 
Twelve Taliban were killed in an operation in Darra Adam Khel on Monday, a press release by the military said on Tuesday. The operation was planned after the military was told that the Tor Chappar Valley, "is again witnessing terrorist activity", the statement said. It said, "The operation was planned and executed for one day."
Gunmen killed a Shia Muslim in Dera Ismail Khan on Tuesday, police said, in at least the second sectarian-linked attack to blight the country in 48 hours. "Unidentified gunmen shot dead Athar Hussain Shah on the Dayal road while he was returning to town from his nearby farm and then escaped," local police official Tauqir Abbas said. Abbas said the victim was the son of a caretaker at a local Shia mosque. "It seems to be a sectarian killing," the official said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi army troops on Tuesday captured four gunmen from the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq in eastern Mosul, a military source said. "A force from the 3rd brigade of the Iraqi army on Tuesday (Jan. 27) arrested four al-Qaeda's Islamic state in Iraq gunmen," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency, noting that one of the detainees is a leader of the armed group. "They are residents of the Talafar district and one of them is wanted for perpetrating six murders in al-Karama neighborhood in eastern Mosul," he explained.
Aswat al-Iraq: Joint police and army forces on Tuesday arrested two suspected gunmen during a crackdown operation in the north of Hilla city, said a police source. "Acting on intelligence information, joint police-army forces raided hideouts of gunmen in al-Ubeidi region in al-Mahaweel district, north of Hilla, where they arrested two suspected gunmen," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The U.S. navy was forced to release an Iranian boat detained in the Red Sea on suspicion of carrying arms to Hamas-ruled Gaza. Weapons of various kinds were found aboard the ship, which was flying the Cypriot flag when it was stopped January 19. 
The Israel Air Force attacked targets in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday afternoon, hours after an Israeli soldier was killed and three others were wounded in a Palestinian-rigged bomb attack near the border. 
