Hi there, !
Today Sun 06/27/2010 Sat 06/26/2010 Fri 06/25/2010 Thu 06/24/2010 Wed 06/23/2010 Tue 06/22/2010 Mon 06/21/2010 Archives
Rantburg
531694 articles and 1855967 comments are archived on Rantburg.

Today: 74 articles and 305 comments as of 12:46.
Post a news link    Post your own article   
Area: WoT Background    Non-WoT    Opinion        Politix   
Iranian Flotilla Backs Down
Today's Headlines
Headline Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
5 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [] 
3 00:00 Angolet Darling of the Munchkins6294 [] 
1 00:00 ed [] 
5 00:00 Texhooey [] 
10 00:00 Frank G [] 
1 00:00 Ralphs son Johnnie [] 
8 00:00 Skunky Glins**** [] 
0 [] 
1 00:00 tipper [] 
6 00:00 Snakes Ebbeath5905 [] 
0 [1] 
1 00:00 JosephMendiola [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
4 00:00 g(r)omgoru [] 
0 [] 
2 00:00 Frank G [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
3 00:00 ed [] 
Page 2: WoT Background
0 []
0 []
4 00:00 Pappy []
6 00:00 ed []
9 00:00 ed []
11 00:00 Pappy []
0 []
0 [1]
8 00:00 Hugh Jass []
3 00:00 trailing wife []
13 00:00 Barbara Skolaut []
3 00:00 Redneck Jim [1]
1 00:00 JFM [1]
5 00:00 trailing wife []
5 00:00 g(r)omgoru []
3 00:00 Oscar [1]
1 00:00 g(r)omgoru []
5 00:00 imoyaro []
0 []
6 00:00 Frank G []
0 []
Page 3: Non-WoT
0 []
5 00:00 trailing wife [1]
5 00:00 trailing wife []
0 []
2 00:00 chris []
29 00:00 3dc []
0 []
0 []
2 00:00 Bugs Spealing3182 []
1 00:00 Bacon in the Mosque horror []
0 []
0 []
1 00:00 JosephMendiola []
0 []
6 00:00 CrazyFool []
Page 4: Opinion
7 00:00 DMFD []
2 00:00 Anonymoose []
3 00:00 Total War []
0 []
8 00:00 junkiron []
0 []
4 00:00 3dc []
2 00:00 tipover []
13 00:00 Frank G [1]
Page 6: Politix
6 00:00 JosephMendiola []
7 00:00 Barbara Skolaut []
3 00:00 Besoeker []
1 00:00 eLarson []
6 00:00 DMFD []
21 00:00 CrazyFool []
8 00:00 Broadhead6 []
26 00:00 lord garth [1]
4 00:00 Frank G []
Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Martha Sleeper, silent film comedienne of the 1920s and Broadway actress of the 1940s.
(Died in 1983 at age 72)

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 06/24/2010 0:23 Comments || Top||

#2  She's got Betty Davis eyes(Humming)
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 06/24/2010 1:16 Comments || Top||

#3  nice...me likey.
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 06/24/2010 9:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Thank goodness she doesn't have Marty Feldman eyes.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 06/24/2010 10:02 Comments || Top||

#5  She looks like Dana Sculley from X Files
Posted by: Texhooey || 06/24/2010 11:06 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Two German aid workers abducted in Darfur
[Al Arabiya Latest] Armed men kidnapped two German aid workers in Sudan's Darfur region on Tuesday, U.N. and aid officials said, in the latest in a string of abductions that has disrupted relief work in the territory.

The two men working for Technisches Hilfswerk (THW) were taken from their compound in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur state -- the first time kidnappers have ventured into one of the region's main cities, officials said.

"Yesterday (Tuesday) evening, seven men, four of them armed with AK-47 rifles, came on foot to the THW compound ... They snatched a Sudanese security guard and two internationals," said the spokesman for Darfur's joint U.N./African Union UNAMID peacekeeping force Kemal Saiki.
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan

#1  Aid workers in the Sudan are like chum in the water to the Mohammedians.
Posted by: Ralphs son Johnnie || 06/24/2010 2:32 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Suspects in 2007 twin suicide blasts face Algiers trial
[Maghrebia] Eight alleged terrorists go on trial Thursday (June 24th) in Algiers for involvement in the December 11th, 2007 twin suicide bombings of the UN Algiers office and constitutional court, El Watan reported. The defendants are charged with membership in a terrorist group, mass murder by use of explosives and damage to state security and territorial integrity.
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Caribbean-Latin America
Michoacan and Durango: Mexican Army Seizes Marijuana, Piracy Items
Google Translate
Elements of the Mexican Army's 21st Military Zone conducted anti-drug sweeps in Michoacan seizing a number of contraband, say Mexican press reports.

The army seized 14 rifles, nine pistols, 10 magazines, 477 cartridges and two scopes. Also seized were: 500 kilograms of marijuana, four marijuana plants, 295 CD burners, 16 computer towers, 17 printers, 26 power supplies, one CPU, 195,000 records and 31,560,200 video and MP3 format recordings.

The seizures involved the municipalities of Tacambaro, Tuzantla, Ciudad Hidalgo, Querendaro, Tiquicheo, Zitacuaro, Jungapeo, Ario de Rosales, Tzitzio and Morelia. No arrests were made in the raids.
Funny how that happened ...
Meanwhile in Durango, the Mexican Army seized more than two tons of drugs and several stolen vehicles in eight separate camps in the municipality of Santiago Papasquiaro, according to Mexican news reports. The army discovered two tons of marijuana, packaged and ready for shipments along with seven stolen vehicles, including three Dodge Rams, a Chevrolet pickup, a Toyota and two Ford pickups.

Also found were six human bones near several dairy farms. The army was also searching for 13 suspected drug traffickers. No arrests were made in this raid as well.
Almost as if the suspects had been tipped off ...
Posted by: badanov || 06/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Article should be retitled "Mexican Army seizes and Recycles Marijuana, Piracy Items."
Posted by: borgboy || 06/24/2010 1:54 Comments || Top||

#2  "The weapons and drugs are OK, but the DMCA violations are gonna get you in BIG trouble amigos!"
Posted by: Frank G || 06/24/2010 8:37 Comments || Top||


Nuevo Leon: Three Dead Bad Guys, Drugs Seized
Google Translate with a hat tip to Nota Roja for the details.
Three armed suspects were killed and five more were wounded as well as more than a ton of marijuana and other related materiel were seized in a drug raid conducted by the Mexican Army in Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon Tuesday night, according to Mexican press accounts.

The Secretaria de la Defensa Nacional (SEDENA) were given an anonymous tip of a drug operation near the intersection of calles Chopo and Canelo in the Bosques del Country district in the Guadalupe municipality.

As soon as soldiers arrived on the scene they were fired upon. The ensuing firefight lasted several minutes. No soldiers were reported hurt in the exchange.

More than a ton of marijuana was seized along with 17 arrested, among them children, several assault rifles, other armaments and hand grenades. Also seized were two Ford vans, one with a furniture company label and a Chevrolet Captiva SUV. The vans were packed with marijuana.

The Mexican Army said the bust was of a major drug operation in Nuevo Leon.
Posted by: badanov || 06/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


More Mexican Mayhem
11 Die in Northern Mexico

Eleven people died in drug and gang related violence that included two dead Juarez CIPOL agents and a dead state police investigator from Sonora.
  • Two unidentified men with the marks of the criminal gang Los Zetas were found shot to death on a highway in Chihuahua Tuesday night, according to Mexican news accounts. The victims were executed at the scene on the Jiménez- Camargo highway near the community of Tampico, from the spent cartridge casings nearby. They had marks on them with the letter Z, which is commonly thought to be an indicator of activity of the criminal gang, Los Zetas.

  • A routine and detailed inspection in a local state prison in Juarez yielded a number of bullets and a hand grenade found by police Wednesday, according to Mexican news reports.

    Federal, state and local police searched the Juarez state Centro de Rehabilitacion Social (CERESO) facility specifically Modules One through Six. They found: a plastic package with eight Super .38 rounds, a package with 22 .22 caliber rounds, a package with 11 .38 Special rounds and three empty casings of the same caliber, two metals items used to make homemade bullets, and a tear gas hand grenade.

  • An unidentified man was found shot to death in Juarez Tuesday night, say Mexican news accounts. The body was found near the intersection of calles Monte Mayor and Mimosa near the El Paseo commercial center. The victim was bound, gagged and had been shot four times in the back. Investigators found nine spent cartridge casings at the scene.

  • Two unidentified CIPOL police agents were shot to death and a third female agent was wounded in an apparent ambush in Juarez Tuesday night, say Mexican news accounts. The ambush took place on a stretch of dirt road near Calle Ramon Rayon near the hospital. Mortally wounded, the driver left the road and ended up in an empty lot near Calle Durango.

    CIPOL is a detective squad for most major municipal police departments in Mexico.

  • Three suspects from the criminal gang La Linea, were apprehended by Mexican Federal agents following an unsuccessful murder attempt in Juarez Tuesday night, according to Mexican news reports. Reports say the trio were caught just after they made an attempt on an unidentified victim near the intersection of calles Plomo and Mauricio Corredor in the Del Carmen district.

    Arrested were: Jesús Enrique Murillo "El Piwi", who was fingered as the shooter, Luis Adrian Fernändez Mercado, 20, and Sergio Estrada Estrada, 24. A Honda Accord was seized along with two .45 (M-1911A1) caliber pistols, a .45 caliber magazine, six .45 caliber rounds and two cell phones.

    Reports say Jesús Enrique Murillo may have been involved in an earlier murder a week ago.

    La Linea are amongst the most vicious of Mexican gangs and are known to mutilate their victims.

  • An unidentified employee of a Chihuahua, Chihuahua gas company was shot to death in his delivery vehicle Tuesday night, say Mexican news reports. The murder is the second attack on employees of the K-19 Gas Company, the last taking place 20 May when two men were shot to death.

    The victim was ending his day when he was shot in his gas delivery truck on Km. Marker 19 of the Chihuahua to Juarez highway near Calle Desarrollo.

  • An unidentified man was shot to death in the threshold of his home in Juarez, say Mexican news accounts. The victim is said to have been shot at point blank range with an AK-47 assault rifle as his family watched near the intersection of calles Ojinaga y Boquilla in the Nuevo Hipódromo district. Twelve shot were fired.

  • Two city officials in Sonora were found murdered last Thursday afternoon near a farm in Sonora, according to Mexican news reports. Gerardo Gonzalez Mendez, director of Servicios Publicos for the town of Tubutama, and Sergio Vazquez Diaz a city accountant were both found shot to death aboard their pickup truck near the San Jorge farm.

    The victims were shot multiple times with AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles. The two corpses had apparently only arrived Tuesday at state forensic facilities in Nogales, Sonora. Unconfirmed reports are the two attempted to phone their families just before they were shot.

  • A group leader for a Sonora state police investigating unit was found murdered last night along with a companion, say Mexican police reports. José Israel Duarte Íñigo, 40, and Lauro Guzman Siqueiros, 40 were found shot to death at about 2230 hrs. aboard a Chevrolet pickup truck in the Plaza Publica of Divisaderos, Sonora. Reports are they were both shot with an AK-47 assault rifle.

    Duarte Íñigo was group leader for Sonora State Policia Estatal Investigadora (PEI). He was also brother of local deputy Reginaldo Duarte for Partido Accion Nacional (PAN).

From the Wait-Until-Your-Father-Gets-Home Department:

Two distraught mothers of two 13 year old girls along with several neighbors in the Villas de Salvarcar district appeared at the Hotel Rio on Avenida Jilotepec late Tuesday, where Mexican Federal agents are quartered demanding state authorities return their daughters who they say were kidnapped by police.

María de los Ãngeles Gómez Ayala and Perla Judith Gómez Valencia, both 13, came up missing Tuesday when they failed to return from school. They were not reported missing until late Tuesday night because both mothers work.

Units of the Juarez municipal police found the two girls at about 1500 hrs Wednesday playing in a water sprinkler in the Alba district near the intersection of calles Paseo del Alba and Cenzontle. The girls told police they missed school to attend a party,and failed to return home for fear of being scolded.
Posted by: badanov || 06/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh God, no! They've got El Piwi...sob, SOB!!
Posted by: 2sealys || 06/24/2010 8:55 Comments || Top||

#2  I know this is Mexico, but how the hell do prisoners (in jail) wind up with hand grenades in their possession?

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al || 06/24/2010 11:30 Comments || Top||

#3  You don't want to know how they smuggled in the hand grenades.
Posted by: ed || 06/24/2010 12:26 Comments || Top||


Europe
Spain closes Melilla to Moroccans after protests
[Al Arabiya Latest] In a move that reminded the Arab world of the provocative visit former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon paid to al-Aqsa in East Jerusalem almost 10 years ago, the announcement of a visit by a Spanish top politician to the occupied Moroccan enclave of Melilla triggered massive protests that culminated with the closure of the "border."

Dozens of Moroccans have been taking to the streets Monday to protest the visit of Mariano Rajoy, leader of the Spanish People's Party, to attend a regional conference in the Mediterranean city of Melilla, which is one of the only two European Union territories in Africa, the other one being the Strait of Gibraltar City of Ceuta, also occupied by Spain.

Protesting youths put up banners the read "occupied" in Arabic, French, and Spanish before the name of Melilla on the road signs leading to the city. In response, the Spanish government closed the border that separates Moroccan territories and the disputed enclave.

Similar banners appeared last April at the Moroccan customs house, located at the border with Melilla, and Rajoy called at the time for expelling all Moroccan custom officers, which explains why he is hated by border residents and sometimes compared to Sharon in the way he intentionally provokes local residents.

After the closure, protestors gathered at the Beni Enzar crossing, the main access to the occupied city, to protest the visit and the years-long occupation as well as their humiliation at the hands of Spanish border officers.

Residents of neighboring areas, mostly inhabited by Berbers, were equally infuriated at the closure and posted similar "occupied" banners on the Findeq road, a few kilometers from the border with Ceuta.

The posting of the banners was reportedly organized by a popular committee that calls for the liberation of the two enclaves.

Daniel Conesa, spokesman of the Melilla municipality, voiced his concern about the current situation and which might evolve to an uprising at the border, the Spanish daily El País reported Monday.

Conesa pleaded with the Spanish government to resort to diplomacy with the Moroccan authorities in order to resolve the crisis and ban the demonstrations which, according to him, made closing the border inevitable.

According to the Moroccan news website Nador 24, Spanish border officers intentionally humiliated Moroccan nationals who wanted to cross to Melilla by stamping "denied entry" on their passports.

"They also tampered with some of the passports whether by tearing or smearing," the website reported.

Melilla was occupied by Spain after the fall of Granada more than 500 years ago and has enjoyed autonomous rule since 1995. The city is surrounded by a six-meter high electronic fence with cameras and watch towers to stop illegal immigration. Ceuta, on the other hand, was occupied 350 years ago.

The government of Morocco has repeatedly called upon Spain to end its occupation of the two cities. The Spanish occupation of Melilla is the longest in history.
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Global Jihad

#1  The Spanish occupation of Melilla is the longest in history. No, I think the Arab-Muslim occupation of North Africa has been going on far longer than that.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/24/2010 1:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Then there is the multi-millenial occupation of the island continent of Australia by aborigines who mercilessly oppressed & sometimes even ate the native population of marsupials.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/24/2010 1:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Protesting youths put up banners the read "occupied" in Arabic, French, and Spanish before the name of Melilla on bathroom stalls and the road signs leading to the city
Posted by: Frank G || 06/24/2010 8:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Time to organize a flotilla.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/24/2010 16:11 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Two men guilty in final Toronto 18 terror trial
In a landmark decision, the last two members of the so-called Toronto 18 to face trial were convicted Wednesday, marking the first time a Canadian jury has ruled on a terrorism case and closing the final chapter on the homegrown cell.

Asad Ansari, 25 and Steven Chand, 29, were found guilty of participating in a terrorist group. Chand was also found guilty of counselling to commit fraud. Both men were remanded until Thursday at which time Chand, who has been in custody for the past four years, could be released under a previous joint agreement for time already served. Ansari has been on bail throughout the jury deliberations.

Chand's lawyer Michael Moon said he didn't want his client to have to spend any more time in jail than needed. “We're very disappointed and it's unfortunate we couldn't finalize the matter today,' Moon said outside the courthouse, adding if a pre-sentence report is ordered he intends to ask that his client be released on bail.

In court, Superior Court Justice Fletcher Dawson said he wondered what the jury would think if he released accused after they deliberated for six days, saying the law provides for a sentence of life in prison. “I'm not going to sentence anybody on a terrorist case without submissions or an opportunity to reflect on this,' Dawson told Moon.

Before releasing the jury, Dawson thanked them for their “difficult' tasks and reminded them their deliberations are to remain secret. “We're pleased with the result,' Crown prosecutor Croft Michaelson said outside the courthouse. “We were grateful there were 12 citizens who were very patient and attentive and came up with a just result.'

As the verdict was delivered, Chand sat in prisoner's box, his head leaning on his right hand. Afterward, the Crown's star witness Mubin Shaikh, who infiltrated the group, said he was “disappointed' with the verdict. “I know Steven Chand better than anyone in that courtroom — and he is not a terrorist,' said Shaikh.
Posted by: ryuge || 06/24/2010 02:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "I know Steven Chand better than anyone in that courtroom -- and he is not a terrorist," said Shaikh.

Let's see, w/ a prior military service and setting up a terrorist training camp, that makes Mr. Chand a terrorist trainer. He wouldn't have officially been a terrorist until the Canadian Parliament got blown up and the members beheaded on TV.
Posted by: ed || 06/24/2010 12:48 Comments || Top||


Canada police make explosives arrest before G8/G20
Police said on Wednesday they have charged a Toronto man with possession of explosives as security tightens in the run-up to the G8 and G20 summits of world leaders in Canada later this week.

Police said a 37-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday and is facing several charges including possession of explosives for unlawful purposes, attempted mischief and intimidation of the justice system.

The Integrated Security Unit did not disclose what, if any, direct threat the man may have posed to the summits. The Group of Eight meeting starts on Thursday in Huntsville, a lake district resort town in northern Ontario. The G20 meeting will follow in Toronto.

Police using a search warrant raided the Toronto house where the man was arrested, police said in a news release.

He was scheduled to make a court appearance on Wednesday afternoon, local media reported.

Officials expect the summits to be the subject of a range of protests, with the leaders protected by a C$1 billion (643.4 million pound) security plan under which areas of downtown Toronto have been fenced off. There is already a heavy police presence in the centre of the city.

Three people were arrested earlier this month in connection with an arson attack on a bank branch in Ottawa. An anarchist group claimed responsibility and said it also planned to disrupt the G20 summit.
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Doesn't Canada have a spare island or two where the G8 and G20 could assemble & not horribly inconvenience law-abiding Canadians?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/24/2010 0:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Newfoundland springs to mind.
I lived in St Johns as a young lad (Dad was U.S.Army) it's nicely out of the way, usualy frozen except July when the temperature gets up around 55-60 or so.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 06/24/2010 1:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Crème brûlée of foie gras with Tonga beans

Ravioli with guinea fowl and burrata cheese, veal reduction

Imperial gingerbread pyramid with caramel and salted butter ice-cream

And then down to business ... Has my room got a view .
Posted by: Oscar || 06/24/2010 3:50 Comments || Top||

#4  There's a place called Thousand Islands near Kingston, ON. No shortage of islands there for a summit. It's a few hours drive from Toronto.
Posted by: Chemist || 06/24/2010 11:03 Comments || Top||

#5  You could have the summit in Newfoundland but then you'd have to 'screetch in' all the deligates. I'm not too sure that Obama is game for kissing a codfish.
Posted by: Chemist || 06/24/2010 11:06 Comments || Top||

#6  I think all these "conferences" should be held on Bermuda, and all the delegates be housed in a cruise ship. It would do wonders for Bermuda's economy, there wouldn't be many "protesters", and with the scenery never changing, quite a few of the entourage would drop away, allowing some real work to be done.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 06/24/2010 13:47 Comments || Top||

#7  "allowing some real work to be done"

Are you sure that's what you want from the G8/G20 clowns, OP?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 06/24/2010 15:17 Comments || Top||

#8  The security costs alone have passed $1 billion CDN.

Lot of Canadians are asking how that is value for money. Conservative Stephen Harper has a lot to answer for.

Just Google fake lake
Posted by: Skunky Glins**** || 06/24/2010 17:37 Comments || Top||

#9  It wouldn't be a proper G8 summit without some broken shop windows, seething anarchists, an explosion or two and some giant puppets. Man, I *luv* them giant puppets. Do you think they'll have the little pink tank?
Posted by: SteveS || 06/24/2010 22:26 Comments || Top||

#10  think they'll have a puppet of Soros or Chaves? No, they pull the strings
Posted by: Frank G || 06/24/2010 23:09 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Pakistan court again orders internet blocked
[Al Arabiya Latest] A Pakistani court ordered restrictions re-imposed on video sharing network YouTube and eight more websites blocked for showing material deemed offensive to Muslims, a lawyer said on Wednesday.

The other websites are Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, Google, Islam Exposed, In The Name Of Allah, Amazon and Bing.

If enforced, all major web-based email services, every major search engine and the top shopping site on the Internet would be blocked in Pakistan.

Any representation of the Prophet Mohammad is deemed un-Islamic and blasphemous by Muslims, who constitute the overwhelming majority in Pakistan

A judge in the eastern city of Bahawalpur directed authorities on Tuesday to impose the latest restrictions because the sites contained "blasphemous material against Allah, Prophet Mohammad and the Quran", said Latif ur Rehman, a lawyer who filed the petition seeking the measures.

"The court issued the orders after I placed blasphemous material recorded on compact discs from these websites before the court," he told Reuters by telephone.

Rehman said the judge, Mazhar Iqbal Sidhu, ordered officials of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to appear before him with all "relevant records" on June 28.

"The Ministry of Information and Technology, through its secretary, is directed to issue direction to the chairman of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority ... to block the websites mentioned," Rehman said, reading from the court's order.

A spokesman for PTA said they had not yet received any instructions from the government to block the sites. An official at the Information Technology ministry said they would comply with the court's written order once they received it.
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  the sites contained "blasphemous material against Allah, Prophet Mohammad and the Quran", said Latif ur Rehman, a lawyer who filed the petition seeking the measures.

Anyone who graduates from the third grade automatically becomes a lawyer in this idiotic country!
Posted by: Ralphs son Johnnie || 06/24/2010 2:54 Comments || Top||

#2  surfed over to In the name of allah and Islam exposed with no luck. The former was reported as an attack site (thank you McAfee) and the latter redirected me to Exposed.com, a beauty products website. Looks like they're banned in the United States, too.
Posted by: Following the Leader || 06/24/2010 10:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Islam Exposed
Another Islam Exposed
In the Name of Allah

Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2010 10:59 Comments || Top||

#4  For his next feat, Latif will break a window and demand a ban on glass. Seen one muslim supremacist hypocrite, seen them all.
Posted by: ed || 06/24/2010 11:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Perhaps it would be a good idea to block all Internet access to Pakistan. The Jihadis will scream bloody murder, since they use the Internet for 90% of their propaganda and 75% of their intel. There's nothing in any of the Pakistani newspapers I can't read in Iranian, Indian, or international newspapers. In fact, building a wall around it and not letting anyone or anything in or out may prove quite enlightening.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 06/24/2010 13:52 Comments || Top||

#6  "The Jihadis will scream bloody murder, since they use the Internet for 90% of their propaganda and 75% of their intel 100% of their porn."

FTFY, OP. ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 06/24/2010 15:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Just out of curiosity is the average Internet bandwidth in Pakiwakiland enough to support those banded sites?

If so what rate does the average user there see?
Posted by: 3dc || 06/24/2010 17:14 Comments || Top||

#8  No xxxPronxxx sites are affected.

Well OK then!
Posted by: Skunky Glins**** || 06/24/2010 17:48 Comments || Top||


Militant fundraisers held in Punjab
[Iran Press TV Latest] A Pakistani intelligence report hints at an increased presence of pro-Taliban militancy in the politically-important province of Punjab.
They've only got four or five provinces. Which one's not important?
A source in the Pakistani interior ministry told the BBC that the latest intelligence report names at least 17 banned militant groups, which are operating in the province under different names.

The report says that they are raising funds through religious gatherings and meetings held in the name of social welfare.

The disclosure comes days after Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik told a parliamentary committee that "Punjabi Taliban" were planning to destabilize the South Asian country.

A few Pakistani officials have acknowledged the existence of militant bases in Punjab.

The developments come after several heavily-armed gunmen attacked two separate prayer sites belonging to a minority sect in Lahore in early June.

At least 100 people were killed in the fatal incident. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Punjab claimed responsibility for the attacks.

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Punjab group is a coalition of several militant organizations in the province, which was until recently considered a relatively secure part of the country.

The Pakistani military has recently launched a series of operations in an effort to clear the troubled tribal zone of militants.

Nearly 4,000 people have been killed in militant attacks throughout Pakistan since July 2007.
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


American Bin Laden hunter released by Pakistan
[Dawn] An American man detained in Pakistan for trying to track down and kill Osama Bin Laden has been freed and will return to the United States later Wednesday, his family told local media.

Colorado-based construction worker Gary Faulkner was released by authorities in Pakistan late Tuesday before flying home to the United States via Dubai, a relative told ABC7 News in Denver.

"They got the news late yesterday that he was coming in. So, they're really looking forward to seeing Gary. It's been a while," Faulkner's brother-in-law John Martin was quoted as saying on the network's website.

Faulkner was detained on June 13 in the remote mountains of Chitral, once a rumored hiding place of bin Laden, near Afghanistan's Nuristan province, armed with a pistol, dagger, sword and night-vision equipment.

Long haired and bearded, a Christian believer but suffering from health problems, Faulkner dubbed "the American Ninja" was on a solo mission to track down and kill al Qaeda figurehead bin Laden, his family has said.

Brother Scott Faulkner told CNN that Gary Faulkner had been motivated to hunt bin Laden out of a desire to avenge the September 11, 2001 attacks and a belief in God, saying he was not crazy, psychotic or schizophrenic.
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  The AP added this:

The Colorado man said he wasn't giving up on his mission.

"I would describe the situation, like: I got dialysis. So anyone got a kidney they want to lend me so I can finish this up?" Faulkner told KNBC-TV shortly after his arrival.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/24/2010 1:59 Comments || Top||

#2  saying he was not crazy, psychotic or schizophrenic , or beheaded
Posted by: Oscar || 06/24/2010 3:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Dear Gary:

Due to your letting yourself become captured, we must count your days in detention as normal leave. You'll be pleasef to learn we have pouched a pair of consecutive serial numbered Sig Sauer's to the USEMBASSY, along with a custom made 39LKC Tanto. Please contact the RSO about pick up of these items, your per diem advance, and a basic load of ammo. Our standard contact procedures are in effect. Say nothing to the Rolling Stones people and please do not come home until your mission is finished.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/24/2010 4:13 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm surprised this guy's 15 minutes of fame wasn't terminated in Pakiland.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/24/2010 9:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Paks kept him locked up long enough relocate Binny to a more secure hidey hole.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/24/2010 15:03 Comments || Top||

#6  Whatever you may think of him, he has big balls...clankers. Muslims respect that.
Posted by: Snakes Ebbeath5905 || 06/24/2010 22:02 Comments || Top||


Rival groups clash in Lahore; three dead
[Dawn] Three people were killed and four others injured on Wednesday in a clash between two rival groups in the Darogawala area of Lahore.

According to police, Zulfiqar along with his accomplices was returning from a court when members of the Ghulam Mohammad group riding on motorcycles opened indiscriminate fire on them.

As a result, Zulfiqar, Saif and Allahditta died on the spot while Yousuf, Bashir, Younis and Saeed got injured. Rescue teams shifted the injured to the Meo Hospital after the incident.
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Nato trucks stopped outside Kyber-Pakhtoonkhwa
[Dawn] Kyber-Pakhtoonkhwa has temporarily banned entry to Nato supply trucks on Wednesday.

The containers were stopped at Attock Bridge to avoid any untoward incident as there were reports of security threats. The Goods Transport Association had called on the government to provide security to the trucks, which have often been a target of terror attacks.
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  WAFF > THE US NEEDS "AN ALTERNATIVE TO PAKISTAN" IN AFGHANISTA. Among other, the US may want to seek a strategic "alternative Land Route thru IRAN to supply the War in Afghanistan" in light of US-perceived, subjective reliability = relucatnce of PAKISTAN as a dedicated anti-MILTERR US ALLY???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 06/24/2010 0:21 Comments || Top||


Security forces kill 24 militants in Orakzai
[Dawn] Three people were killed and four others injured on Wednesday in a clash between two rival groups in the Darogawala area of Lahore.

According to police, Zulfiqar along with his accomplices was returning from a court when members of the Ghulam Mohammad group riding on motorcycles opened indiscriminate fire on them.

As a result, Zulfiqar, Saif and Allahditta died on the spot while Yousuf, Bashir, Younis and Saeed got injured. Rescue teams shifted the injured to the Meo Hospital after the incident.
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Iraq
6 wanted men arrested in Basra
BASRA / Aswat al-Iraq: Police forces arrested on Wednesday six wanted persons in crackdown operations in separate areas of Basra, a police source said.

“Policemen waged 13 security raids in separate areas of Basra, where six wanted persons were arrested,' the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Posted by: Steve White || 06/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Iranian Flotilla Backs Down
HT to WeaselZippers!
One of the organizers of an Iranian aid flotilla that was to said to Gaza in efforts to break Israel's naval blockade on the territory, announced Thursday that the event has been cancelled due to "Israeli threats."

Army Radio reported that a separate Iranian ship, carrying 60 Iranian activists, was being prepared to sail to Gaza via the Caspian Sea. This after the Lebanese media reported several days ago that Egypt has denied Israel's request to prevent Iranian ships from passing through the Suez Canal toward Egypt
Posted by: Frank G || 06/24/2010 20:30 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  to sail to Gaza via the Caspian Sea

Breaking news, the Caspian Sea has been landlocked for the last 5.5 million years.
Posted by: phil_b || 06/24/2010 21:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Inshallah.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 06/24/2010 21:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Iranian Flotilla Backs Down
For no particular reason ...
Posted by: DMFD || 06/24/2010 21:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Threats? Gee, where have we heard that before?
Posted by: HammerHead || 06/24/2010 21:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Threats, my a@@. They made promises.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 06/24/2010 22:05 Comments || Top||


Abu Ali Brigade says sniper shot Israeli soldier
[Ma'an] The Abu Ali Mustapha Brigade said a sniper force fired at an Israeli soldier on Wednesday morning near the Abu Samra Gate, north of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip.

An Israeli military spokesman said the army was not familiar with incident.
A statement issued by the brigade, affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said the Israeli force was standing by a tank when the attack occurred.

An Israeli military spokesman said the army was not familiar with incident.

The sniper attack was "proof" of the brigade's defense of Palestine, the statement read.
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: PFLP


Southeast Asia
1 dead in terror hide-out raid
[Straits Times] MEMBERS of an elite anti-terror squad raided a suspected militant hide-out in central Indonesia on Wednesday, killing one man and arresting three others, possibly including the country's most wanted man, witnesses and police said.

An investigator who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the case said one of the suspects taken alive was Abdullah Sunata, the country's most wanted terror suspect. Brig. Gen. Zaenuri Lubis, a spokesman for the national police, said on local station Metro TV that he could not confirm that. 'I don't have information yet from the field,' he said.

Officers raided a rented home in Klaten, a village in Central Java, late Wednesday afternoon. At least nine shots were fired, Jimo, a neighbor, told the AP. The area was cleared of residents while experts tried to detonate a bomb discovered in the home.

Indonesia has battled Islamist militants with links to al-Qaida since 2002, when extremists bombed a nightclub district on Bali island, killing 202 people, most of them foreigners. Since then, hundreds of militants have been captured or killed in a security crackdown, but they have proved to be a resilient foe.

Sunata became the country's most wanted terror suspect after police uncovered a new terror network that he allegedly founded in Aceh province.

CONFIRMED: Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- Police in Indonesia have confirmed that a man arrested on Wednesday is one of the most wanted terrorists in the country.

He is Abdullah Sonata, an explosives expert with links to the late militant Noordin Top, responsible for terror bombings until he was killed last year by police. Sonata was thought to have recently returned from the Philippines and started recruiting and training militants.

Police said they became engaged in a gun battle after they launched a raid in the central Javan district of Klaten. One person was shot dead and three were arrested, including Sonata. Initially, police weren't sure the man in question was Sonata but said they intended to confirm his identity by fingerprinting him.
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Update:
Indonesian terror bomber arrested again
Posted by: tipper || 06/24/2010 2:59 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran produced 17 kgs of further enriched uranium
Iran's nuclear chief said Wednesday his country has produced 17 kilograms of uranium enriched to 20 percent, defying U.N. demands to halt the controversial program.

It's a lot tougher going from 0.7% to 20% U-235 than going from 20% to 80%.
Posted by: ed || 06/24/2010 13:41 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Can any one clarify if it's actually 17 KG? This is Iran after all. For all we know it's 1.7 KG and they decided to drop a decimal for PR purposes.
Posted by: miscellaneous || 06/24/2010 19:32 Comments || Top||

#2  I'd accept it if Ahmadinejad would weigh himself before, then weigh himself holding the Enriched Uranium....carefully, though, so take 5 measurements at 20 minute intervals.
Posted by: Frank G || 06/24/2010 19:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Obama, President of the Alien Agenda for America: "America does not have a veto over other country's foreign policies."

"Iranian attitudes have to be seen in context of American conduct to their country, in the 'fifties."

Nuff said.
Posted by: Angolet Darling of the Munchkins6294 || 06/24/2010 20:21 Comments || Top||



Who's in the News
59[untagged]
3Govt of Iran
3Govt of Pakistan
2Commies
1Global Jihad
1al-Qaeda
1TTP
1Govt of Sudan
1Hamas
1PFLP
1al-Qaeda in North Africa

Bookmark
E-Mail Me

The Classics
The O Club
Rantburg Store
The Bloids
The Never-ending Story
Thugburg
Gulf War I
The Way We Were
Bio

Merry-Go-Blog











On Sale now!


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.
Click here for more information

Meet the Mods
In no particular order...
Steve White
Seafarious
tu3031
badanov
sherry
ryuge
GolfBravoUSMC
Bright Pebbles
trailing wife
Gloria
Fred
Besoeker
Glenmore
Frank G
3dc
Skidmark

Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2010-06-24
  Iranian Flotilla Backs Down
Wed 2010-06-23
  President Obama Relieves Gen. Stanley McChrystal of Afghan Command
Tue 2010-06-22
  Guilty Plea to all Counts in Times Square Bomb Plot
Mon 2010-06-21
  Iran hangs top Sunni rebel Rigi: Report
Sun 2010-06-20
  Gunmen Raid Aden Police HQ, Free Prisoners
Sat 2010-06-19
  Pakistani officials: Suspected US strike kills 13
Fri 2010-06-18
  Malaysia: Terror bombing plot foiled
Thu 2010-06-17
  Uptick in Violence Forces Closing of Parkland Along Mexico Border to Americans
Wed 2010-06-16
  Taliban 'reappear' in Bajaur Agency
Tue 2010-06-15
  Yemen says thwarts al-Qaeda plot in oil province
Mon 2010-06-14
  4 cops killed in Algeria suicide kaboom
Sun 2010-06-13
  Son of Al Qaeda mentor Issam Abu Mohammed al-Maqdessi 'killed in Iraq'
Sat 2010-06-12
  US missiles kill 15 Taliban in N Waziristan
Fri 2010-06-11
  Iran snarls at China over UNSC sanctions
Thu 2010-06-10
  UN slaps fourth set of sanctions on Iran

Better than the average link...



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.
54.166.141.52
Help keep the Burg running! Paypal:
WoT Background (21)    Non-WoT (15)    Opinion (9)    (0)    Politix (9)