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Yvette Vickers aka Honey Parker, floozy in "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" aka Liz Walker in "Attack of the Giant Leeches", Playmate of the Month July 1959 (age 74)
There's been talk in Washington for months of the July 2011 deadline, when President Barack Obama promised to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. He didn't say how many or how quickly.
But there is a less talked about date on the horizon that may be more important: October 31, 2011.
That's when the United Nations says there should be 305,000 members of the Afghanistan national security forces trained and assigned. There are currently about 249,000 Afghan forces, but getting that number to 305,000 isn't as simple as recruiting and training one Afghan to fill each empty slot. It's closer to three Afghans for each position.
"Just to grow that 56,000, we're going to have to recruit and train and assign 141,000 police and soldiers," U.S. Army Lt. Gen. William Caldwell said during a satellite briefing from Afghanistan on Monday.
The problem is attrition, the loss of troops and police from deaths, resignation or desertion. Caldwell said, adding, "They pose the greatest threat to both quantity and quality of the Afghan national security force." How many Taliban are we training?
(Xinhua) — Several students of a girl school were mysteriously poisoned in Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, a spokesman of Ministry for Education Gul Agha Ahmadi said.
"The gruesome incident happened in Totia Secondary Girl School in Kartai Now district this morning," Ahmadi told Xinhua.
However, he could not say the number of those fell victim, saying investigation is underway to determine the reason and the number of those affected.
Meantime, sources with the Totia Girl School say that 22 pupils have fallen unconscious.
This is the fifth time that students of girl schools have fallen unconscious.
Previously girl schools in Kabul, Kunduz and Parwan provinces have faced such problems and authorities blamed Taliban militants for the attacks.
Taliban insurgents during their six-year reign, collapsed in late 2001, had outlawed schools for girls and confined women to their houses.
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[Tolo News] At least 4 police were maimed in two separate road-side kabooms in the eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday morning
The first kaboom targeted a police vehicle at 06:30am on Tuesday in the province's Chaparhar district, in which 4 police soldiers were maimed, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, a front man for the governor of Nangarhar, told TOLOnews reporter.
The second kaboom occurred at 10:30am when police forces were trying to take the car wreckage away from the first kaboom site, Abdulzai said.
No one was killed or maimed in the second kaboom, he added.
No anti-government groups, including the Taliban have taken responsibility for the attack.
Road-side mines are planted by Pirates of Boskone to target Afghan and coalition forces, in which the main victims are civilians.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting...
between troops and beturbanned fascisti gripped Somalia's capital for a third day Wednesday, with 10 civilians banged a day after bad turbans mowed down 33 people in a raid on a hotel.
Al-Qaeda-inspired Shaboobs used heavy machinegun fire against government troops backed by African Union forces to try to seize a key route in Mogadishu linking the presidential palace and the airport.
"We have advanced into the enemy lines and our forces have almost cut off the use of Maka Al-Mukarama road on which the enemy transports supplies," said Sheik Abdiaziz Abu-Muscab, Shabaab's military front man.
Maka Al-Mukarama is one of the few roads controlled by the hapless Somali government which otherwise holds only a small patch of southern Mogadishu.
The government said it had repelled the Shabaab.
"Our forces are still in control although the Al-Qaeda gun-hung tough guys tried to penetrate some of our positions this morning, we defeated them...," said Somali government security official Abdi Ali.
His side lost three soldiers, he said.
The head of Mogadishu ambulance service Ali Muse said four non-combatants were killed in the fighting on top of six reported dead early in the day.
At least 72 civilians have been killed since Monday when the Shabaab launched an onslaught on the Western-backed government in the latest bid to overthrow the administration and drive out its African Union supporters.
In a brazen attack on Tuesday, two Shabaab attackers raided a Mogadishu hotel, spraying bullets at the occupants and killing 33, among them four lawmakers, before blowing themselves up.
Some 6,000 Ugandan and Burundian AU troops are the last barrier between the hardline group and the embattled government of President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.
A senior Shabaab official called on Somalis Wednesday to contribute weapons and money to support their fighting.
"We have 500 volunteers who came today to join the jihad to sacrifice their lives for the sake of Allah and they need your help to carry out their holy plan," Ali Mohamed Hussein told reporters in Mogadishu.
Earlier the group's military front man Abu-Muscab said they had seized the government's last positions.
"Thanks to Allah, we have killed many soldiers and the mujahedeen fighters are now in full control of their last strongholds," he said.
But AU mission front man Major Ba-Hoku Barigye rejected the claim.
"We are still in our positions and neither government forces nor the African peacekeepers lost their positions.
"We will stand firm and protect the right side, there is no cause for alarm as the situation is under control," Barigye said.
The president was joined by world leaders in condemning Tuesday's attack on the hotel, which came during the Mohammedan holy month of Ramadan.
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[Magharebia] A self-proclaimed "lover of al-Qaeda and Jihad" has given Moroccan pharmacy owners one month to remove cross symbols from storefronts or else face beheading.
"In 2009, crusade France lured owners of pharmacies with financial benefits and discounts in medications in return for placing the green cross along the green crescent," said a letter published in late July by several online forums. "We demand you remove the crosses off the façades of your pharmacies and to respect our religion," the web threat continued.
"Forewarned is forearmed," the unnamed writer said. "We give you and those who work with you an interval of one month to return to your true nature and nation."
The deadline expires August 28th.
Morocco has not issued an official response to the online ultimatum. Communication Minister Khalid Naciri on August 17th told Magharebia that "the government can't issue reactions to each and every threat posted on the internet".
For his part, Laghdaf El Ghaouti, the head of Morocco's General Union of Pharmacists and Health Professionals, said that the internet threat is wrong on several counts. For one, the cross symbol has been used in Morocco for longer than the single year claimed by the web writer.
"This sign is the symbol of pharmacy worldwide and doesn't have anything to do with the Christian cross," he also noted.
"There is no relation between the dealings of pharmacists and pharmaceutical companies and crusade activities," he said. "The logic of trade is the only thing that governs these dealings."
Ahmed Quechtar, a member of the Moroccan Association of Pharmacists agreed with El Ghaouti, stating that "the placement of the cross on the façades of pharmacies is not a deliberate thing, and it surely doesn't have a certain background".
"Pharmacists graduating from Moroccan faculties understand the difference between the crescent and cross," Quechtar added.
Another pharmacist in the city of Salé told Magharebia that the allegations made by the author of the message are completely untrue: "France doesn't intervene in the work of Moroccan pharmacists, who are independent and belong to independent professional entities."
"The placement of the cross is a tradition we inherited from France," he explained. "The saying that France gives discounts to pharmacists in Morocco is a false claim, given that those pharmacists deal in a direct way with Moroccan pharmaceutical companies. Morocco produces about 85% of its needs of medications. In addition, Morocco is considered a pioneering country in the field of pharmaceuticals and regulation of the pharmacist profession."
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"we also demand you only distribute medicines developed by Islamist scientists"
/that'll kill em
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I was just reading about a US pharmacist who was threatened by a couple of armed robbers, and positively ventilated one of them, an armed 16 year old boy, with the pharmacist's two handguns.
The article is amusing. The armed robbers Mama is saying that her robber-boy was a "hero".
Investigators said Ersland knocked Parker to the ground with one shot to the head, grabbed a different weapon and fired five more shots into his chest and abdomen.
"A coward is someone who will kill someone when they're done," said Parker's mother, Cleta Jennings. "That's not a hero. The real hero here is Antwun."
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Arrest MAMA as Accomplice before and after the fact, obviously she thinks armed robbery is OK if her little spawn does it.
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I read that article, Moose. Once the perp is on the ground and harmless you're supposed to stop shooting. Seems like 'Antwun' would be on the ground if the first shot was in the head. Then again, maybe he was a cyborg.
But if he was on the ground, the pharmacist had no call to go back, get another gun, and blast him again. That to me sounds like manslaughter.
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Jennings said her son will never have a chance to prove his innocence.
When you show up with a gun to commit a robbery, it's premeditation. The gun makes it a felony. Bottom line, the 'son' gave a rats ass about any other human being other than himself. Mom's like this have loyalty only to their offspring and to hell with everyone else. In basically any other society in history, she as a minimum would be shunned to the extent as to be driven from the community.
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Doc, if the head shot was not fatal, the armed perp was potentially still a threat, whether on the ground or not. If it was fatal, then the pharmacist would be guilty of desecration of a corpse, not manslaughter.
[Al Arabiya] Mauritanian troops early Wednesday killed a boomer trying to ram a truck bomb into a military barrack at Nema in the country's east, a senior military official said.
The bomber refused to heed warnings and tried to drive his 4X4 vehicle into the main military barracks in Nema, about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) east of Nouakchott, shortly after midnight, the official said.
Nema is near the frontier with Mali.
Soldiers fired on the vehicle, sparking a "big kaboom", he said, attributing the foiled attack to an al-Qaeda offshoot in North Africa, the al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
The kaboom caused heavy damage but no other deaths, he added.
However, There's usually a howeverin there someplace, isn't there? witnesses said three people suffered light injuries.
The failed attack comes a month after the Mauritanian army launched an offensive on AQIM bases in Mali to pre-empt a strike on military bases at home.
One of them was staged with French military backing on July 22 in a bid to free 78-year-old French hostage Michel Germaneau, who was later ceremoniously murdered by AQIM.
The latest AQIM strike comes barely two days after the group released two Spanish hostages held captive in the Sahara for nine months after securing the release of the kidnap criminal mastermind and a reported ransom.
AQIM gave no details, but Malian mediators told AFP that a ransom of around eight million euros ($10 million) was paid for the release of Albert Vilalta, 35, and Roque Pascual, 50, both aid workers.
In a statement AQIM said the release of the Spaniards should serve as "a lesson" for the French secret service, referring to the failed raid to rescue the French hostage.
"They could have dealt with reason and responsibility... they could have avoided indiscretion, foolishness and deceit, which caused the death of their citizen," it said in a statement.
A French foreign ministry front man Tuesday said in reaction to the statement that Paris does "not comment on declarations made by terrorists."
A French presidential front man also insisted that France "never got the chance to make contact" with AQIM to negotiate Germaneau's release.
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(Xinhua) -- Yemeni security forces have regained control over the southern al-Qaida's stronghold city of Lodar following five days of ferocious battles, killing at least 12 gunmen, the country's interior ministry said on Tuesday.
"Al-Qaida militants have been expelled from the Lodar city of the southern province of Abyan," the ministry said in a statement posted on its website, citing Deputy Interior Minister Saleh Hussein al-Zuari.
"Security forces have totally controlled the Lodar city while searching for more terrorist elements out of the city," he said.
Meanwhile, the Defence Ministry said in a statement that "security services are determined to destroy al-Qaida organization in Lodar, where the latter took it as a haven."
At least 27 people, including 15 soldiers and 12 al-Qaida militants have been killed since the battles began on Friday, according to security official sources.
Thousands of local residents have fled the city, where dozens of houses and public facilities were destroyed during the five-day fighting and scores of al-Qaida militants escaped the city, a provincial security official told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Abyan province is thought to be a stronghold of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula after it has witnessed a series of deadly attacks allegedly carried out by the regional terrorist wing since earlier this year, leaving dozens of security personnel dead or injured.
Yemen has intensified security operations and air raids against terrorist groups, after the Yemen-based al-Qaida wing claimed responsibility for a failed Christmas Day attempt to blow up a U.S. passenger plane bound for Detroit last year.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Detective Branch of police yesterday arrested Dhaka city unit Jamaat-e-Islami chief Rafiqul Islam Khan from his Mirpur residence in the capital.
A team of DB police and Mirpur police picked up the Jamaat leader around 1:30pm and took him to the DB office at Minto Road for interrogation.
Mahmubur Rahman, DB additional deputy commissioner, told The Daily Star last night that DB police will verify all the cases filed against Rafiqul Islam and then show him arrested in one of those.
Earlier on August 23, Rafiqul Islam got anticipatory bails in six cases on charges of obstructing police in discharging their duties and hurting religious sentiment of Muslims.
Jamaat Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami and its Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid are now behind bars after being arrested in several cases.
Jamaat yesterday demanded unconditional and immediate release of the city unit Jamaat chief.
Jamaat, in a press release signed by its publicity secretary Nurul Islam Bulbul, alleged that police arrested Rafiqul Islam illegally in violation of the court order.
Meanwhile, a team of plainclothes DB police went to the residence of former Jamaat chief Ghulam Azam in Baro Moghbazar yesterday around 3:00pm and interrogated the security guards of the building.
Ismail Hossain, a security guard of the building, said the DB men questioned them about the whereabouts of Ghulam Azam and stayed at the building for about three hours.
DB ADC Mahmubur Rahman, however, refuted the security guard's claim.
Nazmul Huq, Ghulam Azam's personal secretary, said, "Intelligence people are always seen around the house."
The International Crimes Tribunal started investigating the war crimes charges against the ex-Jamaat chief.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A leader of Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) was killed in a 'shootout' between Rapid Action Battalion and his cohorts in Bagmara upazila early Wednesday. We have no idea where that is.
The deceased Elahi Baksh Mithu, 40, of Baje Goalkandi village was the regional commander of Purba Banglar Communist Party (ML-Lal Potaka) unit in Chapainawabganj. I guess he won't be telling the grandkids what he did when he turned 40. 40 is a ripe old age for a Purba Banglar ...
A Rab member, Havildar M Abdul Wahab, was also injured in the incident, says a press release. An ace bandage for the sprain and he'll be right as rain.
Tipped off a tip o' the hat to Mahmoud the Weasel ...
that PBCP cadres, who were behind police killing and arms looting incident of Dhalar Char in Pabna, were planning similar attack on Bagmara police, Gonna attack the police? No wonder Elahi didn't live to see 41 ...
a team led by ASP Shahjahan of Rab-5 Bagmara camp raided Bagicha Goalkandi area at about 3:00am The best time of the night to stage an execution and dump the body hold a meeting ...
where the group was holding a clandestine meeting. I'm disappointed: where were they meeting? Orange grove? Banana plantation? Palm forest? These details are important, you know ...
Sensing presence of the elite force, "Hark! My spider-sense is tingling!"
the gang opened fire forcing them to fire back that triggered a ten-minute 'gunfight'. Alas, only one body was hit in the 'gunfight' ...
Later, Rab men found Mithu's bullet hit body lying on the ground. One behind each ear ...
His cohorts, however, managed to flee the scene. As if they were never there in the first place ...
A 7.65mm USA-made pistol, three bullets, one magazine, three sharp weapons and two leaflets were recovered from the spot. No shutter gun?
Mithu was accused in three cases including one for Taherpur police murder, said the Rab. So his mother didn't love him ...
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The shutter gun has been missing for a while...I think someone broke it...
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Police were attacked with hand grenades in two separate nearly simultaneous attacks in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon leaving a toll of four wounded, say Mexican press reports.
Two state police vehicles were attacked at about 2330 hrs overnight near the intersection of calles Lincoln and Rangel Frias in northeast Monterrey.
Aboard were two agents from Agencia Estatal de Investigaciones attack (AEI) and two agents from Seguridad Publica del Estado (SPE), all of whom were wounded in the explosion. The grenade was thrown from atop the Rangel Frias bridge.
Meanwhile, a police station on calle Durazno in the Valle Verde district was attacked by armed suspects using a hand grenade. The attack took place when the bomb was dropped in an alley next to the station.
No one was reported hurt and damage from the explosion was limited to a damaged wall of the building and an adjacent residence.
Elements of the Mexican Army were reported to be close by when the attack was made.
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Most of the fighting in Reynosa, Tamaulipas has ended as elements of the Mexican Army have taken over police checkpoints in various parts of the city, according to Mexican press reports.
Fighting between elements of the the Mexican Army and criminal gangs flared up yesterday as gun battles were fought in the streets.
Reynosa city officials warned residents Tuesday through Twitter to remain indoors.
During the fighting, a number of roadblocks were thrown up by criminal gangs in several areas, some concentrated in the Villa Florida district in western Reynosa where a number of industrial plants are. Reports at the time said the roadblocks coincided with the ending of the Tuesday morning shift of American owned factories in the area.
Reports are a total of six dead, including three soldiers, a civilians and two gang members, and an additional seven wounded in the fighting.
The Mexican Army is apparently taking over checkpoints on all major roads leading into Reynosa including roads that connect Matamoros, Ciudad Victoria, Monterrey and Nuevo Laredo. The effort is to block additional ingress into the city by criminal gangs.
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The Mexican Navy (SEMAR) announced that a Mexican Marine detachment found a grave site Tuesday night containing 72 dead at a ranch near the town of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, according to Mexican press accounts.
Reports say the marine detachment found the ranch after being informed by an unidentified escaped victim, an Ecuadoran national, who found the marine unit on patrol nearby.
An aircraft was sent to scout the area, but was apparently fired on with heavy weapons. The Mexican Navy then sent in two helicopters to the ranch. When the marines arrived at the location a number of armed suspects engaged the marines in a firefight. One marine and three armed suspects died in the battle.
The 72 victim are all illegal immigrants from various Central and South American countries. They were told by an armed group to give more money, and when the group refused, they were shot. The dead include 14 women and four Brazilians. The victims were apparently kidnapped while trying to reach the US border.
Reports are that elements of the the criminal gang Los Zetas were the shooters in the massacre.
Marines seized a number of munitions following the battle including six M-4 5.56mm carbines, three AK-47 rifles assault rifles, seven 12 gauge shotguns, five .22 caliber rifles, 101 magazines for various weapons, two belts of ammunition, 6,646 weapons cartridges, four bulletproof vests and a helmet.
Marines also seized four trucks including one with Mexican Army (SEDENA) markings.
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With the fact Obama has turned the border security and immigration issue into a political football, instead of a national security/human rights issue, he has facilitated the drug and human trafficking cartels allowing them to operate with autonomy. By his unwillingness to act as president of our nation on this issue he is A) complicit in the deaths of the Mexicans trying to cross over and B) responsible for damages to the US citizens and their property that is destroyed in the process.
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A total of 90 individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang violence which included a female police officer in Juarez shot to death along with another woman, and the bodyguard of a senior police official in Torreon, Coahula found beheaded. The mass grave with 72 dead and the six dead in Reynosa, Tamaulipas from yesterday's fighting are being included in today's compilation total. For a map, click here.
A female police officer and another woman were shot to death in Juarez Tuesday afternoon, say Mexican press reports. Magaly Almond Caldera, 23, and Felipa Olivas, 35, were attacked by armed suspects near the intersection of calles Higuera and Gladiolas in the Altavista district. An unknown number of armed suspects riding aboard a Chevrolet Blazer are to have shot the women. An unidentified child was with the pair, and was wounded in the attack.
An unidentified women in her 20s was found shot to death and mutilated in northern Chihuahua, Chihuahua Tuesday afternoon, according to Mexican press reports. The victim was apparently burned with a tire placed over her head after she was shot. The victim was dumped at a vacant lot.
Three men were found shot to death in Juarez Monday night, say Mexican press accounts. The discovery was made on Calle Casita on the Belleza district where the victims were found dead, shot using AK-47 assault rifles. One victim was identified as Adan Meraz Nuñez, 28. The other two have not been identified.
A man was shot to death in Mexicali, Baja California, say Mexican news reports. Alejandro Gutierrez Gonzalez was found near the intersection of Calle Mixteca and Avenida Coronango in the Ãngeles de Puebla district. He was shot twice by unknown armed suspects in a moving vehicle.. Investigators found two pistols on the victim's body.
Two unidentified men were found dead in Tijuana, Baja California, say Mexican news reports. Officials were brought to Calle Margaritas extension in the Three of October district following the arrest of four suspects from a shootout following a drug deal that went bad. They were told four individuals were to be found on the property, a residence. One victim was found inside a cluttered room and the other was found buried in the ground. Both victims had been beaten to death. The four suspects are allegedly involved in a kidnap scheme in Tijuana. Four of their victim were rescued.
The mutilated body of of a police official bodyguard was found in Torreon, Coahuila, according to Mexican press reports. The discovery was made on Avenida Revolucion near a sports complex where the body and a message was found. The presumed relatives of the bodyguard could not identify the body positively. Reports do not say how the victim was killed before being mutilated. The victim was a bodyguard for the chief of the Torreon municipal Seguridad Publica, Bibiano Villa Castillo.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in Torreon, Coahuila, according to Mexican press reports. The body was found near the intersection of Bulevar Madero and Calle Eulalio Gutierrez in the Luis Echeverria district with his feet bound and his legs broken.
A man was found shot and drown near a farm in Torreon Monday, say Mexican press accounts. Rafael Burciaga Granados, 37, was shot in the thorax and was found in an irrigation canal near the La Partida farm. The body was in a state of decomposition, and was originally reported as a drowning.
(Itar-Tass) -- The archive files, which the security services had found after the destruction of warlord Magomed-Ali Vagabov in Dagestan evokes a real interest and will help destroy and neutralize the gunmen, Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov told Itar-Tass here on Wednesday.
"During the combat operation we succeeded to find those archive files, which present a real interest in terms of the place and the role, the goals and the tasks, which they (gunmen) were pursuing, the ties that they were maintaining with the bandit underground in the North Caucasus and abroad," the FSB director underlined.
"Since last March after the tragic events in the Moscow metro we were doing our best to neutralize Vagabov's gang, primarily Vagabov himself. We succeeded to do it quite recently," Bortnikov said.
"I believe that these materials can most probably be made public after corresponding procedural actions soon. They really present a keen interest for the security services," he pointed out.
Vagabov and four other gunmen were destroyed on August 21 in a special operation in the Dagestani settlement Gunib.
According to the Russian National Anti-Terrorist Committee, Vagabov's gang is involved in numerous terrorist acts in Dagestan and outside the republic. Vagabov was a mastermind of the suicide bomb attacks in the Moscow metro and was recruiting actively young people in the bandit underground and was training female suicide bombers.
Back in 2005 Vagabov declared himself as emir Abdullah of Gubden and led the so-called Gubden terrorist group, as well as was the second main bandit in the Imarat Caucasus hierarchy and a Shariat judge appointed by another warlord Doku Umarov.
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An alleged al-Qaeda bomb plot hatched in Ottawa over the past two years has been dismantled by counter-terrorism police.
Two people were arrested without incident Wednesday on undisclosed terrorism-related charges after RCMP and Ottawa police armed with a search warrant converged on a townhouse at 91 Esterlawn Pvt., near the Carlingwood Mall in Ottawa, at about 7 a.m. A simultaneous and similar low-key raid took place at a highrise apartment at 220 Woodridge Cres. in the Bayshore area.
There were indications Wednesday night that further searches might take place, including in Gatineau.
The suspects' identities and details about the alleged jihadist plot are to be released at an RCMP news conference this afternoon. An RCMP spokesman would only say the accusations are "very serious."
Sources close to the investigation, "Project Samosa," said the suspected ringleader allegedly attended terrorist training camps in the Pakistan and Afghanistan region, leading investigators to believe the alleged plot may have links to al-Qaeda or one of its regional affiliates.
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The parents of an American soldier in Afghanistan have accused the U.S. government of leaving defenders of its freedoms without basics such as blankets, food, feminine hygiene supplies and even bullets.
"One of my soldiers went without ammo for five weeks once they got to Afghanistan because of shortages. I can't reveal the name, because they are frightened of reprisals. If they can do what they did to a four star general like [Gen. Stanley A.] McChrystal, what would they do to a buck private?"
That comes from a woman who, with her husband, has taken it upon herself to adopt soldiers and provide them with many of the needed basics.
The woman, assigned a pseudonym of "Beth," insisted her name not be used because of the possibility of reprisals against her or the soldiers.
But she said she received a report that a U.S. soldier bought a $15 knife "and slept with their hand on the handle in the waist of their pants because it was all they had for the moment to protect themselves."
The woman confirmed she and her husband are involved in supplying the basic necessities for some 50 soldiers -- because the military isn't.
"If the military doesn't supply what they need, they must depend on family or people like me," Beth said. "Many of these families are struggling on low wages, some parents are on disabilities and unable to help. Sending a box once a month during their deployment is not only good for their morale, but they need (to be) resupplied with many essential items."
The Pentagon did not respond to a request for comment on the allegations. But one soldier told Beth the work days are 18 hours long, and they have few "real meals."
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But she said she received a report that a U.S. soldier bought a $15 knife "and slept with their hand on the handle in the waist of their pants because it was all they had for the moment to protect themselves."
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Yep, I'm calling bullshit on this. The 'stan is at the end of a very long and precarious supply line, so temporary shortages can develop in certain areas.
But if soldiers were really going without ammo for weeks at a time, the howling from Congress and the chain of command would shake down the Hindu Kush.
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But she said she received a report that a U.S. soldier bought a $15 knife "and slept with their hand on the handle in the waist of their pants because it was all they had for the moment to protect themselves."
Why a a 15$ knife instead of a 10$ AK47? I think it is BS.
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Maybe some truth. Logistics were choked during the floods. We have had low/no fuel days in deployments before. The external areas sometimes go for weeks with no support. This has been ongoing for a long time as logistic convoys have been burned and raided. Now it seems to be just a point that the floods in Pakistan made it very difficult to get the basics in. It has always been VERY tight.
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ohh, might I mention... there is always the newby that you don't want to give a weapon to yet or ever, and also they are not going to leave base without one. Who knows. Seen many reasons for this myself.
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Unless you start seeing this sort of report from widespread sources, including milbloggers who get the info from buddies in theater, I also think it's BS.
If this was actually happening we'd hear about it damn quick in alot of ways.
I hereby nominate this for Snark of the Day. Well done, Pappy!
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I agree that it is likely caused by Pakistan flooding, with essential supplies taken from the rear areas and being sent to the active combat ops until the logistics train can be reestablished.
However, the flip side is that the reason mail packages are getting through is because it is flown in, and has long been a very high priority for morale reasons.
I've no idea what the APO and likely FPO air route is to Afghanistan, but its "last airport" probably isn't even in Pakistan.
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World Net Daily is _worse_ than Weekly World News. It's designed to suck in those who have some gut feeling that something's wrong with our society, and channel their energy into something that isn't really threatening to the ruling class.
Oh, and as Pappy said, with WWN at least you got Batboy updates.
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Don't worry R-Burgers, we're doing fine over here. Just the occasional rocket/mortar/splodey-dope attack to put up with. It's starting to cool off a bit here, temp's have only been in the lower to mid 120's. Can't wait for the tobacco embargo to end at the post offices there, ya just can't beat good old Stateside Copenhagen. I guess folks can ship it now if you use signature service, like I'll get a post man to show up to my hooch to make me sign for a few cans of snoose.
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Bodyguard: Way back in the old army, hrumph, when we got care packages of Cope, it was pretty obvious that the AAFES in Yurp was getting course-cut ends and pieces, full of stems and seeds. A stateside roll was quality cut, much finer cut, and twice as strong.
But you had to be very hard up to ever try the Swedish version, which was the lutefisk of tobacco.
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20 billion dollars would buy 200,000 men@$100,000/year or 400,000 men@$50,000/year. Or a good security fence? Or drones to patrol the region? Or intelligence to take down drug gangs.
[Dawn] Gunmen on a cycle of violencerubbed out a local politician in Pakistain's southwestern province of Balochistan on Wednesday, police said.
"Mustafa Khursani, a provincial leader of Pakistain Peoples Party-Sherpao was killed by unknown gunnies in his native town of Soorab, some 230 kilometres south of Quetta," senior police official Khalid Baqi told AFP.
"Khursani was sitting in a grocery shop when two young men riding a cycle of violence came there and sprayed bullets from close range," Baqi said, adding that the motive for the killing was not immediately clear.
Nobody has yet taken credit, he said.
Violence has surged this year in Balochistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran.
Human rights muscle have raised concerns about an increase in assassinations in the province over the past 20 months.
Hundreds of people have died since Baloch gun-hung tough guys rose up in 2004 demanding political autonomy and a greater share of profits from the region's wealth of natural oil, gas and mineral resources.
The province is also rife with sectarian violence.
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[Gulf Times] Gunmen disguised as Iraqi soldiers killed five oil workers transporting salaries and stole almost $400,000, the head of security for the state-owned oil company said yesterday.
The attack occurred on Monday afternoon near the town of Sayniyah in Salaheddin province north of Baghdad as the salaries were being taken to an oil pumping station in Haditha, in western Anbar province.
"Five employees of K-3, a unit of the North Oil Company, were kidnapped near the village of Al Bushmanah, west of Sayniyah, by gunmen wearing army uniforms," said Colonel Adnan Mohamed Abdulrazzaq, security chief for the state-owned North Oil Company.
"They killed them and stole the money they were transporting." Abdulrazzaq said they were carrying 453mn Iraqi dinars ($385,000) when the attack occurred at around 1pm on Monday afternoon. "Security units were supposed to have been sent with them, but were not," he said, without specifying why.
The K-3 pump station, owned by the North Oil Company, pumps to the adjoining Haditha oil refinery, which handles between 10,000 and 20,000 barrels of oil per day.
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"Security units were supposed to have been sent with them, but were not," he said, without specifying why.
[Al Arabiya] A series of apparently coordinated car bombs targeting police across Iraq on Wednesday killed 46 people, including women and children, one day after the U.S. military confirmed a major troop reduction.
The trail of bloodshed started in the capital Baghdad before stretching to the north and south of the country, hitting a total of seven cities and towns in quick succession in tactics that bore the hallmark of al-Qaeda.
In the worst attack, a car bomb at a passport office in Kut, 160 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of Baghdad, killed 26 people, including 15 police, and wounded 90 people, most of them police, Lieutenant Ali Hussein told AFP.
In Baghdad, a suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle at a police station in the northeastern suburb of Qahira, killing 15 people and wounding dozens of others, security and medical officials said.
The attack in the mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhood took place at around 8 am (0500 GMT), according to an interior ministry official who gave the toll. "The victims include policemen and civilians," he said.
A doctor at Medical City Hospital said they had received the bodies of two women, two children and two police officers, and that 44 other people were receiving treatment.
A series of car bomb attacks in five other towns and cities raised the nationwide toll to 46, and almost 250 wounded.
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I wonder if the Iraqis are going to be able to keep their country? Are they up to the task?
(Ma'an) -- Islamic Jihad accused Gaza internal security forces of detaining four affiliates on Wednesday after breaking into one of the movement's offices in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, an official said.
The Islamic Jihad official, who preferred to remain anonymous, said Gaza forces beat the party's supporters before detaining them. Forces confiscated several documents and ransacked the office, the official added.
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[Jerusalem Post] Security forces on Wednesday arrested a Palestinian Tanzim tough guy who had been granted amnesty by Israel as part of a fugitive agreement several years ago in an operation by the Border Police's elite undercover Judea and Samaria unit (YAMAS), the IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency). "Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!" Steven Anbatawi, 23, was behind a series of shooting attacks in the Nablus area during the Second Intifada but was granted a pardon by Israel if he refrained from engaging in terrorist activity. "Go and sin no more!"
"See ya, suckahz!"
In recent months, the Shin Bet learned of his involvement in planning and carrying out attacks against Israelis and as a result he was apprehended on Wednesday. [Knock knock!]
"Who's there?"
"Shin Bet! Open up!"
"I'm not home now! Come back later!"
IDF sources said that out of the hundreds of Palestinians included in the fugitive agreement, only a handful have breached the agreement. "How big a handful?"
"Pretty big one, actually..." Vazir Aasia, born in 1990 and also a member of the Tanzim group, was also arrested along with Anbatawi. "Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! You, too, Wazir!"
"You can't...!"
"Shuddup. And keep a civil tongue in yer head! I got socks older than you!"
This article starring:
Steven Anbatawi
Tanzim
Vazir Aasia
Tanzim
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[Jerusalem Post] A wanted terrorist was arrested by the Border Police's elite undercover Judea and Samaria unit (YAMAS) near Hebron early on Wednesday. Ramzi Abu Saria was taken into custody in Kfar Bet Omra. "Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!"
"Y'know, you don't sound Jewish..."
Saria is suspected of being involved in recent terrorist activities, security forces said.
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[Ya Libnan] The pro-Syrian media continues to undermine the Special Tribunal for Lebanon by leaking information that is not credible with the aim of eliminating the Tribunal according to Lebanese legal experts.
The most active pro-Syrian newspaper has been the As Safir daily. Yesterday As Safir reported that President Nicolas Sarkozy has said that the decisions of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon lie in the hands of the U.S.
Based on As Safir report MP Walid Jumblatt joind the list of critics and repeated what the daily reported when he said "Washington is behind a decision to be issued by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon convicting people in the murder of former PM Rafik Hariri ".
"This phase requires a wait-and-see strategy," Jumblatt said in remarks published by several Beirut dailies on Wednesday.
"The decision of the International Tribunal, however, is in the hands of the Americans as French President Nicolas Sarkozy was quoted as telling a senior Arab official," Jumblatt added.
Jumblatt warned against dragging the country into civil strife.
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[An Nahar] One person was wounded as two grenade explosions shook the northern port city of Tripoli, a security official said Wednesday, hours after deadly clashes in the capital Beirut. "A first blast went off at 11:00 pm (2000 GMT) Tuesday but did not result in any injuries, followed by a grenade explosion at 8:00 (0500 GMT) this morning which wounded a 26-year-old woman," the official told Agence France Presse. He said the woman, who is in a stable condition in hospital, was injured by a grenade placed in a tank containing fuel in Hayy al-Amrikan, a neighborhood that houses Lebanon's Alawite Muslims, a community supported by Syria.
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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.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Heavy fighting
[Al Arabiya] Mauritanian troops early Wednesday killed a 
(Xinhua) -- Yemeni security forces have regained control over the southern al-Qaida's stronghold city of Lodar following five days of ferocious battles, killing at least 12 gunmen, the country's interior ministry said on Tuesday.
A leader of Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) was killed in a 'shootout' between Rapid Action Battalion and his cohorts in Bagmara upazila early Wednesday.
[Dawn] Gunmen on a 
[Al Arabiya] A series of apparently coordinated car bombs targeting police across Iraq on Wednesday killed 46 people, including women and children, one day after the U.S. military confirmed a major troop reduction.
[Jerusalem Post] Security forces on Wednesday arrested a Palestinian Tanzim 
[Jerusalem Post] A wanted terrorist was arrested by the Border Police's elite undercover Judea and Samaria unit (YAMAS) near Hebron early on Wednesday. Ramzi Abu Saria was taken into custody in Kfar Bet Omra.
