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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Greer Garson aka Mrs. Kay Miniver in "Mrs. Miniver" aka Katherine Chipping in "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" (Died in 1996 at age 91)



Women Who Bathe
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 09/29/2010 6:34 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Suicide Bomb Kills Afghan Vice-Governor, Five Others
[Asharq al-Aswat] A boomer on a motorized rickshaw killed the deputy governor of Afghanistan's Ghazni province and five others on Tuesday, the area's police chief said, the latest assassination of a government official.

This year has been the bloodiest in Afghanistan since the Taliban's removal in 2001, with military and civilian casualties at record levels. More foreign troops have died this year already than in the whole of 2009.

Militants have also stepped up targeted attacks on officials. An average of 21 people were reported to be assassinated each week, the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society said in a quarterly report on the country this month, up from seven a week earlier this year.

Deputy governor Mohammad Kazim Allahyar and several men traveling with him were killed instantly when the attacker detonated his explosives at the back of their car near the airport in Ghazni city, provincial police chief Delawar Zahid told Rooters.

The bodies were so badly burned that there was some confusion about the identity of the other victims.

Zahid said Allahyar's son, nephew and driver died, along with two civilians passing by on a bicycle. He had earlier said three bodyguards died along with Allahyar's relatives. President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai's palace said four bodyguards and Allahyar's son died.

Another 17 people have been taken to the provincial hospital for treatment and are in good condition, Safiullah, a doctor who goes by one name, told Rooters.

The car Allahyar was traveling in, an ordinary white Toyota Corolla rather than the armored vehicles used by many officials, was almost entirely destroyed by the blast.

The scene of the kaboom was cordoned off, but a thick column of smoke was still rising from the remains of the vehicle. Allahyar had already beat feet one assassination attempt earlier this year.

Ghazni, which lies around two hours drive to the southwest of Kabul, has seen a steady increase in violence. NATO and Afghan forces fight regularly with forces of Evil in the area, but there has not been a push to roll back their gains comparable to efforts in the southern Taliban heartlands of Kandahar and Helmand.
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Mauritania opened negotiations with Abu Zeid
[Ennahar] The Mauritanian authorities have released 27 Malian smugglers, members of groups of narcos. They have left the central prison in Nouakchott on Monday night. They were delivered to the Malian authorities who in their turn delivered them to the organization of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat
... now known as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb...
GSPC, activating in the Sahel regions, as part of a possible exchange against the French hostages kidnapped on 21 September in Niger.

The Mauritanian army had carried out last February; a military operation against terrorist groups, during which three elements have been eliminated and the others jugged, a large quantity of arms and drugs was also seized.

Presented in court, they were accused of trade and drug trafficking and support for terrorists, but they were released without having been tried.

According to experts in the matter, the French authorities have opened the door to negotiations with the group of Abdelhamid Abou Zeid, leader of the phalanx "Tarik Ibn Ziad", responsible for the kidnapping of French citizens, employees of the company Areva in Niger. The latter have expressed their desire to negotiate with bully boyz in order to ensure the safety of their citizens.

President Nicolas Sarkozy himself said, two days ago, that France is ready to discuss even though there were no sign on the possible start of negotiations.

Traffickers that the Mauritanian authorities have released these days will probably be delivered to the terrorist organization in exchange for the French hostages.

Moreover, many wonder about the release by Nouakchott of traffickers who have tied relationships with the terrorist organisation, who had been jugged in its territory while preparing to move large quantities of drugs and weapons, then they were not tried. Mauritanian authorities would not have acted such a way if they were not involved in negotiations between various parties working for the release of French hostages held by Abu Zeid, before this one changes his mind, as he did with the case of the British national Edwin Dyer, executed after London refused to negotiate and also the French national Michel Germaneau who was killed after the Franco-Mauritanian airstrike that killed six terrorists.

This market is not the first since Nouakchott has already complied with the requirements of Madrid and the haggling of Bamako when she delivered the terrorist Omar Sahraoui to Mali who had in turn delivered him to the terrorist organization in exchange of Spanish hostages.
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Africa Subsaharan
Fifteen schoolchildren taken in Nigeria
[Iran Press TV] Gunmen have kidnapped more than a dozen schoolchildren after hijacking their bus, raising concerns over a surge in abductions in Nigeria's restive southern delta.

Abia State police front man Geoffrey Ogbonna told AP on Tuesday that the gunnies stopped the school bus Monday morning as it headed toward a private school, Abayi International.

According to the front man, gunnies freed the bus driver and a teacher but are holing 15 children and have made a ransom demand of more than USD 130,000.

Abia State is located in the southeast of Africa's most populous nation, near the Niger Delta.

Armed rebels in the oil-rich region say they are fighting the government for a larger share in oil revenues to curb growing poverty.

The rebels kidnapping for ransom usually target foreigners or members of wealthy families, which has prompted oil firms to raise their level of security.

This has turned the attention of the gangs to middle-class Nigerian families.

Pirates operating off the delta's coast are currently holding hostage three French oil workers and one Thai national.
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
Durango: Mexican Army Bags 3 Bad Guys
Google Translate. Hat tip to Nota Roja for the additonal details. For a map, click here
Three dead armed suspects are the balance of a confrontation with a detachment of the Mexican Army in Gomez Palacio, Durango, say Mexican press sources.

The gunfight took place near the intersection of calles Valle del Guadiana and Tamzula in the Industrial district at around 0230 hrs when an army patrol signalled the driver of a Volkswagen Bora, which had several individuals on board, to pull over, but instead were fired on.

Soldiers returned fire killing three and arresting a fourth man.

In the vehicle were found three AK-15 assault rifles and a Star brand .380 automatic pistol, along with several magazines for the weapons. Soldiers also seized a radio.

Gomez Palacio is just across the Durango state border with Coahuila and is next to Torreon.
Posted by: badanov || 09/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


More Mexican Mayhem
12 Die in Chihuahua

Twelve individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, including three unidentifird men shot to death by an armed group in the Mexico 68 district of Juarez.
For a map, click here
  • Five unidentified individuals were shot to death in three separate crimes in Juarez Monday evening, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. The first crime took place near the intersection of calles Indonesia and Rusia in the Aeropuerto district where a group of 20 armed suspects riding in a four vehicle convoy shot and killed a couple riding in a Cadillac Escalade. The second crime took place near the intersection of calles Namibia and Indonesia in the Campestre Virreyes district where two individuals were shot to death. The third crime took place in the Aeropuerto district where a victim was found shot to death in a garage.

  • An unidentified wheelchair bound man was shot to death in Juarez Monday evening, say Mexican news accounts. The attack took place near the intersection of calles Tapioca and Jilotepec in southern Juarez where armed suspects shot the man to death and left a poster board with message the victim was killed because he was a "hawk" who worked for "Shorty", a reference to Joaquin Guzman Loera, boss of the Sinaloa drug gang, the Juarez drug gang's chief competitor in Chihuahua.

  • An unidentified man was shot to death and a female companion was seriously wounded in a shooting in Juarex late Monday night, say Mexican press sources. The couple were found near the intersection of calles Veracruz and Morelia in the Colinas del Norte. The couple had apparently been abducted a short time before being shot and dumped.

  • Two unidentified men were shot to death in Juarez Tuesday, say Mexican news reports. The shooting took place at an abandoned warehouse near the intersection of calles Internacional and Rio Verde in the Rio Bravo district, roughly 400 meters from the Zaragoza International Bridge. A third victim, an unidentified female, was wounded in the attack.

  • Three unidentified men were shot to death in Juarez Tuesday afternoon, according to Mexican press sources. The attack took place near the intersection of calles Lauro Gomez and Lenin in the Mexico 68 district where dozens of armed suspects reportedly went into the backyard of a residence where the three victim were working to repair a vehicle, and shot them to death. Mexico 68 is a heavy gang district in Juarez.
Posted by: badanov || 09/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Four police officers, including the chief of the extremism control department, killed in Dagestan
(Itar-Tass) -- Four cops, including the chief of the extremism control department, died in a shootout in Dagestan on Tuesday, front man of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office Investigation Committee Vladimir Markin told Itar-Tass.

"Automatic gunfire was opened at the chief of the Izberbash extremism control department and another four police officers in the Jasmine cafe on Gamidov Street in Izberbash, Dagestan, at about 5:00 p.m. Moscow time. Three officers died instantly, and the department chief died at hospital," he said.
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Chechen Republic of Ichkeria

#1  "...including the chief of the extremism control department."

Hmm. That's a sign of competent intelligence from the turbans. Much like the "encounter specialist" being one of the dead Indian cops in the Bombay raid.
Posted by: Pstanley || 09/29/2010 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  This is the second such in about two weeks.
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2010 8:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Karl,

Is being the head fo the extremism control department in Dagestan sorta like being the number three guy in Al Qaeda?

Jimmy,

It seems that way.

Karl,

Please don't call me Jimmy.
Posted by: James Carville/Karl Rove || 09/29/2010 12:10 Comments || Top||

#4  I did not have sex with that woman....

Oops wrong thread
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 09/29/2010 12:11 Comments || Top||


Europe
Spain holds man over al-Qaeda funding
SPANISH police have arrested an Algerian-born US citizen suspected of raising funds for al-Qaeda's north African branch, the interior ministry confirmed tonight.

Mohamed Omar Debhi was detained yesterday in Barcelona "over his alleged links to international terrorism," the ministry said in a statement. Debhi, 43, a US citizen of Algerian origin who lived in Barcelona, is suspected of "terrorist financing of the al-Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb" as well as fraud and forgery. It said he had sent more than 60,000 euros ($A84,000) by bank transfer or human couriers to an Algerian citizen in the north African country, Toufik Mizi.

Mizi fled Spain in 2006 after Spanish police dismantled a radical Islamic cell involved in funding AQIM. He is wanted in Spain for terrorist offences.

Debhi and Tizi were involved in laundering the money sent to Algeria through fake companies, the ministry said. The funds were used to to buy materials for AQIM "terrorist activities."

AQIM carries out attacks and kidnappings in a vast area encompassing parts of Mauritania, Algeria, Mali and Niger. Last month it freed two Spanish hostages held in Mali for nine months, reportedly after a ransom of around eight million euros ($A11.2 million) had been paid and a senior militant released from jail in Mali. In July it claimed responsibility for the execution of a French hostage, Michael Germaneau, 78, who was kidnapped in Niger in April before being transferred to Mali.
If Al Qaeda in the Maghreb has so much money from kidnappings, why do they need a piddling 60,000 euros sent from Spain?
Posted by: tipper || 09/29/2010 07:59 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Debhi once lived in Katy, Texas. Police seized three computers, hard drives banking and other documents--happy hunting!
Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 || 09/29/2010 9:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Ooooooh, that's very good to know, Lumpy Elmoluck5091!
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/29/2010 23:34 Comments || Top||


France: evacuation of the Eiffel Tower after bomb threat
[Ennahar] The Eiffel Tower was Tuesday evening being evacuated by police after a bomb threat, while the French intelligence services have recently reported an "imminent threat of attack," said police headquarters in Paris.
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Europe

#1  Attacks on symbols of national identity should come as no surprise. They will not rest until the Eiffel becomes a prayer tower.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/29/2010 2:54 Comments || Top||

#2  What wouldn't have been happening if Zionists weren't building in occupied Palestine.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2010 6:00 Comments || Top||

#3  One of these days the West is going to get tired of the constant harassment by Muslims and do something. I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end when that day comes.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 09/29/2010 14:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Any references to 'occupied Palestine' prior to the 67 War when the land was part of Jordan and Egypt?

Does that make Prussia and Silesia 'occupied Germany'?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/29/2010 22:17 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey convicts Kurdish party head over 'rebel propaganda'
[Pak Daily Times] A Turkish court on Tuesday handed a suspended 10-month jail sentence to the head of the country's main Kurdish party on charges of spreading propaganda for separatist rebels. The judge ruled that Selahattin Demirtas, chairman of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), had "disseminated the propaganda of a terrorist organisation" when he declared in a television interview that jailed rebel chief Abdullah Ocalan was the leader of the Kurdish people. The court in Diyarbakir, the regional capital of the mainly Kurdish southeast, said that part of its decision not to send Demirtas to prison was based upon his good behaviour during the trial. Demirtas, who was not present in court, has the right to appeal the sentence. Defence lawyers had argued that the BDP leader had exercised his right to free speech in the interview, given three years ago to a Europe-based Kurdish channel. The sentence coincides with tentative efforts by the government to find a peaceful solution to a 26-year campaign by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) for self-rule in the southeast.
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Cross-border heli raids kill 9 in Pakistan
[Iran Press TV] Pak authorities say US forces in the eastern province of Khost
...which coincidentally borders North Wazoo...
shelled the Pak border town of Matta Sanga, adding that all casualties are civilians.
Naturally. What they were before they became dead civilians is a different question altogether, never to be asked.
The corpse count is expected to rise as some of the injured are reported to be in critical condition.
"I'm not dead yet. I'm just resting..."
*bonk*
"Bring out yer dead!"
Meanwhile,
...back at the ranch...
Pak security officials say that a US dronezap killed four people and maimed several others in South Wazoo tribal region on Tuesday.

Sources say the drone fired two missiles at a residential compound in the volatile tribal region.
Two missiles for four people? That sounds like pretty good shooting.
The dronezaps, which were initiated by former US president George W. Bush and have continued under President Barack B.O. Obama, have drastically increased in recent weeks at a time when devastating floods have taken their toll on the South Asian country.
Thus reducing the number of useless mouths the impecunious survivors struggle to feed.
The developments come one day after two helicopters operated by the US forces in Afghanistan crossed into Pakistain's volatile tribal areas, killing at least 50 people.
Or seventy, or seven. The number varies with the teller.
In a similar incident, US forces killed more than 30 people on Friday.
The line before Hell's threshold must be long, indeed. Thank goodness they can reach the coal beds from underneath, as there is an unexpected call on their supply of intestine roasters. They can make do with cooking pots for the overflow if need be, but there's no substitute for hot coals.
Islamabad has reacted angrily to the air strikes calling them a violation of its sovereignty.
Yes, yes, As you say, a dreadful occurrence. And when you control your boys, we won't have to do it for you. Another biscuit to go with your tea, dear boy? Or perhaps a dollop of whiskey is more to your taste...
Pakistain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs called for an end to such attacks. "These incidents are a clear violation and breach of the UN mandate under which ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) operates," Pak foreign office front man Abdul Basit said in a statement on Monday.
One must let them posture, lest they go mad. Or madder -- it's so difficult to see a difference, you see.
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan

#1  Love the comments interspersed with the article.
My sentiments exactly!
Keep 'em coming.
Posted by: Mike Hunt || 09/29/2010 12:13 Comments || Top||

#2  You're on fire today, tw. :-D
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 09/29/2010 13:39 Comments || Top||

#3  I won't be happy until they start using napalm and cluster munitions, ARCLIGHT strikes, and A-10 panty-raids on Taliban funeral processions. We might get somewhere then. Of course, a half-dozen ARCLIGHT strikes on Rawalpindi/Islamabad would do wonders, also, especially if the Air Force used tactical nukes in the strike.

Pakistan needs a VERY hard kick in the teeth, letting them know that we are tired of their constant interference in Afghanistan, and their support of terrorism throughout the Western world. Nothing less that a complete stomping will get the message through their hard heads. I fully support such a stomping by all and sundry, including India.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 09/29/2010 18:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Thank you, Mike and Barbara. Sometimes the text is inspirational.

Old Patriot, I think we all understand your frustration. On the other hand, as the UAVs and the Afghan Special Forces work their way down their lists of targets, eventually it won't be only the floodwaters that reduce Pakistan's population...
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/30/2010 0:02 Comments || Top||


Three injured in grenade attack in Hub
[Pak Daily Times] Three people were injured in a hand grenade attack in Industrial Town Hub, Lasbela district on Tuesday

According to sources, person or persons unknown hurled a hand grenade at the Government High School. The attackers then beat feet from the scene. The injured were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment but later transferred to Karachi for better treatment. The injured were identified as Sumar Khan, Naseer Ahmed and Abdul Majeed and are stated to be in stable condition An official said that the students were in classrooms when the blast took place.

Meanwhile,
...back at the ranch...
a group of enraged students staged a protest demonstration on the RCD highway and blocked the highway for vehicular traffic for two hours. The protesters vociferated slogans against the police and law enforcement agencies for their failure to safeguard the lives and property of the people. The case has been filled in Hub cop shoppe against unidentified people and investigations are underway.
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


CIA ups drone strikes over Europe attacks plot: report
[Pak Daily Times] In an effort to foil a suspected terrorist plot against European targets, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has ramped up missile strikes against forces of Evil in Pakistain's tribal regions, current and former agency officials were quoted as saying by the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.

In July 8, Pak paramilitary troops took position on a hilltop post in Khajore Kut, an area of South Wazoo.

The terror plot, which officials have been tracking for weeks, is believed to target multiple countries, including the UK, France, and Germany, the officials said.

The exact nature of the plot or plots could not be learned immediately, and counter-terrorism officials in the US, Pakistain and Europe are continuing to investigate. There have, however, been multiple terror warnings in recent days in France, Germany and the UK.

Notable threats: "There are some pretty notable threat streams," said one US military official, who added that the significance of these threats is still being discussed among counter-terrorism officials but that threats of this height were unusual.

US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano plans to discuss the current European terrorism intelligence with her European counterparts at a UN aviation security meeting this week in Montreal. "We are in constant contact with our colleagues abroad," she told a Senate panel last week. "We are all seeing increased activity by a more diverse set of groups and a more diverse set of threats. That activity, much of which is Islamist in nature, is directed at the West generally."

Not all of the drone strikes in the latest wave are connected to the suspected European plot. But many have targeted forces of Evil who are part of the Haqqani network. Last week, France stepped up its level of vigilance over what was thought could be an imminent al Qaeda threat. Authorities said that they had uncovered a suicide kaboom plot to attack the Paris subway linked to al Qaeda's North African affiliate. They said the threat might be connected to France's recent vote to ban the wearing of burqas.

"There have been some actionable targets, including Haqqani targets, that have presented themselves," said one US military official. If the Haqqani network were involved in a European terror plot, it would be the first known instance where it sought to launch attacks outside of South Asia, said Bruce Hoffman, a professor at Georgetown University, who has written extensively on terrorism.
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  ION PAKISTAN > is repor threatening to halt its part in supporting or providing Security for NATO truck convoys unless the US cases UAV-Drone strikes agz PAK-based Militants from Afghanistan.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/29/2010 0:09 Comments || Top||

#2  ION BHARAT RAKSHAK > THE END OF SURFACE WARSHIPS [in favor Submarines].

* SAME > US ARMY GEARS UP FOR "IRON MAN" [LBE Robo-skeleton = Almost-a-Star-Wars-Stormtrooper].
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/29/2010 2:16 Comments || Top||


Iraq
'Ba'athists hitting Iraqi Shia officers'
[Iran Press TV] Reports from Iraq raise questions over the government's silence on a series of assassinations targeting Shia officers in the army, police and intelligence service.

In the latest of the attacks, terrorist elements assassinated deputy director of police forces in the province of Maysan on Monday morning while he was at a special session in the Iraqi capital of Storied Baghdad, Nahrain Net news website reported.

Earlier, an officer in the army rank of major was hit in the capital where forces of Evil bumped off police Capt. Haider Zuhair near a courthouse in the Western district of Karkh, using weapons fitted with silencers.

The attacks came within 24 hours after the assassination of three other officers serving in the military and the police.

In Kirkuk, police chief Col. Ahmed Chmirani survived an assassination attempt after his convoy was targeted by a bombing attack on Monday morning in the city's southern neighborhood of Wasta.

Chmirani and three of his bodyguards were injured in the incident which also left three civilians maimed.

A similar attack was carried out in July, when a blast hit the convoy of Kirkuk police chief Brig. Gen. Borhan Tayyib, leaving him seriously injured and killing his son.

Late on Sunday, unknown gunnies stormed the house of Dr. Adnan Mohammed Saleh in the center of Kirkuk, shooting the doctor dead.

Reports by Nahrain Net had earlier revealed the existence of am underground team of elements from executed dictator Saddam Hussein's outlawed Ba'ath party.

Operating under the supervision of the US intelligence service CIA and backed by Saudi Arabia, the group is reportedly tasked with the liquidation of Shia officers and politicians.

The project is ultimately aimed at taking Ba'athist elements and their sympathizers to power to pave the way for a military coup and the return of the banned Ba'ath party to Iraq's political arena.

Meanwhile,
...back at the ranch...
Iraqi security officials held a meeting on Sunday to form a coordination center for greater security cooperation between Sunni al-Sahwa (Awakening) militias and the Land Forces Command of Iraq's Defense Ministry.

Zaid Jubouri, an official for the group, also known as the Sons of Iraq, welcomed this measure, saying it would also serve as a positive step to stem terror attacks targeting the Awakening forces in recent years.
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Gaza family narrowly escapes Israeli airstrike
[Ma'an] A Paleostinian family from the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gazoo Strip narrowly beat feet death when an Israeli drone fired a missile at the family's home Monday night, relatives said.

The shelling coincided with an airstrike on the nearby Al-Bureij camp killing three Islamic myrmidons.

Kamal Abu Shamla, an inspector in the Gazoo Strip's Ministry of Education, told Ma'an that his and his brother's family of 30 escaped death "only by a miracle" after their 3-story home was hit by Israeli missile.

Abu Shamla explained that the missile hit an apartment under construction on the third floor, destroying the water tanks on the roof and damaging walls and windows. He wondered why his home was shelled asserting that no one in his family is affiliated to any military groups.

Israel's army has confirmed the attack on Al-Bureij, which it said came in response to projectile fire.

The military said in a statement that its air force "targeted and identified hitting a number of cut-throats preparing to fire rockets from the central Gazoo Strip into Israel."

"The IDF remains committed to protecting the citizens of Israel and will continue to act against terror. The IDF holds Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, solely responsible for any terrorist activity emanating from the Gazoo Strip," it added.
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  "pure as the driven snow, we was!"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/29/2010 8:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Likely the "apartment under construction" was a launch site. With 30 people living in the house, it's probably a tad difficult keeping tabs on what all the kiddies are doing.
Posted by: Swanimote || 09/29/2010 11:42 Comments || Top||

#3  He wondered why his home was shelled asserting that no one in his family is affiliated to any military groups.

They never are. never. just innocent civilians.
(rolls his eyes)
Posted by: Mike Hunt || 09/29/2010 12:16 Comments || Top||

#4  his and his brother's family of 30

Two guys responsible for a family of 30? That's kind of a problem, isn't it?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 09/29/2010 13:12 Comments || Top||

#5  I can certainly understand their shock. Imagine you are just sitting there next door to an anti-aircraft gun or bomb factory or some of the neighborhood lads playfully firing off mortars. You are minding your own business when, literally out of the blue, Blammo!

My favorite part of all this is the multi-story apartment building in a 'refugee camp'. Call me old skool, but a refugee camp is tents and porta-johns and food lines, not multistory cinder-block buildings.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/29/2010 22:34 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran students and security clash on campus
[Al Arabiya] Clashes between Iranian students and security forces intensified with the beginning of the academic year as university campuses witnessed unprecedented deployment of Basij brownturbans.

Violence started in the northwestern city of Rasht when security personnel at the Free University prevented male students from entering the campus for wearing a short-sleeved shirt as well as female students for not covering their head properly.

The incidents triggered protests by the students and clashes with security forces ensued. Students were beaten by uniformed bully boyz, whose members played a major role in crushing opposition during the political unrest that followed the 2009 presidential elections.

Attacks on students were reportedly ordered by the university's Protection Department, whose agents have been lately accused of collaborating with the Basij against the students and facilitating the entrance of security forces into campuses with clubs and tear gas.

Students from other universities voiced their indignation at the violent treatment of students and threatened to stage expansive demonstrations all over the country's university campuses in solidarity with their colleagues in Rasht.

Basij clampdowns
According to eyewitnesses, university campuses have been witnessing an unprecedented deployment of Basij forces since the beginning of the academic year, especially in Tehran. The regime, they added, fear further student protests.

However,
The infamous However...

this is not the first time that the government allows Basij forces to enter universities and beat students.

Last year, Basij forces attacked students that accused the government of rigging the 2009 elections in the University of Mashhad, Islamic Azad University of Karaj, and Shahrekord University and dozens of students were injured and jugged.

Reformist leader and former president Mohamed Khatami praised the students' perseverance and slammed arrests of students and university professors.

In the meantime, Basij forces attacked the family of Mehdi Bakeri, the late leading figure in Iran Revolutionary Guard and whose family supported reformist presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi.

Bakeri's daughter Asia was jugged with her brother when they tried to defy the blockade imposed on Mousavi.

Arresting members of Bakeri's family is seen by observers as a stark indication of the divisions from which Iran is suffering since Bakeri is considered one of the heroes of the 1979 Islamic theocracy and of the Iraq-Iran war in which he was killed.
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran



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