[Iran Press TV] At least ten civilians have been killed in two separate deadly attacks in Afghanistan, amid rising concerns over the growing number of civilian deaths in the country.
The Afghan Interior Ministry said a rocket hit a vehicle carrying civilians in Yahya Khel District in the eastern Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... Province, leaving six civilians dead.
A woman and two children were among the dead, a Press TV correspondent reported.
While the ministry announced that the rocket attack was launched by thugs, local residents blamed US-led foreign forces for the fatal incident.
In a separate incident in Qalat, the capital of Zabul Province, four non-combatants were killed and two more were injured as their vehicle hit a roadside kaboom.
[Iran Press TV] Taliban-linked snuffies take control of bordering area of Bajaur tribal region in Pakistain after US-led forces removed security checkpoints near the Afghan border, officials say.
Pakistain officials told Press TV late Monday that NATO forces lifted some 13 security checkpoints in Tehsil Mamond bordering area.
The snuffies took full control of the area and established their own armed patrols, the officials added.
The move came in the wake of a series of attacks on NATO supply containers all across Pakistain.
Dozens of vehicles, carrying supplies for the US-led foreign forces, were destroyed in the past two weeks.
NATO supplies via a vital Pak border crossing with Afghanistan resumed on Sunday after Pakistain's Foreign Ministry announced the reopening of the main land route following an 11-day suspension.
The route is crucial in supplying the US-led war effort in Afghanistan against the Talibs.
During the closure of the crossing, thousands of oil tankers and supply vehicles became stranded at different points between the port city of Karachi and Beautiful Downtown Peshawar.
[Tolo News] At least 9 Taliban forces of Evil were killed in NATO Arclight airstrikes in the western Herat province of Afghanistan on Monday
These men were killed in NATO Arclight airstrikes in the province's Obey district when a group of Talibs had gathered in an area, Noor Khan Nikzad, a front man for Herat Police Chief told TOLOnews.
A local Taliban capo is also reportedly among the killed.
Civilians have received no casualties in the attack.
Foreign forces have killed a number of Taliban capos in their Arclight airstrikes before.
Taliban forces of Evil have suffered heavy casualties in clashes with NATO forces recently, and a number of Taliban capos have been killed in NATO ground and air attacks so far.
Afghan and coalition forces have escalated their counter-insurgency operations in the country's volatile regions, and have had some advancement in these operations so far.
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Because the US is part of NATO, one can say that NATO has B-52 Stratofortresses. And I agree that Arclight strikes would put the fear of Allah into those Taliban fighters that were far enough away to survive the strike.
A B-52H can carry a conventional bomb load of 70,000 lbs. A B-1B Lancer can carry a 134,000 lbs bomb load (75,000 lbs of internal payload plus 59,000 lb on 6 external hardpoints).
You would either need fewer B-1Bs or, better yet, the arclight would be even more spectacular.
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Can I suggest a target?
The black rock of Satan, and multiple strikes, just wait long enough for the "Faithful" to regather and WHAMMO again, perhaps that'll qualify as a "Contest" target.
Sounds good to me(I'll watch fom a safe distance, say right here.)
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The B-52H wing at Barksdale AFB has a full complement of aircraft - 36. Send 12 against Rawalpindi/Islamabad, 12 against Quetta, and 12 against Peshawar. Allow the Navy and the folks in Afghanistan to provide air cover. Afterwords, call on the few survivors to surrender, or we'll start running such strikes from Quetta to Chitral DAILY until they do. I'm sure even the most diehard Taliban would be willing to surrender after having the sh$$ bombed out of him (literally) every day for two or three weeks. NATO would get an object lesson on why you still need manned bombers in the so-called "missile age", and the entire Muslim world would get an object lesson on why you don't piss off the United States. Once the Afghan/Taliban problem is solved, we can then concentrate on Al-Shabaab in Somalia and the mess in Sudan. The quiet following the destruction of those two countries should last for a couple of years, at least. During that time, we could probably come up with a replacement for the B-52 that would be both cost-effective and capable of carrying an adequate payload anywhere in the world and back. I get nervous trusting my freedom to an aircraft that's almost as old as I am...
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[Iran Press TV] Somali pirates kidnapped a minister from Somalia's northern semi-autonomous region of Puntland following a shootout with security guards near the town of Garaad.
Heavily armed pirates ambushed the convoy of Puntland's Fisheries and Seaports Minister Said Mohamed Rage on his way to Garaad, a well-known pirate stronghold in central Somalia, a Press TV correspondent reports. "Aaaarrr, me hearties! 'Tis the Fisheries and Seaports Minister we be after! He's comin' right to Port Royal! We'll nab him before he gets there and..."
"Ummm... Boss? Why don't we wait until he gets there to nab him?"
"We got the information that heavily armed pirates ambushed the minister's convoy while travelling in between Garacad and Jiriban. One of his guards and a local elder were killed while the minister was taken hostage," said Ali Yusuf Ali, Puntland's deputy interior minister. "Aaaarrr! One false move an' the Minister gets it!"
The minister was on a sensitizing mission to the pirate's stronghold where he was to meet with local elders and elites, according to Ali.
Puntland has been transformed into a notorious base used by local pirates to launch attacks on merchant vessels transiting the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean.
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[Yemen Post] A primitive was banged and two soldiers were maimed when festivities erupted early Monday between the cops and rustics in the Beer Ali district, Shabwa.
The site of the action was not far from the Balhaf Port for exporting liquefied natural gas.
Informed sources confirmed the briefly painful demise of Nasser BaKharkhour. Two soldiers were taken to hospital, while the reasons for the festivities were unfathomable and possibly non-existent.
The fighting came amid military preparations and the arrival of military reinforcements, particularly in the Al-Saeed district, after bad guyz hit the convoy of Deputy Chief of General Staff, Shabwa Governor and other military commanders.
The attack was blamed on al-Qaeda which has been responsible for deadly attacks against security buildings and public security and intelligence officers in southern and southeastern areas, mainly in Shabwa, in the last few months.
The authorities carried out in late September large-scale operations against Al-Qaeda snuffies in Al-Hawta town and other areas in the province banging, ventilating and jugging many of them.
A week later, they said the town had been cleared of vermin and a hunt is continuing for suspects who could escape.
[Al Arabiya] Yemen said Tuesday it jugged 19 suspects after twin kabooms killed three people at a sports centre in Aden, raising security fears ahead of an international football tournament in the restive south.
The attacks, which are yet to be claimed by any group, rocked the southern city on Monday, the same day al-Qaeda's Yemeni branch announced the creation of a "new army" to overthrow the country's president in response to his U.S.-backed counterterrorism campaign and said it would fill its ranks with snipers and bomb makers.
"Run for your life," the group's military chief warned President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh in an audio recording that surfaced on bully boy-affiliated websites.
The commander, Qassim al-Raimi, did not reveal the size of the new fighting force, but said its ranks were already overflowing with so many volunteers -- including some from abroad -- that many had to be turned away.
Yemen's al-Qaeda-allied gunnies and other gunnies have long sought to topple Saleh's government in response to its relationship with the United States, which is deeply concerned about al-Qaeda's reinvigorated operation in Yemen.
Apart from al-Qaeda, government forces are facing a separatist movement advocating the secession of Yemen's southern provinces, which joined with the north in 1990.
19 jugged
The bombs went off at Al-Wahda club in the Sheikh Othman area of Aden, the main city Yemen's south, wounding 17 people, three of whom later died, according to medical officials. Two coppers were among the maimed.
Authorities attributed the blasts to the accidental kaboom of an old bomb.
However, The infamous However... an official told AFP on Tuesday that 19 suspects, most of them believed to belong to al-Qaeda, were jugged in connection with the double bombing.
Another official said "this cowardly act cannot defeat (security) plans" that the authorities have put in place for the 20th Gulf Football Championship to be staged in the region between Nov. 22 and Dec. 5.
And a sports official told AFP that two unexploded bombs were found in the sports club on Tuesday.
Security fears have risen in Yemen's south following a string of similar attacks, most recently on Sunday when assailants fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a police patrol, wounding one person.
And on Oct. 7, dozens of protesters invaded Aden's Al-Shoala sports club, where some of the football matches are to be held, and demanded the release of people jugged in common law cases.
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One police escort wounded was the toll in a hand grenade attack in Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo Leon Monday night, according to Mexican press accounts.
Reports say the intended victim was the mayor of Sabinas Hidalgo, Mario Mireles Raul Garza.
The attack took place on calle Matamoros in the barrio El Aguacate district where an individual riding a bicycle rode by and threw the grenade.
The police agent was wounded in the leg and damage from the blast was limited to several vehicles including the police vehicle as well as the front of the mayor's home.
Following the attack, Raul Garza instructed city employees to continue their work as normal, but the mayor himself stayed at home.
Police protection by Mexican Federal agents replaced municipal police.
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Ten armed suspects said to be members of drug gangs were killed in an intergang shootout in Tampico, Tamaulipas, say Mexican news accounts.
The shootout began with a vehicle pursuit involving several private vehicles and taxis which ended up at a residence in the Villa Hermosa district near the corner of calles Vicente Lombardo and Misión llegaron. Villa Hermosa is an area known for its public housing.
Gangs members took refuge in a residence where a firefight took place involving small arms and hand grenades.
In the aftermath, police investigators fond several spent shells of AK-47 assault rifles.
Fourteen people were murdered in northern Mexico in violence that included a couple shot to death in their Honda CRV van in Juarez, Chihuahua Monday night. For a map, click here
Two unidentified men were shot to death and a third was wounded in an attack at a hamburger stand in Juarez Monday afternoon, according to Mexican news reports. The attack took place a Harvey's No. 2 near the intersection of calles Hiedra and Jilotepec. One victim was shot in the store while the second deceased was killed as he attempted to escape the shooting.
An unidentified couple was shot to death in the sedan in a mall parking lot in Juarez Monday evening, according to Mexican news accounts. Armed suspects riding in a vehicle at the Plaza Juárez Mall attacked with firearms the couple who were in their Ford Taurus sedan. In their attempt to flee the scene, the suspects ran into five other parked vehicles.
Two members of a family were shot to death in front of their home in Juarez Monday night, say Mexican news reports. Armed suspects came upon the couple and two other people in a Honda CRV van near the intersection of calles Sierra de Juarez and Montes Apeninos in La Cuesta district and shot the driver who died instantly. The passenger fled the scene but was hunted down and shot near the intersection of calles Sierra de los Frailes and Montes Apeninos. Reports say spent cartridge casings were scattered over a wide area.
An unidentified man reports say was a lawyer was found mutilated and shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Monday night, say Mexican news accounts. The find was made near Las Conchitas recreation center, where a cardboard with a message stating the victim was a "rat" was found.
Two unidentified women were found shot to death in Juarez in two separate crimes Monday night, says the Mexican daily La Polaka. Near the corner of Camino Viejo a San José and Sabinas in the Marquis district was where the body of a woman was found hands bound and shot in the head. Reports say she was kidnapped. In the second crime a woman was found near the intersection of calles Monte Mayor and Catalpa behind the El Paseo shopping center shot with her head wrapped in tape. A message was written on her clothing,but the content was nor revealed.
An unidentified woman was found shot to death Tuesday morning in Juarez, according to Mexican news reports. The victim was found in a For Contour sedan near the corner of Zaragoza and Piña with her hands bound by socks and her head wrapped in plastic and masking tape.
A woman was shot to death as she slept in her home in Juarez Tuesday morning, say Mexican news accounts. Elizabeth Herrera, 41, was shot at her residence on calle Venustiano Carranza by unknown suspects using an AK-47assault rifle.
Two unidentified men were found dead aboard a Taxi cab in Torreon, Coahuila, say Mexican press accounts. The victims were found Sunday night near the corner of Calle Múzquiz and Avenida Río Nazas in the Nueva Rosita district where they were found inside the vehicle's trunk. Both victims were bound and gagged.
An unidentified man was shot to death with more than 20 shots in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon early Monday morning, say Mexican news accounts. The victim was killed in a vacant lot near the intersection of calles de Paseo de la Primavera and Camino al Mirador in the Jardines del Mirador district.
An unidentified man was found decapitated in south Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, say Mexican news sources. The victim was left in a Ford Expedition near the intersection of Privada Solidaridad and Avenida Alfonso Reyes in the Burocratas Municipales district.
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A message scrawled on a wall at a used car lot in Juarez has listed the names of several members of La Linea who have been marked for death. The graffiti was signed by the Sinaloas drug cartel.
La Linea is the armed wing of the Juarez drug cartel and is known as the most brutal gangs in Mexican crime. The Sinaloa Drug Cartel is the Juarez drug gang's main competitor.
(Itar-Tass) -- A dreadful terrorist act at the major marketplace in Vladikavkaz is solved, Holmes! How do you do it!
three beturbanned goons were jugged, another two were bumped off, Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov said at a meeting of the National Anti-Terrorist Committee here on Tuesday.
Doku Count Doku Umarov's close accomplice Khashagulgov criminally masterminded the terrorist act, his gang is also involved in more than ten blasts in Ingushetia.
"The terrorist acts in North Ossetia were solved. They were committed in August-September 2010 at the major marketplace in Vladikavkaz and at a police post on the Caucasus federal highway on the administrative border with Ingushetia," Bortnikov noted.
"During the search operation a terrorist group, which criminally masterminded and committed the foresaid crimes and involved in numerous murders of law enforcers, servicemen and more than ten blasts of homemade bombs, was spotted," the FSB director said. "Comrade Commander! I have spotted the criminal gang!"
"Very well, Igor. Bring up the men!"
"The detectives found out that the terrorist acts were criminally masterminded by Doku Umarov's close accomplice Isa Moriarty Khashagulgov, who also coordinated the rackets in Ingushetia," he said.
"The direct perpetrators of the blasts were active members of the gang Spike Daurbekov, Muggsy Latyrov and the brother of warlord Khashagulgov. They are jugged and are being beaten at the detention center," Bortnikov said.
Other two accomplices in the terrorist acts chose to shoot it out and were liquidated, the FSB director added.
The Russian Investigation Committee and the FSB Investigation Department are investigating the terrorist acts.
On September 9, at the gates to the Vladikavkaz major marketplace a suicide bomb attacker detonated an bomb hidden in the luggage compartment of a Volga car. The tragedy claimed the lives of 19 people, 14 of them died instantaneously. About 200 people received various injuries. Seventeen injured people were brought to Moscow for treatment.
The detainees testified about the ties "with major groups involved in the terrorist acts," Deputy Prime Minister and presidential plenipotentiary representative in the North Caucasus Federal District Alexander Khloponin told news hounds earlier.
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(KUNA) -- Only two days after Pakistain re-opened supply routes for NATO forces in Afghanistan, the allied forces helicopters early Tuesday reportedly again violated Pakistains aerial space.
Two NATO helicopters entered into Pakistain air space and flew back after buzzing the bordering tribal area for few minutes, citing unnamed sources local news channels reported.
No immediate official confirmation of the violation was available, which came two days after Pakistain re-opened supply routes for NATO tankers. Pakistain had closed all routes for NATO supplies after three soldiers were killed in an aerial strike by NATO forces.
It was only after formal apologies from the US ambassador and the US military chief that Pakistain decided to re-open the routes. During the closure period, more than 150 NATO oil tankers were destroyed in jihad boy attacks and at least ten people were killed.
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If they don't control the area, they can't open OR close routes in it. They can make faces and screech, but that's about it.
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The Pakis aren't even warm in their understanding of what hot is. What is the the definition of smacking bad boyz across a a border, forethought and planning. Of which, the Paks have none. Bill them for the cost of each and every round expended taking out the latest number threes abiding in their shitty land. Then slap a tax on the total.
[Pak Daily Times] Around ten cut-throats and one soldier were killed in an operation against Orcs in different parts of the Mardan district on Tuesday, security forces sources told Daily Times.
The sources added that around 800 suspected Islamic exemplars had also been jugged in the operation.
The sources said that the army and police on Monday, started a two-day joint operation against bad boyz in various parts of Mardan including included Matta, Ghuando, Shamozai and Shikray Baba areas of Katlang tehsil, Sawaldher, Bakhshali and Guli Bagh areas of Mardan district, after the killing of renowned religious scholar and Swat Islamic University vice chancellor Dr Muhammad Farooq.
The sources said that out of the ten nasty boyz killed, two belonged to a local Taliban group headed by Habibur Rehman, while the other eights were from some other terrorist groups, adding that their names could not be ascertained.
The sources further said that the security forces also jugged around 800 suspected cut-throats in the operation, and shifted them to Qazi's guesthouse an undisclosed location.
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[Iran Press TV] At least three people have been killed and 11 others have been injured in separate bomb kabooms in northern Iraq, the country's security officials say.
A car kaboom targeted an Iraqi military patrol, leaving two people dead and eight, including two soldiers, injured in djinn-infested Mosul on Tuesday, DPA reported.
The second incident killed one member of a convoy of Mosul's top police investigator and injured three others.
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A produce merchant was killed in an ambush in Pattanis Yarang district on Monday night, said deputy Yarang police chief Pol Lt Col Tuande Chutanant.
Prapas Meemode, 38, was found sitting dead in the driver's seat of his pickup truck. He was shot in the head and in the body. Police found several spent AK47 shells at the scene.
Four defence volunteers on two motorcycles were also ambushed while they were on their way to the incident scene. They ducked for cover and returned fire. The attackers fled after a quick shoot-out.
EIGHTEEN Revolutionary Guards have been killed in a fire at an ammunitions store at one of the elite force's bases in western Iran, the state IRNA news agency has reported.
"Eighteen members of the forces at the base were killed and 14 wounded" in Tuesday's explosion, IRNA quoted Guards commander Yadollah Bouali as saying.
Two days of mourning have been declared in Lorestan province after the blast at the Imam Ali base near the provincial capital Khorramabad, IRNA said.
Mr Bouali said on Tuesday that the explosion hit when a fire spread to the munitions store at the base.
[Al Arabiya] Several Iranian soldiers were killed in an kaboom that rocked a military base in the western province of Lorestan on Tuesday, Iran's Arabic-language Al-Alam TV reported.
The channel, quoting an unnamed military source, said that "some soldiers have been killed in the accidental blast" which took place in the Imam Ali military base, located outside the scenic provincial capital of Khorramabad.
Does that happen often in competent militaries?
State news agency IRNA had previously reported that several soldiers were maimed in the kaboom.
A blast at a military parade in late September killed 12 people and injured 80, in the city of Mahabad. Iranian authorities blamed it on "anti-revolutionary" gunnies backed by foreign enemies.
Days after that attack, Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said they had killed about 30 people who were behind it.
Analysts have said attacks could raise pressure on President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad, whose government has been plagued by political infighting and economic woes linked in part to foreign sanctions imposed due to Iran's disputed nuclear program.
No group grabbed credit for the blast in Mahabad, which occurred during an annual ceremony for the Iranian armed forces to commemorate Iran's 8-year war with Iraq in the 1980s.
But several bands of Islamic bandidos hostile to the establishment are active in Iran, including Kurdish separatists in the northwest, Baluch gunnies in the southeast and some Arabs in the southwest.
The Sunni Mohammedan Jundollah bully boy group, which Iran says has links to al-Qaeda, is the most active. It claimed a double suicide kaboom on July 15 which killed 28 people, including Revolutionary Guards.
Last week, five Iranians, including four members of the security forces, were killed and nine injured when gunnies opened fire on a police patrol in the capital of Iran's Kurdistan province, the scene of frequent clashes between Kurdish guerrillas and Iranian forces.
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Iran Press TV] Somali pirates kidnapped a minister from Somalia's northern semi-autonomous region of Puntland following a 
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(Itar-Tass) -- A dreadful terrorist act at the major marketplace in Vladikavkaz is solved, 
(KUNA) -- Only two days after Pakistain re-opened supply routes for NATO forces in Afghanistan, the allied forces helicopters early Tuesday reportedly again violated Pakistains aerial space.
[Al Arabiya] Several Iranian soldiers were killed in an 
