[Iran Press TV] Clashes between Talibs and Afghan forces have left several dead amid deteriorating security situation in war-ravaged Afghanistan.
It's said things were getting better over there, but an Iran PressTV journalist wouldn't know that.
Talibs attacked a construction company in the Gereshk district of Afghanistan's southern Helmand Province on Sunday night, Rooters reported. Eight security contractors were killed and three others were maimed during the ensuing shootout with the jihad boys. Afghan authorities said several Talibs had also been killed in the clashes.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... the Taliban claimed they had captured a cop shoppe in the region, killing all 16 officers on duty.
In a separate incident in the western Afghan city of Herat, a bomb kaboom near a police check post left at least three civilians dead and eight others injured.
Violence has spread from the country's south to its northern and western areas over the course of the past year despite the presence of some 150,000 foreign troops. According to statistics by the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society, the number of civilians killed in the first half of 2010 alone has seen a 25 percent rise compared to the same period last year, with more that 1,200 civilians killed. The deaths come as around 40,000 security guards are employed by dozens of private security firms in Afghanistan.
Kabul recently announced a decision to dissolve most private security firms by the end of 2010. The decision excludes a handful of the firms, allowing them to continue their operations in the country in order to protect foreign military bases and embassies.
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[BBC] A woman accused of murdering her mother-in-law has been killed by Taliban in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni, local officials say.
The mother-in-law was pushed into a bread oven by two of her daughters-in-law after a spat on Monday, they say.
The incident took place in the remote Abe Band district, 60km (37 miles) east of the quiet provincial capital Ghazni City.
Officials say the Taliban have so far spared the life of the second daughter-in-law, as she is pregnant. The names of the three women have not been released.
"There was a verbal clash between the daughters-in-law and the mother-in-law. The daughters-in-law threw her into the oven. She died of serious burns,'' one Afghan official told the BBC.
He said it appears that the family approached the Taliban after the incident. A local intelligence official said it is suspected the Taliban gave an AK-47 assault rifle to the brother of the dead woman and asked him to shoot one of the daughters-in-law in public. But he added that it is possible that the family killed the daughter-in-law on its own.
The other daughter-in-law has been taken to an unknown location. The intelligence official said she may be kept hostage until she gives birth. "She may then be killed," he said.
Beheadings
Abe Band district is considered to be a Taliban stronghold. Several Afghans had their heads chopped off in the district last year after the Taliban accused them of spying for foreign forces.
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[BBC] Pro-Somali government forces have seized the town of Bulo Hawo on the border with Kenya and Ethiopia from the hardline Islamist group al-Shabaab. This is seen as a significant victory for the weak, UN-backed government against the al-Qaeda-linked bad turbans. Al-Shabaab and their allies control most of southern and central Somalia but pro-government forces have been gaining ground in recent weeks. Kenya has responded by boosting security along the border.
Black flag lowered
On Monday, pro-Somali government forces said they had carried out a controlled kaboom of a huge roadside kaboom in Bulo Hawo. They have also imposed a curfew in the town.
The BBC's Bashkas Jugsodaay in northern Kenya says many people decamped the fighting into Kenya. He says they have not come as refugees but are staying with relatives until the situation is calm. They have mostly gone to the Kenyan town of Mandera, just 3km (two miles) from Bulo Hawo.
Somalia's government says 11 al-Shabaab fighters and one government soldier were killed in Sunday's fighting. It says the bad turbans' black flag was replaced with the blue and white Somali national one on all government buildings. The moderate Islamist group, Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama, helped government forces against al-Shabaab.
There has also been fighting around the town of Beledweyne, north-east of Bulo Hawo. Beledweyne is controlled by al-Shabaab but government forces have advanced to within 20km (13 miles).
The government has this month seized several parts of the capital, Mogadishu, from al-Shabaab, with the help of African Union peacekeepers.
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the bad turbans' black flag was replaced with the blue and white Somali national one on all government buildings
[BBC] Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab has ordered mobile phone companies to stop their popular money transfer services, saying they are "unIslamic".
If people are transferring money via phone, they don't need to carry it around, which makes them ever so much harder to rob by the Noble Lions of Islam.
Mobile phone banking was introduced in the northern Somaliland region in 2009 and has now spread across the country. Al-Shabaab and its allies control much of southern Somalia and one mobile phone company official said he had "no option but to obey" the order.
Despite years of conflict, Somalia's telecommunications sector is thriving. Mobile phones are a common sight in the capital, Mogadishu, and three companies currently offer mobile phone banking.
But the al-Qaeda linked group has given them three months to stop. Al-Shabaab says mobile phone banking could expose Somalia to interference by Western countries, through the international partners of the Somali telecommunications firms.
Some observers believe the ban may be intended to block a rival to the traditional money transfer systems, known as hawala, which al-Shabaab can influence, or tax, more easily.
That, too.
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[Iran Press TV] The Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a perennial thorn in Africa's sidegunnies have attacked a border area between Sudan and Central Africa, a member of Sudan's National Assembly says.
"Sudan's LRA have advanced 65 kilometers into southern Darfur region in western Sudan and have plundered shops there," Mohammad Adam said.
The Sudanese MP further expressed concern over the activities of LRA gunnies that are considered a threat to Darfur, which you'd think had enough problems of its own without importing more.
The majority of the LRA are aged between 11 and 15. They are paramilitary forces formed in Uganda in 1988. The army has turned the lives of ordinary Sudanese people into a nightmare.
The main goal of the LRA is to form a Christian state in Africa. ... the definition of "Christian" being pretty elastic...
They have conducted different military operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Sudan and Central Africa. ... Pretty much anywhere there's money and wimmin...
Money and children would be more important, I think. The little ones make such nice sex toys and future soldiers, both at once.
The United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has announced that LRA gunnies have killed more than 2,000 people since December 2008. More than 400,000 people have also been displaced ever since.
The LRA is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity. It took up arms in 1988 in northern Uganda, but has been largely defeated in that country, extending its activities into the far northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo about a decade ago.
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SANAA - Yemen on Monday sentenced to death an al Qaeda bomb-maker who told the judge the demise of the country was in the hands of militants whose southern hideouts are being targeted by air raids. Saleh al-Shawish was arrested in January and prosecutors said he specialised in explosives while training with jihadist militants in Afghanistan.
Shawish confessed in court to involvement in al Qaeda, the judge said in his sentencing, including attacks on oil sites, military bases and checkpoints. His indictment said his expertise was building bombs and preparing suicide bombers.
He belonged to al Qaeda and caused the death of a number of innocent people and damaged Yemens ... economic interests, the judge said. The punishment for this is the death penalty.
Shawish, who is from the eastern province of Hadramout, rejected an appeal and told the judge: God willing, your demise is in our hands, starting in Abyan.
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Mexican Federal Agents rescued five individuals Monday who had been illegally detained in two separate crimes, and conducted house to house searches for contraband and criminal suspects in a neighborhood in Juarez, say Mexican press reports.
On Mexico Highway 45 to Juarez a detachment of the Mexican Policia Federal intercepted a bus and questioned a woman about a young male companion with her.
Federal agents were looking for a 15 year old boy who was reported missing October 15th from Carbondale Colorado, and who was apparently on the bus with the female.
The boy was moved to a Mexican immigration facility.
In a second operation Mexican Federal agents were directed to a location in the Partido Iglesias district of Juarez via an anonymous tip where they found four individuals, two men and two women in a safe house near the corner of calles Tamaulipas and Altamira who were apparently kidnapped.
No arrests were reported in the rescue.
Finally, Mexican federal agents cordoned off the Juarez neighborhood Altavista, establishing a checkpoint and conducting house to house searches for drugs, fugitives and weapons.
Altavista is a known gang and drug area.
No reports were released of any arrests or contraband seized in the operation.
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Mexican Marines say ten members of the Los Zetas drug gang were arrested near Saltillio, Coahuila in an operation and shootout that costs the life of one marine killed and three others wounded Thursday night, according to Mexican news reports.
The battle took place on the Monterrey, Nuevo Leon-Saltillio, Coahuila highway where the Mexican Secretaria de Marina (SEMAR) reported a Naval Infantry detachment was on patrol near Saltillo, Coahuila and was fired on by armed suspects.
In the ensuing firefight three armed suspects were hit by gunfire, including a local gang leader and ten others were arrested.
Marines also seized vehicles, drugs and weapons in the aftermath.
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One dead municipal police agent and one dead armed suspect is the balance of a shootout between Mexican security forces and criminal gangs in Gomez Palacio, Durango Monday afternoon, according to Mexican press accounts.
The initial shooting took place Monday afternoon near the corner of calles Mexico and San Martin in the 5 de Mayo district at 1330 hrs when armed suspects riding aboard several late model pickup trucks fired on three police officers on patrol. All three offices were taken to receive medical attention, but one later died.
The ensuing alert converged several local state and federal security forces including the Mexican Army to the area searching for the convoy.
A second firefight erupted as the suspects attempted to flee the city wounding three Gomez Palacio police officers and two armed suspects. One suspect was also shot and died instantly in the encounter. Two suspects managed to flee the scene.
In adjacent Torreon, Coahuila, a Mexican Army patrol seized two vehicles and found a bullet proof vest and a weapon with several loaded magazines.
A total of 20 individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence that included seven individuals shot to death in a residence in Juarez and a shooting spree in Saltillo, Coahuila that left one suspect dead and two others wounded. For a map, click here.
A total of nine unidentified individuals were shot to death in two separate shootings in the Campestre Virreyes district in Juarez Sunday night, say Mexican news reports. On the corner of calles Zaire and Indonesia was where two men were found shot to death in a residence. In the second crime, four men and three women were shot to death at a residence on Calle Gaspar de Sandoval. An eighth victim, a pregnant female, was also shot but survived the massacre.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in Juarez Sunday night, according to Mexican news accounts. The victim was found inside an unlocked residence near the corner of calles Florida and Las Vegas shot several times.
Two men and a woman were shot to death in Juarez early Monday morning, according to Mexican press accounts. The victims were at the Las Fuentes drive in near the intersection of calles Vicente Guerrero and Paseo Triunfo when armed suspects shot the trio with assault rifles. Reports are many others also at the drive in fled when the shooting started.
One unidentified man was shot to death and a second unidentified companion was wounded in an attack in Juarez Monday morning, say Mexican press accounts. The assault took place in the Del Rio district where the two victims were shot in a Ford Focus sedan by a lone armed suspect on foot. Several 9mm spent shell casings were found at the scene.
An unidentified man was shot to death and two Juarez traffic police officers were wounded during an armed assault in Juarez Monday afternoon, say Mexican news reports. The shooting began near the corner of Costa Rica and Malecon where unidentified armed suspects in a sedan pursued a victim and shot and killed one man and wounded another. Two nearby motorcycle police were shot in the pursuit. The wounded victim was arrested by police and held for questioning.
A shooting spree in Saltillo, Coahuila early Monday morning ended with one dead suspect and two wounded victims,say Mexican news accounts. Police received reports of a shooting in the Satelite Sur district about a man who was shot. Acting on information provided by the victim, police and a detachment of the Mexican Army began a pursuit of a suspect, David Rodolfo Alvizo Hernandez, 25, who went to a residence on Bulevar Venustiano Carranza and took a female hostage. As police attempted to negotiate with the suspect, he fled with his victim in a vehicle. Shooting at soldiers using an AR-15 assault rifle, the suspect was killed by return fire and his hostage wounded. Reports say Alvizo Hernandez worked for a local security company.
An unidentified man was found tortured and beaten to death on a highway in Cadereyta, Nuevo Leon Monday morning, say Mexican news reprots. The victim was found on Kilometer 45 of the Reynosa-Monterrey highway hands cuffed behind him.
Police in Russia's Chechnya have killed all the terrorists who attacked the republic's parliament on Tuesday morning, an Interior Ministry official said.
The deputy head of the republic's Interior Ministry, Roman Edilov, said four militants and two police officers had died during the operation. He also dismissed reports that the militants had taken hostages.
The attack began when a vehicle carrying terrorists drove in with cars carrying lawmakers, a police source told RIA Novosti earlier. Hm? What, they just follow them in the gate or something? Like I have to do at my Dad's community sometimes?
He added that a suicide bomber had blown himself up while the other militants headed toward parliament. Didn't appear to do much?
Parliament was evacuated and a special operation, headed by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, was launched to flush out the militants. Oh, taking the military credit for himself, is he? He was a rebel, I suppose he knows how to do such things and was nearby.
* DER SPIEGEL > PLANNED MOSQUE SPARKS CONTROVERSY IN MOSCOW. Moscow Council of Muftis says Moscow per se is home to 1.5Milyuhn of Russia's 20.0Milyuhn Muslims, thus should allow + expand its number of Mosques from the present five to approximat 40.
AND WIDOUT ANY LOCAL RIGHT-WINGERS, NATIONALISTS, ETC. GETTING ALL ANGRY IPPY ABOUT IT.
D *** NG IT, WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG, besides that abnormally high Muslim Birthrate- Demographic, ISLAM-NATURALLY-TAKING-OVER-ORTHODOX-RUSSIA-AND-ITS-NUKES-WIDOUT-NEED-OF-WAR thingy!?
Russian news agencies report that multiple gunnies have stormed the parliament in the southern republic of Chechnya, taking hostages and killing at least two people.
Interfax said shots were fired in the office of the Chechen parliament speaker, but he was not harmed in the attack.
The agency also reported that riot police were sent to the scene. BBC reports that a suicide bomber was involved. We'll see.
(KUNA) -- At least four people were killed in the latest US missile strike Monday night in Pak tribal region, bordering Afghanistan, said officials.
About six missiles were fired by predator drones at a vehicle and a house in a village of Dattakhel district in North Wazoo tribal agency, security officials told KUNA.
Four missiles hit a vehicle and two hit a house, suspected to be a hideout of alleged foreign bad boys, said officials. They said the strike killed more than four suspects and maimed several others. Tribal sources feared further rise in the corpse count. They also said that the killed suspects are believed to be foreign beturbanned goons of Arab and Uzbek origin.
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FOUR missiles hit a vehicle? A bit of overkill, or they wanted to launch the DNA of the occupants up to where the drones could recover a sample.
[Dawn] LAKKI MARWAT: A would-be boomer was killed and 14 people including women and kiddieswere maimed when police thwarted a terror strike and destroyed an explosive laden double-cabin pick-up here on Monday. Officials said that the police opened fire on the pick-up after the driver refused to stop the vehicle on a check post.
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[Iran Press TV] Eleven people have died in kabooms and gun fights across Iraq where more than 231 people have been killed by homemade bombs so far this year.
The deadliest incident occurred on Sunday in western Storied Baghdad when a large gang of gunniesrobbed a number of jewelry stores in al-Yarmuk neighborhood, Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported.
Three soldiers, two jewelers and two gunnies lost their lives in the attack, security sources said.
In a separate incident, two non-combatants were killed as two improvised bombs (IED) attached to their vehicles went off in the capital's western neighborhood of al-Mansour.
A soldier was also killed and an officer maimed when an IED detonated near their patrol vehicle in a village west of djinn-infested Mosul, the capital of the northern province of Nineveh.
A kaboom also hit a civilian car in the al-Bayyaa area in southwestern Baghdad, killing the vehicle's owner on the spot.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... four coppers and two civilians were separately maimed in a kaboom in southern Mosul and a mortal shell kaboom in the city's west.
Iraq's Monitor of Constitutional Freedom and Bill of Rights revealed on Sunday that 231 were killed and 601 others maimed in kaboom of IEDs across Iraq in 2010.
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I read the version in Al-Rafidayn (Iraqi newspaper) translated from Arabic to English. The translated version is definitely lacking. It sounded as if some fairly well-armed thugs held up a jewelry store to steal gold.
[Iran Press TV] Separate attacks in Iraq have left one soldier and one Iraqi official dead and several others, including five civilians, maimed in northern parts of the war-torn country.
A car bombing, which targeted a US military convoy in northern Iraq on Monday, killed an Iraqi soldier and maimed six others, Iraqi police sources said. None of the US servicemen, however, was harmed as a result of the attack.
In a separate attack on Monday, two civilians were maimed when a shell struck a bridge in Storied Baghdad's high security Green Zone.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... elsewhere in Baghdad, Provincial Councilor Jassem Ali Mahmud was killed in a kaboom in the central parts of the capital on Monday.
"He was returning to the municipality in Baghdad when he was killed," Baghdad Governor Salah Abdel Razak told AFP.
Eight other people, three bodyguards and five passersby were also maimed, in the incident.
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he has, apparently, been making these kinds of statements for many years
he is also a holocaust denier
oh, and he has tenure
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"oh, and he has tenure"
Not sure how it works at that particular university, lg, but I do know of another university department that took care of that problem by scheduling the (lousy) prof's classes for 7 am and whatever the latest time was. Also made sure she had Monday morning and Friday evening classes. She eventually decided to retire.
(Related to me by a prof at my college who was at that college at the time it occurred.)
Of course, that presumes they disagree with him and want to get rid of him.
They don't. >:-(
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In true university fashion, charge him (and his univ) with "hate speech."
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Well, hate speech is protected speech according to the constitution and I wouldn't want him to stop spouting it and showing the world his true colors.
However, the fact the university keeps him on their payroll and does nothing to censor him means they endorse his message of genocide and antisemitism. So, do you want your child going to a university that condones this or have your tax dollars fund this?
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"oh, and he has tenure" Some years ago a full tenured professor at the university where I taught was basically fired. Rules are in place whereby a tenured prof can be fired for many reasons. Tenure rules are changing and there has been a subtle move to abolish tenure over the years. More and more courses are being taught by adjuncts, temporary faculty, non-tenured faculty, and graduate students. Many of these faculty and graduate students are foreign and have difficulty with the English language. There is probably more tenure in the public school system K-12 than large universities. In my opinion, it is also easier to obtain in the latter system. Bottom line: This guy can be dumped if there is enough pressure. However, I don't know how this would work in a private black college. There may be the OJ jury syndrome at work, i.e. protect a member of our race no matter what. Similar to the BHO phenomenom--in 2012 most blacks will probably vote for Obama no matter how bad he screws the country in the meantime.
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Apologies for the private college misprint, I was misinformed. Anyhow,onward and upward, while in a hurry I found the time to make a phone call and get the exact key people to send the letters to, not just peruse the faculty directory and making a stab at a guess. The administrative assistant I spoke with was quite nice, even when supplied with the reason for my call, and was also apologetic and said the profs name with notable derision as if he has been a huge problem. I urge peeps to actually write, if you would be so kind.
The college's homepage. The black college part is very much apparent. Just wondering why it is necessary to have a black college in the year twenty ten in the United States? Much for the same reason I don't get women's colleges. Or schools for the gay. Or any special interests. What if you were a gay black woman? Does that mean your entire life you should be cloistered from others?
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.
[Iran Press TV] Clashes between Talibs and Afghan forces have left several dead amid deteriorating security situation in war-ravaged Afghanistan.
[BBC] A woman accused of murdering her mother-in-law has been killed by Taliban in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni, local officials say.
[BBC] Pro-Somali government forces have seized the town of Bulo Hawo on the border with Kenya and Ethiopia from the hardline Islamist group al-Shabaab. This is seen as a significant victory for the weak, UN-backed government against the al-Qaeda-linked
[Iran Press TV] The Ugandan 
SANAA - Yemen on Monday sentenced to death an al Qaeda bomb-maker who told the judge the demise of the country was in the hands of militants whose southern hideouts are being targeted by air raids. 
(KUNA) -- At least four people were killed in the latest US missile strike Monday night in Pak tribal region, bordering Afghanistan, said officials.
[Dawn] LAKKI MARWAT: A would-be 
Eleven people have died in 
[Iran Press TV] Separate attacks in Iraq have left one soldier and one Iraqi official dead and several others, including five civilians, 
