Recognition for our canine friends
The Army general in charge of defeating roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan says the most effective tool is "two men and a dog," even though the military has spent nearly $10 billion on new detection and clearing technologies.
Lt. Gen. Michael L. Oates said his task force is surging anti-bomb resources human and technological into Afghanistan to support the expanded U.S.-led coalition troop presence there. But he acknowledged that he has more work to do to find ways to measure how effective their efforts are.
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.....even though the military has spent nearly $10 billion on new detection and clearing technologies.
"Technologies" which have resulted in the deaths of thousands of terrorists and ensurgent bombers and the saving of an untold number of US soldiers, Marines, Afghan civilian and coalition partner lives. It continues to be a multi-promged effort. Placed beside the cost of one nuclear submarine, I'd call it something of a bargain.
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Maybe the surge should of included a couple of thousand well trained Canines. But then again the 'pussies' in the Whitehouse would never go for that
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Don't the French use pigs to hunt for truffles? It shouldn't be that hard to train the pigs to look for IEDs.
And watching all the Muslim's heads explode would be fun to watch.
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There usedto be "War Dogs", Mastiffs if I remember correctly.
Hmmm, a quick glance though wikipedia reveals Many different dogs mostly specialized for game tracking, War, Guarding and Herding. Danes and Bloodhounds included.
Hmmm.
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What did war dogs used to do, Redneck Jim? They didn't have IEDs back in the day...
[Geo TV] A Taliban-style roadside kaboom tore through a vehicle taking a family to a wedding party in Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 10 people, mostly women and kiddies, police said. I'm not too sure why it was just "Taliban-style," rather than a "Taliban bomb."
"The mine was planted by the enemies of Afghanistan to target military forces. It hit a civilian bus, 10 people most of them women and kiddies were killed," said Abdul Jabar Purdili, police chief in western Herat province.
The bomb, similar to those used by Taliban and other forces of Evil in the long war in Afghanistan, Similar but not identical? What was the diffo?
was planted on a road between Herat and Nimroz provinces, both bordering Iran, he said. Four other unfortunateswere maimed, he said.
Roadside bombs, also known as improvised bombs (IEDs), are the main weapon of Taliban-led bad guyz who have been fighting the Western-backed government since being kicked out in a US-led invasion in late 2001.
The bombs are detonated by remote control or by pressure as vehicles pass over them. They are cheap and easy to make, but difficult to detect. They exact a deadly toll on the 150,000 foreign troops under US and NATO command, accounting for many of the almost 600 killed so far this year, compared to 521 for all of 2009. They also cause life-changing injuries.
Many of their victims, however, are ordinary Afghans, with the majority of civilian deaths and injuries blamed on the Taliban. According to a UN report, more than 1,200 non-combatants were killed in violence in the first six months of 2010, an increase of 25 percent on the same period in 2009.
Earlier this month, nine members of the same family were killed in a similar attack in eastern Paktia province.
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It's the Americans fault. Dunno why, but it has to be. Either the Americans planted the bomb to make the Taliban look bad, or the Taliban only planted it because they had to, because the Americans are there. If the Americans weren't there, the Taliban could kill people in soccer stadiums rather than with these IEDs.
[Al Jazeera] A British-Zimbabwean aid worker has been sprung by his Somali captors after a ransom was reportedly paid.
"I am well and free .... and travelling back to Adado," Frans Barnard, who works for the Save The Children charity, was quoted as telling the AFP news agency on Wednesday.
Barnard was seized by a group of gunnies in the Somali town, the capital of the Himan and Heb region, last Thursday. A local employee of the charity was kidnapped at the same time but released shortly afterwards.
Save the Children confirmed that Barnard was "on his way to a place of safety".
"We continue to be concerned for him but at this point we are cautiously optimistic," Anna Ford, Save the Children's spokesperson in Nairobi, told the Rooters news agency.
Ransom reports
Local elders involved in negotiations that led to his release said the kidnappers had been $100,000.
"The gunnies asked for 150,000 dollars to free the hostage but they were only paid 100,000," the AFP news agency quoted one of the negotiators as saying.
Mohamed Mohamud, an official with the Himan and Heb regional administration denied that any money had changed hands with the captors of the Nairobi-based security consultant.
"No ransom was paid. His release happened through negotiations," he said.
Ford also denied that the charity had paid a ransom for Barnard.
"We haven't handed over any money. It was the clan elders who all came together to secure the release of our colleague. It was a point of honour and pride for them to secure his release," she said.
Hostage-taking
The abduction of foreigners and aid workers is rampant in Somalia, a Horn of African country ravaged by conflict since 1991 when Siad Barre, the then-president, was ousted.
A British couple, Paul and Rachel Chandler, have been held hostage for almost a year after their yacht was captured in the Indian Ocean, off the Seychelles.
The Himan and Heb region, close to the border with Ethiopia, is considered more stable than much of the Horn of Africa nation.
Save the Children had been assessing the feasibility of starting up a humanitarian programme to help malnourished and sick children in the area around Adado.
A number of bands of Islamic bandidos have been fighting for three years to overthrow Somalia's fragile interim government, which they say is a puppet of the West. Al-Shabaab fighters and the smaller Hizb-ul Islam group control much of the capital and large parts of southern and central Somalia.
More than 7,200 African Union soldiers from Uganda and Burundi to support the government and key sites in Mogadishu.
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Regional government denies paying ransom. Yeah. Ok.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Four bandidos were banged in Pabna on Wednesday in separate incidents of 'shootout' and attacks while another alleged small-time Mister Big was also waxed in an 'encounter' with the Federales in Cox's Bazar.
Commies and criminals cavorting in Cox's Bazar. Truly ...
The deceased were identified as Faruk Ahmed Paban, 40, a central leader of Lal Pataka faction of outlawed group Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-ML), Siddique Pramanik, 35, and Bishu Pramanik, 26, two hard boyz of Janajuddha faction of PBCP, Mohammad Khokon, 27, a cadre of local outlaw gang 'Bahini' and Rashed Uddin Chowdhury Babar, 35, an alleged criminal in Cox's Bazar.
Our Pabna correspondent reports, Paban was scrubbed in a 'shootout' between Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and his cohorts in Ishwardi upazila early Wednesday. Is that closer to Kushtia or Bagerhat?
Hailing from Baraichara village of the upazila Paban was accused in several cases including murder most foul and robbery charges, claimed Rab.
Rab-12 Pabna Camp Commander Lt Commander TAH Mahmud said acting on a tip off from the always reliable Mahmoud the Weasel that Paban was holding a secret meeting in the dead of night with his accomplices at a field in his village, they conducted a raid in the area. "Sergeant Rafiq! Load up the men!" Spider senses tingling at the proximity of the elite force, Paban and his associates opened fire on them, prompting them to retaliate with fire, Mahmud added.
After nearly a 20-minute 'shootout', Rab found Paban lying in a pool of blood, he added. "Whose blood was it, Captain?"
The accomplices of Paban, according to Rab, who opened fire on them, managed to flee the scene ... as though they had never been
leaving three guns and eight bullets on the spot.
On March 25, 2007
Our thanks to newly hired clerk Mahmudullah, who discovered the draft of this report in the wrong file
Rab jugged Paban with a huge amount of arms and ammunition including eight sub-machine guns (SMG) and 1,500 rounds of bullets
That's rather a lot. Usually rounds of bullet are found in single digit amounts.
from Sadar upazila of Pabna. He was placed on remand in the case filed in this connection and was later released on bail.
Siddique Pramanik, a Janajuddha operative, succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday morning hours after a bomb attack on him in Ataikula upazila of Pabna.
Md Sirajul Islam Chowdhury, officer-in-charge of Ataikula Police Station, suspected that the rivals of Siddique might have hurled bombs on him around 2:00am while he came out of his Choradanga residence responding their calls.
Siddique sustained severe injuries in the bomb attack and was rushed to Pabna Sadar Hospital where he died at about 8:00am.
Unknown assailants chopped Bishu Pramanik to death Wednesday afternoon at Halbaria Boalia bazaar in Santhia.
Officer-in-charge (OC) of Santhia cop shoppe Md Robiul Islam primarily suspected that the party rivals might have killed him over a tolls collection row.
In another incident, assailants chopped Md Khokon of Satgachha village in Atghoria around 4:00pm on the day while the victim came out of his house to have a dip in the nearby pond.
Atghoria OC Abu Hanif suspected the killing occurred in sequel to intra-party feuds.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... a correspondent from Cox's Bazar adds, an alleged local criminal was killed in a shootout with the members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)-7 at Kalabagan area under Eidgah union of Cox's Bazar Sadar upazila in early Wednesday.
Rashed Uddin Chowdhury Babar, 35 of Meherghora village accused in 23 cases including murder, robbery and other criminal activities, was killed round 3.30 am.
A very, very badman indeed. Very bad. Not even a mother could love such a badman.
Babar's family alleged that it was a planned killing.
Babar was a son of late freedom fighter Master Syedul Alam Chowdhury of Uttar Maijpara village under Eidgah union. He was the joint convenor of "Amra Muktijoddar Santan" and a former leader of upazila Chhatra League.
So degenerates the family spirit from generation to generation. One desperately hopes Mr. Babar had no children, or at least no sons. Miscreant daughters generally only push their mothers-in-law into the bread oven, which has a much more limited effect on the neighborhood.
The post mortem of Babar was held at Cox's Bazar Sadar Hospital morgue. After namaj-e-janaza at Eidgah High School ground his body was buried at family graveyard in the afternoon.
Cox's Bazar Model police Station Officer-in-Charge Mohammad Shahjahan confirmed the incident.
He said the Rab members recovered a locally made LG, a long machete and three bullet cartridges from the spot.
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The NG soldier is under state jurisdiction. The federal military authority in the area, the commander Ft. Bliss had already placed Juarez on 'off limits' status a good time back.
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A Mexican Army detachment designated Task Force Sierra Madre has seized three camps in western Durango they say were manufacturing centers for crystal methamphetimine Wednesday, according to Mexican news accounts.
The Mexican Secretaria de Defensa Nacional (SEDENA) said the detachment found the three camps hidden in trees and terrain in the western Durango town of Tamazula.
In the first camp was found two electric heaters, an oxygen tank, 25 empty drums of 200 liters, and nine meters of hose.
In camp two, soldiers found found 112.34 kilograms of methamphetamine, 250 kilograms of caustic soda, 100 kilograms of tartaric acid, two empty nitrogen tanks, a burner and a centrifuge, and one AR-15 and one AK-47 assault rifle with magazines and cartridges.
In the third camp was seized 550 kilograms of caustic soda, 340 kilograms of an unidentified white granular chemical, 80 gallons brown crystal brown, 42 bins of different capacities, 22 with hydrochloric acid and ammonium hydroxide, 17 LP 30 kilogram gas tanks, 20 empty drums, six water tanks, nine steel vessels, three burners and an electric centrifuge.
No arrests were reported in the raid.
Tamazula, Durango is a few kilometers across the border with Sinaloa in the Sierra Occidental mountains.
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A shootout between Tijuana, Baja California municipal police and suspected drug traffickers Monday has led to a seizure of 134 tons of pot, say Meixcan press accounts.
One unidentified police officer was wounded in the shooting, but is expected to survive his wounds. One unidentified armed suspect was also wounded in the encounter.
The marijuana was found on seven trucks in more than 15,000 packages.
Other national reports say the drugs belonged to the Sinaloa Drug Cartel.
Tijuana is expected to be the focus of intense fighting between the Sinaloa Drug Cartel and the Beltrn-Leyva Drug Cartel in the coming months, as both groups have rearmed. The Sinaloa Drug gang is the primary competitor with the Beltran-Leyva Cartel in western Mexico.
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A really good question is why the cartels haven't merged.
To some extent they have. Los Zetas do some enforcement work for the Tijuana gang and have ties to the Juarez gang. It may not escape your attention that the alliances are with gangs that have control of border crossings.
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A really good question is why the cartels haven't merged.
Thinking about it a second or two.
If there was only one, no matter how big, You catch one and you catch them all.
Unconnected, it's much harder to end them altogether, catch one, and you've NOT caught all.
Crooks are NOT stupid, that's only how they're displayed on film.
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(Itar-Tass) - Police have exchanged fire with bully boyz in a wooded area near the village of Bavtugai, Dagestan, a representative of the National Anti-Terrorist Committee told Itar-Tass.
"A group of bully boyz whose number is unknown, was detected during a security sweep," the official said.
"The bully boyz opened fire on police, and a shootout ensued," he added.
The authorities in the area launched a regime of anti-terrorist operation.
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(Itar-Tass) - Tajik police potted 12 gunnies in an anti-terrorist operation in the east of the country. Three special task force coppers were banged, and several others were maimed, the republic's Interior Minister Abdurakhim Kakhkharov told a news conference on Wednesday.
"The operation involving all law-enforcement agencies is being held in the Rasht district with the view of detecting and neutralizing the gunnies involved in the attack on the military convoy on September 19, in which 28 soldiers and officers were murdered on the spot or died later in hospital," Kakhkharov said.
Two groups of gunnies led by former field commanders of the irreconcilable opposition Abdullo Rakhimov and Alovudin Davlatov are fighting the government forces.
"The operation is taking place in the remote and hard-to-access Kamarog Gorge. The situation in the Rasht district is fully under the authorities and law-enforcement bodies' control," the Tajik police chief underlined.
Speaking about the bad turban and terrorist underground in the country, he said two al Qaeda turbans, 7 members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and eight supporters of the Tablighi Jamaat A group of itinerant preachers who form one of al-Qaeda's recruiting arms...
movements were tossed into the calaboose in the past nine months. The operation of these organizations is banned in the territory of the country.
Overnight to August 23, 25 inmates beat feet from a remand prison in Dushanbe, vaunted as the tightest security facility. Which doesn't say much for Tadjik jugs...
But does bespeak a certain lack of imagination on the part of the inmates until recently. What triggered the change, d'you suppose?
They included hardened criminals, including members of the armed group jugged in the summer 2009. There were six Russian citizens among them, convicted for participation in an illegal paramilitary formation. The Tajik authorities later blamed the runaways for attacking the military convoy on September 19.
Independent observers said the eastern region of Tajikistan, during the Civil War, was the stronghold of the Opposition and has remained the main source of instability since.
On Monday, Tajikistan's Foreign Minister Khamrakhon Zarifi said the republic has all the means and opportunities to restore order in the eastern region of the country on its own, and does not need the assistance of third countries. Zarifi acknowledged however that the situation had aggravated in the region some time ago, but "not to the extent where it can threaten the country's national security."
According to the foreign minister, "one or two terrorist groups are operating in the mountains, but the government has enough forces there to keep the situation under control."
Speaker of the national parliament Shukudzhon Zukhurov has been in the Rasht district with a peace mission since October 13. Unofficial sources said the speaker, who is a native of the region, had met with residents of several districts, and urged the elders to help bring the young people -- led astray by the gunnies -- back to peaceful life.
The same sources said the authorities had sent messages to the hard boyz offering them to surrender in exchange for the president's amnesty guarantees.
This article starring:
Abdullo Rakhimov
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
Alovudin Davlatov
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
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A U.S. reconnaissance satellite has detected signs of North Korea preparing for a nuclear test in North Hamgyong Province, where it had conducted two earlier tests in October 2006 and May 2009.
A South Korean government source on Wednesday said "brisk movement" of vehicles and people has been detected in Punggye-ri recently, including signs of activity there to repair a tunnel that collapsed after the two earlier nuclear tests.
However, it seems unlikely that the North will conduct a third nuclear test in the immediate future since current activities there suggest it will take "about three months" to prepare, the source added.
Unless two months of preparation have already been done ...
There is speculation that the North will attempt to reach a deal with the South Korean and the U.S. governments to ease sanctions while giving the impression that it is constantly ready to perform another nuclear test.
Others speculate that Pyongyang may go ahead with the test to bolster the standing of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's son Jong-un or to tighten controls now Kim junior has officially been established as the successor to the leadership.
One South Korean security official said, "To consolidate the foundations for Kim junior's succession, the North will continue to try to bolster nuclear weapons and missiles in line with its "Songun" or military-first doctrine and its propaganda goal to become a "powerful and prosperous nation" by 2012, the centennial of regime founder Kim Il-sung's birth.
David Albright of the Institute for Science and International Security, a U.S. think tank, said at a seminar hosted by the Institute for Corean-American Studies in Washington that the North may have already developed small nuclear warheads that can be fitted onto ballistic missiles.
After Kim junior was officially established as the successor to the leadership on Sept. 29, the North's Vice Foreign Minister Pak Kil-yon told the UN General Assembly, "Our nuclear deterrent can never be abandoned, but should be strengthened further."
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ION TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > CHINA is repor sending up to THREE FISHERIES PATROL BOATS back to the area of the disputed DAOYUS = JAPANESE SENKAKUS ISLANDS.
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"FBI Sentinel (Fill in any gummint agency) project over budget and behind schedule"
Fixed.
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"Virtual Case File (or VCF) was a software application developed by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) between 2000 and 2005. The project was not close to completion when it was officially abandoned in January 2005, having turned into a complete fiasco for the FBI. It cost at least $100 million.
Sentinel is a software project to replace the FBI's failed Virtual Case File project.
NYPD closed off streets around Times Square after unattended van spotted outside Westin Hotel. Area re-opened to traffic after vehicle searched.
Police temporarily closed streets around New York's Times Square at lunchtime on Wednesday but soon reopened the streets when a suspicious vehicle turned out to be harmless, Reuters reported.
A minivan left unattended with its lights on outside the Westin Hotel prompted the bomb scare, police stated.
[Dawn] Pak police said Wednesday they had recovered four Nato transport containers loaded with US Army jackets and laptop computers that had been stolen while on their way to Afghanistan.
The containers were found parked at a flour mill on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, area police chief Sabir Khan said. The containers went missing recently, he said, but gave no date.
Four people, including a guard at the mill, have been detained, he said.
Police showed the loot to news hounds. An AFP news hound said the containers were loaded with the US Army jackets, each inscribed with individuals' names, stationery, coils of cable and laptops.
The bulk of Nato supplies trucked overland into Afghanistan are shipped to Pakistain's southern port of Karachi and driven to the northwestern crossing at Torkham or a southwestern crossing at Chaman.
More than 150,000 US and Nato troops are fighting against a nine-year Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan that is now at its deadliest. Talibs drastically escalated attacks on Nato convoys in Pakistain earlier this month during an 11-day closure of the Torkham border.
Pakistain re-opened the crossing to Nato supplies on October 10, after the United States apologised for a cross-border Nato helicopter raid that killed two Pak soldiers and damaged US-Pak relations.
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I just had an evil thought, Check those containers verrrry carfulllly for booby traps.
So far the enemy (Enemies?) are prone to IEDing whatever they can get their hands on.
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[Dawn] Three Pak soldiers were killed Wednesday when a bomb destroyed their patrol in the Khyber region of the tribal belt on the Afghan border, a military front man said.
The soldiers from the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) were on a routine patrol when the bomb planted by bully boyz hit a vehicle, the front man said.
The incident happened in Qambar Khel town, which lies on the route of Nato supply convoys heading to the US-led war effort in Afghanistan.
"Three FC soldiers were killed and three maimed," the front man said, blaming "myrmidons" for the attack in a term used by Pak military commanders to denote bad turbans.
Khyber is home to Taliban beturbanned goons and bully boyz from thug group Lashkar-e-Islam led by local warlord Mangal Bagh.
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[Al Jazeera] Karachi, Pakistain's commercial hub, shut down on Wednesday for a day of mourning after a fresh wave of violence that has killed at least 72 people since Saturday.
Part of the election ritual in picturesque Karachi.
Violence first erupted in the city on Saturday ahead of a by-election to replace a provincial legislator who was murdered in August. Police said four people were killed in different incidents on Wednesday, bringing to 32 the number who have died in the last 24 hours. Ten people died in a single attack on Tuesday in the Sher Shah area.
Al Jizz's Kamal Hyder, reporting from Islamabad, said: "Schools are closed, markets are closed and there is very little traffic on the roads and of course the political parties are all saying that their people were the victims even though the residents of Karachi know that the victims were on all sides. There has been some trouble in certain parts of the city, shops and hotels set on fire."
It has been difficult to maintain security in Karachi, home to Pakistain's main port, stock exchange and central bank and the main gateway for Western military supplies bound for neighbouring landlocked Afghanistan.
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement[MQM], which is the dominant political force in Karachi, has stepped up pressure on the government to stem the last days' violence, saying its workers were among those killed. "It seems that there is no government in Karachi. The government has failed to protect the lives and properties of the people of Karachi," Altaf Hussain, the leader of the MQM, said in a statement from self-imposed exile in London.
Hyder said: "There has been a demand from the Pakistain Peoples Party, from some of their leaders, that the army should be called in but [just a] few minutes ago, Pakistain's prime minister shot down that idea, saying that the army will not be sent in." "Feh! For a piddlin' 33 corpses?"
The MQM has been threatening to pull out of Zardari's coalition, a move which could lead to the government losing its National Assembly majority or even its downfall if the MQM sides with the opposition.
Kamal Hyder said: "The president is definitely not looking good, neither is the prime minister looking good." That's because they're both incompetent.
'Turf war'
It was not clear whether Tuesday's attacks were related to the violence that erupted in the wake of the run-up to the by-election. "The gravity of violence is high, as 1,000 people have been killed during the past year," Amir Latif, the bureau chief of Pakistain's largest independent wire service, Online News Network, told Al Jizz. "Ethnic violence is increasing with every passing day ... The city is still burning."
Hyder said the recent unrest stemmed from a political power struggle. "For the last few months, various political parties have been battling for control of Karachi," he said. "The Awami National Party and MQM are fighting what appears to be a pie fight. "The people of Karachi have been held hostage by these political groups."
Karachi has long been plagued by political and ethnic violence and there is concern that the city is being used as a haven for the Taliban. Some violence in the city is also linked to criminal gangs.
The city generates 68 per cent of the government's revenue and 25 per cent of Pakistain's gross domestic product. ... which is a lot of boodle to rake off...
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[Dawn] Unknown gunnies killed four people in different incidents of assassination in Karachi on Wednesday, bringing to 33 the number of people killed in the city in the past 24 hours.
"It is right now difficult to name any groups over involvement in the killings but I can say one thing -- this is a conspiracy to destabilise Karachi," city police chief Fayyaz Leghari told AFP.
"Police have jugged several suspects and they are being interrogated," Leghari said without disclosing any numbers.
Moreover, a curfew may be imposed in certain neighbourhoods of Karachi, television reports quoted sources as saying.
Search operations are reportedly going to be launched in the city's sensitive areas, reports said.
Commercial centres shut down in the wake of the violence that intensified on Tuesday claiming at least 29 lives.
Police and paramilitary troops patrolled troubled parts of the city, which were deserted with public transport on strike, an AFP news hound said.
Police were searching for attackers in eastern and southern parts of the city where the violence has been concentrated.
The head of the Karachi Transporters' Association said it would have been risky to work on Wednesday, although the stock exchange was functioning.
"It is always very dangerous to bring public transport to the roads on such occasions," Irshad Bokhari told AFP.
Roads were clear, and shopping centres and educational institutions closed across the teeming city of 20 million, heading a call from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on citizens to mourn the deaths.
"Our party gave the call to mourn the deaths of innocent people in the city," senior MQM official Farooq Sattar told AFP.
Some shops were set on fire in the city's Malir neighbourhood, where police tried to calm gathering crowds, footage broadcast on private television channels showed.
Several small shops, including fruit and vegetable stalls, were set ablaze in the area. Young men ran onto the streets, and police officers tried to keep the situation under control, the footage showed.
During Tuesday's violence, at least 12 of the victims were killed in an attack on a scrap market in the city's Shershah area. It was the worst single incident since the latest outbreak of violence erupted on Saturday.
In the Shershah attack, most of those killed were shopkeepers and workers. Nine people were also injured in the incident when about 10 unknown gunnies opened fire.
Sindh Youth Affairs Minister Faisal Sabzwari said almost all victims of the Shershah attack belonged to the Urdu-speaking community. The attack was followed by several incidents of shooting in different areas, leaving several more people dead.
The MQM alleged that elements involved in 'Lyari gang war' were involved in the Shershah attack.
In a statement, the MQM coordination committee said there was credible information that Lyari gangsters Baba Ladla, Jabbar Langra, Faisal Pathan, Fahad, Mulla Raju, Shafi Magsi, Lal Mohammad Magsi and Zubair Wehsi had carried out the attack.
It said the attackers had gone to the junk market on motorcycles from Mewashah graveyard, but they were not intercepted by police.
Karachi, a port city of some 20 million, has a long history of political, ethnic and religious strife, but this year has been exceptionally bloody. As of June, around 300 ''assassinations'' had occurred in the city, roughly twice that of 2009. Many of the killings in Karachi have been linked to gangs allegedly controlled by political parties.
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THI-QAR / Aswat al-Iraq: Police forces arrested one of the most important financiers of armed groups in Thi-Qar and found explosives in his possession, a local police chief said on Wednesday.
The Thi-Qar police arrested the man in al-Juwieber region, Karmat Bani Saad district, eastern Nassiriya, General Sabah al-Fatlawi told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. The forces raided his house and arrested him after trading fire for some time, he added.
They found six bombs, a Katyusha rocket and a number of light weapons and explosive materials, he said.
Nassiriya, the capital of Thi-Qar, is 380 km south of Baghdad.
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"Armed group"? Dare not offend the jihadists by identifying which terrorist/insurgent group the man worked for.
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Five persons, from the same family, were killed Wednesday by an armed group in eastern Mosul, a police source said.
The gunmen raided the house in al-Wehda neighborhood in eastern Mosul, killing two women, a 13-year-old girl and two men, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The father of the family is a soldier of the border guards and was killed in the attack, he added, noting that police sealed off the whole region and started an investigation into the incident.
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Why are the Israelis even bothering to talk to a 30-year-old has-been (or never-was) ex-President who seems to be in continuous brain-fart territory?
A BOMB ripped through a passenger bus in the restive southern Philippines today, killing at least seven people and wounding nine others. The bus was traveLling with more than 50 passengers when the powerful blast shook the rear part of the vehicle from the overhead compartment, police Chief Superintendent Gil Meneses said. The force of the blast was so strong it decapitated two of the victims, he said. The wounded were brought to hospitals near Matalam township in North Cotabato province.
Police and army units interviewed survivors and combed through the twisted metal trying to extract the injured, Mr Meneses said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing. The south of the Philippines is home to kidnappers, extortion gangs and a decades-old Muslim insurgency. Extortionists have been blamed for previous bus attacks and holdups in the region. Most terrorism is just old fashioned criminal activity dressed up in fancy ideological clothes.
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.
[Geo TV] A Taliban-style 
[Bangla Daily Star] Four 
(Itar-Tass) - Tajik police 
[Al Jazeera] Karachi, Pakistain's commercial hub, shut down on Wednesday for a day of mourning after a fresh wave of violence that has killed at least 72 people since Saturday.
THI-QAR / Aswat al-Iraq: Police forces arrested one of the most important financiers of armed groups in Thi-Qar and found explosives in his possession, a local police chief said on Wednesday.
