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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nice drumsticks.

Is that a bicycle?
Posted by: gorb || 11/24/2010 0:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Come on now gorb, haven't you ever sharpened your axe on a grinding wheel before using before Thanksgiving?

And yes, nice drumsticks.
Posted by: tipover || 11/24/2010 1:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Geraldine Fitzgerald aka Isabella Linton in "Wuthering Heights" aka Marthe de Brancovis in "Watch on the Rhine" (Died in 2005 at age 91)



Thanksgiving Special: She's giving you the Bird.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 11/24/2010 2:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Her eyes remind of the last Jehovah Witness that visited me.
Posted by: Beavis || 11/24/2010 5:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Send her to my house.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 11/24/2010 7:44 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Mullah Qayoum of Helmand Terminated
Seems like a pretty good-sized fish - and Mullahs are always a good target.
A Coalition special operations team
How - and why - do we know that?
killed the Taliban's shadow governor of a contested district in Helmand province who also served as the military commander in the northern half of the province.

Mullah Abdul Qayoum, the Taliban's shadow governor for the district of Sangin, and 10 Taliban fighters were killed in the Nov. 20 airstrike in the nearby district of Kajaki. The strike targeted "a district level Taliban command and control center." ISAF believed that a meeting of senior commanders was taking place at the time of the strike.

In addition to serving as the Taliban's chief in Sangin, Qayoum also was responsible for the "overall military command for Sangin and northern Helmand," ISAF stated in a press release. "He appointed all leaders, provided guidance and allocated personnel and financial support to all Taliban leaders operating in the area." He ordered and directed attacks against Coalition and Afghan forces, personally participated in these attacks, and is said to have been an expert in manufacturing roadside bombs.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/24/2010 18:28 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Terminated is always good!
Posted by: Water Modem || 11/24/2010 22:29 Comments || Top||


US Army 18 series positions difficult to fill.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/24/2010 10:11 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, Duh. Not everyone is cut out to be SF.
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/24/2010 11:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Lessee......first you have to volunteer for the Army, complete basic and AIT, then volunteer for and complete jump school, then volunteer to be in SF. THEN you have to be accepted, survive SFAS, then complete 2 years of training to become an operator, then get assigned to a Group. Simple, no?
Posted by: Nottaleg || 11/24/2010 11:35 Comments || Top||

#3  How about some level of training that is in between standard and SF training? We don't need jungle warfare techniques taught in Afghanistan, so maybe we can leave that out.
Posted by: gorb || 11/24/2010 12:30 Comments || Top||

#4  You get what you pay for Gorb.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/24/2010 12:34 Comments || Top||

#5  "How about some level of training that is in between standard and SF training?"

That might be hard to do as I believe the SF mission is misunderstood by many. There are all types of SoF but SF is only one of them. So what someone might get in "rock eater" school might be useful but only covers one portion of the requirements.

The sort of people that make the best operators are just not that common. The psychological screening is probably the most difficult part, I would think, aside from the required skillset.


Posted by: crosspatch || 11/24/2010 12:49 Comments || Top||

#6  You get what you pay for Gorb.

As in "half-measures aren't worth it"?
Posted by: gorb || 11/24/2010 12:59 Comments || Top||

#7  .....first you have to volunteer for the Army

I believe the height and weight standards keep out a sizable portion [both in numbers and girth] of the male population of the US just to start with.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/24/2010 13:44 Comments || Top||

#8  And the MMPI or other psychological screening test will drop out some more.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/24/2010 15:23 Comments || Top||

#9  We still have Rangers, right? Doesn't that qualify for in between regular and SF?
Posted by: Dar || 11/24/2010 15:48 Comments || Top||

#10  And all the above comments don't even address the threat of being second guessed/arrested/prosecuted by your own government and pilloried in the press.
I cannot say as I blame them.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 11/24/2010 17:06 Comments || Top||

#11  I recall that back at the start of the WoT, when SOCOM was about tripling in size, there was an effort to recruit directly from the pool of "talented individuals", outside of the normal channels. That is, to go direct to SOCOM without first going into the regular Army.

This had the added bonus that such people were far less visible to the major foreign powers, who go to lengths to obtain lists of top of the line military personnel.

But this also means that in the long run, there was almost certain to be a downturn in ordinary channel recruitment.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 11/24/2010 18:14 Comments || Top||

#12  The primary role of SF is to operate with, organize, train, and utilize resistance movements in occupied countries. Originally looked at the old Warsaw Pact countries. Last big success was helping the Northern Alliance against al Q and the Taliban in Astan.
In addition to being supersoldiers, they are superb linguists--need a high score on language aptitude in addition to other things--and are excellent practical anthropologists.
All the other folks we hear about, Delta Force, Marine Force Recon, Seals, are to operate as small teams doing their own thing. Rangers are good light Infantry and assault teams. Only SF is designed to work with other countries' troops or resistance movements. Lot more to it than supersoldiering. It appears that this sort of thing is long range patrolling and recon, with target designating thrown in for the airstrike. May or may not have had locals working with them.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 11/24/2010 20:43 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Deaths in Yemen blast
[Al Jazeera] At least one soldier has been killed and two others injured in a roadside bomb blast in southern Yemen, officials have said.

They were riding in a military vehicle in the city of Lawdar, located in the volatile southern province of Abyan.

The attack on Tuesday happened a day after the country kicked off a regional football tournament in the south.

After the explosion, Yemeni soldiers clashed with armed men near the site.

A local official told Reuters news agency that it was not yet clear who was behind the attack. However, Abyan is an area where several military raids against suspected al-Qaeda fighters have occurred.

Zinjibar, Abyan's capital, is hosting the 20th Gulf Cup along with the neighbouring coastal province of Aden.

Growing violence
The government has put in place heavy security across the area, deploying 30,000 troops in an attempt to maintain calm in the south, which in recent months has seen clashes as the state struggles to subdue a rising southern separatist movement.

It has also witnessed growing violence by al-Qaeda, which has found safe haven in the south and east of Yemen, Osama bin Laden's ancestral homeland.

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the armed group's Yemen-based wing, has vowed to "bleed" US resources with inexpensive, small-scale attacks that cost billions for the West to guard against.

The Yemeni government has said it had spent around $1bn on the football event.

Ali Abdullah Saleh, the president, visited the port city of Aden last week, where he inspected the facilities for the tournament and held meetings with organisers and security officials.

Saleh paid tribute to "the efforts of the security services and military to ensure that the tournament takes place peacefully and securely".
Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia


'Alarming' escalation in Yemen fighting near Saudi
[Emirates 24/7] The UN refugee agency on Tuesday warned of an "alarming escalation" in fighting in northern Yemen close to the border with Soddy Arabia despite a nine-month ceasefire.
Hudnas only hold until the rearming is done. That's how Mohammed did it, after all. As Keepers of the Faith, the Saudis should be pleased their neighbors also are pious.
The office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said local aid agencies and eyewitnesses including displaced people reported that festivities between Shiite Houthis and pro-government tribes erupted in remote northwestern Sa'ada province on November 13.

"At least 20 people have been killed reportedly and others maimed over the past 10 days in the worst violence in northern Yemen since the signing of the cease fire in February," UNHCR front man Andrej Mahecic said.

"This is an alarming escalation," Mahecic told journalists, "UNHCR adds its voice to that of the local mediation committee in calling for calm and protection of the civilian population."

UNHCR said staff from its office in the Saudi capital Riyadh were being dispatched to the area to assess the extent of civilian displacement following "heavy fighting
... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting...
" in the Monabih and Qatabir districts bordering Soddy Arabia.

Yemen launched an offensive against a Huthi uprising in August 2009 and the rebels later clashed with Saudi forces, forcing a truce in February.

More than 300,000 people were displaced in Yemen by that fighting but only 20,000 have returned to Sa'ada, while humanitarian access was limited to an area around Sa'ada City," the UNHCR said.

"We remain very concerned about the lack of access and humanitarian situation in other parts of the governorate," said Mahecic.
Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Bangladesh
'Mugger' killed in 'shootout,' now 'dead'
[Bangla Daily Star] An alleged mugger
Alleged? Dear me, how the standard text has changed.
was killed in a 'shootout' between his cohorts and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel at Ashulia in Savar early yesterday.

Rab personnel also recovered a pistol and five bullets from the spot.
Nor yet "rounds of bullet". One hopes this is merely a regional variation that will not spread.
The identity of the dear departed could not be known immediately, said Rab sources.

A Rab-4 official said a Rab patrol team in Bishmile area on Dhaka-Aricha highway intervened in the middle of a mugging incident hearing the cry for help while a gang of muggers was looting a rickshaw passenger around 1:20am.
So what's it gonna be tonight, sarge?
Ummmmmmm...let's go with "rickshaw mugging".
Should I "cry for help"?
Sure, why not...

Sensing danger, the criminals opened fire on the elite force, which forced the Rab-4 personnel to retaliate, triggering a 'shootout', the official said.
Danger Sensing: Malfunction...Malfunction...Malfunction...
At one stage, the muggers, except one who was bullet hit, managed to flee the scene,
... as though they had never been...
he added.
Damn! They're like the wind, sarge!
They always are, Mahmoud...

Later, the Rab personnel caught the alleged one with the above-mentioned pistol with bullets.
Well, it looks like the alleged one has taken his last rickshaw ride...
He was rushed to a nearby health complex where on duty doctors declared him dead, said the official.
Pick up or delivery, sargeant?
Very funny, doc.
Posted by: || 11/24/2010 08:20 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Ow! I've been bullet hit!"
Posted by: Grenter, Protector of the Geats || 11/24/2010 9:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Rickshaws are probably seen as where the money is, since those who hire rickshaws can afford a little luxury.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 11/24/2010 18:17 Comments || Top||

#3  He's dead Jim.
Posted by: bigjim-CA || 11/24/2010 20:44 Comments || Top||


Europe
Belgium arrests 11 possible terrorists
Seven of the arrests were in Antwerp, Belgium, she said. One was in Aachen, Germany, and the other three were in the Netherlands. Those arrested are Belgian, Dutch, Moroccan and Chechen, authorities said.
Posted by: gorb || 11/24/2010 01:27 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


 Norway airport evacuated after suspect bag found
[Geo TV] Authorities evacuated the airport at Norway's second city of Bergen, on Tuesday after a suspect bag was found, the Bergens Tidende newspaper reported.

Police bomb disposal officers were alerted after the suspect bag was found being checked in for an undisclosed destination, the report on the newspaper's website said.

"Explosive could be inside," Bergen police official Bjarne Flokenes was quoted as saying. "We have deployed significant security measures but it is necessary when the situation is so uncertain."
What about the bag's owner? Or at least the person who was checking it in...
Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Greek extremist group claims parcel bomb campaign
[Pak Daily Times] A Greek anarchist group grabbed credit on Tuesday for posting more than a dozen parcel bombs to European leaders and embassies, police said, in a campaign that caused alarm but no major injuries.

Two members of the radical Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei who were jugged as the rigged parcels were sent out early this month confirmed their involvement in a letter sent to the Indymedia website, police said. They claimed "the dispatch of parcel bombs to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the headquarters of the World Court in The Hague and the embassies of Belgium and Mexico in Athens," according to the letter.

"We are very proud of our action ... ," said the letter signed by chemistry student Panayotis Argyriou, 22, and Gerassimos Tsakalos, 24, who were jugged in Athens on November 1.

The men were nabbed hours after the first booby-trapped parcel, addressed for the Mexican embassy in Athens, went kaboom! in a postal office. Police then discovered to two more, one addressed to Sarkozy and the other for the Belgian embassy in the Greek capital.
Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  “We are very proud of our action ... ,” said the letter signed by chemistry student Panayotis Argyriou, 22, and Gerassimos Tsakalos, 24

We believe in nothing, Lebowski. Nothing. And tomorrow we come back and we cut off your chonson. Yeah and maybe we stomp on it and squoosh it, Lebowski.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 11/24/2010 13:58 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
US jury convicts 5 Somalis in Navy ship attack
NORFOLK, Va. – Five Somali men accused of attacking a U.S. Navy ship off Africa's coast were convicted on federal piracy charges Monday, in what experts said was the first trial of its kind since the Civil War.

The verdict was handed down by a jury in U.S. District Court in Norfolk. The five men stood silently as the verdict was read. They face mandatory life terms at a sentencing hearing set for March 14 in Norfolk.

Defense lawyers had argued the men were innocent fishermen who had been abducted by pirates and forced to fire their weapons at the ship.

John S. Davis, an assistant U.S. attorney, had argued that three of the men were in a skiff that opened fire on the Nicholas with assault rifles, then fled when sailors returned fire with machine guns. He said all the men later confessed to the attack in a confession to an interpreter aboard the Nicholas. He said they expected to make anywhere from $10,000 to $40,000 from the ransom.
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/24/2010 12:40 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But...but...but...This is just one of their "quaint tribal customs," and not a crime at all, in the context of their cockroach like lives. Like hand chopping, and stoning, and genital mutilation, and child marriages, and goat fancy. Nothing to see here, your honor...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2010 16:09 Comments || Top||

#2  they probably have a longer life expectancy, better diet and easier life incarcerated in a US prison than they did back in Somalia
Posted by: anon1 || 11/24/2010 17:54 Comments || Top||

#3  anon1, especially as pirates, if they run into the wrong people - like the Russians
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/24/2010 20:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Rambler you are so right
There was a rumour going round that a "death ship" of russian black-ops military, disguised as a trading dhow, was cruising the Gulf of Aden.

When pirates attack, they pop out their AK47s and those pirates are never heard from again.

rumour started in Djibouti where they allegedly stopped for fuel/resupply
Posted by: anon1 || 11/24/2010 22:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Q-dhows to the Russians for thinking this up.
Posted by: gorb || 11/24/2010 23:12 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
BNM leader killed, another hurt in Ormara
[Pak Daily Times] A Baloch National Movement leader was rubbed out and another injured in a firing incident in Ormara on Tuesday. According to a police official, unidentified gunnies opened indiscriminate fire at Shahnawaz Baloch, a BNM leader, who was on his way home along with a friend. Resultantly, he keeled over dead while his friend sustained bullet wounds. Police reached the spot and shifted Baloch's body and the injured to a nearby hospital. The motive behind the attack could not be ascertained. A case has been registered against the unidentified accused.
Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Balochistan: 5 decomposed bodies found in Pishin
[Pak Daily Times] Five unidentified decomposed bodies were found in a deserted place between the settlements of Bostan and Yaru in Pishin district on Tuesday.

According to officials, a shepherd first spotted the dead bodies at the desolate place and informed the Levies personnel concerned. Levies and other law enforcers rushed to the spot and took the bodies to a nearby hospital and later shifted them to the Bolan Medical Complex (BMC) Teaching Hospital for further proceedings.

The victims had received bullet to their heads and presumably keeled over dead. The bodies are beyond recognition and were said to be two months old, an official said.

Talking to Daily Times, a levy official said that they had brought the bodies to the Sandeman Hospital, but later shifted them to the BMC due to the law and order situation.

The bodies were completely decomposed and several parts were eaten up by wild animals and birds, while doctors and hospital sources confirmed that it is impossible to carry out a postmortem.

Talking to journalists, Balochistan Home Secretary Akbar Hussain Durrani said the bodies bore bullet wounds in the heads and were two months old. He said that he had directed the health secretary and medical superintendent to carry out a postmortem. "Chemical powder was sprayed on the bodies, accelerating the process of decomposition," a doctor at the hospital said.
Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


 NATO copters re-violate Pak airspace
[Geo TV] Nato helicopters, yet another time, defied the integrity and illusory sovereignty of Pakistain by violating airspace and continued flights for some minutes within Pak limits on Tuesday, Geo News reported.

Nato choppers flew back to Afghanistan after a few minutes' flights over Pak soil.

According to security officials, Nato's two gunship helicopters encroached Pak airspace during flights near Landi Kotal and Torkham and violated international boundaries.

Officials also claimed hearing sounds of blasts while copters were hovering over, however, they could not confirm the exact location of violation of airspace.

A many local people got panicked by Nato flights. After flights lasted for a few minutes within Pak boundaries, choppers flew back to Afghanistan, people confirmed.
Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Reviolate ....I like that word.
Sounds like something a whore in denial would say.
I guess that makes it fit Pakiwakiland.
Posted by: Water Modem || 11/24/2010 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Knowing Pakistan, it wasn't a moving reviolation.

Should that word have an f?
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 11/24/2010 5:44 Comments || Top||

#3  We wouldnt have to enter your airspace if you cleared the areas we wanted you to to ie your side of the border.

The double game is becoming obvious now!
Posted by: Paul2 || 11/24/2010 5:58 Comments || Top||


Shelling kills 14 militants in Orakzai Agency
[Pak Daily Times] Fourteen faceless myrmidons were killed and six others were maimed in shelling by gunship helicopters in upper parts of Orakzai Agency
... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar...
on Monday, official sources said. According to details, the choppers targeted the hideouts of faceless myrmidons in Kot Killay and Khadizai areas, killing 14 faceless myrmidons and injuring six others. Four hideouts of Islamic fascisti were also destroyed. Meanwhile,
...back at the ranch...
security forces launched a full-scale operation in Torkanri, Narek and Mazidgarhi areas and seized huge quantity of explosives.
Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Three minor girls injured in grenade blast
[Pak Daily Times] Three maidens of tender years were maimed Tuesday when a hand grenade blew up in a clash of drug peddler groups within the remits of Aziz Bhatti cop shoppe. Police said the incident took place in Street No 7, Dalmia, when a clash broke out between two groups and a hand grenade was thrown in the street. They said the culprit wanted to throw the grenade in the house of Azeem, an associate of Kalu Karrant, but the cracker went kaboom! in Pervaiz's house, injuring the three girls identified as Saba, 14, Kanwal, 8, and Muqaddas, 7. The injured girls were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and were stated to be out of danger. Suicide: A drug addict hanged himself to death in his house in Nasir Colony. Surjani police said Irfan, 25, son of Nehal, did away with himself by hanging himself from the ceiling fan at his home. The victim's family has said that he was a drug addict and ended his life when the family refused to give him money for drugs, said police. He was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, from where the heirs took away his body after completing medico-legal formalities.
Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Indian police kill 25 suspected Maoists
[Emirates 24/7] Indian security forces said on Tuesday they had killed 25 suspected Maoist guerrillas in the insurgency-riven central state of Chhattisgarh, while two coppers died in a separate land mine blast.

"At least 25 Maoists were killed at Jagargunda village in a fierce shootout with security forces," the chief policeman in charge of anti-Maoist operations in Chhattisgarh, Ramniwas, who only uses one name, told AFP.

About 500 police and paramilitaries attacked up to 200 suspected Maoists who had gathered for a meeting in a village in Dantewada district, south of the state capital Raipur, local police sources told AFP.

None of the coppers or paramilitary was injured in the attack, the Central Reserve Police Force said in a statement, adding that the dead men "belonged to the military company of the Maoist guerrillas."

The state government earlier this year said there were some 1,300 armed guerrillas operating in Chhattisgarh.

In another rebel stronghold of the state, Bijapur district, a landmine blew up a police vehicle killing two paramilitary officers, local police official Rajbhanu told AFP.

Outlawed Maoist guerrillas who hold sway over the dense forests in Dantewada have been blamed for killing 125 coppers and troopers in three separate attacks since April.

Almost 1,000 people, including 577 civilians, died in the first 10 months of 2010 in violence linked to the raging Maoist insurgency across India, according to official data.

The government launched a major offensive last year to snuff out the left-wing insurgency, described by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as the biggest internal security threat facing India.

It also budgeted 661 billion rupees (14.6 billion dollars) for rural development in the current financial year to help erode grassroots support for the Maoists.

The rebel movement, which began in 1967, feeds off land disputes, police brutality and corruption and is strongest in the poorest and most deprived areas of India, many of which are rich in natural resources.

The insurgency has strengthened in the so-called "Red Corridor" states covering Jharkhand, West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh.

New Delhi has rejected demands to deploy the army against the Maoists, insisting that paramilitary and state police forces are capable of dealing with the threat.
Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Iraq
Military force kills 2 gunmen in Mosul
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: A military force killed two gunmen, who threw a thermal bomb on it in western Mosul, according to an army source.

“Army soldiers killed two gunmen, who threw a hand grenade on a military checkpoint in al-Maash market in western Mosul,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency, noting that the explosion wounded a soldier, who was carried to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Police capture 16 wanted persons in Basra
BASRA / Aswat al-Iraq: Policemen arrested 16 wanted men and seized weapons and ammunitions in separate areas of Basra, a police source said on Tuesday.

“Policemen waged on Tuesday (Nov. 23) security operations in different parts of Basra, where they arrested 16 wanted men,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“The forces seized six guns and ten mortar shells,” he added.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Southeast Asia
Gunmen slay three Muslims in southern Thailand
Three Muslim men, including a religious teacher, were killed in southern Thailand on Wednesday after they met officials at a military base.

The van carrying the teacher and two Muslim politicians was ambushed by gunmen in Narathiwat province. All three were killed. Police blame Islamist terrorists insurgents, although no group took responsibility.

The attack came the next day after the army said it would reduce the number of troops in the region by 1,200 because the number of terrorist incidents had gone down.

Posted by: ryuge || 11/24/2010 01:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Inerga-type RPG Hits Café in Jabal Mohsen, 1 Hurt
[An Nahar] One person was slightly injured Tuesday evening when an Inerga-type rocket-propelled grenade hit Omran Café in the Tripoli area of Jabal Mohsen. In 2009, eight people were wounded when a similar grenade targeted the same café.

The mostly Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen, along with Tripoli's predominantly Sunni Bab al-Tebbaneh quarter, has been hit by deadly sectarian violence and sporadic bombings in recent years.
Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Arrest warrant for Rafsanjani's son issued
[Arab News] Iranian state radio says an arrest warrant has been issued for the son of influential former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on charges of fomenting the 2009 post-election unrest.

The Tuesday report quotes deputy judiciary chief Ebrhim Raisi as saying the arrest warrant for Mahdi Hashemi has been issued and "he will be nabbed upon arrival in the country." Hashemi has been in Britain since the summer of 2009. The presidential election in June of that year set off months of street protests by opposition activists claiming vote fraud. The anger quickly broadened to target Iran's ruling system.

Authorities responded with a harsh crackdown and a mass trial.

The moderate Rafsanjani was president from 1989-97 and appeared to side with critics of last year's election.
Posted by: Fred || 11/24/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran



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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2010-11-24
  Arrest warrant for Rafsanjani's son issued
Tue 2010-11-23
  North Korea Fires Rockets at Island
Mon 2010-11-22
  23 killed in Somalia fighting
Sun 2010-11-21
  FARC Honcho Killed
Sat 2010-11-20
  Nigeria seizes $9.9-million heroin shipment from Iran
Fri 2010-11-19
  Foopie cleared of terror charges in key Guantanamo trial
Thu 2010-11-18
  Hekmatyar offers truce terms
Wed 2010-11-17
  Missile strikes in Waziristan kill 17 20
Tue 2010-11-16
  Stop all settlements and we'll talk: Palestinians
Mon 2010-11-15
  British couple held hostage by pirates freed, reports
Sun 2010-11-14
  Bakri arrested by Leb cops
Sat 2010-11-13
  Fourteen suicide bombers attack Jalalabad airport
Fri 2010-11-12
  Yemen Qaeda Commanders Come through Iran
Thu 2010-11-11
  France Arrests Five Planning Suicide Bombing
Wed 2010-11-10
  Suspect in subway terror sting pleads not guilty

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