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IED's that were trained or supplied by Pakistan and Iran lets not forget!
R.I.P.Our Brave Coalition Troops who have stepped up to the plate when we needed you most.God Bless You for your sacrifice against the enemies of freedom.
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Crickets from the 'usual suspects' who demonized nations still holding on to land mines [like in the DMZ in Korea]. Do I hear their voices carried by the media sock puppets denouncing these events? /rhet question
[Emirates 24/7] Suspected Somali pirates seized a Malaysian freighter and its crew last week in the Indian Ocean, taking the number of hostages currently held past the 500 mark, the European Union said Monday.
The EU anti-piracy naval force Navfor said the container-ship Albedo was captured approximately 900 nautical miles (1,660 kilometres) from Mogadishu early Friday.
"The MV Albedo is Malaysian-flagged and owned, with a crew of 23 (Pak, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan and Iranian)," a Navfor statement said. "The vessel was carrying containers and was bound for Mombasa from Jebel Ali in the UAE."
Including the Albedo, pirates are currently holding 22 vessels with 521 hostages, Navfor said.
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Piracy has long been a problem in the Indian Ocean off Somalia, where the lack of a functioning government over most of the last 15 years has allowed its vast coastline to be turned into a perfect refuge for criminal gangs.
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[Iran Press TV] At least 15 have been killed and 20 others injured in fighting between African Union (AU) troops and local al-Shaboobs in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
Heavy festivities erupted between the two sides near Mogadishu's international airport early Monday morning, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Hundreds of people have reportedly decamped the area due to the exchange of fire between AU troops and al-Shaboobs.
The fresh festivities came two days after 18 civilians bit the dust and more than 30 others sustained injuries in another battle between the two sides.
Al-Shabaab accuses African Union troops -- who are backing Somalia's transitional government -- of invading the country. The fighters say they will continue their battles until the AU forces withdraw from Somalia.
The Somali government controls only a few areas around the presidential palace.
For months, Mogadishu has been the scene of daily battles between government forces and local fighters -- both of whom are trying to take control of the capital.
The peacekeepers, however, claim that they have made advances in the Somali capital over the past months.
Somalia has lacked a functioning government since 1991 when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
Over the past two decades, up to a million people have bit the dust in the fighting between rival factions and also due to famine and disease.
There are more than 1.4 million internally displaced people in Somalia. Mogadishu, alone, contains over 300,000 of this uprooted population.
Most of the displaced live in squalid conditions in makeshift camps in southern and central Somalia, according to the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society High Commissioner for Refugees.
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[Al Jazeera] At least 1,500 south Sudanese civilians have beat it from areas along the north--south border fearing aerial attack on Bahr al-Ghazal by the Sudan Armed Forces, the UN and southern officials said.
Giovanni Bosco, the head of the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs in southern Sudan, said on Monday that there was no formal camp set up to receive the new arrivals, but the UN was helping the local community feed them.
"People are leaving their villages because of the military tensions in the area," he said.
Officials in the area say they have received "hundreds" of additional arrivals in just the last few days, and some reports put the number of overall displaced much higher.
"The report we received says 2,500 have been displaced in the area," said southern army (SPLA) front man Philip Aguer.
Northern government officials were unavailable for comment on the reports. The SPLA says northern forces are still flying fighter planes along the border to scare southern villagers.
"Khartoum's newly-acquired Chinese planes are flying in the area.
"They are trying to cause terror and disrupt the referendum," Aguer told Rooters.
Voter registration for a referendum in south Sudan to decide whether the oil producing region secedes from the north has recently been extended to end on December 8.
The vote is part of a 2005 peace deal between the dominant parties of the north and south, ending decades of civil war that claimed two million lives.
Relations between north and south Sudan have threatened to boil over in the build-up to the southern vote.
Sudan's economy depends on oil, located mostly in the south, and Khartoum does not want to lose an important source of revenue.
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[Yemen Post] Tribal elders on Monday arranged the release of a Saudi physician along with his family, a day after they were kidnapped by armed rustics in northern Yemen.
Local sources said more than 120 elders from the tribe of Waela pledged today to follow up the issue of a detainee from the tribe responsible for the kidnapping, Al Ubada, who was held by the authorities in return for setting free the Saudi family.
The elders gathered early Monday and promised to release the family, which was snatched to pressure the government to release the detainee, held in connection with links to Al-Qaeda, they said.
We would handle the issue, but the forces should come back, they said, as the forces arrived in Saada to release the Saudis, they said, according to the sources.
We would also contact the Political Security over the release of your detainee, if he was not convicted of Al-Qaeda charges, the elders told Al Ubada rustics.
Armed rustics from Al Ubada clan kidnapped the Saudi family, demanding the authorities to release Abdullah Hussein Ubada said to be in the custody of the Political Security and other tribal detainees inside Saudi jails.
A tribal mediation failed to release the family as its members were kidnapped on Sunday. After the incident, Al-Salam Hospital in Saada closed down in solidarity with its kidnapped director physician Dhafir Al-Shahri and his family.
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[Bangla Daily Star] An alleged mugger was killed while another bullet injured in "shootouts" with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in the city's Bangshal and Keraniganj yesterday. "Aaaiiieee! I am bullet injured!"
[Gasp!][Twitch!]"Rosebud!" The dear departed identified as Shamsul Islam Tipu, 21,
A rich man, he was given three names all his own at birth, and therefore had no need of an alias.
was a resident of Bagdasha Lane of Bangshal while injured Mohammad Sohel, 28, of Kotubpara of Keraniganj.
Anyone named Mohammad needs at least a second name, like Catholic girls named Mary.
In Bangshal, a team of plainclothes Rab personnel in the guise of rickshaw passengers
Must have been a budget increase while we weren't looking, to cover the payment to the richshaw driver.
was patrolling around 4:30am when three youths waylaid a rickshaw carrying two of the Rab members near Armanitola, said Officer-in-Charge Jamiruddin Ahmed of Bangshal Police Station quoting an official of the Rab-10 team.
This strikes me as unwise.
The OC said that as the youths wielding firearms tried to snatch the belongings of the Rab men,
Very unwise.
they fired shots in which one of the muggers sustained bullet injuries.
Hearing gunshots locals rushed to the spot and identified the injured as Tipu, a known criminal in the area.
So unbeloved was he, that the locals pretended he had only one name, like the poorest dregs in the gutter.
Tipu's accomplices, however, managed to flee the scene. ... as though they had never been...
One pistol and three bullets were recovered from the spot.
Marked X, of course.
Rab personnel took Tipu to Mitford Hospital where doctors declared him dead. He's dead, Jim!
Tipu's brother Bulbul told The Daily Star that some law enforcers in plain clothes jugged Tipu from Mirhajirbagh of Jatrabari on November 14. A general diary was filed with Jatrabari Police Station in this connection.
He also said Tipu was an office bearer of Ward-68 BNP.
A political hack as well as a mugger? Interesting combination of careers...
Rab-10 in a blurb claimed that Tipu was accused in six cases including those for murder with Kotwali and Bangshal cop shoppes.
Accused in six cases, wanted on twelve planets. Now the file can be closed, permanently.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... another Rab team in plain clothes was intercepted by a gang of muggers while they were patrolling Keraniganj area around 12:00midnight, Rab sources said.
The muggers tried to rob the Rab personnel at knife-point, which prompted the law enforcers to shoot them.
Literally, brought a knife to a gunfight, poor things.
The firing left one of the muggers bullet hit in the leg
Knee or foot? Curious minds want to know.
while the other gang members beat feet.
The Rab team caught injured Sohel
It's hard to run with a shattered kneecap (or a bloody big hole in one's foot)
and handed him over to Keraniganj police, said Officer-in-Charge Mohammad Abul Basher of South Keraniganj Police Station. A case was filed in this connection.
Turned over to the police? How mortifying!
One knife, two cellphones and Tk 530 were also recovered from the spot.
The OC said Sohel was a runaway criminal but could not mention the case in which he was accused.
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TW, I simply MUST compliment you on your inline commentary. Most scintillating...
Google Translate from a variety of Mexican news sources.
A Mexican Army counternarcotics operation has led to the discovery of a mass grave with 18 victims recovered so far near Puerto Palomas, Chihuahua, according to Mexican news sources.
Reports are investigators are still digging and more could be found at the site. The latest reports say the death toll could exceed 20 and go as high as 112. Digging will continue Tuesday morning.
Authorities found 11 graves containing the 18 victims, who were killed between eight months to a year ago. The graves were found near 23 Kilometer marker on the Ejido 6 de Enero-Puerto Palomas road in a gap near the ranch El Capricho.
Puerto Palomas is just across the US border six kilometers south of Columbus, New Mexico and is said to be a major drug shipment route.
A detachment of the Mexican 11th Military Zone intercepted suspected drug traffickers after receiving reports about such activity Saturday morning. The Saturday arrest of five suspects and seizure of 175 kilograms of marijuana and other contraband led to the discovery of the mass grave.
A total of fifteen individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence in northern Mexican states including a female Meoqui, Chihuahua police chief ambushed while on her way to work Monday morning. For a map, click here
An unidentified man was shot to death Sunday evening in Juarez, according to Mexican news accounts. The victim was driving his Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck near the corner of calles Tecnologico and Sierra Blanca in the La Cuesta colony, when he was shot by two armed suspects who then fled the scene. The driver died instantly crashing his vehicle into a pole in front of the Smart store in La Cuesta.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in Juarez Sunday afternoon, say Mexican news reports. The victim was gagged with duct tape and his hands and feet bound with plastic ties, shot twice in the head near the intersection of calles Jesus Urueta and Constitucion. The victim had been tortured.
An unidentified man was found immolated late Sunday night in Juarez say Mexican news accounts. The victim was found in a park near the corner of calles Navarra and Privada de Francia in the Santa Rosa colony still smoldering.
A man's severed head was found in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Sunday night, according to Mexican news reports. The victim was found near the intersection of avenidas Dostoievsky and Sosa Vera in the Chihuahua 200 colony atop a foam cooler. The contents of a message inside the cooler was not revealed by authorities. The man's torso was later found Monday morning on an extension of Avenida Industrias north of the city.
A female police chief of Meoqui, Chihuahua was shot to death Monday morning say Mexican news accounts. Hermila Garcia Quiñones was driving her personal Nissan Sentra through the Meoqui-Julimes cordillera when she was ambushed by armed suspects at the edge of Los GarcÃa.
A Chihuahua rancher was murdered and his body mutilated near the US border Monday, according to Mexican news accounts. Jose Rodriguez Moreno, 33, was abducted Sunday night fro his ranch El Rancho Los Cachorros, and his mutilated body was dumped on the streets of Villa Ahumada.
An unidentified man and woman were found murdered in Juarez in two separate crimes Monday, say Mexican news daily La Polaka. The female victim was shot more than 20 times and left on the streets near the intersection of calles Sonora and Armando B. Chavez. In the village of San Agustin a male victim was found dead in an irrigation canal just behind the library.
Another unidentified skeleton was found in the La Mesa colony just south of Nogales, Sonora Saturday evening, say Mexican news accounts. The victim had no head or arms, and was buried in sand in a creek bed. The find was made only a few meters away from an area where 10 other victims were found four weeks ago.
Six individuals were murdered in separate crimes Tijuana, Baja California, according to the Mexican news daily Frontera. An unidentified man in his late 30s in a state of decomposition was found beaten to death on a dirt road in the Xicotencatl colony at about 1030 hrs Saturday morning. At 1720 hrs in the El Florido colony, Jorge Apolinar Gonzalez Reyes, 31, was found shot five times on a football field. Several .45 caliber spent shell casings were found at the scene. At 1845 hrs on privada Balsamo in the Villas de Campo colony, Luis Octavio Covarrubias Solis, 37, was found shot four times in the head. Five 9mm empty shell casings were found at the scene. On Sunday at about 0200 hrs, on calle Himalaya in the Cumbres colony, in the Playas de Tijuana delegation, Aldo Cruz Garcia, 23, was found beaten to death. In the El Lago colony an unidentified man was found shot to death. A sixth victim was found also shot to death in the El Dorado colony.
[Chosun Ilbo] Yeonpyeong Island amid continued North Korean threats against South Korea since an artillery attack on the island last week.
The military is determined to pulverize North Korean artillery positions if they fire shells again. On Monday it deployed six U.S.-made Multiple Launch Rocket Systems for the first time on the island, as well as six more K-9 self-propelled howitzers. Each MLRS shell is capable of destroying an area the size of one to three soccer fields.
A government source on Monday said, "There has been strong criticism that we responded too passively to the artillery attack on Yeonpyeong Island, so we decided to stage the same kind of fire drill as the one we carried out on the island on Nov. 23 to display our determination." He added the timing of the drill will not be announced in advance.
The military will fire in a southwesterly direction, using K-9 self-propelled howitzers. The Joint Chiefs of Staff considered staging the drill on Tuesday but delayed it at the request of the U.S. military.
Early last week, the North shelled the island, claiming that the South had fired shells at its territorial waters, and has since continued to threaten a "physical retaliatory counterattack" if South Korean military exercises continue.
Each MLRS carries 12 rocket shells with a diameter of 227 mm. Each shell is filled with about 500 cluster munitions, each of which has the detonating power of a single hand grenade. They are more powerful than the North Korean MLRS.
With a range of 32 to 45km, the South's MLRS can hit inland areas in the North as well as MLRS deployed on the western coast. They were first used during the Gulf War in 1991.
Military authorities are determined to launch surgical strikes by mobilizing fighter planes depending on the magnitude of future North Korean provocations.
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Each MLRS shell is capable of destroying an area the size of one to three soccer fields
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ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > IS NORTH KOREA MOVING ANOTHER "RED LINE"??? Red Line(s) of ALL-BUT-ABSOLUTELY-CERTAIN US-ALLIED MIL COUNTERRESPONSE.
IIUC ARTIC > Iff the DPRK believes that it will ultimately be successful in "going Nuclear", it may be induced to shift "Red Lines" from ISOLATED SEA-BASED = OFFSHORE/COASTAL MIL CLASHES TO FREQUENT + ESCALATORY LAND-BASED MIL CLASHES, espec along iNTER-KOREAN DMZ.
IOW, STEADILY MORE-N-MORE "MAJOR" MIL INCIDENTS [Land] TANTAMOUNT TO NEAR-WAR OR DE FACTO ALL-OUT WAR, aka COLD WAR US-SOVIET STYLE "CREEPING/MANAGED MIL ESCALATION"???
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Interesting indeed that they are pecking at each other across the water at Yeonpyeong Island instead of across the DMZ. Almost as if they want to show how tough they are but they're not really ready for the big show on land where stakes are higher and the escalation could get out of control very quickly. Just as well, I guess.
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Looks like the US-ROK have formally canceled a planned AMPIBEX for LOCAL "BAD/INCLEMENT WEATHER".
WEATHER MAPS = shows BETTER-THAN-THE-1944-NORMANDY-INVASION Clear or mostly clear???
The ROKS are repor considering cancelling this MLRS ARTEX???
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* ION BHARAT RAKSHAK > [DailyMail.UK] COUNTDOWN TO OBLIVION: NORTH KOREAN ARTILLERY STRIKE - THE START OF WORLD'S FIRST NUCLEAR WAR | TOP THRILLER WRITER TOM CAIN IMAGINES WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IFF THE [current = 2010]NORTH + SOUTH KOREAN STANDOFF DENIGRATED INTO THE WORLD'S FIRST NUCLEAR WAR IN THIS FICTIONAL ACCOUNT.
ARTIC + DPRK initiates LIMITED Nuclear MilStrikes agz Seoul, then IGNORES POTUS OBAMA"S WARNING OF US MIL RETALIATION. CHINA'S MOBILIZES DUE TO DESIRE TO PREVENT US MIL, NUCSTRIKES AGZ NORTH KOREA IN DEFENSE OF SOUTH KOREA DESPITE NORTH'S UNILATERAL ACTION.
US BASES ON GUAM becom de facto targets for LR BMS despite being "out of theater" from the Koreas, as due to Guam being a "READY RESOURCE" = MAJOR LOGISTICS HUB FOR USDOD.
* Also from BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Telegraph.UK] CHINA AS THE "NEXT CREEDIT BUBBLE" TO BURST
* SAME > CHINA'S STOCK FRAUD TOTALS US$30.0BILYUHN [since 2002].
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* WMF > VIDEO: PROPOSED RUSSIAN MILBASE ON "SINGLE CROWN BAY" MAY BE USED AS SPRINGBOARD BY RUSSIA TO MIL ATTACK JAPAN.
Read, JUSTIFYING JAPAN DEV OF NUCWEAPS.
* SAME > JAPAN + WEST GERMANY HELD SECRET NEGOTIATIONS IN 1969 TO CONSIDER DEV INDIGENOUS NUCLEAR WEAPONS INDEPENDENT OF US-NATO CONTROL. CONCEPT OF JAPAN, WEST GERMANY AS CLOSE US-NATO STRATEGIC ALLIES + SOVEREIGN MAJOR STATES NOT POSSESSING NUCLEAR WEAPONS SEEN AS "ABNORMAL/
DEFECTIVE" DESPITE ADVENT OF 1971 NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY [NPT] + US-SOVIET DETENTE.
* SAME > RUSSIAN EXPERTS: ROK CAPITAL CITY OF SEOUL WILL BE RAZED TO THE GROUND BY DPRK ARTILLERY, MISSLE STRIKES IN FIRST HOURS OF NEW KOREAN WAR. RUSSIAN UNCERTAINTY OVER US-VS-CHINA MIL, NUCLEAR RESPONSES TO EARLY DPRK SUCCESSES.
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* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [SRBMS = Short-Range BMS] RUSSIAN MISSLES FUEL US WORRIES | RUSSIAN WARHEAD MOVES/DEPLOYMENTS NEAR NATO COUNTRIES [East Euro, Baltic borders]WORRIES US.
TacNukies.
* GUAM NEWS WATCH > YOUTUBE: HUFFPO: US FORCES ON GUAM ON "HIGH ALERT" OVER KOREAN CRISIS | US GENERAL SHARP WILL BE LOOKING ... TO BRING IN ADDITIONAL FIGHTER JETS FROM GUAM + JAPAN, + ASK FOR AIRCRAFT CARRIER FROM US SEVENTH FLEET.
[Al Jazeera] Switzerland has endorsed a far-right push to automatically expel foreign residents convicted of certain crimes, to the dismay of critics who described it as a "dark day for human rights." ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you...
The approval of the initiative in a referendum was an expression of insecurity, Simonetta Sommaruga, the country's justice minister said, stressing the government would examine how to implement the new rule without violating its international obligations.
In the vote, 52.9 per cent were in favour of automatic expulsions and 47.1 per cent were against, with the country's German-speaking majority largely backing the proposal.
Only six of the country's 26 cantons rejected the initiative.
The vote came exactly a year after Switzerland shocked the world by agreeing to ban the construction of new minarets, which was another proposal backed by the far-right Swiss People's Party (SVP).
The decision on Sunday "is a first step on the way towards greater security," said the SVP in a statement.
As with their campaign against minarets, the far-right party launched an aggressive push for the expulsion of foreign criminals, saying those guilty of certain crimes should be stripped of their right to remain in the country.
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International obligations versus internal security: Only a politician could be uncertain of which is more important.
[Al Jazeera] A suspected arson attack has destroyed part of a mosque attended by a US-Somali man accused of plotting a car boom attack on a Christmas ceremony in the US state of Oregon, Sherlocks have said.
One room in the Corvallis Mosque was gutted in the blaze on Sunday while neighbouring rooms suffered smoke damage, according to the town's fire department.
Officials said there were no injuries in the blaze, which was extinguished within 10 minutes.
"We do have evidence that it was arson," Carla Pusateri of Corvallis Fire Department, said.
The fire occurred less than two days after Mohamed Osman Mohamud, who had attended prayers in the mosque, was jugged while attempting to detonate what he thought was a car boom at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland.
In what turned out to be a sting operation by the FBI, Mohamud tried to remotely detonate a fake device supplied by undercover agents who had contacted Mohamud months before and pretended to be accomplices in the plot.
The 19-year-old took classes at Oregon State University in Corvallis, about 130km south of Portland, and the imam at Salman Alfarisi Islamic Centre, where the mosque was related, had previously told local television that Mohamud "occasionally" attended prayers there.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation offered up to $10,000 for information leading to a conviction in the arson case, saying it would not tolerate attacks on the Mohammedan community.
"This is a big, dangerous mess," Imam Mikal Shabazz, president of the Oregon Islamic Chaplains Organisation and a prominent Mohammedan activist in Portland, said on Sunday as he learned of the mosque fire.
Shabazz said he had just spoken with an African-American Mohammedan woman who was verbally attacked by a young man in southwest Portland before others intervened in her defence.
Sam Adams, Portland's mayor, said late on Sunday that he had increased security at city mosques,
Mohamud was due to appear in court on Monday, facing a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted of the charge of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction.
A US government complaint quoted him praising the 9/11 attacks on the US and expressing a desire to see "body parts and blood" in Portland.
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self-set for victim status
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Funny how it was confined to one single room (- with smoke damage to other rooms).
Was it a closet by any chance?
How often does the FBI set a reward for info on a church burning?
[Pak Daily Times] A Shia leader was rubbed out by an unidentified gunman in Mehmoodabad on Monday. in an apparent sectarian killing incident as Muharram approaches.
Ferozabad police said Pasban-e-Aza president Nayyar Zaidi, 50, was travelling in his car with his nephew. An armed man intercepted them near the railway line in Chenesar Goth. He dragged out Zaidi from the car and shot him five times, they added.
DSP Chauhadry Asad said the culprit resorted to firing with a submachine gun and managed to flee on a cycle of violence parked a few feet away from the spot.
The body was handed over to the family after medico-legal formalities. The police, with the help of Zaidi's nephew, have drawn the sketch of the killer.
After the incident, tension prevailed in Soldier Bazaar, Ancholi, Rizvia and other Shia-majority areas while heavy contingents of law enforcers were called in.
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[Pak Daily Times] A shootout on Monday in a crowded marketplace in the Indian-held Kashmire killed three gunnies and one policeman, while two suspected cut-throats were killed in another fighting, officials said. Gunmen, on a cycle of violence, opened fire on a police patrol in the Qamarwari district of Srinagar, the main city in Indian-held Kashmire, a police statement said. "In the retaliatory fire, three cut-throats were killed while one police constable also laid down his life," the statement said. Police set up checkpoints in the area following intelligence that gun-hung tough guys were planning an attack in the city, said Police Chief Ashiq Bukhari. Also on Monday, two suspected rebels were killed in fighting with Indian troops in the forested area of Handwara, a police statement said. There was no immediate comment on either incident from rebel groups. Anti-India sentiment runs deep in the disputed Mohammedan-majority region. More than 68,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed since 1989.
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[Pak Daily Times] A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Monday adjourned the hearing of a government appeal, seeking enhancement in the sentence of five Americans, who had been convicted for plotting terrorist attacks.
Go for it. We don't want 'em back.
The bench directed the LHC registrar office to fix the appeal along with the appeals of the convicts against their sentence.
The government appealed to the court that the sentence awarded to the convicts was not stringent since their crime was of serious nature. It requested that they should be handed down life imprisonment.
An anti-terrorism court of Sargodha had on June 24 awarded 10-year imprisonment to Egyptian national Ramay Zamzam, Waqar Khan and Umar Farooq of Pak descent, and Aman Hassan Yamar and Ahmed Abdullah Mani of Ethiopian descent. They are naturalised Americans.
The Sargodha police had jugged them in December 2009 on suspicion of plotting terror attacks in Pakistain and for their alleged connections with banned terrorist outfits.
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[Pak Daily Times] The law-enforcement agencies foiled a terrorist attempt by defusing a bomb at Khyber Sheikhwal area of Landikotal on Monday. The bomb had been planted under a bridge, official sources said.
The security agencies blocked the roads leading to the bridge for more than two hours during which the bomb disposal squad defused the bomb.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... three trucks overturned in Shagai on the main road as a result of which the main road remained blocked for several hours. In another incident, a mentally challenged man killed three passers-by and injured two others near Ali Masjid on Monday.
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I propose we give Assange a Rantburg nickname. I nominate "Peter Pange" h/t Rush Limbaugh
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We highly recommend the sushi Mr. Assange...
The fugu is also quite tasty. Of course we are talking about the Russians here. They are just as likely to club him to death like a baby seal in an alley.
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with a pencilneck like his, I would more equate him with an "unwitting piñata"
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I'm sure Mr. Assange would be interested in seeing the Russians' treasure trove of secret documents in the basement of the Lubyanka.
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Nice life, eh, Julian? Can I eat this? Can I drink this? Can I start my car? Can I get on this elevator? Can I go outside? Can I sleep? Can I answer the phone?
Enjoy it...
[Emirates 24/7] An Iraqi court sentenced former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz to 10 years in prison on Monday for the displacement and killing of minority Faili Kurds during the rule of Saddam Hussein.
And now we know, thanks to WikiLeaks, that Iraqi prisons are not up to American standards. Nor Iraqi prison guards. Do enjoy your stay, Former Deputy Prime Minister.
Aziz, the longtime international face of Saddam's regime, has already been sentenced to death for the suppression of Shiite religious parties in the 1980s, although there have been international calls for him to be spared.
"The courts issued a 10-year prison sentence against Tareq Aziz and Ahmed Hussein Khodayr," a spokesman for the supreme criminal court said. Khodayr was an aide to the now executed dictator.
In poor health and among Saddam's few surviving top cohorts, Aziz, 74, has been in prison since surrendering in April 2003, shortly after the capture of Baghdad in the US-led invasion of Iraq.
Aziz, who was born to a Christian family, was foreign minister and deputy prime minister under Saddam, who was hanged in December 2006.
The death sentence, which was handed down on October 26, provoked a wave of appeals for clemency from around the world, including from human rights groups, the European Union, Russia and the Vatican.
Saadun Shaker, a former interior minister, Aziz Saleh al-Nohman and Mizban Khoder Hadi, both members of regional Baath party commands, were meanwhile all sentenced to death in connection with the displacement and killing of Faili Kurds during the Iran-Iraq war which stretched from 1980 to 1988.
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Christians rioted after hearing the verdict against their fellow Christian. Then they declared that holy war is compulsory against the heretical Muslim government of Iraq. Then they formed a militia-based insurgency.
Oh wait. I got my world religions mixed up for a minute.
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The site was under attack Sunday, but Tuesday's attack appears to be more powerful. WikiLeaks said the malicious traffic was coming in at 10 gigabits per second, which would make it a relatively large effort.
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It won't matter. They can release the other files as a single zip file on any number of file sharing sites and call the NYT to tell them it's there. Word will get around in an instant and it will be scarfed up and distributed.
That's why the US government is powerless to stop them.
#4
What we NEED is a functioning government, instead of the bureaucratic cluster-f$$$ that currently exists in Washington, DC.
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Makes you wonder what sort of organization has the expertise and resources to keep its website up when under attack by at least one sovereign nation, perhaps even a major power.
#6
Apparently, the WikiLeaks defense involves the use of Amazon.com servers to redirect traffic or provide alternate hosting. The details are quite beyond me but amazon must have a acre or more of servers.
Five policemen were wounded when a bomb hidden inside the gasoline tank of a motorcycle parked in front of a produce market in Songkhla province blew up at around 9 A.M. on Tuesday. One of the victims, identified as Pol L/C Wissanuporn Duangsri, was in critical condition.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Twin blasts in Iran's capital killed a top nuclear scientist and maimed another today, with Tehran swiftly blaming the CIA and Mossad for the attacks apparently carried out by men on cycle of violences.
Slain scientist Majid Shahriari and Fereydoon Abbasi Davani, who survived the attack, were senior figures in Iran's nuclear programme, which the West suspects of having military aims. Tehran denies the charge.
Tehran police chief Hossein Sajedi-nia said men on cycle of violences attached bombs to the windows of the scientists' cars in different parts of the capital as they made their way to work. The bombs went kaboom! seconds later.
"Dr Shahriari was killed and his wife and driver were maimed. Dr Abbasi and his wife have been injured," he was quoted as saying in media reports.
Iranian leaders accused the US and Israeli intelligence services, the CIA and Mossad, of killing the two who were also professors at Tehran's prestigious Shahid Beheshti University.
"One can undoubtedly see the hands of Israel and Western governments in the liquidation which unfortunately took place," President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad told a news conference.
Mr Ahmadinejad's office said in an earlier statement that "the Zionist regime this time shed the blood of university professor Dr Majid Shahriari to curb Iran's progress."
Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said the "Mossad and the CIA are the enemies of Iranians" whose "desperate terrorist act against the two academics shows their weakness and inferiority."
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#1
If it was the CIA or Mossad, I think I can speak for the majority by saying, "More. Faster."
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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Somali pirates
[Al Jazeera] At least 1,500 south Sudanese civilians have
An alleged mugger was killed while another bullet injured in "shootouts" with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in the city's Bangshal and Keraniganj yesterday.
[Emirates 24/7] An Iraqi court sentenced former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz to 10 years in prison on Monday for the displacement and killing of minority Faili Kurds during the rule of Saddam Hussein.
