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Islamic New Years Greetings to Copts in Egypt, 21 dead
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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 01/01/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Carole Landis aka Loana "One Million B.C." Landis traveled more than 100,000 miles during the WWII and spent more time visiting troops than any other actress. (Died in 1948 at age 29)



Women Who Bathe


Look behind the clock for 2011 assets. (linked pic NSFW)

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 01/01/2011 1:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Merry New Year!
Posted by: Frank G || 01/01/2011 3:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Happy New Year, y'all! Here's hoping 2011 treats you better than 2010 did.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder || 01/01/2011 5:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Happy New Year.
Posted by: Dave UK || 01/01/2011 5:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Happy New Year to all, especially those whose professional duties precluded celebration with libation.

Here's hoping 2011 treats you better than 2010 did.

Hope triumphs over experience yet again! At my age, I'll be happy if 2011 just delivers me to 2012 alive. I guess that attitude is why I'm still with my first wife.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 01/01/2011 9:40 Comments || Top||

#6  "At my age, I'll be happy if 2011 just delivers me to 2012 alive."

Agreed, NS.

Happy New Year to all!*

*Except Lefties, Communists, Socialists, etc. May they fail at everything they try, especially enslaving us.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 01/01/2011 10:52 Comments || Top||

#7  Happy New Year ya'all.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/01/2011 11:32 Comments || Top||

#8  Happy New Year, my dears! May this be the year all our investments of heart, soul, and spirit start to pay out... or that we can finally see they've been paying out all along.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/01/2011 11:48 Comments || Top||

#9  May the road rise to meet your feet,
May the wind always be at your back,
And may you arive in heaven Five minutes before the devil even knows you're dead.
(Very old Welsh Blessing)
HAPPY 2011 Y'all.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 01/01/2011 12:59 Comments || Top||

#10  A Happy Rantburg New Year to Fred, the Regulars, the Irregulars, the hangers-on, the camp followers, and especially to those in places near amd far fighting for our liberty.
Posted by: PBMcL || 01/01/2011 13:01 Comments || Top||

#11  Happy New Year, all. My prayer for 2011:

Lord, let everything the Left tries to do against You and those that love You backfire upon them, and bring blessings to those they hold in contempt.
Amen.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 01/01/2011 13:57 Comments || Top||

#12  Since '06 I have survived lung cancer twice. Any New Year will be a wonderful year!
Cheers to all.
Posted by: Zebulon Threremble2404 || 01/01/2011 15:18 Comments || Top||

#13  I don't see how 2011 could top 2010 for me.
Happy New Year to All.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 01/01/2011 15:57 Comments || Top||

#14  Happy New Year!

Another year, another Congress (thank God). Maybe it's foolish to raise our hopes too high over a House majority, but at least some of the hearings should be interesting. CSPAN and some popcorn anyone?

I have survived lung cancer twice.

That's a hell of a way to get some valuble perspective! Here's hoping you and my other fellow Burgians have a happy new year and many more to follow.

and especially to those in places near amd far fighting for our liberty.

Amen.
Posted by: ryuge || 01/01/2011 19:23 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Grenade attack in Kandahar kills child
[Dawn] Insurgents threw hand grenades into two houses in the province of Kandahar, killing a child in one and wounding six people -- including a woman and a child -- in the other, a local official in southern Afghanistan said.

The Kandahar governor's front man, Zelmai Ayubi, said the attack occurred Friday morning in the district of Zhari, a Taliban heartland west of Kandahar city at the centre of the 30,000-soldier US surge earlier this year.

Ayubi said authorities were investigating why the two houses were targeted. He said the maimed had been taken to a nearby Nato base for medical help, and that two of the maimed were at death's door.
Posted by: Fred || 01/01/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Insurgents? The Freditor® needs to replace it with something like Imbeciles or Thugs.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 01/01/2011 9:36 Comments || Top||

#2  #1: Insurgents? The Freditor® needs to replace it with something like Imbeciles or Thugs.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble|| 2011-01-01 09:36


How about "Spawns of Satan", since that's the closest to the truth as we can come.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 01/01/2011 13:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Death Eaters?
Posted by: Fred || 01/01/2011 22:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Cowards in Burqas™?
Posted by: Frank G || 01/01/2011 23:04 Comments || Top||


Africa North
ROP delivers New Years Greetings to Copts in Egypt, 21 dead
At least 21 people were killed and 79 wounded when a bomb exploded outside a Coptic Christian church in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria in the deadliest terrorist attack in Egypt since at least 2006.

The blast occurred after midnight as worshipers were leaving a New Year’s service, damaging the church, a nearby mosque and cars on the street, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on its website. “Foreign elements” appear to have been responsible for the blast, the ministry said, adding that it has increased security around churches nationwide “in light of the escalating threats from al-Qaeda to many countries.”

“It has been confirmed that the epicenter of the blast wasn’t in one of the cars or the road, which makes it likely that the device was carried by a suicide man who was killed with the rest,” the ministry said.

President Hosni Mubarak, in a televised speech today, vowed to find those responsible for the attack. “We will cut off the hand of terrorism,” he said. “You are making a grave mistake if you think that you will be spared the punishment of Egyptians,” Mubarak said, addressing the perpetrators.

The blast badly damaged other cars on the street, television footage showed. Scores of Copts, encircled by security forces, gathered before the church to protest the attack.
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/01/2011 11:32 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Another article indicated that the patience of the Copts has about run out, and it's directed at the government. However, it can also mean that Muslims are going to start to feel some push back.

Likely, when some Muslim goes into a Copt area looking for trouble, he gets more than he bargained for, and ends up underneath a few feet of trash in some heap.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 01/01/2011 17:59 Comments || Top||

#2  President Hosni Mubarak, in a televised speech today, vowed to find those responsible for the attack.

Muslim Brotherhood. Number 5 truncheons.

Apply latter liberally to former.
Posted by: Pappy || 01/01/2011 20:02 Comments || Top||

#3  What the Coptics need to start doing is taking care of their own security, in particularly events of any significance.
Posted by: Charles || 01/01/2011 20:58 Comments || Top||

#4  "The Number 5 Truncheon. Apply directly to the forehead!"
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 01/01/2011 21:15 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Nigerian barracks blast kills 30
Nearly 30 people died on Friday when a bomb went off outside army barracks during New Year celebrations in the Nigerian capital Abuja. The precise number of those killed has not yet been confirmed by military authorities though.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the explosion which many blame on Islamic radicals.

Posted by: Pappy || 01/01/2011 11:22 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Police arrest 92 in northern Nigeria
[Iran Press TV] Nigerian police have jugged 92 suspected members of Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter...

Or as Al Jazeera explained just the other day, "Boko Haram changed its name following a prison break earlier this year, in which more than 700 inmates were freed, to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, which translates roughly to 'People Committed to the Prophet's Teachings for Propagation and Jihad'." But nobody else seems interested remembering the name change -- kind of like the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince.
group over attacks that killed at least eight people in the northern city of Maiduguri.

"We have jugged 92 suspected members of the sect in raids we carried out on many parts of the city Wednesday through Thursday in connection with yesterday's attacks," AFP quoted Borno state police commissioner Mohammed Jinjiri Abubakar as saying on Thursday.

One of the detainees is a man in his 70s that police believe is the group's major financier, after materials such as chemicals used in bomb making were recovered from his residence following a raid.
It seems changing the name to HarumSkarumHelterSkelter didn't quite have the intended impact. Oh well.
Boko Haram bully boyz attacked a parked police car at a bus station in the Dala area of Maiduguri on Thursday, killing eight people and injuring eight others.

In another incident on Tuesday, gunnies fired shots into a teaching hospital in Maiduguri, killing three men, including a police brass hat.

Chaos broke out with attacks in densely populated areas of the central Nigerian city of Jos on Christmas Eve.

Boko Haram group, whose name means "Western education is sinful" in the Hausa language spoken across northern Nigeria, announced on Tuesday that it was behind the Christmas Eve bombings in the central city of Jos.

Death toll from the blasts and the post-attack ethnic festivities in Jos has climbed to at least 86 people.

The city of Jos has been a hotbed of ethnic and religious violence in recent years.

In January 2010, more than 550 Mohammedans, including many children, were killed as a result of an kaboom of violence between rival ethnic and religious groups in the central city.
Once, Islam claimed to be the most advanced option available, making its believers morally superior to others.
Posted by: Fred || 01/01/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Religion of Peace and Tolerance strikes again!
Posted by: Paul D || 01/01/2011 6:31 Comments || Top||


Blast kills 11 in Nigerian capital
[Iran Press TV] A bombing in the Nigerian capital Abuja has killed at least 11 people and injured several more at a market inside a military barracks.
Couldn't possibly have anything to do with any arms and ammunition shipped in from Iran...
Police say the blast occurred at the Sani Abacha barracks,
I used to get emails from his kids. I wonder if they ever got all that money out of the country?
where people had gathered to celebrate New Year's Eve on Friday night. Local journalists say injured people are being carried away from the scene.

"There was a kaboom inside the Mammy market.
"I'd walk a million miles
For one of her smiles..."

The bomb went kaboom! where people were eating and drinking," the civil defense corps chief for the capital, Rabi Saidu, told news hounds.

Nigeria's military chief, Air Marshal Oluseyi Petirin, said, "It's unfortunate that some people planted a bomb where people were relaxing."
Actually, I think that's the definition of 'unfortunate.'
The cause of the kaboom is not yet known, and no more details are available.
Posted by: Fred || 01/01/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Unconfirmed reports now are as many as 30 killed
Posted by: Pappy || 01/01/2011 11:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Here's hoping all those Killed were scammers.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 01/01/2011 13:02 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Mayhem in Monterrey: 1 Dead, 3 Cops Wounded in 3 Shootings
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Three separate shootings in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon have claimed the life of one police officer and left three others wounded, according to Mexican news reports.

The headquarters of Guadalupe municipal police was attacked by armed suspects riding aboard a vehicle at about 1830 hrs. Placido Baltazar Gerardo Cazares was on foot near the police building near the intersection of calles Loma Alta and San Miguel Torres and was hit by gunfire.

Gerardo Cazares died later at a local hospital.

A second attack took place a short time later on avenida Ruiz Cortines where traffic police José Alvarado Marroquin and Marco Antonio Perez Celeron were struck by gunfire, apparently by the same group that attacked and killed another officer.

Earlier in the evening at about 1815 hrs, a patrol vehicle of the San Nicholas de la Garza, also a suburb of Monterrey, was fired on in the Azteca colony, wounding one municipal police officer.

The patrol was stopped at a convenience store near the intersection of avenidas Lopez Mateos and Xictoencatl when they were fired on by four armed suspects aboard a Chevrolet Malibu. Reports say the firing lasted for several minutes.

The officer wounded, identified as Eduardo Rodriguez Torres, 27, was listed in critical condition having been struck three times.
Posted by: badanov || 01/01/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  the La Raza and Open Borders crowds will use these attacks to demand political asylum for illegals...it's just a matter of time.
Posted by: Frank G || 01/01/2011 9:38 Comments || Top||


More Mexican Mayhem
19 Die in Northern Mexico

A total of 19 individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence in northern Mexican states including a Chihuahua state police agent shot Thursday.
For a map, click here.
  • A Chihuahua state police agent was shot to death in Juarez Thursday afternoon. Cesar Lopez of Grupo Homicidios of Policial Ministerios was killed when armed suspects aboard two vehicles, one of them a Jeep Cherokee fired on the agent as he was driving hi Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck near the Zaragoza Soriana mall. Reportedly two suspects were later captured in connection to the shooting.

  • Three men were shot to death in Juarez. Javier Valenzuela, 52, Narciso Ruacho 27, and an unidentified man were shot at a residence near the intersection of calles Rivera de Galeno and Rivera Garcia in the Riveras del Bravo colony in front of a woman reprots say was related to two of the victims. Narciso Ruacho was visting from Parral, Chihuahua. The intended target was not at the residence, so the shooters shot the trio instead.

  • An unidentified man was shot to death in front of a store on Juarez Thursday. The victim was kidnapped aboard a vehicle and then driven about 200 meters when he was shot near the intersection of calles Milpas and Ramon Rayon.

  • Two siblings were shot and wounded in Juarez Thursday. Maria Isabel, 31, and Ernesto Gallegos Hurtado, 29, were assaulted by armed suspects near the intersection of calles Manuel Marinaveitia and Silvestre Quevedo in the Revolucion Mexicana colony. Maria Isabel is reported in critical condition.

  • An unidentified nine month old infant was shot to death early Friday morning in southern Chihuahua, Chihuahua.. The victim was asleep in his bed when he was struck by a bullet which entered the tin roof of his residence on calle 85th in the Aeropuerto colony. No shots were heard prior to the bullet hitting the baby and police have ruled out any of the child's relatives in the murder.

  • Two unidentified Juarez municipal police officers and a woman were shot to death in Juarez. Then shooting took place near the corner of calles Alicante and La Rosita where an armed suspect assaulted the victims aboard their patrol vehicle. A total of 60 Juarez municipal police officers have died in 2010, 30 in just the last three months.

  • A man was found mutilated and beheaded in two different towns near Jimenez in far southern Chihuahua Friday. The victim was identified as Leopold Holguin Holguin 49. His head was found near the intersection of calles Hidalgo and Mariano Jimenez in Jimenez, while his torso was found near Parral. Reports do not say if the mutilation was the cause of death.

  • Several Policia Federal agents raided the Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO) in Serdan Achilles, Chihuahua Friday for a surprise inspection, and to search for drugs and weapons. The prison is currently in lockdown as guards and other prison employees are being interviewed.

  • Three men were shot to death at a nightclub in Nogales, Sonora early Thursday morning. Witnesses say two suspects entered the bathroom of Boleiro nightclub on calle Elias in the Buenos Aires colony and shot Julio Cesar Maldonado Escobar, 33, Raúl Flores Escobar, 35, and Manuel Joaquin Gutierrez Perez, 35. Severnl .45 caliber and 9mm spent shell casings were found at the scene. The nightclub is directly adjacent to the US border.

  • An unidentified man was abducted in Nogales, Sonora Thursday. Witnesses say four men beat the victim and forced him into a pickup truck in the Lomas de Nogales Dos colony before fleeing.

  • A man was shot to death in Tijuana, Baja California Thursday. Jose de Jesus Morales de la Rosa, 30, was shot several times in an alley near Calle Vasconselos in the Otay Modulos Uno colony. Ten spent shell casings were found at the scene.

  • An unidentified kidnapping suspect was shot to death by police in Tijuana, Baja California early Friday morning. Police raided a safe house in the Gabilondo colony arresting three suspects and freeing two kidnap victims.

  • A businessman in Torreon, Coahuila was beaten and shot to death Wednesday. Luis Jesus Gutierrez del Bosque was found near the ejido Rancho Alegre in the municipality of Matamoros, Coahuila. The victim, who sold leisure pools for a living, was kidnapped Tuesday.

  • A shopping center security guard was found shot to death in Torreon last Tuesday. Antonio Galvan Carranza, 29, was found near the corner of carretera La Union and Periferico Raul Lopez Sanchez shot several times.

  • Two unidentified women were found shot to death and in a state of decomposition near Montemorelos, Nuevo Leon Thursday evening. The grave was 33 kilometers north of Montemorelos in Tanguma. The victims had been tortured prior to being shot.
Posted by: badanov || 01/01/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Guatemala Gunfire Gazette
5 Die in Guatemala

Five men were killed in drug and gang related violence including an unidentified gang member in Villa Nueva, Amatitlan killed allegedly by two PNC officers.
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  • One man was shot to death and two men were wounded in a botched bank robbery in Santa Elena, Petan. Six suspects entered the Banco Inmobiliario on Plaza Karossi and fought a gunfight with a security officer, wounding the guard. Juan Alberto Ramirez, 40, died at the scene while Miguel Panac, 18, was wounded. The other four suspects were arrested soon afterwards.

  • A Guatemala City bus driver was shot to death as he was escorting his pregnant wife into a hospital Thursday. Rigoberto Jeronimo, 27, died at the scene when armed suspects fired on him more than 15 times. His wife was not hurt in the shooting.

  • A bus driver and a private security guard were wounded in a drive-by shooting in Zone 1 of Guatemala City. The shooting took place near the intersection of Avenida 10th and Calle 18th where an armed suspect riding a motorcycle shot the two men.

  • A man was found shot to death in Olopa, Chiquimula Thursday. Moises Ríos, 23, was reported missing from his home three days before.

  • A man was hacked to death in the village of El Ingenio Guaraquiche, Jocotän, Chiquimula Thursday. The victim was identified as Humberto Antonio Gracia, 19.

  • An unidentified gang member was shot to death in Villa Nueva , Amatitlan Thursday. Police arrested two Policia Nacional Civil (PNC) officers, Walter Geovanny Martinez Chu, 28, and Saul Arnoldo Estrada Ochoa, 19, in connection with the shooting. The victim was shot with a 9mm weapon near the corner of Calle 4th and Avenida 5th in Zona 1 of Villa Nueva. The officers were attached to the Núcleo de Reserva de la Comisaría 15.

  • A woman was shot to death in El Mezquital colony in Guatemala City Thursday. María Marisol Santos, 46, was shot to death as she was shopping in Zone 12. PNC sources say the shooting was probably related to extorion
Posted by: badanov || 01/01/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Drug gang suspects seize radio stations, threaten 'war' in Guatemala
Posted by: Anonymoose || 01/01/2011 13:21 Comments || Top||

#2  It is Las Zetas. Take attention to this war in particular. Let's see what kind of zeal we may drum up and get this shoved back behind our borders from both ends. Monterey is a blood-bath. Velecruz and Chihuahua are also interesting subjects. It is TIME TO TAKE THIS SERIOUS.
Posted by: newc || 01/01/2011 22:04 Comments || Top||


Army deployed in Guatemala drug war
[Al Jazeera] Authorities in Guatemala say they have seized hundreds of weapons and made several arrests in a crackdown against suspected narco gangs.
A good start.
The province of Alta Verapaz, in Guatemala's indigenous highlands, has been under state of emergency, as government forces try to root out traffickers from neighbouring Mexico.

Soldiers are patrolling towns in the area. Their mission is to dismantle the criminal organisations and to help the local police to restore order, according to Col Marco Tulio Vasquez.

The Zetas narco gang, however, has threatened an all-out war in their latest message to be broadcast on local radio stations.
Posted by: Fred || 01/01/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Colombian drug lord confirmed dead
[Al Jazeera] One of Colombia's most wanted drug lords has been killed in an operation by police and the air force, President Juan Manuel Santos has said.

Santos announced at a news conference on Wednesday that "the king of killers has fallen", confirming the death of the man knicknamed "Cuchillo" (Knife) for using the weapon to mutilate his victims.

Cuchillo, whose real name was Pedro Oliverio Guerrero, died during a raid in southern Colombia on Christmas Day.
He died... somehow.
Two coppers were also killed during the operation, which began on December 24.

Santos called Guerrero's death "the greatest blow dealt to criminal organisations," and warned other criminals that they would face a similar fate.

On Tuesday, authorities said they found a body with characteristics matching those of Guerrero about 320km southeast of the capital, Bogota, but needed to conduct the necessary tests before confirming his identity.

Colombian authorities had offered a $2.5m reward for information leading to his capture. The money will be paid to several informants who helped with the investigation, Santos said.

Police director General Oscar Naranjo said Guerrero likely drowned, since an autopsy did not find gunfire or blade wounds on his body.
Posted by: Fred || 01/01/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  He died... somehow.
Who cares, at least he's dead.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 01/01/2011 13:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Heart failure, Sam! It's heart failure!!
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/01/2011 13:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Heart failure, Sam! It's heart failure!!

In the end, the heart always stops.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/01/2011 22:46 Comments || Top||


Europe
Another bomb rocks Greek capital
[Iran Press TV] Greek police say a powerful blast outside a closed nightclub in Athens is the second attack in the past two days linked to criminal extortion groups.
They used to think anarchists were cute... or sexy, or romantically edgy. More fools they.
The blast, which caused no injuries, occurred before 4 a.m. Friday near Athens City Center.

The kaboom was so huge that it was heard across southern Athens and severely damaged the club's frontage, AP reported.

Police say extortionists, who have carried out several similar attacks in recent years, are responsible for the attack.

On Thursday morning, another bomb went kaboom! outside a court in Athens City Center after an anonymous phone threat gave police the chance to evacuate the area.

The blast, which occurred 40 minutes after a warning to a newspaper and private TV station, gave authorities time to evacuate nearby buildings.

According to reports, the bomb had been placed on a cycle of violence in front of the building.

The blast damaged two administrative court buildings in central Athens, shattered windows and damaged cars and sent up a cloud of smoke that was visible across the city.
Posted by: Fred || 01/01/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: WoT
Somali pirate lawyers want convictions tossed
RICHMOND, Va. -- Attorneys for five Somali men convicted of attacking a U.S. Navy ship off Africa are asking a judge to reconsider the piracy conviction.

The attorneys in December asked a federal judge to look at defense claims that the men who attacked the USS Nicholas on April 1 did not commit piracy because they did not board or rob the frigate.
April Fools joke, your honor. That's all it was...
So their defense is that they were inept pirates. Shrewd, counselor, very shrewd...
An attorney cited a report by the Congressional Research Service suggesting the 1819 definition of piracy may limit the ability of the government to charge individuals as pirates as merchant vessels come under increasing attack globally.
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/01/2011 13:07 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good background. Next time, let the real sharks have them. Makes things a lot less complicated...
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/01/2011 13:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Edited out of the final AP copy:

"A faint mechanical whirring sound was heard in the courtroom, later discovered to be the result of the body of Stephen Decatur hitting 20,000 revolutions per minute."
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) || 01/01/2011 14:15 Comments || Top||

#3  "pirate lawyers" - isn't that redundant?
Posted by: CincinnatusChili || 01/01/2011 15:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Building on statements made earlier concerning the applicablity of certain , shall we say, 'documents,' citing the definition of piracy from an 1820 Supreme Court decision is worthless, because 'it is over a 100 years old.'

next time: Plank. Walk. Swim. Some assembly required.
Posted by: USN,Ret || 01/01/2011 15:02 Comments || Top||

#5  "next time: Plank. Walk. Swim Drown. Some assembly required."

FTFY.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 01/01/2011 15:11 Comments || Top||

#6  Just find some country willing to deal with pirates the old fashioned way, then everybody agree to "rotating jurisdiction" over captured pirates, under a confusing scheme by which no matter when pirates are captured, they just happen to be under the jurisdiction of that particular country.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 01/01/2011 17:55 Comments || Top||

#7  I say, acquit them, take them back to where they were captured, and drop them off.

Oh - you say they were 300 miles out to sea? Well, getting home is still their problem.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 01/01/2011 18:54 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
New Years Drone Greetings to Talibunnies
Do drone drivers get overtime holiday pay?
Three US drone attacks have killed at least 15 terrorists people in Pakistan's North Wazoo Waziristan tribal region, local officials say.

Two missiles targeted terrorists militants in an area just north of Miranshah town, reports say, while the third struck in Datta Khel, west of the town.

The death toll cannot be independently confirmed and it is not clear whether all those killed were terrorists militants.
If they weren't, they would have been soon enough, or they were aiding.
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/01/2011 11:52 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Here's an update on that score, Biff...
Drones - 18
Militants - 0
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/01/2011 11:59 Comments || Top||

#2  me like the voice-in-the-back-of-your-head-editing

keep up the good word-crossed-out work!
Posted by: Mikey Hunt || 01/01/2011 13:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Wouldn't the drone driving just be a holiday gaming gaming adventure to some game jockey at Neillis?
Posted by: Water Modem || 01/01/2011 14:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Here we come a tali-wacking!

Happy fucking new years, assholes!!!
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/01/2011 22:30 Comments || Top||


Infiltration bid foiled along LoC in Jammu & Kashmir; Pakistani guide arrested
During patrolling of the LoC in Kangra gali area in Balakote sector of the district, troops observed movement of militants around 21:30hours last night.

Troops guarding the borderline challenged them and later fired at them, they said, adding there was also firing from across the border which continued for over an hour.

Later, troops caught hold of a Pakistan guide identified as 50-year-old Mohmmad Sagir of Keralay Majan village of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Posted by: john frum || 01/01/2011 08:22 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Toll from firing in Karachi rises to 50
[Geo News] The corpse count, from incidents of firing in separate areas here in metropolis on the eve of New Year, has mounted to 50, Geo News reported Friday.

According to sources, despite imposition of Section 144 in Bloody Karachi, hundreds of thousands of merry-makers and revelers resorted to aerial gunfire to welcome year 2011 in Bloody Karachi, which resulted in massive damage.
Physics. It works. Even without the help of djinns.
Injured persons have been admitted to different hospitals for medical attainment, sources said.

Some among maimed men have been said to be critical in condition, hospital sources told Geo News.
Posted by: Fred || 01/01/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan

#1  How did the Mohammedans get the same New Year date as us? Their clerics even agree on that Gregorian change back in 1752?
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/01/2011 8:26 Comments || Top||


Kidnapped tribesmen dunked, released on promise of loyalty to Talibs
[Arab News] A group of 23 Pakistani tribesmen kidnapped by the Taleban and held captive for three weeks have been released after being submerged in cold water as punishment for meeting with an army general chief, officials said Friday.
I thought waterboarding was torture, but apparently not.
Such kidnappings further threaten the government's shaky effort to convince hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians that the Taleban are defeated and that it is safe to return to their homes in North and South Waziristan.

Meanwhile, two bombs targeting a police building and a NATO truck convoy in western Pakistan killed a bystander and wounded three people Friday, officials said.

Pakistan Taleban spokesman Azam Tariq announced on Friday that that the 23 tribesmen kidnapped for meeting with the Pakistani army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani at a gathering in a western tribal district in early December had been released after being tried by a Taleban court and being submerged in cold water as punishment.

Three intelligence sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the secrecy of their jobs, later confirmed that all the tribesmen had been freed, although the date of their release was not clear.

One of the 23, Shahbat Malik, said he had been reunited with his family in North Waziristan tribal district after being held in a prison-like cell for three weeks. He declined to comment on treatment in captivity.

Malik said that he satisfied the Taleban court that he and the other tribesmen had not gone to see the general in a bid to support the military, but to seek aid for their families.

"We were released after a Taleban court found us innocent," he told The Associated Press.

Another freed tribesman, Mohammad Amin, said he was relieved to rejoin his family. "It is a big deal to get out of Taleban detention," Amin said. "It's a new life." Tariq said the tribesmen kidnapped for attending a function in the South Waziristan border district on Dec. 7 had told the Taleban court that they had had no idea that Gen. Kayani would be there.

"After that meeting, they learned that the person who met with them was the country's army chief," Tariq told the AP in a telephone call from an undisclosed location.

The court ruled that the men be freed, but their Taleban captors had already punished them by immersing them in cold water, Tariq said.

Tariq also warned Islamabad against launching any further military operations in North Waziristan, which has carried the brunt of an escalation in US missile attacks on militant targets in the past year.

"If the government launches any operation, it will make millions of people homeless, and we will retaliate by targeting the security forces everywhere in Pakistan," Tariq said.

The kidnappings and Friday's bombings also challenge the Pakistan military's claim to have ousted Al-Qaeda and the Taleban from their border havens from where they have launched attacks on US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan.

One of the bombs exploded outside a northwest district police headquarters in the town of Lakki Marwat and further south at the border town of Chaman, officials said. The blast killed a bystander who had yet to be identified and wounded two local residents, police official Rafique Khan said.
Posted by: Fred || 01/01/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: TTP

#1  We need to go into the vipers nest(s) and clean them out irregardless of what Pakistan says or does about it.

If we are unable or unwilling to do that we should leave immediately.

Imagine if the nazi's during WWII were able to find safe haven in say Austria, where we couldn't touch them, but they could mount attacks against allied forces at anytime from there with impunity?
I venture to say the outcome of the war might have been different.

Enough of this pussyfooting around.
Give the Pakis an ultimatum.
Either you remove them or we will.
And do it.
Win & preserve the peace.
Oh, and take their nukes from them in the process.
Where is our Patton or MacArthur?

We are like a rudderless ship.
Posted by: Mikey Hunt || 01/01/2011 1:07 Comments || Top||

#2  (with 0bama as CinC)We are like a rudderless ship.

Fixed
Posted by: abu do you love || 01/01/2011 7:04 Comments || Top||

#3  They didn't drown, which proved they were evil, so they were released.
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/01/2011 8:29 Comments || Top||

#4  kinda sounds like they were baptized. The horror ....the horror
Posted by: Frank G || 01/01/2011 12:47 Comments || Top||


Anti-terror court rejects bail plea of Shahzain Bugti
[Arab News] An anti-terrorist court in Quetta on Friday rejected bail application of Balochistan chief of the Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) Shahzain Bugti, grandson of slain Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti.

Shahzain Bugti and his accomplices were jugged by the Frontier Corps (FC) last week. A huge cache of ammunition was seized from their possession.

The men were produced in court amid tight security on Friday, after the lapse of the seven-day remand.

The prosecutor requested the court to grant a 20-day extension in remand but the court decided to extend it by three days.

According to Bugti's lawyer, Mukaish Kohli, the prosecution said they needed more time because they had included four more accused, who were originally from Chaman.

Later, Kohli said that the court had reserved its judgment on the bail plea until Friday. He said that the police had failed to produce a report about the previous remand. "The court ordered them to submit a report on the next date of hearing, otherwise the accused will be sent to jail," he said.

Kohli said that he requested the court to accept Bugti's bail application as the police had failed to produce any incriminating evidence against him.

Speaking to news hounds, Bugti said he had confidence in the judiciary and that he would accept its decision. Meanwhile,
...back at the ranch...
JWP activists held a protest demonstration outside the court premises, demanding Bugti's immediate release.
Posted by: Fred || 01/01/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Iraq
Education official involved in leading death squad in Diala
DIALA / Aswat al-Iraq: An education supervisor in Diala is involved in spearheading an armed cell specialized in carrying out assassinations in the province, a security source revealed on Friday.
Perhaps he needs 're-education'...
“Results of investigations by Iraqi forces confirmed the involvement of education supervisor Abbas Ashour, an employee for the Diala Education Department, in leading an 11-man armed squad in al-Khalis district, (15 km) north of Baaquba city,” the source otld Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

He noted that members of the cell, which belongs to the so-called Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), an offshoot of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), had been arrested last week on charges of involvement in assassination of a number of officials from security agencies.

The arrested men were also involved in explosive attacks in the district during the past few months, the recent of which was the one that targeted an Iraqi army patrol with an improvised explosive device (IED), leaving Cap. Firas Noman killed and three others wounded.

Baaquba, the capital city of the volatile province of Diala, lies 57 km northeast of Baghdad.
Posted by: Steve White || 01/01/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Perhaps he needs 're-education'...

De-education, I was thinking.

Either case, I think he should quit his day job.
Posted by: gorb || 01/01/2011 1:29 Comments || Top||


Attack leaves soldier killed, 3 wounded in Falluja
ANBAR / Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi soldier was killed and three others wounded in an attack by unidentified gunmen on a checkpoint in eastern al-Falluja city on Friday, a security source said.

“Unidentified gunmen waged an armed attack on an Iraqi army checkpoint in the area of Dhira’a Dijla, al-Karma district, eastern Falluja, leaving one soldier killed and three others wounded,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“Security agencies cordoned off the attack site and started a manhunt for the assailants who escaped to an unknown place,” he added. The source did not give further details.

Falluja, the largest city in the predominantly Sunni province of al-Anbar, lies 110 km west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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  Iraq arrests 93 al-Qaeda suspects
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