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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Moira Shearer aka Vicky Page in "The Red Shoes" aka Sylvia / Daphne / Olga / Colette in "The Man Who Loved Redheads" aka Vivian in "Peeping Tom" (Died in 2006 at age 80)
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Hello All burgers and burgets!. A Scottish born ballet dancer. The Red Shoes ballet was I believe one of the last acetate films made. Church sean with the "four square chorale" was my favorite;
One, two, many scores? The counting seems a bit off.
Might be like American football; a score is worth six points...
[Tolo News] At least, nine non-combatants were killed on Sunday in a roadside kaboom blast in northern Baghlan province, according to local security officials. The incident took place in Dand-e-Shahabuddin region in the province.
Nine civilians including women and a child died after their vehicle hit a roadside kaboom, a military spokesperson in northern Afghanistan said. The dead included six women, one child and two men, officials said.
Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) have been called the deadliest weapon used by Death Eaters in the war that has annually left scores of people maimed, injured and dead.
Human rights defence organisations in Kabul had previously voiced concern about civilian corpse count in counter-insurgency combats.
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A common theme among this morning's readings: "We're going to keep killing innocent civilians until you foreigners feel guilty enough to get out of A/P'stan." I guess they've been watching 'Blazing Saddles' and figure if it worked for Bart, it should work for them ("Hold it! Next man makes a move, the n***er gets it!")
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I've reached the point where I think the best thing to do is to pull all non-Afghan/Pakistaini people out of the area, ARCLIGHT it flat, and pave a good portion of it for an alien landing field. It can't hurt TOO much, and it might even help.
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[Tolo News] A roadside mine kaboom in Helmand has killed six civilians and maimed three more yesterday, local officials say.
The kaboom occurred in Sangeen district yesterday afternoon when a passenger vehicle hit a roadside mine, according to a statement released by the Helmand Governor's media office.
The statement adds that all those killed and maimed in the incident are from one family. Women and children are also among the victims.
The maimed are being treated in a medical facility and some of them are reported to be at death's door.
No group including the Taliban have commented on the incident yet.
Helmand, where British troops are stationed, is considered one of the strongholds of Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan and Sangeen district is one of the most volatile areas in the province.
Improvised Explosive Devices are usually used to target Afghana and foreign forces, but civilians are often the vicitims of such kabooms. Afghan and foreign forces have escalated their counter-insurgency efforts recently to pave the ground for gradual security transition to Afghans.
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[Tolo News] A roadside kaboom blast in Kandahar killed 4 police and maimed 6 civilians yesterday evening, officials said. The maimed were rushed to a nearby hospital.
The news was confirmed by the commander of 404 Maiwand Zone in Kandahar.
"Four Afghan police were killed and six civilians were maimed in the kabooms," 404 Maiwand Zone told TOLOnews.
A roadside kaboom is said to have been planted near a bus station and the target was a convoy of local police passing by the area.
No group has officially grabbed credit for the incident yet.
Kandahar is one of the most volatile provinces in the south where Afghan and foreign forces are carrying out operations to clear it of krazed killers.
Insurgents usually use Improvised Explosive Devices to target Afghan and foreign forces, but such kaboom often claim civilian lives.
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[Arab News] Southern Sudan's president on Sunday offered a prayer of forgiveness for northern Sudan and the killings that occurred during a two-decade civil war, as the first results from a weeklong independence referendum showed an overwhelming vote for secession.
Exhausted poll workers who counted ballots overnight and deep into Sunday morning posted returns at individual stations, and an News Agency that Dare Not be Named count of a small sample showed a 96 percent vote for secession.
Sudan's south ended its independence vote Saturday, a vote most observers believe will split Africa's largest country in two. If everything stays on track, by July southern Sudan should be the world's newest nation.
At a church service Sunday, Southern Sudan President Salva Kiir -- a stoic man not known for showing emotion -- smiled, gently clapped and swayed during a service that took on a jubilant and celebratory air.
"For our deceased brothers and sisters, particularly those who have fallen during the time of the struggle, may God bless them with eternal peace and ... forgive those who have forcibly caused their death," Kiir said.
There were scattered attacks in Southern Sudan last week and in the contested region of Abyei, but the vote was peaceful, earning the praise of international observers and UN Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon.
An AP review of results at 10 sites in the south's capital of Juba found that almost 96 percent of the nearly 30,000 ballots cast were for secession. About 3 percent were for unity and the rest were invalid.
That's only a small sample of the approximately 3.2 million votes cast, but almost all observers believe the south voted for secession. The referendum needs to pass by a simple majority. Results won't be certified until any appeals are heard in early February.
"My reaction is just happiness," said Okula Thomas, a 24-year-old university student who waits tables at an Ethiopian restaurant. "We are going to get our freedom, we will get development, and life will change."
Mohamed Ibrahim Khalil, the chairman of the south's referendum commission, said 83 percent of those registered in the south and 53 percent of those registered in the north had cast votes. Khalil said he believed the referendum would be judged as "a good result by any international standard," noting that the commission set up the vote in four months.
Poll workers at the more than 2,600 stations in Sudan worked overnight and often by candlelight. "We are very tired and very hungry," said Lonyik Roberts, 31, the lead poll worker at one of the Juba stations. "We continued counting throughout the night. We are waiting now for the referendum commission to collect the ballots."
Gonda Keffa, a poll worker at Juba University's polling site, said his team began counting ballots at 8 p.m. Saturday night and finished at 5:30 a.m. Sunday. "We worked throughout the night," said Keffa, 24. "That's why you can see we are just feeling giddy."
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Meanwhile, containers with manifests labeled "canned hams from Pakistan" are offloaded in Port Sudan...
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I'm sure that the now unnecessary militant groups will be more than willing to offload that cargo on their peaceful treks from their bases into the north.
The North African wing of Al Qaeda has released an audio tape, expressing support for the anti-government protesters in Tunisia and urging them to send their children to terrorist camps for weapons training.
In the 13-minute message posted to jihadist websites, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) leader Abu Musab Abdul Wadud purportedly urges Tunisians to overthrow President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, who ruled Tunisia since 1987. A mass uprising which began amid protests over unemployment, food prices and corruption forced Ben Ali to flee to Saudi Arabia Friday.
Send your children to us for training on how to use weapons and to get military experience, said the message. According to human rights groups, more than 60 people have died in clashes between protesters and security forces in Tunisia since mid-December last year.
Former speaker of parliament, Foued Mbazaa, was sworn in as interim president of Tunisia Saturday. The Al Qaeda tape has called on all Tunisians to bring down Ben Alis corrupt, criminal and tyrannical regime and introduce Islamic law in the North African country.
US SITE intelligence said the message also praised anti-government protesters in neighbouring Algeria, where youths took to the streets to protest rising prices of staples like sugar. Speaking of training military forces, I wonder what CAIR would have to say about this.
[Arab News] A court in southern Egypt on Sunday convicted and sentenced to death a man for his part in last year's Christmas drive-by shooting outside a church that left six Christians and a Mohammedan guard dead, judicial officials said.
The harsh verdict comes as the Egyptian government is scrabbling to contain Christian anger in the country following a deadly suicide kaboom at another church on New Year's Day that killed 21 worshippers and has left the community outraged.
Next month, the court will announce verdicts for the other two defendants in a case that had languished in the courts for the past year, the officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to share the information with the media.
The January 2010 attack in the southern town of Nag Hamadi also took place outside a church as worshippers were leaving following the Coptic Christmas Eve Mass, and is believed to have been in retaliation for accusations of rape of a Mohammedan girl against a local Christian man.
Sunday's hearing was held in the southern Egyptian city of Qena, which is close to Nag Hamadi, amid tight security, with hundreds of riot coppers sealing off roads leading to the courthouse.
Mohammed Ahmed Hassanein, also known by his alias Hammam Al-Kamouni, broke down on hearing the sentence read out by presiding judge Mohammed Fahmy Abdul-Maugoud. "I am a victim, I did not do it," screamed Hassanein, whose trial lasted 11 months. He was convicted of first degree murder and terror-related charges.
The severity of Sunday's sentence was likely to appease Egypt's Christians, who have been complaining that criminal cases involving Mohammedans attacking members of their community rarely come to justice swiftly.
They also charge that police often turn a blind eye to incidents of discrimination or violence against them. Last week an off-duty police officer walked onto a train in southern Egypt and shot six Christians, killing a 71-year-old man, further exacerbating tensions with the country's largest minority.
The government denies any discrimination against the Christians, who make up about 10 percent of Egypt's estimated 80 million people.
In a thinly veiled reference to the Christian complaints about the judicial system, geriatric President Hosni Mubarak last week told senior judges that "slow justice" breeds bitterness among Egyptians, urging them to speed up trials.
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Several small arms attacks took place over the weekend in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon which wounded a total of seven individuals including three Nuevo Leon state police agents, according to reports by the Mexican daily Milenio.
A Mexican Army detachment of about 100 effectives shut down a portion of northern Monterrey Friday night after the unit was dispatched to investigate reports of armed suspects in the area. Soldiers searched the 25 Inn on calle Ciudad Victoria and a location on the intersection of calles Fidel Velazquez and Ciudad Victoria in the San Jorge colony. The unit reported finding no weapons or suspects, and later withdrew from the area.
A Nuevo Leon state police facility was attacked with hand grenades Saturday night. Reports say armed suspects aboard two pickup trucks stopped in from of the Agencia Estatal de Investigaciones (AEI) facility on calle Comonfort in the El Cercado zone. One grenade detonated at the fr ont entrance breaking glass in the front of the building and on an official vehicle. The second grenade detonated nearby damaging a power pole and wounding a state police agent in his office. The suspects then fled on calle Cola de Caballo towards the Nacional highway.
Armed suspects attacked a Nuevo Leon state attorney general's (PGJE) office in China Saturday night wounding two civilians. Reports say a firefight erupted between Mexican security forces and an armed group that lasted about 30 minutes before the suspects withdrew from the area. An army unit stood sentry at a local hospital near the intersection of calles Padre Mier and Simon Bolivar through the night. Reports are that numerous spent shell casings were found throughout the area, and the facades of 12 businesses were damaged in the fighting. Reports also suggest a number of munitions in addition to eight vehicles were seized as well.
Two unidentified Nuevo Leon state police agents were wounded in an apparent ambush in Monterrey Sunday afternoon. The agents of the Seguridad Publica del Estado (SPE) were on a routine patrol crossing avenidas Terranova and Gonzalitos when armed suspects riding aboard a Chevrolet Suburban fired on them.
A Mexican Army detachment fired on a truck carrying suspects killing one and wounding three others. Reports are soldiers were fired on first by the occupants of a Ford Explorer SUV and returned fire. The shooting took place near the intersection of Avenida Julio A. Roca and Calle Muserola in the CROC colony.
Fourteen individuals were killed in drug and gang related violence that included three unidentified armed suspects shot to death by Sonora state police agents Saturday afternoon. For a map, click here
An unidentified man was shot to death Thursday evening in Juarez. The victim was on foot when armed suspects aboard a Ford Focus sedan fired on the victim. The shooting took place near the intersection of calles Nadadores and Sabino, near the US border.
Six men were shot to death and another man was wounded Friday night in Juarez in four different shootings, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka.
Four unidentified men, a junkyard owner and employees, were shot to death near the corner of Carretera Casas Grandes and Rivera del Salado.
An unidentified man was shot to death near the intersection of 20 de Noviembre and 5 de Mayo.
An unidentified man was shot to death while on foot near the intersection of calles Mejia and Circonio in the Postal colony.
An unidentified man was shot and wounded near the corner of calles Isla Caledonia and Division. Witnesses say armed suspects aboard a sedan and drove by the gas station where the victim was working and shot him.
A bakery was set afire early Saturday morning in Juarez. The La Rosa de Oro bakery near Gomez Morin and Neptuno in the Satelite colony was totally destroyed by fire. A message was left at the scene saying the owners failed to pay protection money.
A man in his 30s was shot to death Saturday in El Sauzal, Chihuahua. Armed suspects burst into the victim's home, forcing the members of the victim's family onto their knees and shooting the victim.
One Chihuahua, Chihuahua traffic police officer was shot to death and another was kidnapped in a shooting Saturday morning. Armed suspects pursued the the officers near the intersection of Periferico de la Juventud and Calle 80th when Daniel Sanchez attempted to flee the attack but was killed on the spot.
An unidentified man was shot to death by an undercover officer during an armed robbery in Juarez Saturday night. A man in his 20s entered the Del Rio convenience store near the corner of Rivera Tepeyac and Juarez Porvenir and demanded the day's receipts. The undercover officer attempted to stop the suspect as he tried to flee, but when the suspects pointed his weapon at the officer, the officer fired. The suspect reportedly held a toy gun when he was shot.
An unidentified man was found dead in Nogales, Sonora Saturday. The victim was stuffed inside a garbage can on Calle 21 de Marzo. Reports do not say how the victim was killed.
Sonora state police agents shot three armed suspects to death in a shootout in southern Hermosillo, Sonora Saturday. Elements of the Sonora state Policia Estatal Investigadora (PEI) were conducting a security sweep in Hermosillo following Wednesday's armed robbery attempt where two unidentified teenagers were shot and wounded. The police agents were fired on after they stopped a suspicious Ford Explorer SUV vehicle near the corner of calles Tezozomoc and Templo Quetzalcoatl. A Volkswagen Jetta drove upon the scene. Its occupants exited the vehicle and fired on the officers. The shootout lasted six minutes. Officers seized a number of assault rifles and munitions in both vehicles in the shooting aftermath.
Two Coahuila state police agents were wounded in a shooting in Torreon Friday. David Guadalupe Castellanos Olivas, 31, and Raymundo Flores Facundo, 35, both agents of the Coahuila Policia Operativa del Estado. were fired on by unidentified armed suspects on Cerro de las Noas as they were patrolling the area.
Eighteen people were killed when an explosion ripped through a minibus travelling in a militant-infested area of north-western Pakistan, police said.
There were conflicting reports as to whether the blast was caused by a bomb or by the gas cylinder used to power the vehicle.
The bus was travelling between the cities of Hangu and Kohat, which are close to Pakistan's lawless tribal region.
The explosion tore apart the vehicle, killing all 17 people on board, and tipped over a second bus nearby, said Hangu police chief Abdur Rasheed.
One person on the bus which overturned was killed and 11 others were injured, he said.
Mr Rasheed said the explosion happened when the gas cylinder on board malfunctioned, but the top police official in the region said explosives were used to trigger the blast.
Islamist militants frequently carry out attacks in the area against both civilians and security forces.
Local television footage showed the twisted carcass of the first bus lying beside the road with little left except its wheels and undercarriage.
The second bus was on its side with its windows blown out and blood splattered across the outside.
[Pak Daily Times] QUETTA: Two children were maimed in an accidental kaboom in Nawan Killi area of the city on Sunday. According to police, the children were identified as Kamran, son of Sahib Khan Kakar, and Rehmanullah, son of Haji Kabeer Kakar. The injured were shifted to a civil hospital for medical treatment. Police was investigating into the matter.
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[Pak Daily Times] MOHMAND AGENCY: Terrorists blew up a basic health unit (BHU) by detonating an bomb planted to it in the troubled Adezai area on Sunday. Officials said the beturbanned goons planted a low-intensity, Russian-made bomb on the outer wall of the facility and detonated it with a remote control in a bid to spread terror in the area. The building was razed to ground. No casualty was reported. Following the incident, the Khasdar Force and officials cordoned off the area and started a search operation. No person was jugged in connection with the blast. In another incident, a landmine planted on a roadside went kaboom! with a big bang, causing damage to vehicle of a peace committee member and injured a motorcyclist who was passing by.
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[Geo News] Intelligence agencies have apprehended a terrorist who had planned a strategy to destroy the government building in Bloody Karachi, Geo News reported on Sunday.
According to sources, the jugged bad turban has confessed of terrorism bid to destroy a government building in Saddar area.
The gang is getting financial assistance from abroad, the sources said. They further added that raids are being conducted to arrest other accomplices of the accused.
It is pertinent to mention here that government has ordered for enhancing security in the metropolis.
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[Pak Daily Times] Partial curfew has been imposed in some areas of Bloody Karachi while the Sindh government has decided to deploy commandos equipped with helicopters to conduct raids in troubled areas after some five people were killed in a fresh wave of political violence in the country's financial hub on Sunday.
Neither political dialogue nor security agencies' efforts have been able to check the growing menace of murders in the southern port city, where the corpse count in four consecutive days of violence has reached 29. The Sindh Home Department confirmed 23 killings.
"A semi-curfew will be imposed in some areas of Bloody Karachi," Federal Interior Minister, Rehman Malik, told news hounds after meeting top provincial officials in Bloody Karachi.
"We are not going to spare them (terrorists)," he said, claiming that a third force was involved in murders. "Our coalition partners, including Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain, Awami National Party's (ANP) Asfandyar Wali and PPP leaders, are deeply concerned and are in consensus to expose the elements hatching conspiracies against the government," the minister added.
"It is responsibility of the federal and provincial governments to protect the people," he said, justifying the decision to impose the partial curfew, without disclosing which areas would be affected.
Earlier, a high-level meeting, chaired by Malik along with Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah at his office, decided to increase deployment of police and rangers personnel in the city's "sensitive and grey areas".
During the meeting, it was revealed that some criminals, who came from abroad, were involved in murders and some of their accomplices were still hiding in the city.
In this respect, the meeting decided to enhance security at the Bloody Karachi airport to monitor suspects and criminals coming from other countries. As per sources, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has been assigned this job.
It was also decided that raids against those using snatched cellphones would be started, as the criminals mostly used such phones during their activities.
According to reports, five people, including two MQM workers, were bumped off on Sunday while an ANP activist, who sustained bullet wounds in Al-Falah area on Saturday, also pegged out.
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[Ma'an] A young man who sustained burns last week inside a smuggling tunnel in Rafah in the southern Gazoo Strip died Saturday evening of his wounds. Medical sources in Gazoo said 21-year-old Muhammad Madi sustained deadly wounds and burns on Jan 10.
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"...sustained burns last week inside a smuggling tunnel...."
What did he do? Set off dynamite with too short a fuse?
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One man was killed and another was wounded in the latest attack in Narathiwat province Sunday night.
Marohsi Jehpae, 22, was enjoying tea with his friends in a tea shop when someone who arrived there by a motorcycle opened fire on the group. Morohsi died at the scene and the attack injured Abdulroh-im Useng, 59. Abdulroh-im is the owner of the shop.
The initial investigation showed that a group of about ten local villagers were having tea in the evening when the two men on a motorcycle arrived at the tea shop and the pillion rider opened fire on the group.
Ay-Pee: the gist - the first indictment has been issued Tribunal registrar Herman van Hebel said in a statement that prosecutor Daniel Bellemare sent the indictments to Judge Daniel Fransen, who must decide whether to confirm or dismiss them or ask for more evidence. So there's an out if they wanna bend knee to the Hezbullies, who are likely named
Except that this is already a kick in Hizb'allah teeth, when they already destroyed the government they'd bullied their way into, to avoid just this moment.
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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.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Arab News] Southern Sudan's president on Sunday offered a prayer of forgiveness for northern Sudan and the killings that occurred during a two-decade civil war, as the first results from a weeklong independence referendum showed an overwhelming vote for secession.
The North African wing of Al Qaeda has released an audio tape, expressing support for the anti-government protesters in Tunisia and urging them to send their children to terrorist camps for weapons training.
[Ma'an] A young man who sustained burns last week inside a smuggling tunnel in Rafah in the southern 
