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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Martha O'Driscoll aka Whitney 'The Imp' Parker in "The Fallen Sparrow" aka Barbara 'Babs' Bradley in "Weekend Pass" aka Ivy Devereaux in "Reap the Wild Wind" aka Miliza Morelle in "House of Dracula" aka Dottie Coburn in "Young and Willing" (Died in 1998 at age 76)
IRNA Says Rigi Group Sets Up Base in Afghanistan With 'Support' From who else, US
IRNA in Persian 0519 GMT 03 Mar 11
Tehran IRNA in Persian at 0519 GMT on 3 March has quoted "well paid informed sources" who never lie as saying: "The known Rigi terrorist group, renowned as Jondolsheytan [Soldiers of the Devil Allen be Praised] has set up a FOB base in Afghanistan's Nimruz Province, led by a US State Department sanctioned thug named 'Kheyr Mohammad Barahu'i,' receiving buttloads of financial support by the US taxpayers occupiers."
According to IRNA, "the Rigi group's new base has the mission to gather information and carry out assault operations by influencing certain tribes and ethnic groups at Iran's borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan."
The report added that this Rigi base has been "instructed" to provide "US intelligence officers and networks" with connections within the ethnic groups. Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasp IRNA said:
"In this regard, a group named 'Pargan' Erik Prince where are you? going through training and activities for gathering information on required subjects at a secure nuclear research site inside Iran."
Further as available, or as gets leaked.
Description of Source: Tehran IRNA in Persian -- Official state-run online news agency, headed as of January 2010 by Ali Akbar Javanfekr, former media adviser to President Ahmadinezhad.
[Iran Press TV] At least 123 people have been killed after troops from the self-declared republic of Somaliland attacked and opened fire on local clan militia in the Buhodle district. They have a district called "Boodle?" I'll bet that's where they keep all the money.
The conflict erupted late Wednesday as Somaliland forces based in the village of Kalshale in the Buhodle district launched an attack against local clan militia called SSC (Sool, Sanaag, Cayn), a Press TV correspondent reported on Thursday.
Fierce skirmishes broke out in the aftermath and heavy weapons -- including artillery -- were used in the fighting. Some 149 people were also injured in the festivities.
Somaliland, situated in northwestern Somalia, unilaterally declared independence from rest of the Horn of Africa country in 1991.
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Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
The Somali government has struggled for years to restore security but efforts have not yet yielded results in the nation.
Nearly a million people have died following years of fighting between rival warlords and also due to the country's inability to deal with famine and disease.
There are more than 1.4 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Somalia. More than 300,000 IDPs have been sheltered in Mogadishu alone.
Most of the displaced live in squalid conditions at makeshift sites 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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Clashes between government soldiers backed by African Union forces and al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader... fighters have left at least 20 people dead in southern part of Somalia.
20 people died on Thursday after bitter skirmishes broke out between al-Shaboobs and the transitional government troops in Belet-hawo town in Gedo region. 40 others were also injuried during the fighting, a Press TV correspondent reported.
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Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
The Somali government has struggled for years to restore security but efforts have not yet yielded results in the nation.
Nearly a million people have died following years of fighting between rival warlords and also due to the country's inability to deal with famine and disease.
There are more than 1.4 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Somalia. More than 300,000 IDPs have been sheltered in Mogadishu alone.
Most of the displaced live in squalid conditions at makeshift sites 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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4 March 2011, 6:56 AM Libyan rebels pushed west on Thursday, extending their grip on a key coast road.
In eastern Libya, witnesses said a warplane bombed Brega the oil terminal town 800 km (500 miles) east of Tripoli, for the second day, part of a struggle for control of a strategically vital coast road and oil industry facilities. Warplanes also launched two raids against the nearby rebel-held town of Ajbadiya, witnesses said.
On the ground, rebels leading the unprecedented popular revolt pushed their front line west of Brega. They said they had driven back troops loyal to Gaddafi to Ras Lanuf, site of another major oil terminal and 600 km (375 miles) east of Tripoli.
Just outside rebel-held Zawiyah, west of Tripoli, officials took foreign journalists to a local refinery to show it was controlled by the state. Officials said it was running normally.
But in the centre of Zawiyah, rebels were fully in control and said they had enough forces to repel any government attack.
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Secret police loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi have staged sweeps of the Libyan capital, arresting hundreds of opponents and protesters in advance of demonstrations planned for prayers on Friday.
There have been night-time arrests across the capital Tripoli during the week, according to exile groups. Many were identified through photographs of last Friday's protests in which an unknown number of people were shot dead.
Precise figures are impossible to confirm friends of those arrested say it is not known where those who have been arrested have been taken. According to rumour, they have been taken to Bab al-Azizia, the regime's command-and-control centre in the south of Tripoli, which includes the Gaddafi compound bombed by US jets in 1986.
Despite the planned protests, there was little sign that Col Gaddafi's hold on power was weakening in those parts of the country, including Tripoli, still under his control.
British authorities have intercepted a ship carrying £100 million in Libyan currency and escorted it to Harwich port.
The ship had tried to dock in Tripoli over the weekend, but decided it was unsafe and proceeded to Britain, tracked by UK authorities.
The seized currency is now subject to UN action. The operation, authorised by COBRA, came days after Britain prevented the export of £850m in Libyan bank notes, which were printed in the north of England, to Tripoli.
[Arab News] Setting up a "no-fly" zone over Libya would require an attack to cripple its air defenses, the US defense secretary said on Wednesday, as the United States intensified pressure on Muammar Qadaffy to step down.
"Let's just call a spade a spade. A no-fly zone begins with an attack on Libya to destroy the air defenses ... and then you can fly planes around the country and not worry about our guys being shot down," Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a congressional hearing.
The Arab League said Wednesday it would consider backing a no-fly zone to end the crackdown on rebels, but ruled out supporting any direct foreign military intervention.
"The Arab countries cannot remain with their arms folded when the blood of the brotherly Libyan people is being shed," the league said in a resolution after a meeting of foreign ministers in Cairo.
Two US amphibious assault ships have reached the Mediterranean Sea, a US official said on Wednesday. The USS Ponce and the USS Kearsarge, assault ships that typically carry Marines, cleared the Suez Canal from the Red Sea and entered the Mediterranean.
United States and other nations seek to force a defiant Qadaffy to end his 41-year rule in the face of an uprising by fragmented groups of rebels. Western nations have also been considering a no-fly zone.
Gates said a no-fly zone for Libya "also requires more airplanes than you can find on a single aircraft carrier, so it is a big operation in a big country."
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... opponents of Qadaffy repelled an attack by the Libyan leader's forces trying to retake a key coastal oil installation in a topsy-turvy battle Wednesday in which shells splashed in the Mediterranean and a warplane bombed a beach where rebel fighters were charging over the dunes. At least 10 anti-Qadaffy fighters were killed in the battle.
The assault on the Brega oil port was the first major regime counteroffensive against the opposition-held eastern half of Libya.
For the past week, pro-Qadaffy forces have been focusing on the west, securing his stronghold in the capital Tripoli and trying to take back nearby rebel-held cities with only mixed success. But the foray east against opposition-held Brega appeared to stumble. The pro-Qadaffy forces initially recaptured the oil facilities Wednesday morning. But then a wave of opposition citizen militias drove them out again, cornering them in a nearby university campus where they battled for several hours until the approximately 200 Qadaffy loyalists decamped.
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Something's gotta give becuz Gaddafi's likely is gonna fight to the bitter end.
[Ennahar] Basking in the adulation of hundreds of adoring supporters, Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy ... an Arab institution for 42 years ... in a fiery speech Wednesday pledged to crush an escalating uprising against his rule.
Mixing paternalistic notes with furious anti-Western rhetoric, he told a people's congress in Tripoli that Libyans would die by the thousands if foreign powers intervened in the crisis, and blamed "armed gangsters" for the unrest.
"We put our fingers in the eyes of those who doubt that Libya is ruled by anyone other than its people," he said as delegates chanted "God, Muammar, Libya, only."
"We will enter a bloody war and thousands and thousands of Libyans will die if the United States enters or NATO enters," Qadaffy added as I and other journalists sat on the floor just 10 m (yards) away from the man who has ruled Libya for 40 years.
He was given a hero's welcome as he arrived at the heavily guarded complex driving at the head of his motorcade in a tiny golf cart and waving at cheering crowds.
When he entered the building, the crush of people trying to reach him knocked a state television camera broadcasting the speech off the air.
Qadaffy, who has lost swathes of territory and whole cities to rebels, repeated defiantly that he would not step down as leader of the oil-producing North African nation.
"There is a conspiracy to control Libyan oil and to control Libyan land, to colonize Libya once again. This is impossible, impossible," he said, wearing his trademark turban and a flowing white robe.
"We will fight until the last man and last woman to defend Libya from east to west, north to south," he said.
At times he appeared almost aloof, sometimes sad, and the overall tone was more conciliatory than usual.
He spoke at length about his family, government reform and promised to give people loans at zero interest.
His three-hour speech was interrupted regularly by frantic applause and he was given a standing ovation several times. Some delegates were wearing baseball caps with a picture of Qadaffy.
He made long pauses and listened to the applause with a stony face. Sometimes he tapped on the microphone to signal his impatience with the cheering.
One woman shouted from the audience: "You will not go and you will never leave! You are all that is good!... You are a sword that does not bend!"
Others chanted "Saddam, we will defend you with our blood! We will die for Qadaffy."
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Definitely time for an ARCLIGHT strike - down through the center of a few of Kadaffy Duck's airfields. The Libyans can always contract us later to rebuild them for them. The one at Sert might be a good place to start.
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[Ennahar] Seven defendants, all members of the same family from the town of Bounouh, District of Boghni have appeared yesterday in court in Tizi Ouzou.
These belonged to "Katibet El Farouk" and "El Arkam" and are prosecuted for membership in a terrorist group. These are "H. S." alias Emmi Brahim, 66 years old, residing in the village of Tizi Meden, known as Mehrez Village. The latter was a communal guard before leaving on the advice of his doctor. "B. S." , aged 51, from the village of Azeghar, builder and responsible for a construction site in the region Boghni. And the old man "B. S." , aged 79, from the village of Azghar, who converted to Christianiy although everyone calls him "El Hadj," which irritated him a lot to the point that he asked them not to call him so. He denied having converted to Christianity or having renounced Islam.
The prosecution requested a sentence of ten years in prison against them and five years in prison and a fine of 100,000 DA against the other; "B. A", 43, "L. B.", 60 and "B. H." , 24, a welder by profession.
The case dates back to April 26, 2010 when, following information received, and statements of a repentant "O. A" to the service of judicial police of Blida, saying they constituted a terrorist support cell in the forests of the region of Tazourt, in Bounouh, the respondents were nabbed and presented in court.
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[Arab News] Muammar Qadaffy's forces struck at rebel control of oil export hubs in Libya's east for a second day on Thursday as Arab states weighed a plan to end turmoil Washington said could make the country "a giant Somalia."
A leader of the uprising against Qadaffy's 41-year-old rule said he would reject any proposal for talks with Qadaffy to end the conflict in the world's 12th largest oil exporting nation.
Witnesses said a warplane bombed the eastern oil terminal town of Brega, a day after troops loyal to Qadaffy launched a ground and air attack on the town that was repulsed by rebels spearheading a popular revolt against his four-decade-old rule.
The rebels, armed with rocket launchers, anti-aircraft guns and tanks, called on Wednesday for UN-backed air strikes on foreign mercenaries it said were fighting for Qadaffy.
But perhaps mindful of a warning by Qadaffy that foreign intervention could cause "another Vietnam," Western officials expressed caution about any sort of military involvement including the imposition of a no-fly zone.
A rebel officer said government air strikes targeted the airport of Brega and a rebel position in the nearby town of Ajdabiyah, referring to two rebel-held locations.
Opposition soldiers also said troops loyal to Qadaffy had been pushed back to Ras Lanuf, home to another major oil terminal and 600 km (375 miles) east of Tripoli.
"Qadaffy's forces are in Ras Lanuf," Mohammed Al-Maghrabi, a rebel volunteer, told Rooters, echoing comments by others.
Revolt has destroyed the OPEC-member country and knocked out nearly 50 percent of its 1.6 million barrels per day output, the bedrock of the country's economy.
The uprising, the bloodiest yet against long-serving rulers in the Middle East and North Africa, is causing a humanitarian crisis, especially on the Tunisian border where tens of thousands of foreign workers have decamped to safety.
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[Arab News] As the struggle between Qadaffy loyalists and rebels who have taken swathes of Libya intensified, Arab League Secretary-General Jerry Lewis doppelgänger Amr Moussa ... who has been head of the Arab League since about the time Jerry and Dean split up ... said a peace plan for Libya from Venezuela's His Excellency President-for-Life, Caudillo of the Bolivarians Hugo Chavez was under consideration.
"We have been informed of President Chavez's plan but it is still under consideration," Moussa told Rooters on Thursday. "We consulted several leaders yesterday," he said.
Moussa said he had not agreed to the plan and did not know whether Qadaffy had accepted it.
Oil fell on news of the plan. Brent crude fell more than $3 to $113.09 per barrel as investors eyed a possible deal brokered by Chavez, a close friend of Qadaffy.
Al Jizz news said Chavez's plan would involve a commission from Latin America, Europe and the Middle East trying to reach a negotiated outcome between the Libyan leader and rebel forces.
The network said the chairman of the rebels' National Libyan Council, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, rejected entirely the concept of talks with Qadaffy.
In a push east, government troops, backed by air power, on Wednesday briefly captured Brega.
Opposition forces took back the town they have held for about a week, rebel officers said. They were ready to move west toward the capital, they said, if Qadaffy refused to quit.
Basking in the adulation of loyalists in Tripoli on Wednesday, Qadaffy launched into a tirade against the "armed gangsters" he said were behind the unrest, part of a conspiracy to colonize Libya and seize its oil.
"We will enter a bloody war and thousands and thousands of Libyans will die if the United States enters or NATO enters," Qadaffy told Tripoli supporters at a gathering televised live.
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You are listening to the Arab Soul pulsing with Moslem Values.
[Maghrebia] One of Libya's most prominent religious scholars on Tuesday (March 1st) issued a fatwa against the 500 dinars now being handed out to every Libyan family. In his fatwa, Sheikh Al Sadeq Al Gheryani said the money was tantamount to accepting a bribe from the Qadaffy regime. Such a fatwa is likely to be implemented by his followers, who represent a large section of the Libyan people.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Qadaffy's second-son and presumed heir, Saif al-Islam Qadaffy, gave an exclusive telephone interview to Asharq Al-Awsat, during which he provided his account of the current situation in the country, and looked towards the future. Saif al-Islam Qadaffy had previously been portrayed as something of a political reformer prior to the current crisis, however he has lately issued statements strongly supporting the Libyan regime, toeing the government-line that the protests have been incited by foreign terrorist groups, and even threatening the Libyan people with a civil war in which the regime "will fight to the last minute, until the last bullet."
The Western-educated Saif al-Islam Qadaffy studied at the London School of Economics and is president of the Qadaffy International Charity and Development Foundation.
In a combative interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, during which Saif al-Islam Qadaffy often adopted a patronizing Egyptian dialect, the second son of the Libyan leader denied that Colonel Qadaffy had hired African mercenaries to suppress the protestors, or that the Libyan army had been given orders to kill any demonstrators. He also claimed that more than 90 percent of Libya was under the control of the Qadaffy regime, and called on the international community to "leave us alone."
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ION WORLD NEWS > {Siasat Daily] US TROOPS [Marines] ARRIVE IN GREECE FOR LIBYA BUILDUP, in support of possible POTUS BAMMER exercise of US MilOption agz Libyuh.
USN WARSHIPS have also repor docked in CRETE.
* SAME > [NATO Membership, Partnership Vote]CYPRUS: US WILL DOMINATE ALL EUROPE MEDITERRANEAN THROUGH NATO.
HMMMM, HMMMM, iff the ABOVESAME ARTIC includes RUSSIA as being linked or coop'ed wid the US-NATO, BY EXTENSION RUSSIA'S STRENGTHENING OF ITS SOUTH KURILES GARRISON AGZ "JAPAN" [SSSHHHH = China] IS RIGHTLY AN INDIR "US/NATO" BARRIER AGZ CHINA IN NE ASIA = NORPAC???
* SAME > US FEARS/WORRIED ABOUT LIBYA BECOMING A "GIANT SOMALIA".
* SAME > DON'T EXPECT ["Jasmine"] REVOLUTION IN CUBA, despite many similarities between the national/domestic conditions between Cuba + NORTH KOREA, even vee LIBYA + other ME States.
[Dawn] Libyan leader Moamer Qadhafi has lost legitimacy and must leave office, US President Barack B.O. Obama said Thursday.
"The United States and the entire world continues to be outraged by the appalling violence against the Libyan people," Obama told a presser at the White House.
"Going forward, we will continue to send a clear message: The violence must stop. Moamar Qadaffy has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave."
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M"Going forward, we will continue to send a clear message: The violence must stop. Moamar Qadaffy has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave."
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So Gaddafi's despotic rule once had legitimacy while for example presidential term limits in the western democratic Honduran constitution were and are illegitimate?
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Obama is certainly less than inspiring. But he is a "politician".
And some fools had such hopes for "Hope and Change".
When you see an "Obama in '08" Bumper Sticker, you know you are driving behind a ( fill in the blank).
Dont you wish you could "go forward" confident in your legitimacy to lead with an unambiguous and clear message?
Why do I get the impression that no matter what the world is like Obama will always be just a "mouth".?
In the Obama presidency he always looks at his moral compass and says to himself, "What would a total punk do?"
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BTW, every news story has a different spelling of Daffy's name. How the hell do you spell his name?
It's a transliteration from the Arabic, Glenmore, so there is no correct way to spell it, only different conventions. How many different ways are there to spell [C]han[n]uk[k]a[h]? ;-)
[Asharq al-Aswat] Hundreds of Omanis demonstrated on Wednesday in support of Sultan Qaboos as more than 400 activists camped outside the Gulf state's consultative council, continuing a series of anti-corruption protests.
A procession of some 200 cars drove from central Muscat to the Al-Alam Palace, one of the residences of Qaboos who has ruled Oman since 1970.
"With our blood and souls, we sacrifice ourselves for you, sultan," chanted demonstrators in cars festooned with portraits of Qaboos.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... some 50 people camped outside Oman's consultative council on Wednesday protesting against corruption and demanding higher wages, an AFP correspondent reported.
Their number later swelled to more than 400.
The protesters, who set up three small tents outside the council, held banners reading: "No to corruption, no to favouritism."
No police presence was reported as the demonstrators vowed to stay until their demands are met by the government.
"Our demands are rightful as Omani citizens," one protester, Muaweya Rashdi, told AFP, a day after the army tanks peacefully dispersed a four-day protest in the northern industrial city of Sohar after at least one protester was killed in festivities with police.
"We are demanding higher wages and social security benefits... We want transparent figures," said the electrician who receives a monthly salary of 200 riyals ($519).
In a move aimed at addressing protesters' grievances, Qaboos has announced the creation of 50,000 new jobs and a monthly allowance of 150 riyals (390 dollars/283 euros) for registered job seekers.
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What is the deal with this "blood and souls" business? Why isn't this blasphemous? It sure as hell sounds like shirk to my Methodist-trained ears.
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[An Nahar] Yemeni opposition groups said Thursday they have offered President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh plans for a smooth exit from power by the end of 2011 in a bid to end Yemen's spiraling political crisis.
During "a meeting with religious scholars, we've agreed on a settlement proposal including a roadmap for the president's departure before the end of this year," said a statement by the parliamentary opposition front man, Mohammed al-Sabri.
The president, in power for 32 years, and whose term ends in 2013, would "decide whether to accept or reject this proposal," said the statement.
Saleh's regime has been rocked by a wave of protests that have killed at least 19 people since February 16, according to an AFP tally based on reports by medics and witnesses.
The veteran leader has repeatedly rejected domestic calls for his resignation. His one concession so far has been to pledge not to seek re-election in 2013, which the opposition dismissed as inadequate.
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Yemen's opposition and religious figures are pressuring the country's unpopular ruler to step down by the end of the year in response to the nationwide anti-government protests.
The call came through a Thursday statement, which envisioned "a roadmap for the President [President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh's] ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, after serving as a lieutenant colonel in the army. He had been part of the conspiracy that bumped off his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, in the usual tiresome military coup, and he has maintained power by keeping Yemen's many tribes fighting with each other, rather than uniting to string him up. ... departure before the end of this year," AFP reported.
The petition urged a "peaceful transition of power."
Saleh has already been in office for 33 years with several opposition members arguing that his long-promised reforms have not materialized.
Dozens of people have died during the security forces' crackdown on anti-government protests that began to sweep the country in January.
Government forces recently intensified their armed attacks on demonstrators, apprehending five political and human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... activists, as well as an educator and an engineer in the south.
To appease the people, Saleh made more pledge-ridden remarks in early January and promised to leave office at the end of his term in 2013 and not to hand over the reins to his son.
He, however, vowed late last month to cling onto power until his last "drop of blood" despite growing mass rallies, which he has described as "a conspiracy against Yemen's unity and territorial integrity."
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Border Patrol agents shot beanbags at a group of suspected bandits before the men returned fire during a confrontation in a remote canyon, killing agent Brian Terry with a single gunshot, records show.
And an illegal immigrant wounded in the gunbattle who is now the only person in custody linked to the slaying contends he never fired a shot, according to FBI search warrant requests filed in the U.S. District Court in Tucson.
"You go up against a bandit crew that is carrying AKs, AK's which might have been provied by the ATF iself - as described in this story...
and you walk out there with guns loaded with beanbags - I don't get it," Terry said in a phone interview from Michigan. "It's like going to the Iraqi war with one knife. It boggles my mind."
Osorio-Arellanes has not been charged in connection with the fatal shooting. He has been charged only with illegal re-entry after deportation and is awaiting a May 10 trial. The FBI document represents the first time his name has been included in a public document related to the shooting.
Two days after the shooting, Osorio-Arellanes agreed to talk to FBI agents. He was traveling with four others that night, all of whom were armed, Osorio-Arellanes told investigators, according to the document.
"Osorio-Arellanes stated that he had raised his weapon towards the Border Patrol agents, but he did not fire because he realized that they were Border Patrol agents," the search warrant says. "At this time, he was shot." Oh yes - I believe him. I even got this great deal on a bridge in NYC and some land in southern Florida...
Terry, 40, of Michigan, was a member of a specially trained tactical unit known as Bortac. On the night of the shooting, Terry and his crew were targeting a "rip crew" that robbed and assaulted drug runners and illegal immigrants, said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Notice - they were *not* targeting the drug runners or illegals - they were providing protection for them.
This week, the Terry family received the autopsy report, which shows that Terry was shot once in the lower back, about 29 inches down from the right shoulder, Kent Terry said. Brian Terry was trying to turn, likely for cover, when he was shot, Kent Terry said. The bullet found inside his body was one used with AK-47s, he said. Was the AK supplied by the ATF (see other story)?
The report gave the family some closure, and it erased any doubt about friendly fire being a possibility in the fatal shooting, because agents don't use AK-47s, Kent Terry said. The FBI announced in mid-February that it had ruled out friendly fire, but Kent Terry remained skeptical because he hadn't seen the autopsy.
The Terry family remains upset about allegations that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives allowed a gun smuggler it was investigating to purchase and smuggle into Mexico the weapons used in the shootout in which Terry died. The Justice Department has denied the allegations, but U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, continues to insist on the validity of the claims.
"Your government is telling you to use beanbags, but you are selling guns back to the Mexicans," Kent Terry said. "There's a lot of questions that they haven't answered."
The FBI investigation remains ongoing, said agency spokesman Manuel Johnson. No arrests have been made. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona said investigators and prosecutors aim to bring criminal charges against the people responsible for Brian Terry's murder. If the AK story is proven - does that include Eric Holder?
Terry, 40, was the 10th agent to die on duty in the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector since 1926 and the first agent shot to death since 1998. Terry was buried in his hometown of Detroit on Dec. 22, and hundreds attended his memorial service January in Tucson.
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I hope the Officer Terry's family sues the crap out of the government, with lots of news cameras in tow.
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"Your government is telling you to use beanbags, but you are selling guns back to the Mexicans," Kent Terry said. "There's a lot of questions that they haven't answered."
Here's the answer to all Mr. Terry's questions: Don't bring a bean bag to a gun fight.
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I am sure Obama and Holder are laughing their arrogant asses off about this picture. Order assault weapon sales to grug cartels. At the same time order our border patrol to shot bean bags when encoutering Meicans in the US armed with AK47s. So let me put 2+2 together for you. This is exactly what Obama and Holder envisioned.
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Several newspapers in Chihuahua state in Mexico and nationally are reporting a gun battle in southern Chihuahua between Mexican security forces and a criminal group that is being backed by local civilians in the area.
So far, no official confirmations as to killed and wounded in that gunfight are available, but at least one police officer has been reported by local press wounded in the gunfight.
The last reports say the battle, starting between 0600 and 1000 hrs Thursday, was still going on at 2200 hrs Thursday (CDST).
The initial gunfights was between a criminal group said to be responsible for the recent assassination of a former local mayor, and Chihuahua state police agents near the municipality of Villa Coronado in far southern Chihuahua.
El Monitor Parral reports that the gunfight centers around the areas Pico de Aguila and San Pedro where a recent marijuana bust took place. Th newspaper said its reports say the fighting started around 0600 hrs and was still ongoing at 1500 hrs.
The newspaper also reports that several Parral municipal police officers were dispatched around 1600 hrs to Villa Coronado to aid in detention of captured suspects.
The newspaper also said one police agent was wounded.
Report say at least one vehicle linked to several crimes in the area has been seized by the army, but added that armed suspects are holed up in the hills in the area.
The incident centers around an attempt to arrest individuals responsible for the murder of Jose Luis Prieto Torres late last month.
Prieto Torres was abducted several days before he was found in the Villa Lopez area, near Parral Chihuahua. Prieto Torres was formerly mayor of Villa Allende which is also near Parral.
Apparently Chihuahua state police agents went to Villa Coronado to serve an arrest warrant in that case when they were fired on. It is also reported that the Prieto Torres murder may be related to several extortion cases involving local farmer, ranchers and businessmen in the area.
Reports also say that as the gunfight continued, reinforcements for the state police agents were sent into the area including Mexican Policia Federal and army units. As well, several unidentified civilians were said to be aiding the suspect group, though reports were not clear as the nature of the aid, nor their nexus to the criminal group.
parral recently suffered one of the worst mass shootings last Sunday when five individuals, including an employee with the state attorney general's office were shot to death at a bar in Parral. To read the brief on that shooting, click here.
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I see where Drudge is reporting that ATF Senior Agent Dodson claims he was instructed to allow guns to be purchased in the U.S. and transported into Mexico. He said thought he was supposed to prevent gun running. ATF bosses claim this never happened. Senior Agent Dodson says it did. Dodson says violence increased with increased gun running. Dodson says it was cleared all the way to the top. He says he was instructed to use a "gun walking strategy." That allow the guns to be bought with the idea of following them with the idea of taking down a cartel and gun suppliers. Mexico was not "clued in" according to the agent. A sting operation that got exposed?
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Four individuals were killed and one was wounded in numerous attacks and shootings in and around Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.
A police station in Guadalupe, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon was attacked by armed suspect Wednesday. The station, located near the intersection of avenidas Lopez Mateos and Dos de Abril between the Rio and Las Quintas colonies, and near an open market was damaged by small arms fire and grenade shrapnel. Six police vehicles were destroyed in the attack.
A Nuevo Leon state police facility and a police checkpioint in Monterrey were attacked Wedensday night by armed suspects.
The Secretaria de Seguridad Publica del Estado (SSPE) building in the Independencia colony was attacked by armed suspects using small arms fire. No on was hurt in the attack, and damage as limited to the building and three police patrol vehicles.
A police checkpoint near the intersection of Calle Aron Saenz and Avenida Garza Sada in the Mederos colony was attacked by armed suspects aboard a Dodge Stratus sedan using rifle fire and a hand grenade. One unidentified civilian was hurt in the attack.
Armed suspects attacked a police patrol unit in eastern Montemorelos Wednesday night. The attack took place as two police offers were guarding an area known as La Curva near the exit to General Teran, Nuevo Leon. The suspects fired on the police without hitting anything then fled the area.
One armed suspect was killed and another was detained in a gunfight and pursuit near Cadereyta, Nuevo Leon late Wednesday night. A Mexican Army detachment was on patrol on the Allende-Cadereyta road about a kilometer north of Atongo when they encountered a convoy of about 10 vehicles, mostly SUVs. Suspects aboard the vehicles opened fired on the army unit initiating a pursuit and return fire. The driver of a Nissan Sentra, part of the convoy, was killed by army return fire and crashed his vehicle into an orange grove. Two other suspects bailed out and disappeared, escaping detention. Inside the vehicle soldiers found one rifle and one pistol. The remaining elements of the suspect convoy escaped.
At least one unidentified man was found dismembered and inside three plastic trash bags in the town square of Montemorelos, Nuevo Leon Thursday morning near the corner of calles Cuauhtemoc and Colon. Earlier the day before three police officers in Allende were abducted at gunpoint, so it was speculated whether the remains found in Montemorelos may be at least one of the officers. A message was left with the remains but its contents were not reported.
Two youths were shot to death in San Nichlas de las Garza, Nuevo Leon early Thursday morning. The shooting took place near the intersection of calles Galeana and Rio Tacachi in the Vicente Guerrero colony. The dead were identified as Jonathan Alejandro Carrera Palomo, 16, and Deborah Denisse Zuniga. Reports suggest the shooters were affiliated with criminal gangs that operate in the area. The victims were near a nearby convenience store when a vehicle with armed suspects drove by and shot them.
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A total of eight municipal police officers were wounded in an assassination attempt on a municipal police official in Torreon, Coahuila early Wednesday, according to Mexican press accounts.
An additional seven municipal police officers were wounded in an attack on a substation in southern Torreon later that day.
General Carlos Bibiano Villa Castillo, director of the Torreon municipal police corporation was riding with his security detail on the road to Mieleras at about 0500 hrs when armed suspects aboard several Ford Explorer SUVs fired on the convoy comprising two patrol pickup trucks and another armored vehicle presumably carrying the general.
Of the eight wounded, two were seriously wounded but all were taken in for observation. No armed suspects were apparently wounded in the exchange of fire.
General Villa Castillo was apparently not hurt in the attack.
Elsewhere in Torreon, a subdelegation of the Seguridad Publica Municipal (DSPM) in Rincon La Merced colony was attacked by armed suspects wounding eight, including a nearby female passerby.
The station was attacked by armed suspects aboard eight SUVs, who used small arms fire and hand grenades.
General Villa Castillo also revealed Thursday an attack in Torreon on city officials near the intersection of Bulevar Revolucion and Calle Garcaa Carrillo Tuesday about 1915 hrs. The attack killed the four unidentified civilians who were riding aboard a Nissan Murano SUV.
I'd still use the salt shaker on this until we get multiple confirmations. But if true the repercussions will be severe. The Mexican government has to react severely, and people in Washington will be covering their tracks and blaming others.
WASHINGTON - Federal agent John Dodson says what he was asked to do was beyond belief. He was intentionally letting guns go to Mexico?
"Yes ma'am," Dodson told CBS News. "The agency was."
An Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms senior agent assigned to the Phoenix office in 2010, Dodson's job is to stop gun trafficking across the border. Instead, he says he was ordered to sit by and watch it happen.
Investigators call the tactic letting guns "walk." In this case, walking into the hands of criminals who would use them in Mexico and the United States.
Dodson's bosses say that never happened. Now, he's risking his job to go public.
Agent Dodson and other sources say the gun walking strategy was approved all the way up to the Justice Department. The idea was to see where the guns ended up, build a big case and take down a cartel. And it was all kept secret from Mexico.
ATF named the case "Fast and Furious."
Surveillance video obtained by CBS News shows suspected drug cartel suppliers carrying boxes of weapons to their cars at a Phoenix gun shop. The long boxes shown in the video being loaded in were AK-47-type assault rifles. So it turns out ATF not only allowed it - they videotaped it.
Documents show the inevitable result: The guns that ATF let go began showing up at crime scenes in Mexico. And as ATF stood by watching thousands of weapons hit the streets... the Fast and Furious group supervisor noted the escalating Mexican violence.
Dodson feels that ATF was partly to blame for the escalating violence in Mexico and on the border. "I even asked them if they could see the correlation between the two," he said. "The more our guys buy, the more violence we're having down there."
Senior agents including Dodson told CBS News they confronted their supervisors over and over. Their answer, according to Dodson, was, "If you're going to make an omelette, you've got to break some eggs."
There was so much opposition to the gun walking, that an ATF supervisor issued an e-mail noting a "schism" among the agents. "Whether you care or not people of rank and authority at HQ are paying close attention to this case...we are doing what they envisioned.... If you don't think this is fun you're in the wrong line of work... Maybe the Maricopa County jail is hiring detention officers and you can get $30,000 ... to serve lunch to inmates..."
"We just knew it wasn't going to end well. There's just no way it could," Dodson said.
On Dec. 14, 2010, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was gunned down. Dodson got the bad news from a colleague. According to Dodson, "They said, 'Did you hear about the border patrol agent?' And I said, 'Yeah.' And they said 'Well it was one of the Fast and Furious guns.' There's not really much you can say after that."
Two assault rifles ATF had let go nearly a year before were found at Terry's murder.
Dodson said, "I felt guilty. I mean it's crushing. I don't know how to explain it."
Sen. Grassley began investigating after his office spoke to Dodson and a dozen other ATF sources -- all telling the same story. The response was "practically zilch," Grassley said. "From the standpoint that documents we want - we have not gotten them. I think it's a case of stonewalling."
Dodson said they never did take down a drug cartels. However, he said thousands of Fast and Furious weapons are still out there and will be claiming victims on both sides of the border for years to come.
Late tonight, the ATF said it will convene a panel to look into its national firearms trafficking strategy. But it refused to comment specifically on Sharyl's report.
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this sounds like b.s. - but if it turns out to be true, then damn - has to be one of the most retarded things I've ever heard a federal agency trying to pull off...
BTW - what Phoenix gun shop was selling AK-47s to illegals or even Mex-American criminals? Unless it was from a private owner, Every piece I've ever bought I've been background checked like it's cool.
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BH6; I have seen reference that the shops were told to complete the sales by the BATF. If that pans out the stink goes all the way to the top as that means the Background Check was falsified at the top, in DC.
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Now you know why a couple of days ago, Obama meets with Mexican President Calderon and gives him a fat trucking deal. To try to buy him off just as this is hitting the fan, Chicago style.
However...the people who have been victims of this outrage should make these politicians wish they were never born.
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I get treated like a de facto criminal every time I want to buy a revolver or hunting rifle, and the government gives guns to non-citizens like eating popcorn?
If this is true, it will not go away. This is something that will strike America's consciousness like a gut punch, on two levels. One, it is another reminder that although we love our guns, for all the right reasons, we are subjected to unreasonable regulation to use them legally.
Two, once again, we will have objective proof that the NPR-listening cultural-educational elite ruling class more highly regards scurrilous no-account foreigners than it does its own middle class center/right majority.
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There's a lot of money sloshing around here. Look at what the Soviets could buy from Aldrich Ames for a pittance. Should we be surprised that there are equally weak and greedy humans working at the glorious BATF?
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This could be true. The ATF has been involved in shady $hit before. On the other hand, it might be a disgruntled senior agent who didn't get promoted or get a raise. He may also be an honest agent who can't abide this and is whistle-blowing. I noted this story was reported by Sharyl Attkisson on ace investigative reporterette (sarc on) Katy Couric's website. This may be a hit piece on guns and the left's meddling lobbying machinations for more gun control.
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I can see it being true. The guns are tied to US shops, crackdowns happen, anti-gun legislation is passes, ATF gets more funding and power and liberals get more anti-gun laws.
Yep, might be. However, it's one hellva nuke hand grenade to take the bastards with you. The Bureau folks never had the ethics lesson that not only the act but the appearance of the act is unacceptable. This simply reinforces that lesson unlearned.
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If you're going to give weapons to bad guys you ought to at least modify them so they don't work very well - or better still, work against the shooter.
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Were they trying to pin the loss of these rifles on average joe and the 2nd ammendment?
Do I need to re-evaluate Colderon's speech to the US Congress?
What is the theory here? Was boss cartel going to go pick the guns up like in the movies? I'd think at best a cell would be charged, but only if Mexico shared the information how does that go? Oh those guns used in that assault against Police Headquarters, yeah we sold them to the bad guys, they are breaking the law so now you can go arrest them. Sure you can borrow our helicopter but watch out they are well armed, trust us on that. Unlikely. So, if true, we have a government organization arming and contributing to a group which destabilizes the Mexican Government? Yes the scary question is to what end?
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A total of nine individuals were killed in an intergang shootout in far western Durango Wednesday, according to Mexican press accounts.
The gunfight took place in the village of Las Bayas in the Pueblo Nuevo municipality Wednesday, which is due west of the capital Durango, Durango.
Mexico Highway 40 from Durango, Durango to Mazatlan, Sinaloa, passes through the region.
A local prosecutor said officials found two burned out trucks and at least three dead individuals dressed in military style clothing. The death toll could be higher if the Mexican drug gang Los Zetas were involved, since it is their practice to recover their dead in shootouts.
Officials found no weapons in any of the bodies suggesting the victims who died at the scene were stripped of their weapons before they were found.
The shooting is the second shooting incident since February 26th when 3 unidentified men were killed by armed suspects in the village of Benito Juarez in the Nuevo Ideal municipality in western Durango.
Western Durango is a known drug growing region. Two other shooting incidents have taken place in western Durango since last fall. To read about the other three incidents in western Durango, click here and follow the links.
A total of 29 individuals were murdered in drug and gang violence which included a Chihuahua state police agent wounded in Chihuahua city Tuesday. For a map, click here
Armed suspects burst into a funeral last Monday night in Juarez. The shooting took place at the Funerales Montes funeral home near the intersection of avenidas Aztecas and Nahoas in the Azteca colony in the evening hours. The suspects fired their weapons in the air and then threw Molotov cocktail at the casket. The business burned to the ground because firefighters could not contain the blaze.
A man in his 20s was shot to death in an ambush in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Monday afternoon. Miguel Eduardo Gonzalez Bejarano, 27, was getting into his Chevrolet Cavalier near the corner of alles 21st and Tamborel when armed suspects aboard a vehicle fired on the victim using AK-47 assault rifles,then fled the scene.
Two armed suspects were killed in an ambush and chase in Juarez Monday night. The armed suspects who has shot up the funeral home in Azteca colony were themselves ambushed just outside the business by other armed suspects, apparently from a rival gang. The men who had just shot up the funeral home then fled aboard two vehicles, a Ford Taurus and another sedan with their rivals in pursuit. The chase went along Avenida Gomez MorÃn, then Calle Bermudez with the two groups exchanging fire between them, and causing four accidents along the way. The firefight and pursuit ended on Bulevard Cuatro Siglos, where the Ford Taurus was driven into a ditch. The rivals then exited one of the vehicles to shoot the two victims to death before fleeing he scene.
An unidentified man and woman were shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua late monday night. The couple were shot near the intersection of calles Liberacion and 15 de Enero in the Tierra y Libertad colony by armed suspects using .223 rifles.
An unidentified woman saved two individuals including a four year old from a shooting in Juarez Monday night. Two armed suspects entered the Clinica Imss on calle Valentin Fuentes looking for the two, a 15 year old and a four year old, but somehow a heavy set woman in the clinic stopped the men and forced them to flee without taking any shots. The two young people in the clinic were survivors of a shooting earlier that day that killed four others.
The headless torso of a man was found in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Tuesday morning, The victim was found with a broken off broomstick embedded in his neck near the intersection of Periferico de la Juventud and Universidad de Guadalajara in the Real Universidad colony. A message with the torso said the killing was done by the Mexiclan, which is a Mexican criminal gang mostly known for its prison affiliations.
Two unidentified men were found shot to death in Juarez Tuesday afternoon. The victims were found in the Safari colony on Camino Real shot in the front, and had apparently been tortured.
The skeletal remains of two unidentified women were found in a remote rural community in Chihuahua Monday. The victims were found near the village of Cuauhtemoc in an arroyo near the town cemetery, and had signs they were shot execution style.
An unidentified Chihuahua state police agent was shot and wounded in an ambush in Chihuahua Tuesday afternoon. The agent was affiliated with the newly created PolicÃa Ãnica Estatal (PUE) state police agency. The agent was driving along Periferico Lombardo Toledano in his official vehicle when armed suspects aboard a Jeep Cherokee fired on him, forcing him off the road near the entrance to the Los Iniguez ranch. The suspects used 9mm and ,223 weapons on the agent, who is expected to survive the attack.
A man in his 20s was shot to death in Juarez Tuesday night. Jesus Saenz Coronado, 25, was shot aboard his Chevrolet Impala near the intersection of calles Tixtla and Ometepec in the Galeana colony. Reports are the victim was employed by the Chihuahua state attorney general's office as an expert.
Three unidentified individuals were shot to death in three separate incidents in Juarez Wednesday, according to the Mexican news daily La Polaka.
A 15 year old female was shot to death near the intersection of calle Terreros and Casas de Janos in the Toribio Ortega colony.
A man was shot to death near a machine shop near the corner of calles Nahoas and Tarascos in the Aztecas colony.
Two unidentified men were shot to death in Juarez Wednesday. The victims were shot on Avenida Aeronatautica by armed suspects riding aboard a Nissan Titan pickup truck. The shooting sparked a pursuit of the suspects by Policia Federal agents which ended with a standoff on Avenida Jilotepec in front of the ClÃnica IMSS. The three suspects were arrested when the standoff ended.
An unidentified man was shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Wednesday. The victim was shot near the intersection of Vialidad Sacramento and Calle Montealban in the Quintas Carolinas colony by armed suspects who used a rental car. The suspects then fled into the Aldama municipality into the sierra de Nombre de Dios.
Three unidentified individuals were found murdered in two separate incidents in Juarez Wednesday.
Two young men were shot to death and a third was wounded in a shooting in front of a residence near the intersection of calles Sierra Grande and Montes Himalaya in the La Cuesta colony.
A man was found dead inside some walls near the corner of callejón Guadalupe Victoria and Ramon Aranda in the Barrio Alto. The victim had been beaten to death no more than three says ago.
An unidentified man was shot to death in Juarez Thursday. The victim was on foot near the intersection of calles Porfirio Diaz and Pipila in the Salvarcar colony when he was shot. Ten 9mm spent shell casings were found at the scene.
An unidentified man was shot to death in Juarez Thursday afternoon. The victim was visiting a girlfriend when he was shot aboard his Chevrolet Silverado on calle Pedro Chapa in the Ladrillera colony. Two 9mm and 24 AK-47 spent shell casings were found at the scene.
Two unidentified individuals were found shot to death inside a seafood restaurant in Tijuana,Baja California Wednesday. Two armed suspects enetred the store on bulevar Bellas Artes in the Otay colony and shot the pair using .45 caliber and 9mm weapons.
Two unidentified men and a woman were shot to death in Tijuana, Baja California Wednesday. The victims were in a residence on Cañon Baja California in the 18 de Marzo colony when they were shot. Police found several 9mmm spent cartridge casings at the scene.
The most wanted man in Russia, Chechen terrorist Doku Umarov, called for Muslims throughout the country to wage jihad on the state in videos posted on websites on Thursday. He urged the Arab world to usher in radical Islam during the current unrest as well.
"Spring has come, the end of February, so I ask you, brothers, to activate jihad, eliminate the enemies of Allah," said Umarov in Russian in an eight-minute video posted on several jihadi sites.
"I want to appeal to those ... everywhere in Russia where there are Muslim brothers today ... I call on you to open up the front in all places," said Umarov. Sporting a long beard, he was flanked by two men and was filmed in a snowy forest.
In a separate video, Umarov urged his "brothers and sisters in Egypt, Tunisia and other Arab countries" to "create a revolution, and by this I mean instating the word of Islam... the law of Allah".
Umarov declared he wanted Russia's "occupied Muslim lands", such as oil-rich Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, to join in the jihad. "This is a total war," he said before lifting his index finger toward the camera.
The North Korean regime in January launched a new surveillance bureau charged with snooping on its people, Radio Free Asia reported Thursday.
Because if you're Mr. Evil, you can never have too many snoops, nor too many agencies working against each other.
Quoting a source in the city of Hyesan, Ryanggang Province RFA said the bureau, named 118 Sangmu, combines forces from the State Security Department, the Ministry of Public Security, prosecutors' offices and party organs, in accordance with leader Kim Jong-il's instructions "to eradicate antisocialist elements." Senior officials involved are baffled because the new bureau's tasks overlap with those of an already existing bureau, 109 Sangmu, it claimed.
Since its launch in 2005, 109 Sangmu cracked down on drugs and DVDs of South Korean soap operas. Over recent years, surveillance bodies have mushroomed, including Bureau 27, an agency which monitors mobile phone use under the State Security Department; 111 Sangmu, which cracks down on child beggars; patrol units of the Ministry of Public Security; mobile strike forces; border guard posts under the Civil Defense Department; and worker inspectors.
The proliferation is already causing problems. On Feb. 24, a pitched battle broke out near the border in North Hamgyong Province between border guards and a security patrol over how to handle three smugglers, a man and two women, who were arrested by the patrol after border guards pursued them, RFA quoted another source in the province as saying. "It nearly led to a shoot-out between the two groups," the source added.
Pity.
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Uh, uh, PYONGYANG HAS CAMERAS WATCHING THE OTHER CAMERAS WATCHING THE OTHER CAMERAs, ...@ETC???
D *** NG IT, KIMMIE WAS RIGHT WHEN HE SAID THESE CAMERAS WILL SUDDENLY SPROUT "LEGS" ONE DAY + REVOLT!
The decision part of a Phoenix-based operation code named Fast and Furious was met by strong objections from some front-line agents who feared they were allowing weapons like AK-47s to walk into the hands of drug lords and gun runners, internal agency memos show. Indeed, scores of the weapons came back quickly traced to criminal activity.
One of those front-line agents who objected, John Dodson, 39, told the Center for Public Integrity that these guns are going to be turning up in crimes on both sides of the border for decades. Dodson said in an interview that with the number of guns we let walk, well never know how many people were killed, raped, robbed there is nothing we can do to round up those guns. They are gone.
Dodson has taken his misgivings to the Senate Judiciary Committee as a whistleblower after his concerns were dismissed by his supervisors and initially ignored by the Justice Departments inspector general.
Sen. Charles Grassley, the panels top Republican who is spearheading a probe of ATFs actions said its time to step back and examine the policy. Two of the guns involved in the sting operation turned up at the scene of a fatal shooting of a U.S. agent.
In only 24 months Obama and Holder have destroyed so much. We cannot wait another 24 months for them to destroy many more lives. Pass Impeachment Resolutions each and every week in the House until the Senate does an Impeachment. The above committee is a Senate committee. That should be the start of the process.
[Dawn] Gunmen Thursday killed six Pak coppers in a restive northwestern tribal area bordering Afghanistan, officials said.
The incident took place in Khyber tribal district when tribal police were patrolling Alam Gudar area, some 30 kilometres southwest of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, tribal administration chief Shafeerullah Khan told AFP.
"Six khasadar (tribal coppers) were martyred after unknown gunnies fired at their patrol vehicle," Khan said, adding that three others were maimed.
A local security official confirmed the ambush and casualties.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attack.
Khyber is home to Taliban bully boyz and gunnies from krazed killer group Lashkar-e-Islam, led by local warlord Mangal Bagh.
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[Geo News] Islamabad police is currently investigating 18 suspects after taking them into custody in the case of Shahbaz Bhatti's liquidation, Geo News reported Thursday.
According to police sources, the men in detention were taken into custody from different locations on suspicion of their direct or indirect involvement in the crime.
The FIR of the case was registered in I-9 cop shoppe while the suspects are being investigated from a number of different aspects.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... the other law enforcing agencies are also engaged in the effort for hunting down the culprits by carrying out a simultaneous investigation into the incident.
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You could arrest half the country starting with the Mullahs/ISI to realise why your country is in such a mess!
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[Asharq al-Aswat] A Pak court said Thursday it would proceed with the trial of an American CIA contractor nabbed for shooting dead two Paks, but held off on charging him, lawyers for both sides said. The court also said there was no evidence that Raymond Allen Davis had diplomatic immunity as his lawyers and Washington insist, they said.
The decision was a blow to Washington, which says Raymond Allen Davis is considered a diplomat and has protected status from prosecution. The immunity issue, however, is still being considered by the Lahore High Court, which could override Thursday's finding by the trial court.
The case has severely strained the relationship between the U.S. and Pakistain, whose alliance is considered a critical part of ending the war in Afghanistan. Washington insists Davis was acting in self-defense against robbers. The Pak government, fearful of public backlash, has yet to make a determination on whether Davis has immunity and said the matter is up to the courts.
Davis appeared for the first time with defense counsel during Thursday's hearing.
"The court did not stop the trial on the basis of immunity," said his attorney, Zahid Bokhari, after the morning proceeding.
Asad Manzoor Butt, a lawyer representing victims in the case, said the next trial court hearing was set for March 8. The Lahore High Court is expected to take up the immunity question again on March 14.
U.S. officials initially described Davis as a consulate or embassy employee, but have since said on condition of anonymity that he was doing security work in Pakistain as a contractor for the CIA. They have said this does not make any difference to his right to diplomatic immunity.
Last month, President Barack B.O. Obama referred to him as "our diplomat" and demanded he be freed.
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A kaboom has reportedly rocked the western Iraqi city of Haditha north of Storied Baghdad, killing at least ten that were mostly government soldiers.
The Thursday kaboom, which took place at a state-owned bank, also maimed at least 26 others, Rooters reported.
Police Lieutenant Ali al-Ubaidi said there was "a group of Iraqi Army soldiers standing in front of the bank to collect their salaries" when the incident happened.
"The corpse count is 10 killed, including eight soldiers, and 26 maimed, including 20 soldiers," he said.
Iraq continues to suffer considerable violence in the eighth year of the US military occupation of the country and despite the continued presence of tens of thousands of US military officers.
The city itself witnessed US forces killing 24 Iraqi civilians, including women and kiddies, in an outburst of rage in 2005.
Over one million Iraqis have died during the US-led occupation, says Caliphornia-based investigative project, Project Censored.
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Over one million Iraqis have died during the US-led occupation,
Out of a population of 30 million, 1 million have died in 10 years? Doesn't sound bad at all - life expectancy of 300?
Hamas has arrested a senior commander of an al Qaeda-linked group in Gaza this week, sources said on Friday.
Hesham al-Sa'eedni was detained on Monday. He is thought to be Egyptian and a top member of the Tawheed And Jihad group.
On Thursday, Haaretz reported that al-Sa'eedni's group was associated with attacks in the Sinai peninsula, among them a 2006 attack on a hotel that killed 19 people.
Hamas, which has previously denied an al Qaeda presence in Gaza, has been struggling to keep other jihadis in check following an Israeli military offensive in 2009.
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The Palestinian governments in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are at loggerheads again after the Palestinian Monetary Authority accused security forces in Gaza of robbing a bank. Welcome to First Gaza. How can I help you gentlemen today?
Ummmmm...withdrawl.
Do you have a slip?
No...
The PMA announced Thursday that all banks in the Gaza Strip would close following a robbery at the Palestine Investment Bank in Gaza City. Okay. See you Monday.
Authority deputy Muhammad Manasreh told Ma'an that Gaza government officials stole $340,000 from the bank over two days. Next!
On Tuesday, an official from the Hamas-led Ministry of Interior seized $90,000 from the bank by force after bank employees refused to honor a check due to insufficient funds in the account, Manasreh said. I'm sorry, sir. We can't do that today.
Say hello to my "little friends".
Okay then. How much was that for?
The following day, the same official tried to cash a check for $250,000. Again, bank staff refused to honor the check due to insufficient funds. An argument erupted and cashiers called senior Hamas officials who failed to resolve the dispute, the PMA official added. Okay. We'll take care of it.
He said the bank was later raided by armed government security forces who seized $250,000. See? Issue resolved.
The Palestine Investment Bank filed a complaint with security departments in Gaza, Manasreh said. He added that he feared security officials would carry out further raids when the banks opened Sunday to pay employees' salaries. Well...good you filed that official complaint with them then.
Meanwhile, the Hamas-run Interior Ministry said the money was taken to prevent the transfer of funds out of Gaza to companies based in the West Bank. The ministry said it set up a board to monitor the activities of the Palestine Investment Bank in June 2009 over suspicions the bank was transferring money to Ramallah. Mahmoud! Haniyeh's wife wants to redo the kitchen. Take some of da boyz down to the bank and get an equity loan... The raid was "a legal administrative decision" to stop the bank's transfer of funds, the ministry said in a statement. Ah...Palestinian bookkeeping.
The banking sector in the Gaza Strip has experienced several periods of instability since Hamas seized power in the coastal enclave. Like...the government robbing banks.
Israel's siege of the territory has led to shortages of physical cash, and customers have previously reported bank closures due to robberies at gunpoint. Damn Joooos! Look what you made us do!
In June 2010, the Palestine Islamic Bank in Gaza City suspended operations in protest over three incidents of cash being "withdrawn by force" by Gaza government security forces. At the time, Gaza police said the incident was the legal recovery of $16,000 dollars belonging to a local charity, following a court ruling to unfreeze their funds held in the bank. We eliminate the paperwork and pass the savings onto...us.
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pretty insecure banking when your money is stolen by the cops and government. I bet Obama and teh UN will replace teh funds. Wouldn't want the Gazoo peeps to go in need
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Boy howdy the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees sure is going to be unhappy that someone stole their payroll...
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Not to worry the un and eu will reload the atm maching for hamas.
[Ma'an] A krazed killer group in Gazoo said fighters fired a C5K rocket toward an Israeli military guard tower on Thursday, saying in a statement that attacks against military infrastructure would continue until Israel's occupation ended.
The National Resistance Brigades, the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Paleostine, ... a breakaway faction of the Pöpular Frönt för the Liberation of Paleostine. The are regarded as the most intellectual of Paleostinian fedayeen groups, smoking cheap cigarettes and drawing heavily on Marxist-Leninist theory to explain their crappy lives. They can occasionally be seen strutting through the streets of Paleostine, dressed up like soldiers and lugging firearms, though they seldom manage to hit anything and then usually by accident. This may be because of their habit of wearing black masks that cut off most of their vision. That would also explain their habit of occasionally walking into walls, which is a well-known attribute of those immersed in true understanding of the dialectic... said the munition was fired at a watch tower south of the Kissufim military base, located northeast of Khan Younis, on the Gazoo-Israel border.
"We choose the option of resistance as the means to attain our national rights, and promise the Paleostinian people that we will continue resistance against Israeli forces," the statement from the brigades said.
An Israeli military statement said a projectile hit the Sdot Negev Regional Council overnight, but caused no injuries.
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What if we had groups like this in the United States?
Would we address their pain? Would we sit down and "dialogue" with them? Would we have John Kerry and perhaps a man of high moral standing like ( sex-tape) Edwards lead us to a better understanding of Islamic Values?
These were the finest men the Democratic Party had to help us through Iraq against the evil Halliburtan Chimpanzee who won that war.
Think of how beneficial it would have been for the United States to have a staunch and courageous President Kerry and a really moral Vice President like Edwards. Or for that matter wouldnt the United States have been BLESSED to have had Al Gore as President. Now there is a man of deep integrity and far seeing vision.
And you can really tell a man's character at its essence when they feel sympathy for the plight of the "oppressed" Palestinians.
Remember to Kill the Jewwzzz and keep a song in your heart.
And stand for things like "Hope" and "Change" and other Where's Waldo unambiguous policies. That's what America is all about.
And where is the Bund in American politics today? Does anyone here remember the Bund? Someday we will remember the "Palestinians" just about as well.
Try to remember the basics,"Somebody wins and somebody loses". And try to remember that in every fight there is that moment when you are both exhausted but the man who wins is the one who holds steady and goes for the eyes and then the guts and doesnt quit until its finished and done.
When the going gets rough you can depend on some people....but something tells me it wont be a Democrat.
[Straits Times] POLICE say a bomb has went kaboom! on a southern Philippine highway as a passenger bus was driving by, wounding two civilians on board and three government militiamen on the road.
Senior Supt. Marcelo Pintac says it is not clear if Thursday morning's blast in southern Maguindanao province's Pandag township was targeting the bus or the militiamen guarding a nearby military detachment.
He says the maimed are all in stable condition and their statements are being gathered. Soldiers and police have not yet identified the type of bomb used nor pinpointed motives and suspects.
The volatile province is home to Mohammedan rebels, extortion gangs and a powerful clan blamed for the 2009 massacre of at least 57 people.
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[Arab News] Iran's opposition said at least 79 people were nabbed at protest rallies on Tuesday that the government denied had taken place at all.
Authorities have deployed large numbers of security forces to prevent any repeat of the massive unrest that followed hard-line President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad's 2009 re-election, and on Wednesday state media made no mention of Tuesday's rallies.
Opposition websites said thousands of people demonstrated in Tehran and other cities to demand the release of "Green movement" leaders Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi who they believe were taken from their homes last week and jugged.
Prosecutor-General Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei denied the arrests, saying both men were still in their homes but were being prevented from communicating with the outside world.
According to opposition website Sahamnews, at least 79 people were nabbed on Tuesday. Sites said some 1,500 were nabbed on Feb. 14 during the Green movement's first rally in more than a year, which was called to show support for pro-democracy uprisings in North Africa.
The police said "dozens" of people were nabbed on Feb. 14, and a parliamentary committee set up to investigate the events said only small groups of trouble-makers turned up.
Talking of events on Tuesday, Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi told news hounds: "A limited number of people, influenced by anti-revolutionary groups, were intending to do something."
"No specific incident happened on Tuesday in Tehran," he said, according to the semi-official Fars news agency. Dolatabadi declined to give the number of arrests.
Despite the official line that there has been no significant resurgence of the Green movement, which the government considers to be a seditious plot guided by its Western foes, parliament has called for Mousavi and Karroubi to be tried and hanged.
Two people were rubbed out on Feb. 14, deaths that each side has blamed on the other.
The parliamentary report, issued on Wednesday, accused Mousavi and Karroubi of staging the Feb. 14 rally at the encouragement of US , British and Israeli intelligence.
"Foreign intelligence services had contacts with the sedition leaders urging them to call for a rally in support of popular uprising in Egypt and Tunisia ... as a pretext to create tension in the country," said the report, according to the official IRNA news agency.
Opposition leaders deny such accusations.
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This is how the whole world would look if Moslems were able to expand their value systems and bring Mankind the benefits of their religion.
Let us be tolerant of them and of their religion. Its so "French".
Its OBVIOUS that Iran has open and free elections, their people are SO happy and well governed by the deep and lasting values of a triumphant Islam.
How could we ever have doubted the moral supremacy of the true Religion of Peace?
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IRNA Says Rigi Group Sets Up Base in Afghanistan With 'Support' From 
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[Arab News] Setting up a "no-fly" zone over Libya would require an attack to cripple its air defenses, the US defense secretary said on Wednesday, as the United States intensified pressure on Muammar Qadaffy to step down.
Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy
[Ennahar] Seven defendants, all members of the same family from the town of Bounouh, District of Boghni have appeared yesterday in court in Tizi Ouzou.
[Arab News] Muammar Qadaffy's forces struck at rebel control of oil export hubs in Libya's east for a second day on Thursday as Arab states weighed a plan to end turmoil Washington said could make the country "a giant Somalia."
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[Maghrebia] One of Libya's most prominent religious scholars on Tuesday (March 1st) issued a fatwa against the 500 dinars now being handed out to every Libyan family. In his fatwa, Sheikh Al Sadeq Al Gheryani said the money was tantamount to accepting a bribe from the Qadaffy regime. Such a fatwa is likely to be implemented by his followers, who represent a large section of the Libyan people.
[Asharq al-Aswat] Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Qadaffy's second-son and presumed heir, Saif al-Islam Qadaffy, gave an exclusive telephone interview to Asharq Al-Awsat, during which he provided his account of the current situation in the country, and looked towards the future. Saif al-Islam Qadaffy had previously been portrayed as something of a political reformer prior to the current crisis, however he has lately issued statements strongly supporting the Libyan regime, toeing the government-line that the protests have been incited by foreign terrorist groups, and even threatening the Libyan people with a civil war in which the regime "will fight to the last minute, until the last bullet."
Libyan leader Moamer Qadhafi has lost legitimacy and must leave office, US President 
[Asharq al-Aswat] Hundreds of Omanis demonstrated on Wednesday in support of Sultan Qaboos as more than 400 activists camped outside the Gulf state's consultative council, continuing a series of anti-corruption protests.
Yemeni opposition groups said Thursday they have offered President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh plans for a smooth exit from power by the end of 2011 in a bid to end Yemen's spiraling political crisis.
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The most wanted man in Russia, Chechen terrorist Doku Umarov, called for Muslims throughout the country to wage jihad on the state in videos posted on websites on Thursday. He urged the Arab world to usher in radical Islam during the current unrest as well.
[Geo News] Islamabad police is currently investigating 18 suspects after taking them into custody in the case of Shahbaz Bhatti's 
[Asharq al-Aswat] A Pak court said Thursday it would proceed with the trial of an American CIA contractor 
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Democratic Front for the Liberation of Paleostine,
[Straits Times] POLICE say a bomb has 
