[Tolo News] A Provincial official and seven Taliban Death Eaters were killed in eastern Afghanistan, local officials said on Wednesday.
Malik Baba, Khogyani district's Development Council chief, was killed in gunnies's attack while leaving his house for the office, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, a front man for governor of Nangarhar ...on the main road from Lovely Peshawar. The capital is Jalalabad. The population of 1,334,000 consists mostly of Pashtuns with a few Arabs and Pashais... told TOLOnews.
One of his friends was also killed in the attack, Mr Abdulzai added.
No group including the Taliban has grabbed credit for the attack.
As usual. Taliban emirs are big on claiming to be as much Al Qaeda as bin Laden, but not so big on claiming credit for things that annoy the neighbors...
Mr Abdulzai said that police officials have started an investigation about the incident.
The incident happened after 7 Taliban fighters including their commander named Mawlawi Afzal were killed in Afghan military operation in Chaperhar district of Nangarhar last night, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai said.
The operation was launched to capture Mawlawi Afzal who was killed in the operation, he added.
Afghan forces and civilians suffered no casualties in the operation, Mr Abdulzai said.
The Taliban have not yet commented about the operation.
Charperhar is an insecure district in the province where Death Eaters have been operating in most villages.
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[Iran Press TV] The Taliban say they have attacked a heavily-fortified US base near the Afghan capital of Kabul as foreign forces are experiencing their deadliest days in the country.
How clever of them, to be sure.
A Taliban front man says the group has fired five rockets at Bagram airbase in Parwan province.
Actually hitting it, or aimed in the general direction just before running away?
The cut-throats claim a number of foreign soldiers have been killed in the rocket attack and that the US airbase has been severely damaged.
NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... has confirmed the attack but rejected the Taliban's claim on fatalities.
"Sorry, didn't notice anything. But we were washing our hair at the time, which could explain it..."
The corpse count of the US-led forces in 2010 stood at 711, making the deadliest year for foreign forces in Afghanistan since the Afghanistan invasion began in 2001.
The rising number of foreign casualties has stoked opposition to the Afghan war in NATO member states as well as in other countries that have contributed troops to the mission.
NATO has admitted that the power of cut-throats in Afghanistan is on the rise despite the presence of nearly 150,000 US-led forces in the war-hit country.
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[Iran Press TV] A court in Spain has sentenced two Somali pirates to 439 years in prison each for their role in the 2009 hijacking of a Spanish fishing boat in the Indian Ocean.
Spain's National Court on Tuesday found Abdou Willy and Raagegeesey Adji Haman guilty on charges ranging from kidnapping to violent robbery and sentenced them to 439 years in prison each, a Press TV correspondent reported.
The court also ordered the two Somalis to pay each of the fishermen who were on board Alakrana fishing boat USD 148,000 (EUR 100,000) in damages.
Somali pirates hijacked MS Alakrana in the Indian Ocean in October 2009. The 36 crew members, including 16 Spaniards, were later released by pirates after spending seven weeks in captivity.
So that'd be 36 times 100,000... carry the seventeen plus three... How much will they get if they hock their flip-flops? Look, these gentlemen are crew, not organizers -- they haven't anything besides the small change in their pockets.
The two Somali men were captured in November 2009 in an operation led by the Spanish navy, and flown to Madrid for the trial. The pirates have said they received USD 4 million (EUR 2.7 million) as a ransom fee to free the hostages.
The Spanish court said there was no doubt that state institutions paid the ransom. The government has denied this.
"The government has already said it did not pay a ransom and I reiterate that," Spain's Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez told news hounds on Tuesday.
Rampant piracy off the Indian Ocean coast of Somalia has made these waters among the most dangerous in pirate activity.
The Gulf of Aden, which links the Indian Ocean with the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea, is the quickest route for more than 20,000 vessels traveling annually between Asia, Europe and the Americas.
However, The well-oiled However... attacks by heavily armed Somali pirates on speedboats have prompted some of the world's largest shipping firms to switch routes from the Suez Canal and reroute cargo vessels around southern Africa, leading to climbing shipping costs.
Somalia has been in strife for the past three decades. Strategically located in the Horn of Africa, it has been embroiled in a bitter civil war for years.
The country does not have a functioning government and the authority of the so-called Transitional Federal Government is limited mostly to the areas around the capital Mogadishu.
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[An Nahar] At least 38 people were killed when Ethiopian gunnies attacked a rival community in a remote border region of north Kenya, a local official said Wednesday, warning the toll could rise.
"Where the incident occurred is very remote and mostly not accessible," Rift Valley Provincial Commissioner Osman Warfa told Agence La Belle France Presse in an update on Tuesday's attack.
"Security forces have been combing the area since last (Tuesday) evening and the number of people killed by Merile militia men from Ethiopia is now 38," he added.
The raid had targeted fishermen and cattle herders from Kenya's Turkana community, who are normally armed in that region, he said. But several women coming home from market also got caught up in the fighting and were killed.
"By yesterday (Tuesday) only 18 bodies had been found. We had reports that more people had been killed but we had not found all the bodies.
"Based on the total number of bodies found so far, 38 people in all were killed," Warfa said, adding that the corpse count might rise further.
"A security operation has been launched in the area and we are working with authorities from Ethiopia to help us apprehend those who committed the atrocities and help secure the border," he added.
There is a history of cross border inter-community violence between the Turkana and the Merile.
However Warfa said the two groups "have been living peacefully in recent weeks and even doing cross-border trade."
"We don't understand where the animosity came from," he said.
The raid happened at Todonyang, a village where the Merile and the Turkana used to cohabit, engaging in trade and intermarrying.
A misunderstanding broke out between the two communities in 1997 and this eventually led to inter-tribal skirmishes and raids. The inhabitants of Todonyang were eventually dispersed, with the Meriles crossing into Ethiopia and most of the Turkanas migrating to another village.
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[Al Jazeera] Hassan al-Turabi, Sudan's Islamist opposition leader, has called for a "total political system change" in the country, hours after being released from jail.
He was jugged for more than three months after he called for a popular revolution.
Speaking at his house in Khartoum on Monday, Turabi said while Sudan may not see an uprising similar to Tunisia and Egypt, it nevertheless needed major changes.
"We want a total political system change, a democracy in Sudan. A real change, not just dialogue ... which we tried before," Turabi said.
"A revolution can lead to chaos in Sudan because Sudan is decentralised and tribalised. We need to organise a transition for change," he said.
"I call for the Sudanese people to start their own revolution against corruption, because there are revolutions in many Arab countries and the Sudanese people are not less than the people of those countries," he said. "The situation in Sudan is worse than in those countries."
Security forces had placed in durance vile Turabi and eight other Popular Congress Party officials on January 18 after he had called for a popular revolution if the government did not rein in inflation.
His comments came a politically sensitive time for Omar al-Bashir, Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president. Omar's peculiar talent lies in starting conflict. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its imminent secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. the Sudanese president, as the south of the country is poised to break away after voting for independence in a referendum in January.
Turabi has been in and out of jail since splitting from Bashir's ruling party in 1999/2000. He was the spiritual mentor of Bashir's Islamist government when it took over after a 1989 coup.
Remarks on Bin Laden
Turabi was also reportedly close to the late Osama bin Laden, ... who no longer has to waste time and energy breathing... the al-Qaeda leader who was shot and killed by US forces in a raid on Sunday night.
"All Mohammedans are sad today. I don't like the killing of any human," he told news hounds.
"Osama bin Laden had some good intentions but that does not mean I approve everything he did," he said, describing the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, as a mistake.
Regarding his own detention, Turabi said that no charges had been laid against him.
"No one told me why they placed in durance vile me and no one told me why I was released," he said.
Under Sudanese law, security forces are allowed to hold people for up to 45 days without charging them.
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This is why it's occasionally good to let bygones by bygones. Going after him for his Pan Am and UTA bombings appears to be the prime reasons for British and French intervention in Libya. The problem is that Marxists like Gaddafi are yesterday's problem. The irony would be if Islamists get the weapons and establish Taliban-style governments in North Africa.
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"The problem is that Marxists like Gaddafi are yesterday's problem. The irony would be if Islamists get the weapons and establish Taliban-style governments in North Africa."
Well, watch DRC, Nigeria, North Sudan, Uganda, and all the rest. It will be a whole continent full of nothing but stupid illiterate jihadis for use in the rest of world penetration.
The future really sucks folks - sucks worse with democrats in charge here to make it a shoo in. Dumb bastards.
[Magharebia] Algerian security forces on Monday (May 2nd) dismantled an alleged terror support cell operating between Tamanrasset and the Malian town of Gao, El Khabar reported. Two Algerians, three Malians, a Chadian and a Guinea national are accused of providing logistical and financial support to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. The Abelsa-based network was allegedly led by 42-year-old Malian Abou Al-Youcef El-Hassan (real name Jakwa Ibrahim Obraham). Computers, communications equipment and large amounts of foreign currency were seized during the operation, Echorouk reported.
Another outcome from the bin Laden stash?
This article starring:
Abou Al-Youcef El-Hassan
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Jakwa Ibrahim Obraham
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
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[Al Jazeera] The Libyan government says that Muammar Qadaffy, the country's leader, has no personal assets in Swiss bank accounts, Not anymore, he doesn't...
and that any cash held in the country belongs to the government's foreign investment arm.
Speaking at a presser early on Wednesday, Khaled Kaim, the deputy foreign minister, said that the money was far less than the $418.4 million that Swiss authorities said they had frozen, putting it closer to $29 million.
"The money in bank accounts abroad is part of the investment portfolio of the government abroad," he told news hounds. "If there is a single penny of the leader's money ... you are free to take it and to give it to anyone."
On Monday, Swiss authorities said they had found 360 million Swiss francs ($418.4 million) of assets that were potentially illegal and belonged to either Muammar Qadaffy or his circle.
In July 2008, relations between Switzerland and Libya soured when Geneva police placed in durance vile Hannibal Qadaffy, one of Muammar Qadaffy's sons, on charges of abusing two domestic employees. The charges were later dropped after a confidential settlement was reached with the victims.
At the time, Libya withdrew more than $5 billion from Swiss banks, halted oil exports to Switzerland and barred two Swiss businessmen who were working in Libya from leaving the country for more than a year.
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Well, if he doesnt HAVE any..then he wont miss them, will he?
See how easy that was? I am sure that he wont have to start legal proceedings to recover what he admits already that he doesnt (and never did ) have.
And whomever that DOES have that dirty old money can keep it now . Since obviously it belongs to them ( nobody claiming this stuff then?), free and clear.
Now ( PRESTIDIGITO) you see it, now you dont.
And that suit he is wearing is about what you would expect from an El Jeffe. They do tend to dress like greasers on steroids. You ever compared all the clock parts on an US Army ROTC uniform to the simplicity of the USMC Uniform? Its a matter of professional attitude. The man who is going to win usually has a simpler uniform.
Clock parts spells loser.
Old rule of thumb: If he's wearing Cherry Pickers (snug in the crotch), he's with the Horse Guard.
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Someone tell the Libyan Ministry of Lies and MisInformation that I have a great alien abduction story to sell them.
Yep, change a couple of names and it might help to explain ole Muammar's peculiar attraction to drapery and Ukranian blondes.
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So we should trust Gadaffi duck over the Swiss?
[Iran Press TV] Forces loyal to Libyan Leader Muammar Qadaffy have killed at least five people and maimed several others in a fresh shelling of the port city of Misratah.
Revolutionary forces say the bombing on the besieged city has caused many casualties, including people of other nationalities that were awaiting evacuation. They add that the shelling is continuing on the city's residential as well as industrial areas.
"There has been a lot of shelling in Misrata today," said Jalal al-Gallal, an opposition front man in eastern city of Benghazi.
"I am afraid the number could be far higher than we would like to hear," Gallal added.
He also noted that revolutionary forces were still trying to verify the total number of casualties for the past 72 hours.
Misratah has been under a siege by government forces for over two months now. Human rights groups say hundreds of people have been killed in the port city during the weeks-long regime siege.
You know, if the city isn't surrounded, the rebels could always evacuate the wimmins and kidlings...
Qadaffy's army also launched dozens of rockets at the town of Zintan.
His forces are pressing on with a campaign that has created a humanitarian crisis and forced thousands to flee the country.
The International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... (ICC) says it has found evidence that Qadaffy's forces have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.
ICC chief, Luis Moreno Ocampo, says the information at hand proves that the regime forces have committed capital crimes against the Libyan people. He accused pro-Qadaffy forces of systematically firing on civilians.
Tripoli has rejected the report as unverified. Iran Press TV boilerplate spittle from this point on:
Libya has been the scene of fierce fighting between Pro-Qadaffy troops and anti-regime forces since mid February. The revolutionary forces want an end to Qadaffy's decades-long rule.
The US and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... have unleashed a punishing, UN mandated offensive against Qadaffy to pressure him to give up power.
But scores of civilians have been killed in both internal festivities and foreign air strikes.
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Seems I been reading this headline every day for the past several weeks.
[Al Jazeera] Two alleged Rwandan rebel leaders accused of ordering massacres and mass rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo have gone on trial in Germany.
The alleged head of the Hutu guerrilla group, Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), Ignace Murwanashyaka, and the man accused of being his deputy, Straton Musoni, face 39 charges of war crimes and 26 of crimes against humanity committed in eastern Congo between 2008 and 2009.
Not all Muslims are terrorists, and not all terrorists are Muslims. These guys are among the worst of the worst.
Murwanashyaka is charged with commanding or endorsing atrocities such as the murder of more than 200 people, recruitment of child soldiers, arson, and looting while he was living in the southwest German city of Mannheim.
On the first day of the trial on Wednesday in Stuttgart, the defence demanded a dismissal of the proceedings, alleging bias on the part of state prosecutors - who rejected such charges, a court front man told Rooters news agency.
'Politically motivated'
"This is a purely politically motivated trial," Ricarda Lang, Murwanashyaka's lawyer, told news hounds. "An acquittal is the only possible outcome after conclusion of this trial."
The two men were jugged in Germany in 2009 in response to UN pressure for international action against the leadership of FDLR.
If found guilty, they face life sentences which in Germany means at least 15 years in jail.
Unless they're released early for compassionate reasons, in which they might serve 60 days.
Congo's information minister Lambert Mende said his government would provide information if asked.
"We urge other countries giving refuge to FDLR leaders to follow Germany's example," he said.
Founded in 2000, the FDLR is mainly made up of Hutus from Rwanda who decamped to Congo after the 1994 genocide in which 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed.
Widely accused of being led by those who carried out the genocide, the FDLR played a major role in a 1998-2003 conflict in eastern Congo in which more than five million people died.
According to the International Crisis Group, the FDLR had around 15,000 guerrillas in 2001 but its number has dwindled to about 3,500, according to UN experts.
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[Iran Press TV] Anti-government protesters in Yemen continue to call for the downfall of President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... 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. ... as the Persian Gulf Arab states continue efforts to broker an end to months of bloodshed in the country.
Thousands of anti-Saleh demonstrators staged rallies, dubbed Silent Protest, across the country on Wednesday to demand an immediate end to President-for-Life Saleh's ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... 32-year rule.
Protesters say Saleh has no choice but to leave after the government's deadly crackdown on demonstrations. They hold Saleh responsible for the killing of hundreds of protesters during opposition rallies which began in late January and demand his prosecution.
According to local reports, since the beginning of anti-Saleh demonstrations across Yemen, at least 300 protesters have been killed and many others injured during festivities with riot police and armed forces loyal to the isolated Yemeni president.
Female protesters also erupted into the streets to call for Saleh's departure, saying they were determined that Saleh must leave and if the men could not do it, the women would drag him from his palace by themselves.
The fresh protests come as chief of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council Abdullatif al-Zayani is expected to visit Yemen to persuade Saleh to agree on a unity government after the embattled Yemeni president failed to sign a deal brokered by Persian Gulf Arab states, which offered him total immunity from prosecution in return for stepping down within 30 days.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Esquimeau village our hero was receiving a quick lesson in aeronautics:... festivities between Yemeni security forces and gunnies in the southern city of Zinjibar, capital of Abyan province, left four coppers, a soldier and two civilians dead.
A medical official in the city said at least 14 civilians were also maimed in the exchange of fire.
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TOPIX/PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > YEMEN FACES NEW BLOODSHED AFTER COLLAPSE OF SALEH DEAL.
[An Nahar] Seven people, including four coppers and a soldier, were killed in festivities between security forces and gunnies in Yemen's restive south on Wednesday, a security official and medics told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Clashes erupted when gunnies fired "three mortar shells" at two police vehicles leaving the riot-police headquarters in Zinjibar, capital of Abyan province.
Four coppers and a soldier who was passing by were killed, the security official said. Witnesses said the attack sparked festivities between the assailants and security forces in the town center.
A medical official said two non-combatants were killed. "Sixteen injured civilians, of whom two have pegged out, were brought into the hospital, said the medic.
Abyan is considered a stronghold of a-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
On Sunday, three coppers were killed in a similar attack in the country's southeastern province of Hadramaut.
Rocked by nationwide anti-regime protests, Yemen has also been battling a secessionist movement in the south, a Shiite revolt in the north and an al-Qaeda resurgence in eastern and southern provinces.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami was shown placed in durance vile on Wednesday in cases filed in connection with 10-truck arms haul in the port city.
That does seem rather a lot...
Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate Hussain Muhammad Fazlul Bari passed the order for showing Nizami placed in durance vile in the cases following a prayer from Investigation Officer of the cases, Mohammad Moniruzzaman Chowdhury.
Prob'ly not the one that starts, "Hail Mary, full of grace..."
Two cases were filed on April 03, 2004 with Karnaphuli Police Station under section-25/B of the Special Powers Act for arms smuggling and section-19 (ka) of the Arms Act in connection with the arms haul.
Moniruzzaman, also the senior additional superintendent of police of Criminal Investigation Department, Chittagong, moved the petition at the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) in the morning while CMM court fixed the hearing at the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Fazlul Bari in the afternoon.
The court also allowed the Sherlocks to interrogate Nizami at Dhaka central Jail gate.
The petition stated that though Nizami was the then Industries Minister, he did not take any effective legal action in connection with the seizure of arms that unloaded at state-owned Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Limited (CUFL) jetty, which was under supervision of the ministry.
Nizami's indifferent attitude regarding the seizure of huge arms was also revealed in a statement given by the former chairman of Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) Maj Gen Mohammad Imamuzzaman, said the petition.
Mentionable, Imamuzzaman in a judicial statement on October 5 last year before a Chittagong court stated that Nizami showed indifferent attitude to the seizure of 10-truck arms haul and ammunition. Nizami also asked the then BCIC chairman not to do anything since the home ministry was going to take steps regarding the incident.
Former state minister for Home Lutfozzaman Babar was shown placed in durance vile in the same cases earlier on October 3 last year.
CID has so far placed in durance vile several high officials including two former director generals (DG) of the NSI-- Maj Gen (retd) Rezzaqul Haider Chowdhury and Brig Gen (retd) Abdur Rahim Chowdhury, former director (security) Wing Commander (retd) Sahab Uddin, former deputy director (technical) Maj (retd) Liakat Hossain, NSI Field Officer Akbar Hossain, former CUFL managing director Mohsin Talukder and General Manager (Admin) Enamul Haq in connection with the arms haul case.
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For a map, click here. For a map of Durango, click here. To see the last Rantburg report on the Durango city mass graves click here.
Eleven more bodies were uncovered at a third gravesite in Durango, Durango Wednesday bringing the total dead found in three gravesites to 119, according to Mexican news reports.
The new find near the Centro de Bachillerato Tecnologico Agropecuario Numero 4 (CBTA 4) agricultural college in the Vicente Suarez colony in Durango city consists of 10 men and a female.
The Durango attorney general's office (FGE) reported Wednesday that more than 230 individuals have contacted the FGE about missing relatives, but so far no DNA tests have been performed on the bodies recovered thus far.
The Durango FGE, Hector Vela Valenzuela said that DNA tests in Durango could be problematic because the Durango state forensic lab had not yet been fully funded or staffed.
A much better reason than most...
Vela Valenzuela hinted in remarks published in Milenio that some of the work may be sent to Mexico City, which is also a problem due to the great amount of forensic work from some of the 183 dead sent there from Tamaulipas because of security concerns.
Reports say a find last weekend in Durango city of nine plastic bags containing human bones may tip the total find to more than 130 dead.
Previous reports said that a number of other sites in Durango were under investigation, bot no reports have been published on those other investigations.
For a map, click here. For a map of Nuevo Leon, click here. For a map of Tamaulipas, click here.
Armed groups in Linares, Nuevo Leon fought battles in the streets for several hours Wednesday morning, abducting six traffic police officers before Mexican Army units intervened in the fighting, according to Mexican news reports.
"That'll do, that'll do. To your corners boys, until we ring the bell for the next round."
Reports say a large convoy of 20 vehicles with armed suspects aboard entered the city in the Galeana colony when the fighting began. The fighting was said to be over territory between criminal gangs.
Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon are a battle ground area between Los Zetas and their former allies the Gulf cartel.
The fighting erupted in the Infonavit Rodrigo Gómez colony of Linares lasting 30 minutes. A gas pipeline in the area was damaged by small arms fire by armed suspects, presumably as a diversionary measure.
On Miguel Hidalgo an abandoned police vehicle was found. Police officers Jose Antonio Correa Garcia and Jose Guadalupe Guerrero Sustaita are presumed to have been kidnapped.
Following the attack on the gas line four more police officers, Juan Carlos Garza Chavia, Sergio Francisco Muñoz, Inocencio Lerma Perales and Antonio Barajas Castillo, were said to have been kidnapped by armed suspects on Avenida Industria Alimenticia in the Parque Industrial colony.
A number of carjackings were reported in the Las Alamedas colony. Three stolen vehicles were recovered near the highway exit to Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas.
An unofficial death toll stands at two dead armed suspects, although at this point it is unclear if the dead were killed by security forces or by rival gangs.
Various social media reported the use of grenades and machine guns during the shootings, especially around Las Alamedas colony.
Linares was a site last April 25th where a bus was fired on wounding one individual. Linares sits astride Mexican Interstate Highway 85 from Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas to Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, and is less than 10 kilometers due northeast of the Nuevo Leon-Tamaulipas border. To read Rantburg reports on the triple bus shootings as well as an Easter eve attack in Tampico, Tamaulipas in late in April click here.
But for the accusation against Leyzaola, I wouldn't even bother with this story. The link is to a story posted at La Polaka. You can go to www.blogdelnarco.com yourself, but it is potentially a malware filled site I wouldn't visit unless I was using Linux.
The embattled police chief of Juarz Julian Leyzaola, and the head of the Mexican Policia Federal in Chihuahua, Efren Avila are on the Sinaloa cartel payroll.
At least that is the accusation made by a purported captured bagman for the Sinaloa drug cartel held by La Linea the armed wing of the Juarez drug cartel.
The video was posted at the Blog del Narco website Tuesday which showed Carlos Estrada, bound by his hands and blindfolded, and on his knees as three armed men also masked stood by covering the victim with their assault rifles.
Throughout the video Estrada did not appear to say a word. He sat in front of his three captors, as the leader of the captors read from prepared remarks presumably taped to Estrada's back. Background "narcocorridos" music blasted in the background making it difficult to make out much of what was being said. From time to time Estrada's head would bow only to be held up by his hair by the lead captor reading the remarks.
At the end of the video was a list of police officers and commanders from Juarez, Parral, Casas Grandes, and Chihuahua the group says are on the payroll of the Sinaloa drug gang.
The deadly feud between the Sinaloa and Juarez drug cartels often hinges on accusation of police officers and commanders in Juarez and Chihuahua city being on the others' payroll.
Several legal and police officials in Chihuahua state in the past have been accused of being on drug cartel payrolls, including former Chihuahua state attorney general Patricia Gonzalez, who was accused by Sinaloa drug cartel of being on the Juarez drug cartel's payroll, but little has come of those charges. To read a Rantburg report with background information concerning the Sinaloa-Juarez rivalry, including links to other related stories, click here.
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Que nueva? Thx Badanov for your diligent work - my wife's extended family is from Nayarit (state due south from Sinaloa) - no major problems there yet.
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Sorry, I just read the referred to blog - crispy critter appears in Nayarit - tis pity since I often considered retiring in San Blas - inexpensive and seaside town.
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I don't write drug war news in Mexican states other than Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon. Tamaulipas and to a lesser extent Durango, unless it is a really important event.
You should follow Mexican narcoblogs because they do report comprehensively on Mexican drug war news nationwide.
I do however write on Mexican national politics and how it an affect the war on drugs. For instance, Saturday will begin a series of news analyses on the current Peace March being "led" my Mexican poet Javier Sicily, and marches in 31 other Mexican localities, including Ciudad Juarez, as well as in six US cities.
To your wife and her extended family:
Da a su esposa e familia mi complimentas, por favor.
[An Nahar] Russian security forces have killed a number three top al-Qaeda jihad boy in Chechnya who coordinated foreign rebels in the North Caucasus, the national anti-terror committee said on Wednesday.
The jihad boy, named as Doger Sevdet, was a Turkish national who had taken on the nom-de-guerre of Abdullah Kurd and "was an envoy of al-Qaeda in the Northern Caucasus," it said in a statement published on Russian news agencies.
It said that Sevdet, who arrived in the region in 1991, had taken part in the planning of numerous acts of terror and attacks on members of the public and security forces.
Sevdet, who was born in 1977, and a fellow jihad boy from Dagestan were killed by Russian security forces Tuesday in a clash in the Vedesnk region of Chechnya, it said.
His death comes two weeks after Russia killed another top al-Qaeda jihad boy, a Saudi operative known as Moganned in what analysts said was one of its biggest security successes in the region for years.
It also follows the killing in Pakistain by U.S. forces of al-Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden ... who no longer has to waste time and energy breathing... in an operation hailed by the Kremlin as a "serious success in the war against international terrorism."
Russian leaders have repeatedly said that terror is an international menace and have played up the links between Islamist cut-throats in the Northern Caucasus and al-Qaeda.
The past year has seen Moscow rocked by a bombing at the country's busiest airport that killed 37 in January 2011 and a twin suicide kaboom that claimed 40 lives during morning rush hour on the metro in March 2010.
The national anti-terror committee said that inside Sevdet's Turkish passport there were visas for Georgia, Azerbaijan and Pakistain.
It said that the operation was made possible by active cooperation with foreign partners and boasted that the outcome would complicate contacts between North Caucasus cut-throats and al-Qaeda.
The committee said that Sevdet had effectively succeeded Moganned as the top foreign jihad boy in the Northern Caucasus after his death on April 11 and taken responsibility for "coordination of foreign terrorism in the Northern Caucasus."
After waging two wars against separatists in Chechnya after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Kremlin is now battling an Islamist-tinged insurgency that has also spread to the neighboring regions of Dagestan and Ingushetia.
Long criticized for failing to make any apparent progress in dealing with the insurgency, the authorities have claimed some progress in the last weeks.
Last week, security forces killed 10 cut-throats around the region of Kabardino-Balkaria which had until recently been spared the worst of the unrest but has recently seen an upsurge in violence.
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Doger Sevdet
Moganned
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See also PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > BIN LADEN DEATH WEAKENS RUSSIAN INSURGENCY, as per the general or LT strategic threat to Russia, + espec per Chechya = North Caucausus.
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Binny's harddrive?
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I would question the labeling. Russia loves to bring up Chechnya as its token "Al-Qaeda" problem to keep the west looped into Russia's own battle against the Chechens. I'd wager many "Al Qaeda" kills in Chechnya aren't real Al Qaeda. When Russia obliterated Grozny, the west did nothing. The Russians, over time, cut off all outside support of the Chechen rebels. The Chechens were always half mafia half mercenary, so when the money dried up, they found a new source...wealthy Arab terrorist supporting scum. With this came the "foreign fighters". You could even argue the west pushed Chechens into Al Qaeda. The total devastation and economic starvation without western intervention gave the rebels no choice if they wanted to keep fighting.
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My buddy, The Sock Puppet of Doom, and I were thinking (always dangerous) that the Spetznaz boys were feeling a bit left out by the OBL/UBL whacking. So it was time for the "Hey, ole Doger is back in town, we could whack him and get some press"
"Sounds like a good idea to me. I am feeling left out by the Osama killing. Those Americans have all the fun these days."
"Can we get a drone? I hear those are fun."
"Go whack Doger and bring me his checkbook, maybe we can buy a drone on eBay."
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Or did we just witness the beginning of 'open season'?
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The total devastation and economic starvation without western intervention gave the rebels no choice if they wanted to keep fighting.
One could also make a very valid argument that the Cold War was over with all the issues subsequent to it, the Middle East still occupied the West's attention, and there was no incentive to interfere in the affairs of what was a still-shaky post-Soviet government.
To put it bluntly, there were more important things than Chechnya.
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Seeing how he was in charge of surpressing dissent and rounding up all opposition to BushCo and putting them in the detention camps, AshKKKroft should be good at this.
Oh, wait...
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mr. Ashcroftwill be a member of the board of directors, not an executive officer, according to the article. Boards generally meet between one and four times per year to hear reports from the senior executive officers, approve general philosophy, and have a nice dinner. It's a good idea to have a lawyer, an accountant, and a couple of CEOs from other companies on the board...the kind of people who'll recognize trouble creeping in on little feet.
[Al Jazeera] A policeman has been killed in an attack in northern Turkey shortly after prime minister Recep Tayyip Edrogan held an election rally, according to Turkish television.
Erdogan had already left the city of Kastamonu when the attack happened, NTV news reported.
Attackers threw a bomb and opened fire on a bus carrying police, NTV said. The vehicle was accompanying a campaign bus for Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Another policeman was injured in the attack, according to the Anatolia News Agency.
Addressing a rally later in Amasya, Erdogan appeared to blame separatists for the attack.
"Those dark minds, these terrorists, these separatists are only able to do this, those who understand there is nothing they can do through the ballot box," Erdogan said.
Kurdish separatist fighters belonging to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have waged a decades-long campaign for Kurdish independence, mostly from the southeast of the country.
Turkey goes to the polls in parliamentary elections on June 12.
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Pakistain on Wednesday stepped up security in the neighbourhood where the late Osama bin Laden ... who sleeps with the fishes... was killed by US commandos, sealing off the area after crowds had flocked to his one-time villa home.
Police early Wednesday closed the Bilal suburb of the relatively well-off garrison town of Abbottabad to media and public, where the Al-Qaeda chief had been living in secrecy in a compound surrounded by towering outer walls.
"More than 300 armed coppers have been deployed at the entry points, as well as in the town and close to the house, for security reasons," a local police official said on condition of anonymity, without giving further details.
Just over a dozen army troops were also seen moving into the area and standing guard in front of the house.
Local residents returning to their houses were being body-searched and their ID cards checked, with some labourers prevented from going to work in the area, an AFP news hound said.
Since bin Laden's death early Monday, the compound has drawn the world's media and hundreds of curious locals. Dozens of Pak youths demonstrated outside the house on Tuesday, mocking America and shouting "Osama is alive!" Just goes to show what they know...
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Local residents returning to their houses were being body-searched and their ID cards checked, with some labourers prevented from going to work in the area
The only thing that would make it a perfect Third-World response would be the thrashing of curious bystanders and the random newshound.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Two civilians were injured when a sticky bomb stuck to a garbage container blew up, while a Katyusha rocket hit the well fortified Green Zone, a Baghdad security source said today. No details on the damages were reported.
The source reported to Aswat al-Iraq that the IED exploded near Sheraton Hotel.
"A Katyusha rocket fell on the Green Zone, but no details of losses were reported", the source added.
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Beginning to understand why USA financed Iron Dome R&D.
[An Nahar] A Paleostinian man convicted of collaboration with Israel was executed in Gazoo on Wednesday on the orders of the interior ministry, the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-affiliated Shahab news agency said.
The name of the Paleostinian and the specific accusations against him were not detailed.
On April 19, Hamas announced that a military court had sentenced a "collaborator" to death by firing squad for "treason," but it was unclear if the individual was the same man reported to have been executed on Wednesday.
In recent months, Hamas has announced the arrest of several alleged collaborators, and warned it would prosecute any "traitor" working for the Jewish state.
The interior ministry warned last month that it was actively monitoring "suspicious movements" and that "any traitor who works with the Zionist occupation will not escape legal prosecution".
Hamas has carried out sporadic arrests and prosecutions of alleged collaborators with Israel.
On March 30, a Gazoo military court condemned a man to death and sentenced another to 15 years of forced labor for collaborating with Israel. Both judgments are subject to appeal.
Last April, two alleged collaborators were shot by firing squad in the first executions to be carried out since the Islamist movement seized control of Gazoo in June 2007.
Paleostinian law defines collaboration with Israel, murder and drug trafficking as capital crimes.
It says the president must approve all execution orders before they can be carried out, but Hamas no longer recognizes the legitimacy of Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , whose four-year term ended in 2009.
Israeli security forces routinely use Paleostinian informers to thwart turban attacks and assist in the liquidation of top turbans.
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Give em a state! They deserve the heaping abuse the Joooos would get for executing an Arab spy
/rrriiiggghtttt
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It's odd, considering how much the Palestinians hate the Juices, how many of them are collaborators...
[Straits Times] INDONESIAN forces killed four Somali pirates in a shootout after a ship and 20 Indonesian hostages held nearly two months were freed, the military said on Tuesday.
About 35 pirates left the MV Sinar Kudus in groups Sunday after they received a requested ransom, Rear Admiral Iskandar Sitompul said. A special joint military squad made sure no more pirates were still on the ship and then pursued the groups, catching up with and killing four pirates in an exchange of gunfire.
He refused to discuss the ransom, which media reported was between US$3 million and US$4.5 million (S$3.7 million to S$5.5 million).
The Sinar Kudus was seized in the Arabian Sea on March 16. Soon afterward, the pirates used the hijacked ship to attack another fat merchantman nearby, but private security repelled them, the EU Naval Force said.
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Extra-judicial killings.
I am sure the UN and the ICC will be on this right away.
[Straits Times] A NIGERIAN accused of leading an African drug trafficking syndicate that recruits Asian couriers was tossed in the slammer in Manila carrying half a kilogramme of cocaine, authorities said on Wednesday.
Samuel Egbo, 34, and his female South Korean companion were caught on Tuesday when they met a Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency officer posing as a buyer in a McDonald's restaurant in the Philippine capital, they said.
'He is one of the main controllers in the Asia-Pacific region. He is the one who meets with the drug mules and arranges for their accommodations,' Jonathan Morales, an agent with the agency handling the case, told AFP.
Egbo was intending to sell the cocaine to the 'buyer' for 2.5 million pesos (S$72,000), Mr Morales said.
According to Mr Morales, Egbo is part of a group known as the West African Drug Syndicate - a collection of Nigerians based in Bangkok, Thailand, who operate in the Philippines, China, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia.
They recruit people to act as drug mules, paying them up to US$3,000 (S$3,700) each time they carry the contraband from one country to another, Mr Morales said.
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Good lord, that second paragraph is a doozy. Nigerian and South Korean meet a Filipino in a Manila McDonalds to make each other lots of money's for verry little werk.
[Al Jazeera] A human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... groups say hundreds of ordinary Syrians have been tossed in the slammer for "degrading the prestige of the state" amid an intensifying crackdown on anti-government protests.
Hundreds of detainees received a three-year prison sentence on Tuesday, while mass arrests continue to pre-empt further unrest on the Mohammedan day of prayer on Friday, the Perfidious Albion-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Demonstrations in the region are typically at their biggest on Fridays after midday prayers.
"Mass arrests are continuing across Syria in another violation of human rights and international conventions," Rami Abdelrahman of the rights body told the Rooters news agency on Wednesday.
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About 100 tanks and troop transporters were seen on Wednesday massing in the town of Ar-Rastan, a major hotspot in seven weeks of anti-regime protests, a rights activist there said.
"Reinforcements continue to mass at the northern entrance to Ar-Rastan and, according to our estimates, there must be a hundred tanks and troop transports on the highway between Homs and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, near Oronte reservoir," he told the AFP news agency.
Earlier, the source said the Syrian army had been strengthening its forces there for the past three days.
Meanwhile, ...back at the scene of the crime, Lieutenant Queeg had an idea... Al-Jazeera television urged Syrian authorities on Wednesday to release Dorothy Parvaz, one of the Qatar-based channel's journalists, who has been jugged since she flew in to Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... last week.
Parvaz, who holds American, Canadian and Iranian citizenship, was "jugged upon arrival in Damascus six days ago [on Friday]. She has had no contact with the outside world since," the channel said.
Deraa shelling President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... campaign to preserve his 11-year rule took a drastic turn last week after his brother Maher led a tank-backed army unit in shelling protesters into submission at Deraa, the southern city that has been the epicentre of the six-week-old uprising.
Wissam Tarif, executive director of the Insan human rights group, said detainees include activists, community leaders, or people seen documenting the violence on mobile phone or uploading the content to the internet.
Authorities blamed gangs and infiltrators for stoking unrest and firing on civilians and security forces.
Assad said on Wednesday that the operation in Deraa would be over "very soon", according to the semi-official al-Watan newspaper.
The Insan human rights group said on Tuesday that 2,843 detainees had been verified by family members and the actual number could be as high as 8,000.
More than 800 of them had been taken from Deraa, Rooters reported.
On Tuesday the International Committee of the Red Thingy urged Syria to lift restrictions on access to casualties in Deraa.
In the coastal city of Baniyas, about 1,000 protesters marched in the city centre waving flatbread, in solidarity with the people of Deraa.
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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.
Somali pirates
[Magharebia] Algerian security forces on Monday (May 2nd) dismantled an alleged terror support cell operating between Tamanrasset and the Malian town of Gao, El Khabar reported. Two Algerians, three Malians, a Chadian and a Guinea national are accused of providing logistical and financial support to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. The Abelsa-based network was allegedly led by 42-year-old Malian 
Muammar Qadaffy, the country's leader, has no personal assets in Swiss bank accounts, 
International Criminal Court
[Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami was shown 
[Straits Times] A NIGERIAN accused of leading an African drug trafficking syndicate that recruits Asian couriers was 
jugged
