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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Sela Ward aka Janet in "The Man Who Loved Women" aka Cheryl Ann Wayne in "Nothing in Common" aka Helen Kimble in "The Fugitive (1993 film)" aka Billie Auster in "54" aka Dr. Lucy Hall in "The Day After Tomorrow" aka Helen Randall in "The Guardian" aka Susan Kerns Harding in "The Stepfather" aka Jo Danville in "CSI: NY" (age 55)
[Tolo News] A top provincial government official in Western Badghis province was killed on Sunday after a roadside kaboom hit his vehicle on the way to Qala-e-Naw, officials said.
Confirming the death of Moqur district chief Mohammad Dawood, Deputy Governor of Badghis said seven others; including five coppers and two civilians were maimed in the incident.
The incident took place as seven members of a bomb disposal team, who were kidnapped in western Farah province, were found beheaded.
The deminers were kidnapped on Wednesday in a district in western Farah province.
On Sunday 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... also announced the death of three service members in Taliban attacks in south eastern parts of the country and in a separate incident in southern Kandahar province three Afghan coppers were killed.
Sunday has been described the deadliest since the beginning of this month.
The incidents follow the death of two NATO service members in a single shot by an Afghan intelligence officer in northern Panjshir province on Saturday.
The casualties took place as US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta, the new Pentagon Chief succeeding Robert Gates, is discussing security transition to officials in Kabul on a surprise visit to Afghanistan.A top provincial government official in Western Badghis province was killed on Sunday after a roadside kaboom hit his vehicle on the way to Qala-e-Naw, officials said.
Confirming the death of Moqur district chief Mohammad Dawood, Deputy Governor of Badghis said seven others; including five coppers and two civilians were maimed in the incident.
The incident took place as seven members of a bomb disposal team, who were kidnapped in western Farah province, were found beheaded.
The deminers were kidnapped on Wednesday in a district in western Farah province.
On Sunday NATO also announced the death of three service members in Taliban attacks in south eastern parts of the country and in a separate incident in southern Kandahar province three Afghan coppers were killed.
Sunday has been described the deadliest since the beginning of this month.
The incidents follow the death of two NATO service members in a single shot by an Afghan intelligence officer in northern Panjshir province on Saturday.
The casualties took place as US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta, the new Pentagon Chief succeeding Robert Gates, is discussing security transition to officials in Kabul on a surprise visit to Afghanistan.
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I think its just terrible that the Head Boopkiss of Raunchipur and a carload of his IRS were shifted abruptly to the great Moslem beyond by a mechanism full of black powder and marbles.
Why doesnt the UN issue a fatwa? Ask Senator Kerry to get right on this. He can use the media coverage.
Unless "somebody" does something it JUST MIGHT happen again. It is a Moslem country ( they are all such happy, prosperous and friendly places) and accidents do seem to happen to the Boopkisses and his faithful Fellaheen and anyone else named Mustapha ( for some reason). Wear your hat ( turban) and clean underwear, there, Achmed.
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Yes, yes, Mr. de Medici. You don't like Muslims or Democrats. We get that. Now can you please add something useful and informative? At this point you've reached "cotton candy for the brain" status, much like the $2 romance novels I don't read.
At least three Afghan coppers were killed and two others were hurt in a kaboom in southern Kandahar province on Sunday, local officials said.
The incident occurred at 08:00 am local time in Kandahar city when a bomb that was planted in a wall went kaboom!. Three civilians were also maimed in the blast, Gen. Abdul Raziq Achekzai, police chief told TOLOnews news hound.
Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. It smelled phony... officials in Kandahar hospital said that three bodies of Afghan coppers were in the hospital.
Officials said three coppers and three civilians including children were maimed in the blast.
No groups including the Taliban have grabbed credit for the blast.
Militants use Improvised Explosive Devices to target Afghan and foreign forces in the country, but civilians are most often the main victims of such attacks.
Violence has recently increased in southern Kandahar province where gunnies have been active in most villages.
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[Dawn] Seven de-miners kidnapped in western Afghanistan have been beheaded by their abductors, police said Sunday, as 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... announced the deaths of three soldiers in Taliban attacks.
The seven were part of a group of 28 de-miners who were snatched on Wednesday in a district that is the focus of the Taliban insurgency in Farah province, but no one has grabbed credit for the mass kidnapping.
"Seven of the de-miners are beheaded. We have recovered the body of one of them and the rest of the bodies are with tribal elders," said Mohammad Ghaws Malyar, the Farah provincial deputy police chief.
He said the fate of the other de-miners who were taken in the Bala Buluk district was unknown.
Criminal groups and Orcs and similar vermin have repeatedly kidnapped dozens of Afghans and foreigners since a 2001 US-led invasion ousted the Taliban regime, but most are eventually freed for ransom or in exchange for the release of prisoners.
The de-miners were working for the Demining Agency for Afghanistan, an Afghan charity based in the southern province of Kandahar.
In a similar incident in December, 18 Afghans working for the Mine Detection Center were kidnapped in the eastern province of Khost ...which coincidentally borders North Wazoo and Kurram Agency... , which borders Pakistain, and were freed unharmed a day later in a joint Afghan-foreign operation.
Also Sunday, three NATO soldiers and three coppers were killed in bomb and cut-thoat attacks in the restive south and east, as the top US commander in the country said the overall number of cut-thoat attacks had decreased this summer.
NATO said one coalition soldier died following an cut-thoat attack and another was killed in a bomb kaboom in the south, while a third service member died after another cut-thoat attack in the east.
In southern Kandahar city, three Afghan coppers were killed, while three coppers and three civilians were maimed, in a roadside kaboom blast that destroyed a police vehicle, provincial police chief Abdul Raziqtold AFP.
Sunday's incidents brought the overall corpse count for foreign forces to 293 this year in Afghanistan, according to a tally based on that collated by the independent website iCasualties.org.
Overall, however, General David Petraeus said attacks were down by "a few per cent" for May and June, the beginning of the traditional annual fighting season, although he said the number of homemade bomb kabooms had risen.
"June saw fewer cut-thoat attacks than last June and that's quite significant and May was quite the same," he said.
"So you have the first two months of comparison with the previous year is actually a reduction. July is trending that way. That is very significant," he told news hounds in the Afghan capital Kabul.
Intelligence analysts had predicted a rise in cut-thoat attacks of 18 to 30 per cent on last year, Petraeus said, while he cautioned that it was too early to declare the insurgency had been significantly hit.
Petraeus made his comments as he prepares to leave his post this month and as US and other coalition forces prepare to begin a gradual drawdown of combat troops, with all due to go home by the end of 2014.
US President Barack B.O. Obama has announced the withdrawal of the first 10,000 of nearly 100,000 US forces from Afghanistan this year, with another 23,000 to leave by the end of next summer.
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Too much Damn work, we plant them,amd they dig them up.
Hmmm, we can fix this.(Taliban)
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I'm under the impression that at least some of those mines date back to the Soviet period, Redneck Jim.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission in Somalia (Amisom) held a "very successful" seminar in the Rwandan capital that brought together experts on international and humanitarian law with the aim of enhancing the protection of civilians as the AU battles cut-throats in Mogadishu.
Says Mr Wafula Wamunyinyi, the deputy Special Representative of the AU in Somalia: "What we require now is the political will. What we decided here will have to be approved by the leadership of the African Union.''
Earlier, addressing the meeting, Mr Boubacar Diarra, the AU's special representative in Somalia said: "We went to Somalia to help dialogue and reconciliation and to help in delivery of humanitarian assistance but we face groups that don't agree with the model of democracy we want to instal in Somalia.''
In a discussion that got a lot of inputs from experts, among them Mr Walter Lotze, an AU adviser on peace-keeping and Ms Funmi Vogt, of the King's College London, African Leadership Centre, the AU's current mandate was dissected and the bad news was that despite the fact that its troops are offering humanitarian assistance to displaced persons in Mogadishu - the Somali capital - the mandate under which the force was created by the UN in 2007 did not specifically authorise its officers to help civilians.
It is now the duty of the AU's peace and Security Council to come up with guidelines for the protection of civilians.
Said Mr Diarra: "We want our peacekeepers to know their duty and responsibility to the Somali people. We deal with an environment where the protection of civilians is important.''
The meeting noted that 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... , the radical group battling the country's transitional federal government, engaged in provocative action, but it was the duty of Amisom peacekeepers not to fall in this trap.
The gathering was told of the setting up "no fire zones'' in which Amisom peacekeepers would avoid hitting back if al-Shabaab fired from any populated area such as Bakara market or a mosque.
Amisom's political officer James Nagin said: "Somalis need gainful employment, they need to put food on the table.''
He disclosed that 1.4 million Somalis were internally displaced and living in camps while 600,000 others were in refugee camps in neighbouring Kenya, Djibouti and Ethiopia. Some Somalis have been living in camps for the past 20 years.
Mr Nagin said Amisom's mandate in Somalia was to facilitate dialogue among various groups and to protect the transitional federal government and its institutions, but before it can protect Somalis, it must first protect its own soldiers.
He said: "We are not in Somalia to fight al-Shabaab. For our force commanders, it is a big dilemma if your troops are attacked and you don't respond.''
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I sggest "Shoot on Sight" anything else is a waste of timw, they do.
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Probably a precondition to getting UN or other international funding.
The Sen. Leahy "I'm concerned about human rights" schtick...
[An Nahar] The army has stopped a pickup truck loaded with contraband arms near Egypt's border with Libya, the scene of an armed revolt since February, the state news agency MENA reported on Sunday.
It said the vehicle was intercepted around 90 kilometers south of the Salloum border post but the driver managed to flee.
Grad missiles, anti-tank shells and rocket launchers were among the weapons, according to MENA.
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"Yawn", again?
Why not blast them from the air and be done with them?
Should be a nice secondary.
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[An Nahar] Libya's rebel council issued a blunt warning to neighboring Algeria on Sunday, insisting that it must "stop supporting Qadaffy," as tensions between the North African countries bubbled to the surface.
Abdul Hafiz Ghoga, vice president of Libya's National Transitional Council, accused Algeria of supporting Moammar Qadaffy militarily in the early days of the near five-month-long war, and that it continued to support him politically.
"Our only response to Algeria is: stop supporting Qadaffy and stop helping him terrorize and kill innocent civilians and our loved ones," he said.
Algeria has not officially recognized the rebel council, nor has it called for Qadaffy to go.
"(Qadaffy) had military air support from Algeria" said Ghoga, recalling the early days of the war, adding that 4x4 vehicles had also crossed the border in support of Qadaffy forces.
"We hoped that the Algerian regime had learned its lesson and stopped these acts," he said, without giving details about current levels of support.
The two countries share a massive and mostly non-existent border in the Sahara, and tensions appear to have heightened because Algiers backed an African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... peace plan that would leave Qadaffy in power.
Although Algeria has complied with U.N. resolutions by freezing any assets held in Algeria by him, his relatives and cronies, it has backed directives from the African Union and Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... which have both withheld recognition of the rebels.
Ghoga said the council had no problems with the Algerian people, and hoped for more positive relations in future.
"We don't have a problem with the Algerian people, and our relationship with our Algerian brothers will be good and solid after Qadaffy steps down," he said.
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[Straits Times] FORCES loyal to Muammar Qadaffy launched a counter-attack on Sunday against rebel advance positions southwest of Tripoli, an AFP correspondent said, as rebels cut off an oil pipeline used to supply the Libyan strongman's forces.
Loyalist troops fired half a dozen Grad rockets ...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km.... into the hamlet of Gualish 50km from the capital, and the rebels replied with anti-tank fire as they sought to hold a key gateway to Tripoli they seized on Wednesday.
Just hours before the government attack, 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... warplanes bombed positions in the area, the correspondent said. A colonel in the rebel forces said the raid struck near Asablah, 17km from Gualish.
In its daily update, the Western military alliance said its planes carried out 48 strike sorties on Saturday, with the focus on the port of Misrata. The rebels on Sunday cut off an oil pipeline they said was used to supply Qadaffy's forces in the west. Around 20 rebels shut off the valves of the pipeline to Zuwarah refinery near Khamassa.
'The oil belongs to all Libyans, not Qadaffy. He will no longer be able to use it against us,' one rebel was heard telling loyalist forces by telephone. Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a meeting. It was to be his last... rebel troops advancing into the loyalist stronghold of Zliten said on Sunday they lost one fighter and had 32 maimed by landmines laid by Qadaffy's retreating troops.
Insurgents pressing out westward from the long-besieged city of Misrata said the ordnance was laid by Qadaffy loyalists falling back from their positions around Zliten. Zliten, once considered a bastion of Qadaffy forces, is a key link on the road from rebel-held Misrata to Tripoli.
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[Emirates 24/7] Authorities say 17 people died during a military and police operation against radical sect members in the country's restive northeast.
Maj. Gen. Jack Nwachukwu Nwaogbo told journalists in the city of Maiduguri on Sunday that six people and 11 suspected members of a Mohammedan sect locally known as Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or Big Louie... were killed during an operation on Saturday evening. He declined to comment on how they died.
Witness Usman Abdullahi says soldiers shot at people in the streets after accusing them of being sect members.
Nwaogbo said the operation was a response to a sect attack that maimed five soldiers.
Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is sacrilege" in the local Hausa language, is responsible for a rash of killings targeting security officers, local leaders and holy mans in the area over the last year.
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maybe the Nigerian govt. sees around the world what the Muhammadean sects bring with them! kill them all before i have too hear them scream allah akbar at every damn thing on the net
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[Al Jazeera] Muammar Qadaffy's administration is in talks with the French government, one of the Libyan leader's son has said in an interview with an Algerian newspaper.
"The truth is that we are negotiating with La Belle France and not with the rebels," the El Khabar quoted Saif al-Islamas saying from Tripoli, the Libyan capital.
"Our envoy to [Nicolas] Sarkozy said that the French president was very clear and told him 'We created the [rebel] council, and without our support, and money, and our weapons, the council would have never existed'," the newspaper quoted Saif al-Islam as saying.
"La Belle France said: 'When we reach an agreement with [Tripoli], we will force the council to cease fire'," the newspaper quoted Qadaffy's son as saying.
The comments were published on Monday a few hours after Gerard Longuet, the French defence minister, said in a television interview that it was time for the rebel National Transitional Council to come to the negotiating table with Qadaffy's administration.
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Germany to other NATO members "Keep fighting, keep fighting, remember it's in a glorious "humanitarian' cause, while we rake in the big bucks. "We're in the money" Exports Booming for German Weapons Manufacturers
[Yemen Post] Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has expanded its operations in Abyan province after local tribal elders offered Death Eaters facilities and protection, the Yemeni embassy in Washington said on Saturday.
The embassy said in a statement that AQAP took advantage of the fragile situation in Yemen amid continuous protests and insecurity to expand its military operations against the army in the southern province.
The army has been battling Islamists who took control of some cities in Abyan for more than a month. Many civilians have been killed and injured and thousands decamped to nearby provinces due to the confrontations.
Tribal elders colluded with AQAP through sheltering and protecting its members as well as enabling the group to recruit new members to fight the army there, the statement said.
Tribal elders don't cooperate with the current military operation to stop terrorists, it said, pointing out that almost 70 soldiers and officers have been killed and more than 300 others injured since mid-March.
The army has killed at least 50 Death Eaters and injured tens of them as the battles are continuing in Zinjbar, Jaar and other cities inAbyan, it said.
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[Yemen Post] Scores of antigovernment protesters were maimed when the security forces and regime supporters intercepted a peaceful demonstration in Yemen's western province of Hodeida on Sunday.
Local sources said that the pro-government forces and people intercepted the demonstration, which started the people's square and headed to Sana'a Street, and attacked protesters with live bullets, teargas, batons, rocks and daggers.
At the beginning, the regime supporters attacked the protesters with rocks, batons and daggers and then the security forces fired live bullets and teargas at them, they said.
At least twenty protesters were seriously injured due to live bullets, beating and stones, and scores of others suffered teargas inhalation, they said.
The demonstrators erupted into the streets to reject international and regional interventions in Yemen chanting slogans refusing the U.S. and Saudi mandate.
In the past few days, massive demonstrations have been held in Yemeni cities to condemn regional and international positions towards what is happening in Yemen and reject any mandate affecting the popular youth-led uprising.
Separately, the Joint Meeting Parties, the opposition coalition, has urged the youth-led protesters at the squares of change and freedom in all Yemeni cities to escalate their revolution to oust the remaining rogue gang of the Saleh regime.
Praising the six-month strife of the people, the coalition urged the protesters to unite, align and double their effort to put an end to the continuous aggressions of this rogue gang against the people, pointing to the attacks of the elite republican guard in some cities including Taiz and Sana'a.
The elite republican guard is killing, displacing and terrifying thousands of families including children and women in Yemeni cities as the rogue gang of the Saleh regime continues to hold power against the choice the Yemeni people, the coalition said.
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[Yemen Post] President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... met on Sunday with John Brennan, chief counterterrorism advisor to U.S. President Barack B.O. Obama.
At the meeting in Soddy Arabia where President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... has been treated for injuries after a rocket attack on his palace last month, Sale received a letter from his U.S. counterpart congratulating him for recovery and expressing the U.S readiness to support Yemen economically, its efforts in the fight against terrorism and to overcome the current crisis.
In his second appearance in the past few days, Saleh looked in good health and better than the first time when he appeared charred burned and his entire body wrapped and laid to a chair during a televised speech.
The Defense Ministry also said that Brennan called on Saleh to sign a deal to transfer power as soon as possible.
Saleh said "Ymmmtphajj! Bjmmoggghsittt! Yrrrghhhvvgiuy!"
that the suspended GCC-brokered power transfer deal, which he had backed out of its signing three times at the last minute, and the UN declaration represent the best exit from the current crisis in Yemen.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... he said that any power transfer should take place democratically and under the constitution.
In his speech on Thursday, Saleh said he had eight successful surgeries including those for burns he got in the attack that injured almost 87 bigwigs and killed 11 of his guards.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Thousands of Islamist activists, armed with stones and sticks, blocked roads with burning tyres, damaged vehicles and clashed with police yesterday, virtually turning Kanchpur, Panchabati and Fatullah in Narayanganj into battle zones on the first day of the 30-hour countrywide hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... .
An alliance of 12 Islamist parties is enforcing the shutdown to protest "restoration of secularism" in the constitution.
Police responded with tear gas shells and rubber bullets as some of the rampaging activists attacked the law enforcers and snatched from them a pistol, a shotgun and a wireless set, and smashed those.
The violence that flared in the busy industrial areas of Narayanganj district left over 120 people injured, including 17 coppers who were attacked by pro-hartal activists, police and witnesses said.
The main opposition BNP and its ally Jamaat-e-Islami are supporting the hartal protesting the recent constitutional amendment that restored secularism as a state principle and removed the phrase "Absolute Faith and Trust on the Almighty Allah."
The protest came even though the constitution has retained Islam as the state religion and Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim.
Barring these festivities, the hartal was largely ignored by people who went to work as usual. Traffic in the capital was near normal yesterday unlike the mostly empty streets seen during the 48-hour hartal enforced by BNP and Jamaat on July 6 and 7.
The violence in Narayanganj was led by Islami Andolan Bangladesh ...a minor Islamist party which in the days of Bangla Bhai served as a recruiting agency for the JMB... (IAB). Its activists, most of them local madrasa students, began gathering in the areas since early morning. Many of them squatted on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway stranding many vehicles on both sides of Kanchpur bridge. The marauding activists also smashed many vehicles.
Police picked up at least 228 activists mainly from IAB and Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish from Fatullah and Kanchpur in Narayanganj, Dhaka city, Chittagong, Pabna and Patuakhali, the police headquarters said.
In Fatullah, IAB activists, most of them local madrasa students, beat up 12 cops after confining them for about half an hour, snatched a shotgun, a pistol and damaged a wireless set from them. They also injured two TV cameramen. Police recovered the snatched the arms after four hours.
At 7:15am, around 2,000 IAB activists who came from different local madrasas including Madaninagar Madrasa blocked Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Kanchpur and Panchabati with large sticks. They burned tyres and vandalised at least 17 vehicles.
Police intervened when the activists went on rampage and started smashing vehicles indiscriminately. Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas shells, and used batons to disperse the activists, witnesses said.
At one stage, pro-Awami League motor vehicle workers and AL supporters also joined the law enforcers and attacked the IAB activists.
In counter attacks, the IAB activists also severely beat up several cops including Additional Superintendent of Police of Narayanganj Saidur Rahman and snatched his wireless set. He was admitted to Square Hospital in the capital.
Three other severely injured cops were later admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Traffic movement halted for about four hours on Dhaka-Chittagong highway and Dhaka-Sylhet highway. Commuters faced untold sufferings during the clash as many people were seen walking to reach the capital from Kanchpur and Fatullah.
Also yesterday, mobile courts incarcerated and fined over 58 "picketers" across the country for disrupting peace.
Police picked up 47 hartal supporters from the port city of Chittagong.
In the capital, police picked up at least 25 people from Paltan, Lalbagh and Mirpur areas during the shutdown.
In Narsingdi, Police jugged 33 local leaders and activists of IAB during the hartal hours.
Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind... the police authorities have formed a three-member committee to investigate picketers' attack on police during yesterday's hartal hours in Fatulla of Narayanganj that left 15 coppers including an additional ASP injured.
Narayanganj Superintendent of Police (SP) Sheikh Nazmul Alam told journalists the committee headed by Additional Superintendent of Special Branch of Police Giashuddin Ahmed has been asked to submit its report within three days.
The probe body has to find out if police showed negligence in their duty during the incident, and the reasons behind the attack on the law enforcers, he added.
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For a map, click here. For a map of Michoacan, click here.
By Chris Covert
A total of 1,800 Mexican Policia Federal (PF) troops have been deployed to Michoacan in the largest build-up of PF troops in Mexico so far this year, according an announcement in the Secretaria de Seguridad Publica (SSP) website Saturday afternoon.
The news bulletin also mentioned similar additional troops are being deployed to Michoacan, but none of the other Mexican defense agencies have thus far released any information about their specific deployments.
The PF reinforcement includes about 170 vehicles including armored cars, 15 ambulances and four helicopters, including US made Blackhawk utility and Russian made MI-17Sh helicopters.
Although no specifics have been announced about the build-up. SSP officials must be concerned about the increasing number and power of attacks by Los Zetas and Caballeros de los Templarios drug cartel against against Mexican security forces as well as rival drug gangs in the past month.
At least three attacks have come on the heels of the conclusion of a major counternarcotics offensive in June in the nearby state of Jalisco and in Zacatecas where Mexican Army and Marine units seized drugs and weapons,and disrupted drug cartel activities in the area. To read the Rantburg report on the Mexican counternarcotics offensives in June click here (fourth item) and here (8th thru 12th item).
On June 19th on the eve of a FIFA Under 17 soccer tournament in Morelia, nine individuals were found tortured and shot to death and several roads in and around Morelia were blocked by 15 hijacked heavy vehicles. The murders and the blocks were initiated by the Caballeros de los Templarios drug cartel.
To see the Rantburg report on the Morelia murders and the roadblocks, click here.
On July 2nd, a Policia Federal group housed in n office builiding in La Piedad in far northern Michoacan was attacked by as many as 50 armed suspects aboard 10 vehicles. The ensuing firefight lasted for 30 minutes and cost three armed suspects their lives. The attack was said to be the work of Los Zetas.
To read the Rantburg report on the La Piedad, Michoacan armed attack, click here.
On July 6th, 11 armed suspects were killed by Policia Federal units in two firefights near Apatzingan. Shortly after the conclusion of the gunfights, several roads in central Michoacan were blocked using hijacked heavy vehicles. As many as three civilians may have been killed in the blocking campaign. The criminal action was credited to the Caballeros de los Templarios drug cartel. To read the Rantburg report on the Apatzingan firefights and roadblock campaign, click here.
Policia Federal deployments in metropolitan areas in Mexico such as the La Laguna region of Mexico which includes Torreon, Coahuila-Gomez Palacio, Durango and in Monterrey, Nuevoleon typically includes troops numbering as many as 300. PF has in the past rotated whole deployments of PF effectives in and out of metropolitan areas when they have suffered sharp reverses or are under stress.
For example in Juarez, Chihuahua last year an entire deployment of 300 Mexican Federal agetns were rotated out and replced by another unit following a near mutiny led by subordinate commanders last August.
The last known full deployment of PF troops in northern Mexico took place in the summer of 2010 when 300 Policia Federal troops were deployed to Torreon, Coahuila.
The largest last known deployment of any security forces occurred last May when more than 1,000 Mexican soldiers were deployed to Torreon, Coahuila by land and air. To read the Rantburg report on the May, 2011 Mexican Army deployment to Torreon, Coahuila, click here.
National politics may have played a role in such a massive reinforcement. The Michoacan 2011 gubernaotorial elections take place in November to replace current Partido Revolucion Democratica (PRD) Leonel Godoy Rangel, whose terms ends this year.
The candidate for Partido Accion Nacional (PAN) is Luisa Calderon Hinojosa, the sister of Mexican president Felipe Calderon.
The PRD has held the governor's seat for six years, but while a PAN pickup here would be a shot in the arm for PAN's flagging fortunes, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), fresh from gubernatorial, legislative and municipal electoral sweeps of Nayarit, Mexico state and Coahuila, is regarded as more likely to take control with a win.
The PRI candidate for Michoacan governor is VÃÂctor Manuel Silva Tejeda, while the PRD candidate is Raul Moron Orozco.
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Linguistics: While the name "Caballeros de los Templarios", is the "Knights Templar" cartel, the word "Caballero", is closer to "horseman" than "knight".
Etymology that I can find:
1877, "a Spanish gentleman," from Sp., from L. caballarius, from caballus "a pack-horse, nag, hack."
In the later Roman Empire the classical Latin word for horse, equus, was replaced in common parlance by vulgar Latin caballus, sometimes thought to derive from Gaulish caballos. From caballus arose terms in the various Romance languages cognate to the (French-derived) English cavalier: Old Italian cavaliere, Italian cavallo, French cheval, Spanish caballero, French chevalier, Portuguese cavaleiro, Romanian cavaler.
The Germanic languages prefer terms cognate to the English word rider: German Ritter, and Dutch and Scandinavian ridder.
Knight, on the other hand:
O.E. cniht "boy, youth, servant," common W.Gmc. (cf. O.Fris. kniucht, Du. knecht, M.H.G. kneht "boy, youth, lad,"
Ger. Knecht "servant, bondman, vassal"), of unknown origin. Meaning "military follower of a king or other superior" is from c.1100.
Began to be used in a specific military sense in Hundred Years War (14th-15th Century), and gradually rose in importance through M.E. period until it became a rank in the nobility.
However, this creates a problem because by the time of the conquest, a military knight was the equivalent of "regular army", but conquistadors were generally volunteer militia.
This suggests that the use of caballero as a knight is a more recent invention, from when the regular Spanish army occupied their parts of the Americas.
However, this creates its own linguistic problem, as by this time, the Spanish army was both very regimented and hierarchical, as well as administratively modern. So only lower ranking cavalry enlisted would be called caballeros, with higher ranking personnel referred to by rank.
This is half a world removed from the Knights Templar of the 12th through 14th Centuries.
[Emirates 24/7] Two servicemen and 13 civilians died in a series of blasts that rocked the outskirts of the capital of Turkmenistan last week, the official state news agency said. ... and if you can't believe the state news agency who can you believe? on Sunday.
The corpse count was the first reported by the reclusive Central Asian state since Thursday's mystery kabooms, which members of the Turkmen opposition living abroad said may have killed some 200 people.
Turkmenistan's TDH news agency said the initial blast went off at a fireworks storage facility, with the blazes then spreading to a munitions dump.
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A fireworks storage facility next to a munitions dump?
I hesitate to ask, but is anybody really that stupid?
Perhaps there were two fireworks storage facilities, or two munitions dumps?
Lot of exploding to kill two hundred people when they're not supposed to be hear the place(s).
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Lot of exploding to kill two hundred people
Maybe one of the buildings in question was a 'mosque'.
A bomb attack targeted a public meeting due to be addressed by a Pakistani cabinet minister in the northwest on Monday, killing five people and wounding more than 20, officials said.
Amir Muqam, minister without portfolio from the Pakistan Muslim League-Q party, had not yet arrived at the venue when the bomb exploded in a town near the Swat valley where the Taliban once led a two-year insurgency.
"We had informed the local administration some time ago and there should have been proper security arrangements in place," Muqam told Geo television after the attack in Batgram, about 65 kilometres (40 miles) northeast of Swat.
"Five people, including two policemen, were killed and more than 20 others injured," top local administration official Khalid Khan Omarzai told AFP.
"It is not clear whether it was a suicide attack or a planted device, but the target was definitely the public meeting," he added.
Local MP Shah Hussain confirmed the casualties and said that the five bodies were brought to a local hospital.
Muqam said he would visit the wounded.
"I'll certainly go there and see what happened. I'll also go to the hospital to meet the injured people. I'm not satisfied with the arrangements made for the public meeting," he told Geo.
Almost simultaneously, an accidental explosion ripped through an arms depot just outside the capital Islamabad, injuring three people and bringing down the roof of a small barracks, police said.
Pakistani Taliban, other militant affiliates and Al-Qaeda-linked networks all have strongholds in the country's northwest, particularly in the semi-autonomous areas on the Afghan border.
[Dawn] Three members of a banned orc organization were killed when a tribal lashkar attacked their positions in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency on Saturday, sources said.
Local sources said that proscribed orc organization Lashkar-i-Islam (LI) suffered casualties and lost two of its strategic hilltops in Bhukar and Nari Baba areas when Zakhakhel tribal lashkar launched fresh attacks on its positions.
They said that at least four members of the orc outfit were made hostages by the volunteers of tribal lashkar and injured two of its supporters. The captured hilltops included Khazana Morcha and Torwat, both famous hashish producing areas, and were under the control of LI for the last six years.
In Chora village of Jamrud tehsil, the Zakhakhel lashkar raided some houses of LI supporters and made four of them captives while also seized three pick-up vehicles.
Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. It smelled phony... the residents of Chora also raised a peace lashkar comprising 100 local armed volunteers and issued warning to LI sympathisers to leave the area within one week.
Headed by Essa Khan, the peace lashkar that is consisted of Jandakhel-Malikdinkhel tribe, met the commandant of Khyber Rifles in army camp in Landi Kotal on Saturday and assured him of full support against the banned orc outfits.
Chora remained under the control of LI till Zakhakhel lashkar revolted against it in April this year.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed this guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... a child was injured and a tubewell was partially damaged when an bomb went off in a village in Tor Chappar area of Darra Adamkhel on Saturday.
Hameed, the 11-year-old injured boy, was shifted to a local hospital for treatment. Doctors said that he was in stable, pH balanced condition. The blast also damaged the boundary wall of a tubewell, officials said.They said that Kohiwal village was comparatively peaceful as no terrorist activity had been reported in the area for the last one year.
The blast occurred in broad daylight that surprised administration and residents of the area because faceless myrmidons always conducted such activities during night, they said.
Security forces cordoned off the area and collected evidence but no suspect was incarcerated.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... a police constable was injured when a Kalashnikov was mistakenly fired by the in-charge of ammunition store in Thall tehsil of Kohat division on Saturday.
Sources said that Ibrar, a police constable, deposited his Kalashnikov with in-charge of store Khalid. The constable had removed magazine but the in-charge did not know that a bullet had been left in the chamber of the rifle. The rifle was fired after he accidentally pressed the trigger, they said.
The SHO of Thall cop shoppe, Sher Bahadar Khan, told Dawn that the injured policeman, who received bullet under his left shoulder, was taken to hospital where he would stay for few days.
He said that the incident was an accident therefore no report had been registered as the victim had no grievances against the in-charge of the store.
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[Dawn] Security forces intensified their crackdown against snuffies in the Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... and Upper Dir on Saturday, claiming killing 21 of the fighters.
Four security personnel were maimed in Kurram. The official claim about snuffies casualties could not be verified from independent sources.
In Kurram, the forces hit back at the snuffies after coming under an attack in Shoorkot area, and in Upper Dir they struck at hideouts along the border with Afghanistan as part of an operation launched after the snuffies fired at a fortification of a paramilitary unit earlier this week.
Landmines, rockets, mortar shells and ammunition were seized from hideouts of snuffies in Murghan and Manato areas of central Kurram Agency, officials said.
Backed by tanks and helicopter gunships, security forces strengthened their positions in the mountainous region. An artillery shell hit the house of one Gulab Khan in Zakhai area, killing four civilians, including three women.
Sources said that snuffies fled the Alisherzai area after troops launched a search operation there. Rockets, mortar shells, landmines and ammunition were recovered from the hideouts of snuffies in Murghan and Manato, officials said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hoedown, Bob finally got to dance with Sally... thousands of the residents of the conflict-hit zone moved to lower Kurram and the adjacent Hangu district ... Hangu is famous for its greenery, hills, beauty and water. Most of the people of this area are Bangash & Orakzai Pashtuns. Part of the Bangash are Shia. The Orakzai and the Sunni Bangash are determined to kill them...
The Fata Disaster Management Authority (FDMA) registered 680 families at the New Durrani Camp near Sadda.Witnesses said that families displaced by the fighting had arrived in Doaba and Tora Warai areas in Hangu where they were waiting for relief assistance.
A resident of the affected area, Zakir Khan, said that 3,500 people had shifted to Hangu and urgently needed food, water and other items.
The FDMA said that a makeshift school was opened at New Durrani Camp where six volunteers were teaching 200 children. It said tents were required for classrooms.
DIR OFFENSIVE: Eleven snuffies were killed in Upper Dir district on Saturday as security forces moved ahead with the offensive they launched in areas along the Pakistain-Afghanistan border two days ago, raising the toll to 30.
The operation was launched after snuffies carried out an attack in Nusrat Darra recently, officials said.
The sources said that security forces shelled the villages of Shahteez, Sunrai and Nusrat Darra where Talibs were believed to be hiding.
Tension mounted after two people were kidnapped by snuffies from Shahteez.
The snuffies have demanded handing over of the bodies of two associates who were killed on Wednesday and threatened the villagers with more attacks.
The warning has forced the people of Shahteez, Nusrat Darra and Sunrai to leave their homes and shift to safe places. Several families from these villages have arrived in the town of Barawal.
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[Dawn] At least two Shia Mohammedans and one other man were killed when a gunman opened fire in an apparent sectarian attack in southwest Pakistain on Sunday, police said.
The shooting took place on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of oil and gas-rich Balochistan province, which borders Afghanistan and Iran.
"A gunman opened fire on two Shia Mohammedans and one of their companions, who were riding two cycle of violences. All the three men died of their wounds on reaching hospital," local police official Ameer Dashti told AFP.
The gunman -- who had been standing beside the road -- beat feet after what appeared to have been a targeted sectarian killing, he said. A local intelligence official also confirmed the incident and casualties.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Balochistan is rife with religious militancy, sectarian violence between majority Sunni and minority Shia Mohammedans, and a regional insurgency waged by separatists.
Shia Mohammedans account for around a fifth of Pakistain's 167-million-strong population, which is dominated by Sunni Mohammedans.
Thousands of people have died in sectarian attacks since the late 1980s.
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Pakistan has turned into a bowl that needs to be flush.
The United States is holding back some military aid to Pakistain, President Barack B.O. Obama's chief of staff confirmed Sunday, after a New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... report said $800 million was being withheld.
"They've taken some steps that have given us reason to pause on some of the aid which we're giving to the military, and we're trying to work through that," William Daley told ABC's "This Week with Ace newshound Christiane Amanpour."
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry Clay ... had warned last month that the United States could slow down US military aid to Pakistain unless it took unspecified steps to help the United States.
There has been increasing pressure in Washington on the B.O. regime Washington, which provided $2.7 billion in security assistance last year to Islamabad, to hold back on aid.
Growing concerns over collusion with beturbanned goon groups since it emerged in early May that al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who no longer has to waste time and energy breathing... was hiding out in a garrison city near Islamabad has been compounded by recent accusations that Pakistain's intelligence services approved a journalist's killing.
According to The New York Times, about $800 million in military aid and equipment, or over one-third of the more than $2 billion in annual US security assistance to Pakistain, could be affected by the suspension.
Asked by ABC about the report, Daley did not dispute the figures and confirmed that some military aid was now being withheld.
"The truth of the matter is, our relationship with Pakistain is very complicated," he said.
"Obviously there's still a lot of pain that the political system in Pakistain is feeling by virtue of the raid that we did to get Osama bin Laden.
Something that the president felt strongly about. We have no regrets over.
"The Pak relationship is difficult, but it must be made to work over time. But until we get through these difficulties, we'll hold back some of the money that the American taxpayers have committed to give." The New York Times said the suspended aid included about $300 million to reimburse Pakistain for some of the costs of deploying more than 100,000 soldiers along the Afghan border, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars in training assistance and military hardware.
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Better to spend that 800 million elsewhere, the PAK army has been getting fat off our taxes.
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* BHARAT RAKSHAK > LESS US MILITARY AID HARMS [US-Pak Diplomatic]RELATIONS, NOT TSPA, aka Pak Army.
ARTIC > Pert AYESHA SIDDIQUA = Cutbacks in US military aid, while perceived as unlikely to alter the broader Pak anti-Terror strategy, may result in the Pakistan Military + heavily Military-influenced/dominated Pak Govt. to do the opposite of US desires by negotiating wid the Insurgents, not fighting them; Pakistan to no longer be seen as fighting "America's War" - however, be that it may the US recognizes that Pakistan is ECON INSOLVENT + BADLY NEEDS THE US $$$ TO MEET BOTH NATIONAL + ANTI-TERROR, ETC. REQUIREMENTS.
* SAME > EXPERTS: US AID "SNUB' TO PAKISTAN A BLOW TO AMERICA. By America, agz America + agz seemingly its own WOT per on-going anti-Militant AFPAK efforts, espec as related to US strategic
objectives + 2014 withdrawal deadline.
* SAME > US SETS TERMS FOR [Pakistan = Pak Mil]AID RESUMPTION. US seeks better or improved US-Pak cooper/collaboration as per selective categories i.e. Counter-Terrorism, Counter-Insurgency, + INTEL collection-sharing.
* SAME > MADE IN US DISASTER. India must unilaterally prepare itself for any + all possible scenarios, consequences.
* SAME > JUI CHIEF: QUICK EXIT [premature] OF US TROOPS FROM AFGHANISTAN WILL ONCE AGAIN CREATE CONDITIONS FOR [new] CIVIL WAR IN COUNTRY | US TROOPS DRAWDOWN INSUFFICIENT FOR [long-term = effective]AFGHAN + REGIONAL STABILITY.
versus
* SAME > [Pakistan] ISI ASKS CIA TO SIGN FORMAL ACCORD RULING OUT FUTURE ATTACKS INSIDE PAKISTAN.
aka WE-WILL-TAKE-YOUR-LYING-AMER-ASS-TO-THE-UN-IFF YOU-BREAK-THE-AGREEMENT "DO'S + DON'TS", or in the alternate write a strongly worded letter to our BFF China + maybe Russia.
* SAME > PANETTA: ZAWAHIRI HIDING IN FATA, but the real threat as per future Terrops launched agz CONUS stems not from transitional, post-Osama Al-Qaeda, but from AQ-affiliate AQAP [aka AQIY] in Yemen.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [PAK Defense Minister]PAKISTAN THREATENS TO WITHDRAW TROOPS FROM PAK-AFGHAN BORDERS [1100 checkpoints] UNLESS US RESUMES AID.
ARTIC = Amer must + should pay, or pay more than current, iff it wants Pak to fight its war agz peace-loving motherly Muslim Milterrs.
* PAKISTAN DEFENCE FORUM > US MOVES TOWARDS [implementation of] AFGHAN GUERILLA WAR, agz the MilTerrs as led by US-Allied SPECFOR Teams + remnisicient of Vietnam War-era programs.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Security sources said today that the undersecretary of the Ministry of Immigrants and migrants escaped an assassination attempt by a bomb in west of Baghdad today.
Two of his bodyguards were hit by the explosion.
The source told Aswat al-Iraq that the bomb was directed against Undersecretary Kareem Al-Khafaji's convoy, which resulted in damaging two cars. No other details were reported.
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[Emirates 24/7] The remains of 222 people, probably Kurds killed under Iraq's former regime in 1987, were extracted from a mass grave south of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , the authorities said on Sunday.
"We have found 222 bodies and we have transferred them to the morgue in the province of Najaf," said Karim Ziad, the official in charge of mass graves at the Department of Human Rights.
Iraqi authorities announced on Wednesday they had discovered another mass grave with 900 corpses in the Shanafiyah region near the city of Diwaniyah.
Ziad said several factors suggested that the victims, most with bullet wounds, were Kurds killed during the regime of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein.
"The mass graves are made up of six trenches, and we have done (work) on only three of them," he said, suggesting the number of victims could be much higher.
Dakhil Saihoud, provincial head of the Justice and Accountability Commission which investigates issues relating to the former regime, said he was informed there were 17 trenches at the site.
"It is possible there are hundreds of bodies in there," he told AFP.
"The mass graves are crimes against humanity committed in 1987," said Human Rights Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani. "This is one of 84 sites listed at our ministry, and we have completed work on 34 of them," he said.
Widad Hatem, director of the Committee for Human Rights in Diwaniyah's provincial council, said women and kiddies were among the victims.
Maghoul Abdullah, an old man of more than 90, said he remembered people being rounded up in town.
"The security forces of the old regime evacuated the area and forced us to leave the place. After a few days, large trucks took away people at night, and we even clearly heard their cries," he said.
During Iraq's 1980-1988 war with Iran, deserters were executed and the Sunni Arab dictator intensified a crackdown on Shiites suspected of sympathising with Iraq's predominantly Shiite neighbour.
Kurds were persecuted because they were the main opposition to Saddam.
The number of people missing as a result of atrocities committed by Saddam, who came to power in 1979, is estimated at anywhere between 300,000 and 1.3 million, according to various sources.
Human rights groups believe there are hundreds of mass graves in Iraq of people killed during Saddam's rule.
Shortly after the 2003 invasion, the US-led coalition said there were 263 mass reported graves of people executed in Iraq under Saddam, including 40 containing evidence of systematic killings.
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It seems that you could scratch the soil Damn near anywhere and discover a mass Grave, Or am I seeing things that aren't there?
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And , of course, its all Bush's fault.
Do you suppose that history will decide the United States did the right thing concerning Saddam, after all?
And dont look now, but Kerry and Edwards are both maggots, and they were the best the Donks had.
And the United States of America despite a bit of serious fumbling and an occupation of the Moslem dirthole( arent they all ) DID WIN THE WAR.
Who are going to thank for that? Michael Moore? Or all the Democrats with their tails in the air? And the American Media who covered all the blood for the money, and rolled around in the carnage to make some cash out of it?
But to his credit, Obama alone GOT Bin Laden. ( didnt he?).
Oh and DOUBLE that number found in the Mass Graves. They havent found all the bodies in the other trenches yet. How good is your memory of the Democratic Party squittering and crawling with cowardice during those years? Never happened, right?
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but Saddam was a nice guy, remember he had a koran written in his blood(most likely someones elses blood) there was no reason too invade just. We should have sit back and spent trillions on monitoring his ass for the next 20 too 30 years before he and his clan where through. sarcasm intended
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But to his credit, Obama alone GOT Bin Laden.
Of course he did - after all he did lead Seal Team six personally. at least in his dreams.
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The Obama admin has finally started to tighten some of the embargoes on the Iran economy. However, they have been doing it pretty quietly I'm pretty sure there are a lot of Obamoids who are actually still waiting for a moderate reform mullahracy. Whether Obama himself is among them is the big question.
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French Embassy guards reportedly fired live ammunition on the protesters as they smashed windows and raised a Syrian flag above the U.S. embassy compound.
So the French Guards were firing live ammo to defend the U.S. Embassy?
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Reports confused, but it appears the French "fired into the air" to dispel the crowd at the French Embassy. No word on what, if anything, the US Marines did at the US Embassy.
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It is the responsibility of the host nation to provide security for all embassies. When I walked past the US consulate in Chengdu, there were Chinese dudes there with rifles and attack dogs, scanning the twenty feet in front of them again and again. If anything happened in Syria, it's the government's fault. Period. It's a slap in the face to USA, and a slap in the face to Obama that the Marine guards didn't go down shooting.
French Embassy guards reportedly fired live ammunition on the protesters as they smashed windows and raised a Syrian flag above the U.S. embassy compound.
WTF were the French guards doing smashing windows and raising a Syrian flag over the US embassy?!
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The initial report seems to have been hastily written. At the latest link I read from Drudge it says the Marines responded quickly to disperse the bad guys.
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While I didn't agree with rewarding Syria's terror activities, Hezbollah support and Iran sock-puppetry with diplo relations, I have to say I'm proud Ambassador Ford thumbed his nose at Assad by visiting Hama. Gutsy. He'll likely be recalled by the Hildabeast. Remember "Assad is a reformer"
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Ambassador Ford was the first person I read about that has the guts to stand up for what is right. I guess GWB felt that he did not have the political capital to cause Pencil Neck some real hurt for what he did to the Iraqis and the US troops there, being enabler of al Q and all.
The Syrian govt needs to be removed, soft power, or kinetic, for the evil that they have perpetrated on their neighbors, and for Lebanon.
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[An Nahar] The French foreign ministry on Sunday summoned Syria's ambassador to La Belle France over damage done to the French embassy and a consulate in Syria.
Syrian demonstrators caused the damage Saturday after La Belle France's ambassador to Syria visited the northern city of Hama, a stronghold of the anti-regime uprising.
Foreign Minister Alain Juppe's cabinet chief called "the ambassador of Syria this evening to the Quai d'Orsay" to receive a "vigorous protest" over "offences against the emblems of the (French) Republic", ministry front man Bernard Valero said in a statement.
The demonstrators who gathered at the French embassy in 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... and the consulate in Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... burned French flags, threw projectiles into the compounds, destroyed vehicles and generally caused "considerable damage", the statement further said.
It all happened "without Syrian security services and police doing anything to mobilize to prevent these unspeakable acts", Valero said.
The acts are "in total violation of the obligations incumbent on the Arab Republic of Syria under the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations", the statement added.
"We hold the Syrian authorities responsible for the security of our staff and our diplomatic missions," the front man said.
The demonstrations happened following a visit Thursday by French ambassador Eric Chevalier to Hama, besieged by Syrian forces cracking down on anti-government demonstrations.
The U.S. ambassador Robert Ford also went this weekend to Hama to voice support for the local population on behalf of the United States.
Both diplomats were summoned by the Syrian foreign ministry, which called the visits a "blatant interference in Syrian internal affairs," Syria's official news agency SANA reported.
But a senior U.S. State Department official said U.S. ambassador Robert Ford had actually gone to the foreign ministry on Sunday to attend a previously scheduled meeting requested by the Americans.
"Ambassador Ford was not summoned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs," the official said, adding that Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem did however file an official complaint about the Hama visit during their meeting.
"In the same meeting, Ambassador Ford made clear that Syrian government incitement of Syrians against the United States, including through aggressive protesters in front of the embassy, must stop," the official said.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Syria opened a "national dialogue" on Sunday that it hailed as a step towards multi-party democracy after five decades of Baath party rule, but its credibility was undermined by an opposition boycott.
The foreign ministry, meanwhile, called in the French and US ambassadors today to deliver a "strong protest" over their visit to the flashpoint city of Hama last week, the state news agency SANA said.
Some 200 delegates taking part in the dialogue, including independent MPs and members of the Baath party, in power since 1963, observed a minute's silence in memory of the "deaders" before the playing of the national anthem.
But opposition figures boycotted the meeting in protest at the government's continued deadly crackdown on unprecedented protests against 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... rule that erupted in mid-March.
"We are going to hold a comprehensive national dialogue during which we will announce Syria's transition towards a multi-party democratic state in which everyone will be equal and able to participate in the building of the nation's future," Vice President Faruq al-Shara said in his opening address.
Shara said that within a week the interior ministry would implement a government decision to "remove all obstacles to any citizen returning to Syria or travelling abroad.
"Circumstances have prevented the full implementation of several laws promulgated recently, including that ending the state of emergency," in force for five decades, the vice president said.
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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.
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Qadaffy launched a counter-attack on Sunday against rebel advance positions southwest of Tripoli, an AFP correspondent said, as rebels cut off an oil pipeline used to supply the Libyan strongman's forces.
Qadaffy's administration is in talks with the French government, one of the Libyan leader's son has said in an interview with an Algerian newspaper.
Kurram Agency
At least two Shia 
Hillary Clinton
Syria opened a "national dialogue" on Sunday that it hailed as a step towards multi-party democracy after five decades of Baath party rule, but its credibility was undermined by an opposition boycott.
