Hi there, !
Today Wed 11/02/2011 Tue 11/01/2011 Mon 10/31/2011 Sun 10/30/2011 Sat 10/29/2011 Fri 10/28/2011 Thu 10/27/2011 Archives
Rantburg
531687 articles and 1855967 comments are archived on Rantburg.

Today: 53 articles and 154 comments as of 10:05.
Post a news link    Post your own article   
Area: WoT Background    Non-WoT    Opinion        Politix   
Saudi Court Jails 'al-Qaida Lady' for 15 Years
Today's Headlines
Headline Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
10 00:00 Richard Aubrey [] 
3 00:00 g(r)omgoru [] 
1 00:00 Bright Pebbles [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
1 00:00 Snosing Protector of the Hatfields7045 [] 
0 [] 
3 00:00 Bright Pebbles [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
1 00:00 phil_b [] 
0 [] 
2 00:00 CrazyFool [] 
0 [] 
1 00:00 Anonymoose [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
2 00:00 American Delight [1] 
2 00:00 phil_b [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
Page 2: WoT Background
7 00:00 Richard Aubrey []
1 00:00 Paul D []
3 00:00 Anguper Hupomosing9418 []
3 00:00 JosephMendiola [1]
3 00:00 Thing From Snowy Mountain [1]
0 []
7 00:00 trailing wife []
6 00:00 Skidmark []
1 00:00 JosephMendiola [1]
1 00:00 M. Murcek []
3 00:00 Redneck Jim []
0 []
Page 3: Non-WoT
5 00:00 Thing From Snowy Mountain [1]
11 00:00 Skidmark []
1 00:00 Skidmark [1]
9 00:00 JosephMendiola []
6 00:00 Skidmark []
7 00:00 Alaska Paul []
15 00:00 USN, Ret. []
0 []
8 00:00 JosephMendiola []
6 00:00 JohnQC []
0 []
1 00:00 gr(o)mgoru []
3 00:00 Hellfish []
Page 4: Opinion
4 00:00 Skidmark []
0 []
9 00:00 Creger Hapsburg9613 []
Page 6: Politix
4 00:00 Deacon Blues []
4 00:00 JohnQC []
Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 10/30/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Yukie Nakama (Japan) aka Oboro (Iga) in "Shinobi: Heart Under Blade" aka Sadako Yamamura in "Ring 0: Birthday" aka Eshima in "Oh-Oku: The Women of the Inner Palace" aka Koma in "Abacus and Sword" aka Sato in "Flowers" aka Naoko Yamada in "Trick the Movie: Psychic Battle Royale" aka Chieko Takamori in "Love & Pop" aka Maki Aikawa in "Oboreru sakana" (age 32)



The Japanese in the upper right translates to "There's a lot of Suki in her Yaki"
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 10/30/2011 1:15 Comments || Top||

#2  OK, OK, OK as Joe Piscopo would say. I know I need to lose weight but new years resolution time fail isn't till New Year. GB I enjoy the pictures but wish I could ignore the guilt. I know!, I'll dress up for Halloween like the fat guy in Blade. Then I would need some stuffing. Good, I feel better now.
Posted by: Dale || 10/30/2011 10:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Yukie aint yucky.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/30/2011 19:00 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Suicide bomber wounds two in eastern Afghanistan: official
[Dawn] A boom bitch detonated outside a local branch of Afghanistan's spy agency in the eastern city of Asadabad on Saturday, a front man for the Kunar provincial governor said.

The woman struck outside the local operations centre for the National Directorate of Security (NDS), said front man Wasifullah Wasifi.

"As a result of the kaboom two guards of the operative directorate were maimed," he added.

The attack comes a day after the Taliban launched a four-hour long assault on a US-run civilian-military base and NDS local branch in the southern city of Kandahar, the spiritual birthplace of the bad boy movement.

Around the same time as the kaboom in eastern Kunar, another suicide bomber struck a convoy of foreign forces in the capital Kabul.
Posted by: Fred || 10/30/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Elite commandos storm lawless Somali war zone to snatch tribal
British commandos made a dramatic amphibious landing on Somalia's war-torn shores to seize a tribal leader, the Daily Mail can reveal.

In an extraordinary operation in a lawless area teeming with bandits and pirates, elite Royal Marines launched Viking armoured vehicles from landing craft and pushed several miles inland to pick up the clan chief.

The unprecedented covert landing comes at a sensitive time in the troubled East African country as Al Qaeda-linked groups are training terror recruits and pirates are holding more than 100 hostages after seizing their boats.

The tribal elder, one of the most influential figures in the region, was whisked through bandit country by heavily armed troops from 539 Assault Squadron and taken to a 'very important meeting' with MI6 and the Foreign Office aboard a Royal Navy support ship anchored off the coast. The discussions are understood to have included the location of terror training camps and the seizing of hostages by clansmen operating in the Indian Ocean off Somalia.

The operation raises the prospect of further raids against terror camps and pirate bases.

Special Forces have increasingly focused on Somalia and the Horn of Africa in recent months amid a rise in the number of ships seized by pirates for ransom, the kidnap of Western citizens and the mounting threat of the Al Qaeda-linked Islamist group Al-Shabaab. There are also fears that Somalia has replaced Pakistan and Afghanistan as the main area of training for UK-born terrorists.

The U.S. has carried out a series of unmanned drone attacks on terror training camps, but until now there has been no confirmation of British forces operating in Somalia.

It is known that British Special Forces in the region have been involved in gathering intelligence on pirates and on Al-Shabaab, which is suspected of being behind the kidnap of Briton Judith Tebbutt, 56, from a Kenyan island resort last month.

Mrs Tebbutt's husband, David, 58, was shot dead during the kidnap, which happened after bandits landed by boat at the resort near Somalia's border with Kenya. Mrs Tebbutt's whereabouts are currently not known.

The Marines' raid in July was the first time British troops have conducted a military operation in the troubled territory in 40 years. The swoop was part of Exercise Somaliland Cougar, a mission to train coastguards in Somaliland -- a former British protectorate that broke away from failed Somalia -- in anti-piracy techniques and meet MPs and tribal leaders.

The Marines, serving on the 60-man Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Cardigan Bay, had come under fire as they sailed near the autonomous Somali region of Puntland, which is in dispute with Somaliland.

But despite the danger, a small unit from 539 Assault Squadron was sent in to pick up the tribal elder for the talks.

Under cover of darkness, they set out from RFA Cardigan Bay, a landing ship dock that allows smaller boats to send troops and equipment to shore. The landing craft carried two armoured Viking troop-carrying vehicles protected by machine guns and smoke grenades.

The Vikings successfully left the landing craft and headed for their rendezvous with the tribal leader. Each carried up to 12 commandos.
Posted by: || 10/30/2011 12:19 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There are plenty of unemployed Somalians and Pakis to choose from in the UK!
Posted by: Paul D || 10/30/2011 14:49 Comments || Top||

#2  There are plenty of unemployed Somalians and Pakis to choose from in the UK! We've got all the jihadis we can ever use.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/30/2011 16:06 Comments || Top||

#3  A couple of questions here:

Why not helicopters instead of armored vehicles?

Discussions? Somehow I don't think it was a friendly little chat but it's hard to tell.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/30/2011 16:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Why not helicopters instead of armored vehicles?

Qadaffy's stingers.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/30/2011 16:26 Comments || Top||

#5  More questions...
Did he have to swim back?
Posted by: Omolumble Elmeremp5544 || 10/30/2011 16:39 Comments || Top||

#6  > Why not helicopters instead of armoUred vehicles?

We ain't got any.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/30/2011 18:10 Comments || Top||

#7  Why not helicopters instead of armored vehicles?

The latter is relatively quieter, for one thing.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/30/2011 18:57 Comments || Top||

#8 

Maybe quieter Pappy.
Maybe easier to get thru the canopy.
Maybe a payload to deliver.
Maybe more.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/30/2011 20:30 Comments || Top||

#9  Maybe more, Skid.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/30/2011 20:53 Comments || Top||

#10  Looks like a M113 with a M60 and some offset armor.
Quieter than choppers, and slower. If the oppos' commo is good, they could ambush them on the way out.
Hope the Brits have good intel about this.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 10/30/2011 21:48 Comments || Top||


Somalia's Shebab Attack Government Military Base in Capital
[An Nahar] Fighters from Somalia's Shebab Islamist group attacked a government military base in Mogadishu Saturday, where a blast was followed by an exchange of gunfire, officials and witnesses said.

Enemy "elements attacked a Somali military base near the industrial road (north of the city center), but they were defeated and suffered losses", Colonel Abdallah Mohamed of the Western-backed government forces told Agence La Belle France Presse.

"Mujahideen fighters hit the Xero-Jamal site where the enemy is positioned", said Shebab commander Sheikh Ibrahim Abu Yahya, who also claimed dozens of pro-government fighters were killed.

"There was a very strong kaboom, like in a suicide kaboom, before an exchange of gunfire," a witness, Abdikarim Dinow, said.

Pro-government forces sent ambulances to the scene of the festivities, according to another witness, Ahmed Moalim.

Neither side provided an explanation as to the nature of the kaboom described by witnesses.

The Shebab, who control large swathes of territory in south and central Somalia, withdrew from their positions in Mogashishu in early August following a government offensive launched in February.

They have claimed credit for a series of bombings since, including an October 4 blast at a government complex that killed 82, the deadliest single attack ever committed in Mogadishu.

Posted by: Fred || 10/30/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


75 Killed in Rebel Attack in South Sudan State
[An Nahar] Seventy-five people were killed on Saturday when government forces in the oil-rich South Sudanese Unity state repelled an attack by rebel militia, in which 15 civilians also died, the state's information minister said.

"There was a militia attack at 5 or 6 o'clock in the morning (02:00-03:00 GMT) in Mayom county," said Gideon Gatpan Thoar, adding that another 18 were maimed.

Thoar said rebels, most of them fighting under the banner of the South Sudan Liberation Army (SSLA), attacked Mayom town and that the majority of the civilian casualties were residents bumped off while "running for shelter."

"We are counting the bodies now but over 60 militias were killed and many more maimed," said Thoar, adding that 15 non-combatants were killed in the attack.

Among the dead was the notorious rebel fighter Colonel Ruadheal Gatwech, he said, adding that SPLA government forces also captured one soldier in Mayom town and three more in the east of the county.

"The situation is under control by the SPLA. The rebels are still being chased away," Thoar told Agence La Belle France Presse seven hours after the attack.

Thoar said the last serious attack in Unity was early October, when the rebel group was suspected to have laid an anti-tank mine that killed 20 people in a passenger bus, and before that another mine incident in September.

On Friday, the SSLA gave the U.N. and aid agencies one week to evacuate Unity state, promising to "violently resist the regime of Governor Deng Taban," who the rebels accuse of human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state...
abuses.

"SSLA is calling upon all NGOs and U.N. personnel to leave Unity State within a week for their own safety," the group said in a statement from their Mayom headquarters.

The rebels claimed Governor Taban ordered SPLA troops to confiscate 600 cattle from SSLA Commanders family members, who were allegedly jugged in unknown locations and beaten.

Cattle are vital for a dowry under local tribal customs of the Nuer people.

Thoar denied the group claims. "All these allegations have no basis at all."

"They do with the intention of interrupting the peaceful program of disarmament and to recapture the civilian guns."

Thoar said the voluntary disarmament program had collected 1000 guns, over half of which came from Mayom County.

The rebel group is made up of forces formerly loyal to Peter Gadet, who accepted South Sudan President Salva Kiir's offer of amnesty in August, a month after the country gained independence from the north after a 22-year civil war.

While Gadet was reintegrated into the SPLA, an unknown number of men rejected the ceasefire, accusing their former leader and renegade SPLA general of accepting government bribes.

The U.N. Mine Action Coordination Centre has said it will ramp up efforts in Unity state due to the increase in incidents and the approach of the dry season, when rebel groups are more active.

Insecurity is one of the decampedgling nation's biggest challenges.

Rebel militias in Unity state threaten not only the country's economic lifeblood but also aid access and the livelihood of many civilians in the largely pastoral state plagued by fear of mines and violence.

Dozens of aid agencies like Care International, The International Rescue Committee, Medecin Sans Frontieres, The International Committee of the Red Thingy are working in Unity state alongside a large U.N. presence.

Posted by: Fred || 10/30/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No real surprise here. It will take a while for the South Sudan government to get full security control of its territory.
Posted by: phil_b || 10/30/2011 4:31 Comments || Top||


Africa North
'Tortured' prisoner’s death angers Egyptians
CAIRO: The death of a prisoner, allegedly under police torture, has sparked public anger against Egypt’s ruling military council, accused by rights groups of pursuing security practices familiar from the era of ousted President Hosni Mubarak.

Essam Atta, 23, died in Tora prison south of Cairo on Thursday, according to the Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture. A military court had jailed him for two years in February for offenses including “thuggery.”

Protesters carried his body on Friday from the morgue to Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the anti-Mubarak uprising, chanting against the military council and Interior Ministry.

“Since we started operating in 1993 till now, torture hasn’t stopped for one day,” said the Nadeem Center’s director, Aida Seif el-Dawla, who said both the police and military now practised it, a charge the authorities deny.

Atta’s family accused prison officers of torturing him by inserting a hose in his mouth and anus and pumping water and soap into his body causing mass bleeding that led to his death.

The Interior Ministry said he had died of acute cirrhosis “poisoning.”

Human rights campaigners have compared Atta’s death to that of Khaled Said, an online activist whose killing by police in Alexandria helped ignite the revolt that toppled Mubarak.

According to Atta’s brother Mohamed, his mother gave her son a mobile phone card on Oct. 25. Another prisoner told prison police, saying Atta was smuggling drugs.

“Police officers ended the visit and started beating him; his mother could hear his cries calling for help from outside the room,” Mohamed Atta told Egypt’s Al-Nahar satellite channel.

He said he had seen his brother’s body in hospital after Atta’s cellmates called him to tell he was dead. “I saw him bleeding from everywhere and bubbles on his body,” he said.
Posted by: Steve White || 10/30/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mohamed Atta told Egypt’s Al-Nahar satellite channel.

That name does ring a bell. Is Mohamed Atta an Egyptian John Smith or are the Attas of this report related to another infamous Mohamed Atta?
Posted by: Snosing Protector of the Hatfields7045 || 10/30/2011 12:31 Comments || Top||


Tunisia Flashpoint Town Calm after Curfew
[An Nahar] Calm returned on Saturday to Sidi Bouzid, the birthplace of the Tunisian revolution, after an overnight curfew imposed because of violent post-election protests, police said.

"There were no incidents during the night," a police official said.

The town's weekly market was open, and residents were going about normal activities as teams worked to clean and repair public buildings vandalized during two days of unrest over the disqualification of some candidates in Tunisia's first free elections.

A few tanks remained stationed by the police headquarters and town hall, however, and schools remained closed.

Late on Friday, Hechmi Haamadi, a businessman whose Popular Petition won in Sidi Bouzid, appealed on the town's residents to halt the protests, echoing an appeal by the head of the Islamist al-Nahda party which won Sunday's polls.

Tension had remained high late Friday despite the curfew, as disgruntled groups were threatening further damage and the army boosted patrols in the town, an AFP correspondent reported.

The curfew was in effect from 7:00 pm Friday to 5:00 am (0400 GMT) on Saturday.

It was in Sidi Bouzid that fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi, an unemployed university graduate, set himself on fire on December 17 last year to protest abuses under Ben Ali's 23-year regime.

He died days later, but Bouazizi's desperate act sparked the popular revolt that toppled Ben Ali less than a month later and ignited region-wide uprisings that have since also ousted strongmen in Cairo and Tripoli.

Posted by: Fred || 10/30/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Dozens More Bodies Found in Flattened Gadhafi Hometown
[An Nahar] Volunteers are still finding dozens of bodies in Moammar Qadaffy's
...a proud Arab institution for 42 years...
hometown of Sirte that fell on October 20, including of Libyan civilians killed in a suspected NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
air strike.

Twenty-six unmarked makeshift graves covered by breeze-blocks were discovered at a water treatment plant in Number Two district where pro-Qadaffy fighters put up a final stand after several weeks of heavy bombardment.

As a pungent odor filled the air due to the bodies' state of decomposition, the shallow graves in the sand were found scattered amidst the plant's devastated buildings, an AFP correspondent on the spot said.

According to Ibrahim Suleiman, one of the volunteers collecting bodies in Sirte over the past week, they were of pro-Qadaffy fighters hastily buried by comrades as new regime forces closed in on the city.

Suleiman said his colleague had buried a total of more than 500 bodies since October 23 across Sirte, most of them believed to be fighters. It was unclear if other teams were doing the same work.

In the center, at the crossroads of Dubai and September 1 streets, Libyan charity Jabal al-Akhdar told AFP more than 50 bodies of civilians were found under the rubble of a several-story building flattened in a NATO air strike.

"There are more than 50 civilians under the rubble, of women, of children. It's horrible. We can't get access. It would take bulldozers," said a teary-eyed member of the charity, Mohammed Muftah.

Local residents backed up the account of an air strike that left behind a huge crater of the type that could not have been left by weapons used by Qadaffy's fighters or their foes in the National Transitional Council.

Another volunteer, Mohammed Yunes al-Hemali, said they are tipped off about corpses by returning local residents. "Often when they return home, the families find a body or a makeshift grave in their property," he said.

Over the past week, graves and corpses have been a common sight in Sirte.

Between 65 and 70 bodies were found rotting on the lawn of Al-Mahari hotel, some with their hands bound, many with a bullet in the head.

NTC fighters said they were executed by Qadaffy's forces before the fall of the city, but Human Rights Watch
... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world...
, which carried out an investigation, said they were more likely executed by anti-Qadaffy fighters.

On the outskirts of town, 200 charred bodies were found of pro-Qadaffy fighters hit in NATO air strikes on a convoy when they decamped as the eight-month conflict ended with the capture and killing of the ousted strongman.

Posted by: Fred || 10/30/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And so it begins ...

* CHINA DAILY FORUM > RUSSIAN ANALYST: GADDAFI [likely]"ALIVE + WELL", + in HIDING? as due to discrepancies found in Libyuhn Rebels' capture, death footage???

Personally, I'm blaming ABU MUSAB ZARQHAWI = aka RB's "ZARK/ZARKEY" for causing the ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/30/2011 23:16 Comments || Top||

#2  ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... - but only if they are/were done by non-muslims.

FIFY
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/30/2011 23:27 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Saudi Court Jails 'al-Qaida Lady' for 15 Years
[An Nahar] A Saudi court on Saturday placed in durance vile for 15 years a Saudi woman known as "al-Qaeda lady" for being the first woman in the kingdom tried for involvement in violence by the jihadist network, state media said.

"A Saudi woman was sentenced to 15 years in jail starting on the date of her arrest, followed by 15 years of a ban on travelling after her release," SPA state news agency reported.

The trial of the unnamed woman began on July 31.

The list of charges over which the specialized criminal court convicted her included "sheltering people wanted for security related matters and inciting terror acts in the kingdom," SPA said.

She was also condemned for "possessing two pistols" that she gave to hard boyz and "financing terrorism and terror acts through collecting more than one million riyals ($267,000) and sending the money to al-Qaeda organization."

In August, Okaz daily identified the woman only as the "al-Qaeda lady," saying she was 45 years old and was incarcerated last year in Buraidah, Qassim's quiet provincial capital.

In June 2010, Saeed al-Shihri, a prominent Saudi leader of al-Qaeda's franchise in Yemen, urged supporters in Soddy Arabia to kidnap Christians and Saudi princes to press for the release of a female turban nabbed north of Riyadh whom he identified as Heila al-Qsayer.

At her family's request, the trial is taking place in private and without media presence.

The woman had denied the charges, claiming she had been held captive by two men to whom she had been married in the past and who were members of al-Qaeda.

One of them is in prison over connections to al-Qaeda, while the second was killed by security forces a few years ago in Riyadh, according to several sources.

The verdict can be appealed within 30 days.

Posted by: Fred || 10/30/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia

#1  Kidnapping Christians and Saudi princes? They should give her a medal.

The Saudi princes fund the terrorists and the Christians from Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria are terrorists who fight Israel. The Christians claim to be pacifists by they slaughter Jews when we remove them from OUR land. They must all be destroyed.
Posted by: IsraelForTheJews || 10/30/2011 2:33 Comments || Top||

#2  She collected a quarter of a million dollars for al-Qaeda? Guess the court didn't want to look too hard into the identity of her donors...
Posted by: American Delight || 10/30/2011 7:26 Comments || Top||


Europe
Serbia Arrests 17 Following Attack on U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo
[An Nahar] Serbian police on Saturday said they had locked away 17 people in the southwestern Mohammedan-dominated district of Sandzak, on suspicion of links to an Islamic bad turban who opened fire on the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo.

"Police jugged 17 persons suspected of being members of the radical Wahhabi movement and having close links with Mevlid Jasarevic," the Interior Ministry said in a statement. Wahhabism is a strict and ultra-conservative branch of Islam.

The suspected radical Islamist Jasarevic, a Serbian national from Novi Pazar, was maimed and locked away after opening fire Friday on the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo. A police guard was maimed in the attack.

Among those locked away, 12 were from three towns in Sandzak with large Mohammedan communities. One was a Bosnian citizen.

Police searched some 18 locations and seized as many computers, 1,800 CDs, about 50 SMS cards, a video camera, audio and video tapes as well as books and other literature advocating ideas of the movement, the statement said.

According to Serbian police chief Milorad Veljovic, "police will determine whether there is a need to detain more people."

In Bosnia, police and prosecutor also launched a search, the Minister of Security Sadik Ahmetovic told news hounds.

"Today (Saturday) and in the coming days searches will be conducted at all locations believed to have some links with this event," Ahmetovic said.

Bosnia's public prosecutor Dubravko Campara said the probe would be conducted in cooperation with Serbian authorities and U.S. embassy in Sarajevo.

Jasarevic, hospitalised after being shot by police, will be jugged once he is released from Sarajevo hospital, "in a day or two," Campara said.

Bosnia is home to a small minority of followers of Wahhabism.

Posted by: Fred || 10/30/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Europe


The Grand Turk
Suicide bomber in Turkey kills two, wounds 12
[Dawn] A jacket wallah killed two people in Turkey's southeastern Kurdish region and maimed 12 others, authorities said.

The attack occurred in a main street of the mainly-Kurdish city of Bingol, Gov. Mustafa Hakan Guvencer said.

There was no immediate responsibility claim, but Kurdish rebels who are fighting for autonomy in Turkey's southeast have carried out suicide kabooms in the past.

Guvencer said the attack was on one the city's busiest streets and three of the maimed were at death's door.

The blast shattered glass and shop windows in surrounding buildings.

Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin said the blast was near the local branch of the ruling party, but the building was not the intended target.

The attack came on the 88th anniversary of the founding of the republic.

Television footage showed people running away from the site of the kaboom, while others urged people to evacuate the streets. Some were seen surrounding a corpse.

Turkey's conflict with the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, has killed tens of people since the Islamic fascisti took up arms in 1984.

The attack comes 10 days after Turkey's military launched massive anti-rebel operations in both southeastern Turkey and across the border in northern Iraq -where the rebels maintain bases -- killing dozens of rebels.

Those operations were spurred by coordinated rebel attacks on military and police posts near the border that killed 24 soldiers -- the deadliest one-day toll against the military since the 1990s.

The last suicide kaboom was in September, when the attacker detonated a bomb outside a paramilitary station near a Mediterranean resort town, wounding two others. Ten days earlier, a car boom in the capital, Ankara, killed five people.

A Kurdish bully boy group, the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons or TAK, grabbed credit for the car booming and threatened more attacks.
Posted by: Fred || 10/30/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Turkey


India-Pakistan
Six More Drone-zapped in North Wazoo
Just innocent children, I'm sure, but armed Taliban came and removed the bodies right away. It's been a busy week.
Six suspected militants were killed on Sunday in a drone attack in North Waziristan’s Datta Khel area, DawnNews reported.

The drone fired two missiles into a vehicle as it drove through a village near Datta Khel town about 30 kilometres west of Miramshah, the main town in North Waziristan district, Pakistani security officials told AFP.

A house was also partly destroyed in Sunday’s attack, said the intelligence officials. It was unclear whether any of the six suspected militants who were killed were in the house at the time, or all in the vehicle.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/30/2011 06:08 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Music shop bombed, one injured
[Dawn] CHARSADDA/BANNU, Oct 28: An improvised bomb planted by myrmidons destroyed a music shop along with three adjoining ones and caused injuries to a tailor in Shabqadar area early Friday.

Police and residents said the explosive planted in Mehbub Ali Market went off at 5:10am with a big bang. It was so powerful that people far away from the scene in Charsadda district heard it.

As a result the CD centre and three other shops were completely destroyed. A tailor identified as Talha suffered wounds when the floor of his shop collapsed. He was busy in sewing clothes for the forthcoming Eidul Azha when the blast occurred.Police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else on the complaint of the tailor and started investigation.

Meanwhile,
...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a hurried meeting of his closest advisors. It was to be his last. They discussed the officers's efficiency rating system...
Bannu police thwarted a sabotage attempt by defusing two improvised bombs planted by suspected forces of Evil in Saleh Khan Mandeo area on Friday.

The police were informed by locals that two bombs had been planted along a road by unknown myrmidons. The regional police officer, DSP rural, SHO Miran, bomb disposal squad and other personnel reached the spot and cordoned off the area.

After hectic efforts, the BDS personnel defused the two bombs planted at a pressure cooker and gas cylinder. The bombs were meant for large scale killing and losses but the timely action of the police foiled the sabotage bid.
Posted by: Fred || 10/30/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


`Sectarian attack` claims Nikah registrar`s life
[Dawn] A former press secretary of the Shia Ulema Council and a Nikah registrar, Kausar Hussain Zaidi was rubbed out near Pakistain Chowk on Friday evening, police said.

They added that the 50-year-old victim along with his wife Ishrat Zaidi, 36, was going through the Pakistain Chowk area on a cycle of violence when he was targeted by better-armed attackers riding a cycle of violence.

"The couple was rushed to the civil hospital, where Mr Zaidi was pronounced dead on arrival," said an official at the Arambagh cop shoppe.

He added that Mr Zaidi sustained two bullet wounds in the neck and the head, which proved fatal. His wife was provided treatment for the injuries she suffered as she fell off the motorbike, the official added.

SSP South Naeem Ahmed Sheikh said that the couple was attacked near the Arambagh traffic post.

The victim was said to be an active member of the Shia community, the SSP said, adding that the killing appeared to have a sectarian motive.

However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
he said, Mr Zaidi was a witness in the Tahir Plaza case. As a witness, he recently failed to identify two suspects booked for having a role in the arson attack in which a lawyer was burnt alive along with his four clients when the building was set on fire on April 9, 2008.

The officer quoted the victim`s wife as saying that she could not see the attackers though she heard the shots fired from a very close range.

"So far we don`t have an eyewitness account about the attackers and their mode of transport," the SSP said, adding that it was being assumed that they were also on a cycle of violence.

ASP Ali Asif quoted hospital sources as saying that a 30-bore pistol was used by the assailants.

The victim was a resident of Lines Area.

His family and friends reached the hospital following the incident.

"Kausar Zaidi had earlier survived a similar gun attack near Pakistain Chowk on Aug 13," said a front man for the Shia Ulema Council, Atif Rizvi.

In that attack, Advocate Hasan Mehdi who was going along with Mr Zaidi on a motorbike was maimed.

Bloody Karachi Bar Association President Mohammad Aqil condemned the killing and expressed his condolence with the bereaved family.

He said the victim was not a Bloody Karachi Bar member but a Nikah registrar who used to sit at the City Courts.

Only over a week back, Akhtar Raza was killed outside his house in Qaser-i-Raza in Lyari in what was also described by police as a sectarian attack.
Posted by: Fred || 10/30/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Jhangvi


Police officer on Taliban hit-list killed in Nowshera bombing
[Dawn] A police officer and his driver were killed when a jacket wallah went kaboom!" near his vehicle on Nowshera-Mardan Road on Friday, official sources said.

Syed Ajmir Shah, the SHO of Risalpur cop shoppe, achieved fame a couple of years ago for anti-insurgent operations he carried out when he was the SHO of Akora Khattak cop shoppe. He was given the presidential award in recognition of his services.

The sources said that Mr Shah had received threats from the Taliban for the actions he took against bully boyz in the area.

Mr Shah, who only recently tied the knot, joined the police department as a constable and reached the rank of inspector during the past 10 years.

Police sources said that Mr Shah, who was around 35, and driver Takrimul Haq, a resident of Azakhel village, were travelling in a jeep. According to witnesses, when the vehicle reached the Bara Banda Chowk, the attacker rushed towards it and detonated explosives strapped to his body.

The SHO and the driver were killed. Constable Suhail Khan, who accompanied Mr Shah, and three civilians were maimed. The injured civilians were identified as Salam, Shaukat and seven-year-old Rehman Yousuf. The bomber was believed to be in his late teens. Police recovered the head and legs of the bomber from the site of the blast.

The bomb disposal squad said that 8kg of explosives were used in the attack.Funeral prayers of the two personnel were held at Nowshera Police Lines before their bodies were sent to their native villages for burial.
Posted by: Fred || 10/30/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Iraq
615 detained in anti-Baathist sweep
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s prime minister said Saturday that 615 people have been detained in a security sweep targeting members of the former ruling Baath party.

Arrests on this scale are likely to alarm Sunni Arabs, who consider use of the term “Baathists” by Iraq’s Shiite-dominated government to be a coded way to refer to Sunni politicians, army officers, and other prominent members of their community.
Then again, it may be a convenient shorthand for thugs, Saddamites and war criminals...
Sunnis say that Baghdad sometimes uses crackdowns on Baathists as a tool to exert political pressure. The arrests coincide with a recent autonomy push by a mostly-Sunni province in north-central Iraq, the latest bone of contention between Sunni political blocs and the Baghdad government.

Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki revealed the size of the sweep in comments released Saturday by the state-run Iraqiya TV channel during which he defended the detentions. He said officials had reason to believe the people arrested were a threat to security but he gave no further details. He did not say when the sweep took place, but a Ministry of Interior statement Thursday said about 500 people had been arrested in recent days.

“The recent arrests, which were carried out by the security forces and were based on information and evidence, were aimed at those who threaten the state security and the state stability. There were 615 detained people,” Al-Maliki said.

“The Baath Party is prohibited by the Constitution, because it is a criminal party that led to the fall of the national sovereignty and it targeted the Iraqi people through the mass graves, chemical weapons,” he said.

A leading Sunni lawmaker, Hamid Al-Mutlaq, said the arrests would heighten tensions in Iraq and called the allegations of undermining security “science fiction.” He called on the government to move forward instead of arresting people for their past connections to the Baath Party.

“Such acts by the government will anger a lot of people in Anbar, Salahuddin and other Iraqi provinces and this might even threaten the unity of the country and might revive the calls for dividing Iraq,” he said, referring to Sunni-majority provinces in western and central Iraq.

“It is the worst time to make these arrests ahead of the US withdrawal,” he said.

All American forces are to leave Iraq by the end of this year. Many Sunnis are worried that they will come under increased pressure from the Shiite-led government once the Americans, who they feel have often played a moderating influence, are gone.

De-Baathification, a concept started under the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority which ruled Iraq after the invasion, is an Iraqi government policy of trying to purge important government jobs and positions of former mid- and high-ranking members of the Baath Party. Sunnis have criticized the policy as a way to sideline them from policy decisions and prevent them from ever regaining power.
Since the Sunnis were a big part of the Baath party. Sucks to be on the losing side.
The prime minister also criticized officials in Salahuddin province, which is a mainly Sunni area north of Baghdad, for a vote they took pushing to establish an autonomous region.

Provincial officials Thursday voted to start the process of creating an autonomous region in Salahuddin, akin to the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq. Provincial officials and residents have complained that their needs aren’t being met by the Shiite-led government in Baghdad and that they could do a better job providing for their own security.

The Iraqi constitution allows provinces to establish autonomous regions but it requires numerous procedural hoops making it unlikely the Salahuddin vote would be anything more than a ceremonial protest.

Al-Maliki said the Baath Party is trying to use Salahuddin province as a “safe haven.”
Posted by: Steve White || 10/30/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hundreds of Palestinians clash with Israeli forces in West Bank
Hundreds of Palestinians clashed on Friday with the IDF and security forces in a number of locations in the West Bank.

Around 250 Palestinians demonstrated in the Beit Omar region, throwing stones at security forces. Soldiers and police responded with riot dispersal means, including stun grenades and teargas.

Similar incidents occurred in several other locations.

Around 80 Palestinians gathered next to Nabi Saleh and some threw rocks at security forces.

30 people clashed with security forces in Ni'lin and 60 Palestinians demonstrated and threw stones in Bil'in. In these locations, security forces also used riot dispersal means.

In Kedum, near the Kedumim settlement in the Nablus region, around 40 Palestinians clashed with IDF soldiers.

A violent disturbance also occurred next to Beitunia, south of Ramallah. Security forces dispersed the disturbance with riot dispersal means.

Stones were thrown at an Israeli vehicle near Lita. The vehicle was damaged but no one was hurt. Soldiers from the Kfir Brigade conducted searches in the area and arrested two suspects.

A Kfir soldier also noticed two Palestinians approaching the fence around the Beit Hagai settlement in a suspicious manner. Soldiers arrested the two and handed them over to police for investigation.
Posted by: || 10/30/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "A small whiff of grapeshot" seems to be one way of ending these little demonstrations.

Yes, I know. The Israelis are too civilized (despite what the Palestinians and much of the rest of the world say).

Of course, that could also work at the Occupy sites.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/30/2011 14:50 Comments || Top||

#2  It was obviously organized and coordinated, but why?
Posted by: Anonymoose || 10/30/2011 15:38 Comments || Top||

#3  but why?

The rational reason: gathering sympathy in anticipation UN statehood debates.
Real reason: they're Palestinians---unless they're terrified, they will riot.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/30/2011 16:09 Comments || Top||


Rockets Pound Israel as Air Raids Kill Seven in Gaza
[An Nahar] Israeli air raids killed seven Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Mohammedan Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
cut-throats in the Gazoo Strip on Saturday, prompting a massive barrage of retaliatory rocket fire, officials said.

Adham Abu Selmiya, front man for Gazoo's emergency services, said five members of the al-Quds Brigades, Islamic Jihad's armed wing, were killed and three critically maimed in a first Israeli attack.

As tit-for-tat fighting continued into the night, Israeli aircraft struck two more targets in Gazoo, witnesses and Paleostinian officials said, killing two cut-throats and wounding two allegedly preparing to fire a missile.

A strike east of Gazoo City caused no casualties.

Israeli police said they were raising their national alert level to its second-highest.

The Israeli military could not immediately confirm the latest reported strikes but said of the earlier raid that the air force fired on a "group of faceless myrmidons preparing to fire long-range rockets" and that the attack had "prevented the attempted firing."

It said the men had also been responsible for firing a Grad rocket into Israel on Wednesday that hit near the city of Ashdod, 35 kilometers from the Gazoo border.

The al-Quds Brigades confirmed that five members, including a commander named as Ahmed al-Sheikh Khalil, were killed in the first strike, on a training camp near the southern city of Rafah.

The second fatal raid was also in Rafah, witnesses said.

The strikes were the bloodiest since a tacit ceasefire was agreed between Gazoo Paleostinian cut-throats and Israel in late August.

Reprisal attacks began after sunset, and police said that by mid-evening 21 rockets had been fired from Gazoo into southern Israel.

One slammed into a community center and another into a block of flats, setting parked cars and gas canisters alight.

Rockets hit the city of Ashdod, the nearby town of Gan Yavneh and the city of Ashkelon, to the south, police said.

Spokeswoman Luba Samri told Agence La Belle France Presse that two people were moderately maimed and two others slightly injured.

Other rockets hit open ground elsewhere in southern Israel and one was fired "in the general direction" of the city of Beersheeva, in the Negev desert, but appeared to have stuck open ground, police said.

Israeli rescue services said a number of mortar rounds also hit areas near the frontier.

A statement from the al-Quds Brigades grabbed credit for the fire and posted a video on its website it said showed the launching of five of the rockets.

Spokesman Abu Ahmed accused Israel of carrying out the raid in order to heighten tensions so it could renege on freeing 550 Paleostinian prisoners agreed as part of a prisoner-swap deal with Gazoo rulers Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, for the liberation of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

Israel released 477 prisoners in exchange for Shalit earlier this month and is due to free the other 550 within two months.

A front man for Hamas's Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades said other bad turban groups were mulling their response.

"The occupation is completely responsible for the crime in Rafah and all of the resistance factions cannot leave the shedding of our deaders' blood unanswered," front man Abu Obeida said. "We shall discuss the answer to this crime."

The Israeli air force carried out three raids on the Gazoo Strip Thursday in retaliation for that attack, witnesses said.

Those raids targeted areas east and west of Khan Yunis in the south of the Strip, and a base of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades was hit, they said.

An Israeli army front man said of those strikes that aircraft had "attacked three terrorist sites in the Gazoo Strip as well as an arms factory in the south of the territory."
Posted by: Fred || 10/30/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic Jihad

#1  Cities such as Sderot should be provided 105mm howitzers "to shoot down incoming rockets". They don't need radar, just to use 'best guess' when shooting back.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 10/30/2011 9:10 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Philippine air raid kills three terrorists
An air strike has killed three Muslim terrorists extremists from a group linked to Al-Qaeda in the southern Philippines. The three members of the Abu Sayyaf group were found dead after air force planes attacked their outpost on the southern island of Jolo on Saturday, according to Colonel Randolph Cabangbang.

The attack came after military intelligence said that an Abu Sayyaf leader, known as "Doctor Abu", had been spotted in a forested region.

Cabangbang said, "We have been going after them long before but we needed solid information before we could launch an operation."

Two rifles were recovered along with the three bodies and the search for the rest of his group continues on the island.

Cabangbang said the air strike on Jolo was not linked to other attacks, mainly against groups linked to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the country's largest Muslim rebel group.

Another military official warned the MILF that harboring "lawless elements" would make it the target of armed operations as well.

National military spokesman Colonel Arnulfo Burgos in a statement said, "These ongoing operations are intended for lawless elements only and not the MILF. However if the MILF coddles or provides sanctuary to these lawless elements, they will become legitimate targets too of the law enforcement operations."
Posted by: ryuge || 10/30/2011 09:01 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's pity all the reapers are being used in [Afghan/Pak]istan, a few should be leant to the Philippines.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/30/2011 11:33 Comments || Top||


Three Buddhists gunned down in southern Thailand
Three Buddhists were gunned down by Muslim terrorists insurgents inside a grocery store in Narathiwat province on Sunday.

Police said four terrorists insurgents arrived on two motorcycles and pretended to buy goods and gasoline from the store, and shot the three at point blank range.

Malee Masi, 49, was gunned down in front of her 8-year-old son, who was found by police hugging the body of his mother crying when police arrived. Srithong Masi, Malee's father-in-law, 75, was shot in the head while he was about to pump gas for one of the motorcycles.

Thirapong Saelim, 42, a customer, was also shot in the head.
Posted by: ryuge || 10/30/2011 08:57 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Suspected Israeli Drone Crashes in Bint Jbeil
[An Nahar] The army launched a wide search operation for what is suspected to be an Israeli drone that crashed in Froun region in Bint Jbeil in southern Leb, the National News Agency reported on Saturday. The UNIFIL operations unit informed the Lebanese army of the crash of an Israeli drone in Froun, the NNA said. The army immediately launched search operations. The wreckage of the drone was not located yet. However,
the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach...
al-Manar TV station reported that the army stopped their search operations.
Posted by: Fred || 10/30/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


U.N. Calls on Syria to 'Immediately' End Violence
[An Nahar] U.N. Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
urged Syria to "immediately" end attacks on civilians Saturday, a day after Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
launched a fierce crackdown that killed over 50 people.

Ban "appeals for military operations against civilians to stop at once," said his front man Martin Nesirky.

The U.N. leader also called for the release "of all political prisoners and those jugged in connection to their participation in the popular protests."

"The violence is unacceptable and must stop immediately," he added. "The calls of the Syrian people for change must be answered with far-reaching reforms, not repression and violence."

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said security forces killed 36 people on Friday as protesters urged a Libya-style no-fly zone, and reported that 17 soldiers later died in overnight festivities between troops and suspected deserters in Homs.

Friday's violence prompted a stern warning from the foreign ministers of the 22-strong 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 called on member state Syria to stop the deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.

Posted by: Fred || 10/30/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


20 Syrian Soldiers Killed in Clashes with Deserters in Homs
[An Nahar] Twenty Syrian soldiers were killed on Saturday and 53 maimed in festivities with presumed army deserters, activists said.

"Twenty soldiers perished on Saturday and 53 were maimed in festivities between the regular army and presumed deserters in the Baba Amro district of Homs," said a statement from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received in Nicosia.

Earlier, ten Syrian security agents and an army deserter were killed in a bus ambush, activists said, bringing the corpse count from the worst surge of violence in six months to more than 60.

U.N. chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
urged Syria "immediately" to end attacks on civilians following the deaths of dozens of people in a fierce crackdown on dissent by Syria's security forces on Friday, which was also condemned by the 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...
.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bus was transporting security agents between the villages of al-Habit and Kafrnabuda in Idlib province, close to the Turkish border, when it was ambushed "by gunnies, probably deserters."

The clash left 10 security agents and a deserter dead, said the Britannia-based watchdog, which earlier reported 17 soldiers killed late on Friday in the central city of Homs when gunnies, believed to be army deserters, attacked two checkpoints.

During the day on Saturday, the Observatory said, another five civilians, including a woman and a 15-year-old teenager, were killed and several maimed by gunfire from Syrian forces and snipers in the province of Homs.

Homs and Hama provinces have been at the forefront of the anti-government protests that have been brutally put down by the security forces at a cost, according to the U.N., of more than 3,000 lives, mostly civilians.

Ban's appeal came after rights activists said 36 people were killed on Friday by security forces during mass protests calling for the imposition of a Libya-style no-fly zone on Syria.

Ban "appeals for military operations against civilians to stop at once," said his front man Martin Nesirky.

"The violence is unacceptable and must stop immediately," he added. "The calls of the Syrian people for change must be answered with far-reaching reforms, not repression and violence."

Friday's violence prompted fresh condemnation from the foreign ministers of the 22-strong Arab League, which has been trying to broker an end to the unrest that has rocked Syria since anti-regime protests erupted in March.

"The Arab ministerial committee expressed its rejection of the continued killings of civilians in Syria and expressed its hope that the Syrian government will take the necessary measures to protect them," they said in a statement.

An Arab League task force met Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
on Wednesday 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 is due to hold talks Sunday in Qatar with top Syrian officials to try to reach "serious results and an exit to the Syrian crisis," it said.

The Syrian foreign ministry accused the Arab committee of stoking dissent and said that Foreign Minister Walid Muallem will "inform the committee tomorrow of the true situation in Syria," the state-run news agency
...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?...
SANA reported.

The Arab task force is being influenced by "lies spread by television channels" and should have "helped to calm (the situation) and reach a solution to ensure the security and stability of Syria instead of reviving dissent."

A defecting army officer who has taken refuge in Turkey, Colonel Riad Asaad, claimed in July to have established an opposition armed force called the "Syrian Free Army" comprising military defectors but its strength and numbers are unknown.

The latest violence was the deadliest in nearly six months to occur on a Friday, the day worshippers emerging from weekly prayers at mosques defy the security forces and swarm the streets to rally against the regime.

The bloodiest Friday was on April 22, when the corpse count reached 72.

Posted by: Fred || 10/30/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  Assad is propped up by a coalition of Christians and Shiites (Alawites). The Sunnis want to take over and turn it into an Islamic state.

They must all be destroyed. God did not promise our land to Christian scum or Muslim scum. He promised it to the Jews. We have the right to slaughter the Muslims and Christians to protect what gave us and America will help us, they will not stand a chance against our killing machine, they will be crushed.
Posted by: IsraelForTheJews || 10/30/2011 2:29 Comments || Top||

#2  I think we have a faux Jewish troll.
Posted by: phil_b || 10/30/2011 2:42 Comments || Top||



Who's in the News
33[untagged]
7Govt of Pakistan
3Govt of Syria
2TTP
1al-Shabaab
1al-Qaeda in Europe
1al-Qaeda in Arabia
1al-Qaeda in Turkey
1Islamic Jihad
1Lashkar e-Jhangvi
1Taliban
1Hezbollah

Bookmark
E-Mail Me

The Classics
The O Club
Rantburg Store
The Bloids
The Never-ending Story
Thugburg
Gulf War I
The Way We Were
Bio

Merry-Go-Blog











On Sale now!


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.
Click here for more information

Meet the Mods
In no particular order...
Steve White
Seafarious
tu3031
badanov
sherry
ryuge
GolfBravoUSMC
Bright Pebbles
trailing wife
Gloria
Fred
Besoeker
Glenmore
Frank G
3dc
Skidmark

Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2011-10-30
  Saudi Court Jails 'al-Qaida Lady' for 15 Years
Sat 2011-10-29
  13 American troops killed in Kabul suicide car bomb attack
Fri 2011-10-28
  13 More Drone-zapped in South Wazoo
Thu 2011-10-27
  Drone strike 'kills five Taliban commanders' in South Waziristan
Wed 2011-10-26
  15 Dead as Yemen Truce Fails
Tue 2011-10-25
  U.S. pulls out envoy to Syria
Mon 2011-10-24
  Interior Minister escapes suicide kaboom on trip to Panjshir
Sun 2011-10-23
  Libyan Leader Declares Nation Islamic, Sharia Law to be Implemented
Sat 2011-10-22
  Qaddafi on display in shopping center freezer
Fri 2011-10-21
  Libyan fighters hoist govt flag above captured Sirte
Thu 2011-10-20
  Qadaffy titzup
Wed 2011-10-19
  Libyans push into Qaddafi hometown from east
Tue 2011-10-18
  Shalit reunited with family, Paleo prisoners freed
Mon 2011-10-17
  Mexican Army rescues 61 kidnap victims, seizes drugs
Sun 2011-10-16
  US missiles kill six in South Waziristan

Better than the average link...



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.
54.234.146.26
Help keep the Burg running! Paypal:
WoT Background (12)    Non-WoT (13)    Opinion (3)    (0)    Politix (2)