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Ship, if you want to see some good looking dogs, and see a bit of Christmas outback Australian style as well, go to Facebook and search for "station photo's" .
And Merry Christmas to all Burgers everywhere.
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Merry Christmas to all, even the assholes overseas. (That out to twist their Turbans)
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The True Christmas - Henry Vaughan (1678)
So stick up ivy and the bays,
And then restore the heathen ways.
Green will remind you of the spring,
Though this great day denies the thing.
And mortifies the earth and all
But your wild revels, and loose hall.
Could you wear flowers, and roses strow
Blushing upon your breasts warm snow,
That very dress your lightness will
Rebuke, and wither at the ill.
The brightness of this day we owe
Not unto music, masque, nor show:
Nor gallant furniture, nor plate;
But to the mangers mean estate.
His life while here, as well as birth,
Was but a check to pomp and mirth;
And all mans greatness you may see
Condemned by His humility.
Then leave your open house and noise,
To welcome Him with holy joys,
And the poor shepherds watchfulness:
Whom light and hymns from heaven did bless.
What you abound with, cast abroad
To those that want, and ease your load.
Who empties thus, will bring more in;
But riot is both loss and sin.
Dress finely what comes not in sight,
And then you keep your Christmas right.
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Merry Christmas everyone!
Fred, Your blog started as an WOT information blog and has grown into something mush bigger. I never thought I would make some lifelong friends from visiting your site. Some I traveled cross country for a rantapaloza at Deacons home while other I hope to meet someday! Thanks for all the effort you have given over the years! I, for one, greatly appreciate you for this. Thanks!
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NYT: KABUL, Afghanistan -- A pair of rockets fired by the Taliban struck the United States Embassy in Kabul shortly before dawn on Wednesday, sending hundreds of American diplomats and aid workers based at the mission scrambling into fortified bunkers to start their Christmas Day, the embassy said.
There were no reports of casualties at the embassy. But Afghan officials said that another two rockets hit other parts of the city and that three police officers were wounded when one of the rockets, which had not exploded on impact, detonated as they were trying to defuse it.
The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for the attack. Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the insurgents, posted a message on his Twitter feed saying the Taliban had hit the American Embassy with four rockets and inflicted heavy casualties. But the Taliban routinely exaggerate the effectiveness of their attacks, and the embassy said no one there had been killed or wounded.
Mr. Mujahid made no reference in his Twitter post to the attack's occurring on Christmas Day. The holiday carries little significance in Afghanistan, where there are almost no Christians, and the Taliban more commonly try to time headline-grabbing attacks to Islamic holidays.
The embassy said it was assessing any damage that might have been caused by the rockets. It was not immediately clear which part of the sprawling and well-fortified compound in the center of the city had been hit or if any part of the embassy had been damaged. Staff members at the embassy were given the all-clear to move around the compound about two hours after the attack, which took place around 6:40 a.m.
[Tolo News] Seven forces of Evil were killed and eight were maimed during a series of coordinated operations over the past 24 hours carried out by the Afghan National Army (ANA), Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of Security (NDS), the Afghan Ministry of Interior said in a statement on Tuesday.
Eight other forces of Evil were locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! during the operations.
"In the past 24 hours, Afghan National Police conducted several anti-terrorism joint operations with Afghan National Army and NDS to clean some of the areas from bully boyz and enemies of peace and stability of Afghanistan," the statement said.
The operations were conducted in Laghman, Kandahar, Wardak, and Farah provinces.
The ANP reportedly confiscated light and heavy rounds of ammunition and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) as well.
"During the same 24 hour period, the Afghan National Police discovered and defused two different types of IEDs placed by enemies of Afghanistan for destructive activities in Faryab province," the statement added.
The statement did not report any casualties amongst the Afghan forces or local civilian populations.
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Now all they have to do is continue doing this for two generations.
Mogadishu -- Burundi troops who are part of African mission peacekeeping troops in Somalia conducted security operations in most suburbs in Mogadishu early today morning in efforts to heighten security in the capital, Mogadishu.
The early operations took place at Ex control Afgoye ,Siliga Amerikanka, Sebiano and Nastexo suburbs. During the operations, the major roads and streets of the above suburbs were heavily guarded by the troops who conducted house to house operations resulting to the arrests of many people of which majority of them were youth.
An eyewitness who talked to Shabelle radio via the telephone told us that the operations were conducted after two incidents of explosions occurred in Siliga Amerikanka and Sebiano suburbs in Mogadishu.
Government officials in Darkenley and Hodan districts which come under the above suburbs are yet to comment on todays early operations.
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[An Nahar] A Libyan soldier was rubbed out and a civilian maimed by a bomb under his car in separate attacks in the eastern city of Benghazi on Tuesday, medics and security sources said.
"A soldier from the Libyan army was killed and a civilian was seriously maimed," a security source said.
The soldier belonged to the Saiqa special forces unit and was shot five times by unknown attackers
Later, the 23-year-old son of a senior navy officer was seriously maimed by a bomb placed underneath his car in the city center.
The victim's father, Commander Rafaa al-Awami is in Russia for training and had recently received threats, a security source said, without elaborating.
Surgeons had to amputate the young man's foot, said Fadia al-Barghathi, spokeswoman for the city's Al-Jala hospital.
In Ajdabiya, south of Benghazi, security forces defused an bomb attached to the car of a woman said to have been linked to the regime of the late dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...The late megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland... , a local source told AFP.
Benghazi, cradle of the 2011 uprising that toppled Qadaffy, has been caught in spiraling violence since his fall.
A special forces soldier who had been acting as imam at a barracks in the city was maimed on Monday when gunnies opened fire on him, a member of his unit said.
Militants in the city have targeted judges, members of the security forces, local government officials and journalists in recent months.
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Along with This Week in Guns, I think it's time for Rantburg to run a daily chart of street violence in the world's urban centers. We know Chicago and DC beat Karachi and Baghdad except on days when a car bomb goes off...
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That's not a bad idea. I'd make it weekly, though.
#3
Having sited This Week in Guns, my attention span went south as I typed the rest of the comment. Yeah, I suspect I meant weekly chart, but with my short attention span, I can't remember for sure...
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"We know Chicago and DC beat Karachi and Baghdad except on days when a car bomb goes off."
Tijuana for that matter, considering the bad press TJ gets.
[USATODAY] A powerful kaboom believed to be caused by a boom-mobiledestroyed a police headquarters in a Nile Delta city north of Cairo early on Tuesday, killing 12 people and wounding more than 100, leaving scores buried under the rubble.
The country's interim government accused the Moslem Brüderbund of orchestrating the attack, branding it a "terrorist organization."
It was the first major bombing in the Nile Delta, spreading the carnage that has marked Egypt's turmoil over the past months to a new area and bringing it closer to Cairo. Previous deadly violence has mostly taken place in the volatile Sinai Peninsula and in Suez Canal-area cities east of the Egyptian capital.
The 1:10 a.m. blast struck at the security headquarters in the city of Mansoura, 70 miles north of Cairo in the Nile Delta province of Daqahliya, collapsing an entire section and side wall of the five-floor building, incinerating dozens of cars outside and damaging several nearby buildings.
The state news agency MENA said 12 people were killed, including eight coppers, and that 134 were maimed, among them the city's security chief and his assistant. Most of the victims were coppers, many of whom were buried beneath the debris.
News Agency that Dare Not be Named video from the scene showed bulldozers clearing the rubble outside the security headquarters, as charred and wrecked cars littered the street.
Egypt's Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim toured the scene of the kaboom at daybreak, pledging that the police will "continue their battle against the dark terrorist forces that tried to tamper with the country's security," then went to hospital to visit the maimed.
MENA quoted Cabinet front man Sherif Shawki as saying that the Brotherhood showed its "ugly face as a terrorist organization, shedding blood and messing with Egypt's security."
Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi described the attack as a "terrorist incident," expressed condolences to the families of the victims and vowed that the perpetrators "will not escape justice."
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its probably not the Bruderbund as that group has never done a car bombing like this before
however, the fact that the locals immediately blamed the bruderbund is fine with me
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[GLOBALTIMES.CN] The Nigerian defense authority on Monday said more than 70 people have been killed in festivities between the army and members of the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Death Eater group in the northeast, following last Friday pre-dawn attacks on a military barracks in Bama town.
"Over 50 of them (Boko Haram) died in the course of exchange of fire with ground troops in the ongoing operations to apprehend fleeing terrorists," Major General Chris Olukolade, the defense director of information, said in a statement obtained by Xinhua.
He said the military also lost 15 soldiers mostly from the attack while some died during the pursuit, adding that a total of five civilians also died during the attack.
According to Olukolade, the military operations led to the destruction of over 20 vehicles conveying escaping Death Eaters.
He added that the vehicles were the ones used during the attack on the barracks and were sighted through air surveillance as the Death Eaters were making efforts to cross the borders back to their haven in Cameroon.
Last Friday, the military said Bama barracks was attacked by Death Eaters who came from cells located across Nigerian Border with Cameroon through Banki town, adding that high caliber weapons such as anti-aircraft and rocket propelled guns were freely used in the attack that lasted several hours.
Bama town, about 65 km from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, had suffered numerous attacks from Boko Haram bad boys, forcing some residents to flee.
Many residents were killed in May when suspected Death Eaters raided Bama Town, killing mostly children and women.
Violence has intensified in northeastern Nigeria since President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... ordered his security forces in May to crush Boko Haram's four-year-old rebellion.
The Nigerian forces have been raiding Death Eater camps and launching air and ground attacks on suspected hideouts of the Death Eaters over the past two months.
Borno State, located in Nigeria's northeast region, is a flashpoint of attacks perpetrated by Boko Haram since 2009, when the sect launched its insurgency targeting churches, security facilities, schools and villages.
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Dhaka - Plainclothes police arrested seven alleged notorious criminals and recovered huge explosives from Khilgaon area here on Sunday night.
Tipped off
...another 5000 rupee note with our thanks to Mahmoud the Weasel...
a team of DB police conducted a drive at East Goran under Khilgaon Police Station and arrested the seven along with 8 kgs of explosives on Sunday night.
According to the DB police, they conducted the drive following repeated subversive acts, including crude bomb explosions and arson attacks on vehicles by exploding petrol bombs in different areas of the capital.
During preliminary interrogation, arrested Rana confessed that he had received training on bomb making from bomb-making instructor of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.
He then confessed to the Lindbergh kidnapping and to being on the grassy knoll...
The detectives said some 150 bombs could be made from the recovered explosives and the arrestees have so far made crude bombs using 42 kgs of explosives.
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[Pak Daily Times] KARACHI: At least four people, including a woman were killed in separate incidents of violence across the metropolis on Tuesday.
In the first incident, a man was rubbed out near Saifi College within the jurisdiction of North Nazimabad cop shoppe
Police said that victim, Mohammad Ashraf, 28, son of Mohammad Siddiq was on his way, when armed riders shot him dead.
His body was taken to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for an appointment with Dr. Quincy. The victim used to drive a rickshaw and hailed from Rahim Yar Khan. Police has yet to ascertain the motive behind his killing.
In another incident, a man was bumped off in Baldia Town No 9 within the vicinity of Saeedabad cop shoppe.
Police said that deceased identified as Saeed Jumma, 50, was on his way when unidentified gunnies shot and killed him. The body was shifted to hospital for an appointment with Dr. Quincy. The motive behind the incident has not been ascertained yet, and further investigations are underway, police said.
Separately, a woman was rubbed out insider her house situated in the slum area of New Muzaffarabad Colony within the precincts of Quaidabad cop shoppe.
According to initial investigations, the woman, identified as Rabia, 40, wife of Bahadur Ali, was killed by her own son over some family dispute. The accused later escaped after committing the crime. Victim's body was shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for an appointment with Dr. Quincy.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, the little lost dog backed into the corner and showed its teeth. And what big teeth they were!... police have found a body wrapped in a cloth from Gulshan-e-Ghazi within the remits of Ittehad Town cop shoppe.
Police said that on being informed police rushed to the spot and shifted the body to the hospital and later moved to morgue for identification. Police said the motive couldn't be ascertained till the victim was identified.
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[FOXNEWS] A Pak security official says a bomb was found along the route the country's former ruler Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... was to take to attend the first hearing in his high treason trial.
Mohammed Ali says the bomb and two pistols were found about one kilometer (half mile) away from Musharraf's residence in the Islamabad suburbs.
As a result, Musharraf did not attend the brief hearing held Tuesday morning in the capital of Islamabad. A judge delayed the hearing until January 1 and directed Musharraf to appear that day.
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[An Nahar] A bomb struck the acting Iraqi defense minister's convoy west of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... on Tuesday, wounding two of his guards, the ministry said.
The roadside kaboom hit Saadun al-Dulaimi's convoy as it traveled between Fallujah and Ramadi, "wounding two of his guards and damaging one of the vehicles," the ministry said on its website.
It did not specify whether or not Dulaimi was travelling in the convoy, but a senior defense ministry official told Agence La Belle France Presse that he was not present at the time of the attack.
The bombing comes after five senior officers, among them a divisional commander, and 10 other soldiers were killed on Saturday during an operation against gunnies in Anbar, the same province in which Dulaimi's convoy was travelling when it was attacked.
The Iraqi government responded by launching an operation dubbed "Avenge the Leader Mohammed," named after the divisional commander who was killed.
"Military operations are continuing in Anbar 24 hours per day, and we are focusing on areas near the border," the bigwig said, adding there was a major deployment along the Syrian border to stop the movement of gunnies and weapons.
On Monday, defense ministry front man Mohammed al-Askari said Iraqi forces had destroyed two bad turban camps in Anbar.
Such camps have proliferated in areas near the border with neighboring Syria, where a brutal civil war has bolstered bad turban groups and fueled violence in Iraq, Askari said at the weekend.
Speaking to AFP, he said aerial photographs and other information pointed to "the arrival of weapons and advanced equipment from Syria to the desert of western Anbar and the border of Nineveh province".
This has encouraged al-Qaeda-linked gunnies to "revive some of their camps that were eliminated by security forces in 2008 and 2009," Askari said, adding that aerial photos showed 11 bad turban camps near the border with Syria.
"Photographs and intelligence information indicate that whenever there is pressure on gangs in Syria, they withdraw to Iraq... to regroup and then carry out terrorist operations in the two countries," Askari said.
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[An Nahar] A three-year-old Paleostinian girl was killed in an Israeli raid on the Gazoo Strip after the fatal shooting Tuesday of an Israeli near the Gazoo border, in the latest uptick in Israeli-Paleostinian violence.
Cross-border exchanges between Israel and Gazoo have increased in recent days, and Israel said Tuesday it held Islamist movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, responsible, as rulers of the Paleostinian enclave, for any fire directed from there at the Jewish state.
Paleostinian medics named the dead girl as Hala Abu Sabikha from a refugee camp in the central Gazoo Strip.
They said at least six other people had been maimed in the series of tank and air strikes throughout Gazoo, including on myrmidon positions.
The Israeli army said its aircraft, tanks and infantry "targeted terror sites in the Gazoo Strip."
"The sites included a weapon-manufacturing facility and a terror infrastructure in the southern Gazoo Strip, a terror site and another terror infrastructure in the central Gazoo Strip and a concealed rocket launcher in the northern Gazoo Strip."
The army said the attacks were in retaliation for the shooting of an Israeli man who was engaged in maintenance work on the Israel-Gazoo border fence in the northern Gazoo Strip.
A police spokeswoman identified him as Saleh Abu Latif, 22, a Bedouin from the southern town of Rahat.
The army said Abu Latif was the "first Israeli civilian killed in the vicinity of the Gazoo Strip" since a major eight-day outbreak of fighting in and around Gazoo in November 2012.
Just ahead of the air strikes, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel would respond "forcefully" to the attack.
On Monday, the army said troops had fired at an individual "trying to place a bomb" near the fence in northern Gazoo.
Earlier the same day, police reported a rocket fired from the Hamas-ruled coastal enclave had hit southern Israel without causing any casualties or damage.
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Ever notice how within minutes of any Israeli retaliation, immediately it is known that it was a child that was hit, their age, sex, their name...their entire family tree, ...everything.
Doesn't pass the smell test.
Why are so many Pali civilians around military targets?
Or is it on purpose they are settled there.
Or the Israelis are 12,367 out of 12,367 targeting civilians and 0/0 missing every military target they try for??
Me thinks it's mostly Palywwod antics !!
Don't believe anything they say until it is independently verified.
[NY Times] An Israeli laborer who was repairing the security fence along the border with Gazoo was fatally shot on Tuesday by a Paleostinian sniper, according to the Israeli military, and Israel immediately responded with Arclight airstrikes, tank and infantry fire against targets it associated with bully boy groups in the Paleostinian coastal territory.
A Paleostinian girl, Hala Abu Sbeikha, 3, was killed and at least four of her relatives were maimed when a shell landed in front of their home in the Maghazi refugee camp in the central part of Gazoo, according to local hospital officials.
The deaths were the latest in a growing wave of Israeli-Paleostinian violence that is accompanying the difficult, American-brokered peace talks now underway. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel had warned that the killing of the laborer would not go unanswered and that Israel would "respond with force." He spoke during a visit earlier Tuesday to Sderot, the Israeli town about a mile from the Gazoo border that has been subjected to Paleostinian rocket fire for years.
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[An Nahar] Syrian air strikes killed 15 people, including three children, in Aleppo on Tuesday, as the regime pressed a blistering nine-day bombing campaign that has killed hundreds, a monitoring group said.
One activist in Aleppo described the past nine days as "the most violent in the whole of the Syrian revolution," a civil war that has claimed more than 126,000 lives since March 2011 and displaced millions of people.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented the killing of 364 people, among them 105 children, 33 women and 30 fighters, in the massive air campaign in and around Aleppo, the country's second city and onetime commercial hub.
On Tuesday Syrian aircraft targeted Sukkari, a rebel district in southeastern Aleppo city, as well as Urum al-Kubra in Atareb, northwest of the picturesque provincial capital, according to the Observatory, a Britannia-based group that relies on a network of witnesses inside Syria.
Activists also reported an Arclight airstrike against Aazaz, on Syria's border with Turkey.
Video footage distributed by Shahba Press, a network of activists in the region, showed men covered in dust carrying a woman through a destroyed street in the Sukkari neighborhood.
Other men carried out a baby and an older child, all survivors of the bombing.
The Observatory called on "the international community, the U.N. secretary general and anyone with a conscience to take immediate action to stop these indiscriminate killings of Syrian civilians."
The group added: "If they do not react, the Observatory will consider them to be complicit... in the massacres that are being committed in Syria each day."
Aleppo has been divided into regime and rebel-held enclaves since the opposition launched a massive offensive in July last year.
Rebel areas have since suffered frequent bombardment, but an activist in Aleppo told AFP via the Internet that the latest attacks are unprecedented.
"The past 10 days in Aleppo have been the most violent in the whole of the Syrian revolution," said Mohammad Wissam, a 19-year-old activist.
"When the planes come, people freeze, they stand, look up at the sky, and wait for the bombing, feeling helpless.
"Then when the bombing starts, so does the panic. People run aimlessly in all directions, looking for anywhere to hide, but there is nowhere to hide. So many people are getting trapped under the rubble of collapsing buildings," Wissam told AFP.
"When the helicopters start launching the TNT-packed barrels, it's like madness grips everyone... The bombing is random."
The opposition National Coalition on Monday warned it would boycott peace talks slated for January if the bombing of Aleppo does not cease.
Rights groups have widely condemned the use of TNT-packed barrels dropped from helicopters as unlawful because they fail to discriminate between civilians and combatants.
But a security source in Damascus on Tuesday defended the military's operations to "save Aleppo."
"We do not target any area unless we are 100 percent sure that the ones there are terrorists," the source said, using the regime's term for the rebels.
"The bodies you see on television are the bodies of Death Eaters and mercenaries, most of whom traveled into Syria from abroad."
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"We do not target any area unless we are 100 percent sure that the ones there are terrorists," the source said, using the regime's term for the rebels.
Or put another way The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights uses the term rebels when referring to terrorists. But to avoid confusion the press just calls them activists.
[An Nahar] Syria accused rebels Tuesday of recently attacking two sites where chemical arms were stored, state news agency SANA quoted a foreign ministry source as saying.
The attacks on December 21 came just as preparations were being made for the arms at the sites to be destroyed outside Syria under a U.N. resolution decreeing the elimination of the country's chemical arsenal, the source said.
"On December 21, 2013, armed terrorist groups staged a major attack against one of the sites, located in central Syria... but the authorities fought back and the attack failed," said the source, using the regime's term "terrorists" to refer to rebels.
The source did not say where in central Syria the site was located.
He also said rebels, among them Al-Nusra Front jihadists and the Salafist Jaysh al-Islam, attacked a second site in Damascus province.
They "tried to attack it using an armored vehicle loaded with large amounts of explosives, but troops tasked with guarding the site fought them off and detonated the (vehicle) before it made it in."
The attack, he added, killed four regulars and maimed another 28.
"Attempts (to attack) these sites are ongoing," said the source.
Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind... he accused states that back the Syrian opposition of "leaking" information on the location of chemical weapons sites "and of encouraging the hard boyz to attack" them.
The source did not specify which countries, but Damascus has systematically blamed violence in Syria on a "foreign conspiracy" fueled mainly by the West, Gulf countries Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Qatar, and Turkey.
"Syria holds these countries... responsible for the danger... and for the catastrophic consequences" that such "leaks" could have, said the source.
The ministry source called on the U.N. and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to "make every possible effort for these irresponsible countries to stop their practices."
The OPCW has been working in Syria since October to eliminate its massive chemical stockpile after a U.N. Security Council resolution decreed the deadly arms must be destroyed.
The resolution followed a U.S.-Russian deal that averted a military strike against regime targets, after a massive chemical attack on rebel-held areas near Damascus killed hundreds on August 21.
The regime and its allies in Russia and Iran have systematically blamed rebels for the attacks, while the opposition and its supporters blamed Assad loyalists.
The U.N. concluded earlier this month that chemical weapons were used at least five times in the country's war before Syria agreed to dismantle its arsenal.
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A new round of Syrian government air raids on rebel-held areas of the northern city of Aleppo killed at least 15 people on Tuesday, including three children, activists said.
The strikes extended the furious aerial assault by President Bashar Assads warplanes and helicopters on the embattled city into its tenth day. Activists say more than 360 people were killed in the first nine days of the campaign, which began Dec. 15.
Tuesdays airstrikes hit the rebel-held Sukkari neighbourhood of Aleppo, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, which said at least 15 were killed.
Another activist group, the Aleppo Media Center, said at least 33 people were killed and 150 were wounded. Disparate death tolls are common in the chaotic aftermath of such attacks.
The Aleppo Media Centre said the strikes were carried out by jets and helicopters, and hit at least three sites, causing extensive damage, toppling apartment buildings and setting houses and cars ablaze.
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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.
Goodluck Jonathan
[Pak Daily Times] KARACHI: At least four people, including a woman were killed in separate incidents of violence across the metropolis on Tuesday. 
Pervez 
[An Nahar] A three-year-old Paleostinian girl was killed in an Israeli raid on the 
[An Nahar] Syrian air strikes killed 15 people, including three children, in Aleppo on Tuesday, as the regime pressed a blistering nine-day bombing campaign that has killed hundreds, a monitoring group said.
A new round of Syrian government air raids on rebel-held areas of the northern city of Aleppo killed at least 15 people on Tuesday, including three children, activists said.
