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Merry Christmas Fred and the entire Rantburg family!
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Merry Christmas to all. Prayers for GHWB.
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A snowy Christmas greeting to all Rantburgers here in South Central Alaska. Nice snow squalls came through this morning. We appreciate the dedication and service of all military serving in far reaches of the globe. Stay safe.
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[AnNahar] Burundi said Monday they had placed in durance vile Please don't kill me! the brother of a man who was killed in La Belle France after a suspected Islamist-motivated attack.
A front man for Burundi's National Intelligence Service said Brice Nzohabonayo was detained in the capital Bujumbura shortly after his brother Bertrand Nzohabonayo attacked a cop shoppe in the central French town of Joue-les-Tours.
Bertrand Nzohabonayo was rubbed out Saturday after entering the cop shoppe armed with a knife, seriously wounding two officers -- slashing one in the face -- and hurting another.
"We arrested Brice Nzohabonayo on Saturday while he was staying with one of his uncles in Bujumbura. He had come from La Belle France and was spending several days here," intelligence front man Télesphore Bigirimana told AFP.
"He has been detained in our premises and he is being questioned," the official added, saying Burundi's intelligence service was in contact with its French counterparts.
He added that Burundi had told La Belle France last year that the two brothers -- who regularly visited Burundi -- should be considered suspect because of their holy warrior religious views.
In Saturday's incident in La Belle France, the assailant -- a French national born in Burundi in 1994-- cried "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest") during the attack
Police sources in Burundi said the brother gave no resistance as he was arrested.
Investigators said they were seeking to establish if any attacks were planned in Christian-majority Burundi -- which is a contributor to 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... force battling Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab Islamists in Somalia.
[AnNahar] At least 20 people have been killed and dozens injured in the latest inter-ethnic festivities in the Central African Republic, police said on Monday.
An official who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity said the violence broke out on Friday when mainly Christian anti-balaka militias launched an attack against rebels of the largely Moslem former Seleka ...a 'mainly' Moslem rebel force in the Central African Republic that overthrew the govt, imposed a regime of rapine and looting on the country's non-Moslem population, and was then tossed by France. They still exist, getting funding and weapons from somewhere or other, licking their wounds, complaining about the oppression of Moslems, and occasionally raping and looting someone... alliance and Peul in the central region of Bambari.
"At least 12 people were killed in that attack," the official said.
He said ex-Seleka rebels and armed Peul herders -- also known as the Fulani -- launched a reprisal attack on Saturday on the village of Kouango, 90 kilometers (55 miles) south, killing at least eight people, injuring dozens and setting several homes on fire.
"Many residents fled to the bush and others sought refuge in the capital Bangui where hundreds of people from both regions have arrived in recent months," the official said.
Bambari, which lies near the dividing line separating the Christian south from the northern region controlled by ex-Seleka rebels, has been the scene of fierce festivities that have left more than 100 people dead and at least 200 injured since June.
Last week 28 people were killed in sectarian festivities in Mbres, just days after a reconciliation ceremony organized by the U.N. peacekeeping mission there.
The former French colony that is diamond-rich but dirt poor has suffered numerous coups and bouts of instability since independence in 1960, but the March 2013 toppling of Francois Bozize's regime by the Seleka rebel coalition triggered the worst upheaval to date.
Relentless attacks by the mainly Moslem rebels on the majority Christian population spurred the formation of vigilante groups, who in turn began exacting Dire Revenge on Moslem civilians, driving them out of most parts of the country.
Several thousand people were killed in the tit-for-tat attacks, which plunged the population of 4.8 million into an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.
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"A rich and storied cultural history, including coups, massacres, tribal infighting, starvation and malnourishment, religious animosity, underlain by a despicable economic practice of digging up precious stones for their western oppressors"
see? I can do it too.
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In infidel seas, Muslim islands
Are Meccas for tit-for-tat violence,
But how this came to pass
And who first kicked whose ass
Must be modestly shrouded in silence.
[AnNahar] An Australian man was charged Wednesday with possessing documents connected to a planned terrorist attack on government targets in Sydney as police insisted people should not be afraid.
Sulayman Khalid, 20, was tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! following raids last week which uncovered a large number of documents, a rifle, and two shotguns.
He was charged with being in "possession of documents designed to facilitate a terrorist attack", while a 21-year-old was accused of breaching a control order issued by a judge.
Their arrests come on the back of a series of pre-dawn raids across Sydney and Brisbane in September as concern mounts about the flow of people to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group and other jihadists.
After that operation, police said they had foiled a plot to "commit violent acts" in Australia, including a plan to behead a member of the public.
More than 70 Australians are currently fighting for Islamic Death Eaters overseas. At least 20 have died and there are fears that increasing numbers of youths are being radicalised and could mount attacks at home.
"Certainly the documents talked a little bit about potential government targets," said Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner for National Security Michael Phelan.
He said the targets were in Sydney, but did not go into detail.
"I am confident that we've disrupted the activity that they were planning. And that is all I'm prepared to say at this particular point."
Khalid was remanded in jug and will face court again in February. The second man has yet to appear in court.
The arrests follow warnings on Tuesday by Prime Minister Tony Abbott of heightened "terrorist chatter" in the aftermath of a fatal cafe siege in Sydney's financial hub last week.
Iranian-born gunman Man Haron Monis, who had a history of extremism and violence, took 17 hostages in the city's financial heartland, unveiling an Islamic flag.
He was killed as armed police stormed the eatery after 16 hours. Two hostages also died -- mother-of-three Katrina Dawson, 38, and 34-year-old Lindt cafe manager Tori Johnson -- while several were maimed.
"A briefing from the security agencies today indicated that there has been a heightened level of terrorist chatter in the aftermath of the Martin Place siege," Abbott said Tuesday.
"That's why it's important that people remain alert and aware as well as reassured that our police and security agencies are doing everything they humanly can to keep us safe."
- Ideology linked to IS -
Australia has not officially branded the Sydney siege a terrorist attack and Abbott declined to speculate on any potential new threat.
Phelan said police had been monitoring a particular group of between 15 and 20 people with 11 of them charged since the September raids, some for "serious terrorism offences".
"It is a group of people here in Sydney that we've been actively monitoring for a long period of time now and any action they take we want to try to get ahead of them," he said.
Asked if they had a name, he replied: "No. Certainly their ideology is linked to IS overseas."
Phelan added that they had no direct link with Monis but "certainly since the tragic events of last week, this group had ongoing conversations and activity".
Australia raised its threat level to high in September, which means an attack is likely.
New South Wales Police Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn stressed people should not be afraid.
"This should not disrupt our way of life in any measure at all," she said.
"We're clearly vigilant and everybody should be vigilant. However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... I think that the activity that we have undertaken has put us in a very, very good position."
Following the cafe siege, security across Sydney was stepped up with hundreds more officers on the streets.
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Bastards!
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Not much west of Memphis but this would shutdown a LOT of produce moving east as well as all of the barge traffic until they could get one channel dredged.
[DAWN] A special court on Wednesday remanded leader of banned outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... Malik Ishaq in judicial custody for two weeks in a murder case.
Ishaq was produced before Special Magistrate Ghulam Mujtaba Baloch in a murder and terrorism case lodged with Airport Police Station (Rahim Yar Khan).
The FIR No. 245/14 had been lodged on Oct 14, 2014 on the complaint of Husain Abbas, son of Allah Ditta, who was killed in a sectarian attack. The case was lodged under Pakistain Protection Act 2014. The court had rejected physical remand, observing that physical remand of a suspect who was booked on charges of abetment, could not be granted.
The court has granted 14-day judicial remand of the suspect and fixed Jan 7 the next date of hearing.
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[DAWN] An anti-terrorism court on Wednesday issued death warrants of two condemned prisoners convicted on terrorism charges.
Presiding judge Muhammad Qasim issued the warrants on an application of superintendent of Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... jail.
The superintendent stated that condemned prisoner Faiz Ahmad was awarded death penalty in 2006 for killing Lance Naik Tariq Mahmood in Nankana Sahib.
He said the appeal of the convict against the sentence was also dismissed by the superior courts.
He said the second prisoner on death row, Muhammad Sharif, was convicted in 2000 for involvement in various terrorism activities. The jail chief pointed out that mercy petitions of the convicts had also been rejected by President. Therefore, he asked the court to issue death warrants of the convicts for their execution. The court allowed the application and issued the death warrants.
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GUWAHATI: Police in northeast India fired on Wednesday on demonstrators protesting against the killings of dozens of people by tribal guerrillas, killing five of them. Militants fighting for a separate homeland for indigenous Bodo tribesmen went on a killing spree in Assam state on Tuesday, killing 51 people in four attacks in the space of an hour, the deadliest violence in months.
The victims of the guerrilla attacks were mostly tea-plantation workers from other parts of India. Assam has a history of sectarian bloodshed and armed groups fighting for autonomy or secession.
Hundreds of plantation workers armed with spears and bows and arrows defied a curfew imposed in response to the rebel attacks and surrounded police stations in Sonitpur district, the area worst hit by the militant violence, saying authorities had failed to protect them.
Some protesters set fire to shops and others blocked a railway line and roads. Police said they had to disperse the crowds.
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[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] The corpse count in the Bodoland violence rose to 76 on Wednesday with the recovery of more bodies, Adivasi miscreants killing five Bodos in Chirang and Sonitpur districts and death of three Adivasi protesters in police firing in Sonitpur district.
Over 5,000 people belonging to Adivasi and Bodo communities have left their homes and taken shelter in schools and churches in the affected districts. State agriculture minister Nilamani Sen Deka, who was in Kokrajhar to oversee setting up of relief camps, said six relief camps have been set up in which there are about 3,000 inmates from both the communities.
Security forces have launched an operation to flush out 80-odd cadres of the Songbijit faction of National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) who are responsible for Tuesday's carnage.
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[IraqiNews.com] On Wednesday, a security source in Kirkuk province said, that dozens of ISIS forces of Evil were reported as casualties in an air strike by the US-led coalition warplanes in Kirkuk.
The source informed IraqiNews, ?The US-led coalition warplanes conducted an air strike against ISIS sites in al-Rashad, al-Riyad, al-Multaqa and Maktib Khaled areas in southwest of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... ? adding that, ?The air strike resulted in killing and injuring dozens of ISIS forces of Evil in addition to destroying armored vehicles and arms shelters for the group.?
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Nothing wrong with Antarcticans. Antarcticans are cool.
[IraqiNews.com] On Wednesday, a security source in Salahuddin province said, that the security forces regained control over two areas after festivities with ISIS bandidosforces of Evil near the southern of Tikrit.
The source, who requested anonymity, told IraqiNews, ?The security forces accompanied with armed volunteers have managed to liberate Albu-Harin area of southern Yathrib and al-Tarisha area of eastern al-Mutasim,? pointing out that, ?The operation also resulted in killing 27 bandidosforces of Evil and removing 40 explosives planted on the side of the roads.?
Noteworthy, festivities between Iraqi forces and the ISIS group bandidosforces of Evil in Salahuddin province are constantly taking place in and around the areas of Tikrit, Samarra, Biji, Yathrib, Balad and al-Daluwiya.
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[IraqiNews.com] On Wednesday, Kurdish Peshmerga forces have managed to kill the ISIS army commander in Syria during festivities in Kobani, according to SkyNews Arabia.
In an urgent broadcast, SkyNews Arabia reported, ?The ISIS military commander in Syria, known as Abu Mus?ab al-Rammali, has been killed in festivities with Kurdish fighters in the town of Ain al-Arab (Kobani).?
Noteworthy, the Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament has authorized Kurdish President Massoud al-Barzani to send groups of Kurdish Peshmerga forces to fight ISIS in the Syrian town of Kobani.
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A Christmas present from the Kurds to the entire human race.
Al
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Hear, hear, Al!
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The Kurds, once known as the Medes, are referenced in the Christian bible in several places and are part of several major Christian related events, past and future, spanning several millinea.
The 3 Magi who came to honor the birth of Christ, also referred to as the wise men were Medes/Kurds. They were from the Magian society of the Medes.
Both Old Testament prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah and the new testament Apostle John in the book of Revelations foretell that the Kurds will destroy the restored city of Babylon South of Baghdad in Iraq, on the Euphrates with the help of many nations, in one day.
Isaiah 13:17 See, I will stir up against them the Medes, who do not care for silver and have no delight in gold.
Isaiah 14:16-17 Those who see you stare at you, they ponder your fate: "Is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble, the man who made the world a wilderness, who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home?"
Revelations 18:21 “Thus with violence the great city Babylon shall be thrown down, and shall not be found anymore."
It will not be inhabitable even for grazing of livestock from that point on afterwards. Why? Because it is referred to as the seat of Satan in Christian scripture, its destruction will be total and complete, its land uninhabitable.
That is the greatest military mission yet to be carried out by the Kurds.
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Iraqi government did not assist the Kurds in retaking Sengal. Kurdish President Barzani has said that the Kurds will not be responsible for liberating Mosul, Iraq from ISIS.
[IraqiNews.com] The Ministry of Defense announced killing 11 ISIL bully boyz of southern Fallujah.
A statement by the MoD received by IraqiNews.com cited ?The security forces managed to defuse some Improvised Explosive Devices and killed 11 ISIL bully boyz in Jisr al-Mowadhafeen of southern Fallujah.?
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[IraqiNews.com] Security official assured that ?The ISIL bully boyz bombarded Baghdadi district of western Anbar province with mortar shells loaded with chlorine gas.?
The official added that ?Baghdadi district suffers from lack of food staff, medical supplies and milk for children which caused death for four children.?
?The bully boyz of the ISIL stopped the water pumps which provide the district with water,? the official mentioned.
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[IraqiNews.com] On Wednesday, a source within the police force said, that the bomb that targeted the 42nd division headquarters of the army in al-Madaen area has killed 43 soldiers and injured 61 others in southern Baghdad.
The source informed IraqiNews, ?The bomb went off near a gathering for al-Sahwa elements in al-Madaen area of southern Baghdad, killing 42 soldiers and injuring 61 others,? adding that, ?The injuries were transported to a near hospital to receive medical treatment, with some who have been critically injured in the kaboom.?
[EDITION.CNN] A jacket wallah killed 38 people and maimed dozens more in a town near Baghdad on Wednesday, police said.
The attacker detonated explosives near Awakening Council members in al-Madaan, a town roughly 20 kilometers southeast of Baghdad, as they were collecting their monthly paychecks at the council's headquarters.
The Awakening Councils are predominantly made up of Sunni Arab fighters in Iraq who turned against al Qaeda in late 2006.
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Two Israelis were seriously injured after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at their vehicle near the entrance to the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Shomron on Thursday evening, according to initial reports.
The two managed to escape the burning car, but the 11-year-old girl suffered serious burn wounds and her father, 40, was lightly injured.
Magen David Adom paramedics evacuated the injured to Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer.
According to Channel 2, the girl suffered from burns that covered half of her body.
[Ynet] Israeli security forces stopped four Palestinians carrying pipe bombs on Wednesday at a checkpoint near Jenin. Additional forces were deployed to the scene, including a sapper to neutralize the explosive devices.
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At approximately 3 pm, soldiers heard an explosion near the security checkpoint and identified four suspects upon arriving at the location. They performed the procedure for arresting suspects ? discovering pipe bombs hidden under their clothes.
During the initial investigation on the ground, the suspects confessed to intending to commit an attack against security personnel. The four Jenin residents were transferred for additional investigation by the Shin Bet.
A Border Guard company commander, Superintendent Benny Zakai, praised the officers for "being alert and responding quickly" to prevent the attack. "We maintain a high level of operational preparation, knowing that these types of incidents could happen anytime and anywhere."
New People's Army militants seized a jail warden in the southern Philippines. Police said that Jose Coquilla was heading to church with his wife on a private vehicle when militants intercepted them late Tuesday in Panabo City in Davao del Norte province. Coquilla's wife was freed by the militants. There was no immediate statement from the separatist militants.
Coquilla's abduction came a day after insurgents clashed with troops in Agusan del Sur’s Buenavista town. The militants were planting a homemade bomb on the village of Rizal when soldiers on patrol spotted them and a gun battle broke out.
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
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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.
And Happy(belated) Hanukkah.
[DAWN] A special court on Wednesday remanded leader of banned outfit 
New People's Army militants seized a jail warden in the southern Philippines. Police said that Jose Coquilla was heading to church with his wife on a private vehicle when militants intercepted them late Tuesday in Panabo City in Davao del Norte province. Coquilla's wife was freed by the militants. There was no immediate statement from the separatist militants.
