[Ynet] A new UN report says more than 3,000 villages were destroyed in Darfur during targeted attacks on civilians early last year as hundreds of thousands of people fled the escalating violence.
The panel of experts report circulated Friday found multiple arms embargo and sanctions violations by Sudan's government in the chaotic western region. Violations included using ammunition manufactured in Khartoum and an armored personnel carrier.
Periodically we check in on Sudan, to see how things are progressing. Yet again, they haven't.
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[AnNahar] A bomb in Cairo maimed four coppers and a civilian Friday, officials said.
It was the second in the capital in as many days, after an kaboommaimed a police officer late Thursday outside the Al-Qubba presidential palace.
The bomb went kaboom! in the Alf Maskan district, where the injured coppers were stationed to confront expected protests by Islamist opposition activists.
A civilian was also maimed, state news agency MENA said quoting the health ministry.
The blast came ahead of Sunday's fourth anniversary of the outbreak of an 18-day uprising that drove former president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... from power 2011.
[Iran Press TV] A young woman has been shot and killed during an anti-government protest in Egypt's second city of Alexandria.
According to an Egyptian security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the 18-year-old female protester was killed and her mother suffered wounds during the demonstration after Friday Prayers in the Mediterranean city.
Egyptian soldiers targeted the victim and her mother with birdshot, the official said, adding that 30 others were detained during the protest.
On Thursday, scuffles broke out between Egyptian security forces and a group of demonstrators at Talaat Harb Square, which is located near the iconic Liberation Square, in the capital, Cairo.
Also on Wednesday, dozens of supporters of the Moslem Brüderbund staged a protest against the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, days before the anniversary of the country's 2011 revolution that brought an end to long-time dictator, Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... 's rule.
The protesters marched toward downtown Liberation Square, hollered poorly rhymed slogans against the government, and called for an end to the "military rule."
Security forces responded by firing tear gas and rubber bullets to break up the crowd of protesters, of whom more than a dozen were tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! Moslem Brüderbund supporters have vowed to continue weekly protests in the buildup to the fourth anniversary of the revolution.
In an election after Mubarak's ouster, the Moslem Brüderbund-backed Mohammed Morsi was elected president. Morsi was later ousted in a military coup led by former military ruler and current President el-Sisi in July 2013.
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[BBC] Thousands have been marching for and against Shia Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to Americaâ¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebels amid a dangerous power vacuum following the resignation of Yemen's leaders.
President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi said he could no longer stay in office as the country was in "total deadlock" after a stand off with the rebels.
Yemen's parliament is to hold a crisis meeting to discuss whether it will accept Mr Hadi's offer
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber... aid agency Oxfam says Yemen is nearing a humanitarian catastrophe.
It warned in a new report released on Friday that the country was on "the brink of humanitarian disaster with millions of lives at risk", saying that half of its population was in need of humanitarian aid.
The Houthis, who seized the presidential palace earlier this week, have also encircled the parliament building and the houses of the defence minister and the intelligence chief, the AFP news agency reported.
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[AnNahar] Arrests nearly doubled last year in China's violence-torn, mainly Moslem Xinjiang region, state-run media reported Friday, adding that a crackdown has been extended to the end of this year.
Prosecutors in the far-western area, home to China's 10-million-strong Turkic-speaking and mostly Moslem Uighurs, approved the arrest of 27,164 criminal suspects in 2014, up more than 95 percent on the previous year, the China Daily newspaper said.
"We've shortened the time between approving arrests and prosecution in major terrorist-related cases so the suspects can be tried as soon as possible to show the region's determination to fight terrorism," Xinjiang's chief prosecutor Nixiang Yibulayin was quoted as telling the region's legislature on Thursday.
Violence linked to Xinjiang has intensified over the past year, with at least 200 people killed in a series of festivities and increasingly sophisticated attacks in the resource-rich region and beyond it.
Beijing, which blames Xinjiang-related violence on "religious Death Eaters," "separatists" and "terrorists," has responded by launching a severe crackdown in recent months, with around 50 executions and death sentences publicly announced since June.
The China Daily said the campaign -- initiated in May after an attack in the regional capital Urumqi left 39 people dead and 94 injured and originally intended to last a year -- had been extended for "at least" six more months.
Rights groups argue that harsh police treatment of the Uighur minority, as well as government campaigns against religious practices such as the wearing of veils, have led to violence.
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China's 10-million-strong Turkic-speaking and mostly Moslem Uighurs are vastly outnumbered by China's 1,347 million-strong members of other ethnic groups, who (1) don't speak Turkic or who (2) aren't Muslim and/or who (3) aren't Uighurs.
[DAWN] TAXILA: Preliminary investigation has revealed that Kosar Ali, the jacket wallah who went kaboom! at a police picket in Wah on Tuesday, had been a student at the seminary in Lal Masjid. ...literally the Red Mosque, located in Islamabad and frequented by all sorts of high govt officials. The proprietors, Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi, unleashed their Islamic storm troopers on the city, shutting down whorehouses and beating people up who weren't devout enough. The Musharraf govt put an end to the nonsense by besieging the place. Abdul Aziz Ghazi was nabbed while he was trying to escape dressed up like a girl. BBC reported that the corpse count at 173, but other claims, usually hysterical, say there were up to 1000 titzup. Among their number was Abdul Rashid Ghazi. Everyone then said tut-tut and what a nice guy he had been... Police and other law enforcement agencies picked up seven people on Thursday in connection with incident.
Those locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! were taken to some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location for further investigation. Among those arrested are two brothers of the suicide bomber.
The brothers were arrested in a midnight operation conducted at their native village, Jabbi Kasran, in Fateh Jang. Kosar Ali has left behind a wife, three brothers and a sister who lives in 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... . His mother told the police that he had left home some three months ago and had not been in contact with the family, including his wife, since.
Police said that another brother of Kosar Ali is in Attock jail for his involvement in a murder case. Two of Kosar Ali's brothers were construction workers while one was working as a rickshaw driver.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davy was wondering if Buck was okay. He suspected he wasn't... the bomber's body has been shifted to the morgue for collection of DNA samples.
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[DAWN] Three suspected Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) turbans were placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! from the Baghat area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... 's Hangu district ... Hangu is famous for its greenery, hills, beauty and water. Most of the people of this area are Bangash & Orakzai Pashtuns. Part of the Bangash are Shia. The Orakzai and the Sunni Bangash are determined to kill them... on Friday.
Official sources said police carried out an operation in Hangu's Baghat area and arrested three suspected Talibs.
Four army uniforms, eight hand grenades, four Kalashnikovs, two bombs, detonators, explosives and hundreds of bullet rounds were also seized from the suspects' possession.
Security forces have tightened their surveillance in the area.
Security forces have stepped up action against turbans in the aftermath of the deadly Taliban attack on Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. 's Army Public School on Dec 16 which left 150 people, including more than 130 schoolchildren dead.
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[DAWN] The government's National Action Plan (NAP) to counter terrorism continues to build momentum on-ground, as latest figures reveal 1,859 suspects have been locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! from all over the country.
The government reported that 5,487 search operations were conducted in Punjab, 322 in Sindh, 1,223 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , 12 in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... and 275 in Islamabad.
In Punjab, 2,837 cases have been registered for misuse of loudspeakers so far, out of which 1,471 have led to arrests.
Security agencies also reportedly arrested 329 people for hate speech from Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... and 10 from KP.
At least 41 shops were sealed in Punjab for their involvement in promoting hate speech.
An estimated 166,000 Afghan refugees have also been registered in Punjab by the government.
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[IraqiNews.com] On Thursday, a security source within the police force stated, that four people have been killed and 17 others were maimed in several kabooms that took place in eastern Baghdad.
The source stated to IraqiNews in an interview, "This evening, a bomb has gone off in the area of al-Hamza in Sadr city, located eastern Baghdad, and resulted in killing a person and injuring five others in the kaboom," adding that, "Another kaboom in the eleventh sector of Sadr city has also caused three injuries."
The source, who requested to remain anonymous, added, "A bomb that was emplaced in a car near al-Baladiyat and al-Rashad crossing has also went kaboom! today, causing a number of casualties among civilians."
[IraqiNews.com] On Thursday, a source within the police force stated, that two soldiers have been killed and 13 others, including civilians, were maimed in an kaboom in northern Baghdad.
The source stated to IraqiNews, "An bomb that was emplaced on the side of the road near the military camp of la-Taji, located in northern Baghdad, has went off killing two soldiers and wounding 13 others including civilians."
"The security forces shortly blockaded the area, while ambulances transferred the two dead soldiers to the Forensic Medicine Authority and the injured ones to a near hospital to receive medical treatment," the source added.
[IraqiNews.com] Two persons were killed, 11 injured as an Improvised Explosive Device went kaboom! in south of Baghdad, targeting a crowd of people who were celebrating the winning of the Iraqi Football Team against Iran.
[AnNahar] 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.... (IS) group killed seven people Friday, including two journalists, in the Muqdadiyah area north of Baghdad, their employers and officials said.
Ali al-Ansari and another unnamed journalist from al-Ghadeer satellite television were among the dead, according to local manager Karim Fadhel.
Mustafa Hamid and Qusay Sahib from Iraqiya state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
were maimed, said the head of its Diyala provincial office, Uday Abdelkarim.
Accounts differed on the incident, with some sources saying shellfire hit Muqdadiyah itself, while others reported a bombing and festivities north of the town.
Five snuffies were also killed, and more than two dozen people maimed, security and medical officials said.
Iraq , long one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, became more so after IS launched a sweeping offensive that overran large parts of the country last summer. The jihadist group beheaded journalists on tape and also issued threats against those reporting in areas it controls.
According to media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders, four journalists were killed in Iraq last year.
[IsraelTimes] Two Israeli women were lightly injured Friday after the vehicle in which they were seated was hit by stones hurled by Paleostinians near the central West Bank village of Sinjil.
The two women were treated by a medical team on site and were released to their homes a short while later, Israel Radio reported.
In a separate incident in the southern West Bank, a car driven by Israeli citizens was pounded with rocks which had apparently been thrown from a passing vehicle.
No injuries were reported in the incident, though the car was slightly damaged.
One person was killed and 48 others wounded yesterday as a parked car exploded in the southern Philippines, which local authorities blamed the blast on Abu Sayyaf militants.
Witnesses reported that a parked car went up in flames and was blasted to bits in a powerful mid-afternoon explosion that shattered glass panels in a commercial section on the outskirts of Zamboanga City.
Senior Superintendent Angelito Casimiro, the city police chief, said no group has yet claimed responsibility for the blast and the lone fatality was not immediately identified.
Zamboanga City Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco alleged the blast was tied to a plan by the Abu Sayyaf to help 57 comrades break out from the city jail. She said, "This is an SOS call for the 57 inmates to be removed and transferred for the safety and protection of the city."
Zamboanga City's jail warden, Julius Arro, said that prison authorities foiled an attempt to slip at least one gun and 100 bullets to Abu Sayyaf detainees on Monday. No arrests were made, he added.
Philippine soldiers captured four Abu Sayyaf camps in their ongoing operations on Basilan in Mindanao.
Army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Harold Cabunoc said that elite military troops involved in the campaign killed six militants and injured others. He said a soldier on an armored personnel carrier was injured when an improvised bomb went off.
Cabunoc said the four camps taken were located in remote villages in the town of Sumisip. He said, "Our troops are deliberate and careful in hunting down the Abu Sayyaf remnants because there are improvised explosive devices along the escape route."
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The PHIL Govt still hasn't answered the question iff the resurgent Commie NPA is pro-MILF or pro-BIFF, as the former has recently been doing some violence on their own.
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An Iranian general killed in an alleged Israeli air strike last Sunday in Syria may have died because he did not turn off his cellphone.
The Lebanese newspaper Al-Joumhouria reported on Saturday that a Hezbollah investigation into the strike found that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard General Mohammed Allahdadi kept his cellphone on in a sensitive area targeted by Israeli intelligence. "Can you hear me now?"
According to the report, Allahdadi was in the Quneitra area on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights on Sunday with Hezbollah personnel at outposts that the Syrians and the Iranian built in order to counter Syrian rebels along with Syrian army forces. A few days before Allahdadi's visit a joint "operations room" was established with Hezbollah.
Allahdadi reportedly was killed along with his personal assistant, his driver and a more junior Iranian officer. A four-fer
Eleven people total were killed in the airborne attack, including Jihad Mughniyeh the son of the late Hezbollah military leader and Imad Mughniyeh Mohammed Issa, the head of Hezbollah's operation in war-torn Syria and Iraq. Hezbollah, the Shiite militant group which is backed by Iran and fought a 34-day war with Israel in 2006, said six of its members died in the strike.
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What a maroon, cops have been pinging cellphones for the last ten years. The only way to truly hide a cellphones location is to swap out the SIM card frequntly and pull the battery. Smart crooks will leave them still active in odd places, subways, truck stops ect. Al Quada learned of this trick from the NY Times.
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Iranian Revolutionary Guard General Mohammed Allahdadi kept his cellphone on in a sensitive area
Don't you remember how as a junior butter bar in combat they told you not to stand next to the RTO when Charles was around? Best to have him come to you when called and then lay down when you talked to higher?
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[AnNahar] Clashes erupted overnight Friday between 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.... and the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... in the northeastern border town of Arsal after the group seized FSA members.
The state-run National News Agency reported that IS fighters kidnapped several Syrians at gunpoint prompting Zahran Alloush group, which is linked to the FSA, to engage in battles with the IS to free them.
Heavy machineguns were used in the festivities that lasted an hour in Arsal's al-Shafaq neighborhood.
Casualties were reported in the gunbattles.
Jihadists from al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... Front and the IS are entrenched on the outskirts of Arsal on the porous Syrian-Lebanese border.
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[Iran Press TV] The Lebanese military has regained full control of the Hamra hill after heavy fighting with Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... snuffies on the outskirts of Ras Baalbek in northeastern Leb.
This came after Lebanese troops expelled hundreds of the Takfiri snuffies who had infiltrated into the troubled region close to the Syrian border on Friday morning.
Security sources say the Lebanese soldiers also fully control an advanced surveillance military post located in the area of the festivities.
Earlier in the day, the Takfiri snuffies launched a massive attack on army positions in the region. The army brought in reinforcements to deal with the worst attack of its kind since August in the area.
A Lebanese military statement said on Friday that the violent festivities between the Lebanese army and Takfiri snuffies have claimed the lives of several Lebanese soldiers.
"There are deaders and maimed men among the ranks of the Lebanese army, and we have killed and injured several of the attackers," the statement read.
It added that the Lebanese army would intensify its measures on the Syrian border to counter all the terrorist attacks and infiltration attempts.
Ras Baalbek is located near the town of Arsal, where Takfiris killed and kidnapped some two dozen Lebanese soldiers in August 2014.
The Lebanese army has been targeted by repeated terror attacks by Takfiri faceless myrmidons in the vicinity of Arsal since the outbreak of the foreign-backed war in neighboring Syria in early 2011.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... the ISIL Takfiri faceless myrmidons and the al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... Front terror elements still hold 25 Lebanese soldiers and coppers captive on the outskirts of Arsal, over five months after kidnapping them during a five-day battle in the border town.
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[Iran Press TV] Members of the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... ISIL holy warrior group have executed dozens of civilians in Syria's northeastern province of Hasakah, as they continue committing crimes against humanity on a large scale in the crisis-stricken Arab country.
Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , said the ISIL snuffies overran the villages of Tal Maghas as well as Um Raqabah on Thursday, and fatally shot dozens of people. The Takfiris later destroyed the victims' houses, Syria's official news agency, SANA reported on Friday.
The development comes after ISIL Lions of Islam killed a man and blew up his house in Ashra village of Hasakah Province on the charge of fighting the holy warrior group, and repelling an ISIL attack on the village.
ISIL Takfiris executed eleven civilians and mutilated their bodies in Syria's eastern province of Deir ez-Zor on January 15.
ISIL had killed three civilians in the city of Mayadin, situated some 500 kilometers (310 miles) northeast of Damascus a day earlier. The ISIL Lions of Islam mutilated two of the bodies and decapitated the third, before hanging them at the al-Bal'oum roundabout at the entrance of city.
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[BUSINESSWEEK] A Syrian government Arclight airstrike hit an opposition-held suburb of the capital shortly after Friday prayers, killing at least 35 people, scattering bodies and rubble in the streets and setting at least one building on fire, activists said.
An activist based near the capital who goes by the name of Abu Yazan said the air raid struck near a popular market in the town of Hamouriyeh just east of Damascus.
The Local Coordination Committees, an activist collective, said the strike hit people leaving a mosque, killing 35 people. The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the corpse count at 42, including six children. It said the number of dead is expected to rise because many people were seriously maimed.
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[AnNahar] The United States believes it has killed about 6,000 jihadists in its air strikes against 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, defense officials said Thursday.
Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel, however, warned against resorting to "body counts" to measure progress in the war.
The estimate of how many IS fighters had been taken out by U.S.-led air raids was first cited by Washington's ambassador to Iraq, Stuart Jones, in an interview aired Thursday by Al-Arabia television.
U.S. defense officials reluctantly confirmed the figure but insisted the military was not placing a priority on the measurement, which carried uncomfortable echoes from the Vietnam conflict -- when American commanders cited daily "body counts" to convey progress in the war.
There was no independent confirmation of the casualty estimate and it remains unclear how many civilians might have been inadvertently killed in the strikes.
But if accurate, it would suggest the coalition has inflicted astounding damage on the IS group since the air strikes began in Iraq on August 8 and in Syria on September 23.
The casualty toll would mean bombing raids wiped out roughly 20-30 percent of the IS group's fighting force, which is estimated at between 20,000 to 31,500 fighters, according to the Central Intelligence Agency's estimates released last year.
Hagel told a news conference he could not confirm the 6,000 corpse count but said "thousands" of IS fighters had been killed in U.S.-led bombing raids.
"We do know that thousands of ISIL fighters have been killed, and we do know that some of ISIL's leadership have been killed," he said.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... Hagel, a Vietnam veteran who still carries shrapnel fragments in his chest from his war wounds, said the number of IS holy warriors killed was not a useful gauge for assessing the effect of the air campaign.
"I was in a war where there was a lot of body counts every day. And we lost that war," he said.
Other indicators showed that the IS was on the defensive and under pressure, Hagel said, including signs the jihadists were having trouble recruiting, keeping supply routes open and maintaining communications on the battlefield.
"These are the metrics you look at as to how much progress you're making in a war," he added.
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Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel, however, warned against resorting to "body counts" to measure progress in the war.
He should rightly know. Likely one of the reasons he's leaving his post.
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It's bunch of BS. In wars of attrition you need some measure of progress. The one measure least subject to distortion is body counts. Wars of maneuver measure progress via the amount territory taken. In a war of attrition, if you're not stacking up enemy dead, you need to step it up. That's why the military does body counts, even if it doesn't release them to the press.
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Good point Ulu, but I think we must be careful to differentiate between the destruction of combat units and the selective media reporting of 'eaches.'
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Don't forget the 'institutional' inter-service game of my boys killed more of the bad guys than your boys and thus I should get more funding. The game of 'mine is bigger than yours' has been going on forever.
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Numma 7 obviously referring to what I call 'wars within wars.' A dynamic for which I have absolute and unequivocal loathing. Very accurate catch P2k.
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
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[DAWN] Three suspected Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) 
One person was killed and 48 others wounded yesterday as a parked car exploded in the southern Philippines, which local authorities blamed the blast on Abu Sayyaf militants.
Philippine soldiers captured four Abu Sayyaf camps in their ongoing operations on Basilan in Mindanao. 
