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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Ava Gardner aka Victoria Jones in "Bhowani Junction" aka Moira Davidson in "On the Beach" aka Honey Bear Kelly in "Mogambo" aka Maxine Faulk in "The Night of the Iguana" (Died in 1990 at age 67)
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And the Merriest of Christmases to you TW. Whatever you are celebrating may the Lord lift up His countenance upon thee and give thee and all thine won peace forever more.
The officer, from the elite al-Quds force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, was captured by US special forces on December 18, a Nato spokesman said. Described as "a key Taliban weapons facilitator", he was arrested in Kandahar province. It is the first reported instance of the capture of an al-Quds officer in Afghanistan.
"KABUL, Afghanistan – The International Security Assistance Force has determined a cross-border weapons facilitator detained Dec. 18 is not a member of the Iranian Qods force, as was originally reported.
Initial intelligence reports led ISAF to believe he was a member of the force, but after gathering more
information, it was determined that while the individual may be affiliated with several insurgent-related organizations, he is not a member of the Qods group."
[Tolo News] A jacket wallah hit a police checkpoint in northern Kunduz province on Thursday, killing a policeman and a child, officials said.
The incident occurred at about 8:00am in the lovely provincial capital, Kunduz City, when police stopped the bomber for inspection, said Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, a police front man in Kunduz. Five others were maimed in the blast, he added.
It is the second suicide kaboom in the last four days in the increasingly restive province.
Earlier this week, four jacket wallahs stormed an Afghan army recruitment centre in the province, killing five police, four Afghan soldiers and wounding more than a dozen others.
Kunduz has become a hub for the Taliban-led insurgency in northern Afghanistan over the past two years. The attack on Thursday comes a day after Nato and Afghan forces launched a major offensive against Talibs in the volatile Chahar Dara district.
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[Iran Press TV] Kenyan authorities have linked Somalia's al-Shabaab group to a grenade kaboom inside a Uganda-bound bus in central Nairobi that claimed three lives.
"We have strong reasons to believe there is a link between the man behind the deadly kaboom and the beturbanned goon al-Shabaab group. The suspect has been identified as Albert John Olando Mulando," Kenya's police commissioner Mathew Iteere told Press TV on Thursday.
He added that the 35-year-old Tanzanian suspect was also among the victims of the terror attack.
The grenade attack also injured at least 30 people in Nairobi's central business district on Monday. Most of the injured were Ugandans who were heading home for Christmas holidays.
In June, al-Shabaab grabbed credit for twin bomb attacks that rocked the Ugandan capital of Kampala.
At least 74 people were killed when the blasts took place at an Ethiopian restaurant south of the capital and another at a rugby sports club in the east of Kampala. The victims were watching the FIFA World Cup final.
The kabooms came two days after an al-Shabaab commander called for forces of Evil to attack sites in Uganda and Burundi. The two African nations contribute troops to the African Union peacekeeping force in violence-plagued Somalia.
This article starring:
Albert John Olando Mulando
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[Iran Press TV] At least seven people have been killed and 13 others injured after festivities erupted between forces of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and al-Shaboobs.
The fighting took place in Mogadishu on Thursday afternoon when al-Shaboobs attacked a military base where Burundi and Ugandan soldiers under AMISOM are stationed, a Press TV correspondent reported.
A fierce firefight broke out in the aftermath of the ambush. Thirteen people suffered grave injuries in the festivities.
In a recent report, the International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) stated that hundreds of civilians have been injured in fighting in Somalia in recent months.
The Geneva-based humanitarian institution said that a total of 5,000 patients with war injuries, including 1,900 women and kiddies, were admitted to Mogadishu's Keysaney and Medina hospitals from January through September.
Compared to last year, it is an increase of 25 percent in the total number of war casualties and 72 percent in the number of war-maimedwomen and kiddies admitted to the hospitals.
Some 4,000 patients with war injuries, among them 1,100 women and kiddies, were taken to Mogadishu's two referral hospitals in 2009.
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Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
Over the past two decades, up to one million people have bit the dust in fighting between rival factions and due to famine and disease.
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[Magharebia] The Polisario denied any connection to the al-Qaeda-linked Sahara drug trafficking network recently dismantled in Mauritania and Mali, ANI reported on Thursday (December 23rd). "Everyone knows the names of all the inhabitants of the Sahel-Saharan Africa are similar, whether in Mali, Mauritania, Niger, or the Western Sahara," El Watan quoted Sahrawi Foreign Minister Mohamed Salem Ould Salek as saying Wednesday in Algiers. Ould Salek also denied any connection to al-Qaeda terrorism: "Let it be clear, the Polisario rejects terrorism and heinous crimes".
Regarding the progress of Western Sahara talks, the Polisario official said that the Sahrawi people have three choices in the context of self-determination: "independence, autonomy or integration with Morocco", El Moudjahid reported.
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Somali pirates have seized on Tuesday a fishing boat and its four crew members off Yemen's southern coast as it was heading to the Mukalla port, local media reported.
The sources said the pirates took the hijacked ship out 120 marine miles east of Socotra Island.
They did not head to the Somali coast, according to the same sources, meaning it was likely the pirates would use the boat to attack merchant ships passing by the Socotra archipelago.
International navies patrolling the Indian Ocean say that pirates have been widening their attack areas further out at sea by hijacking smaller vessels to use as mother ships.
Hijacking offers a lucrative alternative for many in impoverished Somalia, which is battling an Islamist insurgency.
Heavily armed Somali pirates have stepped up attacks in recent years, making tens of millions of dollars in ransoms from seizing ships in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden.
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just sink it, have these shipping lines hired mercs too protect their fleets yet and if not then why?
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just sink it, have these shipping lines hired mercs too protect their fleets yet and if not then why?
Because
1)It's a fishing boat and not a fat merchantman,
2) It's probably solely-owned or at best a cooperative-owned craft. A fishing boat wouldn't be owned by a "shipping line",
3) The Yemeni owner(s) probably can barely afford paying the crew, never mind hiring mercenaries,
3) The Yemeni fishermen are likely still hostages on it.
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i was talking about the big ships the merchant big ships they raid too take hostages, i woulnt want security on thwm too fight the pirates off instead of payin ransomes
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Well, considering the article was about a Yemeni fishing boat...
But yes, it would be nice if shipping companies would beef up their security. However, given the dubious world of maritime shipping, most shipowners would rather gamble on their ship not being captured, counting on insurance to cover the ransom and any losses if it does.
[Yemen Post] Yemen has given Interpol the names of 90 suspects including 5 Saudis and 2 Somalis described as most wanted because they pose a serious threat to Yemen and the world, a security source said on Wednesday.
Some 36 of the suspects are facing terrorist charges including planning attacks against domestic and foreign interests in Yemen, and the others are facing charges of murders, forgery and burglary, said the source, who asked not to be named.
The Interior Ministry sought help from Interpol after the security authorities had failed to arrest the suspects, expected to have decamped abroad, said the source.
The Saudis and Somalis infiltrated into the country illegally and they were described as 'very dangerous.'
This year, the Ministry circulated descriptions and photographs of many suspects including the 90 to all national security bodies and offered money rewards for information leading to their arrest.
The move came after AQAP had stepped up its attacks throughout the republic.
Yemen has also launched large-scale operations against and a massive hunt for Islamic fascistimainly in southern and southeastern regions, where AQAP members including top commanders are thought to have holed up.
During the operations, many terrorist suspects were killed, maimed and jugged.
Some of the arrestees went on trials and received sentences including death ones.
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[Emirates 24/7] Soddy Arabia has banned sticking posters and other papers on mosques in an apparent bid to curb terror funding, a local daily said on Thursday.
Preachers told congregates at mosques that they have received instructions from the Ministry of Islamic Affairs and Endowments to stop sticking any posters on mosque walls or inside the "house of God", Alyoum said.
"The preachers at the mosques said the ban covers all those posters which call for donations for Islamic activities and charity groups," the paper said.
"These calls have nothing to do with Islamic activities...posters authorized by the competent authorities, especially invitations for Islamic lectures at mosques and other places, are allowed provided they are removed after the event."
The paper quoted a Ministry official as saying the ban was prompted by "serious violations and an increase in posters that have nothing to do with Islam."
"Some people are using these posters for other purposes and this has prompted the Ministry to take that decision," the unnamed official said.
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This is a cryptic article. The only thing explanation that would make the entire article coherent is that imams and/or parishioners are hanging posters at mosques all over Arabia calling for donations to Al Qaeda, to AQAP, to Hamas, or to jihadi terrorism in general. If the volume weren't so tremendous, the Ministry of Islamic Affairs wouldn't even get involved. Doesn't that give you a nice, warm, fuzzy feeling that Saudi mosques are wallpapered with slick ads to give zakat to jihadists? And do you think all the imams will comply? And notice, they didn't say stop MAKING such donations, just stop ADVERTISING that the imams are accepting such donations.
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Wouldn't have to be the imam accepting the donation. A drop-box, a toll-free number, a representative outside the mosque on Fridays. Just one more layer of obfuscation.
But that the posters are being stuck both inside or outside the mosque means the imams either have no say in what goes on with the mosque or they're ignoring them (intentionally or not).
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This bites the big one. The ol' mosque just won't be the same without the "Death to America" and "Uncle Binny Wants You" posters. Next, they'll want us to store our ammunition someplace else.
[Bangla Daily Star] A shootout between Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members and a gang of muggers left two alleged muggers bullet injured yesterday in the capital's Agargaon Taltola. "Sergeant Rafiq! Why were these miscreants wounded?"
"A thousand apologies, Captain. We had no orders to bullet-wound them behind each ear."
"See that it doesn't happen again. We have a reputation to maintain!"
Identified as Mohammad Shafiq, 24, son of Suruj Ali of Karimganj upazila in Kishorganj district, and Akram Hossain, 28, son of Saber Uddin of Islampur upazila in Jamalpur district, Neither of them even had an alias. Small fish, small fish indeed ...
they were jugged and later admitted to the city's Pongu Hospital ... not a level I trauma center ...
with bullet wounds to their legs. Perhaps they were Paleostinians?
Rab-2 officials said the shootout erupted when a team of the law enforcers challenged some youths for their suspicious movement at Taltola area at around 12:30am. "Hey there! You youts! Get over here!"
When the Rab men challenged the criminals, they started firing at the law-enforcers "Take a hike, flatfoots!" [Blam-blam-blam]
who also retaliated with gunshots resulting in the shootout that left two muggers injured, said Rab-2 officials. "Aieee! I am bullet hit in my leg!"
"Aieee! I am also bullet hit!"
"The bullet-hit criminals were jugged but their cohorts bravely ran away leaving behind two pipe guns and two knives," a Rab official added. "Sergeant Rafiq, as punishment for your screw-up, I deny you the privilege of planting the shutter gun on the victims!"
According to Rab, the nabbed persons are the members of a muggers' gang.
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Google Translate For additional information on last week's firefight in Estanzuela colony see here.
A detachment of local state and Federal police forces returned to an area in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, reports say criminal gangs used to observe police movement in the area, leaving at least one armed suspect presumably wounded.
A Grupo de Reaccion detachment was sent to Cerro de la Silla in Estanzuela colony Thursday morning after authorities received reports of armed suspects in the area.
Cerro de la Silla is a mountain adjacent to the Monterrey suburb of Guadalupe with an unobstructed view of much of the road system in Monterrey.
Last Thursday a police force assaulted the position killing one armed suspect and forcing several others to flee. Officers found a makeshift tin and wood shelter used by a criminal group to support observation
When the police detachment arrived in the area, they were fired on with small arms fire from the mountain, which the officers promptly returned.
Officers then spread out to search the area pursuing their attacker across roads and gaps, but they were unable to kill or capture the shooter.
Officers did find evidence the shooter had been hit at least twice in the leg, however, the shooter fled the area. Officers found about ten spent rifle shell casings and bloody discarded clothing.
Although state police helicopters aided in the search, after two hours the effort was abandoned.
Police expect to return to the area at some point in the near future. Reports are the area and the adjacent Fomerrey 45 colony is known for gang safe houses.
Grupos de Reaccion are a mixture of local, state and federal police forces combined to deal with armed criminal activity in Monterrey in rapid and proactive ways.
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Grenade and small arms fire were used to attack three police stations in southern Tamaulipas Wednesday, according to Mexican news reports.
In Ciudad Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas, armed suspects threw a hand grenade into the mayor's offices Wednesday evening seriously wounding one unidentified police officer and wounding a female civilian.
Reports say more attacks in Ciudad Victoria are expected.
In Tampico, a police station was assaulted Thursday morning by armed suspects using small arms fire and two hand grenades. The attack took place near the junction of calles Tamaulipas and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz in downtown Tampico at about 0730 hrs.
It was later confirmed an unidentified police commander and another police officer were killed, and eight others possibly including civilians were wounded in the attack.
Other Mexican news reports say the same criminal group attacked a police booth in Cascajal colony a few minutes later wounding two police officers. A pursuit followed the group into neighboring Veracruz where the pursuit stopped.
Reports said the armed assault lasted for several minutes, and no report exist of arrestes made in the aftermath.
Sixteen individuals were murdered in drug and gang related violence in northern Mexican including two Mexican Federal agents shot to death Wednesday,
Two Mexican Federal agents were shot to death Wednesday in Juarez, according to Mexican news accounts. The victims were aboard a Ford Taurus when they were attacked in a scene stretching across 200 meters near then intersection of Bulevar Zaragoza and Calle Oaxaca. An unidentified female who was in the vehicle with them escaped the attack and the scene. The officers were on their day off when the shooting took place.
One unidentified individual was shot to death and two others wounded in shooting in Juarez Wednesday, say Mexican news accounts. The shooting took place when a machine gun was fired on a Chevrolet Suburban near the intersection of calles Carlos Dickens and Calderon de la Barca. The driver was wounded, but one passenger was killed Two women and two children aboard he vehicle escaped harm, and a third male adult was detained unharmed as well. A fourth unidentified passenger was wounded as well.
A medical doctor preparing to attend a vigil for a slain personal justice advocate was shot to death in Juarez Wednesday, say Mexican news accounts. Alfonso Perez Dominguez, 46, was at his residence near the corner of calles Santa Rosalia and Julieta Buchanan in the San Angel colony. Dr. Perez Dominguez was preparing the attend the vigil for Marisela Escobedo who was murdered in Chihuahua city last Friday night.
Three unidentified individuals were shot to death and a fourth was wounded in two separate shootings in Juarez Wednesday according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. One man was shot to death by armed suspects near the corner of calles Zinc and Joaquin Terrazas in the Del Carmen colony. In the second attack two men were shot to death and a woman was wounded at the El Arriero taco stand near the corner of calles Puerto Principe and Carlos Amaya.
A man was shot to death in Sacramento, Chihuahua, say Mexican news accounts. Jorge Rivera Portillo, 40, was shot at his residence by armed suspects who arrived at the scene aboard a GMC Yukon. Sacramento is near Kilometer25 of the Juarez-Chihuahua highway.
An unidentified individual was found dead inside the trunk of a car Tuesday night in Juarez, according to Mexican news accounts. The victim was found in a Ford Taurus at the junction of Calle 20 de Noviembre, and Avenida Adolfo de la Huerta.
An unidentified man was found shot to death at a Juarez police station Tuesday night. An unidentified man driving a Cadillac drove to the Aldama police station on Avenida Juan after he failed to drive the victim to a hospital when the victim died.
A man was found shot to death in Mexicali, Baja California, say Mexican press accounts. Martin Zavala Padilla, 24, was found in the Venustiano Carranza colony beaten with a single gunshot wound to the head.
Human remains were found in Mexicali, Baja California Wednesday, say Mexican press reports. One victim was found charred and half buried beneath some tires in a vacant lot while human remains were found inside a vehicle 100 yards away in the ejido Plan de Ayala in the Valle de Mexicali colony. It is unknown if the remains are one or two individuals.
Two brothers were found shot to death in Tijuana, Baja California Wednesday, according to Mexican news reports. Omar Alejandro and Adrian Vargas Gomez were found aboard a Ford Taurus sedan near the corner of Avenida Baja California and Calle Capri in the Chapultepec Californias colony. A police patrol sweep of the area rounded up five suspects reports say may have been involved in the shooting. Six 9mm spent casings were found at the scene
A municipal police officer was fond shot to death in Torreon, Coahuila Sunday, say Mexican press accounts. Ever Abraham Flores was found shot to death and his body mutilated near the intersection of Periferico Raul Lopez Sanchez and Bravo in the Campo Nuevo Zaragoza colony. Flores was reportedly abducted almost three weeks ago.
An unidentified individual was found shot to death in Torreon, Coahuila, say Mexican press reports. The victim was found at a construction site on Calle Campo de Orquideas in the Campo Nuevo Zaragoza colony shot in the neck.
(Itar-Tass) -- Six copperswere maimed as a result of two blasts in Makhachkala, ITAR-TASS learnt at Dagestan's law enforcement bodies on Thursday.
On Wednesday night, an bomb went off in Shamil Street in Leninsky district while a service VAZ car with coppers was passing by.
"As a result, three coppers were shell-shocked, they were given medical aid," a law enforcer said.
Later on, another blast occurred in Nikolayev Street near house 45 when a service car with traffic coppers was going past. Three coppers with wounds were hospitalized.
Criminal proceedings were instituted. Investigation is underway.
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(Itar-Tass) - Policemen are searching for an bomb inside the Yevropeisky Trade Center, which is located in front of the building of the busy Kiyevsky railway station, Maxim Kolosvetov, a duty officer at the press section of Moscow City's Interior Department said.
According to him, an unknown man called the central police switchboard at "02" at around 18:00 hours Moscow Standard Time and said that a bomb, which was due to go off at 19:30, had been planted in the building of the hypermarket.
All of the city's operative services rushed teams of experts to the site and a decision was taken to evacuate the customers from the trading center.
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(Itar-Tass) - Former Colonel of the Russian Military Intelligence Service /GRU/, Vladimir Kvachkov, who was recently exonerated of charges with attempting on the life of Anatoly Chubais, the ex-CEO of the UES of Russia power monopoly, is suspected of complicity in terrorism and plans to organize an armed revolt, sources at Moscow's Lefortovo district court told Itar-Tass Thursday.
"The court has received a petition from the Investigations Department of the Federal Security Service ... the successor to the KGB... /FSB/ that contains a request to administer custody as a pretrial measure for citizen Kvachkov, born 1948," a source said.
He added that Kvachkov is suspected of criminal offenses falling under Clause I of Article 205 of the Russian Criminal Code /recruiting and involvement of individuals into terrorist activity/, as well as under Articles 20 and 279 /an attempt to organize an armed revolt/."
A spokeswoman for Moscow's Lefortovo district court said the case had the "classified" stamp on it and that is why the hearings on request would be held behind closed doors.
At the time of reporting Kvachkov and his lawyer were familiarizing themselves with materials in the case.
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[Arab News] Package bombs went kaboom! at the Swiss and Chilean embassies in Rome on Thursday, wounding the two people who opened them, in attacks that bore similarities to bombings by anarchists in Greece last month.
One of the maimed is at risk of losing an eye, a hospital official said. No group grabbed credit, but Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said anarchists were thought to be behind the blasts.
"Various elements lead us to believe that this is the correct path," he was quoted as saying by the ANSA news agency. "These are very violent groups that are also present in Spain and Greece and are very well connected."
On Nov. 2, suspected Greek radical anarchists sent 14 mail bombs to foreign embassies in Athens, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi. Two of the devices went kaboom!, causing no injuries.
A group called Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire grabbed credit for the Greek blasts. It called on forces of Evil in Greece and other countries to step up their action, and Greek police noted Thursday that in the past, acts of "solidarity" have been carried out between Greek and Italian snuffy groups.
While there may be an emotional link between Greek and Italian snuffy groups, Greece says it is unlikely that forces of Evil from the country were showing the Italians what to do.
All embassies in Rome were informed of the blasts and Italian diplomats abroad were urged to take precautions.
The first bomb went kaboom! inside the Swiss Embassy at around noon. The man who opened it was hospitalized with serious hand injuries, but his life was not in danger, Swiss Ambassador Bernardino Regazzoni said.
Three hours later, a small parcel bomb went kaboom! inside the mail room of the Chilean Embassy, slightly wounding an administrative official, Cesar Mella, Chilean Foreign Minister Alfredo Moreno said in Santiago. The official went on his own to the hospital for treatment.
Both victims had wounds to their hands and were in stable condition, but Mella risks losing his right eye because of lesions on his cornea from the blast, said Massimiliano Talucci, a front man at Rome's Umberto I Hospital.
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Islamabad, Dec 24 (IANS) Fierce clashes between the Taliban militants and security personnel at five security checkposts in Pakistan's restive northwest left 11 soldiers and 24 militants dead Friday, an official said.
Around 150 militants attacked the checkposts in a tribal area of Mohmand Agency in the wee hours of Friday, Online news agency reported quoting security sources. The security forces launched a retaliatory operation with gunship helicopters. As a result, 26 militants and 11 paramilitary troopers killed. About a dozen militants and 10 troopers were also injured in the clashes, the sources said.
'Some 150 suspected militants conducted the raids and fired at five different security checkpoints after midnight,' Major Fazal Ur Rehman, a spokesman for the paramilitary Frontier Corps, was quoted as saying by DPA. 'Intense fighting ensued for hours.'
The report said the militants left the behind the bodies of their accomplices and fled. The bodies have been taken into custody by the security forces. According to some tribal sources, several troopers were missing after the incident.
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed the responsibility of the attacks. The outfit said that 12 security personnel were killed in the attack and six bodies of the soldiers are in their custody while two were captured alive.
According to Online, TTP spokesman Sajjad Mehmand told BBC that only two of their members were killed in the attacks. He said that the Taliban would also carry out similar attacks in the future.
[Pak Daily Times] Indian police launched a manhunt on Thursday for four men they said belonged to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and had entered Mumbai to carry out an attack. The members of the LeT were planning to strike around the Christmas and New Year festivities, Indian police said. "It is going to be a violent attack which will cause disruptions," Himanshu Roy, the joint commissioner of Mumbai Police told a news conference, releasing the sketch of one of the four suspected terrorists. "They have recently arrived in Mumbai. We are not in a position to reveal their nationalities now but they are LeT members," he said.
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Weare not in a position to reveal their nationalities now but they are LeT members," he said.
hmmmmm......Canadian? ....Guamanian?
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[Pak Daily Times] Security officials said on Thursday that a wanted Taliban capo had been killed in fighting with security forces in the Tribal Areas bordering Afghanistan. "Asmatullah Bhetani was killed in a shootout with security forces in South Wazoo on the night between December 7 and 8," a security bigshot told AFP on condition of anonymity. Another official confirmed Bhetani's death, saying there had been a reward of Rs 10 million for his arrest.
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[Pak Daily Times] Five people, including two personnel of an intelligence agency, were rubbed out in various incidents of assassination on Thursday.
According to police, Safir Khan and Imdad Chandio, the personnel of an intelligence agency, were rubbed out within the Sukkhun cop shoppe precincts.
East Zone Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Shaukat Commandant said that both victims were shot in their heads and they had keeled over dead. Separately, an activist of the Awami National Party (ANP) was rubbed out on Sharah-e-Faisal and another of the Pakistain People's Party (PPP) in Gulistan-e-Jauhar on Thursday. The ANP worker was identified as Nadeem Raza. In another incident, the mother and sister of Shahrukh, a deceased ANP activist, were returning from court when some unidentified armed motorcyclists opened indiscriminate fire on them, injuring them seriously.
They were rushed to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for treatment where the mother was serious, but the sister was out of danger. Shahrukh was killed a year ago in an incident of assassination.
According to a police official, unidentified gunnies were forcibly closing shops in Sher Muhammad Goth after the incident, and killed a PPP activist, Dad Rahim Sanjrani, and injured another Saleem for resisting their move. A Sindh Rangers soldier was killed and a bystander was injured near Suparco Road on Thursday night. The dear departed was identified as Shaukat Feroz and the injured as Ghulam Nabi.
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[Iran Press TV] Pakistain has jugged Abdulrauf Rigi, a senior member of the terrorist group Jundallah, local Pak officials say.
The officials confirmed on Thursday that the Jundallah member has been jugged by Pak security forces, IRNA reported.
On December 15, a terrorist attack took place at the Imam Hussein Mosque in Chabahar in Sistan-Baluchestan Province where people were commemorating the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (PTUI!), the third Shia Imam.
At least 38 mourners were killed and more than 89 others, including women and kiddies, were maimed.
Iran says the perpetrators behind the Chabahar terrorist attack were trained and equipped by foreign elements beyond the country's eastern borders in Pakistain.
Jundullah has grabbed credit for the attack. The Pakistain-based group has carried out numerous terrorist attacks in Iran.
Its leader Abdolmalek Rigi was jugged by Iranian intelligence forces in February 2010 and executed in June for 79 counts of crime, including armed robbery, bombing operations and armed attacks on police and civilians.
On December 20, Iran's President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad called on his Pak counterpart Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who showed remarkably little curiosity about who actually done her in ... to arrest "known" gunnies and extradite them to Iran.
Zardari assured the Iranian president that Pakistain would not withhold any help in uprooting terrorism.
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[Emirates 24/7] Gunmen with silenced weapons raked an army brigadier general's car with gunfire in a Storied Baghdad street, killing him and wounding his daughter, defence and interior ministry officials said Thursday.
The attack took place Wednesday night in the Mansour district of the capital, the officials said.
They named the victim as General Imad Hasham of the army's sixth division.
In another attack Wednesday evening, gunnies also with silenced weapons shot and maimed police Lieutenant Colonel Majid Hamid as he was driving through the Amiriya area of Storied Baghdad, the officials said.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki named security as one of his three top priorities after parliament on Tuesday approved his nomination for a second term of office and gave its stamp of approval to his national unity government.
While violence has dropped dramatically across Iraq since its peak in 2006 and 2007, attacks remain common, especially in the capital and the main northern city of djinn-infested Mosul.
The number of people killed in violence in Iraq last month was the lowest in a year for the second month running, with 171 people -- 105 civilians, 23 soldiers and 43 coppers -- dying in attacks.
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The number of people killed in violence in Iraq last month was the lowest in a year for the second month running, with 171 people -- 105 civilians, 23 soldiers and 43 coppers -- dying in attacks.
I'm pretty sure that's a whole lot lower than what we're seeing in Mexico.
[Iran Press TV] Iraqi security forces have jugged 93 suspects in a crackdown on al-Qaeda bases in the country's Anbar province, a defense ministry front man says.
Major General Mohammad al-Askari said late Thursday that of those jugged, 60 were the bandidos. He added that ammunition had been found during the operation.
The large military operation was jointly launched Tuesday night by the army, police, pro-government tribal forces and members of Sahwa -- an anti-al-Qaeda militia -- in the Anbar province in western Iraq.
The aim of the operation was to "secure Storied Baghdad and not give any opportunity for al-Qaeda to carry out terrorist actions, by arresting its members," and to "achieve security and stability in all Iraq," Askari said.
Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has put the country's security as one of the three top priorities on the agenda of his new government.
The parliament on Tuesday approved his nomination for a second term of office and gave its stamp of approval to his national unity government.
Iraq had recently jugged 73 al-Qaeda-linked suspects who were implicated in plotting "chaos" during Ashura in Karbala.
Karbala provincial council chief Mohammed al-Mussawi had told AFP on Dec 16. that the security forces "were able to destroy 14 terrorist cells and arrest 73 people, including 37 wanted persons."
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How many of the 93 have been arrested on the same charge before?
[Emirates 24/7] Four Paleostinians were maimed by Israeli gunfire in northern Gazoo on Thursday, including a 14-year-old boy who was shot in the head, Paleostinian medical sources said.
The Israeli military confirmed that soldiers opened fire on several people who entered a security zone along Gazoo's northern border with Israel.
A military front man, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said soldiers began shooting after firing warning shots, but that he was aware only that two Paleostinians were maimed, both being hit in their lower bodies.
Adham Abu Selmiya, front man for the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-run medical services in the Gazoo Strip, told AFP that two people were seriously maimed by gunfire, and another two were lightly maimed.
"Four workers were maimed as they searched for aggregate (gravel) in the northern Gazoo Strip, two of them seriously, including a 14-year-old babyyouth child who was hit in the head," Abu Selmiya said.
The other maimed were a 17-year-old shot in the back, who was at death's door, an 18-year-old shot in the hand, classed as lightly maimed, and a 22-year-old also shot in the back whose injuries were light, he said.
Soldiers regularly open fire on Paleostinians collecting building material from the rubble of destroyed buildings close to the border between the coastal enclave and Israel.
Between March 26 and December 10 this year, Israeli troops have shot at least 19 Paleostinian children as they collected gravel in northern Gazoo, charity group Defence for Children International said this month.
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including a 14-year-old boy who was shot in the head
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Impressive until you read on & discover that they're putting in 10,000. A 10% disablement rate isn't going to do much more than slow down the process, is it?
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12/24/2010 7:27 Comments ||
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Mitch,
IIRC, every one of those centrifuges has to work perfectly every time, otherwise you can't be sure of what you're getting.
Mike
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12/24/2010 8:12 Comments ||
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Slowing down the process is not ideal, but it's still desirable
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also if you take out 10% of them in one virus attack then every attack after that takes out another 10% or even 5 % then it's worth it too keep on doing it. It cost them alot of money time and effort.
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Think of it as buying time until we get a real CINC.
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1k damaged
probably another few thou in process of being damaged
in the meantime, the mullahs are diverting a huge amount of the country's electricity to this project
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Numbers do not seem to be a fixed philosophical concept in that part of the world (except for Israel, of course). Who knows what the real number is. I don't see why the processing problem would not have been applied to every centrifuge in the place, myself.
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Yes, I am thinking the tech specialists in Iran still don't know what they don't know, and thus neither do any of us.
I would just like to be a fly on the wall when each of the centrifuges emits a blue puff of "Iranian technology" smoke, sort of like Mario Andretti's race car on the back streach of the Indy 500... To that I say Allah be praised.
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