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In the meantime, the old blasphemer and Rapture-quack Camping has gone missing along with select members of his staff. No doubt following their loot to the Caymans or something.
Maybe there was a simple error in his translations and it was actually supposed to be RUPTURE Day. If so, it has been fulfilled as millions bust a gut laughing at these gullible fools.
Kay Kendall aka Mrs. Rex Harrison aka Sybil Wren in "Les Girls" aka Rosalind Peters in "Genevieve" aka Monica Hathaway in "The Constant Husband" aka Alexia LaRoche in "Wings of Danger" aka Carol Hankin in "Fast and Loose" aka Ronnie in "Abdulla the Great" (Died in 1959 at age 33)
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I'm gonna put a set of clothes and shoes on the porch, arranged like I "ascended". It won't fool anyone who knows me, but it will make my Halloween presentations more interesting
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I got my fishing trip in.
Now I have to cook the damn things............
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Kay Kendall: was she the model for Michael Jackson's nose surgeon???
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hmmmm I feel kinda embarrassed with this out-of-town purchase of Rapture Mayonnaise. Gonna be hard to explain to the neighbors, who are already bitching about the flies tonight. Jeebus. Ever tried to get mayo out of ...
nevermind
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A POWERFUL blast has struck a military hospital in Afghanistan, killing at least three people and wounding many others. The blast occurred inside a tent on the grounds of the Mohammad Daud Khan military hospital in central Kabul. Afghan media is reporting that it was a suicide attack and another bomber might be on the hospital grounds but authorities haven't confirmed this. Defence Ministry spokesman General Mohammed Zaher Azimi says the army is still investigating the cause of the blast adding that the area targeted was used to train doctors.
A SUICIDE bomber has struck a tent filled with medical students eating lunch at a military hospital in Kabul, killing at least six people and wounding 23.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was targeting foreign trainers and Afghan doctors who work with them.
He claimed two bombers took part, but Defence Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammed Zaher Azimi said only one attacker was involved and only one blast was heard at the Mohammad Daud Khan military hospital.
The hospital is the largest in Kabul with 400 beds, and its grounds contain numerous buildings and small parks.
A NATO military official said no casualties were reported among the group of international trainers who assist at the hospital.
[Al Jazeera] NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... says it has intercepted an oil tanker it had reason to believe was set to deliver fuel for use by Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy's ... a proud Arab institution for 42 years ... military forces.
The ship was intercepted on Friday hours after the alliance sunk eight Libyan warships in an attack said to be the broadest on Libya's naval forces since the alliance joined the conflict.
Qadaffy's government is seeking to raise fuel imports for military purposes and to keep civilian vehicles running in areas he controls. International sanctions do not include a fuel embargo. But we turned the ship back anyway? I guess international sanctions, like the UN and the War Powers Act, don't mean what we think they mean.
"NATO naval forces can deny access to vessels entering or leaving Libyan ports if there is reliable information to suggest that the vessel or its cargo will be used to support attacks or threats on civilians, either directly or indirectly," NATO spokeswoman Carmen Romero said on Friday.
NATO, working under a UN mandate to protect civilians from government forces, also said military and political pressure was weakening Qadaffy's hold on power in what appeared to be a marked escalation of a Western-led bombing campaign.
The overnight strikes hit the vessels in the ports of Tripoli, Al Khums and Sirte, and also hit a dockyard facility for launching the fast inflatable boats that Libyan forces have used for attacks around rebel-held Misrata.
"The destruction last night of the facility and a significant stockpile of the boats will reduce the regime's ability to sustain such tactics," Perfidious Albion's Major-General John Lorimer said.
He said the port was the nearest concentration of regime warships to the port of Misrata, which Qadaffy has repeatedly attempted to close to humanitarian shipping.
Mohammed Rashid, general manager of the Tripoli port, told news hounds the coastguard boats were used to patrol Libyan waters for immigrant boats trying to make it to Europe and for search-and-rescue activities. The port official said some damage was done to the port, but it was minimal.
A government official later said he feared the NATO strike would discourage ships from using the Tripoli port, reducing imports and driving up prices of basic goods for Libyans.
Reporters who toured the area from a distance said a warship could be seen on fire, with flames and plumes of smoke bellowing from the stricken vessel.
Rear Admiral Russell Harding, deputy commander of the NATO operation, said the Qadaffy regime was employing more ships in its campaign against rebel fighters.
"Given the escalating use of naval assets, NATO had no choice but to take decisive action to protect the civilian population of Libya and NATO forces at sea," he said in a statement. "NATO has constantly adapted to the rapidly changing and dynamic situation in Libya and at sea."
In Brussels, headquarters of NATO, video clips from the jets' gun cameras were played showing the bombing of two frigates and a port facility.
The two frigates, a Soviet-built Koni class anti-submarine boat and a French-built Combattante class missile craft, were moored at the dock when they were hit with laser-guided bombs. It was not immediately clear whether their crews were aboard when they were struck.
"Our aim was not to destroy these ships but to remove their military ability," NATO front man Wing Cmdr. Mike Bracken told news hounds. "They were identified as legitimate and legal targets."
Shelling, meanwhile,was heard in the Ghabat al-Qasr neighbourhood of the capital, Tripoli, in the early hours of Friday. I thought Qadaffi had secured Tripoli. No?
In some of the latest strikes, NATO hit Qadaffy's forces around 15km east of the opposition-held town of Zintan in the Western Mountains region. The town and the port city of Misrata have seen some of the heaviest fighting in recent weeks.
Al Jizz also confirmed there was heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... on the Tunisia-Libya border. Casualty numbers however are not yet known.
Three months into an uprising against Qadaffy's four-decade rule, rebels control the east and pockets in the west but the conflict has reached a stalemate as rebel attempts to advance on Tripoli have stalled.
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What about food shipments as some will certainly go to Daffy's troops?
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International sanctions do not include a fuel embargo.
And yet somehow it's now ok that Oil vessels are selectivly intercepted and denied access to Libyan ports. It kinda makes sense when you think about it. Afterall, UNSC 1973 mandates strict enforcement of an arms embargo. And well, that doesn't really apply to the Gyptians, Quataris, and lord knows who else. The resolution also calls for the establishment of a cease-fire. But you need to understand that it's one of those new fangled one-sided cease-fires. And that bit about preventing mercenary personnel? Yeah, it's helpful if you think of some of those folks as foriegn civilians...armed tourists if you will. But it's all above board. Because UNSC 1973 clearly states;
Reaffirming its strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence, territorial
integrity and national unity of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Oh yeah, and that "take all necessary measures" thing helps too.
[Iran Press TV] Thousands of Egyptians have gathered in the main square in the capital, Cairo, urging the trial of former President Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... and his associates.
The demonstrators gathered in the landmark Liberation Square in central Cairo following the Friday Prayers.
The gathering dubbed 'Saving the Revolution' followed reports suggesting that Mubarak would be pardoned. Egyptians are opposed to granting amnesty to Mubarak as they say he ordered the killing of scores of protesters.
"We want our rights back' and 'We don't feel the change," the protesters chanted.
They want Mubarak and his government officials to stand trial for the crimes they have committed.
The protesters also denounced the release of Mubarak's ousted chief of staff Zakaria Azmi and his wife Suzanne Thabet. Mubarak and his wife face charges, which include corruption.
Egypt's judicial sources say Mubarak could face the death penalty if found guilty of ordering the killing of anti-regime protesters during the revolution. At least 846 people were killed during the uprising that led to Mubarak's eventual fall.
The demonstrators also called for the release of all those who were jugged outside the Israeli embassy earlier this week. About 200 people were tossed in the calaboose during a protest on the Day of Nakba (Catastrophe) which marks the occupation of Paleostine by Israelis.
Protesters called for an end to Israel's 63-year occupation of Paleostinian lands, which began on May 15, 1948.
Under the US-backed Mubarak regime, Egypt consistently served Tel Aviv's interests in the region by helping to impose a crippling blockade on the impoverished Strip after the democratically-elected Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, government took control of the territory in 2007.
Egyptians have frequently called on their military rulers to abandon Israel and lift the blockade on the besieged Gazoo Strip.
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[Ennahar] The Institute of Chemistry at Bouguerra Ahmed University, in corpse-littered Boumerdes was panicked by the end of last week following the kaboom of a bomb and the discovery of a second inside the office of the head of Department by the security services.
It was last Wednesday, when at 4 pm, security guards, responsible for security of the Faculty of Chemistry, at the University of corpse-littered Boumerdes, located not far from the seat of the Prefecture, heard an kaboom inside the room. Alerted the security services came together with a team specialized in explosives and discovered a second bomb.
Both bombs were the work of a student in chemistry.
An investigation was initiated to identify the student who remained still unknown.
The chemistry faculty has experienced the aftermath of the kaboom, a heavy presence of security services at the main entrance where all students and employees were subjected to search and presentation of identity documents.
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[Al Jazeera] Yemen's president has called for early presidential elections, a day after making yet another promise to sign a deal that would end his decades-long rule.
Speaking to supporters after Friday prayers in the capital, Sanaa, President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... said that he wanted to hold an early election to end the country's political crisis.
"We call for an early presidential election in a democratic way, in order to avoid bloodshed," Saleh told thousands of supporters.
Saleh also appeared to lay the groundwork for his followers to prepare to relinquish some control over government.
"Your General People's Congress will remain both in power and out of power and ... will educate them [the opposition] how to be a responsible opposition. No cutting roads, no cutting tongues, no treachery," he said.
It is unclear whether such an election would occur under a deal mediated by the Gulf Co-operation Council, or if Saleh was making an alternative proposal.
The GCC brings together six Gulf states - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Soddy Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The opposition has accused the embattled leader of stalling after he previously rejected the agreement on two occasions.
Yemen continues to reel from three months of street protests that have seen tens of thousands of people massing in Sanaa, the focal point of demonstrations demanding the president's ouster.
Taiz and the port city of Aden have also been scenes of mass protests.
Refusal to sign
Saleh's call for elections came after Ahmed al-Sufi, his front man, said on Thursday that he was ready to sign the agreement on Sunday for the transfer of power.
The president had a day earlier backed out of the agreement that would allow for him to leave power in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
The refusal prompted Abdul-Latif al-Zayyani, the GCC's chief, to leave the country, although Al-Sufi said he would return to attend the newly scheduled signing on Sunday.
According to the front man, Saleh had changed his mind due to the application of strong diplomatic pressure from Gulf and other countries.
Saleh's previous pullback from promises to sign the deal has been on matters of constitutional technicality.
On Wednesday, he said he was not willing to accept Mohammed Basindwa, an opposition figure tipped as a possible interim prime minister, as a signatory to the deal, on the grounds that Basindwa, an independent, was not a member of a "legally recognised [party]" in parliament.
The GCC did not confirm that any deal would be signed on Sunday, only saying that its foreign ministers would be meeting on that day in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, to discuss the situation. Al-Zayyani would be attending that meeting, it said.
The Yemeni opposition has dismissed Saleh's promise to sign as a way of delaying his exit.
'We're not afraid'
"If the president decides to sign on Sunday, nothing will stop him," opposition front man Mohammed al-Sabri said. "We are sure that the president is playing games with time."
Al-Sabri said the GCC must take a clear position on whether or not Saleh was in favour of the decision.
"They cannot go along with the president's strategies to gain more time," he said.
Protests, meanwhile, continued on Friday in Sanaa with demonstrators vowing not to give up.
"We will continue to protest, despite our awareness that we could be killed or placed in durance vile. We are not afraid," said activist Tawakul Karman.
A violent crackdown on the protests by government forces has reportedly killed more than 150 people.
Yemen's central government was already weak before the protests began, dealing with a rebellion in the north, a secessionist movement in the south and the presence of al-Qaeda gunnies in its weakly governed provinces.
The United States, which considers Yemen a key ally in fighting al-Qaeda, appears to have backed away from supporting Saleh, with Barack B.O. Obama, the president, calling on him to stand down.
In a speech regarding US policy in the Arab world on Thursday, Obama referred directly to the situation in Yemen, saying: "President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... needs to follow through on his commitment to transfer power.''
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[Yemen Post] The ruling and opposition parties confirmed on Friday they will conclude the GCC power transition plan next week, though the government suggested that on Sunday and the opposition on Saturday.
On Wednesday, President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... refused to sign the deal after he suggested earlier that five from the General People's Congress, the governing party, and five from the Joint Meeting Parties, the opposition bloc, sign the deal.
He asked to change the five representatives from the opposition, triggering the anger of the GCC Secetary General, Abdul Latif Al-Zayani, who arrived in Yemen on a third visit this week to push the West-backed effort.
Al-Zayani blamed Saleh as being the only obstacle to signing and left the country without securing the deal that would see Saleh resign and end the month-long crisis.
More recently, external pressure on Saleh, mainly by the U.S. and the EU mounted, with countries urging all parties to sign the GCC plan and start an orderly power transfer in Yemen immediately.
Abdul Janadi, Deputy Information Minister, said that President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... has already agreed to finalize the deal next Sunday, but if the opposition shows commitment to removing all causes of unrest including the month-long street sit-ins and protests.
" President Saleh wants the signing coincide with the celebrations on Unification Day," he added.
The opposition confirmed the signing was agreed by the parties in Yemen, but they suggested that take place on Saturday not Sunday.
" If President Saleh wants to leave office on Unification Day or wants to finalize the deal on the celebrations, we prefer to celebrate on the streets along with the protesters in the squares of change and freedom in various cities," said Muhammad Abdul Malik al Mutawkil, a senior leader and former rotating president of the Joint Meeting Parties.
" Next week, President Saleh should sign first because he refused to sign at the last minute of preparation on Wednesday, not us," he said.
Currently, I think there are talks between the government, the GCC countries and other partners including the U.S., he added.
Meantime, the youth-led antigovernment protesters in the squares of change and freedom in many cities refused the deal and urged the people to take to the streets to express the refusal to it and demand an immediate, unconditional ouster of the regime.
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[Yemen Post] Yemen's ruling party said on Thursday that it and the opposition will sign the GCC power transition deal on Sunday, a day after President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... disappointed the Yemeni people and others when he refused to conclude that at the last minute of preparation for the signing.
The opposition did not confirm a signing will take place next Sunday, after accusing Saleh of derailing the deal and maneuvers amid the boiling on the streets.
Meantime, an opposition official told Aljazeera today that the GCC Foreign Ministers will meet on Yemen in coming days in Soddy Arabia.
The meeting will apparently be to revive the deal after the GCC Secretary General Abdul Latif Al-Zayani failed to secure a signing on his third visit to Yemen this week.
The youth-led antigovernment protesters reiterated their refusal to any initiative giving immunity to Saleh from prosecution and not ensuring an immediate, unconditional ouster of the regime.
They have called on the GCC countries to withdraw their West-backed plan and take decisive action against Saleh.
Today, the U.S. and La Belle France criticized Saleh for not finalizing the deal and urged all parties to conclude that immediately.
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For a map, click here. For a map of Nuevo leon, click here. or a map of Tamaulipas, click here. For a map of Coahuila, click here. For a map of Monterrey, Nuevo leon, click here.
Eight Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon municipal police officers were murdered by armed suspects in three separate ambushes, while 11 armed suspects were killed by Mexican security forces in the state of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas.
Three Mexican Naval Infantry were wounded in two shootouts with armed suspects said to be members of the Gulf drug cartel Wednesday. The marine unit was near the village of Villa de Casas on the Ciudad Victoria- Soto Marina highway, where an armed group had set up a checkpoint to extort money from motorists. One pickup truck fled the scene while the occupants of another truck fired on the unit as it arrived. Marines return fire forced the shooters to abandon their vehicle and fled into the brush.
About a kilometer away from the checkpoint the Marine unit encountered armed suspects with the second vehicle who opened fire on the unit wounding three marines. A single youth was captured by the unit following the firefight.
Secured were eight rifles, four grenades, 2,206 rounds of ammunition, 54 magazines, 200 bundles of cocaine and 69 bundles of marijuana as well as tactical gear.
A Mexican Marine unit exchanged gunfire with armed suspects in Monclova, Coahuila Tuesday night. The pursuit and gunfight took place on bulevar Harold Pape where armed suspects aboard a vehicle ignored orders to pull over. About 30 minutes later, security unit set up a checkpoint in the busy commercial area to divert drivers from the area.
Two armed suspects were killed by Mexican Army troops in Juarez, Nuevo Leon Thursday night. The army unit encountered a convoy of six vehicles near Caderteya and ordered them to stop. Instead, occupants in the vehicle opened fire on the unit for initiated a pursuit. One vehicle, a stolen Toyota Corolla sedan became separated from the convoy along calle Flor de Loto near Juarez, Nuevo Leon. The driver crashed the vehicle into a berm where the road ended. Soldiers found two dead in the car including the driver, and they seized an AK-47 assault rifle. The remainder of the convoy carrying other suspects escaped the unit.
Armed suspects damaged an auto dealership building with AR-15 assault rifle gunfire in Monterrey, Nuevo leon Thursday night. The suspects were riding in a multi vehicle convoy on Avenida Eugenio Garza Sada in the Villas de Lux colony when they opened up on the facade of a Renault dealership. Several new and used vehicles were damaged in the attack. Patrons in a nearby restaurant witnessed the attack, but were unharmed.
A shootout between Escobedo, Nuevo Leon municipal police officers and armed suspects left one taxi driver wounded in the crossfire Thursday night. The attack and pursuit took place in the Lomas de San Genaro colony and ended in the Sendero colony. Ecobedo police attempted to stop two suspicious vehicles, but were fired on initiating a pursuit. Police lost track of the suspects on a road going to San Nicolas de los Garza.
Three Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon police officers were shot to death in an ambush Wednesday night. The officers were on patrol near the intersection of the Monterrey-Reynosa highway and Avenida Xochimilco in the Xochimilco colony when armed suspects aboard several SUVs fired on them using small arms and a hand grenade.
Suspects abandoned a Toyota pickup truck at the scene where was seized one AK-47 assault rifle, ammunition and tactical gear.
Three Guadalupe traffic police officers were shot to death in an ambush Monday night. The attack took place near the intersection of avenidas Miguel Alemän yand De la Luz in the Residencial Minerva colony where a police captain were on patrol. Captain Cesario Arriaga Leija died at the scene. As the suspects circulated in the street, they fired on a patrol car and killed Marco Antonio Mejia Cepeda and Arturo Javier Ruiz as they were in their patrol vehicle. Reports say AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles were used in the attacks.
Two Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon auxillary police officers were shot to death in Guadalupe Thursday evening. Andres Felipe Mejia Quintanar, 55, and Maria del Carmen Soto Garcia, 32 were near the intersection of avenidas Benito Juarez andn Segunda when armed suspects travelling aboard a two vehicle convoy shot and killed them. More than 50 shots were fired at the officers.
Four armed suspects were killed by a unit of the Mexican Army in Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon Thursday night. The army unit encountered a Jeep SUV near the intersection of avenidas Xochimilco and Vaquerias between the Xochimilco colony and the ejido Las Vaquerias where armed suspects aboard the vehicle fired on the unit prompting return fire.
Army rifle fire hit the suspects as they attempted to throw the vehicle in reverse to escape.
In the aftermath soldiers seized three AK-47 assault rifles, one AR-15 assault rifle, one .45 caliber pistol, dozens of rounds of ammunition and other weapons contraband.
Five armed suspects were killed in a gunfight with a detachment of the Mexican Army in San Fernando, Tamaulipas Monday. Reports say the unit was fired on and returned fire killing the suspects. Five rifles and a handgun were seized following the firefight. San Fernando is the site where one of the wirst mass murders in Mexican history took place last month.
A total of 26 individuals were murdered in drug and gang related violence in northern Mexico including a mother and her daughter shot to death Thursday.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in Juarez Tuesday night. The victim was on calles Miguel de la Madrid and Garambullo in the Heroes de la Revolucion colony when he was shot. Investigators at the scene found 12 9mm spent shell casings.
A man was shot to death in his residence in Juarez Wednesday. Ricardo Moreno Martinez, 32, was in the bedroom of his home near the intersection of Durango and Felipe Angeles in the Manuel Valdez colony, when armed suspects entered his bedroom and shot him nine times.
An unidentified man was found immolated in Juarez Thursday evening. The victim was found in an alley near the intersection of calles Juan Alvarez and Guillermo Lujan in the Barrio Chavena. The victim was still smouldering when he was found, and had been bound hand and foot.
Three unidentified men were found murdered in Juarez Thursday in three separate incidents, according to the Mexican news weekly La Polaka.
A man was found shot to death in the village of Praxedis in the Valle de Juärez municipality near the intersection of calles Guerrero and Acosta.
A man was found dead on Camino Real.
A man was found mutilated in the streets of Chihuahua, Chihuahua late Thursday night. The victim was found near the intersection of Avenida Juan Escutia and Juan de Barreda in the northern zone of the city. A message was written on the torso as a warning to enemies of La Linea, the armed wing of the Juarez drug cartel.
Two women were shot to death early Thursday morning in Juarez. The victims were near the intersection of Avenida Juan Escutia and Juan de Barreda in the Zona Centro when they were shot in the back by a male teen. Reports say the victims may have been a mother and her daughter.
An unidentified man was found dead in Juarez late Thursday night. The victim had been placed in the trunk of a Dodge Stratus parked near the intersection of calles Mexicas and Tarahumaras in the Azteca colony. A message was left with the corpse as a warning to police.
The employee of a liquor store was shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Friday. The victim was left behind the counter of the store near the intersection of avenidas Colon and Niños Heroes in the Zona Dorada.
An man was found shot to death in Nogales, Sonora Wednesday. Salvador Ortiz Perez, 49, was shot in his apartment on Calle Astolfo R. Cardenas on the Infonavit 5 de Mayo colony. Several 9mm spent cartridge casings were found at the scene.
A man was pursued and shot in Nogales, Sonora Thursday afternoon. Hector Avila Moreno was found near the intersection of calles General Piña and Zacatecas in the San Benito colony. He was shot five times with an AK-47 assault rifle.
One unidentified youth was shot to death and three others were wounded in a shooting in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon Wedneday. The shooting took place near Topo Chico hill in the Unidad Pedreras colony.
A youth died shortly after he left the hospital in Cadereyta, Nuevo Leon Wednesday,. Luis Oscar Castillo Garzagoitia died a short distance from the Hospital de Petroleos Mexicano. The victim had been brought to the hospital by friends with several gunshot wounds including one in the head. He dropped dead a shortly after leaving the hospital.
An unidentified man was found hacked to death near Montemorelos, Nuevo Leon Friday. The victim was found on Kilometer 218 of the Carretera Nacional with several wounds said to be made by a machete.
An city employee of Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon was run over by a vehicle Friday. Lorenzo Castilla Peña was hit near the intersection of Bulevar Miguel de la Madrid and the Läzaro Cardenas bridge.
Nine inmates at a Durango, Durango prison were killed in a riot Wednesday evening. The riot took place at the Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO) Number One where inmates had gained access to at least ten firearms of differing calibers. Seven inmates were wounded in the brawl.
Mexican authorities are reporting the arrest of a high-ranking member of the Gulf Cartel south of the border in Reynosa.
Mexico's National Ministry of Public Safety (SSP) reported that federal police arrested Gilberto Barragan-Balderas and two other men on Friday afternoon.
Residents used Twitter to report gunfire and a heavy police presence in a neighborhood on the city's westside.
SSP officials confirmed that Barragan-Balderas was captured along Gulf Cartel gunment Sergio Gutierrez-Castañon and Romeo Eduardo Mejia.
Mejia is the brother of Juan Reyes Mejia, a lead Gulf Cartel gunman known as "El R1."
Barragan-Balderas, who goes by the nicknames of "Heriberto" or "El Tocayo," was the reported Gulf Cartel plaza boss for Miguel Aleman, which is located across the Rio Grande from Roma, Texas.
Barragan-Balderas was on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administrations (DEA) Most Wanted List where authorities were issuing a $5 million dollar reward for his capture.
All three men are expected to be flown to Mexico City where they will be prosecuted under organized crime charges.
SSP Director Ramon Eduardo Pequeño said the three were captured in an SUV with American license plates, weapons and ammunition.
"Among his responsibilities was to defend his plaza against the attacks of rivals, such as the Zetas in Tamaulipas," Pequeño said.
One of three Somali men who pleaded guilty Friday to taking part in a high-seas attack that left four Americans murdered told a federal judge: "I myself am a victim."
In February, the four Americans were on a yacht in the waters off the Horn of Africa when more than a dozen Somali men and one Yemeni hijacked their vessel. In the midst of negotiations with U.S. officials, at least some of the hijackers opened fire, killing Scott and Jean Adam of California, and Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle of Seattle.
They face life in prison for the charges of piracy and hostage-taking resulting in death. Those pleading guilty Friday are set to be sentenced in September.
A total of 15 foreign nationals have been charged in the case. Prosecutors said the goal of Friday's guilty pleas was to obtain "substantial" assistance in prosecuting the others, suggesting their focus would be on those who pulled the trigger.
A WikiLeaks cable, which NDTV has exclusive access to, says Pakistan's airmen were being radicalised and were sabotaging Pakistani F-16s deployed for security operations along the Afghan border.
The cable, sent in March 2006 from the US embassy to Washington, quotes Pakistan's then Deputy Chief of Air Staff for Operations, Air Vice Marshal (AVM) Khalid Chaudhry, as saying that the airmen, most of whom came from rural villages, were being radicalised by extremist Islamic clerics.
The cable quotes AVM Chaudhry as saying, "You can't imagine what a hard time we have trying to get to trim their beards."
The cable notes that, "This last comment refers to the tradition of conservative Muslims to grow full beards as a sign of piety."
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Rather than taking them out and shooting them, Darth, put them guarding the Sui pipeline - 24-on, 24-off, stationed 30 feet apart (close enough to shoot, not close enough to talk). If any of them run away, the two guys on either side of him will be shot. I'm sure their "religious piety" will wilt in 130-degree highs and 55-degree lows.
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"You can't imagine what a hard time we have trying to get to trim their beards."
Dosing them a few times with CS will take care of that. At least they will trim it enough so the protective mask seals.
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let the Pak F-16 pilots have the say on what to do with them.
Whatever, DO NOT give them replacement parts under the status quo
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I'm comfortably certain that the Indian intel services (far more competent than our CIA) are all over this.
Every Pak F-16 that can't fly, be it stationed on the Afghan 'border' or the Indian border, is one less F-16 the Indians have to shoot down. You know, if they have to shoot any down...
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...Don't forget that during Operation Desert Storm, some Saudi pilots decided to fly someplace other than briefed, dropped their bombs in the boonies, then came back and claimed smashing successes. They weren't cowards, far from it - they just didn't want to drop bombs on other Muslims.
They forgot, of course, that AWACS can see a lot of stuff. And makes videos of it, too.
Mike
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Interesting, Mike. I had no idea. So it's not really fanatics taking key bits out of the planes, because the Punjabi Taliban, etc have no problem attacking Afghans, co-religionists though they putatively are?
It's more WHY they would attack their brethren. It's one thing if Abdul from the next village over comes by, steals your favorite goat, and insults your impressive moustachio. If that happens, these guys would probably not only load up every F-16 on the ramp and fly it till it couldn't, they'd take it apart and use the chunks as clubs. But if Abdul comes over and does all those things, and you ask America for help, and we in turn ask you to use all those pretty airplanes you've been starving your populace for to blow Abdul to hell and gone, that's something else. Yeah, it's a real pain to keep losing goats, and that last crack about the moustachio really hurt, but it's been going on in one form or another since the Prophet was a pup. At that point, there's an unpleasant whiff - in Muslim noses - of working for the Crusaders, of being a tool of the Infidel. And after all, no matter what the Infidels say, they really ARE just working for the Jews, don'tchaknow. If we can't hit the Taliban, the Americans will give up and go home, and we can get back to settling this the old fashioned way.
Hoping that makes sense.
Mike
PS - The way the problem with the Saudis got solved - after they blew off some fairly pointed hints in private - was to put an entire page on the subject in the morning briefing booklet that went to all the Allied air commanders in ODS. However, the only one that actually HAD that page was the one that went to the Saudi commander. According to legend, the poor guy looked like he was about to have an aneurysm waiting to be embarrassed in front of the other commanders. When he realized it wasn't going to happen - yet - he left the briefing and sent the word down that the next guy who pulled that stunt would find himself flying a prison cell, regardless of his family connections. It didn't happen again.
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[Al Jazeera] At least one person has been killed and 10 others maimed after an attack on two US consulate vehicles in the northwestern Pak city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar.
Pak police said a roadside kaboom struck two vehicles carrying foreigners on Friday, killing a Pak passer-by.
The US embassy later confirmed that two of its consulate vehicles had been targeted, and that one of them was badly damaged.
"Two vehicles of the US consulate were on their way to the consulate when they were attacked," US embassy front man Alberto Rodriguez said.
"One vehicle was damaged. There is no death among our personnel and there are no serious injuries," he added.
"Only one car was hit. In that car there were US citizen diplomats and a Pak driver."
Ijaz Khan, a police superintendent, told the Rooters news agency that two American security guards were slightly maimed, and were being treated at a US medical facility.
Al Jizz's Kamal Hyder, reporting from the capital, Islamabad, said, "Because the vehicle was bomb proof, none of the people in the vehicle was killed."
Liaqat Ali, Peshawar police chief, said a local man riding on a cycle of violence was killed in the blast, which took place on a main road in the city.
'Revenge killing'
The device was so powerful that it smashed glass up to several hundred metres away and damaged at least three buildings, our correspondent reported.
The Pak Taliban has grabbed credit for the attack.
"The diplomatic staff of all NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... countries are our targets," Ehsanullah Ehsan, a Taliban front man, told Rooters via telephone from Qazi's guesthouse an undisclosed location.
"We will continue such attacks. Pakistain is our first target, and America is our second."
Our correspondent said the claim of responsibility appeared to be "a case of Dire Revenge™ for the the late Osama bin Laden ... who used to be but now ain't... killing".
"Al Jizz had obtained an exclusive video a couple of days ago in which the Taliban warned of retaliation," Hyder said.
Pakistain has witnessed a jump in violence since al-Qaeda and its Pak Taliban allies threatened to avenge the May 2, 2011, killing of Osama bin Laden in the country.
The Taliban also grabbed credit for a twin suicide kaboom last week that killed at least 76 people, most of them paramilitary recruits.
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Again, iff Islamabad = PAK GOVT. is indeed in control of both Al-Qaeda + the Taliban, etc. then an argument can be made that Islamabad attacked the US diplomatic convoy [act of war] by proxy because only Islamabad could order it, correct???
* OTOH PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > FORMER US DEFENSE SECRETARY RUMSFIELD GIVES BEST[est evar!] DEFENSE OF PAKISTAN ON BIN LADEN RAID | RUMSFIELD WARNS OF [premature]"RUSH TO JUDGEMENT" AGZ PAKISTAN. Better a wise state adversary-enemy than a stupid ally, aka BETTER IN US INTERESTS TO STICK WID A DEDIC DEMON/DEVIL WHOSE HABITS WE ALREADY KNOW THAN THE UNKNOWN???
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I am starting to suspect the traditional picture of Pakistain as the government, the ISI and the military is a gross and inaccurate simplification and there are, in reality, many different factions, both open and hidden, within each of those organizations, all plotting for and against each other at various times. This is why we get conflicting reports about such-and-such did/did not have any involvement or knowledge in the recent bin Laden whacking.
[Dawn] Pak police said they tossed in the slammer a would-be jacket wallah and two of his handlers on Friday who were planning "terror attacks" in the prosperous financial hub Bloody Karachi.
"We have tossed in the slammer three krazed killers, Alam Zaib, Hasandar Sheena and Inaamur Rehman from Orangi neighbourhood on a tip-off today," Bloody Karachi police chief Saud Mirza said at a presser.
"They were members of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain's cell in Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... being run by Abu Mansoor." Mirza said the three Death Eaters had shifted to Bloody Karachi after a military swoop in the Swat valley.
"They would conduct robberies and kill people whom they suspected to have links with security agencies in Bloody Karachi and transfer the booty to their comrades in the northwest," Mirza said.
Alam Zaib and Hasan Dar had "prepared" Inaamur Rehman to conduct a suicide kaboom in the sprawling port city, police said.
"They had their would-be suicide bomber and were waiting for a go-ahead signal from their superiors in the terrorist outfit," Mirza said.
Bloody Karachi is Pakistain's economic hub, home to its stock exchange and a lifeline for a depressed economy wilting under inflation and stagnating foreign investment.
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[Dawn] A US drone strike destroyed a vehicle in Pakistain's Taliban-infested North Wazoo district on the Afghan border, killing six suspected cut-throats on Friday, local officials said.
The two missiles struck the Tappi area, 10 kilometres (six miles) east of Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan, where US officials want Pakistain to launch an offensive against networks fighting in neighbouring Afghanistan.
"A US drone targeting a beturbanned goons' vehicle fired two missiles killing four beturbanned goons," a security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Another local security official confirmed the strike and casualties, saying the identity of those killed in the attack was not immediately known.
Friday's attack was the seventh to be reported in Pakistain's tribal areas near the Afghan border since US commandos killed the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest... in a secret raid in the Pak city of Abbottabad on May 2.
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[Dawn] One person was killed and seven others, including two coppers, sustained injuries in a roadside kaboom at Jehangira Chowk here on Thursday.
Police said that a remote controlled bomb planted by unidentified persons along the road near Jehangira Chowk went off with a big bang. The blast occurred just a few moments after a police mobile van stopped at the site, they said. They added that the vehicle was partially damaged in the blast. They said about two to three kilograms explosive was used in the bomb and police was its apparent target.
A civilian identified as Shamsul Qamar, a resident of Par Hehangira, was killed and seven persons were maimed in the blast. Few of the injured were identified as police van driver Sardar Ali, head constable Akhtar Ali and passers-by Inam, Noman and Ilyas.
The injured were taken to district headquarters hospital Nowshera for treatment.
In another incident, a security guard identified as Saeedullah was injured in a mysterious blast at Jalozai IDPs camp here on Thursday.
The nature of the kaboom could not be ascertained. Some people said that it was an improvised bomb planted at the camp while others said that a hand grenade was hurled at the security guard.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... lawyers, judges and litigants vacated Nowshera courts after a bomb hoax. The Bomb Disposal Squad was called but it could not find any bomb on the premises of courts. The people returned to courts after three hours.
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[Straits Times] MALAYSIAN police said on Friday they have handed a businessman suspected of channelling funds to a Philippine Islamic orc group to Singaporean authorities.
A bigwig in the police special task force for operations and counter-terrorism, who did not want to be named, told AFP that Singaporean Abdul Majid Kunji Mohamad was handed over to the city-state late on Thursday.
'We handed him over to the Singapore authorities and they can carry out further investigations as he is involved with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front,' he said.
The official said Singapore had informed their Malaysian counterparts late last year that Abdul Majid was hiding in the country.
'Our investigations revealed that Abdul Majid was involved in the late 1990s and early 2000 with the MILF and went to MILF camps and was trained there,' the official said.
'He was also involved in procuring components for mortars and funding the MILF, so as a orc posed a security threat to countries in the region.' Malaysia is helping the Philippines broker peace with the MILF in an effort to end a bloody secessionist war in the restive but mineral-rich region of Mindanao, in the southern Philippines.
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[Al Jazeera] Syrian security forces have killed dozens of protesters in the latest armed crackdown on protesters, a leading Syrian human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... researcher has told Al Jizz.
Razan Zeitouna, a human rights lawyer, said activists had listed names of more than 30 protesters shot by security forces in Friday's crackdown, adding that a further two victims were yet to be identified.
Nine protesters were killed in Maret al-Naiman and Kafr Nabal, suburbs of Hama, nine were killed in Homs, including an 11-year-old boy, four were killed in Berze, a suburb of Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... , and one person died in Sanamein, near Deraa.
The dead included two boys, named as Aiham al-Ahmad, 11, and 16-year-old Ahmad Bakr, witnesses said.
A witness told Al Jizz they were shot when coppers opened fire on Friday, after their vehicle crashed into a wall and was attacked by protesters.
The attack took place after officers drove police cars into a crowd of about 2,000 demonstrators in an attempt to disperse them, a second witness said.
After hitting several protesters with the vehicles, one of the cars crashed into a wall, prompting the officers to jump out and open fire. Four other protesters were also killed, while at least seven others were maimed.
In a separate incident, three residents were killed when security forces attempted to storm a hospital in the al-Wa'r neighbourhood of Homs, according to a witness.
Locals responded by forming a human chain around the hospital, in an attempt to prevent the police arresting maimed protesters inside. The witness said some locals had shot at the police using handguns.
Al Jizz is unable to verify the reports because of restrictions on reporting imposed by Syria's government.
'Four killed' in Berze
Security forces also opened fire on protesters in Berze, a suburb north-east of Damascus, killing four protesters and wounding tens, a witness told Al Jizz.
"The protesters have all been shot in the legs and stomach," he said.
The protest began after Friday prayers when around 1,000 people marched through the streets, chanting "peaceful, peaceful" and calling for the toppling of the regime.
The witness told Al Jizz that security forces had first attacked and beaten protesters with sticks and had then fired tear gas at them.
"Then they opened fire on us," he said, the sound of gunshots audible over the phone line as he spoke.
After the killing, security forces began detaining people, he said. "People are afraid to go home for fear of being tossed in the calaboose."
Berze was surrounded by police checkpoints and electricity to the town had been cut, he said.
A video uploaded to YouTube earlier appeared to show protesters in Berze using back alleys to protest, which activists said was a new strategy by protesters to avoid coming under fire from snipers, as is reported to have happened during previous Friday protests. Al Jizz cannot independently verify the video's contents.
Assyrian Christians tossed in the calaboose
In Qamishli, Syrian security raided the headquarters of the Assyrian Democratic Association and tossed in the calaboose 12 of its members, according to two activists who spoke to al-Jazeera.
It was the first crackdown by security forces on the widespread participation of Assyrian Christians in the democratic uprising.
Khodr Abdel Karim, a human rights activist in Qamishli, said: "This is a message from the regime to Syrian Christians not to participate in any of these demonstrations. It is the duty of every Syrian to claim them back from this arrest."
Syria has launched a bloody crackdown over the past two months in response to an unprecedented uprising against Bashir al-Assad, the country's president. Human rights groups say more than 850 people have been killed.
Syria has blamed the unrest on armed thugs and foreign agitators.
According to organisers, there were also protests on Friday in the Mediterranean port of Baniyas, the central city of Hama and the coastal city of Latakia.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said gunfire was reported in Baniyas. Another person was shot in Sanamin, a village near the southern flashpoint city of Deraa, it said.
There were more reports of violence in Damascus, the Syrian capital, where a witness told Al Jizz that regime supporters with iron bars had attacked a group of 500 to 700 worshippers as they left the Dahabiyyeh mosque in the Old City, after Friday prayers.
In Midan, a conservative Sunni neighbourhood of Damascus, a demonstration by Abu Ayoub al-Ansari mosque had barely begun when security forces fired tear gas on around 1,000 protesters, arresting several, a witness told Al Jizz.
'Azadi Friday'
The Kurdish-majority areas of Syria's northeast saw smaller than expected numbers of protesters, according to a Kurdish political activist, despite nationwide demonstrations being dubbed by organisers as 'Azadi Friday', the Kurdish word for freedom.
About 6,000 demonstrated in Amouda while smaller crowds gathered in other towns in the region.
The numbers were larger than last Friday but fell short of the expectations of organisers who had hoped the Kurds, who have not faced the same level of armed crackdown as protesters elsewhere in Syria, would take to the streets en masse.
An activist said state employees in the region had been warned they would lose their jobs if they took part in protests.
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[Ennahar] About thirty four Syrians were killed yesterday in Syria, in the towns of Deraa, Homs and Sanameyn, while in the coastal city of Banias was organised the largest demonstration since the start of the uprising in Syria, nine weeks ago, according to information reported by activists for human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
Syrian security forces killed at least 34 people when they opened fire Friday on protesters demanding democracy in several towns in Syria, according to a new record of Syrian activists of human rights.
Dozens of protesters were also maimed by the police, the activists have added.
The stock was the heaviest recorded in the town of Maaret al-Naamane, near the town of Idlib (west), where 15 people including a 15 year old boy, were killed by security forces who had opened fire to disperse the demonstrators, they said.
Twelve other protesters, including a 10 year old child and two teenagers aged 15 and 16, were killed by the bullets of security forces in Homs (center), a hotbed of opposition to the regime under siege by the army for almost two weeks, beturbanned goons have added.
Two other people were killed in the region of Deraa (south), home of the uprising raging in the country for over two months, a protester died in Daraya, a suburb of Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... , Latakia, the main port of countries (West), one in Hama (center) and two in Deir Zor (east), they added.
The beturbanned goons gave a list of names of 34 victims.
Demonstrations took place in other cities around the country, despite the regime's measures to try to silence by force the revolt against President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor...
In the vicinity of Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... , the second largest city located in a Kurdish region of northern Syria, hundreds of opponents chanted "no to violence, yes to dialogue" and "we are not Islamist or Salafist ...Salafists espouse an austere form of Sunni Islam that seeks a return to practices that were common in the 7th century. Rather than doing that themselves and letting other people alone they insist everybody do as they say and they try to kill everybody who doesn't... , we want freedom ", said Radif Mustafa, leader of a Kurdish organization for the Defence of Human Rights.
"Nobody calls for the fall of the regime," he added, while in the background you could hear in the street "azadi, azadi" (freedom in Kurdish).
At Banias in the north-west of the country, many men walked shirtless to show they were unarmed, contrary to the accusations of the regime, according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights.
The protesters, men, women and kiddies-chanting slogans against the regime and in favour of freedom, claiming in particular the lifting of siege of cities in Syria, the source said.
At midday, security forces had not intervened to disperse the demonstrators.
Other demonstrations were held in towns and villages in the north-east, including Qamishli Amuda and Derbasiyeh, told AFP another cut-thoat, Hassan Berro.
The Syrian opposition had urged people to take to the streets after prayers that "Friday of Liberty, Azadi," saying that the two main cities-Damascus and Aleppo -- will surprise the authorities.
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tanks in front of every mosque
Pancake breakfast at 8:00 am. Bingo and ribs at 5:00. Ladies night, gals wearing mosque jacket drink free until 7:30.
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A US drone strike destroyed a vehicle in Pakistain's Taliban-infested North 
