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German Official: Do Not Underestimate The IDF
Philipp Missfelder, deputy front man for Chancellor Angela Merkel
...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom...
's party, tells 'Post' military option against Iran can't be ruled out
.

BERLIN -- Israel's vital security interests are integral to the interests of the Federal Republic, according to Philipp Missfelder, the Germany deputy front man for Chancellor Angela Merkel's party in the Bundestag.

In a wide-ranging telephone interview with The Jerusalem Post on Friday, the Christian Democratic Union deputy covered the pressing security issues unfolding in the Middle East.

"The Chancellor is 100 percent right that Israel's security is in Germany's national interest," he stressed. "Israel's military capacity should not be underestimated."

"It was a mistake in the fall to rule out a military option," Missfelder continued. "Obama was correct in how he handled it. The military option must remain on the table because, if not, the negotiating strategy will not be taken seriously by Iran."

Last November, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, of the pro-business Free Democratic Party, spoke differently: "We reject a discussion about military options" in connection with the Iranian nuclear threat, he said.

Additionally, in February, German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere delivered a grim assessment of Israel's capability to knock out Iran's nuclear facilities. He said an IDF strike on Iran would be "highly unlikely" to succeed, and would cause "obvious political damage."

The 32-year-old historian is viewed by close followers of German-Israeli relations as a politician who seeks to breathe new life into strengthening the security bond between Israel and the Federal Republic.

Israeli diplomats in Berlin have praised Missfelder's unwavering support for the security of the Jewish state over the years.

"Germany's population wants to be the like the Swiss and stay out of conflicts, such as the one in Afghanistan," Missfelder told the Post. "But that is no longer possible.

There is a joint responsibility towards Israel, to say to the German population that we have a new role in Europe and the world."

When asked about what the UN has characterized as civilian massacres by Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Trampler of Homs...
's regime, Missfelder said, "Syria shows the region is in upheaval...There is no unity in the UN...[They are] no longer in the position to engage in protected responsibility in connection with Syria. Many have criticized [former president George W.] Bush for intervention, but the US should take more responsibility."

He noted that a military option for Syria would be very difficult after the Libya decision, and one option would be to arm the opposition.

Missfelder added, "We will not profit from instability, friends of Israel and the West -- and Israel belongs to West, in my view. My main concern is Iran will win great influence."

In regard to the so-called "Arab Spring," he said he was very skeptical in the beginning: "It was great that young people became political. But foreign policy is very serious.

There is romanticism in the world of art, but in foreign policy that is ridiculous."

Egypt and Yemen, he said, are the largest question.

"Egypt is a challenge," he continued. "It has not become easier. The Konrad Adenauer Foundation worked successfully in Egypt, but now is massively prevented. I cannot say that I was disappointed [when] I saw this development. It is not clear who will take over power on the long term."

The Konrad Adenauer Foundation is a think tank affiliated with Missfelder's party that promotes pro-democracy work.

Missfelder observed that the EU government in Brussels tends to be pro-Paleostinian.

"Brussels is orientated on the Paleostinians. I know this phenomenon from the Left in Germany," he said.

Critics argue that the Left movement in Germany and many Left Party deputies have focused the bulk of their foreign policy work on criticizing Israel and advocating for the Paleostinians -- including, at times, the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror group in the Gazoo strip.
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German Official: Do Not Underestimate The IDF
Philipp Missfelder, deputy front man for Chancellor Angela Merkel's party, tells 'Post' military option against Iran can't be ruled out.

BERLIN -- Israel's vital security interests are integral to the interests of the Federal Republic, according to Philipp Missfelder, the Germany deputy front man for Chancellor Angela Merkel
...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom...
''s party in the Bundestag.

In a wide-ranging telephone interview with The Jerusalem Post on Friday, the Christian Democratic Union deputy covered the pressing security issues unfolding in the Middle East.

"The Chancellor is 100 percent right that Israel's security is in Germany's national interest," he stressed. "Israel's military capacity should not be underestimated."

"It was a mistake in the fall to rule out a military option," Missfelder continued. "Obama was correct in how he handled it. The military option must remain on the table because, if not, the negotiating strategy will not be taken seriously by Iran."

Last November, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, of the pro-business Free Democratic Party, spoke differently: "We reject a discussion about military options" in connection with the Iranian nuclear threat, he said.

Additionally, in February, German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere delivered a grim assessment of Israel's capability to knock out Iran's nuclear facilities. He said an IDF strike on Iran would be "highly unlikely" to succeed, and would cause "obvious political damage."

The 32-year-old historian is viewed by close followers of German-Israeli relations as a politician who seeks to breathe new life into strengthening the security bond between Israel and the Federal Republic.

Israeli diplomats in Berlin have praised Missfelder's unwavering support for the security of the Jewish state over the years.

"Germany's population wants to be the like the Swiss and stay out of conflicts, such as the one in Afghanistan," Missfelder told the Post. "But that is no longer possible.

There is a joint responsibility towards Israel, to say to the German population that we have a new role in Europe and the world."

When asked about what the UN has characterized as civilian massacres by Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Trampler of Homs...
's regime, Missfelder said, "Syria shows the region is in upheaval...There is no unity in the UN...[They are] no longer in the position to engage in protected responsibility in connection with Syria. Many have criticized [former president George W.] Bush for intervention, but the US should take more responsibility."

He noted that a military option for Syria would be very difficult after the Libya decision, and one option would be to arm the opposition.

Missfelder added, "We will not profit from instability, friends of Israel and the West -- and Israel belongs to West, in my view. My main concern is Iran will win great influence."

In regard to the so-called "Arab Spring," he said he was very skeptical in the beginning: "It was great that young people became political. But foreign policy is very serious.

There is romanticism in the world of art, but in foreign policy that is ridiculous."

Egypt and Yemen, he said, are the largest question.

"Egypt is a challenge," he continued. "It has not become easier. The Konrad Adenauer Foundation worked successfully in Egypt, but now is massively prevented. I cannot say that I was disappointed [when] I saw this development. It is not clear who will take over power on the long term."

The Konrad Adenauer Foundation is a think tank affiliated with Missfelder's party that promotes pro-democracy work.

Missfelder observed that the EU government in Brussels tends to be pro-Paleostinian.

"Brussels is orientated on the Paleostinians. I know this phenomenon from the Left in Germany," he said.

Critics argue that the Left movement in Germany and many Left Party deputies have focused the bulk of their foreign policy work on criticizing Israel and advocating for the Paleostinians -- including, at times, the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror group in the Gazoo strip.
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--Tech & Moderator Notes
Mike Zullo discusses computer controlled document links and layers
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#1  Mods, please correct placement or delete.
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Afghanistan
Afghan Air Force Probed in Drug Running
For those who don't have a Wall Street Journal subscription, Afghanistan's Tolo News reports on the WSJ story here.
Posted by: Penguin || 03/08/2012 00:49 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...I just finished reading TFA in the dead tree WSJ - short version is that the USAF Colonel we thought was a victim of Sudden Jihad Syndrome was actually he victim of someone who was about to get caught.

We need to leave now and tell these 12th century barbarians that they're on their own, and the next time they allow their country to be used as a base for an attack anywhere, the response will be delivered by ICBM.

And then DO it.

Mike
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Six British soldiers killed in Afghan blast
Six British soldiers were killed when their armoured vehicle was hit by an kaboom in Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province in southern Afghanistan, British military officials said on Wednesday, taking the British toll to 404 since the 2001 US-led invasion to oust the Taliban.

The soldiers, five from the 3rd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment and one from the 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, were on a mounted patrol on Tuesday when their Warrior Armoured Fighting Vehicle was struck, the British Ministry of Defence said.

"One of the Warriors suffered catastrophic damage in the course of that kaboom," Brigadier Patrick Sanders, commander of Task Force Helmand, told journalists in the picturesque provincial capital Lashkar Gah.

The attack, on Helmand's border with the unruly Kandahar province, marked the biggest single loss of life for British troops in Afghanistan since 2006. Britannia is the second largest contributor to the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
-led war after the United States.

The Britons' vehicle was hit by a roadside kaboom, the deadliest weapon used by jihad boys, said senior Afghan police official Mohammad Ismail Hotak in Helmand.

"It is a reminder of the huge price that we are paying for the work we are doing in Afghanistan and the sacrifice that our troops have made and continue to make," British Prime Minister David Cameron
... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ...
told the BBC.
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Africa Subsaharan
British and Italian hostages murdered by captors in special forces rescue bid in Nigeria
A British hostage has been killed in a Special Forces operation to free him from al-Qaeda aligned kidnappers in Nigeria.
David Cameron named the man as Chris McManus who was killed with fellow hostage Italian Franco Lamolinara.

It is understood a Special Boat Service operation to free them from al-Qaeda aligned kidnappers failed.

The effort to free Mr McManus, from the North West of Nigeria, and an Italian hostage was launched by Nigerian forces with the assistance of the UK.

The Prime Minister said the pair appeared to have died at the hands of their captors, either before or during the course of the rescue bid.

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#1  Watch for Somalia : Piracy : Near India & Elsewhere
Posted by: Senta Burgah : 2 Rev. Avery Kaliwai || 03/08/2012 14:10 Comments || Top||

#2  No mention of what happened to their captors.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 03/08/2012 14:43 Comments || Top||

#3  This is the UK we're talking about. The captors have sued the Brits for mental abuse.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/08/2012 16:50 Comments || Top||

#4  the captors should have no comment
Posted by: Frank G || 03/08/2012 20:54 Comments || Top||


Gunmen Attack Prison, Police Station in Northern Nigeria
[An Nahar] Suspected Islamists attacked a prison, cop shoppe and local government office in northeastern Nigeria, wounding at least three coppers, officials and residents said Wednesday.

"The (police) station was set ablaze," police front man Samuel Tizhe told Agence La Belle France Presse of the attack in Konduga on Tuesday night. "They attacked the secretariat and prison ... They started with firing, then they put explosives."

Residents said they suspected the attackers were members of Islamist group Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or Big Louie...
, though Tizhe declined to comment on who the suspects were.

The front man said at least three coppers were maimed but no deaths had been reported. He could not say whether any prisoners had decamped during the attack.

Konduga is some 40 kilometers from Maiduguri, which has served as the base of Boko Haram, blamed for scores of attacks that have killed hundreds, mainly in Nigeria's north.

While Maiduguri has been repeatedly hit by violence, Tuesday night's incidents marked the first major attack in Konduga.

Residents said gunnies stormed the town on Tuesday evening, shooting and bombing the cop shoppe and local government headquarters. One resident said a church was also attacked, but police had not confirmed the information.

Hundreds of people decamped the violence, though calm had returned on Wednesday morning. The extent of the damage was not immediately clear.

"We had just finished our evening prayers when kabooms and shootings erupted which set the divisional cop shoppe, the local government secretariat and a church on fire," one fleeing resident told AFP by telephone.

Another fleeing resident said "the bombing and the shooting were horrifying and forced us to abandon our homes".

"Up to 300 hundred people moved out to neighboring Uturu and Mantamari villages," he said.

Boko Haram has been blamed for increasingly deadly and sophisticated attacks in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation and largest oil producer.

It grabbed credit for the August suicide kaboom of U.N. headquarters in the capital Abuja which killed at least 25 people, while its deadliest attack yet occurred on January 20 in Kano, Nigeria's second-largest city.

The Kano attack saw coordinated bombings and shootings that left at least 185 people dead.

Violence blamed on the sect, whose goals remain largely unclear, has since 2009 claimed more than 1,000 lives, including more than 300 this year alone, according to figures tallied by AFP and rights groups.

There has been deep concern over whether Boko Haram has formed links with outside cut-thoat groups, including al-Qaeda's North African branch.

Diplomats say that while it appears some Boko Haram members have been receiving training abroad, there has been no evidence of operational ties with foreign groups.
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Caribbean-Latin America
Terror in Tamaulipas with grenade and small arms attacks

For a map, click here. For a map of Tamaulipas state, click here

By Chris Covert

Unconfirmed reports say that as many as 10 armed suspects have been killed in fighting in Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas Wednesday, according to El Diario de Juarez news daily.

While the report credits the Mexican Secretaria de Defensa Nacional (SEDENA), the controlling agency for the Mexican Army, with providing some of the information, SEDENA has yet to release a report on its website.

According to the report, one encounter began around 1400 hrs on Bulevar Miguel Aleman when a Mexican Army unit on patrol attempted a traffic stop near Zona Centro of the city near the intersection of calles Insurgentes and 10th.

Instead of stopping, suspects attempted to flee the area while exchanging gunfire. The gunfight continued on in the Del Norte and Gomez colonies.

At about 1500 hrs Twitterers reported observing a military helicopter in the area. In the Gomez colony army units cordoned off an area around a residence, which remained cordoned until 1800 hrs. It is unknown if any arrests were made in the Gomez colony operation.

Reports are that as many as 12 are dead, but no official reports have been released.

In another report El Diario de Juarez said that four separate grenade attacks took place in Reynosa Tuesday, according to Twitterers in the area.

The first grenade attack took place outside am Elektra store at about 1235 hrs. Reports say two individuals travelling aboard a Chevrolet Blazer SUV threw the bomb.

A second grenade was thrown, location unknown, at around 1305 hrs, and a third was thrown at about 1520 hrs near a police station. A fourth grenade landed at the municipal gymnasium at about 1735 hrs.
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Death toll in Nuevo Leon mass grave rises to 13

For a map click here. For a map of Nuevo Leon state, click here For a map of Monterrey city, click here

By Chris Covert

Nine more dead have been uncovered in a mass grave in an eastern Nuevo Leon village, raising the death toll in the area to 13, according to Mexican news accounts.

Tuesday March 6th, a Mexican Army unit with the 8th Military Zone was dispatched to a farmhouse in the village of Santa Ana in Juarez municipality, where a mass grave was found containing four bodies. Several unidentified individuals in the area were also detained by soldiers in the same incident.

A third grave was later found in the area with bodies or parts of bodies totalling seven. An additional two bodies were found in further exhumations in the area.

Last July, the remains of 18 unidentified individuals were found in Juarez municipality by Mexican Army units. Graves were found in Hilda and La Escondida colonies of the village of Palos Altos.
Correction: The last report on the mass grave find in Santa Ana village in Juarez municipality said Juarez municipality was located 45 kilometers to the northwest of Monterrey. Juarez is in fact seven kilometers to the east. The error has since been corrected.
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Badanov's Buzzkill Bulletin
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Mexican Army units conducting counternarcotics operations throughout Mexico since March 1st have seized 2,651.05 kilograms of marijuana, 159.875 kilograms of methamphetamine, 45 liters of liquid methamphetamine, 7.222 kilograms of opium gum, MP $29,770.00 (USD $2,312,81) and USD $20.00 (MP $257.43) in cash.

  • A Mexican Army unit with the 13th Military Zone conducted a traffic stop in on Avenida Juarez in Ruiz municipality in Nayarit state March 1st. Soldiers seized 4 kilograms of opium gum and detained one unidentified suspect.

  • An army unit with the Mexican 42nd Military Zone came under a small arms attack near the village of Tejolocachi in Matachi municipality in Chihuahua state March 1st. Army counterfire killed one suspect. It is presumed by the account that a number of suspects managed to escape army gunfire. Soldiers seized in the aftermath 2,647.15 kilograms of marijuana. Munitions and other contraband seized include three rifles, 32 weapons magazines, 952 rounds of ammunition and two vehicles, one of which was stolen.

  • Mexican Army units with the 26th and 29th Military Zone seized a number of weapons and some drugs in several municipalities March 1st in Veracruz state. Operations were conducted in Xalapa, Jaltipan, Cosoleacaque, San Andres Tuxtla and Coatzacoalcos municipalities. Seized contraband included seven rifles, two handguns, 22 weapons magazines, 662 rounds of ammunition, personal quantities of marijuana and cocaine, and three vehicles. A total of seven unidentified individuals were detained.

  • A unit with the Mexican 3rd Military Zone in Baja California Sur seized weapons, drugs and cash March 2nd. The unit was on patrol in La Paz municipality when soldiers detained two unidentified individuals and seized 3.9 kilograms of marijuana, 0.480 kilograms of cocaine, 1.875 kilograms of methamphetamine, two handguns, 20 rounds of ammunition, three weapons magazines, MP $22,340.00 (USD $1,735.59) in cash and two vehicles.

  • A Mexican Army unit with the 19th Military Zone detained one unidentified individual following an exchange of gunfire in Veracruz state March 2nd. The unit was on patrol in Ciudad Cuauhtemoc municipality when it came under small arms fire. Army counterfire ended the attack, forcing an unknown number of armed suspects to flee the scene. Soldiers seized two rifles, two grenades, 24 weapons magazines, 290 rounds of ammunition, one machete and three vehicles. Two unidentified individuals, said to be kidnap victims, were freed.

  • An army detachment with the 9th Military Zone discovered a hidden synthetic drug laboratory in Sinaloa state March 2rd. The unit was on patrol in the village of Los Paredones in Culican municipality when it found the lab hidden in the brush. Soldiers seized 158 kilograms of methamphetamine, 45 liters of liquid methamphetamine, 25 kilograms of sodium acetate, 75 kilograms of caustic soda, 25 kilograms of tartaric acid, one kilogram of iodine, 433 liters of ethyl alcohol, 470 liters of white gas, 360 liters of monomethylamine, 265 liters of hydrochloric acid, 80 liters of acetic anhydride, 40 liters of acetone, 335 liters of an unknown substance, and various containers.

  • An army unit with the 12 Military Zone rescued one kidnapping victim and detained two suspects in San Luis Potosi. The unit responded to intelligence acquired
    *ring, ring* "Mahmoud de la Paz the Weasel here. Listen closely, I will say this only once."
    and went to a building near Del Llano to affect the rescue. Soldiers also found one handgun, seven weapons magazines, 203 rounds of ammunition. MP $3,880.00 (USD $301.43) in cash, and tactical and communications gear.

  • A Mexican Army unit with the 15th Military Zone discovered a hidden synthetic drug laboratory in Jalisco state March 2nd. The unit was on patrol near the village of Los Cedros Ixtlahuacan in Quinces municipality when it found the lab. Materiel seized included 250 grams of glass methamphetimine, 480 liters of hydrochloric acid, 350 liters of acetone, 125 kilograms of caustic soda. 105 liters of chemical, 73 kilograms of tartaric acid. 50 liters of ethyl alcohol. 15 kilograms of ammonium chloride, 95 kilograms of unidentified chemicals and various containers and equipment.

    The laboratory is the 10th lab dismantled in Jalisco state since January 1st.

    A separate army unit on the same day executed a traffic stop on the Jamay-La Barca road in La Barca municipality, detaining one unidentified individuals and seizing personal quantities of marijuana and cocaine.

  • An army unit with the 9th Military Zone seized a number of weapons in Sinaloa state March 2nd. The unit was operating in conjunction with air units in the area locating three abandoned vehicles. Seized weapons and munitions included 12 rifles, one 40mm grenade launcher attachment,
    One hopes Operation Gunrunner wasn't involved in that acquisition...
    41 weapons magazines, and 2,001 rounds of ammunition.

  • Mexican Army units with the 26th and 29th Military Zones seized a number of drugs divided for retail sale, and in personal quantities in three separate incidents in Veracruz state March 5th. A total of seven unidentified individuals were also detained.

    In the village of Guayabal in Cardel municipality, soldiers seized 33 bundles of marijuana, 2,500 doses of powder cocaine, 1,000 doses of crack cocaine, four rifles, 2,870 rounds ammunition, 120 weapon magazines, one grenade launcher, one rocket launcher, one rocket, three grenades and two vehicles.

    In Minatitlan municipality, soldiers seized one rifle, one handgun, three weapons magazines, 33 rounds of ammunition, one vehicle, communications gear, MP $3,550.00 (USD $275.79) and USD $20.00 (MP $257.43) in cash.

    In Nanchital municipality, soldiers detained one unidentified individual with personal quantities of powder and crack cocaine and communications gear.

  • Units with the Mexican 9th Military Zone seized a number of weapons in Sinaloa state March 6th. The unit was on patrol near the Sindicatura de Gato de Lara in Angostura municpality when it seized four rifles, one handgun, 21 weapons magazines, 1,315 rounds of ammunition, tactical gear and five vehicles.

  • While setting up a military checkpoint in Coicoyan de las Flores in Oaxaca, military personnel with the 28th Military Zone found a burlap bag containing opium gum. A total of 3.222 kilograms of opium gum was found.

Badanov's Burnt Blunt Special

Personnel with the 42nd Military Zone incinerated 2,200 kilograms of marijuana its elements seized March 1st following a firefight. The incineration was performed near Ciudad Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua on the base of the Mexican 2nd Infantry Battalion.
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Europe
Iranian arms dealer arrested in Prague
An Iranian man wanted on arrest warrant issued by US attempted to buy hundreds of M4 submachine guns in Czech Republic, Czech Position reported. Detectives from the special unit to combat organized crime (UOOZ) arrested Iranian national Behruz Dolatzad, Czech Television (CT) reported Tuesday evening.

Dolatzad travelled to the Czech Republic after failing to strike a deal to buy submachine guns in the U.S. state of Arizona, where U.S. intelligence services were alerted.

"Our detectives in Prague arrested a foreign national who they subsequently charged on two criminal accounts relating to illegal trade with military equipment," spokesman for the anti-organized crime unit Pavel Hantak told CT, adding the unit cannot divulge any further information for now on the arrest which took place on February 16.

An official at the Iranian consulate in Prague told CT public television that it had received no information about the arrest of an Iranian national in Prague.

According to CT's information, Dolatzad travelled to the US in 2011 to buy arms and signed a contract for the delivery of 3,000 M4 fully automatic rifles to Iran in the state of Arizona.
See, we should have just sold them to Mexico...
When that deal didn't work out Dolatzad travelled to the Czech Republic where Czech detectives followed him having received a tip-off from US intelligence.

In Prague, Dolatzad reportedly signed a contract for the delivery of 500 M4 sunmachine guns to Iran for €40,000 (around Kc 996,000). During his stay at the Hotel Clarion in the city's Old Town, the Iranian national was under constant surveillance. He was arrested in the hotel by agents posing as arms dealers. According to CT's information, Dolatzad posed as a representative of an Iranian firm, Teheran Fanavar, reportedly established 12 years ago. The company presents itself as a trader in textiles, domestic appliances and electronics.

Almost 180 Czech entities hold arms export licenses. Over the past few years arms exports from the Czech Republic have been worth between €175 million and €220 million annually.
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India-Pakistan
Osama bin Laden had housewives issues
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ANP man among four shot dead in Karachi
[Dawn] Four men, including an activist of the Awami National Party, were rubbed out in as many localities on Wednesday, police said.

They said that the ANP worker, Rehan Mehsud, 28, was a resident of Fateh Mohammad Gabol Goth in Machhar Colony and the police found him maimed near an area CNG station. He was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where he died, they added.

Sohrab Goth SHO Abdul Ghaffar Jumani said that the victim was a labourer and hailed from South Wazoo.

He said that according to the victim's family he had been missing since Tuesday night. He was a worker of the ANP, he added.

The police said that some tribal enmity might be a probable reason behind the killing.

They said that the victim's family would lodge an FIR after the burial.

In another incident, a young man was rubbed out in a Gulistan-e-Jauhar locality on Wednesday, police said.

The incident took place near the Hilltop wedding hall, where two gunnies riding a cycle of violence targeted a passer-by, Badshah Khan, 42, and rode away.

The police said that the victim suffered multiple bullet wounds to the head and back and died before he could be shifted to hospital.

Later, the body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.

DSP Shakeel Awan said that the victim was a resident of the Sachal area and the police found a Police Qaumi Razakar card in his pocket.

He said that he was posted in Gadap Town. The motive for the killing could not be ascertained immediately, but it appeared that he was killed owing to some personal enmity, he added.

Till late at night, no case was registered.

In the third such incident of the day, a scrap dealer was rubbed out at Ahsanabad Mor near the Superhighway within the remit of the Sohrab Goth cop shoppe, police said.

Abdul Rehman, 40, was targeted by gunnies and the body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities, they added.

The police said that the victim was a resident of Faqeera Goth in Sohrab Goth and dealt in scrap in the same area.

Quoting the victim's brother, the police said that Rehman had received a phone call in the early hours of Wednesday following
which he had gone to meet someone in Ahsanabad.

The victim, father of 10, hailed from the interior of Sindh.

The area SHO said that a business dispute could be a probable motive behind the killing.

In yet another incident, a young man was rubbed out in the Gardan area on Wednesday, police said.

The killing took place within the remit of the Nabi Bukash cop shoppe near Shoe Market. Sabir Husain Qureshi, 43, a resident
of Ranchhore Line, was passing through the area when assailants on a cycle of violence targeted him near Taj Mansion, they added.

The police said that the victim suffered gunshot wounds to the chest and was struck down in his prime.

The body was shifted to Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
for medico-legal formalities.

Nabi Bux SHO Naseeruddin Shah said that the victim was a butcher and also a member of the meat merchants association.

Quoting his family, the area SHO said that the victimn had a dispute with some relatives. The family would lodge an FIR following the funeral, he added.
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Kukikhels threaten those harbouring militants
[Dawn] A jirga of Kukikhel
...a tribe of primitives inhabiting Khyber Agency. They are a branch of the Afridi tribe. Traditionally they have been migratory, tromping between Jamrud and the Rajgal valley with the seasons. The tribe has had mustache-cursing relationships with several other tribes, including the Zakkakhel and Kambarkhel, and with the Mullagori. They make welcome most anyone with a turban and automatic weapons, but every once in awhile they get together a tribal lashkar to mollify the government...
tribe has asked all gangs to vacate its area immediately, threatening to take action against those, who provide shelter to Islamic fascisti on its soil.

"Besides putting his house on fire, a fine of Rs1 million will be imposed on anyone found guilty of sheltering Islamic fascisti in kukikhel area," Haji Zabita Khan, a tribal elder, told Dawn.

The jirga, held in Triah valley the other day, was attended by hundreds of Kukikhel elders and rustics.

The tribal elder said that use of force would be their last option to expel Islamic fascisti from the area as first they would try to convince gangs through negotiations.

The jirga decided to hold talks with all groups including Taliban of Tariq Afridi group, Lashkar-e-Islam, Tawheedul Islam of Zakhakhel tribe and Ansarul Islam to stop them from using the soil of kukikhel for any type of violence.

"Kukikhel is a peaceful tribe. We will not allow anyone to shed blood of innocent people on our soil," Zabita Khan said.

The jirga also demanded of the Tirah-based Ansarul Islam to refrain from providing passage to Death Eater groups in the areas under its control. Ansarul Islam, a rival group of Mangal Bagh
...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency...
-led Lashkar-e-Islam, is based in Bagh-Maidan area of Tirah valley near Orakzai Agency
... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers...
Kukikhel tribe had succeeded in expelling Taliban from its area after fierce fighting in October last year but paid a heavy price for that in August last year when Islamic fascisti carried out a suicide kaboom on a Friday congregation in Jamrud, killing more than 50 rustics.

Taliban of Tariq Afridi group had also warned of more such attacks against Kukikhel tribe. Sources said that holding a jirga was a significant development and it reflected that influence of Taliban had diminished at least in Kukikhel dominated areas of Tirah valley.

Meanwhile,
...back at the scene of the crime, Lieutenant Queeg had an idea: there was a simple way to tell whether Manetti had been the triggerman -- just look at his shoes!...
headless body of a grade IX student was found in Akkakhel area of Bara on Wednesday.

Local sources said that unidentified killers had slit the throat of Abdul Mateen, student of a private school, and left his body in Gud Malang locality.

Nobody has grabbed credit for the gruesome murder.

KILLED: At least three persons were killed when rival groups clashed in Tirah valley on Wednesday.

Sources said that Lashkar-e-Islam and Zakhakhel dominated Tawheedul Islam exchanged heavy gunfire in Naree Bara locality to gain control of Tol Mela hilltop.

Sources said that at least three persons were killed and many others injured in the clash. Both sides have reportedly used mortars and rocket launchers against each other. It could not be immediately ascertained as to which group suffered casualties.
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Journalist in India Is Arrested in Bombing Against Israeli in New Delhi
[NY Times] An Indian journalist has been set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock as part of an investigation into the bombing last month of a van carrying the wife of an Israeli diplomat, an attack for which Israeli officials have blamed Iran.

The suspect, Mohammed Kazmi, appeared in a New Delhi court on Wednesday after his arrest earlier in the week. The blast occurred on Feb. 13 in New Delhi, the same day that an explosive was discovered and defused inside the vehicle of an Israeli diplomat in Ukraine.

A day later, an kaboom occurred, apparently accidentally, at a home in Bangkok used by three Iranians.
Five Iranians, actually, but only some New York Times journalists have mastered such complicated higher mathematics as counting in the single digits.
Israeli officials have said the three episodes are part of a coordinated attempt by Iran to attack Israeli diplomats, a charge denied by Iran.

The Press Trust of India news agency reported that Mr. Kazmi, 50, worked for an Iranian news agency in New Delhi. Rooters, citing Mr. Kazmi's lawyer and family members, said he worked for the Indian state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
channel, Doordarshan, and freelanced for Iran's Islamic Theocratic Republic News Agency. A police front man, Rajan Bhagat, would not comment directly on specific reports but said obliquely that details reported broadly in the Indian news media on Wednesday were correct.

"This is a very sensitive matter and nothing more can be divulged at this stage," Officer Bhagat said. Mr. Kazmi has been charged with criminal conspiracy. The Press Trust reported that an investigation showed that Mr. Kazmi had been in touch with a suspect believed to have actually carried out the attack, in which a motorcyclist pulled up in traffic and attached an bomb to the targeted vehicle.

The diplomat's wife, who was maimed along with several others, was apparently en route to the American Embassy School in New Delhi to collect her children. The attack occurred on a street directly across from the official residence of India's prime minister.
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#1  Fars?
Posted by: Frank G || 03/08/2012 20:55 Comments || Top||


Iraq
7 Killed in Two Suicide Car Bombings in Iraq
[An Nahar] Two suicide car boomings on Wednesday killed at least seven people in Tal Afar, north of Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
, the Iraqi interior ministry said in a statement.

"According to initial reports, a terrorist attack of two car booms aimed at shops in Tal Afar killed seven people and maimed 14 others," the ministry said.

A source in the interior ministry later put the toll at 12 dead and 19 maimed.

"A car boom went kaboom! outside a restaurant. And when people gathered, a jacket wallah went kaboom!" among them," the source told Agence La Belle France Presse.

Athil Nujaifi, the governor of Nineveh province, said that at least five people had been killed in one of the kabooms.

"There was a car kaboom in Tal Afar and there were victims. I have heard of five dead and I do not know many are injured," he said.

The attack in Tal Afar comes two days after suspected al-Qaeda gunnies stormed the town of Haditha in western Iraq, in a pre-dawn shooting spree and killed 27 coppers.

Tal Afar, located in northern Iraq, was hailed as a model town in March 2006 by former U.S. President George W. Bush due to the low levels of violence at the time.

The violence in Iraq has declined in recent years after peaking in 2006 and 2007.

According to official figures, 150 people were killed in February.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Report: Obama offered Israel ‘package deal’ on Iran
Bling? Black Cadillacs? You can take the kid outta the South Side, but you can't take the South Side outta the kid.
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Southeast Asia
Bomb kills four Thai soldiers
Four soldiers were killed and another one seriously wounded when a bomb exploded on a rural road in Narathiwat province late Wednesday night. Twelve soldiers were returning from providing security for people at a Buddhist temple in two jeeps when a 20 kg home-made bomb was detonated.

The explosion blew one jeep into two pieces and instantly killed Sgt Dejpol Saiwannee, Cpl Sompong Kaesanan, Pvt Suwat Ninpak and Pvt Kamol Panthong. Pvt Suriya Jachalee sustained a serious injury and was taken to the hospital.

Police blamed separatist terrorists militants.
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Anger after reported rape of Muslim teenager by Thai soldiers
Anger is rising in southern Thailand after two soldiers turned themselves in after a 16-year-old Muslim girl in Pattani province was raped. The reports have left the Muslim population enraged that the military had not taken swift action against the soldiers immediately and that the incident happened at all.

A local sheikh said, "It is disgusting that in our country, soldiers think they can ruin lives and use violence against our women. We know the soldiers are guilty, but if the government doesn't take hard action, we will rise up", warning the government that Muslims "will not stand by and allow our honor to be put in the mud."
Oh, so they're going to bomb up the countryside and gun down a bunch of teachers. Wait, that's already happening...
Privates Winai Klangwichai and Somyos Jantharaphut surrendered Tuesday in Pattani city, to face charges of gang rape and forcefully separating a girl from her parents. Winai was accused of raping the girl in January and Somyos allegedly filmed the act and posted it on the Internet, leading to a police investigation into the incident.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
40 Dead as U.N. Humanitarian Chief Enters Syria's Battered Baba Amr
[An Nahar] The U.N. humanitarian chief briefly visited the battered Homs neighborhood of Baba Amr with a Syrian Red Islamic Thingy team on Wednesday, as Washington revealed it is mulling non-lethal aid to the rebels.

Valerie Amos was stopped from going into areas of Homs still held by the opposition, despite receiving assurances from Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem in earlier talks that she could go to any part of the country, her spokeswoman Amanda Pitt told Agence La Belle France Presse.

"She says that the parts they saw were completely devastated," Pitt told AFP. "She said Homs feels like a city that has been completely closed down.

"There were very few people around. They did see a few people looking for their belongings, that kind of thing."

The group "tried to get into opposition areas, but they were not able to do so. Security was definitely an issue. They heard gunfire as well," Pitt said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a child was among four people rubbed out on Wednesday in Khaldiyeh, a Homs neighborhood where rebels remain active.

They were among 19 people killed in violence nationwide, the Britannia-based watchdog added.

But the Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground, gave a higher corpse count.

Security forces killed 26 people in Homs, seven in the northwestern province of Idlib, two in the northern province 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...
, three in the southern province of Daraa and two in the restive countryside around Damascus
...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations...
, the LCC said.

The Red Islamic Thingy and the International Committee of the Red Thingy had been trying since last Friday to enter Baba Amr -- the target of a month-long bombardment to oust rebel fighters -- but the government repeatedly barred them from evacuating maimed civilians and delivering desperately needed supplies.

Amos and the Red Islamic Thingy team were only able to make a lightning tour of Baba Amr during her hard-won visit, ICRC officials said.

"Amos entered with the team of volunteers from the Syrian Red Islamic Thingy, which stayed 45 minutes in the district," ICRC front man Hisham Hassan said in Geneva.

Aid was being distributed to the displaced civilians in the areas where they had found refuge and some 350 families had been given assistance over the past two days, he said.

Last week, ICRC president Jakob Kellenberger called the government's decision to deny aid workers access to Baba Amr "unacceptable."

The authorities said the earlier ban was prompted by safety concerns but the opposition charged that the delay was aimed at allowing time for the regime's "crimes" to be covered up.

Amos flew in to Damascus for a two-day visit after an international outcry over the earlier refusal of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
's regime to let her in.

She is to be followed by U.N.-Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
envoy Kofi Annan on Saturday.

The former U.N. chief was in Cairo on Wednesday ahead of his first visit since his appointment as international envoy for Syria.

In his talks with Amos, Muallem "underlined Syria's commitment to cooperate with the delegation within the framework of the respect, illusory sovereignty and independence of Syria," state SANA news agency said.

Observatory chief Rami Abdul Rahman said the overall corpse count since last March has now reached almost 8,500, with civilians accounting for three-quarters of those killed.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results...
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993....
said Washington was looking at delivering non-lethal aid to rebel forces, while warning of the risks of military action against Assad's regime without international consensus or a unified opposition.

While outraged at the killing of civilians in Syria, the U.S. government is opposed to taking unilateral military action and favors pursuing diplomacy to force Assad to step down, Panetta told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Asked by Senator Richard Blumenthal if the United States was ready to deliver communications equipment to Syrian rebels, Panetta said: "I'd prefer to discuss that in a closed session but I can tell you that we're considering an array of non-lethal assistance."

His answer marked the first time President Barack Obama
I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody...
's administration had suggested it was ready to provide direct assistance to Syria's rebels, who are badly outgunned by the regime's tanks and artillery.

The Pentagon chief condemned the Syrian regime's crackdown but expressed caution about military intervention, citing a lack of international consensus, a deeply divided resistance and the risk of fueling a civil war.

"We are reviewing all possible additional steps that can be taken with our international partners to support efforts to protect the Syrian people, end the violence and ensure regional stability, including potential military options if necessary," Panetta said.

"Although we will not rule out any future course of action, currently the administration is focusing on diplomatic and political approaches rather than a military intervention," he said.

Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki renewed an offer of asylum to Assad in an interview to be shown Thursday, after Russia said the Syrian leader said there was no question of it granting the Syrian leader refuge.

Incoming president Vladimir Putin
...Second President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Because of constitutionally mandated term limits he is the current Prime Minister of Russia. His sock puppet, Dmitry Medvedev, was installed in the 2008 presidential elections. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law. During his eight years in office Russia's economy bounced back from crisis, seeing GDP increase, poverty decrease and average monthly salaries increase. During his presidency Putin passed into law a series of fundamental reforms, including a flat income tax of 13%, a reduced profits tax, and new land and legal codes. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile...
had rejected the idea of Russia offering Assad refuge as a way of helping put an end to nearly a year of bloodshed in its Soviet-era ally.

"We are not even discussing this question," news agencies quoted him as saying.
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Syria 'ready to cooperate' with Chinese initiative
[Dawn] Syria's Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said on Wednesday that 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...
was ready to cooperate with a Chinese initiative to end the bloodshed and begin dialogue between the regime and the opposition.

After meeting Chinese envoy Li Huaxin, Beijing's former ambassador to Damascus, Muallem said Syria welcomed a six-point peace plan and was "ready to cooperate" with the plan aimed at "halting the violence," the official SANA news agency reported.

Damascus was also ready to "cooperate with the envoy of the United Nations
...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country...
" and the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
, former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, who is due in Syria on Saturday, the minister added.

Li Huaxin, quoted earlier in Al-Watan newspaper, said he had already met Deputy Foreign Minister Ahmad Arnus to discuss China's "six-point vision" on the year-long crisis in Syria.

The Chinese initiative, unveiled by Beijing on Sunday, calls for an immediate end to the violence and for dialogue between the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
and the opposition.

Syria's main opposition alliance has previously ruled out dialogue while Assad remains in power.

Beijing's proposal rejects foreign interference or "external action for regime change" in Syria but supports the role of the UN Security Council "in strict accordance with the purposes and principles of the UN charter." Li is expected to meet representatives of opposition groups headed by Hassan Abdel Azim of the National Committee for Democratic Change, Luay Hussein and Kadri Jamil, according to Al-Watan.

China and Russia have been widely criticised for vetoing two UN Security Council resolutions condemning Syria's bloody crackdown on 12 months of anti-regime protests.
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Good... Afternoon
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#1  Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Cyd Charisse aka Vicki Gaye in "Party Girl (1958)" aka Ninotchka Yoschenko in "Silk Stockings (1957)" aka Dancer in "Singin' in the Rain (1952)" aka Gaye Dawn in "Key Largo" aka Gabrielle Gerard in "The Band Wagon (1953)" aka Fiona Campbell in "Brigadoon (1954)" aka Rosa Senta in "East Side, West Side (1949)" aka Maria Corvier in "Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)" aka The Widow in "Black Tights (1961)" aka Tula Ellice Finklea (Died in 2008 at age 86)



Bonus Gam Shot
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 03/08/2012 17:32 Comments || Top||

#2  I love Cyd Charisse, and always will.

Just as reading aloud the verse of Shakespeare or Dr. Seuss
sets the mind to a rhythm and meter.
Watching Cyd move through those portions of the screen
inside the historic and narrow aperture of film,
she still sets a rhythm across that space and time
that enchants the soul and mind.
Posted by: rammer || 03/08/2012 19:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Well said rammer.
Posted by: Dale || 03/08/2012 19:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Poetically said, rammer. Miss Charisse is well worth poetry.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2012 21:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Were that I could construct a poem in an hour as sublime as her least eyelash.

Just watch the Bandwagon, or Singing in the Rain, or any of her other work. They are magnificent, and the work is inside the camera, which makes it doubly hard.

She is as important as Gene Kelly and Grace Kelly, but with the grace neither have.
Posted by: rammer || 03/08/2012 21:10 Comments || Top||



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  British and Italian hostages murdered by captors in special forces rescue bid in Nigeria
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  39 Dead as Syrian Army Seizes Baba Amr and Rebels Withdraw 'Tactically'
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