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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Birthday Gam Shot

Ursula Andress [Swiss][Filmography](age 77)



Swiss Cheesecake

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 03/19/2013 0:52 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't think our Joan did any jail time, which is weird since Aunt Win looks kinda wild.
Posted by: Shipman || 03/19/2013 5:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Ursula is 77???

Damn I'm getting old. She was one of my earliest crushes when I was a wee lad of 13 (it was '62 for Dr. No).
Posted by: AlanC || 03/19/2013 12:20 Comments || Top||

#4  "She Who Must Be Obeyed"
Posted by: Muggsy Mussolini1226 || 03/19/2013 12:56 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
IMU, Taliban Leader Arrested in Raids
[Tolo News] An Islamic Movement of Uzebkistan (IMU) leader and a Taliban leader have been captured in joint Afghan and Nato troops operations in the country, Isaf said Monday.

"During an operation in Kunduz district, Kunduz province today, an Afghan and coalition security force arrested an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader. The leader is believed to have coordinated multiple attacks against Afghan and coalition forces, and has served a vital role in the facilitation of weapons to extremist fighters," Isaf said in a statement.

Joint security forces confirmed Monday the arrest of a Taliban leader in Panjwa'i district, Kandahar province, yesterday, it added.

"The leader is accused of being in charge of a large cell of insurgent fighters known for conducting attacks against Afghan and coalition forces. His cell of fighters have planned and executed ambushes, small-arms assaults, and IED operations," Isaf said.

During the operation, the security forces also detained a number of other insurgents.

Meanwhile, a Taliban facilitator Abdul Satar and another insurgent were killed in a joint operation Panjwa'i district of southern Kandahar province, yesterday.

Satar was involved in coordinating improvised explosive device-making materials, weapons, supplies and fighters. He also participated in IED and direct-fire attacks targeting the Afghan local police in Kandahar province, Isaf said.

Two other insurgents were killed and several others were arrested in separate operations in Kandahar and eastern Nangarhar province, yesterday, the statement said.
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan


Africa Horn
Car bomb kills 10 in Mogadishu
[Bangla Daily Star] A car bomb exploded near the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday, killing at least 10 people in a blast that appeared to target senior government officials, police said.

The suicide attacker detonated explosives while driving along a boulevard that runs between the palace and the national theatre, a route lined by tearooms that were engulfed in fire moments after the blast, senior police officer Abdiqadir Mohamud said. A public minibus driving along the road burst into flames.
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


Africa North
Tunisian troops battle Islamist militants near Algerian border
Tunisian troops clashed with Islamist militants near the border with Algeria on Tuesday, a security source said, in an area where the army is hunting al Qaeda-linked fighters.

Tunisia, economically struggling and deeply polarized between Islamists and their opponents, is in the throes of a political transition that began with the overthrow of strongman Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in a popular uprising two years ago.

The Islamist-led government is struggling to restore stability following the assassination of secular opposition figure Chokri Belaid on February 6 which provoked widespread unrest.

The security source said Tuesday's clash took place in the northwest town of Tajrouin, in Kef province, between the army and six members of a "terrorist group". There were no immediate reports of casualties.

The source said the militants were Salafists, who adhere to a puritanical interpretation of Islam, but did not specify their nationalities.

The cause of the fighting was unclear, but security forces have been attempting to track down al Qaeda-linked militants near the borders with Algeria and Libya over the past six weeks.

They suspect the fighters are attempting to bring weapons into the country from Algeria, where Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is active, and from Libya, which has been unstable since a 2011 revolution.

Last month, police seized a big weapons cache in Tunis. In December, Prime Minister Ali Larayedh said police had arrested 16 Islamist militants who had been accumulating arms with the aim of creating an Islamic state.

They were linked to AQIM, the regional arm of the global militant al Qaeda network, and had been planning to attack security headquarters, he said.
Posted by: tipper || 03/19/2013 11:34 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


French ex-policeman captured waging jihad in Mali
[FRANCE24] A French citizen caught in early March waging jihad in Mali against his own country was once a serving police officer, his sister revealed on Monday.

Named only as Djamel, the 37-year-old French national of Algerian birth had joined the gendarmerie, a national police force that is part of the French military, at the end of the 1990s. He then moved on to the plainclothes BAC (Anti-Criminal Brigade) and had ambitions of joining France's notorious CRS riot police, his sister "Sonia" (not her real name) told RTL radio.

But when his career in law enforcement ended and his marriage broke down, Djamel drifted towards religious extremism before finally setting off to wage holy war in Africa.
So he was a little crackers in the beginning, lost his job and his wife, and that drove him over the edge?
He was taken prisoner at the beginning of March during French-led operations in northern Mali to flush out Islamists who had occupied the vast semi-arid region for ten months.

Sonia told RTL she was "ashamed of what he has done, ashamed of what he has become".

"He did the worst thing possible," she said. "He fought French soldiers, soldiers from a country where he grew up, a country that educated him and a country where he worked, a country that gave him a wife. He has betrayed his family. He has betrayed France. He has betrayed himself."

Sonia, 30, from Grenoble in south-eastern France where Djamel grew up, said that as soon as her brother turned 18 he had applied for, and was awarded, French citizenship.

His career in law enforcement ended after he was obliged to arrest his own brother, Sonia said, and in 2005 he got married and left Grenoble for Bonneville in the Haute Savoie region.

"Back then Djamel was like everyone else," Sonia said. "He liked to party. He went to the Mosque occasionally but that was all. After he got married he started growing a beard and spending more and more time with extremists who were indoctrinating young people."
So who was the wife, and his in-laws, and the local iman?
When his marriage fell apart he moved back to Grenoble, leaving behind three children under six.

"He had become a Salafist," Sonia said. "He sometimes spoke of joining al Qaeda, but as far as we were concerned it was just talk."

In November 2012 Djamel told his family he was moving to Paris - but when he rang his wife and asked to speak to his children, she noticed that he was using a Malian number.

"We had no idea that he could have done something like that," she said, sounding equally shocked and disappointed.

She concluded: "We live in France, we respect French secularism. And while we don't deny our Muslim faith, going on jihad against your own country is beyond the pale. I hope he pays dearly for this, but above all he needs to explain to his family and to his country how it could have come to this."

Djamel, whose wife and mother were interviewed at length by French police, is currently being detained by the Malian authorities and is expected to be extradited to France in the coming days.
He's gonna wish he'd fled to Mauritania...
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Libyan Islamists impose sharia in Sirte
[MAGHAREBIA] A video of Islamists whipping young men has caused outrage in Libya, with the prime minister threatening Sunday (March 17th) to "severely punish" those responsible, AFP reported.

Titled "According to Sharia", the 5-minute video shot in Moamer Kadhafi's hometown of Sirte shows bearded men taking turns whipping five young men tied to a tree. In the clip, some 20 bearded men are seen in an outdoor courtyard. The footage also shows pickups often used by armed militias in Libya.

Speaking Sunday at a Tripoli press conference, Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan condemned the violence seen in the video as "unacceptable".

"We reject these acts and we will fight seriously against them," he said.

The video has stirred outrage among Libyans on social networks. Online posts denounced the whippings as "medieval practices", and called the act "barbaric" and "criminal".

In related news Saturday, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said it had an "urgent need for sons of Tunisia, Morocco, Libya and Mauritania" to fight in Mali. According to the SITE Intelligence Group, the AQIM recruiting statement also urged Maghreb youths to implement sharia.
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Salafists

#1  Perhaps Prime Minister Ali Zidan could ask the US for assistance. Methinks there's an FBI team still languishing in a hotel room in Tripoli...
Posted by: Pappy || 03/19/2013 10:30 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Nigerian blasts kill at least 25
Five explosions at a bus park in northern Nigeria's main city of Kano killed at least 25 people on Monday, a Reuters witness said, in an area where Islamist sect Boko Haram is waging an insurgency against the government.

The coordinated bombing came as an audio tape emerged of a man saying he was the father of a family of seven French tourists kidnapped by Boko Haram militants.

On the tape he read out a threat by them to increase kidnappings and suicide bombings in Cameroon, if authorities there detain more of the group's followers.

Boko Haram, which wants to carve an Islamic state out of Nigeria, has killed hundreds in gun and bomb attacks since it intensified its insurgency two years ago, including 186 people killed in a coordinated strike on Kano in January 2012.

They and other Islamist groups have become the main threat to Nigeria, Africa's top oil producer, and Western interests there, and increasingly menace neighbours like Cameroon.

The blasts in Kano destroyed five buses in the Sabon Gari area, mostly inhabited by migrants from Nigeria's largely Christian southern Igo tribe, the Reuters witness said. Military and police cordoned off the area after the blasts.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Boko Haram, which has frequently attacked the city, was a prime suspect. Security spokesman for Kano state, Ikedehia Iwehia, said dead and wounded had been evacuated, giving no figures.
Posted by: tipper || 03/19/2013 02:14 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Real Islam coming to Africa?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/19/2013 4:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Graphic photos
Posted by: tipper || 03/19/2013 11:30 Comments || Top||


Blasts at Nigeria Bus Park Kill at Least 20
[An Nahar] A series of blasts targeting buses full of passengers in Nigeria's second city of Kano killed at least 20 people on Monday, but the toll was expected to rise, a rescue official and a security source told Agence France Presse.

Initial reports indicated that two suicide bombers rammed a car packed with explosives into a bus at the New Road station in Sabon Gari, a predominantly Christian neighborhood in the majority Muslim city.

Several explosions were heard following the initial blast, sparking panic as bloodied bystanders including some with serious injuries fled the scene as soldiers arrived to cordon off the area.

Kano, the largest city in Nigeria's mainly Muslim north, has been repeatedly targeted by Islamist group Boko Haram, blamed for killing hundreds in the region since 2009.

"I saw three buses on fire. One of them was fully loaded with passengers waiting to leave the station at the time of the blasts... There are at least 20 dead," said the rescue official who requested anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to journalists.

"The figure may rise," he added.

A senior security official in Kano, who also declined to be named, told AFP he believed the death toll was "massive", describing the figure of 20 as an "understatement", without giving a precise toll.

Fatima Abdullahi, 30, who had boarded a bus scheduled to head south, said she saw a car with two men inside ram into a nearby bus.

"There was a huge explosion followed by another. The bus went up in flames," she told AFP at a hospital in Kano where she was being treated for her injuries.

Mechanic Tunde Kazeem, who works at the station, said he saw "people rushing out of the motor park" after the blasts, "some of them with blood on their clothes".

The security source also said it was likely that suicide bombers carried out the attack, however details were still emerging and the cause had not yet been definitively confirmed.

There was also no immediate claim of responsibility, but the seemingly coordinated attack was likely to be blamed on Boko Haram.

The targeted station primarily services passengers heading to the mostly Christian south of Nigeria.
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


Arabia
Yemen National Dialogue kicks off
[Yemen Post] Under much scrutiny from the media, all participants to Yemen National Dialogue Conference gathered for the first time in the capital to celebrate the inauguration of the country's historic talks.

Over the next six months, Yemen's many political factions, groups, and dignitaries will seek to find a national consensus on pivotal issues ranging from the southern issue, the Houthis' calls for reparation over 2004 Sa'ada war, women rights, corruption, judicial reforms and the drafting of a new constitution.

Under the watchful eye of the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
and the Gulf Cooperation Council; both Jamal Benomar (special UN envoy to Yemen) and Dr Abdel-Latif al-Zayani (Secretary General of the GCC) both flew to Yemen to attend the NDC first ever meeting, offering their support to President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi.

This Monday, March 18, 2013, Yemen enters the second phase of its power transfer as per prescribed and enounced by the GCC-backed power transfer initiative, signed by then-President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
and members of the Opposition in Riyadh, the Saudi capital back in November 2011.

The NDC was originally scheduled to start Mid-November 2012, but hit some political roadblocks with factions refusing to attend the conference. The Houthis (Shia rebel group based in the northern province of Sa'ada) and al-Harak (Southern Secessionist Movement) were both difficult to win over. And while not all of al-Harak inner factions agreed to send their representatives, President Hadi decided to go ahead with NDC satisfied with a majority had been rallied to the idea of national reconciliation.

In a move which draw much criticism from the political class, 2011 Nobel Peace prize winner Tawakkul Karman announced she would boycott the NDC, not satisfied with the transition government progress in addressing some human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
issues and the presence at the conference of many of the former regime men.

"I will not participate in the dialogue, due to the obvious imbalance in the representation of the youths, women and civil society groups and the participation of people who have the blood of the revolution youth on their hands."

Sheikh Hamid al-Ahmar, billionaire businessman turned politician on the wake of Yemen 2011 popular uprising also said he would not attend the NDC, in reaction to a lack of what he estimates to be a lack of fair representation of minorities. His brother however, Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar, the powerful tribal leader of the Hashid confederation of tribes and high ranking leader of al-Islah, Yemen Islamic faction was in attendance, sitting in the front row alongside some of Yemen's most powerful and influential dignitary such as Sheikh Mohammed Abu Lohoom, Leader and Founder of the Justice and Construction party.

Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  "Allahu Akbar!"

"ALLAHU AKBAR!!!!!"

Is that about right?
Posted by: Raj || 03/19/2013 0:19 Comments || Top||


Violence mars NDC opening session
[Yemen Post] Security officials confirmed on Monday a protester in the southern city of Tarim, in the province of Hadhramawt was shot dead by the police in clashes opposing the authorities and Haraki militants (Southern Secessionist Movement).

On the very same day as the NDC first ever session, separatist militants staged a series of demonstrations throughout the southern provinces, calling their supporters to join their civil disobedience movement against the central government.

Activist Fuad Rashid from Tarim told the press he witnessed the police shooting at protesters. "The protester was killed by police gunfire during clashes with demonstrators protesting against the dialogue."

In Mukalla, the provincial capital of Hadhramawt, a hot bed for secessionists, residents reported gun fires and commotion as protesters came to oppose the security forces.

Sources said several activists were subsequently arrested.

In Aden, former capital of South Yemen, Harakis hardliners came out in their thousands, defying President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi calls for calm and restraint.

In al-Arood square in Khormaksar, a district of the city not to far from Crater, one of al-Hark main rallying point in the city was turned into a secessionist camp where hundreds of protesters decided to stay over night ahead of the demonstration.

Waving portraits of former South Yemen President Ali Salem al-Baidh and Hassan Baoun, a radical leader of al-Harak, protesters chanted "No to dialogue, yes to independence."
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Bangladesh
Attacks, counterattacks in Rajshahi
[Bangla Daily Star] In retaliatory attacks, Jubo League
... the youth wing of the Bangla Awami League...
activists stabbed three persons and torched three houses of Jamaat-Shibir adherents in Binodpur area of Rajshahi city early yesterday, hours after Jamaat-Shibir men had cut tendons of two Jubo League activists.

Some 30 activists of Jamaat-Shibir equipped with sharp weapons had attacked the house of Shahidul Islam, Jubo League general secretary of Ward No-30, Sunday around 11:30pm.

They stabbed and cut tendons of Shahidul, and another Jubo League activist Mainul Islam, who is also a teacher of Mirzapur School and College.

Shahidul's wife Sabina Khatun said the attackers had dragged him from the bed and cut the tendons of his both legs.

Head of the orthopaedic surgery unit at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) BK Dam yesterday said Shahidul had been referred to the capital's Suhrawardy hospital in the morning.

He said the condition of Mainul was also critical. He had received grievous injury on the head and the tendon of his right hand had been cut.

The Jamaat-Shibir attackers also looted valuables, including a computer, from Shahidul's house. They left the scene blasting cocktails [homemade bombs].

Raged at the incident, more than a hundred Jubo League men armed with sticks and sharp weapons demonstrated on Dhaka-Rajshahi highway at Binodpur for two hours until 3:00am.

Half an hour later, the agitating Jubo League men attacked the house of Jamaat adherent employee of Rajshahi University Mukhtar Ali, 50. They stabbed Mukhtar, his wife Sujofa Begum, 45, and their son Rafiqul Islam, 28.

All of them received treatment at RMCH.

Injured Rafiqul said his mother had lost four fingers of her left hand while protecting his father during the attack. Mukhtar had been ill and a portion of his body was paralysed, said Rafiqul.

Before leaving, the attackers set afire the belongings of the family, said Officer-in-Charge Abdul Mazid of Motihar Police Station.

The attackers afterwards torched two more houses belonging to Jamaat activist Omar Ali, and Nurjahan Begum.

Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami


76 hurt on first day of BNP hartal
[Bangla Daily Star] Sporadic incidents of violence marked the first day of the BNP-led alliance's 36-hour hartal
... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ...
, as pickets blasted crude bombs, and carried out arson and vandalism in the capital and other parts of the country yesterday.

A truck driver, who came under attack from pro-hartal pickets in Feni early yesterday, succumbed to his wounds after six hours of the incident.

Pro-hartal activists clashed with law enforcers and ruling party men in eight districts, leaving injured at least 76 people, including eight coppers, according to reports received from our correspondents.

In Dhaka, pickets torched five vehicles at Panthapath, Pallabi, Mirpur, Mohammadpur, and Khilgaon, and vandalised 20 more at Shyampur, Jatrabari, Pallabi, Demra, Khilgaon, Shyamoli, Gabtoli, Bongshal, Dainik Bangla intersection, Kamalapur, Shajahanpur, Tejgaon and Karwan Bazar.

They went kaboom! more than 50 cocktails and bombs in different places in the capital. A bomb was blasted in front of Rokeya Hall at Dhaka University.

An employee of a distribution agency for Unilever Bangladesh sustained severe burns after pickets set alight his pick-up van with kerosene at Khilgaon around 2:00pm.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police enjugged
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
at least 46 pro-hartal pickets in the capital yesterday.

Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, Buford bit the snake and Eloise began speaking in tongues...
acting BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said the hartal was successful despite "the arrests and the government's repression on the opposition".

Speaking at a press briefing at BNP's Nayapaltan office, he claimed around 400 opposition activists were maimed and at least 500 others were locked away
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
across the country on the first day of the hartal.

The 18-party alliance enforced the shutdown, demanding the release of 154 BNP leaders and activists, who were arrested on March 11 from BNP's Nayapaltan office.

Police, Rab and Border Guard Bangladesh personnel were deployed at all key points in the capital to maintain law and order.

Traffic was thin on city roads, as owners preferred to keep their vehicles off the streets fearing vandalism and arson. Educational institutions, shopping malls and roadside shops also remained shut.

Truck driver Noor Mohammad, 34, from Barisal, who was maimed in an arson attack by hartal supporters in Feni, departed this vale of tears at Chittagong Medical College Hospital around 9:00am.

Police and witnesses said BNP supporters blocked Feni-Noakhali road by putting logs at Dagonbhuiyan upazila around 3:00am. When Noor's truck carrying flour of Globe Company reached the spot, hartal supporters chased the truck and hurled brick chips at the vehicle.

Noor suffered serious injuries in the head and was rushed to Feni Sadar Hospital. He was later shifted to CMCH, as his condition deteriorated.

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Shahbagh defies hartal
[Bangla Daily Star] People from all walks of life defied the 18-party alliance's hartal yesterday and flocked to the Shahbagh intersection to express their support for the six-point demand of the Shahbagh protesters.

The protesters continued their movement for 42nd day yesterday, and sang songs of rebellion, recited poems and screened documentaries from a stage near public library.

Many cultural organisations, such as Bangladesh Udichi Shilpi Gosthi, Slogan 71 and Teerandaj, have been performing on the stage since March 4.

"As many as 10 lakh signatures have been collected from Shahbagh alone, while many people have taken the petition for capital punishment for all war criminals to different parts of the country promising to return the forms with signatures from their locality" said Maruf Rosul, a key organiser of the movement.

The petition signing started on February 22 and was scheduled to end on March 7. It was later extended till March 22.

Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami


Caribbean-Latin America
5 die in Tamaulipas state

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By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com

A total of five armed suspects were killed in ongoing drug and gang violence in Tamaulipas state, according to official nd news accounts.

In a news release posted on the Tamaulipas state government website, the Procuraduria General de Justicia del Estado (PGJE) or attorney general said that a confrontation took place in Nuevo Laredo Monday morning.

A Mexican Army unit exchanged gunfire with armed suspects at around 1040 hrs near the intersection of calles Yuca and Azucena in Valles de Elizondo colony.

Typically encounters such as Monday's gunfight are preceded by a road patrol signaling suspects travelling by vehicle to stop, who instead attempt to escape capture by fleeing. Following the encounter, soldiers recovered a Ford Mustang sedan, three rifles and 18 weapons magazines.

Meanwhile in or near the bloody city of Reynosa three armed suspects were shot to death by Mexican security forces Sunday.

According to a news account posted on the website of Milenio news daily, the three were killed in two separate encounters.

Two unidentified suspects in their 20s were killed in a gunfight with units of the Policia Federal and the Mexican Army. The encounter took place on kilometer 25 of the Reynosa to San Fernando highway. The suspects were aboard a Chevrolet pickup truck.

Following the gunfight, Policia Federal agents found several handguns, ammunition and two bulletproof vests.

Meanwhile in Reynosa proper, one suspect was killed in a gunfight with Mexican security forces. The incident took place on Calle Emiliano Zapata, in Jacinto Lopez colony.

Security forces secured three rifles, weapons magazine and accessories in the aftermath.

Mexican security agencies are currently gearing up for the upcoming Easter weekend, in less than two weeks.

According to a news account posted on the website of Milenio, the mayor of Ciudad Madero, Jaime Turrubiates Solis is expecting 1,200 security troops in the area, including Mexican Army, Mexican Naval Infantry and Policia Federal troops.

Ciudad Madero is a resort city in southern Tamaulipas and a suburb of Tampico.

Nationwide it was reported that Mexico's Secretaria de Gobernacion (SEGOB) or interior ministry is expected to deploy 6,000 federal security troops in Jalisco state in adance of the holiday.

Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
Posted by: badanov || 03/19/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Interesting that the deceased are all civilians killed by security forces in the lower Rio Grande valley border region. Could just reflect media self-censorship of gang initiated activities, and confirmation that Mexican security forces have saturated the area.
Posted by: BrujoTejano || 03/19/2013 11:57 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Practice Run - Strategic U.S. bombers fly practice nuclear strikes in Korea
United States B-52 bombers carried out simulated nuclear bombing raids on North Korea as part of ongoing U.S.-South Korean military exercises, Pentagon officials said on Monday.

Posted by: Uncle Phester || 03/19/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Although China could match it wid simulations or schemas of its own vee the ROK + Nippon, I suspect it will prefer not to do so to keep Best Frenemy Forever + SCO-CSTO "strategic partner" Russia out of the fray ASAP AMAP ALAP once the shooting does start.

Again, despite its problematic economy Russia's strategic + tactical nuclear arsenal remains much more powerful than China's.

* TOPIX > US PENTAGON PLANS FOR POSSIBLE NUCLEAR USE, agz seven countries espec i.e. China, Russia, Iraq, Iran, North Korea + Syria.

* SAME > A US NAVAL BLOCKADE OF CHINA?

This is where China + PLA may focus or concentrate most of its Nucsrikes agz, i.e. at SEA = SURFACE, UW NAVAL COMBAT AGZ THE US, ALLIED NAVIES; or in lessor in the air iff USAF strategic bombers are detected as incoming agz targets in the DPRK or espec mainland China.

Against LD/OTH US Milbases like Guam, PLA 2nd Arty aside what China has at this time is PLAN Submarines, not PLAAF transports for PLA AIrborne Forces.

* SIASAT DAILY > NEW CHINESE LEADER [Xi Jinping] CALLS FOR "WAR/COMBAT READINESS" [PLA, National] IN PARLIAMENT.

Historically, what China has is SHEER DOGGEDNESS - IFF IT FAILS OR IS BLUNTED THE FIRST TIME, IT WILL COME BACK AGAIN + AGAIN + AGAIN UNTIL FINAL VICTORY OR FINAL DEFEAT E.G. MONGOL INVASIONS OF JAPAN + "WARRING STATES" ANCIENT MIL CAMPAIGNS.

CHINA'S "WAY OF WAR" = SIMILAR IN MANY WAYS TO ISLAM'S "WAY OF WAR". Be it China andor Nuke-wannabe Islam, the US is a major, determinative, winner-take-all struggle wid the the two forces in Histoire' that can destroy it.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/19/2013 1:09 Comments || Top||

#2  You got eyes on the runway Joe?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/19/2013 2:24 Comments || Top||

#3  SkidMark, Joe is the runway.
Posted by: Shipman || 03/19/2013 5:37 Comments || Top||

#4  And come to think of it, maybe we should ask AP that question.
Posted by: Shipman || 03/19/2013 5:39 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: Ebbineting Slusoting5054 || 03/19/2013 6:19 Comments || Top||

#6  There will be a B-52 flight tomorrow

One a day? What's that, about 1/67th of what normally flies daily in and out of Kimpo?

Call me when they start dropping enough chaff that the Nork radars can't see anything south of the DMZ.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/19/2013 8:47 Comments || Top||

#7  Nork missiles and/or US missiles will be flying over our house. Will let you know if we see anything.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/19/2013 18:17 Comments || Top||

#8  With the armistice cancelled, bring in the Bones and take down every bridge over the Yalu and Tumen. Use the Buffs to mine all the Nork harbors.

In two hours, we will have implemented effective sanctions.


Posted by: rammer || 03/19/2013 18:59 Comments || Top||

#9  rammer---I have a detailed 11x17 report from the USAAF from my late stepfather on the whole mining operation against Japan home islands in WW2. It was amazingly effective, and basically shut down shipping, so no resources coming into the country.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/19/2013 19:54 Comments || Top||

#10  YONHAP NEWS > NORTH KOREA WARNS OF MILITARY RESPONSE [MilAction] TO US B-52 BOMBER, iff the US dares to deploy same on the Peninsula.

* WAFF > NORTH KOREA "BLOWS UP WHITE HOUSE + CAPITOL BUILDING" IN NEW VIDEO SHOWING THE US ATTACKED.

IIRC, this second DPRK anti-US Propaganda Video is titled "Firestorms agz the Headquarters of War".

* SAME > [StrategyPage] CHINA: KEEPING QUIET AND HOPE FOR THE BEST, vee vassal NOKOR's unilateral belligerence + its on-going islands dispute in East China Sea wid rival JAPAN.

* SAME > WILL RISING TENSIONS IN ASIA PUSH JAPAN TOWARD FULL-FLEDGED MILITARY?

IMO Artic also read, PUSH JAPAN TOWARDS DEV + PROCUREMENT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS???


VERSUS

* TOPIX > TAIWAN AIMS 50 MISSLES [MRBMS] AT MAINLAND CHINA, to include Beijing wid more missles to come.

Another reason why I say that China's true or primary focii is NOT the Senkakus/Diaoyus Islands, but getting final military or sovereign control over TAIWAN.

* SAME > US WORRIED THAT NORTH KOREA MAY SELL NUKES TO ENEMIES.

NOKOR doing a Saddam/Iraq doing an Iran???

* SAME > [Mother Jones News] US PENTAGON IS SPENDING 1.0BILYUHN TO PROTECT AMERICA FROM NORTH KOREA'S NON-EXISTENT LONG-RANGE NUCLEAR MISSLES.

Dats because any LRBMS fired by NOKOR agz the US andor its East Asia Allies is covertly actually from China, i.e. CHINA-MADE + CHINA-ORDERED BUT NORTH KOREA-LAUNCHED/FIRED.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/19/2013 23:18 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Seven killed in blast at Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada
Moved to WoT

Seven service personnel have died in an explosion at a military ammunition storage facility in the US state of Nevada, says a Marine Corps spokesman.

Several others were injured in Monday night's blast during a Marine training exercise at the Hawthorne Army Depot.

The injured have been transported to local hospitals for treatment, said the spokesman.

It is not known what caused the blast, but CNN quoted an official as saying that a 60mm shell had exploded.

Those caught in the blast at 22:00 local time (05:00 GMT on Tuesday) were members of the 2nd Marine Division.

Marine commander Maj Gen Raymond Fox said in a news release: "We send our prayers and condolences to the families of Marines involved in this tragic incident.

"We remain focused on ensuring that they are supported through this difficult time.
Posted by: tipper || 03/19/2013 10:46 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Any Muslims on base?
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 03/19/2013 12:02 Comments || Top||

#2  RJ, that is a cynical and bigoted question that you should be ashamed of.

Thanks for asking it before I could, cynical bastard that I am.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/19/2013 12:26 Comments || Top||

#3  I suspect if it was more than an accident, more than one shell would have gone off. Sadly things like this happen in places you store large quantities of munitions. I'm not sure that will change as long as explosives are used in warfare.
Posted by: Silentbrick - Schlumberger Squishy Mud Division || 03/19/2013 13:49 Comments || Top||

#4  And, of course......
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 03/19/2013 16:06 Comments || Top||

#5  AHAH, Obama's caught, HE forced sequester, now it's coming back to haunt him.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 03/19/2013 19:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Nothing haunts Bambi - except not continuing to be emperor.
Posted by: Barbara || 03/19/2013 21:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Re # 4 Harry has made a half-assed apology: now up to 8 dead.
Posted by: USN,Ret. || 03/19/2013 22:03 Comments || Top||

#8  Officials say a 60mm mortar round may have exploded in a firing tube during a training exercise.

They must've been right on top of it.
Posted by: tu3031 || 03/19/2013 22:35 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
4 dead in suicide attack at Pak court
[Bangla Daily Star] At least four people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up and militants opened fire in a court complex in northwest Pakistan yesterday, officials said.

Several gunmen and the bomber stormed the crowded complex in the city of Peshawar, less than two months before expected national elections.

The exact death toll was unclear. Sayed Jameel Shah, a spokesman for Peshawar's main Lady Reading Hospital, said the hospital had received four bodies and was treating 25 injured people.
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Three MQM activists shot dead in Hyderabad
[Dawn] Three Muttahida Qaumi Movement
...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
(MQM) activists were bumped off and one activist was maimed in a targeted attack at the MQM SITE sector office -- a unit of the party's organizational structure -- within the remit of the SITE cop shoppe on Sunday, officials and sources said.

The incident took place hours before a 29th central founding day programme of the party to be held in Mirpurkhas on Monday.

Some area people and SITE cop shoppe SHO Naeemuddin Siddiqui said that three gunnies arrived on a cycle of violence and only one of them opened fire on the victims, who were sitting outside the sector office. One of the attackers was wearing a helmet, the police official added.

The incident occurred when the electricity supply was shut in the area, local people said.

MQM sector chief Naveed Abbasi said that he saw that one of the three gunnies had a long and thick beard. "He was wearing a shawl over his clothes," he added.

The dear departed were identified as 35-year-old Ghulam Murtaza, son of Rasool Bux Noonari, his 30-year-old cousin Sher Mohammad, son of Soomar Noonari and 40-year-old Azeem Khuman, son of Usman Khuman. The victims were taken to the Liaquat University Hospital city branch. A large number of people and MQM activists gathered at the hospital.

The maimed activist, Wahid Bux Noonari, was shifted from the hospital to Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
after treatment.

According to the hospital's medico-legal officer, Dr Samad Solangi, the victims had received multiple-bullet wounds fired from a very close range. He said that Murtaza, Sher Mohammad and Azeem Khuman received three, two and three bullets, respectively.

"Given the nature of their wounds, no post-mortem examination was required and even their family members were not ready for that. So I only noted the number of wounds on their bodies," he added.

Speaking to Dawn, Wahid Bux Noonari, before his shifting to Karachi, said: "I could not see the faces of the attackers as a bullet hit me on my back. I immediately tried to cover myself to escape a volley of bullets."

He said Sher Mohammad and Murtaza were his relatives, who had arrived at the sector office to get employment in a local soft-drink factory. "They wanted me to request the factory management for jobs," Noonari said. A senior police officer, however, said that the police had received a tip-off that a dispute was going on between Shoros and Noonari communities of the area for some time.
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami


Two shot dead in Charsadda
[Dawn] Two people were killed when unidentified motorcyclists opened fire on a moving car on Matta road in Shabqadar on Sunday.

The victims, stated to be cousins, were going home in the car when the motorcyclists attacked them. They died instantly. The police said the victims were tea traders.

Lodging FIR with the police, Zia ul Haq said he was going in the car along with his brother Mohammad Sarwar alias Hazrat Yar and cousin Abdul Aala when the motorcyclists opened indiscriminate fire on the car, killing his brother and cousin on the spot. The attackers escaped the area after the incident.

The police registered the case against unidentified accused and started investigation.

BOY KILLED: An 11-year-old boy was buried alive and his parents and a sister were seriously injured when roof of a room in their house collapsed in Khanmai area on Sunday.

Residents said the room collapsed after the beam gave way, killing Daud Jan, 11, on the spot. The house owner, Alamgir, his wife and a daughter were maimed in the incident.

The locals rushed to the house soon after the incident and started rescue work. They retrieved the body and pulled out the injured from the debris and shifted them to the hospital.
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Dam under construction in Bara washed away
[Dawn] A major portion of the under-construction Zao small dam in Bara was washed away by flood, causing a loss of nearly Rs25 million to the contractor.

Haji Ekhtiar Gul, the contractor, told Dawn that the dam was near completion as almost 75 per cent work was completed. He said that the main protection dyke and earth moving machinery worth millions of rupees were also washed away by a sudden current of flood water, coming from the nearby mountains in Tirah.

"Luckily the floods caused no human loss as all the labourers and the dam supervising staffers were away from the site due to rain," he said, adding that water accumulated in the under-construction dam that caused a major breach in its protection walls and washed away a major portion of the dam.

The construction of the dam was started in June 2011 under the supervision of Fata Development Authority (FDA) with an estimated cost of Rs69.07 million.

Situated at a distance of eight kilometres from Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
, the dam site is in Akkakhel area of Bara near the border of Darra Adamkhel. The FDA estimated that the dam would irrigate 250 acres area after its completion in December 2012. But completion of the dam was delayed owing to insecurity and a military operation in the region.

Work on the dam was suspended in July last year when some unidentified gunnies kidnapped Haji Ekhtiar Gul along with his two colleagues -- Aleen Gul and Gulzar.
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar-e-Islami

#1  You'd think for RS69.02 Million you could hire a few hands with buckets to irrigate that 250 acres.
Posted by: Shipman || 03/19/2013 14:06 Comments || Top||


College principal gunned down in Karachi
[Dawn] Unknown gunnies killed a renowned poet, writer, scholar and the principal of a college in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, Professor Syed Sibte Jafar in Karachi's Liaquatabad area on Monday, DawnNews reported.

The principal of Degree Science College Liaquatabad was returning home from duty on his cycle of violence when some unknown gunnies ambushed him near Arshi chowk in Liaquatabad area of Karachi.

The victims was rushed to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
He's dead, Jim!
on arrival.

The Sindh professor's and lecturers association announced that a day of mourning would be observed on Tuesday against the incident.

The Majlis Wahdat-e-Mohammedaneen (MWM) and Jaffria Alliance also announced for a day mourning to be observed on Tuesday.

Moreover six other people including a police officer and a woman were killed in different acts of violence across the city.

A police Sub Inspector was killed near Kalapul area in a firing incident.

A man was bumped off in Machar colony area near Karachi's Mauripur road.

A suspected robber allegedly belonging to a banned
...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization
was killed in a police encounter in Manghopir's Kunwari colony.

Another person was killed near Ghasmandi in Ranchore lines area of Karachi.

Similarly one person died in a gun firing incident in Liqauatabad's Bandhani colony area.

The body of a woman was found in Korangi area of Karachi. The throat of the unidentified woman was slit with a sharp object, according to police sources who added that the victim was tortured before she was killed.
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I guess the true path to Islamic spiritual enlightenment means being as ignorant and as illiterate as a sea urchin.

I hope I didn't insult any sea urchins out there.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 03/19/2013 9:35 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Baghdad hit by deadly blasts on invasion anniversary
At least 48 people have been killed in a series of car and suicide bombings mainly in Shia areas in and around Iraq's capital, Baghdad, officials say.

The co-ordinated attacks targeted markets, restaurants, bus stops and day labourers during the morning rush hour.

Iraq's deadliest day in six months came on the 10th anniversary of the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.

Violence has decreased in Iraq since the peak of the insurgency in 2006 and 2007, but bombings are still common.

Sunni Islamist militants linked to al-Qaeda have vowed to step up attacks on Shia targets and state officials this year in an attempt to provoke sectarian conflict and weaken the Shia-led government.

In a sign of concern over the security situation, the cabinet announced that it was delaying elections scheduled for 20 April in the provinces of Anbar and Nineveh by up to six months.
Posted by: tipper || 03/19/2013 10:41 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  fatality count at 65 as of nightfall local time
Posted by: lord garth || 03/19/2013 20:48 Comments || Top||


'Qaeda' attack on Iraq kills 30
[Bangla Daily Star] A brazen attack on the Iraqi justice ministry claimed by Al-Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate killed 30 people and wounded 50, state TV quoted justice minister Hassan al-Shammari as saying yesterday.

Security and medical officials had previously put the toll from the March 14 violence at 18 killed and 30 wounded.

The attack involved a series of mid-day bombings in central Baghdad's Allawi neighbourhood, adjacent to the heavily-fortified Green Zone, which is home to key government facilities and the American and British embassies.
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq


Southeast Asia
Philippines, Malaysia discuss claiming of bodies
Philippine and Malaysian officials have started discussing the repatriation of the bodies of 28 followers of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III who were killed following clashes with Malaysian security forces since March 5.

Malaysia's state-run Bernama news agency late Monday reported that Sabah's police commissioner Datuk Hamza Taib said two more clashes occurred Monday morning, at 8:05 a.m. and 9:45 a.m.

Hamza also said they believed there are less than 50 Kiram followers left in Kampung Tanjung Batu, even as he slighted Sultan Kiram's claim his followers will resort to guerrilla warfare. He said, "Jamalul Kiram can say anything he wants. We are all out to flush them out."

See also:
No threat seen in Bangsamoro Day observances
Posted by: ryuge || 03/19/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ION TOPIX > [Malaysia Sun] MALAYSIA UNSWERVED BY SULU SULTAN'S THREAT OF [Guerilla] WAR.

Veterans of the Malaysia's reputable Sawak Rangers are repor offerring their services to hunt down + fight the Sultan's Boyz.

Earlier this week ...

* WORLD NEWS > [Daily Tribune] KIRAM'S TAUSUGS EXPECTED TO LAUNCH "POCKETS OF RESISTANCE".

* RELATED SAME > LAHAD DATU: SULU SULTAN ORDERS MEN TO GO FOR "GUERILLA WARFARE".
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/19/2013 22:51 Comments || Top||


Local official gunned down in southern Thailand
A tambon administration organisation member was gunned down in an attack in Narathiwat province on Sunday morning.

The attack occurred at about 10 a.m. According to witnesses, while the victim was returning in a car from a market in Si Sakhon district to his home in tambon Tamayung he was followed by a pickup truck. A number of men in the back of the pickup opened fire at his car with AK47 rifles. The victim was hit in the head and body. His vehicle skidded off the road and slammed into a power pole.

One of the attackers walked up to his car and fired another shot into his head to make sure he was dead, then took his 9mm pistol and fled in the waiting pickup.
Posted by: ryuge || 03/19/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hand Grenade Wounds Woman in Tripoli, Gunshots Heard in Syria Street
[An Nahar] A woman was wounded when a hand grenade was hurled in al-Baqqar neighborhood in the northern city of Tripoli, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

"Samira Hasan Bakra was transferred to (Tripoli's) al-Jinan hospital for treatment from a minor injury," the NNA elaborated.

The agency also reported that sniper gunshots were heard in Syria street, which separates Bab al-Tebbaneh and Jabal Mohsen areas of Tripoli.

Meanwhile, several men blocked the International Highway near the northern city's al-Maloula roundabout.

The escalation of security-related events come one day after Dar al-Fatwa clerics Sheikh Mazen Hariri and Sheikh Ahmed Fakhran were beaten up while passing through the Beirut area of Khandaq al-Ghamiq.

As the news broke out on Sunday, angry protesters blocked roads in the Beirut areas of Tariq al-Jedideh, Qasqas and Corniche al-Mazraa, as well as Sidon's entrance in the South and al-Masnaa's road in the Bekaa.
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Syria jets target Lebanon border
[FRANCE24] Syrian air force jets fired four rockets at a remote section of the border with Leb on Monday, security sources said, four days after Damascus
...The capital of Iran's Syrian satrapy...
warned it may strike at Syrian rebels taking refuge across the frontier.

There were no immediate reports of casualties from the air strike near the Bekaa Valley town of Arsal, whose Sunni Moslem residents mainly support Syrian rebels fighting to topple Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Lord of the Baath...

Leb has a policy of "dissociation" from the two-year civil war in Syria but officials say they feel their country is increasingly at risk of being dragged into a conflict that the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
says has killed 70,000 Syrians.

Syria's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that a "large number" of gunnies had crossed Leb's northern border into the Syrian town of Tel Kalakh last week.

"Syria expects the Lebanese side to prevent these armed terrorist groups from using the borders as a crossing point, because they target Syrian people and are violating Syrian illusory sovereignty," it said in a message to the Lebanese government, according to state media.

It said Syria's "patience is not unlimited", even though "Syrian forces have so far exercised restraint from striking at armed gangs inside Lebanese territory."
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Damascus Districts Shelled, Students Arrested
[An Nahar] Syrian regime forces resumed shelling parts of Damascus on Monday as security forces carried out arrests of students in housing attached to Damascus University, a monitoring group said.

"There is shelling of the areas of Maadaniya (south) and Jubar (east) by regime forces," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, reporting sniper fire and casualties in the city's northern Barzeh district as well.

The Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmuk in the south of the city also came under rocket fire overnight, the group said.

Elsewhere in the capital, the Observatory said, regime forces carried out "a campaign of arrests of a number of students from the University City student housing in the Mazzeh district" of western Damascus.

Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman, speaking to Agence France Presse by telephone, said "intelligence forces this morning entered University City," which is home to Damascus University students from different areas.

The group also reported five people were killed and around 10 others wounded by "heavy shelling on areas in the city of Irbin," in Damascus province, east of the capital.

Regime forces have launched a broad campaign in the region around the capital in recent months, in a bid to unseat rebels from rear bases they are using to attack Damascus.

In central Hama province, opposition fighters gained control of the Tel Hamamiyat checkpoint on the eastern outskirts of town of Karnaz, "following violent clashes that began at around midnight on Sunday," the Observatory said.

"A number of military vehicles were damaged, members of the regime forces were killed and weapons and ammunition were captured," the group said.

Regime forces responded with artillery fire targeting the local towns of Karnaz and Latamna, and air raids on the town of Kfar Zita.

The Britain-based Observatory, which relies on a network of activists and medical sources on the ground to compile its figures, said a total of 126 people were killed across Syria on Sunday, according to a final toll.
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria



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