Eritrea is undermining stability in conflict-ravaged Somalia by paying political agents and a warlord linked to Islamist militants to influence the Mogadishu government, U.N. sanctions experts said in a confidential report.
The Eritrean government has long denied playing any negative role in Somalia, saying it has no links to Islamist al Shabaab militants fighting to overthrow the Somali government. It says the U.N. sanctions imposed on it in 2009 for supporting al Shabaab were based on lies and has called for the sanctions to be lifted.
A top Egyptian court has ordered the detention of ousted president Mohamed Morsi for 15 days pending investigations into suspected collaboration with Hamas. Morsi is accused of collaborating with Hamas to escape, along with other political prisoners, from prison and destroy prison records during the 2011 uprising; collaborating with Hamas to attack police stations during the uprising; the intentional killing and abduction of police officers and prisoners during the uprising, and espionage.
The alleged crimes are being investigated by a Cairo court that was given the task of determining how inmates -- including Morsi and other senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood -- escaped from prison in late January 2011 during the revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
Brotherhood spokesman Ahmed Aref said that he believed that the decision to detain Morsi was meant to show the international community that Morsi is being prosecuted. He asked, "Is there a lawyer attending the investigations with Dr. Morsi? Was Dr. Morsi given a chance to defend himself? Where is Dr. Morsi in the first place? And was he transferred to the investigating judge or did the judge go to him?"
Leading Brotherhood member Essam El-Erian said that the decision to detain Morsi exposed the true "fascist military regime" currently in Egypt. On his Facebook page, he said, "Announcing a decision to detain a legitimate president who has immunity, who should not stand a trial except under specific constitutional procedures, under very suspicious timing in the absence of the simplest concepts of the state of law as well in the absence of his lawyer, shows the nature of the current struggling fascist military regime. The answer to this will be peaceful million man protests in the squares. Our strength is in our peacefulness and our unity as a people against fascism, oppression and corruption."
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said, "Hamas condemns this move since it is based on the premise that the Hamas movement is hostile."
That might have something to do with all the little jihadis and weapons that have been pouring through the tunnels of Gaza into the Sinai, where they have been attacking the Egyptian army and civilians. Sane people consider such behaviour hostile.
[AnNahar] Egypt was on edge Thursday ahead of rival protests by the military and Islamists, as the government declared a "war on terrorism" to end violence convulsing the country since president Mohammed Morsi's overthrow.
Police said they were planning massive reinforcements to secure Friday's rallies, which raise the prospect of further bloodshed between Islamists demanding Morsi's reinstatement and an array of opponents including the military.
The runaway leader of Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund Mohammed Badei urged Egyptians to peacefully make a "stand for freedom and legitimacy, and against the bloody coup," in a statement on Thursday.
The United States said on Wednesday it was "very concerned" by military chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's call for a rally to justify a crackdown on what he called "terrorism and violence."
Washington, which has close ties with Egypt's military, also announced it had decided to suspend a plan to supply its ally with F-16 warplanes.
The Brotherhood and allied Islamist groups had denounced Sisi's call as "an announcement of civil war" and said they would press on with their own demonstrations on Friday.
Egyptian newspapers, mostly hostile to the Brotherhood, featured Sisi's call, made in a Wednesday speech, in their front page headlines.
The state-owned Al-Akhbar ran a banner, partially in large red font, reading: "Sisi's message has been delivered. And the people respond: We mandate you."
"Sisi calls. And the people respond," reported the leading independent daily, Al-Masry al-Youm.
In Qatar, a Mohammedan organization headed by the influential Egyptian-born holy man Yusuf al-Qaradawi ...crackpot Egyptian Islamist theologian. He is best known for his program Shariah and Life on Al Jazeera, with an estimated audience of 60 million kindred souls worldwide. He is also well-known for IslamOnline, which occasionally advocates things like slavery and thumping the old lady with a rod no thicker than an inch, and has published more than 120 books, including Islam: The Future Civilization. Joe has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Moslem Brüderbund. Some of his views have been controversial in the West, though less so among the rubes of the Mysterious East, and he was refused entry to the United Kingdom in 2008. In 2004, 2,500 Muslim academics from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and from the Palestinian territories condemned Qaradawi, and accused him of giving Islam a bad name.... issued an edict against obeying Sisi's call, saying it could lead to "civil war."
The general's unusual demand -- the military insists he is merely a defence minister and deputy premier in the army-installed cabinet -- came after calls for a crackdown on Islamists staging sometimes bloody protests since the July 3 coup.
"Next Friday, all honorable Egyptians must take to the street to give me a mandate and command to end terrorism and violence," the general said, wearing dark sunglasses as he addressed a military graduation ceremony near Alexandria.
A front man for army-installed interim president Adly Mansour later said Egypt "has begun a war on terrorism".
Hours before Sisi's speech, a crude time bomb placed outside a cop shoppe in the Nile Delta city of Mansura killed a police conscript, the interior ministry said.
In the restive Sinai peninsula, where hard boyz have staged daily attacks on security forces, two soldiers were rubbed out in separate ambushes on Wednesday.
More than 170 people have died in political unrest since the end of June, according to an Agence La Belle France Presse tally, many of them in festivities between Morsi's supporters and opponents.
Huge crowds of Egyptians protested against Morsi on June 30, after just one turbulent year of his presidency.
Senior Brotherhood leader Essam al-Erian said Morsi loyalists would not be intimidated by the army chief's call for mass rallies.
"Your threat will not prevent millions from continuously protesting," Erian wrote on Facebook.
Tamarod, the movement that spearheaded the mass anti-Morsi rallies that led up to the coup, called on supporters to take to the streets again on Friday to support the army.
"We call on the great Egyptian people to rally on Friday across Egypt to demand... Morsi's trial and to support the military in its upcoming war on terrorism."
Morsi's detention, and the subsequent arrests of senior Brotherhood leaders, have hardened his supporters' stance.
His family said it would sue Sisi and also take legal action outside Egypt.
The United States has joined other Western nations in calling for Morsi's release, although it has declined to characterize his overthrow as a coup, which would force a suspension of U.S. aid.
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An Ivorian army officer close to ex-president, Laurent Gbabgo has been arrested in Niger and extradited to Abidjan, where he is being detained upon directive from the body in charge of security (DST), judicial sources confirmed to APA.Captain Urbain Bley, an ex-presidential guard under Gbagbo was caught on 15 July in Niger and extradited to Cote dÂ’Ivoire on 20 July.
38-yr-old Captain Bley was an aide-de-camp to the Army Chief of Staff, Philippe Mangou under ex president Laurent GbabgoÂ’s rule.
Several pro-Gbagbo officials who had found refuge in neighboring Ghana have also been arrested, including Charles Ble Goude caught on 17 January and extradited, Jean Noel Abehi, an ex-gendarmerie commander and Jean Yves Dibopieu the former leader of the youth vigilant group Patriotic Galaxy.
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday led calls at the United Nations for an end to foreign backing for rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Without naming any country — but in a message aimed at Rwanda — Kerry told the UN Security Council the United States is “deeply concerned” about reports of new external support for M23 rebels battling government forces.
“I want to be emphatic here today, all parties must immediately end their support for armed rebel groups. All governments must hold human rights violators and abusers accountable,” Kerry told a special meeting on the region where millions have died in conflict in the past two decades.
The 15-nation Security Council, which currently includes Rwanda, also agreed a statement calling for all countries to stay out of DR Congo affairs and support a UN-brokered regional peace accord signed by 11 countries in March.
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I dunno. We're incessantly lectured to that it's up to Africans to solve Africa's problems. Then some big-shot Franco-Irish-American millionaire tells them what they should do. In front of the UN, no less.
Some days one can't make heads or tails of things.
A fresh wave of violence in SudanÂ’s western region of Darfur has prompted more than 250,000 people to flee their villages and abandon their livelihoods since the start of the year, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said Tuesday. The decade-long conflict has escalated recently, due to inter-tribal conflicts over agricultural land and resources, creating the largest wave of population displacement that the region has seen in recent years and straining WFPÂ’s ability to feed vulnerable families.
“We are deeply concerned with the developing situation which threatens fragile food security in this region,” said WFP Sudan Country Director Adnan Khan in a statement issued in Nairobi.
The UN Security Council Wednesday condemned the flow of weapons and ammunition to and through Somalia and Eritrea in violation of arms embargoes against both countries.
A resolution adopted unanimously by the council called the arms flow "a serious threat to peace and stability in the region."
The council reaffirmed the arms embargoes on Somalia and Eritrea but gave a green light for Somalia to import some military equipment and provide assistance or training for its security forces until March 6, 2014.
North Korea on Thursday threatened to re-station troops at a stalled inter-Korean factory park located just across the tense border separating the two Koreas, as minor scuffles reportedly broke out between delegates from the rivals after failed talks meant to restart the complex.
Time for South Korea to leave the Kaesong complex for good ... and burn it down...
Pyongyang has warned Seoul before that it would bring back the military units that were stationed at the North Korean border city of Kaesong before the factory park was set up there in 2004 during a previous period of detente between the rivals.
Analysts said the latest threat was an effort to pressure Seoul to agree to a quick reopening of the industrial complex, which provided badly needed hard currency to Pyongyang. The complex was shut in April amid dueling threats of war following UN sanctions against North KoreaÂ’s February nuclear test.
Pool reports from South Korean media stationed outside the closed-door meeting at Kaesong between the Koreas said frustrated North Koreans issued the warning directly to South Korean reporters after the talks ended without a breakthrough. The reports said that brief scuffles erupted as Seoul officials tried to stop North Koreans from talking to journalists.
The pool reports said the North Korean delegates also distributed documents about speeches and proposals they made during the talks with South Korea. South Korean officials tried to retrieve the documents from South Korean reporters, triggering protests from the reporters, the reports said.
They can't be that worried about Pudgy's speeches getting out, can they?
South Korean officials took the North Korean delegates out of the room, and a North Korean delegate insulted South Korean officials, reportedly calling them bums and gangsters. Chief North Korean delegate Pak Chol Su told reporters that North Korea made “sincere efforts” to resume operations at the complex, according to the pool reports.
Later on Thursday, South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Hyung-suk told reporters that Seoul would “make a grave decision” if North Korea doesn’t provide a guarantee that it won’t engineer future unilateral Kaesong shutdowns.
Would you believe them if they did provide such a guarantee?
He didn’t elaborate, but said he believes Kaesong’s fate is now at a “serious crossroads” after the end of Thursday’s talks.
Chief South Korean delegate Kim Kiwoong told reporters that there were big differences between the Koreas on the matter of SeoulÂ’s desire for the guarantee.
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It's like visiting weird Uncle Earl who still lives on the family farm.
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* ION DAILY TIMES.PK > DREAM OF [Inter-Korean] REUNIFICATION FADES IN SOUTH KOREA.
As said or inferred times before, as per empowerment of DPRK-ROK Reunification it may be in the strategic interests of the US + ROK + UNCOM, etal. to allow the DPRK to have indigenous Nukes in complementary wid the ROK.
REMINDER > YEAR 2018 = may see not only the formal establishment of US-led GMD-TMD in both Japan + ROK, etc. East Asia allies BUT ALSO THE AMENDMENT OF JAPAN'S POSTWAR CONSTITUTION TO ALLOW FOR A STRONG NIPPON MILITARY + ESPEC JAPAN'S DEV OR PROCUREMENT OF NUCWEAPONS.
Another way of saying the above is that "post-US" wannabe China has roughly until 2018 = end of the Bammer 2nd POTUS term [Jan 2017] to reunify wid Taiwan + break the barriers of the "First Island Chain" LEST IT GIVE UP ITS ANTI/POST-US "MANIFEST DESTINY" UNTIL 2080-2100 [iff not later].
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > PACIFIST JAPAN NO MORE? TOKYO TO CONSIDER PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE CAPABILITY? RT NEWS.
* SAME BLOGGER > reminded that the China considers the "First Island Chain", espec the waters between mainland Japan + Taiwan + Northern Philippines as its ALL-IMPORTANT "FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE" AGZ THE US-ALLIES.
* TOPIX > JAPAN INTERIM DEFENSE PAPER [White Paper] SAYS DRONES, MARINES [Nippon Marine Corps = potent RRF/RDF Amphibs]NEEDED AGZ THREAT FROM CHINA, NORTH KOREA.
* Also from TOPIX > CHINA'S "SALAMI-SLICE" STRATEGY".
Sniff, sniff, is there no love for Bologna???
* SAME = ABE SEEKS TO "CONTAIN" BEIJING, SAYS EXPERT.
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > CHINESE FLEET THROUGH SOYA STRAIT INTENDED TO OPEN UP DIFFICULT NAVAL ROUTES INTO NORPAC, WESTPAC + ARCTIC VEE WATERS CLOSELY MONITORED OR CONTROLLED BY US, RUSSIA, + JAPAN.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > MURDER SHEDS LIGHT ON CHINA EXPANSION, ENCIRCLEMENT OF INDIA, i.e. projection of PLA power to the Persian Gulf, Arabian Peninsula [KSA], + IOR vee Pakistan + Sri Lanka ports | [Toronto Sun] IS CHINA SLOWLY TIGHTENING THE NOSE AROUND INDIA'S NECK?
* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > CHINA UNVEILS [revamped = reorg, ARMED] COAST GUARD TO HANDLE SEA CONFLICTS.
* SAME > RETIRED USCNO GARY ROUGHEAD TELLS US CONGRESS THAT AMERICA WILL SEE RISE OF THE PLA, + INTENSIVE BUT "INEVITABLE" SINO-US MILITARY COMPETITION. ROUGHEAD + OTHER US EXPERTS WARN THAT THE US RELATIONSHIP WID CHINA WILL ULTIMATELY DETERMINE OR DEFINE THE STRATEGIC SITUATION, US-VS-CHINA + GEOPOL BALANCE OF POWER IN ASIA-PACIFIC.
* SAME > JAPAN MUST ADAPT TO CHINESE MILITARY WARSHIPS + AIRCRAFT FREQUENTLY CROSSING THROUGH THE "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" INCLUDING JAPAN-CLAIMED DISPUTED ISLANDS.
* SAME > RENOWNED 20TH CENTURY FORMER US SECSTATE JOHN FOSTER DULLES' CONCEPT OF ANTI-CHINA "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" NOW IRREVOCABLY "TORN TO PIECES: US + ITS EAST ASIA ALLIES ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO STOP, PREVENT, OR CHALLENGE PLA MILTARY ASSETS FROM TRAVELING THROUGH THE "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" AT WILL. CHINA + PLA SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTS
"UNIVERSAL LINKAGE" OF SOUTH CHINA SEA, EAST CHINA SEA, YELLOW SEA, + SEA OF JAPAN WID WESTPAC + NORPAC OCEANS.
* SAME > USDOD "SURGES" IN ASIA-PACIFIC WID SE ASIAN ALLIES ALREADY HALF-DESTABILIZED BY CHINA.
[AnNahar] Bulgaria released pictures Thursday of two suspected helpers of a bomber who blew up a bus packed with Israeli tourists last year, identifying them as an Australian and a Canadian.
"A year after the kaboom on a bus with Israeli tourists that killed five Israelis and one Bulgarian citizen, the authorities are seeking public assistance for information on two people suspected of having links to the attack," the interior ministry said in a statement.
The two were identified as 32-year-old Australian Maliad Farah, also known as Hussein Hussein -- a bearded man with dark hair, thick black eyebrows and brownish eyes -- and 25-year-old Canadian Hassan El Hajj Hassan -- a man of lighter complexion, with a closely shaved head and a goatee.
Bulgaria had already announced that an Australian and a Canadian linked to the military wing of Hizbullah had aided the still unidentified bomber, who was killed at the scene of the July 18, 2012 attack at the Black Sea airport of Burgas.
The interior ministry said Thursday the men had been spotted several Black Sea resorts between June 28 and July 18 last year.
Prosecutors suspect them of registering in hotels and renting cars under three fake identities -- Brian Jeremiah Jameson, Jacque Philippe Martin and Ralph William Rico, it added.
Two identical counterfeit U.S. driver's licenses in the names of Martin and Rico were recovered by police shortly after the attack, both carrying traces that matched the DNA profile extracted from the remains of the bomber, allowing Sherlocks to track down the people who used them and establish their link to the attack.
Israel blamed Iran and its Lebanese "terrorist proxy" Hizbullah for the bombing, the deadliest attack on Israelis abroad since 2004 and the first in a EU member state.
It took Bulgaria six months to make what it called a "justified conclusion" that Hizbullah was behind the attack.
More than a year on, the investigation is still bogged down by lengthy procedures for collecting witness testimony from Israel and legal assistance reports from abroad.
The case, however, played a role in the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... decision on Monday to blacklist Hizbullah's military wing as a terrorist organization.
[AnNahar] Russia has received a letter from the United States spelling out its position over intelligence leaker Edward Snowden whose month-long stay in a Moscow airport has led to new tensions in diplomatic ties, the justice ministry said Thursday.
"On July 24, 2013, the Russian justice ministry received a letter from U.S. Attorney General Eric Inaction Jackson Holder ... aka Mister Fast and Furious... which explains certain aspects of the U.S. position on the issue of ex-CIA employee Edward Snowden's status," the ministry said in a written statement sent to Agence La Belle France Presse.
"The document does not contain requests about extradition or deportation," said the statement without providing further details.
The letter arrived Wednesday, the same day Snowden was widely expected to leave the transit zone of Sheremetyevo airport but failed to emerge at the last moment.
Washington wants to prosecute the former National Security Agency contractor on espionage charges for revealing details of a vast spying program and has repeatedly pressed Moscow to send him back to the United States.
The Kremlin has defied calls to extradite him, saying there was no such agreement between the two countries, but also indicated it does not want to see ties damaged over Snowden.
The now famous runaway has been marooned in Sheremetyevo airport since arriving from Hong Kong on June 23. He applied for temporary asylum in Russia last week and had been widely expected to be given a pass to enter into Russia proper on Wednesday.
A pro-Kremlin lawyer assisting Snowden with his asylum request, Anatoly Kucherena, told news hounds however that Snowden was so far staying at the airport and the legal process was taking longer than expected.
[AnNahar] A United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... body that handles war reparations for Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait said Thursday it had handed over a further $1.07 billion (810 million euros) to the emirate.
The payment, related to damage to oil facilities and resulting financial losses, brings to $42.3 billion the total sum handed out by the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC).
Some $10.1 billion awarded by the UNCC to a string of claimants still remains to be paid out.
In addition to Kuwait, more than 100 governments and international organizations have been allocated funds by the UNCC for distribution to 1.5 million successful claimants.
The UNCC was set up by the U.N. Security Council in 1991, the year that a U.S.-led coalition drove then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait.
Its funds are drawn from a U.N.-mandated levy of five percent on Iraqi oil exports, whose continued existence has come in for criticism given that Saddam was ousted in 2003 in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
[Ynet] In response to the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's decision to ban contracts with Israel pertaining to disputed territories, Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon instructed the IDF and the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories to stop cooperating with EU representatives in the West Bank and Gazoo.
So because some Europeans (but not Germany) have decided to be pissy, their little pets the Palestinians will no longer get EU money for nothing.
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While not stated, the West Bank and Bazoo may not be the only areas where "cooperation" ends. Good luck with your little elephant on the room Euros.
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As I said yesterday, I hope Israel does this on a country by country rather than EU basis. Anything that puts stress on the structure of the EU the better.
The Second Smartest Man In The Room Strikes Again.
[AnNahar] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... appeared to have flubbed his lines on Thursday when he referred to the Paleostinian territories as a country.
Speaking at the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... ahead of talks with U.N. chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... , Kerry praised the "courageous decision" by Israeli and Paleostinian leaders to try to resume direct negotiations.
"It's my hope that that will be able to happen as procedures are put in place by both countries in order to empower that," Kerry told news hounds.
The final status of the Paleostinian territories has yet to be determined, although the U.S. goal is two states -- one Israeli and one Paleostinian -- living side by side.
State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf assured news hounds later that U.S. policy had not changed.
"Our position has not changed not on the status of the Paleostinian territory. The secretary was in no way indicating a change of policy," she said.
Later asked about his comment, Kerry replied: "Did I say that?"
Last week, Kerry appeared to have achieved a breakthrough deal to get the two sides to return to the negotiating table after a three-year break.
No date has yet been set, although an Israeli minister said that the talks would begin on Tuesday in Washington.
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If Jahwn and Champ had a choice they'd destroy Texas first, then Israel...
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Clearly that is Eric Holder's job. They thought they had some momentum after Windy, but sticking tampons in your ears is a levels of stupid not even Snooki reaches on a two bottle night.
Jawn is the natural choice for this front; I'm quite certain he would broker a peace for Israel based on his success with South Vietnam.
[AnNahar] Two U.N. envoys on a mission to persuade Syria's government to allow inspectors to probe alleged chemical weapons attacks ended a 24-hour visit Thursday, the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... said in Damascus.
Swedish scientist Ake Sellstrom and Angela Kane, the U.N. high representative for disarmament, "have left Damascus after an official two-day visit, during which the experts met with Syrian officials" including Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, said U.N. media and communications analyst Khaled Al Masri.
The Damascus-based U.N. official gave no details on the discussions.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido stepped from behind the suit of armor, rapier in hand. Ciccolini snarled and reached for his own weapon... U.N. Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... told news hounds in New York: "I will get the report, since they are coming out of Syria now; we will get the report soon."
According to a source close to the Syrian government, the authorities reiterated their demand that the U.N. focus on investigating the alleged use of chemical weapons in Khan al-Assal, near the northern city of Aleppo.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... 's regime has insisted that the rebels were responsible for the alleged chemical attack there in March.
Khan al-Assal fell from regime control and into rebel hands on Monday, complicating any effort to send in inspectors to visit the site.
The United Nations says Damascus has refused bids to investigate British and French claims that chemical attacks have also hit Homs in central Syria.
In all, the United Nations has received 13 allegations of the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
Syria's regime and rebels fighting to topple it have accused each other of using chemical weapons in the drawn-out conflict which has seen more than 100,000 people killed.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
