[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Afghanistan's vice president Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... says that he has prepared a Special Force of 20, 000 fighters to eliminate Taliban from Afghanistan.
So it's a 'special force', not 'special forces'...
Abdul Rashid Dostum said he will clear Kundoz from Taliban and then rood out Taliban in Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
Abdul Rashid Dostum is said to be one of the expert fighters in Afghanistan who never accepts defeat in the fight.
Afghanistan's vice president Abdul Rashid Dostm is on a special mission to northern Afghanistan to convince the armed opponents join grinding of the peace processor.
He has made a call to the Taliban that joining grinding of the peace processor and living in peace is better that being killed.
Only this week after his visit to the north of the country hundreds of Taliban joined grinding of the peace processor.
Dostum says that within 20 days thousands of more Taliban will join government.
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"who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets"
Dostum never fought the Soviets. He fought with the Soviets during the '80s against the Mujaheddin.
In the '90s and again starting in the Spring of 2001 he fought the Taliban and AlQuaida.
He fought with US Special Forces to free northern Afghanistan after 9/11/2001.
A senior Iranian official has hit out at the Manama regime for apprehending Bahraini opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman, describing his arrest as an “impulsive” and “imprudent” move, PressTV reported.
So now we know who the paymaster is...
Salman’s arrest suggests “[the Bahraini regime’s] support for extremists’ activities in the country,” said Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian upon return home from his trip to the United Arab Emirates.
Bahraini forces on Sunday detained Salman who leads the country’s main opposition bloc, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society.
The Iranian official said the wrong policy of crackdown and violence adopted by the Bahraini regime will prompt the country’s opposition to distance themselves from democratic methods, which, as the diplomat stressed, will “not be in the interest of Bahrain and the region.”
The Iranian official said Salman’s arrest will have repercussions for the Manama regime.
“Bahrain will not be able to put up with the consequences of this move (the arrest of Salman),” Amir-Abdollahian said.
He said Salman’s arrest could affect tranquility in the region.
“The arrest of the secretary general of Bahrain’s democratic al-Wefaq [National Islamic] Society at the current sensitive situation in the region runs counter to security and tranquility” in the Middle East.
He warned that Iran will not allow regional security to be jeopardized.
“At a time when terrorism and extremism constitute a collective threat of our time, Tehran will never allow extremists to compromise collective security in our region.”
Bahrain’s arrest of Sheikh Salman came as the 49-year-old respected cleric secured a new four-year term in al-Wefaq's general congress last Friday.
It's not just Iran calling for the gentleman's release:
[IsraelTimes] Anti-riot police and protesters demanding the release of Bahrain’s main Shiite opposition leader clashed Thursday for the fifth day in a row, witnesses said.
Predominantly Shiite Iran, across the Gulf from Washington’s ally where the US Fifth Fleet is based, has joined calls for the immediate release of the kingdom’s main opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman.
The United States has expressed deep concern about Salman’s detention, warning that it could only inflame the persistent violence that has gripped the kingdom since 2011.
The witnesses said Thursday’s clashes erupted in central Manama after prayers at the capital’s Mumen mosque, whereas previous unrest has centered on Shiite villages in the suburbs.
Police used tear gas and batons against the protesters, and some injuries and arrests were reported.
“Dozens of people… including women and children, were arrested,” said a statement from the Bahrain Observatory for Human Rights.
Meanwhile, the interior ministry announced that it had banned an opposition demonstration called for Friday in a Shiite suburb of the capital.
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Hat tip to the Instapundit. You're not surprised that North Korea works this way, are you?
North Korea has blackmailed dozens, if not hundreds, of politicians, journalists and businessmen after seducing them with female agents, a former elite North Korean official has revealed.
In a scheme called "the seed-bearing programme", high-level visitors to Pyongyang would be sent an attractive consort, only to find out several months later that they have a child in North Korea. Politicians would then be blackmailed to pass legislation favouring North Korea or to increase aid. Journalists would be asked to write positive stories and businessmen urged to set up joint ventures with local companies.
The scheme was dreamed up and put into action by Lil' Kim Kim Jong-il, the father of present-day North Korean leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-un, according to Jang Jin-sung, the official poet to the North Korean regime and one of the elite few known as "The Admitted" before he defected in January 2004.
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Better stay away from the NORK workers paradise. But if you must go, better have a vasectomy proof/zero sperm certification card with you at all times. It just isn't worth the trip for all the hassle.
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SEOUL -- North Korean leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-un said Thursday he is willing to hold summit talks with South Korean President Park Geun-hye this year with the aim of making a "big shift" in inter-Korean ties.
In his New Year's Day address, he said Pyongyang will "make every effort" to advance dialogue and cooperation with Seoul.
"Depending on the mood and circumstances to be created, we have no reason not to hold the highest-level talks," he said in the nationally televised speech.
He used much of the 30-minute speech to emphasize the need for improved relations between the rival Koreas, along with the importance of developing the communist nation's military capability and the living standards of its people.
Tomorrow he'll be back to his rabid self...
Kim said high-level talks and other kinds of negotiations between the two sides can be resumed if the South really wants to improve bilateral ties via dialogue.
He said he would actively seek the development of Mount Kumgang and other tourist zones to draw foreign visitors in a bid to diversity the country's external economic relations.
Translation: he needs money...
His remarks raised false hope that the North will respond positively to the South's new offer of ministerial talks. Earlier this week, the South's presidential panel on reunification proposed talks with the North in January to discuss pending issues, including the reunion of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.
South Korea hopes for significant progress in inter-Korean ties this year, which marks the 70th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japan's 35-year colonial rule. The South's president is also eager to bear fruit in her push for easing military tensions on the peninsula as she enters the third of her five-year tenure.
Kim echoed Park's stated goal of laying the groundwork for the reunification of Korea, saying the "tragic" division can be no longer tolerable and acceptable.
But he condemned regular joint defense drills of South Korea and the U.S. for deepening tensions on the Korean Peninsula. He demanded Washington end its "anachronistic hostile" policy toward Pyongyang.
"There is no need to say it twice that in a tense mood that such war-preparatory exercises, trust-based dialogue can't be possible, and North-South relations can't move forward," he said.
See, the mask is already slipping...
Kim added his regime will stick to its "military-first" policy and the strategy of simultaneously developing the economy and its nuclear program.
It marked Kim's third New Year's Day speech. As usual, this year's address was closed watched by the outside world for clues to Pyongyang's external policy. Earlier in the day, he began his official activity in 2015 with a visit to the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, a mausoleum in Pyongyang, which commemorates his late father, Kim Jong-il, and grandfather Kim Il-sung.
Many analysts said the North's flamboyant leader would step up efforts to tighten his grip on state affairs and focus on his own priorities after the end of a three-year mourning period for the death of his father in December.
Ran out of cognac to drown his sorrow, did he...
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QUETTA: The new year's first polio case was reported on Thursday morning from Balochistan's Chaghi district.
Sources from the Balochistan Health Department told Dawn that the crippling virus was found in two-year-old Shafi Muhammad from the Barabcha area that lies close to the Pak-Afghan border. This was the first polio case to be reported in 2015 in the country.
"At this point in time, we cannot say whether the parents had refused polio drops," sources said.
A total of 22 polio cases were reported from Balochistan in 2014 — most of these were reported from Quetta, Killa Abdullah and Pishin districts of the province. Polio teams have been facing tough resistance from terrorists extremists in the above-mentioned districts.
In view of increasing polio cases, the provincial government has already declared emergency to eradicate the crippling virus in Balochistan. The Health Department had launched a special campaign in high-risk districts, including Quetta, Pishin, Killa Abdullah and other areas to ensure provision of polio drops to children below the age of five years.
Security has been tightened during polio campaigns in the aftermath of the cold-blooded murder of four polio workers by terrorists in Quetta on November 26, 2014.
2014 shaped up to be the darkest year for the Pakistan polio programme, with the number of confirmed cases reaching 296 — the highest number of cases reported in the country since 1998. Pakistan is one of only three countries in the world where polio remains endemic but efforts to eradicate the disease have been severely hindered in recent years as terrorists militants continue to attack immunisation teams and polio workers.
Polio cases in Pakistan reached a low of 28 in 2005 but rose to 198 in 2011. In 2012, Pakistan had 58 cases, while 93 were recorded in 2013, as reported by End Polio Pakistan.
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Well, that didn't take very long.
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2014 shaped up to be the darkest year for the Pakistan polio programme, with the number of confirmed cases reaching 296
More than 76,000 people were killed in Syria’s conflict in 2014, including thousands of children, making it the deadliest year in the nearly four-year war, a monitoring group said in Thursday.
Violence in Iraq killed more than 15,000 civilians and security personnel in 2014, government figures showed on Thursday, making it the deadliest year since bloodshed in 2007.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented the deaths of 76,021 people. Of the total, 17,790 were civilians, including 3,501 children.
Additionally, more than 15,000 rebel fighters were killed, as were nearly 17,000 militants from radical groups, including the ISIS and Al Nusra Front, Al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate. At least 22,627 government forces — both soldiers and members of pro-government militias — were killed, the Britain-based group said.
Last year’s figure compared with 73,447 in 2013, another 49,294 in 2012 and 7,841 in 2011. More than 200,000 people have been killed since the conflict began in March 2011.
Figures compiled by Iraq’s health, interior and defence ministries put the death toll at 15,538, compared with 17,956 killed in 2007, during the height of killings. The toll was also more than double the 6,522 people killed in 2013. The year got off to a bloody start, with the government losing control of parts of Anbar provincial capital Ramadi and all of Fallujah — just a short drive from Baghdad — to anti-government fighters.
The violence was sparked by the demolition of an anti-government protest camp near Ramadi in late 2013. It spread to Fallujah, and security forces later withdrew from areas of both cities, leaving them open for capture. That was a harbinger of events of June, when the ISIS group spearheaded a major offensive, sweeping security forces aside.
The militants overran Iraq’s second city Mosul and then drove south toward Baghdad, raising fears the capital itself would be attacked. They were eventually stopped short, but seized swathes of five provinces north and west of the capital.
A renewed ISIS push in the north in August drove Kurdish forces back towards the capital of their autonomous region, helping to spark a US-led campaign of air strikes against the militants. That effort has since been expanded to training Iraqi forces aimed at readying them as quickly as possible to join the fight against ISIS.
But large parts of the country, including three major cities, remain outside Baghdad’s control.
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[Ynet] The world's largest bloc of Islamic countries says its secretary general will make his first official visit to east Jerusalem on Jan. 5 and visit one of Islam's holiest sites.
The Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation is comprised of 57 Muslim-majority nations. Saudi-born Iyad Madani became secretary general in January last year.
[Ynet] Gaza civil servants protest after Palestinian government vows to 'reintegrate its former employees', placing their livelihood in danger.
Hamas civil servants went on strike Wednesday after the Palestinian government said it would rehire thousands of Gaza staff who were laid off when the Islamist movement seized power in 2007.
Hundreds blocked the entrance to the Gaza City headquarters of the consensus government, a day after it pledged to rehire tens of thousands of workers laid off seven years ago, potentially threatening the livelihood of the 50,000 or so people Hamas hired to replace them.
Government spokesman Ihab Bseiso said an unspecified number of the Hamas government's employees would also be taken on but only in case of ministerial "need".
The protest took place as ministers from the West Bank-based government were on a working visit in Gaza in only their second trip to the war-torn territory since taking office in June.
"The government is renewing its commitment to reintegrate its former employees," Bseiso said on Tuesday, referring to 70,000 people who had worked for the government prior to June 2007 when Hamas forced out its rivals in Fatah, the movement of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.
After Hamas took over, it hired more than 50,000 new people, whose fate have been up in the air since the government was sworn in. Of their number, around 24,000 are civil servants while the rest are employed in security functions.
Their fate has been at the heart of a bitter dispute between Hamas and the new government of prime minister Rami Hamdallah, which was set up as a result of a spring reconciliation agreement between the Islamist movement and its Fatah rivals.
Hamas, which technically stepped down in June but has remained the de facto power in Gaza, has demanded that the government take responsibility for its employees.
But they have not been paid in seven months.
By contrast, the 70,000 workers laid off in 2007 have remained on the Palestinian Authority's payroll, despite being unemployed.
Standing outside the government's temporary headquarters, protesters held up banners reading "Puppet government" and "Enough of the lies and the procrastination."
Union boss Mohammed Siyyam told a press conference "there will never be any stability in Gaza as long as the question of the workers is not sorted out. We will continue our protests."
"We will not accept the return of (Palestinian Authority) workers, which does not resolve the question of the legitimate employees," he said, accusing the government of getting involved in a "dangerously divisive project."
[Ynet] Anett Haskia, 45-year-old Israeli Arab hairdresser, breaks ranks and joins rightwing Bayit Yehudi party, affiliated with religious settler movement: 'Just because I was born in Jewish state doesn't mean a Jew is better than me, nobody can tell me Anett the Arab is second class.'
An Arab-Israeli Muslim woman is running for a parliament seat as a member of a hard-line religious Jewish party aligned with the West Bank settler movement and that opposes Palestinian independence.
The bid by iconoclast Anett Haskia, a 45-year-old hairdresser and mother of three, comes after she gave a series of bombastic television interviews in support of Israel's military this summer during its war against Hamas in Gaza. Now she is the lone Arab vying for a spot on the Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) party's list ahead of its January primary.
Arab citizens of Israel, who make up 20 percent of the country's population, strongly identify with Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. They generally oppose Israeli military actions, do not serve in the IDF and complain of deep-seated discrimination.
Haskia's children, however, voluntarily enlisted in the Israeli army - including one son who served in an elite unit in Gaza during the summer war.
"Just because I was born in the Jewish state doesn't mean a Jew is better than me," Haskia recently told The Associated Press in Hebrew. "I sent the children to war, and nobody can tell me that I, Anett, the Arab, am second class."
A self-described nonconformist, Haskia opposed her family's wishes and broke cultural taboos by divorcing her husband and getting a collection of body piercings and tattoos.
Born in the mixed Arab-Jewish town of Acre in northern Israel, she lives with her children on an Israeli kibbutz, a rare Arab in one of Israel's cooperative living communities. Her organization called Real Voice represents Arab high school graduates who want to serve in the Israeli army or in national service, like volunteering in hospitals.
Such activities are required of Israel's Jewish youth. The Israeli military puts the total of Israeli Arabs serving in its ranks at "several hundred."
"On one hand they want to be soldiers or to do national service, and on the other hand they are scared of hostile attacks, not only from their families but from society," Haskia said.
She opposes the Palestinian goal of establishing an independent state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, lands Israel won in the 1967 war from Jordan, saying it would only prolong the conflict with Israel. She encourages investment in Israel's Arab community instead.
"Today, I can't say that the settlements are a blow to Israel, no. The settlements are a blessing for Israel," she said.
It remains unclear whether Haskia will win a seat in parliament. Opinion polls forecast the Bayit Yehudi winning some 16 seats, which would make it one of the largest factions in the 120-member Knesset.
But party officials say competition in the upcoming primary will be fierce, making it difficult for her to secure a place high enough on the party's list to guarantee a seat.
Haskia says her unorthodox views have cost her some clients, while gaining her some unlikely supporters.
"Those who embrace me, the extremists who used to write me, 'We hate Arabs' or 'We don't want Arabs,' today call me their sister," she said.
Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday urged the International Criminal Court to reject the Palestinians’ request to join the ICC because they did not rank as a state.
“We expect the ICC to reject the hypocritical request by the Palestinian Authority, which is not a state but an entity linked to a terrorist organisation,” he said in a statement, referring to Hamas.
The statement followed talks which Netanyahu chaired at the defence ministry to discuss a response to the move which could pave the way for the Palestinians to sue Israeli officials over alleged war crimes.
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, who heads the PA, signed the long-mooted request on Wednesday, drawing strong condemnation from both Israel and its US ally. The Palestinians’ UN rank was upgraded from observer entity to observer state in 2012, opening the possibility for them to join the ICC and a host of other international organisations.
If the Paleos succeed in joining the ICC I'm going to wager that Carla del Ponte will get off her butt and will rapidly -- allowing for lunch, of course -- file a whole series of complaints against various Israeli government and military officials, past and present. That will freeze the Israelis and prevent them from going abroad, conducting international relations, etc. Carla and her henchmen at the ICC will work hand-in-hand with the Paleos to accomplish this, of course. Meanwhile any complaints filed against Paleo transgressors will be shunted off to an initial hearing sometime in 2033...
Israel has a file of prepared cases against various Palestinian officials ready to go as soon as the Palestinians are given standing. Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander, only Israel has photos, film, affidavits... the lawyers will make out like bandits.
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The number of Jews moving to Israel leapt in 2014 to its highest figure in a decade, with western Europe leading the way, Al Arabiya reported referring to the immigration ministry.
Immigration hit a 10-year high, with the arrival of some 26,500 new residents, according to a joint statement with the Jewish Agency, a quasi-governmental organization tasked with encouraging Jews to move to Israel. This marks a significant 32 percent increase over last year’s approximately 20,000 immigrants, the statement said.
This “was a year of record-breaking aliyah,” Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky said, using the Hebrew word for immigration to Israel. It “also saw a historic shift: for the first time in Israel’s history, the number of immigrants who came to Israel from the free world is greater than that of immigrants fleeing countries in distress.”
For the first time ever, France provided the biggest number, as more than 6,600 Jews moved to Israel. That was nearly twice the 3,400 who arrived in 2013.
Is France part of the "free world" or a "country in distress"?
Overall, immigration from western Europe increased 88 percent, with the arrival of some 8,640 people, compared with 4,600 a year earlier. Some 620 arrived from Britain, compared with 520 a year earlier, and the number from Italy doubled to 340. Around 240 arrived from Belgium, a slight decrease, and the number from Germany remained stable, at approximately 120.
Immigration from former Soviet Union countries saw a 50 percent increase, with the arrival of some 11,430 people, compared with 7,610 in 2013. That was largely driven by an exodus from conflict-wracked Ukraine, where the number surged 190 percent to 5,840.
More than half of all people moving to Israel in 2014 were under 35, among them 5,300 children and some 8,200 adults aged between 18-34.
Tel Aviv was the city which received the highest number of immigrants, at around 3,000. It was followed by the northern coastal city of Netanya and then Jerusalem.
More than three million Jews have immigrated to Israel since its creation in 1948 -- including one million from former Soviet states since 1990 -- under the Law of Return, which offers citizenship and benefits to Jews from anywhere in the world.
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As more muslims move to Europe, more Jews will move to Israel. I don't see that as an "equal exchange", even if the numbers weren't displaced a thousand to one.
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The Juice aren't on the Socialist Dole
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The United States should prevent the Palestinian Authority from getting any funding to show that there will be consequences if it attempts to join the International Criminal Court, RIA Novosti reported referring to Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's statement.
"It's time for the Obama administration to show Abu Mazen [Mahmoud Abbas] and the PA [Palestinian Autority] that there will be consequences for their irresponsible behavior and continued efforts to undermine the peace process," Ros-Lehtinen said.
The congresswoman called on US Congress to do "everything in its power" to block funds to the Palestinian Authority and to any UN entity that recognizes "a non-existent State of Palestine" to get a message across to the Palestinian leadership that its "schemes at the United Nations and other international organizations like the International Criminal Court" would carry certain implications.
On Dec.31, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed several requests to join a number of international organizations, including the International Criminal Court, after the United Nations Security Council did not to pass the resolution to create an independent Palestinian state.
"The latest destructive actions by Abu Mazen and the Palestinian Authority reaffirms, once again, that Abu Mazen is not a real partner for peace. By attempting to bring a flawed resolution to the UN Security Council and by signing the Rome Treaty, Abu Mazen only reiterates that he is not willing to return to direct peace negotiations with Israel without pre-conditions," Ros-Lehtinen went on to say.
On Jan.1, the United Nations Security Council rejected the resolution on Palestinian statehood.
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[Ynet] A video released late on Wednesday purported to show two Italian women held by militants in Syria, with one of them saying they are in danger of being killed.
The title of the video says the women are Italian workers and have been detained by al-Qaeda's Syria wing Nusra Front, but websites and Twitter accounts used by the militant group did not mention the video, which did not include any logos of the group.
The video published on YouTube shows two young women sitting and dressed in black robes and veils. One holds a sign which gives the date as Dec. 17, 2014.
"We supplicate our government and its militaries to bring us back home before Christmas," the other woman says in English, appearing to read from a prepared statement.
"We are in big danger and we could be killed. The government and its militaries are responsible (for) our lives."
Two new wells were drilled at Iran’s South Yaran oilfield, which is associated with Iraq.
To date, some 11,328 meters of wells have been drilled at the oilfield, Iran’s Shana news agency reported on Dec. 31.
Yaran oilfield is estimated to hold 1.1 billion barrels of in-situ crude oil. Yaran is one of the Iranian oilfields located in the oil-rich West Karoun region in Southwestern Iran.
West Karoun oilfields are currently producing 300,000 barrels per day. The production capacity is scheduled to reach 1.4 million barrels per day by 2021.
Makes me wonder how much Iranian oil is being shipped as coming from the 'joint' production...
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Is it just me, or Iran profited extensively from both Al Qaeda and ISIS?
Iran has reportedly signed a contract with a European company for carrying out exploratory operations in its salt domes.
Our friends, the Euros...
Managing Director of the National Iranian Oil Company's (NIOC) Exploration Department Hormoz Qalavand said that the operation would be done with European firm's technology, Iran's Mehr News Agency reported on Dec. 30. Qalavand, however, refused to disclose the name of the company.
"Iran has never carried out any exploratory operation in salt domes," he said.
The international sanctions imposed on Iran forced many international companies to withdraw from the country's oil and gas projects. Iran is currently in talks with giant European oil and gas firms including Italy's Eni, Russia's Lukoil, and British Petroleum. The international companies are reportedly ready to invest in Iran's oil and gas projects as soon as the sanctions are lifted.
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Managing Director of the National Iranian Oil Company's (NIOC) Exploration Department Hormoz Qalavand refused to disclose the name of the company.
Perhaps he has a weekend hobby he wishes to explore and will be pocketing the R&D money of this project...
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.
SEOUL -- North Korean leader 
QUETTA: The new year's first polio case was reported on Thursday morning from Balochistan's Chaghi district.
Two new wells were drilled at Iran’s South Yaran oilfield, which is associated with Iraq.
