Top Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has escaped from a maximum security prison for the second time, officials announced late Saturday.
Oh! Oh! I seen dis movie! It's a sequel!
Guzman, who headed the powerful Sinaloa Cartel, was last seen in the showers of the Altiplano prison, about 56 miles outside the Mexico City, according to a statement from the National Security Commission. He went to the shower area but after some time was lost by security camera surveillance. When authorities went to check his cell, it was empty.
A manhunt began immediately in the surrounding area and highways. Flights have also been suspended at Toluca airport near the penitentiary.
Guzman was captured in February 2014 after more than a decade on the lam. He was listed as 56 years old at the time, though there are varying dates for his birth. He faces multiple federal drug trafficking indictments in the U.S. and was on the DEA's most-wanted list.
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Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, escaped from a maximum security prison through a 1.5-kilometer (1 mile) tunnel from a small opening in the shower area of his cell, the country's top security official announced Sunday.
The elaborate underground escape route built allegedly without the detection of authorities allowed Guzman to do what Mexican officials promised would never happen after his re-capture last year — slip out of one of the country's most secure penitentiaries for the second time.
Eighteen employees from various part of the Altiplano prison 55 miles (90 kilometers) west of Mexico City have been taken in for questioning, Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said in a news conference without answering questions.
It was difficult to believe that such an elaborate structure could have been built without the detection of authorities, though photographs show the facility surrounded by construction, with large open ditches and lots of metal drainage pipes that could have camouflaged such a project. The tunnel terminated in a half-built house in a rural farm field near the prison, according to authorities who cordoned off the structure. Guzman dropped by ladder into a hole 10 meters (yards) deep that connected with a tunnel about 1.7 meters (yards) high that was fully ventilated.
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As per CNN AM, besides mention of the possible + highly likely "inside job", I was surprised to hear the CNN Reporter say that Guzman had allegedly received offers of help or sympathy from places "as far away as GUAM".
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BESIDES A PHILIPPINE NEWS ANALYST-COMMENTATOR WONDERING IFF THE SUPPOSEDLY DEAD OSAMA BIN LADEN WAS ACTUALLY ALIVE-N-WELL + LIVING IN THE PHILIPPINES, NOW COMES THE SCENARIO WHERE GUZMAN'S TUNNEL EXTENDS ALL THE WAY UW TO GUAM = GUAM-WESTPAC, WID HIM + OBL TO MEET UP IN MANILA OR HONG KONG???
The superficial humor or sarcasm of this PH News Analyst-Commentator belies his personal seriousness underneath, as per the overall, genuine nature or essence of "Black/Covert Ops", be it CIA-INTEL andor the UNDERWORLD-MAFIA.
[iol] Durban, SA - The parents of a 14-year-old girl accused of marrying her off to an older man for 15 sheep have been granted bail.
The mother testified on Thursday that her daughter had left voluntarily to meet her husband-to-be and had ignored a call to come home and return to school.
Her mother was arrested last Friday and charged with sexual exploitation of a child and human trafficking for sexual purposes. Her name is known to the Daily News, but cannot be revealed to protect the identity of her daughter, who is in a place of safety.
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Rantburg.com
A total of four dead and 14 wounded are the toll in a shootout between Ukrainian Right Sector militants and Ukrainian security forces in western Ukraine Saturday afternoon, according to Russian language news accounts.
According to a series of news accounts in korrespondent.net news outlet, the shootout took place in Mukachevo in western Ukraine at a sports bar called "Antares" on Ulitsa Lermontov near the former Komsomolsk park, where the pro Maidan militants associated with the Ukrainian Pravii Sektor fired on interior ministry troops and local police using small arms, 12.7mm heavy machine guns and rocket launchers.
A total of two Right Sector militants and two more Ukrainian police special forces operators have been killed.
According to the report, a group of Right Sector recruiters were scheduled to meet with some local residents at a cafe, before police arrived. An unidentified member of the Right Sector group opened fire on police. The firing by the combatants was so intense that two police and two civilian cars were destroyed. A police checkpoint in western Mukachevo was also said to have been destroyed by Right Sector militants.
The remaining members of the group then moved to a farmhouse at the western edge of town, barricading themselves inside. A report in zakarpattya.net.ua said that fighting continues in the western hills around the farmhouse.
According to a news account posted in regnum.ru, Alexander Sachko, characterized in the news piece as a local extremist leader, claimed that police and armed gangs opened fired on Right Sector militants without warning.
Police told korrespondent.net that some of the fighting was over smuggling routes between local criminal gangs and a group associated with the Right Sector called the reserve battalion of the Right Sector-Transcarpathia. The zakarpattya.net.ua report said that a local gang surrounded the Right Sector militants as they tried to recruit locals, then local police and SBU operators surrounded both groups.
Right Sector groups are no strangers to smuggling, especially into rebel occupied areas of Donetsk. Last February a Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) officer was killed in a shootout between smugglers associated with Right Sector groups in Dnepropetrovsk and SBU operators. At that time, a three truck convoy near Volkhonavka was stopped by SBU troops while trying to smuggle untaxed liquor and tobacco across the lines into Donetsk. A subsequent SBU operation rounded up dozens of Right Sector members and led to several tense confrontations between them and the police over the issue of disarming.
The Antares Sports Bar is owned by former member of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada legislature Mikail Lano, who formed part of an opposition group Eremeev. Antares is a complex of saunas, a gym and a swimming pool.
At the moment the situation in Mukachevo is that the main roads leading into town are blocked and the town is locked down by police. According to the regnum.ru article, the Prosecutor's Office of the Transcarpathian region of Ukraine demanded the remaining members of the Right Sector group surrender their arms, but were rebuffed by an unidentified leader saying the group will "fight to the last."
Right Sector leader Dmitri Yarosh released a statement after the shootout demanding an investigation into whoever, police or militants, had opened fire.
According to a regnum.ru report, Yarosh said: "It is necessary to immediately detain the bandits and police officials who gave the order to open fire to kill"
Yarosh is said to be in Kiev to speak with Ukrainian central government officials "to prevent further bloodshed". Reports are that Yarosh has placed several Right Sector reserve battalions on "combat alert." Yarosh did not elaborate on what the precaution means.
Right Sector militants throughout Ukraine, but especially in Dnepropetrovsk form the main core of fighters in the several volunteer military units which have been fighting against Russian backed rebels in Donetsk and Lugansk since the spring before last.
Right Sector militants also are said to be responsible the the deaths at a Trades Union building fire in Odessa in May, 2014, and have gained such a reputation of brutality against Russian speaking Ukrainians that Russian backed guerrillas in Ukraine have gone out of their way to fire on them.
A deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Irina Friz, said that she suspects Russians are behind the unrest characterized by the incident.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com and on Twitter. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraina by clicking here.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the chairman of the Turkish opposition Republican People's Party said that the coalition government should be formed for 4 years, Hurriyet reported. The chairman, despite the complexity, expressed hope for a coalition with the ruling party.
Turkey held parliamentary election June 7, which involved 20 political parties. Over 53 million people cast ballots in this election.
The coalition government should be formed in Turkey, within 45 days after announcing the results of the parliamentary election.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has submitted a resignation letter June 9. The Turkish president accepted the resignation of the prime minister, but Davutoglu will officiate until the formation of the new government.
As a result of the parliamentary election, the ruling Justice and Development Party garnered 40.9 percent of the votes, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) – 25 percent, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) – 16.3 percent, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) – 13.1 percent.
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[DAWN] More than 4,000 parents have refused to administer polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... drops to their children in the Quetta block that comprises of the Quetta, Pishin and Killa Abdullah districts of northern Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , Coordinator Balochistan Emergency Cell Dr Syed Saifur Rehman told DawnNews.
This year, at least four polio cases were reported from Balochistan, three of which came from the Quetta block. Officials termed parents' refusal to administer polio drops as the underlying cause behind the aforementioned cases.
Lately, polio volunteers have faced difficulties in administering the vaccine to children in various parts of the Quetta block as a number of parents have been resisting the campaign.
Most refusals have been reported from the outskirts of Quetta. These areas include Pashtoonabad, Kharotabad, Nawan Killi and others that mostly house Afghan refugees.
"We have traced out the refusal cases and are trying to convince the parents," Dr Rehman said.
The Balochistan government has formed refusal coverage committees to cajole the parents into allowing polio vaccines to be administered to children below the age of five years. The deputy commissioner will head the committees and religious scholars will be appointed as members of the committees to persuade parents to not resist polio vaccination for their children.
Also read: Balochistan govt to make refusal against polio vaccine 'a crime'
According to officials, more than 50 per cent of polio cases are occurring because of parents' refusals in the province. Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. The whole thing smelled phony, kind of like a dead mackeral but without the scales... lack of commitment, negligence on part of concerned quarters and attacks targeting polio workers are among reasons that have contributed to the re-emergence of polio in Balochistan.
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Meera ‘didn’t pay her birthday party bill’
According to Jang (May 26, 2015) after her birthday party, Meera left the restaurant without paying the bill. She had invited 30 people but about 100 showed up. When the manager brought that to her attention, at first she wouldn’t come to the point (aain baain shaain) and then said she would be right back and left in her car. The actress said she had paid the bill in cash but didn’t take a receipt.
Policemen bootlegged cricket tickets
Dunya says (May 27, 2015) policemen outside the Gaddafi stadium were illegally reselling tickets (black main farokht) for a cricket match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe. They charged Rs 1,500 for the Rs 500 ticket, and Rs 2,500 for the Rs 1,000 ticket.
Indian girl complains of abuse by Pakistani husband
Reported in Express (May 28, 2015) an Indian girl who had married a Pakistani boy after they fell in love on Facebook went to the police with a domestic violence complaint only four months after their wedding. She said her husband beats her, and her in-laws had locked her up in a room for 15 days. They have taken away her money ($7,000) and don’t let her touch their utensils saying she has not fully converted from Hinduism to Islam.
Cops guarding school took bribes to help cheat Jang reports (May 29, 2015) two railways policemen on security duty outside a school run by the department began to take bribes from students to help them cheat in exams. They were transferred after their action was reported.
‘India must return my pigeon’
Quoted in Dunya (May 30, 2015) a pigeon enthusiast from Shakargarrh has said the pigeon caught by India on suspicion of spying likely belonged to him. Four of my pigeons flew away during a contest, he said. India must return my pigeon.
Traffic warden angers PML-N lawmaker
According to Nawa-e-Waqt (May 31, 2015) when a traffic warden stopped a PML-N lawmaker in Multan from entering a road that had been blocked because of a protest by lawyers, she became angry (mushta’il) and called the CTO on the site. The officer suspended the traffic warden.
Sirajul Haq announces Rs 1b for Modi’s ‘arrest’ Quoted in Express (June 2, 2015) Jamaat-e-Islami emir Sirajul Haq has announced a reward of Rs 1 billion for the ‘arrest’ of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. Whoever likes India should go live in Mumbai.
FBR seizes Muhammad Hafeez’s accounts According to Nawa-e-Waqt (June 3, 2015) the federal board of revenue seized the bank accounts of cricketer Muhammad Hafeez saying he had no paid Rs 420,000 in taxes. Hafeez said he was a responsible citizen and had paid every single penny he owed in taxes (aik aik paisa), and will consult with his lawyers.
Wedding canceled after NADRA error
Reported in Express (June 4, 2015) a judge in Lahore summoned the chairman of NADRA after a girl complained that her wedding was canceled because the age printed on her identity card was 10 years higher than her real age.
Suspected Indian spy arrested from Gulberg Lahore
Dunya reports (June 6, 2015) an intelligence agency arrested an Indian man who had been living in the Gulberg area of Lahore with a fake name. They suspect he is a spy. Local police say they are not aware of the arrest.
Fisticuffs at PTI rally
Nawa-e-Waqt reports (June 7, 2015) a quarrel broke out between PTI workers after their rally in Mandi Bahauddin. They began to fight (gutham gutha), using the poles of their flags and the chairs in the arena to beat each other up.
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I know what ya mean, brother. If it ain't aain baain shaain, it's gutham gutha.
Mike
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I'm so glad they gave up that stupid, uncopyable slideshow. This is much better, though it is well worth clicking through to the orignial to see the absolutely adorable pen & ink cartoons there.
[Motley Fool] For more than a decade, standard-issue M4 and M4A1 carbines used by infantry in the U.S. Army had been manufactured by just one company -- Colt Defense. A competing bid that significantly undercut Colt's sales price shifted the M4's manufacture to Freedom Group subsidiary Remington Arms in 2011 -- but still kept the weapon under an American brand name.
Two years later, Remington was itself underbid by a foreign operator, Belgium's FN Herstal, which offered to build the M4A1 for the U.S. Army at the low, low price of just $642 per gun -- nearly half what Colt had been charging just a few years before.
And don't look now but the tectonic plates are about to shift again.
Introducing the M4A1+
Earlier this month, the Army Times updated readers on the progress of a new Army program to upgrade the M4A1. The Army intends the M4A1 to replace the venerable M16 as a soldier's standard-issue long gun, and as long as they're doing that, the generals figure why not make the M4A1 better?
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"best carbine in the world" Carbines are for guys whose job is something else than shooting their personal weapon at the enemy.
The Marines tried an entire division with M1 carbines in the Pacific. Dropped that.
Range. Hitting power. Sacrificed to allow more rounds to be fired in the general direction of the enemy, many falling short. Maybe each squad will have to have two designated marksmen.
Full auto. Basic load 209 rounds. Somebody check the "coffee" in that office.
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I have used both the M16A2 and the M4 and I like the M4. For MOUT (house to house)and getting in and out of vehicles under fire the M4 is far better. The short barrel allows you to move through windows, doors, corners, etc. than a full sized rifle.
However, if you are trying to hit anything much past 200-250 meters the full rifle is still better. So for full open field fighting the M16A2 is still more accurate and hits harder at those ranges.
Unlike the M1 carbine, the M4 uses the same size round as the M16A2 so at short ranges the punch is the same. The longer rifle allows for a more complete burn of the powder so there is a much higher muzzle velocity, thus the longer accuracy and harder punch at long ranges.
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Darth. I was in when the 14 was being phased out. Seems the weapon of choice is the one whose use is best in the current unpleasantness, whatever it is, without regard to other possibilities. For example, during the Cold War, the NATO troops were armed with the M16. Stupid. Knew an Infantry platoon leader in WW II whose group encountered Germans in the open. Shot them all dead and, for a moment afterwards, leaves were falling on the GIs. The Germans all had full auto weapons and absolutely slaughtered the tree branches above the Americans who were using the Garand.
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As of a couple of years ago the M14 was still in use in AFG, at least with some Ranger Battalions and possibly others. Both sniper variants and standard issue wood stock, brown fiberglass fore arm. Saw them displayed in an change of command MRAP inventory.
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Specs call for a "single-stage trigger, free of creep, with consistent trigger pull weight" of 4-5 pounds. It should work on both semiautomatic and automatic settings.
Better cleaning tools, but no mention of a piston for cleaner, cooler operation. Odd.
[Rooters] France's foreign minister appeared to put pressure on the United States and Iran on Saturday to speed up nuclear talks, saying all issues were now on the table and that the time had come to make a decision.
Western and Iranian diplomats close to the talks said they expected to work well into the night in hopes of a breakthrough, perhaps as early as on Sunday, on a deal to bring sanctions relief for Tehran in exchange for curbs on its atomic program.
Iran and the six powers involved in the talks - Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States - have given themselves until Monday to reach a deal, their third extension in two weeks, as the Iranian delegation accused the West of throwing up new stumbling blocks to an accord.
[Breitbart] On July 7 the Memphis City Council voted unanimously to exhume the body of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest from its 110 year resting place and move it to another location. Who could be next ?
The body of Forrest's wife will be exhumed as well.
According to Local Memphis, the council voted to exhume Forrest's remains from Health Sciences Park on Union Avenue. They plan to sell a statue of Forrest as well--they are thinking of "selling the statue to anyone who wants it."
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...It is my understanding that EVERYWHERE in the US, it takes a court order to exhume a body, not a hissy fit from a bunch of political hacks. If somebody could find a definite, no-questions descendant of LTGEN Forrest, they could stop this dead in its tracks.
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There are indeed legal obstacles to the exumeing of the two bodies. In addition, Memphis doesn't own the statue. The Forrest family has made clear that they are “solidly opposed to digging up the graves and moving them any place.” They are opposed to moving the statue as well.
Some believe the Memphis City Council vote is another example of the anti-Confederacy hysteria that swept parts of the country after a photo surfaced of alleged Charleston gunman Dylann Roof posing with a Confederate flag. But city council member Janis Fullilove asked if the move has something to do with a rumored “$500 million [University of Tennessee] expansion” that would use the land where Forrest is currently buried.
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Forrest was a big guy who personally killed somewhere around 30 men (he wasn't counting.) He may be the only man ever to enlist as a private and wind up as a Lieutenant General. Granted that he's been dead for about 140 years, I'd be careful about pissing him off.
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Not even the dead are safe from political correctness tyranny.
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On April 12, 1865, the soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered their weapons and flags to the Army of the Potomac at Appomattox, Virginia. The Union soldiers held their rifles in the "carry" position, indicating a "marching salute," as the Confederates passed by. This display of "honor answering honor" evoked great emotion in both armies.
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain recalled details of the day:
"It was now the morning of the 12th of April. I had been ordered to have my lines formed for the ceremony at sunrise. It was a chill gray morning....We formed to face the last line of battle, and receive the last remnant of the arms and colors of that great army which ours had been created to confront...We were remnants also....
We could not look into those braved, bronzed faces, and those battered flags we had met on so many fields where glorious manhood lent a glory to the earth that bore it, and think of personal hate and mean revenge. Whoever had misled these men, we had not. We had led them back home....
Forgive us, therefore, if from stern and steadfast faces, eyes dimmed with tears gazed at each other across that pile of storied relics so dearly laid down, and brothers' hands were glad to reach across that rushing tide of memories which divided us, yet made us forever one."
Fort Sumter had been fired upon exactly four years before, on April 12, 1861.
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As an ethnic white Southerner by birth, I'm going to be contrary on this one. Nathan Bedford Forrest founded the Klan. As in "The KKK." Now I know that the history of the KKK is a little more complex than that, but still. Moving his body and getting rid of his statue isn't the same as say doing it to Robert E. Lee or Stonewall Jackson.
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Secret Master, there is already a petition being circulated to rename Rt 1 here in Northern Virginia from the Jeff Davis Highway to something else.
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Stalinism. Nikolai Yezhov. Who do they next want to erase from history?
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Again, iff there is any catalyst for a de facto, genuine, SECOND CIVIL WAR = DOMESTIC INSURRECTION in Ex-Sole-Superpower, Soon-to-One-of-Many-OWG Co-Superpower Amerika, FERGUSON + SIMILAR PALES IN COMPARISON TO THIS.
BANNING CONFEDERATE FLAGS-N-SYMBOLS, ETC. WHERE THE MAJORITY OF ANTI-UNION/LINCOLN WHITE SOUTHERNERS WERE NOT UPPER-CLASS PLANTATION OWNERS NOR SLAVE-OWNERS, VERSUS KEEPING = NOT-BANNING NAZI + COMMIE FLAGS-N-SYMBOLS UNDER WHICH TENS OR SCORES OF MILLIONS OF INNOCENTS DIED.
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.
[DAWN] More than 4,000 parents have refused to administer 
Meera ‘didn’t pay her birthday party bill’
