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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Eva Mendes aka Sara Harris in "Training Day" aka Monica Fuentes in "2 Fast 2 Furious" aka Ajedrez in "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" aka Frankie Donnenfeld in "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" aka Ann Norcut in "Cleaner" (age 37)
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The re-birth of the lady with an hour-glass figure (note Christina Hendricks) shows that women can look really good without being size 000! Christina Hendricks
BRB off to buy 36 ounces of Louisville Slugger, oil the lathe and find my sledgehammer.
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The Deadliest Catch doesn't use nets - they use crab-pots. But I like your idea. I'll have to ask my brother - who does fish with nets, in AK, and a much smaller boat - if he ever caught something like Eva.
But then if you caught something like Eva would you tell anyone about it?
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pssst, does Fred know that gams are legs, specifically thighs..?
Probably, Unotle Bucket8698. And so does GolfBravoUSMC, who posts the Happy Birtday/Daily Gam Shot. Click on the picture of the happy birthday girl to see the hidden gam shot. Some of us aren't interested -- or are not permitted to be interested at the office -- in such things, so dear Golf Bravo thoughtfully protects our eyes and jobs. (GB, sorry I snarked about that, last time. I'd forgotten the history, even though I'd been involved -- my damned porous memory.)
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Crap. Nothing but expensive minor damage. The engine is the back.
Ferrari's are tough, A VP of a tech startup I worked at in The Valley crashed his Ferrari 400i at a high rate of speed, destroyed the car (I wept) but walked away.
These are not ticky-tacky rides, they can take a lot of punishment, just don't skimp or miss the scheduled maintenance.
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Maybe if they pull the Ford backwards off the Ferrari just right then that bumper will pull itself back into alignment.
Afghan and coalition forces killed four armed insurgents, including a Haqqani terrorist network leader, in Afghanistans Khost province yesterday, military officials reported.
The terrorist leader is linked to several recent bombing attacks on local security forces. He was shot and killed in Khosts Nadir Shah Kot district after he brandished an assault rifle at the troops.
Forces engaged and killed three other insurgents in self defense, too, after the insurgents acted in a threatening manner toward the troops. Forces also detained 10 suspected insurgents in the operation.
In other news yesterday throughout Afghanistan:
-- Security forces detained two suspected Taliban assassins, who allegedly were planning to kill Afghan officials in Kandahar provinces Kandahar district.
-- In Khosts Sabari district, troops detained a suspected insurgent, while searching for a Haqqani terrorist network leader connected to several attacks on local security forces in the area.
-- Afghan and coalition forces killed numerous armed insurgents in a gun battle in Kunar provinces Dangam district. Troops were conducting a routine foot patrol when insurgents opened fire. Troops returned fire and fought off the attack for several hours before requesting close-air support. Aviation assets arrived on the scene, killing the enemy fighters.
-- Forces found several weapons and drug stockpiles in operations throughout Afghanistan. They seized 4,500 assault rifle rounds, 200 automatic machine guns, 12 various rockets and mortars, 11 pounds of metal shrapnel, nine assault rifles, three unexploded ordnance, three hand grenades and one automatic machine gun.
Cairo: March 2, 2011. (By Mary Abdelmassih AINA) Christian Copts staged a massive demonstration on Monday, February 28, against the Governor of Minya Ahmed Dia-el-Din, calling for his resignation. The demonstration was prompted by the governor's decision to demolish a church community center for the care of the handicapped, located in the village of Deir Barsha, in Mallawi, Minya Governorate.
'Upper' Egypt is to the south.
Over 10,000 demonstrators, mainly from the village of Deir Barsha, were joined by Copts from the neighboring village of Deir Heness. They marched to the local council in Deir Barsha, holding slogans calling on the governor to resign and chanted "Go, go after your master [Mubarak]" and "We stopped giving bribes, so now you want to demolish the center."
After the demonstration was over, more than two hundred Copts refused to leave the handicapped center and staged an open-ended sit-in until the governor revokes his demolition order.
The 5-storey community center, which cost four million Egyptian pounds, belongs to the Coptic diocese of Mallawi and serves children and youth with special needs from 75 villages all over Minya governorate. It has a workshop to teach them a suitable vocation, as well as a free day clinic.
The Governor wanted to demolish the services building in January 2011, but could not because of the Coptic anger and demonstrations all over Egypt after the massacre of the Two Saints Church in Alexandria on New Year's Eve, where a bomb killed 25 Copts and injured nearly 100.
"Those children and youth, some of them cannot talk or do anything for themselves," said to one demonstrator, "so why deprive them of the place which can help them. It is utterly inhuman. This building was inaugurated by the governor himself four years ago and all licenses and papers are fully correct. Suddenly he wants to demolish it."
Coptic priest Father Antonious Bouchra, who is in charge of the community center, met with the village council officials in an effort to find a solution. He said that nearly 500 Coptic women demonstrated today in front of the council and stormed the meeting, forcing the meeting to be reconvened in the afternoon with the Mallawi city council director.
"The director pretended he had no idea about the demolition order and we felt he was procrastinating," said Father Antonious, "but he promised to put the matter to the governor and explain that the situation is urgent and explosive as the Copts are enraged and insist on keeping the center open."
He added that nearly 100 handicapped youth and over 2000 Copts are still staging their sit-in at the center since Monday, "fearing that the forces might come and pull down the building. The villagers insist on protecting the place by all means."
In another incident in the series of continued provocation of the Copts, the Governor of Minya ordered the demotion of ten newly built homes belonging to three Coptic families in the village of Saeed Abdelmassih, 30 km from Minya, without any reason.
Villagers said that the Governor asked the families to pay one million pounds as a voluntary contribution to the governorate in order not to pull down the houses and when they refused they were asked to donate one-fifth of the land to build a mosque near St. Demiana Church. The owners also denied his request as all inhabitants of the village are Copts and no Muslims live there. This prompted the governor to carry out the demolition of the homes on February 28 by the police and army forces.
The new Freedom and Equality Party called on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces on February 28, to sack the governor of Minya and accused him and others of causing sectarian strife in the governorate.
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Heads are gonna role until Muslim morale improves around here!
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[Ennahar] Small groups of demonstrators, supporters of Muammar Qadaffy and others hostile to the Libyan leader, fought Friday near the Green Square, Tripoli, said a witness who told AFP.
Demonstrators pro and anti-Qadaffy fought with bare hands near the Green Square in Tripoli, not far from Place des Martyrs, told AFP by telephone a witness.
He said the police cordoned off the area. They, however, remained behind without intervening, simply shooting up in the air.
Furthermore, an AFP journalist saw on the Green Square a hundred pro-Qadaffy expressing their support for the "Guide of the Revolution" and a dozen others, also supporting the regime in Algeria at the Algeria Square.
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[Ma'an] Libyan rebels on Friday claimed to control the oil town of Raslanuf after heavy fighting with loyalists of Moamer Kadhafi and to have forced them further west.
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[Ma'an] A Libyan government source Friday contradicted an admission by another official that the oil centre of Brega in the east of the country was under rebel control.
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[Ma'an] Western Libya is totally in government hands but the east is "problematic," a regime official said on Friday, admitting that the town of Brega was in rebel hands and that fighting was going on at Raslanuf further west.
We've got a rump Sudan and South Sudan, West Bank and Gaza Strip. What odds we'll end up with a rump Libya and a West Libya, too?
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IOW, IIUC Muammar is winning, at least for now, AS THE MORE OF LIBYUH HE CAN EFFEC CONTROL CLOSE TO EGYPT + COAST PORTS + SUEZ CANAL/RED SEA THE STRONGER WILL BE HIS POLITICAL POSITION IRREGARDLESS IF LIBYUH BREAKS UP OR NOT.
Which is why I suspect the Rebs are again demanding UN-APPROVED MIL INTERVENTION.
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* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > ITALY STANDS TO LOSE THE MOST IN LIBYA UNREST, ala any redux in vital Libyan Oil-Gas purchases, etc.
ARTIC read = ITALIAN + VATICAN BANKS = DIRECT LENDING SERVICES. The Pope + Vatican City-State stands to lose out via consequent decline in various -CHurch-sponsored Internat Acitivities [slack taken up by Islam proselytizing + Muslim Oil].
[Ma'an] There are "pockets of resistance" in Zawiyah, near Tripoli, a Libyan government source said, after state television reported loyalist forces had retaken the city from rebels on Friday.
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[Al Jazeera] At least 30 civilians have been killed after security forces loyal to Muammar Qadaffy, the Libyan leader, attempted to retake the rebel-held town of Az Zawiyah, near the capital Tripoli, that has for days been defying his rule, witnesses have said.
The rebellion in Az Zawiyah - the closest rebel-held territory to the capital and also the site of an oil refinery - has been an embarassment to the Libyan authorities who are trying to show they control at least the west of the country.
In Az Zawiyah, Mohamed, a resident of the town, told the Rooters news agency that "dozens were killed" and more maimed in violence there.
"We have counted 30 dead civilians. The hospital was full. They could not find space for the casualties."
Another resident, Mohamed Nusrat, told Al Jizz: "Qadaffy forces tried to prohibit us from entering the middle square of Az Zawiyah and join the gathering there. They attacked us with machine guns and heavy weapons."
"The opposition movement is now in control of most Az Zawiyah, except for the oil refinery and some outside entrances which are still being guarded by Qadaffy forces."
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[Ennahar] intense bombing and artillery fire were heard Friday near Ras Lanuf, controlled by the forces of Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy, ... an Arab institution for 42 years ... while faceless myrmidons were moving by truck to the sector, according to a journalist from the AFP.
Repeated bombing and artillery bursts were heard from a position in the desert located about ten kilometers east of Ras Lanuf, strategic oil port located about 600 km east of Tripoli.
Earlier, an AFP journalist saw near Uqayla between 60 and 70 well-armed faceless myrmidons set off at full speed toward the west, shouting that they were going to Ras Lanuf, a few tens of kilometers away, after stopping to pray along the road.
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[Maghrebia] Opposition fighters in Zintan, west of Tripoli, intercepted a large truck carrying about 50 pro-Qadaffy mercenaries. The truck was on its way from a camp near Az Zawiyah to Nalut, in the Nafusa Mountains, west of the capital. Despite attempts Thursday to retake the liberated town, opposition fighters successfully repelled Qadaffy's forces.
Also on Wednesday, young people in Benghazi burned a pile of Qadaffy's manifesto, the "Green Book". They organised themselves in a large circle while throwing copies into fire, chanting "O, Qadaffy, you coward, come and face us on the battlefield!" They carried banners calling for a new constitution for the country.
In other news, the body of a Tripoli schoolteacher was found on the street in the Abu Slim neighbourhood. Salim Bashir al-Usta, a teacher at al-Welayat al-Afriqiya School in Fashlom, was nabbed last Sunday.
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[Al Jazeera] Around 1,500 protesters have stormed Alexandria's state security headquarters after earlier festivities with police, gaining control of its lower floors and driving coppers to hide in the upper floors of the building, witnesses and protesters told Al Jizz.
Hundreds of the protesters stormed the building on Friday night, after petrol bombs and gunfire were reported as emanating from within the building.
One witness said that demonstrators had smashed pieces of furniture on the ground floor of the building, adding that army troops were guarding the upper floors of the four-storey building.
Ahmed Hatem, a protester on the scene, said that the army had told demonstrators that they had orders to arrest the members of the state security agency, but that they would not do so unless they could guarantee that the arrests could be made safely.
Hatem said the army had been "rather cooperative with the demonstrators".
He said that security officers had used live ammunition and petrol bombs to try and disperse protesters, seriously injuring at least two people. The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, quoting a medic, put that number at three.
Egyptian local media and protesters on the ground in Alexandria said that police personnel in the building were seen setting fire to and shredding sensitive documents, including passports and national identification cards.
A witness said that soliders warned coppers not to fire on demonstrators from within the building, but the police did not comply. Demonstrators then laid siege to the building.
Gunfire was heard in the area during the standoff, and tear gas was also used by the police to try and disperse protesters. Earlier, state security forces had reportedly opened fire to try and push demonstrators away, which prompted the army to move in and secure the building. Hatem said there was a large army presence around the building now, including the deployment of tanks.
Protesters smashed the windows of several cars belonging to the state security service, including two armoured vehicles, while petrol bombs thrown from the building set fire to four other vehicles, witnesses said.
Ismael Alexanderani, a journalist and protester at the scene, told Al Jizz that a minority of protesters were seeking "Dire Revenge™" against the security forces, as several political activists who were present at the demonstration had been nabbed or tortured inside the building earlier.
He also said that while state security forces did use live ammunition against protesters, they did not aim for their heads, necks or chests.
The activists who called the protests say they are demanding the abolition of the state security apparatus and an end to emergency laws. They alleged that the Egyptian security agencies have nabbed and tortured thousands of activists and killed many during the 30 years of Hosni Mubarak, the former president's, rule.
The Egyptian interior ministry confirmed to Al Jizz that protesters had forced state security agency members to take refuge in the building, but did not substantiate the allegations that they had used live ammunition to fire on protesters.
Earlier in the day, Essam Sharif, the newly appointed Egyptian prime minister, spoke to thousands of pro-democracy campaigners in Cairo's Tahrir Square. During his brief speech, Sharif said the state security apparatus must work for the good of the people.
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One thing I was very glad to see early on in Egypt was that everyone in Alexandria, no matter their politics, were fiercely protecting their new library, which in truth is pretty spectacular.
[Arab News] For Egyptian comedian Adel Imam, there's nobody funnier in the Arab world than the African "king of kings" (lol!) Muammar Qadaffy. According to Al-Akbhar Egyptian daily newspaper, Imam said with the Libyan strongman's fall, Africa would lose a "master buffoon."
"My greatest wish in life is to act with Qadaffy in one of his comedy plays and that he would achieve overwhelming popularity, eclipsing my own," Imam said.
The comedian added that he once performed in a play entitled "Al-Zaeem" ("The Leader"), part of which is about Qadaffy. But when he tried to take the play to the Libyan people, "Qadaffy denied permission."
Imam also ridiculed the leader for making weird claims that his opposition in Libya are drug addicts.
"It is quite evident, on the other hand, that it's Qadaffy who is under the influence of such drugs," he said.
Imam believed that Qadaffy is finished.
"This mentally unbalanced man is a war criminal," he said. "Or else how would he fancy that Libya is his personal property?"
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[Ennahar] Some 5,000 Libyans prayed Friday near the court in Benghazi, the headquarters of the uprising against Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy ... an Arab institution for 42 years ... , after a sermon in which the imam has promised that "victory is near".
"I bring you good news: victory is near, close ranks, the revolution will triumph," said the imam, Salem Jaber, to the assistance, in which the faithful made the "V" for victory, the square transformed into an open prayer room.
In an emotional sermon, punctuated by "Allah Akbar (God is greatest)" from the crowd, he paid tribute "to those who died for the liberation of oppressed Libya " after festivities in Brega, 200 km further west, which resulted in 18 deaths among cut-thoats, according to hospital sources.
"Tripoli is our capital and this night will be decisive. Our men will soon be there," assured the imam.
"We do not want military intervention or foreign interference," he repeated several times.
"We have enough men to fight," said Salem Jaber.
"Libya is one tribe from north to south and from east to west, from Ras Jedir to Am Saad," he added, referring to border posts at the Tunisian border to the west and Egyptian border to the east.
"Leave our country! Enough blood has flowed, enough is enough," he said to Colonel Qadaffy.
"Even if we all die, he must go," insisted the imam. "We win or we die," he said.
"There are mercenaries who invade our land, kill our children and destroy our country," he accused, talking about the "African mercenaries" who work for the regime.
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[Ennahar] The president of the French nuclear group Areva Anne Lauvergeon said Friday she was confident of bringing back "as quickly as possible," the four kidnapped Frenchies still held in Niger by Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
"We are hopeful, as soon as possible, to bring back home four people remaining there," said Ms. Lauvergeon on Europe 1 radio.
Ms. Lauvergeon welcomed "having seen again with great joy" Francoise Larribe, wife of Daniel Larribe, an employee of Areva, and the two employees Malagasy and Togolese of Satom Company, a subsidiary of Vinci, released on February 24.
They were released last week in an area near the junction between the borders of Algeria, Mali and Niger, theater of AQIM.
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[An Nahar] At least 17 people were killed Friday when a huge kaboomdestroyed a military weapons depot outside Benghazi, the main city held by Libyan rebels fighting Moammar Qadaffy.
Dr. Habib al-Obeidi in Benghazi's al-Jalaa hospital said the blast also hit a residential area. Witnesses on the scene, about 32 kilometers from downtown, said ambulances were rushing to the area and secondary kabooms caused two fire trucks to blow up.
The cause of the blast was unclear. Obeidi said it apparently was triggered when people went into the storage facility to collect weapons, but others blamed pro-Qadaffy forces for triggering the blast.
Residents living around 10 kilometers from depot reportedly felt the impact of the blast.
"We have a huge kaboom in a weapons depot. We don't know if it was an air strike or sabotage," said Mustafa Gheriani, a front man for the rebels' national council set up in Benghazi, Libya's second largest city.
"The whole town shook," he added.
Residents said the military base is the main warehouse for weapons storage in the area.
Rebels rising up against Qadaffy following revolutions in neighboring Egypt and Tunisia control much of eastern Libya and have made Benghazi their de facto capital in the fight against regime loyalists.
Although the cause of Friday's blast was unclear, pro-Qadaffy forces have carried out air strikes targeting military bases overrun by rebels in the fight to reclaim fallen territory.
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Was somebody on Qadaffy side smart, or was it the usual Arab propensity of playing with explosives?
[Arab News] Soldiers shot up anti-government protesters Friday in northern Yemen, killing four people and wounding seven as demonstrations against longtime President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, after serving as a lieutenant colonel in the army. He had been part of the conspiracy that bumped off his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, in the usual tiresome military coup, and he has maintained power by keeping Yemen's many tribes fighting with each other, rather than uniting to string him up. ... again turned deadly.
Yemen has been rocked by weeks of daily anti-government protests, inspired by the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and tens of thousands turned out in cities across the country calling for the ouster of Saleh, a key US ally in the campaign against the Al-Qaeda terror network. He has promised to step down after national elections in 2013, an offer rejected by protesters.
Witnesses said the shootings in the town of Harf Sofyan occurred as soldiers tried to disperse thousands who took to the main street for Friday prayers.
Soldiers in an army post opened fire with heavy machine guns, believing the protesters were trying to attack the post, according to the witnesses, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of government reprisal.
Protesters threw rocks at the troops and called for Saleh to step down, shouting: "Leave! Leave!" The town, located in Amran province, is a significant base for the Hawthi Shiite rusticss who have waged an on-and-off struggle against the government for the last six years.
In the capital of Sanaa, tens of thousands assembled near Sanaa University to urge Saleh's ouster. Security forces watched the gathering closely, but it was not violent.
For the first time, the protesters included hundreds of women, filling a square and nearby streets.
In the southern city of Aden, tens of thousands of people carried the coffins of three people killed last week.
Speakers at Friday prayers focused on the fall of the regime.
The main speaker during prayers at Sanaa University, Yahia Hussein Al-Deilami, told the gathering that "deposing a tyrant is a religious duty." Al-Deilami, a leader of the Shiite Hawthis, was sentenced to death three years ago but was pardoned by Saleh after the government reached agreement with the Hawthi rebels.
"This regime, a handful of corrupt officials, have encouraged bribes, corruption and plundering of the nation's wealth," he said.
Al-Deilami praised the youth revolution in Libya "against the tyrant Muammar Qadaffy" while crowds chanted for Saleh to resign -- just like former Egyptian geriatric President Hosni Mubarak.
"Ali, Ali before (the fall of) Moammar! Ali, Ali after Mubarak's fall!" Hundreds of thousands of protesters also demonstrated in Taiz, Hadramawt, Ibb and Hudaydah in what was dubbed as the "Friday of the national cohesion." In downtown Sanaa, several thousand government supporters carried pictures of Saleh and urged the opposition to respond to the president's call for dialogue.
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[Arab News] Thousands of anti-government demonstrators streamed toward the headquarters of Bahrain's state television Friday after sectarian festivities between Sunnis and the majority Shiites leading protests in the strategic Gulf nation.
The street fighting was brief, but it underscored the tensions building after nearly three weeks of unrest that has left the tiny island kingdom in a stalemate between the Sunni monarchy and Shiite-led demonstrators who claim widespread discrimination and demand a greater voice in the nation's affairs.
Demonstrators converged on Bahrain TV headquarters outside the capital, Manama, chanting slogans against the Sunni dynasty that has ruled for more than 200 years. Some women carried roses and placed them on the wall outside the TV compound.
As unrest sweeps the Middle East, Bahrain remains the most volatile point in the Gulf, although protests by job seekers flared this week in Oman and political opposition groups plan rallies next week in Kuwait and Soddy Arabia.
Finance ministers from the regional bloc known as the Gulf Cooperation Council plan to meet Saturday to discuss a possible aid package for Oman and Bahrain, the two poorest nations in the Middle East's most wealthy corner.
Crackdowns by security forces have left seven dead in Bahrain -- home to the US Navy's 5th Fleet. The clash late Thursday between Sunnis and Shiites adds to fears that Bahrain could be dragged deeper into a sectarian conflict between Sunnis backing the monarchy and Shiites who represent 70 percent of the population.
Many Sunni leaders around the Gulf worry that Shiite powerhouse Iran also could use the uprising to expand its influence in the region.
"Those who will indulge in hatred because of sectarianism are committing crimes against future generations and against our nation," said a senior Shiite holy man, Sheik Isa Qassim, at Friday prayers.
But one of several Shiites injured, 23-year-old Hussein Badr, said the attackers appeared to Sunnis from other parts of the Arab world who were given Bahraini nationality under a policy to boost Sunni numbers.
"They were naturalized Bahrainis and they were beating us hard," Badr told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named from his hospital bed after being treated for a broken jaw and bruises across his body.
He said the attackers, in the mixed Sunni-Shiite suburb of Hamad Town, carried knives, glass bottles and chains.
He also claimed the police stood by "and did nothing to help us." But a statement by the Interior Ministry said forces intervened.
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The events last Thursday appear to be not quite as dire as they were portrayed in Mexican press. Here is an update from the El Sol de Parral and El Monitor Parral. For a map of Chihuahua click here.
The gunfight between Chihuahua state police agents and armed suspects near he southern town of Parral concluded at about 1500 hrs Thursday, and changed into a manhunt for several suspects, according to Mexican press accounts.
Police agents with the Chihuahua state Policia Minsterial (PM) attempted to serve a warrant for murder and auto theft on several individuals Wednesday evening in the Parral, Chihuahua area. After learning the suspects fled to Villa Coronado, police agents requested backup from local police in nearby Valle de Allende and Villa Lopez. Those reinforcements arrived during the night of Wednesday to Thursday.
Early the next morning, Thursday, PM agents learned that two of the suspects had fled Chihuahua, but others remained in Pico de Aguila, La Presa and San Pedro, around which the agents conducted searches. A request went out to Chihuahua city for additonal police forces, so that by 1500 hrs additional PM agents, agents from the Chihuahua state attorney general's office (PGJE), and some municipal police from Jimenez joined the hunt.
It is unclear from press reports if any suspects have been arrested in the sweep/manhunt in any of those small communities.
The police agent reported wounded Thursday suffered a mild wound from a bullet fragment.
Municipal police deployed to the area, including municipal police from Jimenez and Parral, are currently under orders to patrol Matamoros, Cienega de Ceniceros, Allende, Corralejo and the area around Villa Coronado, and to arrest any individuals they find in the area.
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A series of shootouts Friday between Coahuila state police agents and armed suspects in Saltillo, the state capital of Coahuila, has left five armed suspects, one state police agent and one civilian female dead according to Mexican press accounts.
The first gunfight took place at about 0940 hrs near the intersection of bulevars Venustiano and Jesus Valdes Sanchez when armed suspects aboard three pickup trucks fired on state police agents.
Security forces reaction to the initial encounter led to a shootout near the corner of Periferico Luis Echeverria and Bulevar Vito Alessio Roble where two suspects were killed and two police agents were wounded.
A truck was seized in the area as well as a second vehicle in the Republica colony.
At about 1015 hrs near the intersection of calles Plan de Guadalupe and DÃas Ordaz in nearby town of Ramos Arizpe, armed suspects intercepted a convoy of Coahuila state PolicÃa Investigadora del Estado (PIE) agents, killing one unidentified agent from the Coahuila state attorney general's (PGJE) office.
At about 1115 hrs near the intersection of bulevars Valdez Sanchez and Luis Echeverria another gunfight erupted between armed suspects and state police agents after the suspects shot an unidentified woman to death. The ensuing gunfight claimed the lives of three suspects and wounded three police agents.
Throughout the day, Mexican Army units and Policia Federal agents blocked routes out of the city, including the intersection of Calle Venustiano Carranza and Bulevar Pedro, and at the Nazario Ortiz Garza bridge where it intersects with Calle Luis EcheverrÃa.
Reports say social media sites kept the public informed about the location of the firefights. Schools in the area also remained open to allow parents to retrieve their children during the crisis.
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A police trick, when capturing a particularly nasty perp, is to use the asphalt as sandpaper on the perp's face. When he is first tackled and resisting, smashing his face a few times into the street. Then, after he is restrained, hand and ankle cuffed, they pick up his legs and drag him to the car on his face.
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Yeah moose, Savannah cops are known for that tactic when handling unruly drunks at the St Patty's festivities. On occasion after hog tying the perp they've been known to lift them waste high and drop them. Takes the fight right out of ya.
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Another good one is to move a guy to a wall where it is about six inches away from his back. Then shove or body slam him with everything you got. The impact of hitting the wall and bouncing off it happens before the body can react and it really stuns the guy.
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All these reports keep saying that Ramstein is "near Frankfurt". It's 70 miles from Frankfurt to Ramstein, which is to the north of Kaiserslaughtern. These are GERMAN reporters making this comment. Were they all from the East, or is 70 miles considered "close"?
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...maybe they've been to Albuquerque, were 70 miles doesn't get you close to anything.
[An Nahar] A kaboom on a mosque in Death Eater-infested northwest Pakistain killed at least nine people and maimed around 30 more as it destroyed Friday prayers, police and medics said.
Hundreds of people were coming out of the mosque when the blast occurred, police said, adding that the bomb had been planted inside the building near the town of Nowshera.
"We have received nine dead bodies and 28 injured, there is one child among the dead," Abdul Hameed Afridi, head of the main Lady Reading hospital in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, the main city in the region, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Confirming the fatalities, senior police officer Mohammad Qureish Khan put the number of maimed at 33.
"It was a planted bomb, we are investigating whether it was a remote control device," he said.
"It was timed device, it went kaboom! in the mosque," senior minister Bashir Bilor told news hounds after visiting the site.
The mosque is located in a shrine named after Mohammedan saint Akhund Panju Baba in Akbar Pura town on the outskirts of Nowshera.
Several hundred people offer weekly congregation at the mosque, police said.
The worshippers were coming out of the mosque after saying their Friday prayers when the bomb went kaboom!.
The blast follows a suicide car booming on Thursday in a densely populated area of Hangu, which lies some 150 kilometers south of Peshawar and borders the troubled tribal belt along the Afghan border.
Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked cut-throats launch daily attacks across northwest Pakistain and the tribal belt that Washington has branded the most dangerous place on Earth.
More than 4,000 people have died in suicide and kabooms across Pakistain since government forces launched an offensive against cut-throats in a mosque in Islamabad in 2007.
The bombings have been blamed on terror networks linked to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
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Islam is so much a Religion of Peace that they kill even their own. In this individual case its ALL Moslems killing other Moslems. 33 Maimed? Yeah, that's what it says.
Do you know any other modern Religion that does the same?
And in Pakistan just last week they murdered a Christian( the ONLY one on the Cabinet level in the govt) for supporting anti-blasphemy free speech calling for MANDATORY death sentences. He advocated secular freedom of speech and tolerance of others and their dialogue. The MAJORITY of Pakistanis support DEATH for anyone who criticizes their beliefs.
That means they wish the rest of the world was dead. Good luck with that, Abdrool.
Imagine an entire Culture with the mind of Rageboy. And just about as good looking too..
[Pak Daily Times] Two terrorists, including a local commander, were killed while 13 of their accomplices were nabbed by the security forces in Kamal Khel area on Friday. According to Kohat police, two Death Eaters were killed in a clash with security forces in Kamal Khel village in Balitang early Friday morning. An injured terrorist was also nabbed from the site, who later helped in arresting 12 others. The Death Eaters were identified as Samiullah of Shadi Khal, a local commander and Mujtaba, resident of Mian Khel, both belonging to the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban, Darra Adam Khel. Their bodies were handed over to their families. Sources said that both the killed Death Eaters were involved in kabooms in different parts of the country, attacking security forces' vehicles and murder incidents while Mujtaba was said to be an expert of preparing explosive-laden vehicles and improvised bombs. The security forces also recovered automatic weapons and hand grenades from the nabbed terrorists.
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[Al Jazeera] Thousands of people have converged on Storied Baghdad's Tahrir, or Liberation, Square to protest against corruption and unemployment, despite a vehicle ban that forced many to walk for hours to the heart of the Iraqi capital.
Al Jizz's Jane Arraf reported from Storied Baghdad that the situation was heading towards a stand-off, as security forces demanded the protesters leave, blocking their route across a bridge leading to the Green Zone, where the government has its base.
Concrete blocks were set up by authorities on all of Storied Baghdad's bridges ahead of the protests.
"What we're seeing here is a bit of a test, of how the government will respond when these people clearly want their demands to be heard," Arraf said.
The protests in Iraq are growing in size, partly because of the instability of the coalition government formed by Nouri al-Maliki, the country's prime minister, Arraf said.
Iraqis are increasingly unwilling to accept the nature of the democracy that has emerged in years after Saddam's regime was tossed.
"This is a new democracy, it's an unusual democracy, and it's not exactly what people bargained for," she said.
"On top of that, people are looking around protests in Egypt and Tunisia ... It has shown them, particularly these young people that if they come out and demand their rights, perhaps something will happen."
The Storied Baghdad demonstration was one of many taking place across the country on Friday, including in the port of Basra and the city of Najaf.
In the southern city of Basra, about 1,000 people gathered at the Basra provincial council building to rally against corrupt officials and poor basic services. Iraqi security forces used water cannon and batons to disperse the crowds.
Last week the protests in Basra led to the resignation of the governor. This week, protesters demanded that the provincial council step down and essential services such as water and electricity be improved.
Demonstrations have been taking place in Iraq for the past month, with protesters decrying a lack of improvement in their daily lives, eight years after the US-led invasion that ousted the late Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein.
'Government has failed'
The biggest of the rallies took place last Friday, when Iraqis erupted into the streets of at least 17 cities and towns. A total of 16 people were killed and more than 130 maimed as a result of festivities on that day.
The demonstrations, inspired by revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, have concentrated on demands for improved government services, better pay and an end to corruption in Iraq.
"Our country is lost and for the last eight years the government has failed to offer services for people. Thousands of youths are without jobs," Bahjat Talib, who joined the protest in Storied Baghdad, said.
He said he walked from the vast slum in eastern Storied Baghdad called Sadr City through eight checkpoints to get to the square.
Talib said he had to tell security forces that he was going to work or they would refuse to let him pass.
He was one of about 500 demonstrators in Liberation Square, surrounded by what appeared to be even more security forces.
"People will continue demonstrating until there is reform because the government has been built on a sectarian basis," said Faisal Hamid, a pensioner who walked to Tahrir Square from the nearby neighbourhood of Karrada.
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Mookie & the Iranians are the potential beneficiaries - and are no doubt promoting the unrest and covertly contributing to the underlying causes.
[Arab News] All banks in the Gazoo Strip temporarily shut down on Thursday after Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-affiliated men forced a local branch to cash some $500,000 in checks.
Gazoo bankers said the ruling Hamas cut-thoat group sent police to confiscate the money from a branch of the Paleostine Investment Bank. They said the police were accompanied by members of a committee Hamas had appointed in 2009 to oversee the Paleostine Investment Fund, which is run by the rival Paleostinian government in the West Bank.
The men confiscated checks from the fund, and then ordered bank tellers to cash them, though the account didn't contain enough money. The bankers spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.
The Hamas Interior Ministry said the police helped to seize the money because the investment fund had improperly transferred funds out of Gazoo to the West Bank. Hamas denied the money was taken at gunpoint.
The investment fund is one of the few institutions affiliated with the rival Fatah movement still operating in Gazoo.
The Hamas-run Interior Ministry confirmed the incident, but denied it was a robbery. It said police were merely protecting the interests of bank customers who had been unable to withdraw funds. It said Gazoo businessmen had approached the police after the bank said it could not cash their checks because it had insufficient cash funds and then, a day later, told them it had been ordered by its Ramallah office to transfer the money to the West Bank.
The Paleostine Investment Bank reportedly told the customers that the money transfer had been ordered by the Ramallah-based Paleostine Investment Fund, an investment institution set up and administered by the Paleostinian Authority.
"In order to protect the Paleostinian people's money ... the police went to oblige the bank's administration to pay the amounts and not --- as certain suspicious websites have said -- to carry out an armed robbery," the statement said.
The Ramallah-based Monetary Authority condemned the "seizure by force of arms of amounts of cash under the pretext of cashing checks ... in a way that is against all laws and norms of banking."
It announced "the suspension of banking in all branches of banks operating in the Gazoo Strip on Thursday ... as an expression of resentment, denunciation and condemnation for these deplorable attacks."
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[Ma'an] Sources in the At-Tawhid bully boy group on Friday confirmed reports that Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,jugged its leader in Gazoo on Tuesday.
The Israeli daily Haaretz reported Thursday that security forces jugged Hisham Saidani from his home in Al-Maghazi refugee camp.
Saidani is a leader of the Salafi faction, which is the armed wing of the Army of Islam and has links to Al-Qaeda.
According to Haaretz, Hamas raised its security alert level in fear of reprisals from the group.
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[Pak Daily Times] Thousands of Jordanians demonstrated on Friday in Amman to demand 'regime reforms', a day after Prime Minister Maaruf Bakhit rejected calls for a constitutional monarchy. "The people want regime reform. Reform is a popular demand. We want a new electoral law," the protesters, including Islamists, trade unionists and leftists, chanted in the city centre after midday prayers. Holding national flags, the demonstrators, estimated by religious politicians at 10,000 and by police at 5,000, carried banners reading: "We need bread and freedom," "Down with the bullying policy" and "Together let's dissolve parliament."
"We stick to our demands to have a modern electoral law, early elections, a new method of forming governments as well as more efforts to fight corruption," Moslem Brüderbundfront man Jamil Abu Baker told the crowds. "We reject all attempts to kill or abort real political reforms, which should be implemented in line with a clear timeframe."
The demonstration, which the religious opposition groups expected to attract 20,000, came a day after Bakhit won a close vote of confidence, telling MPs that a constitutional monarchy, which some groups have been demanding, would "unbalance Jordan's political system."
Nationalists and independent religious political groups have formed a commission for what they call a "Constitutional Monarchy Initiative," saying "the solution for Jordan is to move to a constitutional monarchy under which the king does not rule."
Bakhit, which has promised "true" and "gradual" reforms, said on Thursday before the vote that the government "understands calls for constitutional amendments, and even readopting the 1952 constitution."
While the pro-religion movement wants the prime minister to be elected rather than appointed by the monarch, leftists seek the scrapping of amendments to the 1952 constitution, which was promulgated by King Abdullah II's grandfather King Talal. The document already has been amended 29 times, giving greater power to the monarch and weakening the legislature, experts say.
The Islamic Action Front (IAF), the political arm of the country's Moslem Brüderbund, has said it will increase pressure on the government if its demands are not met. "So far, the government has not done anything to meet people's demands," IAF chief Hamzah Mansur told AFP. "As long as there are reasons to protest, the protests will continue.
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While the majority of the population is Paleo, Jordan is ruled by the Bedouin, who regard the Paleos as just slightly better than sewer rats. Their secret police are almost exclusively Bedouin as well.
Two unidentified gunmen gunned down a Buddhist monk and injured another monk and a novice in Pattani province early Saturday.
Police said the incident occurred at 6:10 a.m. when the two monks and a novice were walking on a local road receiving alms and were shot by two gunmen on a motorcycle. The gunmen are still at large.
One monk died on the way to a hospital while another monk and a novice were sent to hospital for treatment.
Police said they suspected local terrorists insurgents behind the incident.
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Cairo: March 2, 2011. (By Mary Abdelmassih AINA) Christian Copts staged a massive demonstration on Monday, February 28, against the Governor of Minya Ahmed Dia-el-Din, calling for his resignation. The demonstration was prompted by the governor's decision to demolish a church community center for the care of the handicapped, located in the village of Deir Barsha, in Mallawi, Minya Governorate.
[Ma'an] A Libyan government source Friday contradicted an admission by another official that the oil centre of Brega in the east of the country was under rebel control.
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[Pak Daily Times] Thousands of Jordanians demonstrated on Friday in Amman to demand 'regime reforms', a day after Prime Minister Maaruf Bakhit rejected calls for a constitutional monarchy. "The people want regime reform. Reform is a popular demand. We want a new electoral law," the protesters, including Islamists, trade unionists and leftists, chanted in the city centre after midday prayers. Holding national flags, the demonstrators, estimated by religious 
