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from Tipper's (thx!) link: The hospital has a reputation for treating Taleban wounded. The policy has made the Italian charity Emergency, which runs the hospital, unpopular with local officials
All nine people detained have confessed, the governors spokesman, Daoud Ahmadi, said. They were accused of links with al-Qaeda and terrorists. During the raid we found explosives, including hand grenades, suicide vests and some weapons, concealed in medicine boxes.
These explosives were smuggled into Helmand disguised as medical supplies. They have accepted their crime. They have confessed. They said there was a plan to carry out suicide attacks on crowded bazaars, the governors compound, and they wanted to kill the governor.
Gulab Mangal, the Governor who enjoys a relatively good relationship with the British headquarters in Lashkar Gah told reporters he was "the No 1 target of the plot.
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The United States Military is in the midst of a troop surge in Afghanistan, but the surge has caused the ratio of resources to troops to widen. Many American Forward Operating Bases are experiencing food and water shortages.
Initially it was expected that resources for surging troops would be low, as many bases were unprepared for the push ordered by the Obama administration. The surge, it is argued, was far too swift and did not give the military time to lay the proper infrastructure and provide housing and other amenities for the troops.
"I want what I want when I want it, reality be damned!"
The infrastructure has not been freed up a significant amount to allow for the proper shipping of food and beverages. At Camp Mike Spann, in particular, there have been times when they have run out of drinks and other food items. There is no potable water available so troops rely on bottled water for hydration.
Camp Mike Spann is not the only place dealing with a shortage of food and water. An article in Stars and Stripes brought to attention the hardships of one Marine Encampment.
Well done, O Stars and Stripes reporters and editors! That's the right way to speak truth to power.
At Marine Combat Outpost Contu ,"there are no beds, no showers, no toilets and no electricity. Chickens and ducks roam the bare dirt yard amid scraps of trash and rotting animal dung. Fleas, flies and filth are the grunts' constant companions."
They doubt they will see permanent living crates or even cots. They sleep with flees and chiggers and have very little food available to them. They say living like pioneers in the 1800s has given them a new appreciation for things like a bath or a shower and clean clothes. I doubt things are going to improve much with the Kyrgyzstan air base shutting down. This is a time for logistics Generals to get cracking, or get boot prints on their posterior.
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No -- its time to put a bootprint on the ass of the rookie politician that screwed this up by insisting what he wanted without any reference to reality or deference to the military professionals.
Assumption 2: POTUS hasn't a frigging clue, but he and wife never miss HOTS. Pass the Lobster Thermidor please.
Ok Pentagon generals and planners and er huh White House security advisor General (Ret) USMC Pete pace...Afghan Log Plan-B, where the phuech is it?
A bit too late to argue the merits of a logistics-lite, Afghanistan surge, or the wisdom of a forward support base on a the soil of a FSU satellite. Let us hope and pray the closure of the Manas air base is not permanent. Early reportes indicated there were at least 1300 troops stranded there. The winter of 2010 may be very ugly.
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In other news: Fort Hood terrorist and murderer Nidal Malik Hasan gets private prison suite and US Navy conducts costly retrofit of submarines to accomodate new, female submariners.
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"there are no beds, no showers, no toilets and no electricity. Chickens and ducks roam the bare dirt yard amid scraps of trash and rotting animal dung. Fleas, flies and filth are the grunts' constant companions."
Sounds like my firebase in Nam. The Marines will improvise, adapt and overcome. We did.
This does not address the core problem, which is the arrogance and incompetence of the Commander in Chief. Obambi screwed up. I like OS's bootprint suggestion best. This turkey makes Carter look good.
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No complaints about ammo? Things can't be too bad.
It really is time to get out. This will end like Elphinstone with Barry in charge.
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This is the most sorry assed thing I have read.
People need to get fired. FIRED.
Logheads should be on it with bells on all the time.
Now, I expect the executive office shares responsibility and I have no respect for him, but if you cannot do basics, you have no business deploying or keeping anyone overseas.
This needs to be watched very closely.
I am pissed.; I am for hire if they need help.
Fix it now Mr "President".
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What's scary about this is, civilian control of the military in USA was always predicated on the assumption that while the civilian controllers might be incompetent or corrupt, they would not be actively hostile to the military. We're way far away from Clinton's half desguised assertion that he "loathed the military..."
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This puts the recent decision to shut down Burger King et. al. in a different and much more understandable light. Priorities.
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I would take this all with a grain of salt. The stars and Stripes is not a DOD paper. They are owned by some NY news group and have always been a little leftie. Times are tough at all firebases, always have been always will be. Do they think it shoud be like an FOB, have a burger king, PX, and massages?
On another note, a month ago when the command closed the pizzahut and burger kings because it was a strain on the logistics to support the troops, well, the same papers cried foul.
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NO, no, Justice. You have it wrong. Frank does not have a Jewish master, he IS a Jewish master. All the regulars here are.
Now get back to that mullah you sold your girlfriend to and report that we challenge him to a dogfight, F-15s at 10 km. What? He doesn't have an F-15? He can use one of the Chinese MiG-17 knockoffs from my personal junkyard. We don't mind.
Now begone before I order a black chopper load of flying monkeys to break into your trailer and reprogram your toaster to take control of you pet guinea pig and brainwash it to devour your secret stash of Eva Braun nudes.
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Jeez, AC, don't hold back - tell him (it?) how we you really feel.
ROFL. :-D
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Don't feed the trolls, Atomic Conspiracy. Angry responses are what they thrive on. Trolls that get no responses to their outrageous posts get bored and go away.
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Now begone before I order a black chopper load of flying monkeys to break into your trailer and reprogram your toaster to take control of you pet guinea pig and brainwash it to devour your secret stash of Eva Braun nudes.
Damn, Ima remember why I don't fuck with shiplords.
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Poor Mr. Justice has toned down considerably. He used to come out from Friday services at the mosque, find Rantburg, and go on about raping your wives in front of you while you cleaned his toilet after the world conquest of Islam. He was, for some reason, obsessed by the idea of my armpit hair, which along with the above says a great deal about his nature and nurture.
He seems to have given up on proclaiming both ideas after getting liberally bashed about the head for it, and is reduced to verbal spitballs... and even that got him bashed. One wonders how much it will cost his father to buy him even an imbecilic wife with a harelip, given what an unprepossessing specimen of future manhood he is.
Three Italian medical workers are among nine people who were detained in an alleged plot to kill an Afghan provincial governor, officials said Saturday.
The detentions follow the discovery of suicide bomb vests, hand grenades, pistols and explosives in a hospital storeroom in Lashkar Gah, the capital of the southern province of Helmand, a spokesman for the provincial government said.
Police were tipped off about a plot to kill Helmand's governor during a future visit to the hospital, spokesman Daud Ahmadi said.
A video of the raid obtained by Associated Press Television News shows British troops accompanying Afghan police, soldiers and government officials to the city's Emergency Surgery Center for Civilian War Victims, run by the Italian private group Emergency. In a storeroom, boxes are opened containing what appear to be bullets, pistols, hand grenades, and bags of explosives. A British soldier is heard saying that an explosives disposal unit was on its way.
Three foreign staff members are then shown sitting on outdoor benches, their identification cards visible but names unclear.
In a statement, the Milan-based organization denied involvement in any plot and said it was confident its staffers would be exonerated. It said it had not been allowed telephone contact with the three suspects and that the Afghan government and international forces had not explained why they were being held.
"These are people who for years worked to ensure care for the people of Afghanistan. We ask that you respect their rights, first of all, the right to communicate with us and let us know where they are and what their condition is," the statement said.
Calls to the Italian Embassy in Kabul rang unanswered Saturday. A NATO spokesman in Kabul said its forces had not taken part in any arrests.
Helmand's governor, Gulab Mangul, confirmed the arrests at a news conference, saying those held included three Italians and six Afghans.
His spokesman, Ahmadi, said that upon questioning, the hospital storeroom's supervisor implicated others, eventually leading investigators to the Italians. There was no immediate indication of whether any other evidence implicated the three, and their names were not immediately available. Ahmadi said the six Afghans worked at the hospital as clerks, guards or translators.
Investigators believe the nine were linked to the Taliban insurgency and that the plan had been hatched at a meeting in the Pakistan city of Quetta, Ahmadi said.
He said the plotters planned to carry out a suicide bombing in Lashkar Gah, then wait until the governor came to the hospital to visit the injured. When he did, they planned to attack with grenades, pistols and explosives, Ahmadi said. No other details were available.
Taliban are active in the province, where international forces in February began a major offensive against the insurgency.
Emergency has had a tense relationship with local authorities, due in part to its policy of treating all patients, including those who may be Taliban. It has operated in Afghanistan since 1999 and currently runs three surgical centers, a maternity center and a network of 28 health centers.
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I note there are still no names for the Italians yet. As someone questioned yesterday, might they be of "Asian" ancestry?
[Al Arabiya Latest] Somali pirates who stormed a Turkish ship off Kenya had to abandon the cargo when they could not find the crew who had hidden on board, Turkish officials said Saturday.
The pirates stormed the MV Yasin C vessel Wednesday around 3 pm (1200 GMT), shooting at the ship's rear deck and sparking a fire, the state's sea administration said, quoted by the Turkish press agency Anatolia.
"As they did not find the crew, they left the ship after 5 or 6 pm. Then the crew came out of their hiding place and headed to the port of Mombasa in Kenya", the statement said, adding that the vessel was now in Mombasa.
The ship's owner, Turkish company Bergen Denizcilik, said the crew had hidden in the control room with food.
"There is major material damage but (...) no member of the crew was hurt", Fatih Kabal told Anatolia, who is in charge of the Bergen Denizcilik fleet.
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Yemeni forces are not going after a radical U.S.-born cleric who has reportedly been added to the CIA's list of targets to be killed or captured, the foreign minister said Saturday.
The United States has not handed over evidence to support allegations that Anwar al-Awlaki is recruiting for al-Qaida's offshoot in the impoverished country on the southern edge of the Arabian Peninsula, the minister said.
The Obama administration has authorized his killing because it believes he has shifted from encouraging attacks on the U.S. to participating in them, The New York Times reported earlier this week.
Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi said Saturday that al-Awlaki is not a terrorist and is not on Yemen's own wanted list. Yemeni security officials believe he is hiding in an area of the mountainous country that has become a refuge for Islamic militants.
"Anwar al-Awlaki has to us been always looked at as a preacher rather than a terrorist and shouldn't be looked at as a terrorist unless the Americans have evidence that he has been involved in terrorism," al-Qirbi said.
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"...Anwar al-Awlaki has to us been always looked at as a preacher rather than a terrorist and shouldn't be looked at as a terrorist unless the Americans have evidence that he has been involved in terrorism," al-Qirbi said.
I would expect about this same remark to be made by the ACLU, Code Pink, etc.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Two alleged criminals were killed and two members of Rapid Action Battalion injured in a 'shootout' between the law enforcers and the criminals at Para Gendaria in South Keraniganj early yesterday.
"Corporal Belal, fetch the first aid kit! I need the tweezers, alcohol wipe, and two band-aids -- we've got splinters to remove!"
Rab personnel recovered two firearms, one magazine and eight bullets from the spot.
To be promptly returned to the appropriate velvet-lined cases or velvet bags for storage until needed for the next crossfire/encounter/shootout.
The deceased, identified as Jahangir from Barisal and his accomplice Sohel of Shyampur area,
What -- no aliases? It is said that many who turn to crime suffer from impoverished imaginations.
were accused in several cases including murders and extortion filed with Keraniganj, Kotwali, Bangshal and Sutrapur police stations.
Wanted on twelve stations, these miscreants were.
The bodies were sent to Mitford Hospital for autopsy.
Where Dr. Jekylullah took great pleasure in saying to his assistant, "They're dead, Jim."
Acting on secret information, a patrol team of Rab-10 conducted a drive in Para Gendaria Balur Math area where Jahangir and his cohorts gathered for committing crime at about 2:00am, Rab sources said.
Finally, a cohort of miscreants meeting at the proper time. One imagines they were drinking entirely too much haram moonshine as they plotted.
Sensing presence of the Rab personnel,
"Spidey Sense, activate!!"
the gang opened fire on them, prompting the elite force members to fire back, which triggered a gun battle.
One would think that the elite force members shooting back would define the onset of the gun battle. One would, of course, be wrong.
Jahangir and Sohel were caught in the line of fire and died on the spot, Rab sources said, adding that 30 rounds of bullet were traded during the gunfight.
And very carefully not adding that the line of fire consisted of one bullet behind the ear of each of our two badmen.
The Rab said the criminals used to realise tolls from Keraniganj and Old Dhaka and gun down traders for refusing to pay the money.
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POLICE report an explosion at Palace Barracks in Belfast, Sky News said. The BBC said a number of families have been moved from their homes. Police and the fire service were at the scene.
Local eyewitnesses said they heard a large bang just after midnight (local time), the BBC reports. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
The BBC said the blast seems to have been timed to coincide with the precise moment that policing and justice powers devolved from Westminster to Stormont.
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I went pub crawling with an Irish civil engineer friend in Belfast in Nov 1982. With all the British Army and RUC vehicles running about that night, heavily armed, I felt that I was in the set for Bladerunner.
This guy came into our pub and asked if anybody wanted to buy a raffle ticket for two round trip airline tickets. I asked him where the tickets destination was. He answered me, "Bosnia, someplace, I don't know."
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[Dawn] Pakistani airstrikes killed nearly 100 suspected militants in two northwest tribal regions Saturday, an apparent intensification of efforts by the army to mop up Taliban fighters fleeing a military operation farther south. The strikes were carried out in the Orakzai and Khyber tribal regions.
In Orakzai, some 54 alleged militants were killed during ongoing clashes over a checkpoint in the Baizoti town area, local official Samiullah Khan told The Associated Press.
Another 42 people, most of them suspected insurgents, died in the Khyber tribal region when military jets pounded a hide-out the in Sra Walla area. The location was believed to be a gathering point for the Lashker-e-Islam insurgent group.
Two intelligence officials said jets pounded the area twice --once when local tribesmen were retrieving bodies from the rubble.
Local government official Rehan Khattak confirmed the strikes but refused to give a death toll.
The information could not be independently verified because access to the tribal areas is largely restricted.
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[Dawn] Three soldiers and 10 militants were killed in clashes in the South Waziristan tribal region on Saturday.
Officials said the clashes took place in the Sara Roga district of South Waziristan, where helicopter gunships and jet fighters have been dispatched for consolidation.
Seven security personnel and several militants were also injured, a DawnNews report said.
Meanwhile, two militant commanders Said Muhammad and Awlanur died after succumbing to their wounds in Orakzai Agency.
Said Muhammad was the deputy ameer of Lower Orakzai and Awalnur was a local commander of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan.
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[Times of India] The Jawaharlal Nehru University campus became a battleground on Friday night when members of disparate student organizations clashed over what was seen as an attempt to support the Naxalites and 'celebrate' the massacre of 76 CRPF men.
The National Students Union of India (NSUI), Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Pari-shad (ABVP) and Youth for Equality (YFE) came together to allege that a campus function by the JNU Forum Against War on People was used by Maoist supporters to celebrate the Dantewada killings. But the organizers said the meeting was only meant to oppose Operation Green Hunt launched by the government.
The NSUI national general secretary, Shaikh Shahnawaz, recalled: "Members of Democratic Students Union (DSU) and All India Students Association (AISA) organized a meeting to celebrate the killing of 76 CRPF personnel in Chhattisgarh. They were even shouting slogans like 'India murdabad, Maovad zindabad'. How can this be allowed inside a Central university?"
To oppose the holding of the function, NSUI and ABVP activists took out a march to the venue where a clash broke out among the students. "How can an administration let anti-India activities take place? Such organizations which celebrate the death of security personnel should be banned, just like SIMI was," said a PhD scholar from Tapti Hostel, Bharat Kumar.
The university administration said no permission had been taken to organise the meeting. Condemning the incident, vice-chancellor B B Bhattacharya said: "By organizing such a meeting at this point of time when the nation has lost 76 precious lives is very insensitive on their part. Moreover, they have not taken any permission, which is a typical JNU attitude of defying rules just for the sake of it. Now that they managed to get the desired provocation, the campus will see a series of ritualistic protests to seek media attention, which is unfortunate. A few students and our security received minor bruises."
Samar Pandey, a member of the JNU Forum Against War On People, said that permission had been taken for the meeting. "NSUI and ABVP students tried to disrupt the meeting against 'Operation Green Hunt' and misbehaved. We took permission and pasted our pamphlets," he said.
Interestingly, this issue has brought together arch-rivals ABVP and NSUI against DSU and AISA while Students Federation of India (SFI) is seen taking a neutral stand though a few of its activists were spotted with the ABVP-NSUI alliance. YFE has been carrying out a candlelight vigil since the Dantewada day to salute the martyrs while NSUI and ABVP will now observe an anti-Naxal week on the campus.
Meanwhile, the assistant dean of students, Sachidanand Sinha, said: "We will not allow peace on campus to be disrupted. We will take suitable action on Monday."
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[The Hindu National] While the indefinite bandh called by the Maoist-backed Police Santrash Birodhi Janasadharaner Committee (PSBJC) entered its second day on Saturday, suspected Maoists gunned down two persons in the Lalgarh region of West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur district.
According to Jhargram Superintendent of Police Praveen Kumar Tripathy, the bullet-riddled bodies were found on a village road at Bandhgora, near Jhargram town.
"The victims, Kaushik Datta and Paban Mahato, were part-time government employees. We are investigating the case," Mr. Tripathy told The Hindu.
Several Maoist posters found on the spot claimed the men were killed because they spied on the rebels on behalf of the police.
Mr. Tripathy denied reports that the men were killed due to their affiliation with a particular political party.
Meanwhile, counsel of the arrested PSBJC convener, Chhatradhar Mahato, filed a verified petition before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate of Jhargram on Saturday, complaining about alleged life threatening remarks made against Mr. Mahato by officials of the Medinipur Central Correctional Home, where the convener is lodged.
In the petition, Mr. Mahato complained that the prison authorities were involved in financial irregularities and corruption and were hand-in-glove with a section of the convicts.
Mr. Mahato also alleged that a senior prison official threatened him with dire consequences and asked him to keep quiet about the irregularities when he tried to protest.
"Out of the 130 suspected Maoist under-trials housed at the Medinipur Central Correctional Home, 126 have started a four-day-long relay hunger and plan to launch a fast-unto-death campaign unless steps are taken against the erring officials," said Mr. Mahato's counsel Kaushik Sinha.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] Roadside bombings and other attacks killed six people across Iraq on Saturday, including a child and the wife of a former police lieutenant colonel, officials said.
Violence has plummeted across Iraq since its height in 2006 and 2007 but attacks continue, especially in and around northern cities like Mosul.
In Qayara, 40 miles (60 kilometers) south of Mosul, a roadside bomb exploded next to a joint police and army patrol, killing two policemen and one soldier, a police officer said. A doctor confirmed the deaths.
A second roadside bomb went off next to an Iraqi army patrol in the Hamam al-Alil area, about 16 miles (25 kilometers) south of Mosul, killing a soldier and a child, according to another police officer who said he had no other details.
In the city of Fallujah, about 40 miles (60 kilometers) west of the capital, three bombs went off at dawn at the house of Tariq Fawaz, a former police lieutenant colonel who is now a schoolteacher, a police officer said. The bomb injured Fawaz, his son and two neighbors and killed his wife, the officer said.
In all cases, the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release information to the press.
In the wake of the April 4 triple suicide bombings that killed 40 outside the German and Iranian embassies and the Egyptian consulate in Baghdad, Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani visited all three missions Saturday to provide assurances.
In a statement posted Friday on a militant Web site, the Islamic State of Iraq, which includes al-Qaida, claimed responsibility and called the attacks a "new strike into the heart of the security plan" in Baghdad.
It also said "all diplomatic corps, embassies and international organizations" dealing with the Iraqi government are "legitimate targets." Al-Bolani said he told officials that Iraq's government
and security forces were committed to providing the "best security atmosphere" possible. "Terrorism is a risk to all countries, and we have to cooperate to counter it," he said.
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BEIT OMAR, West Bank - Israeli forces clashed with several dozen Palestinian protesters in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, arresting 14 people, the army and witnesses said.
The protesters were joined by Israeli peace activists and foreigners at the rally near Beit Omar village, charging that Jews from nearby Bat Ayin settlement were farming on Palestinian-owned land. The demonstrators threw rocks and set fire to crops, the army and witnesses said.
Security forces used riot dispersal means to disperse the protesters. The army declared the area a closed military zone' and arrested 14 people,' an army spokeswoman said.
No casualties were reported in the incident in Beit Omar, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron which has been a frequent flashpoint in recent weeks between Palestinians and Israeli forces.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Attackers fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a jail in southwest Iran on Saturday in an apparent bid to help prisoners break out, wounding three guards and up to 19 others, media reported.
The blast was in front of the facility in Ilam in western Iran, the city's deputy police chief Colonel Aziz Abdi told the agency. I think I've seen this movie a few times ...
"Nineteen people have been wounded, including three prison guards," he said, adding that three prisoners tried to escape "but one of them has been recaptured and two are still at large."
"The culprits, who used getaway cars to escape from the scene of the incident, are at large now and the police are after them," the official IRNA news agency quoted provincial Governor Nourollah Arjomandi as saying.
Arjomandi said the blast was caused by a rocket-propelled grenade aimed at one of the prison's walls, but that there were no deaths, IRNA said.
"The explosion caused damages to the residential units around and broke window panes within a radio of 500 metres and a number of cars were damaged," Arjomandi said.
State television said the suspected motive of the blast was to free a number of prisoners and that at least five people were wounded. They received medical care but were later allowed to leave hospital.
Ilam, which is also the name of the province, is a mountainous region bordering Iraq, and home to tribal people as well as ethnic Kurds.
Bomb attacks are relatively rare in the Islamic Republic, which also borders Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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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.
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: A joint U.S.-Iraqi force has found an arms cache in a border area in Ninewa, an informed source said on Saturday.
