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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Fay Wray aka Ann Darrow in "King Kong" aka Eve in "The Most Dangerous Game" aka Charlotte Duncan in "Mystery of the Wax Museum" aka Ruth Bertin in "The Vampire Bat" aka Carol Mathews in "Navy Secrets" aka Ann Manders in "Alias Bulldog Drummond" aka Kay Cabot in "Murder in Greenwich Village" aka Virginia 'Virgie' Brush Barnstead in "One Sunday Afternoon" (Died in 2004 at age 96)
President Obama will today award the Medal of Honor to Marine Cpl. Dakota Meyer. In attendance will be a handful of soldiers and Marines who, one day in September 2009, were abandoned by their chain of command and relied on their own initiative to dislodge a fierce enemy. Their battle has entered military folklore and resulted not only in today's Medal of Honor but in two Navy Crosses, two investigations for dereliction of duty, three letters of severe reprimand, and a recommendation for a second Medal of Honor.
The setting was the remote Afghan village of Ganjigal, on the Pakistan border, where elders had requested aid in repairing a mosque. Hoping to win hearts and minds, a U.S.-trained Afghan battalion agreed to help. At dawn, about 100 Afghan soldiers and a dozen U.S. Marine advisers entered the valley where Ganjigal is found, picking their way up a narrow, rocky wash toward the stone houses dug into the far end.
It was a setup. Hidden inside the houses and along the wash were 60 jihadists from Pakistan. The ambushers opened fire with machine guns, mortars and rockets. Immediately the foot patrol was pinned down and taking casualties.
[Tolo News] A kaboom in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province killed one Afghan policeman and one civilian on Tuesday, local officials said. Eight other people were maimed in the kaboom.
The device was placed in a vehicle in the Musa Qala district of the province and detonated when Afghan police passed by, the Helmand governor's media office said.
No one has grabbed credit for the attack.
Militants use improvised bombs to target Afghan and foreign forces, but most of the victims are civilians.
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[Emirates 24/7] An Islamist Libyan leader, Sheikh Ali Sallabi, on Wednesday accused the number two of the interim leadership, Mahmud Jibril, of "stealing the revolution" and laying the foundations for a totalitarian state.
"The premise of a totalitarian state is palpable by the action of Mahmud Jibril, who seeks to give his relatives the means to control the state," said Sallabi, who is supported by Qatar, and has played a key role in funding and arming the fighters of the new Libyan leadership.
Sallabi, when contacted by telephone in Qatar, accused Jibril of "stealing the revolution," and criticised him for choosing Ali Tarhuni to head the oil portfolio at the expense of other managers experienced in managing the "the livelihood of Libyans."
Sallabi did not say which of his family members Jibril had allegedly favoured, and it was not immediately known if he is related to Tarhuni.
"We do not want to revive the era of (Moamer) Qadaffy," ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years... Sallabi said.
"We do not want him (Jibril) to remain in the post for eight months, which will give him an opportunity to strengthen his control of the state apparatus," said Sallabi, mentor of Abdelhakim Belhaj, head of the Tripoli military council and suspected of having links with Al-Qaeda.
"We must choose a patriotic prime minister who has a consensus among all Libyans and not necessarily Islamist," he said, further accusing Jibril of "wanting to use money and power to silence the Libyans."
Jibril, a liberal, said Sunday that a "new government will be formed within one week to 10 days."
Jibril, who serves as the "prime minister" of the National Transitional Council, the political wing of the rebellion that overthrew strongman Qadaffy, also said that "his new government will include representatives from different regions in Libya."
Sallabi said he intended to return to Tripoli soon.
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[Tripoli Post] Residents of Bani Walid, 140 kilometres southeast of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, are taking the advice of the NTC fighters and leaving the town with their families to avoid being in the midst of the fighting that could become very fierce.
The residents have been given two days to leave before the anti-Al Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... fighters make an all-out assault to take the town, one of the last remaining bastions loyal to the runaway leader who has now been shorn of any power after 42 years ruling with an iron fist.
The NTC fighters don't want innocent civilians in Bani Walid to become victims trapped inside the 'war zone'. Many are heeding the advice and hoping to be liberated. A few, reportedly some 10 per cent are Al Qadaffy loyalists who appear to be willing to sacrifice themselves for nothing.
Al Qadaffy has no future. By fighting and risking their lives and also putting the lives of others at risk would achieve nothing. There's is a lost cause. Resisting because Al Qadaffy or his son Seif is telling them so, to fight to the death, could only lead to one thing, death. Else caught and imprisoned.
After the fall of Tripoli, many would have thought that the worst was over. But now the three towns known as Al Qadaffy strongholds are making a last-ditch effort to resist. They have surprisingly offered stiff resistance and after fighting for over five days, the town has not yet been liberated.
With the backing of air strikes from NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... warplanes on Al Qadaffy rocket positions, the NTC fighters battle on, and fleeing residents who had been trapped inside for weeks, have reported having fighting inside the city.
NTC military front man Ahmed Bani, told news hounds the plan for Bani Walid for now was to wait. He added: "When our forces entered Bani Walid they found the Al Qadaffy brigades using citizens as shields."
Bani added that they found out that missile launchers had been placed on the roofs of homes, making it difficult for NTC forces or NATO warplanes to strike.
NTC commanders say they are close to taking control of the town and are close to the centre. There's no doubt that they will tae it, though with some costs. After that they will tackle Al Qadaffy's hometown of Sirte on the Mediterranean coast and the remote desert city of Sabha.
From his unknown hideout, in yet another audio message on Alrai Tv transmitting from Syria, runaway Al Qadaffy keeps urging his supporters to keep up the fight. "It is not possible to give Libya to the colonialists again," he said. "All that remains for us is the struggle until victory and the defeat of the coup," he added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a hurried meeting of his closest advisors. It was to be his last... the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... said it was worried about the plight of civilians stranded inside besieged pro-Al Qadaffy towns, with Valerie Amos, the UN humanitarian chief, reportedly saying that their biggest concern right now is Sirte, where we they have been receiving reports that there's no water and no electricity,"
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The residents have been given two days to leave before the anti-Al Qadaff fighters make an all-out assault to take the town.
IOW, go door to door and hunt them down like rats.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Uganda on Wednesday convicted two men who pleaded guilty for their role in July 2010 kabooms that killed at least 76 people, the region's worst attacks in more than a decade. Edris Nsubuga, a Ugandan, on Tuesday admitted to charges of terrorism while fellow countryman Muhamoud Mugisha pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit terrorism. "We dunnit and we's glad we dunnit!"
They will be sentenced on Friday, while the trial of 12 other suspects is due to resume on November 15.
Prosecutors dropped murder charges against Nsubuga, calling on the judge not to impose the maximum sentence of the death penalty for the terrorism conviction, as he had admitted his guilt and cooperated with authorities. He had better had rolled on the entire organization...
"In the circumstance the state prays for an appropriate and deterrent custodial sentence," Lino Anguza, a state prosecutor, told the court.
Twin jacket wallahs struck bars in Kampala where people had gathered to watch the World Cup final on July 11 last year.
The attacks were claimed by Somalia's Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab rebels in Dire Revenge for Ugandan military involvement in the African Union's ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
force protecting the Western-backed Somali government.
Eleven suspects -- including seven Kenyans, three Ugandans and a Tanzanian -- pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to murder and terrorism charges earlier this week. One other Ugandan pleaded not guilty to two lesser charges.
Nsubuga admitted escorting a suicide bomber to a busy rugby club and later detonating a remote-controlled device that he planted at the venue. He claimed that he had been threatened with beheading if he pulled out of the mission. "They turned me into a newt!"
"I was just a human being trapped in a web of delusion and manipulation ... I am reformed and I am very remorseful," Nsubuga told the court. "Well, I got better..."
Mugisha admitted fighting for the Shebab militia in Somalia and helping jihad boy leaders plot the Kampala attacks. He faces a maximum sentence of seven years in jail.
"I beg court to forgive me and I apologise to all Ugandans for what happened," Mugisha said.
Prosecutors said that both men would testify in the trial of the remaining suspects.
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Edris Nsubuga
Muhamoud Mugisha
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[An Nahar] Nine people were killed in two days of festivities between tribal fighters who are opposed to Yemeni President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... and an elite military unit loyal to him, a tribal official said Wednesday.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , said violent festivities were ongoing in the town of Arhab, 40 kilometers north of the capital Sanaa, between Republican Guard troops commanded by Saleh's son Ahmed, and fighters from the Bakil tribe, the most influential tribe in the country.
"Five rustics were killed Tuesday and another four Monday in extremely violent festivities," he said.
The fighting comes as Yemen teeters towards a state of near collapse following months of anti-government protests and growing influence of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), as its embattled president remains absent from the scene.
Saleh, who has been receiving medical treatment in Soddy Arabia since a June attack on his presidential compound, has resisted regional and international calls for him to step down despite more than eight months of nation-wide protests calling for his ouster.
The state news agency SABA however reported on Monday that Saleh had authorized his deputy to negotiate a power transfer with the opposition, finally agreeing to a proposal by Gulf countries to put an end to a months-long political crisis.
In recent weeks, troops from both sides of Yemen's political divide have bolstered their military presence in the capital, control of which is now shared between the government's Elite Republican Guards and soldiers loyal to dissident General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, a top leader in the Bakil tribe.
Another powerful tribal leader, Sheikh Sadek al-Ahmar, also controls parts of the capital.
The area north of Arhab, where Wednesday's battles took place, is the northern gateway to Sanaa and the main airport road. In late May, festivities forced a suspension of flights because access to the airport was blocked.
The Republican Guard has a strong presence in the area and has so far prevented Ahmar, the commander of the First Armored Division who defected earlier this year, from calling in reinforcements from Yemen's northern provinces where he has a strong following.
The new CIA director David Petraeus said in Washington on Tuesday that AQAP, al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen, has exploited unrest in the country and poses a growing danger.
Since May, AQAP has pushed back Yemeni government forces in the south and political upheaval has "helped AQAP co-opt local tribes and extend its influence," the U.S. intelligence chief said.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Fighting between the Yemeni army and cut-throats in and around the southern bustling provincial capital of Zinjibar killed at least 12 people yesterday, just days after the government declared it had "liberated" the city from Islamist fighters.
An army official said seven cut-throats and one soldier were killed in a suburb of the coastal city, which the army last week recaptured from Islamist fighters suspected of links to al-Qaeda's Yemen-based branch.
Four more cut-throats were killed in another part of Zinjibar.
"The cut-throats snuck into the area to try to carry out a suicide kaboom, but the snipers from the army prevented them and killed seven jihad boys," said the military official.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Detective Branch of police yesterday recovered eight petrol bombs, 34 cocktails and some bomb making materials from the house of a city unit Jubo Dal activist at Jatrabari in the capital.
They also tossed in the calaboose a person in this connection.
Masudur Rahman, additional deputy commissioner (ADC) of DMP, said police, acting on a tip-off, conducted a raid at Jubo Dal activist Ataur Rahman Litu's Meerhajirbagh house at about 9:30am.
They recovered the explosives from a sand-pile lying beside the stairs on the ground floor of the multi-storied building, he said.
Law enforcers tossed in the calaboose Belayet Hossain, 40, manager-cum-caretaker of the house, as the building owner Litu was on the run, said the ADC.
Petrol bombs and cocktails were wrapped up with red scotch tape, witnesses said.
Detectives were quizzing Belayet to find out reasons for keeping the bombs at the house and their sources as well. "Police are trying to arrest Litu," ADC Rahman added.
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Six unidentified individuals, including two Polica Federal agents reported kidnapped earlier in the week, were found murdered in two separate locations in eastern Zacatecas, according to Mexican news accounts.
The dead were found in Pinos and Villa Gonzalez Ortega municipalities, though reports did not elaborate whom were found where.
The Policia Federal agents were kidnapped Wednesday night, September 8th, following a firefight between PF agents and unidentified armed suspects in Luis Moya municipality in southern Zacatecas.
The following morning, PF agents encountered and killed a total of eight armed suspects in eastern Zacatecas near Villanueva during a raid on a safe house. It was earlier erroneously reported the subsequent raid may had been a botched rescue attempt. To see the Ranburg report on September 8-9th gunfights, click here.
As many as 70 heavily armed suspects travelling aboard 22 vehicles entered the southern Zacatecas town of Juchipila, and took over the police station Tuesday.
The suspects briefly cordoned roads leading into the town. Reports say no gunfire was heard and the group left the town five hours later without firing a shot.
The group was part of the Gulf Cartel, identified because of markings on the vehicles. Reports say the suspects were carrying assault rifles, grenade launchers and grenades. Reports say some suspects did some shopping in the area for liquid refreshments,
How well-behaved of them.
although many business and schools had been closed because of their presence.
That afternoon, Mexican Army units and state police agents entered the town to begin patrols in the area.
Zacatecas until last spring was considered a Los Zetas stronghold. But counternarcotics offensives by Mexican security forces and attacks by criminal elements aligned with both the Gulf and Sinaloa cartels, as well as minor groups aligned with the those cartels have severely degraded Los Zetas' presence in the state. To read the Rantburg report on a recent firefight between Mexican security forces and armed suspects, as well as a link to another Rantburg story on the spring counternarcotics offensive, click here and follow the links
In a related story, Arturo Nahle Garcia, the attorney general of Zacatecas (PGJEZ) reported Wednesday the arrest of four armed suspects for kidnapping.
Juan Andres Gomez, 25, Octavio Carrillo Aguayo, 20, Jose de Jesus Frausto, 32 and Sabino Rodarte Ortega, 25 were arrested Wednesday after negotiations ended which should have secured the release of this victim went from MP $200,000 (USD $15,460.38) to MP $16,000 (USD $1,236.83) and the vehicle the victim had been driving.
The family reported the ransom, and Zacatecas state police reportedly rescued the victim unharmed.
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Corporal Dakota L. Meyer, United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the repeated risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as a member of Marine Embedded Training Team 2-8, Regional Corps Advisory Command 3-7, in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, on 8 September 2009.
When the forward element of his combat team began to be hit by intense fire from roughly 50 Taliban insurgents dug-in and concealed on the slopes above Ganjgal village, Corporal Meyer mounted a gun-truck, enlisted a fellow Marine to drive, and raced to attack the ambushers and aid the trapped Marines and Afghan soldiers.
During a six hour fire fight, Corporal Meyer single-handedly turned the tide of the battle, saved 36 Marines and soldiers and recovered the bodies of his fallen brothers. Four separate times he fought the kilometer up into the heart of a deadly U-shaped ambush. During the fight he killed at least eight Taliban, personally evacuated 12 friendly wounded, and provided cover for another 24 Marines and soldiers to escape likely death at the hands of a numerically superior and determined foe.
On his first foray his lone vehicle drew machine gun, mortar, rocket grenade and small arms fire while he rescued five wounded soldiers. His second attack disrupted the enemy's ambush and he evacuated four more wounded Marines. Switching to another gun-truck because his was too damaged they again sped in for a third time, and as turret gunner killed several Taliban attackers at point blank range and suppressed enemy fire so 24 Marines and soldiers could break-out. Despite being wounded, he made a fourth attack with three others to search for missing team members. Nearly surrounded and under heavy fire he dismounted the vehicle and searched house to house to recover the bodies of his fallen team members.
By his extraordinary heroism, presence of mind amidst chaos and death, and unselfish devotion to his comrades in the face of great danger, Corporal Meyer reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service.
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What irks is it sounds like our feckless POTUS awards it. It is the Congressional Medal of Honor, bestowed by the CinC, and rightly so.
Just my MSM peeve.
I would say "congrats" to Cpl Dakota Meyer, but it would sound like a prize, and I know he'd rather have all of his team, back, alive. It was an AWARD based on his big clanging balls and disregard for self (and ignorant orders, but we'll let that be) and total regard for his team. Good job, Sir, and best of wishes in the future. America should take care of MOH recipients.
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Frank, according to Wikipedia (with appropriate citations), it is the Medal of Honor, not the Congressional Medal of Honor. It is awarded by the President after a joint resolution from both houses of Congress.
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I get what you're saying, but the same link has "on behalf of the Congress". That makes it the Congressional MOH in my book. YMMV
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by the way, it's how I always heard/read it when a Republican POTUS/Donk Congress awarded it.
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An al Qaeda figure identified as the terrorist network's chief of operations in Pakistan has been killed, U.S. officials reported Thursday.
Abu Hafs al-Shahri helped coordinate anti-American plots in the region and "worked closely" with Pakistani Taliban operatives to carry out attacks there, a U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told CNN. His cause of death was not disclosed, but the United States frequently uses armed aerial drones to target al Qaeda operatives inside Pakistan.
Al-Shahri was seen as a possible successor to al Qaeda's second-in-command, Atiyah Abdul Rahman, who was killed in late August, the official said.
[Straits Times] Police in Indian-ruled Kashmire on Wednesday tossed in the calaboose two teenage students suspected of sending an email claiming responsibility for a kaboom at New Delhi's High Court that left 13 dead.
The email, which said the Pakistain-based hard boy group Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI Founded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on the west. ) carried out the Sept 7 attack, was traced to an Internet cafe in Kishtwar, near the Kashmiri city of Jammu.
Police, who identified the two students as Abid Hussain and Sharik Butt, said Sherlocks were unable to confirm whether the email was a genuine claim or a hoax.
'We have tossed in the calaboose two people suspected of sending the email,' a police officer told AFP, declining to give his name. He said the arrests were made a few days ago.
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[Dawn] An investigating judge has charged a Lebanese businessman suspected of a role in a bribery scandal surrounding the 1994 sale of French submarines to Pakistain that may have been linked to an attack that killed 15.
Ziad Takieddine said he was satisfied with the judicial action since it gives him access to the Sherlocks' file.
Civil parties' lawyer Olivier Morice said that preliminary charges of complicity and receiving misappropriated funds were filed against Takieddine. Preliminary charges allow Sherlocks to determine whether the case should proceed.
A May 2002 attack in Bloody Karachi killed 11 French naval construction workers and four others.
Judicial officials are studying whether the attack was linked to a cutting off of French bribes for armaments contracts.
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[Dawn] The district president of Awami National Party was killed and his four companions were maimed when an improvised bomb went off near his vehicle at Bandai village of Maidan tehsil in Dir Lower on Tuesday.
Also, a pro-government tribal elder was killed and his three relatives were maimed when forces of Evil attacked his house in Mamond area of Bajaur tribal region on Tuesday.
Sources said that ANP leader Sher Khan, who was also chairman of district Zakat committee, was targeted by the bomb when he was going to Timergara in his official vehicle along with his two friends and as many police guards.
Sher Khan and all of his four companions were maimed in the blast. They were taken to a local hospital where Sher Khan pegged out. The other injured were shifted to district headquarters hospital in Timergara, where doctors said that they were in stable, pH balanced condition.
The injured were identified as coppers Nisar and Shahid and the two other companions of the ANP leader Matiullah and Saeedur Rehman.
The security forces and police cordoned off the area and started search operation soon after the blast.
District Police Officer Saleem Marwat told journalists that they had taken into custody Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! 40 suspected people in Maidan, including the chief of a seminary and his aide. The seminary chief is stated to have affiliation with Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl.
Mr Marwat said that 10 kilograms of explosives were used in the blast. The device was a remote controlled bomb, he added.
According to sources the dear departed was staunch opponent of Taliban and he was facing life threat therefore government had deputed two coppers for his security. Both the copperswere maimed with him in the blast.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features. If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... a pro-government tribal elder and member of a peace committee was killed and three of his relatives were maimed when forces of Evil attacked his house in Mamond area of Bajaur tribal region.
According to officials and local residents, forces of Evil attacked the house of Mlaka Gul Noor early in the morning in Landi Shah area of Damadola with heavy weapons.
They scaled the walls of the fort-like house of the pro-government tribal elder with ladders and opened indiscriminate firing on the sleeping inmates. As a result 48-year-old Malak Gul Noor was killed on the spot while three others including his wife and son sustained wounds.
The injured were taken to agency headquarter hospital Khar at death's door.
Malak Gul Noor had supported government against forces of Evil in the region. He also played leading role in formation of peace committee and flushing out forces of Evil from the region.
The political administration soon after the incident started search operation and placed in durance vile 10 suspected persons. The placed in durance vile suspects were shifted to Khar jail for interrogation.
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[Dawn] Suspected Talibs killed three Pak military intelligence officials in a tribal region in the northwest on Wednesday, intelligence officials and police said.
The Pak Taliban, seen as the biggest security threat to the government, have become more brazen since their ally the late Osama bin Laden ... who sleeps with the fishes... was killed in a US raid in Pakistain in May.
The Islamic fascistihave carried out high-profile suicide kabooms and attacked a major naval base and western targets.
In Wednesday's attack, Islamic fascistiambushed a vehicle carrying officials from the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), opening fire from several directions on a road in the tribal region of Bannu. One intelligence official was maimed.
"The vehicle belonged to the ISI and was attacked with Kalashnikovs. Three people were killed and one was critically maimed," Sajjad Khan, a senior police official, told Rooters.
They were low-ranking ISI officials.
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[Tolo News] A suspected US drone attack has killed at least two Haqqani-affiliated Islamic fascistiin northwest Pakistain, Pak officials said.
Hafeezullah, a top Haqqani commander, and his lover companion were killed after their vehicle was allegedly targeted by two drone missiles.
North and South Wazoo are regularly targeted in drone attacks, which have increased in frequency since US President Barack B.O. Obama took office in 2008.
More than 100 drone attacks were counted last year, according to Pak reports.
Pak officials have always criticized the drone strikes, claiming they are a violation of illusory sovereignty.
The alleged drone hit comes after the Pentagon on Monday blamed the Haqqani network for the truck bomb that went kaboom! at a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... base in Afghanistan's central Wardak province on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
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Three attacks on Iraqi security forces on Wednesday killed 19 people and wounded more than 50 across Iraq as the country struggles to protect itself while facing the US militarys departure at the end of the year.
In the worst attack Wednesday, a car bomb parked outside a restaurant where local police were having breakfast killed 15 people and wounded 41 in the southern town of al-Shumali, said Hillah hospital Dr. Zuhair al-Khafaji. Deputy governor of Babil province, Faleh al-Mahna, confirmed the toll.
Two of the dead were policemen, and four others were among the wounded, al-Khafaji said. The bodies and wounded victims were brought to his hospital.
An eyewitness, who refused to give his name fearing he would be targeted, said the restaurant was full when the car bomb exploded shortly before 8 a.m. A lot of travelers and innocent people were inside the place having their breakfast when the car bomb went off, he said.
Al-Shumali is just south of Hillah and about 55 miles (90 km) south of Baghdad. It is also a popular resting place for Shiite pilgrims headed to the holy shrine of the Imam al-Hamza, located three miles (four km) south of the town.
Earlier, in the dawn attack, gunmen opened fire on a security patrol in a mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhood in northeastern Baghdad. The gunmen escaped after killing two policemen and wounding a third, according to a police official and a medic at Baghdad city hospital.
Later in the morning, about a half hour after the al-Shumali blast and more than 100 miles (145 km) away, a bomb exploded on a minibus that was carrying soldiers to a training area in western Iraqs Anbar province. Two soldiers were killed and 11 wounded by the bomb, which was hidden on the bus, inside their own camp near the town of Habbaniyah, 50 miles (80 km) west of Baghdad.
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Isn't the headline misleading? It sounds like most of the people at the cafe were civilians--only two were policemen.
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Suspected Muslim terrorists insurgents gunned down five paramilitary rangers in southern Thailand on Thursday after blowing up their pick-up truck with a bomb.
The insurgents used a wire to detonate a 33 pound bomb under the truck carrying six rangers in Pattani province and then emerged from forest and shot the men after the truck flipped over. One of the rangers was injured. The gunmen also seized the rangers' M-16 assault rifles.
[Dawn] Syrian troops fired tear gas at a gathering of mourners just hours after US Ambassador Robert Ford and other Western diplomats expressed their condolences to the family of a rights advocate killed last week, activists said Wednesday.
The incident could increase already high tensions between Washington and Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... , which has accused the United States of helping incite violence in Syria. Authorities have also criticized two earlier visits by Ford to the country's central and southern regions.
The Syrian regime is trying to crush a 6-month-old uprising with deadly force that has killed some 2,600 people, according to UN estimates.
Also Wednesday, Syrian troops conducted raids in the northwestern province of Idlib and the central region of Homs, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Local Coordination Committees, an activist network, said one person was killed in Idlib and two others in the central province of Hama in Wednesday raids.
The violence came a day after more than 20 people were killed throughout Syria, according to the Observatory and Mustafa Osso, a Syria-based rights activist.
Osso and the Local Coordination Committees said the attack on mourners occurred on Tuesday night, after Ford and several other ambassadors had left the gathering in the Damascus suburb of Daraya.
Osso said troops fired tear gas at the tent with mourners and relatives of Ghayath Mattar but no one was hurt.
Mattar was jugged on Sept. 6 and his body was returned to his family over the weekend.
A US embassy official confirmed Ford's visit, saying he was accompanied by other diplomats. An amateur video posted on YouTube showed Ford and several other Westerners at a gathering as verses from the Koran, Islam's holy book, blared from loudspeakers.
Another video showed the half dozen diplomats heading from the gathering to their cars as residents chanted, "the people want the president (Assad) executed." Another man shouted to them, "welcome, welcome to Syria."
According to captions on amateur videos posted by activists, the French and Japanese ambassadors to Syria were among the visiting diplomats.
Last month, President Barack B.O. Obama demanded Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... resign because he had lost legitimacy as a ruler. Major US allies such as Britannia, La Belle France, Germany and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... have made similar moves.
Washington and the EU have also imposed sanctions on some Syrian officials because of Assad's crackdown.
A trip in July by the US and French ambassadors to the central city of Hama to express support for protesters drew swift condemnation from the Syrian government, which said the unauthorized visits were proof that Washington was inciting violence in the Arab nation. Authorities then warned both ambassadors not to travel outside the capital without permission.
A month later, the B.O. regime brushed off a complaint by Syrian authorities that Ford violated their travel rules by leaving Damascus without permission. The Syrian foreign ministry registered concern over Ford's trip in August from Damascus to the village of Jassem, where he met opposition activists.
The US has maintained diplomatic relations with Syria despite protesting Assad's efforts to crush the 6-month-old uprising against him.
Republicans in Congress have assailed Obama's decision to send an ambassador to the Syrian capital after a five-year absence, calling it an unwarranted reward for the government's anti-American positions. Their criticism has grown stronger as more have been killed in the uprising.
But the administration has defended Ford's continued presence in Damascus, insisting that he is providing valuable information on the tumult across Syria while offering moral support to the protesters.
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[An Nahar] Syrian security forces on Wednesday launched a massive military operation in the northwest of the country, activists said, while calling for demonstrations Thursday to mark six months of revolt against President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... 's regime.
"Six months. More than ever determined to (continue) the March 15 uprising," the activists wrote on their Facebook page, "Syrian Revolution 2011", despite the crackdown on protests which according to the United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... has left 2,600 people dead, mostly civilians.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that early on Wednesday "armed security forces using heavy machineguns entered villages of Jabal al-Zauia, Abline, Baliune, Marayane, Ihsem and al-Rami."
It said the forces pounded the surrounding countryside where anti-regime activists were suspected to be hiding.
"The roads connecting the villages have been cut, checkpoints erected and security forces are making arrests," the Observatory said.
Abline, one of the villages targeted, is the hometown of Lieutenant Colonel Hussein Harmoush, the first military officer to publicly declare his desertion in early June in protest against the repression of the pro-democracy movement.
He managed to leave Syria and is currently leading the "Brigade of Free Officers", a group of dozens of officers who have deserted the regime.
In the central region of Homs, the body of a young man placed in long-term storage on Saturday was handed over to his parents on Wednesday, the Observatory said.
Armed forces also entered Houla where a pro-regime militiaman was murdered at dawn by three faceless myrmidons.
Syrian forces were also dispatched early Wednesday to the town of Zabadani, 50 kilometers west of Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... , a scene of massive anti-regime demonstrations Tuesday, activists said.
Fifteen people were placed in long-term storage Wednesday in Zabadani, where at least 34 others were placed in long-term storage a day ago.
SANA, the official news agency, reported that a bus driver was ambushed in the central city of Hama by an "armed terrorist group," while five soldiers and a security guard who were killed in "firing by armed terrorist groups" were buried in Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... and Homs.
Damascus has consistently maintained that the protests are the work of gangs, rejecting the reports of Western embassies and human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... groups that the great majority of those killed have been unarmed civilians.
Global and Arab pressure has intensified on Syria, with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... planning to strengthen its sanctions against Damascus, which could prohibit investments in the oil sector.
Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, meanwhile, announced the holding of national dialogue from Sunday in all provinces "to develop a program aimed at preserving national illusory sovereignty and respect for the freedom of citizens and the rule of law."
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