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What those guys need is to dig an old M167 Vulcan out of storage. Nothing quite like high performance 20mm HE raining down on bad guyz in the open to let them know that Allan don't give a crap.
Sounds like this guy deserves a place in the tally book.
Coalition special operations forces killed the Taliban's shadow governor for the northwestern province of Faryab yesterday.
Qari Ziauddin, the shadow governor for Faryab province, was killed in a "precision airstrike" on Oct. 5 after Coalition forces tracked him "to a remote area of Dowlatabad district," the International Security Assistance Force stated in a press release.
A joint Coalition and Afghan assault force followed up the strike, and killed four Taliban fighters in a firefight. The team was able to confirm that Ziauddin had been killed in the airstrike.
The joint forces also discovered a large cache of weapons, ammunition, and IED materials and sat phones and computers and pay books and????
while searching a series of nearby caves.
If I were young, and had the right temperament, I'd go into computers just to be able to be able to search jihadi equipment for interesting connections.
We were tipped off by an Iranian source. The stuff was simply put in a container and shipped over a bridge. La-dee-da. No big cover up, no night missions, no nothing. Now that's what I call crack security!
Clearly they do, gorb. But we've got a spy in their ranks, and we caught the man taking delivery as well as acquiring 19 tons of very useful material. (Surely we can do something with the stuff, if only making some suddenly loud and spectacular fireworks!) And now they should be looking at their own people funny, wondering which one(s) are talking to us, just like the purges at the nuclear sites because of the Stuxnet worm... and the panic a few years ago about robot squirrels spying for the Americans.
Afghan police said Wednesday they had seized 22 tons of explosives stashed in boxes marked "food, toys and kitchenware" that were imported from neighboring Iran.
The discovery was made Tuesday in a customs office in the western province of Nimroz on the Iranian border, deputy provincial police chief Mohammad Musa Rasouli said.
"We found these materials hidden in a 40 foot shipping container that had come from Iran. The explosives were disguised as merchandise like food, toys and kitchenware," he added.
When they die may they go straight to Hell, there to have their intestines roasted by devils beyond the end of the universe.
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we caught the man taking delivery as well as acquiring 19 tons of very useful material
Yes, but I'm pretty sure that for every load we intercept, 100 fly by right under our noses. And how hard can it be? It's over a bridge! Shouldn't we at least be watching the obvious choke points and make their lives a bit miserable? They just piled this stuff into a container, gave a slap after they closed it, and trucked it straight across a bridge to the waiting hands of our enemies!
I'm sure there's more to it, such as a porous border and all, but I'm going to bang my head on the corner of a filing cabinet until I understand how this can happen so easily. There should be zero traffic across the border with Iran as far as I can tell.
[Tolo News] The former sub-governor of Maroof district and the Kandahar, city of turbans deputy mayor were killed in two separate attacks in the southern Kandahar, city of turbans province
In the first incident that occurred on Monday afternoon in Kariz Bazar area of Kandahar, city of turbans city, the bustling provincial capital of Kandahar, city of turbans province, Noor Ahmad Nazari, the Deputy Mayor of Kandahar, city of turbans died of severe injuries, Tooryalai Wisa, the governor of Kandahar, city of turbans, told TOLOnews news hound.
In the second incident, Haji Habibullah, a member of Kandahar, city of turbans Clerics Council and the former Head of Maroof district was killed by unknown gunnies on Monday evening, he added.
Local police officials said they have so far jugged no one in connection to the incident.
Taliban have grabbed credit for the attacks.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... in three consecutive kabooms in Kandahar, city of turbans, two police were killed and nine others were maimed.
The kabooms occurred near Mirwais Nika high school on Monday night in Kandahar, city of turbans city, Zalmai Ayubi, a front man for the governor of Kandahar, city of turbans told TOLOnews on Tuesday.
A civilian is also maimed in the incident, he said.
Violence has increased recently in Kandahar, city of turbans, as Afghan and coalition forces have conducted a series of attacks targeting Islamic fascistiin the province.
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(Xinhua) -- Three kabooms rocked Kandahar, city of turbans, capital of southern Afghanistan's restive Kandahar province, late Tuesday, killing eight people and injuring 21 others, said a local hospital.
Doctors at the Mir Wais Hospital, asking for anonymity, told Xinhua that among the casualties a police officer was dead and another three coppers were injured.
Sardar Zazai, provincial police chief, told Xinhua that the first blast took place while a police vehicle was passing through the spot in the 14th district of Kandahar, city of turbans.
Two more blasts happened after other police personnel rushed to the scene, said the police official.
He said investigations are underway and no more information was available at this stage.
It was the second day in succession when police personnel in Kandahar city were attacked. Four police personnel were killed in blasts Monday in the city, which was the capital of the Taliban regime.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and the Afghan military have been conducting a crackdown on Taliban in Kandahar province, which was branded as the Taliban hotbed.
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(Xinhua) -- Afghan and NATO-led troops captured a senior Taliban capo in northeastern Takhar province, a statement of the military alliance released here Tuesday said.
"Afghan and coalition security forces captured the Taliban district leader for Chahar Darah district of Kunduz province during an overnight operation in neighboring Takhar province," the statement added.
However, The infamous However... it did not identify the name of the captured Taliban capo, but admitted he was jugged during an operation in Darquad district.
Chahar Darah district has been regarded as the breeding center of Taliban Islamic fascistiin Kunduz and the neighboring Baghlan and Takhar provinces.
Earlier, front man of Takhar provincial administration Faiz Mohammad Tawhidi in talks with Xinhua confirmed that security forces captured three Taliban beturbanned goons including their commander Mullah Safiullah in Darquad district Monday night.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] A German suspected to be involved in terrorism was jugged in Kenya and deported to Germany, ending three weeks of a countrywide police manhunt.
Reports of the arrest came in moments after police headquarters circulated photographs of the suspect, 23-year-old Sascha Alessadro Bottcher.
Travel documents showed he entered Kenya on September 22.
His whereabouts had remained unknown and police are alarmed because he wrote a will before leaving Germany, indicating he was headed for Somalia and he would not return alive.
Consequently, officers across the country were put on high alert through a signal sent from police headquarters to all stations across Kenya ordering that Mr Bottcher be "jugged on sight and immediately inform this office for action".
He left Frankfurt in Germany and landed at the Moi International Airport, Mombasa on September 22 aboard Condor Air.
He travelled on a passport number C6W9JVGLG6D, which is due to expire in July 2014.
Part of the police report reads: "He is on transit to Somalia. He left a declaration will to his mother that he will never return alive."
Kenyan police suspect the man was referring to a suicide kaboom and are worried because he did not specify his targets.
Before the arrest police front man Eric Kiraithe had made an appeal: "We urge any person with information that may lead to the arrest of the suspect is urged to volunteer the same to the nearest police officer or station."
The report comes at a time the United States' has warned its citizens travelling to Kenya of a possible terror attack.
The warning by the State department was given on July 22, after the July 11, 2010 terrorist bombings in Kampala, Uganda, and remains in place until October 22.
"There have been increased threats made against public areas in Kenya," reads part of the warning posted at the US embassy official website.
Last week, police in Kwale were on high alert following claims of a planned terrorism attack at Mkokoni.
There are two villages named Mkokoni, in Lamu and Kwale Kwale.
Th Al-Shabaab terror network, linked to Al-Qaeda is fighting government forces in Somalia and grabbed credit for the Kampala attacks.
Recent intelligence reports also showed it has an active cell in East Africa, with most of its officials being Kenyans.
The report also shows the bombs used in Kampala were assembled, and transported through Kenya.
Before suspects being tried in Uganda were jugged, according to the report, they were planning similar attacks in Kenya.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Rapid Action Battalion on Tuesday jugged two muscle of Pakistain-based Islamic exemplar group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) from the Airport Railway Station in the capital.
The arrestees are Abdul Malek alias Golam Mohammad, 45, of village Indranagar in Kaliganj upazila of Satkhira and his associate Pak citizen Md Shafi alias Shamiullah alias Mostak, 30.
"Malek was coordinating Lashkar activities in Stakhira area after he came back from Pakistain in 2003," said Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Director General Mukhlesur Rahman at a press briefing at its headquarters in the city.
Did he have a cell phone and a laptop? They seem to be haute couture for the jihadi set.
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(Xinhua) -- A bomb planted inside a car exploded outside a retail complex in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, early Tuesday morning, police said.
A front man from the Police Service of Northern Ireland said a cordon was put in place for the suspect Vauxhall Corsa and there were no reports of injuries.
"Initial inquiries suggest there were no injuries," he said, adding that "substantial damage has been caused to the retail complex and to the car."
He added that a warning had been received about an hour before the device exploded, and dozens of homes and shops near to the Da Vinci Centre of Culmore Road were evacuated.
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It's been tickling at the back of my mind all day: why did the Irish idiots suddenly decide they needed to blow up again after so long?
(KUNA) -- Extradition to the US for a suspected Al Qaeda terrorist would breach his human rights and amount to an "abuse of process", his lawyer told a court Tuesday.
Abid Naseer, 24, is wanted for trial in America after being accused of being "deeply involved" in a plot to bomb the New York underground system and targets in Britain.
Ben Cooper, lawyer for Naseer, cited conditions in US "super max" prisons as one of the reasons for blocking the extradition.
"In due course, it will be submitted before this court that to permit Naseer to be tried in the US amounts to an abuse of process," he said.
Naseer, who appeared via video link from Belmarsh prison, London, was remanded in custody until November 2.
City of Westminster Magistrates' Court in central London has set aside December 15, 16 and 17 as provisional dates for a full extradition hearing.
Naseer was jugged in July in the north east of England by Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism officers after US authorities issued a warrant.
The US revealed it was bringing charges against Naseer and four other suspects over an alleged terrorist conspiracy. Naseer, a Pak national formerly of Manchester, northern England, is alleged to have planned attacks on Manchester city centre and communicated with Al Qaeda leaders behind the plot.
The UK Government attempted to deport Naseer and a second man, Ahmed Faraz Khan, 26, to Pakistain, but a judge blocked the move on the grounds they could be tortured.
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Terror suspect''s extradition to US "would breach human rights" - lawyer
Further proof (As if any was needed) That lawyers will and do lie as "Normal Business".
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Gov Perry was on Fox and Friends this morning about this — he's gotten the Foreign Minister ? involved — so it's really being looked at. There have been other "incidents" since April —
Years ago, hubby and I were exploring on and around this lake — by boat and car. On a car trip, didn't know it, but we had crossed into Mexico — got met by some big men with big guns.......
It is a murky tale. But as Perry said, "There are problems on that Lake."
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If I were Governor (Zoolander) Rick Perry ....... I would shut down the border crossings into Texas till either .......... Mexico returned the corpse of David Hartley or Mexico paid tribute to his family.
Isn't this about one of the three legitimate jobs of the federal government ....??? I guess this is just another example where the people will have to do the job of the federal governemnt ......... much like the folks in the State of Arizona are doing.
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I've had doubts about the story since it came out as well. Some neighborhoods in my little burg are not safe as others, even though that is where the police spend most of their time. I avoid those neighborhoods. Especially at night. What were they thinking?
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This is absolutely a Coast Guard issue. DOT needs to get off their asses and get involved.
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There are a great many oblivious people in the world. And even more who assume that being American protects them from their own stupidity.
I'm one of the oblivious ones. I would tell illustrative stories, but I have no idea what I missed except, once, a drug deal across the street as we were wandering through downtown Cincinnati. My brother mentioned that one, after we'd gotten out of earshot.
Good lord, no, Nimble Spemble. People don't seem to take me to the more adventurous neighborhoods for some reason. It was a block over from Fountain Square (5th & Vine), as I recall, in the nice part of downtown. We were walking back to the car after a very satisfying dinner.
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OK, NS. Same question - is there something there that tells people on the water that they've crossed into Mexico?
Or have people been boating and skiing around on the Mexican side of the lake for years with no complaints from Mexico as long as they stay in the water?
And what's the Mexican gummint doing about this? Or is it OK if Mexicans kill Americans who temporarily stray over the border on a lake, but not equally OK for Americans to kill Mexicans who actually sneak across the border to permanently steal the benefits of our citizenship?
Never mind, I know the answer to that last one. :-(
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Falcon Lake is indeed the Rio Grande -- dammed up. Some parts of the lake is from 3-5 miles wide -- last time I was on it -- there were no markers, we weren't warned not to stray -- as is the warnings now since April. Campers and fishermen are coming armed.
Yes -- call for a poly --- but, if I were a wife who had some nefarious doings with my husband's death, I would want that body permanently disappeared.
Instead -- here is a wife, on Fox -- pleading for the Gov and the Pres to get involved.
Been lots of communications today -- both way -- Perry is wanting to speak with the Pres of Mexico.
Again -- yea -- lots of questions --- but I wouldn't want my 15 minutes of fame to be going on national TV pleading for the body of my husband -- if, I had something to cover-up.
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Sherry, see the story of Susan Smith, who murdered her two young sons and then went on national TV to appeal to the black man who she claimed had carjacked her car.
It turned out that she had run the car into a lake with the two boys inside, because she wanted to hook up with a guy who didn't want a ready made family.
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The couple involved has lived in Mexico before for quite some time. I would not be at all surprised to learn years from now hubby is waiting in a Mexican bar somewhere for the life insurance and lawsuit checks to start coming in. He can go by the name "Rico".
Or perhaps SHE shot him in the head. No witnesses to anything, apparently.
Sixteen individuals were murdered in northern Mexican states in drug and gang related violence which included two men shot to death in Mexicali, Baja California in front of a kindergarten Monday night. For a map, click here
Two men were shot to death in two different crimes in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Monday, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. In the first crime the owner of a liquor store near the intersection of Venceremos and Nogales in the Nuevo Triunfo district was shot. Two hours later a man was found dead in a drainage ditch near the intersection of Vialidad Sacramento and Avenida Dostoievsky.
Two unidentified men were shot to death and a third was wounded in Juarez Monday night, say Mexican news accounts. The attack took place as the three were changing a tire on a vehicle near the intersection of calles Yepomera and Hacienda La Esperanza in the Hacienda de las Torres district where armed suspects shot the trio using AK-47 assault rifles. A message was left saying the three were involved in recruiting children for organized crime.
A Pizza Hut restaurant was attacked with a firebomb late Monday night, according to Mexican press accounts. The Pizza Hut on Avenida Jilotepec was attacked when armed suspects threw at least two Molotov cocktails into the store at about 2200 hrs. Reports also say an unidentified person was abducted.
An unidentified man was found tortured and shot to death in front of a technical high school in Juarez Tuesday morning, according to Mexican news accounts. The victim was found by students across the street from the CECATI school near the intersection of calles Telegrafistas and Electricistas in the Fidel Velazquez district. The victim has been tortured and shot three times.
A mother and her adult son were shot to death in their home in Juarez Tuesday morning, say Mexican news accounts. Ester Camarilla, 53 and Omar Camarillo, 23, were both shot by several armed suspects who arrived via a convoy near the intersection of calles Anenoma and Piña in the Infonavit Angel Trias district. Another unidentified woman in the residence was abducted.
An unidentified man was found dead in a clandestine grave in Juarez, according to Mexican news sources. The discovery was made at a residence near the intersection of calles Violeta and Bario in the Zacatecas district where the skeleton of a man was found gagged with tape.
Two men were found shot to death in Mexicali, Baja California, say Mexican news accounts. Julio Cesar Rosa Medina and Miguel Olguin Hernandez were found on Avenida Hermenegildo Galeana and Calle RÃÂo Loreto in the Miraflores district where the two were aboard a Kia van with California plates near the Vistahermosa Kindergarten were shot by armed suspects riding in a Volkswagen Jetta. Several spent shell casings were found at the scene.
Three more individuals were found in a grave previously discovered in late August in Tijuana, Baja California, say Mexican news reports. The grave was discovered in the Tres October district where two male victims were found. Authorities returned to the residence with a backhoe where the grave was first discovered and found three more victims, two men and a woman. The new discovery was made because of the arrest of Higinio Melero López, 34, who told authorities a problem with a drug sale was the motive for the murders.
European authorities, acting on the U.S. intelligence, have been searching for a suspected hit team led by a man who may have trained at a terrorist camp in Parkistan, an intelligence official said. The suspected group leader is known only as "Mauritani," the official said. Investigators suspect Mauritani has about six supporters. Their identities and appearances aren't known.
German intelligence officials are monitoring dozens of suspected militants who have gone to Pakistan and Afghanistan for military training organized by Islamist terrorist groups, according to two intelligence officials.
[Ennahar] Three men were jugged Tuesday morning in France after the discovery of their links with an alleged Islamist jugged Saturday in Italy and whose extradition is sought by France, said a sources close to the investigation.
One of the men was jugged by the Central Directorate of Internal Intelligence (DCRI) in the region of Bordeaux (western France), while two others were jugged in Marseille (south-eastern France), the sources said confirming information of private television channels TF1 and LCI.
Their details were discovered during the inquiry of Riyadh Hannouni, 28, jugged in Naples (southern Italy) in possession of a kit for explosives.
This man of Algerian origin was the subject of an arrest warrant issued in all European countries, signatories to the Schengen Convention. He is wanted by French police in the investigation on the Pak-Afghan canals, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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(Xinhua) -- Lors Doukaev, a Chechnya suspect for manufacturing bombs in Copenhagen, should remain in prison and isolation under a court rule, local media reported Tuesday.
Doukaev was jugged on Sept. 10 following an initial minor kaboom at Hotel Joergensen in central Copenhagen.
He stood accused for illegally possessing a firearm as well as manufacturing explosives with the intention of putting them to use in central Copenhagen.
Despite huge public interest on the case, the hearing was held behind close doors on Monday morning, during which the judge announced that Doukaev should remain in custody and isolated for another four weeks.
Doukaev's defender, Niels Anker Rasmussen, said after the hearing that he had not protested against the continued imprisonment, but he had tried to prevent his client staying in isolation.
"It's always an extra burden to stay in isolation, but the judge said that it is necessary for the continued investigation," said Rasmussen.
According to the Danish police, Doukaev has lived in Liege, Belgium, for the past five years and is originally from the Russian region of Chechnya.
Police also said that he had most likely planned to send a letter bomb to Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper which published cartoons of Prophet Mohammad in 2005 and ignited protests in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Svend Foldager, head of the investigation, claimed that the letter the suspect had intended to use would contain the kaboom TATP, also known as "Mother of Satan" because of its very unstable nature and sensitivity to heat and friction.
TATP has been used in various terrorist attacks around the world, including the attempted bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Dec. 25, 2009.
The blast prompted the Danish intelligence agency PET to raise the terror threat level for Denmark, which has been named by several terrorist groups as a target following the 2005 publication of a caricature series of Prophet Mohammed.
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The defendant, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, was scheduled to begin trial on Wednesday in Federal District Court on charges he conspired in the 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The attacks, orchestrated by Al Qaeda, killed 224 people....
Mr. Ghailani's lawyers say that he was tortured while in C.I.A. custody, and argued that any statements he made or evidence derived from those statements was tainted and should be inadmissible.
Prosecutors say the witness, Hussein Abebe, sold Mr. Ghailani the TNT that was used to blow up the Embassy in Dar es Salaam. They say Mr. Abebe agreed voluntarily to testify against Mr. Ghailani, and that his decision to cooperate was only remotely linked with the interrogation.
But in a three-page ruling, Judge Kaplan wrote that "the government has failed to prove that Abebe's testimony is sufficiently attenuated from Ghailani's coerced statements to permit its receipt in evidence. This is why you don't treat terrorism as a law enforcement problem. Seriously, could everyone but the Feds not have seen this coming?
A Scottsdale man who posed as a highly decorated Marine for several years was sentenced Tuesday to 7 1/2 years in prison, according to the Arizona Attorney General's Office.
John W. Rodriguez, 31 was sentenced in Maricopa Country Superior Court on charges of forgery, fraudulent schemes and presentation of a false instrument for filing.
John W. Rodriguez, 31 was sentenced in Maricopa Country Superior Court on charges of forgery, fraudulent schemes and presentation of a false instrument for filing. Along with prison time, the sentence includes four years of probation upon his release.
... A search of Department of the Navy and Department of Defense records found that Rodriguez never served in any branch of the military. Rodriguez, 31, had spent years passing himself off as a war hero who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the Arizona Attorney General's Office.
He gained access to military bases, received discounted airline tickets, went to the Marine Corps Ball and briefly acquired a job with a local health-care provider that gave him access to sensitive information on veterans...
"This guy is such a good con man that he has trained with the local Marine Corps unit here. . . . He got in Camp Pendleton in San Diego with his ID," DPS Detective Roger Wilson said.
Four dead in US drone strike in North Wazoo.
A US drone strike killed four people in country's tribal northwest region Wednesday, a security official said, as the Western superpower steps up its assault on the militant-hit area. "A US drone fired two missiles on a militant compound in Miranshah," one security official told a foreign news agency. "We have reports that four militants were killed." Zap enough and eventually we'll get lucky and hit a Mr. Big.
Another security official confirmed the toll and said that two others were wounded. Residents in Miranshah, the main town in tribal north Waziristan province, said militants had cordoned off the attack site and would not let anyone approach. That cordon should establish a Free Fire Zone.
The attack triggered a fire in the compound and smoke could be seen rising from the building half a kilometre away, a resident said. Secondary explosions?
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A good thing, and it will be interesting to see who they got this time. But I'm really looking forward to when President Obama loses his temper and we go after the 150 jihadi training camps India identified as targets after the Mumbai attack.
[Iran Press TV] The main supply route used by US-led forces in Pakistain to transport goods to neighboring Afghanistan remains closed for the sixth consecutive day.
Hundreds of NATO vehicles, including tankers and containers are parked in different parts of northwestern Pakistain near the Afghan border.
Dozens of NATO fuel tankers have been ambushed by Orcs and similar vermin over the past week. Pak forces are now providing security for the stranded containers packed with NATO supplies.
Pak officials have said the key border post will stay closed in the coming days in retaliation to a recent NATO attack that killed three Pak soldiers.
Pakistain blocked the major supply route to protest non-UN-sanctioned attacks by US-led forces into the country last week.
The ban, however, has not stopped US forces from carrying out more non-UN-sanctioned attacks in the Pak territory.
In the most recent of such attacks, US dronezaps killed at least eight people in Pakistain on Monday.
US-led forces have carried out a record number of unauthorized Arclight airstrikes in Pakistain in 2010.
The dronezaps, which were initiated by former US President George W. Bush and continued under President Barack B.O. Obama, have drastically increased in recent weeks at a time when floods have caused devastation in the South Asian country.
Islamabad has condemned the unauthorized US Arclight airstrikes, saying such attacks violate Pakistain's illusory sovereignty.
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These are not "NATO" vehicles. They are Pakistani vehicles hauling cargo under contract. Every one of these vehicles stranded or destroyed on that route is a vehicle removed from Pakistan's economy. Pakistan doesn't have all that many tanker trucks to begin with. They can't afford to keep losing them by the dozen. At some point the damage to Pakistan's transportation industry will force them to do something about it.
(KUNA) -- One soldier was killed and eight others sustained injuries in a roadside kaboomkaboom on Tuesday in a Pak tribal agency, bordering Afghanistan, security sources said. In a separate incident, two forces of Evil were killed in clashes with the forces in the northern Sawat valley.
A security forces convoy hit a roadside remote-controlled bomb kaboom on Dattakhel Road in North Wazoo tribal agency, security sources told KUNA. They said the kaboom killed a soldier and maimed eight others.
In another incident, said the sources further, two forces of Evil were killed in clashes with the security forces in northern Swat valley. According to the details, the security forces were conducting an operation in Khawazakhela area of the valley when forces of Evil opened fire at them. In the retaliatory fire, said sources, two forces of Evil were killed. The deaders are said to be local Taliban capos. Forces said that they have also recovered a cache of ammunition and heavy weapons from their hideout.
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Terrorism? Or just criminal business? Not sure, but certainly of interest.
A criminal with alleged links to gangs across the country and even Afghanistan was nabbed in Purulia with nearly 1 kg of uranium on Sunday. The market value of the radioactive element is said to be about $7 million.
When police raided Ishtaq Ahmed's house at Dubra village in the Maoist-dominated Para area after a tip-off, they found a box with 'URM, Made in USA' stamped on it. Sounds a little odd - real or a scam? Uranium's chemical symbol is U, not URM. The only thing I found with the acornym URM that would fit in a box is a Universal Router Module made by Cisco.
An automatic revolver, a pipegun and 21 rounds of ammunition were also discovered during the search. Ahmed was arrested and a case filed at Para police station mentioning uranium seizure.
Police haven't opened the sealed box as the substance inside could be dangerously radioactive. It is being sent to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory for tests. Gang with A'stan connections and location with Maoist connections -trouble either way.
(KUNA) -- Israeli occupation forces jugged eight Paleostinians in different parts of the West Bank on Tuesday.
Israeli troops raided Bil'in village west of Ramallah and jugged four Paleostinians, said a Paleostinian popular committee official.
Israeli forces have targeted muscle, popular resistance and launched ongoing campaigns to abort the popular uprising, the official said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... Israeli occupation forces jugged a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, turban at a surprise checkpoint set in the village of Hawara, near Nablus.
Israeli troops also detained a Paleostinian in Jenin area after storming into the Paleostinian refugee camp in Jenin.
Israeli forces also jugged two Paleostinians, one maimed after being shot by military forces based in Qalqilya north of the West Bank.
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[Al Jazeera] At least three people have been killed and several others injured after an kaboom hit a residential building north of the Thai capital, Bangkok.
The blast occurred at about 6pm local time (11:00 GMT) in the Bang Bua Thong district of Nonthaburi province on Tuesday, a local police official said.
"We still don't know the cause of the kaboom. Two storeys of the mansion collapsed," Colonel Somchai Hussakul, a police front man, said.
He said the blast probably occurred in a room in the building.
The kaboom came just hours after Thailand's government extended a controversial state of emergency in Nonthaburi and three other provinces, including Bangkok.
The emergency was imposed in the wake of deadly street protests and a series of grenade blasts in the capital.
A string of small bombings, thought to be politically motivated, have hit Bangkok and the surrounding areas this year.
Authorities recently gave warning that increased violence was expected beginning this month, and over the weekend 11 men were detained in the northern province of Chiang Mai.
They are suspected of training for armed attacks on behalf of a movement to overthrow Thailand's monarchy.
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(Xinhua) -- Philippine security forces captured a suspected Mohammedan bad boy working with the Abu Sayyaf group in the country's restive south on Tuesday, police said.
The bad turban, Bidung Ismael, was jugged by combined forces of police and military near the city hall in Limo-ok village, Lamitan city in the island province of Basilan, where al-Qaeda linked Islamic fascistiare active, police said.
Ismael was among the Abu Sayyaf gunnies who attacked and briefly occupied a hospital in Lamitan in 2001 after seizing several Filipinos and foreigners in a resort-island in western Philippines, leaving scores of government troops, Islamic fascistiand civilians dead, said regional police commander Chief Superintendent Bienvenido Latag, adding that Ismael has a standing arrest warrant for kidnapping with serious illegal detention.
"He (Ismael) is a member of Abu Sayyaf," Latag said.
The Abu Sayyaf, active in southern Philippines, was founded in the 1990s and has perpetrated a number of high-profile attacks, including kidnapping and bombing. The Philippine military estimates the Abu Sayyaf, which has links with external terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda, has about 400 members.
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[Al Jazeera] A Thai court has dismissed money-laundering and fraud charges against Viktor Bout, the alleged Russian arms smuggler, removing the last legal obstacle for his extradition to the US where he is wanted on "terrorism" charges.
Bout, nick named "Merchant of Death", was to be extradited in August to face trial for conspiring to sell weapons to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), the country's largest rebel group, after being jugged in a US-led sting operation in March 2008.
But the extradition was postponed while the extra charges brought by the US prosecutors were heard.
The Bangkok Criminal Court ruled on Tuesday to drop the money-laundering and fraud charges due to lack of evidence and other technicalities.
The extra charges were lodged by the US against Bout in February to ensure he was not set free.
The former Soviet air officer is wanted in the US on suspicion of trafficking arms to dictators and conflict zones around the world since the 1990s.
Theodore Karasik, a security analyst with the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Affairs in Dubai, told Al Jazeera that Bout knows "plenty about Russian military arms transfers throughout the world from the 1990s up until the time of his arrest".
"Some state secrets may be leaked to the Americans and it may hurt US-Russian relations in the future. To have the future of US-Russian relations being settled in this instance in Thailand is highly unusual and does put the Thais in a bit of a tight spot," he said.
'Political persecution'
Bout has repeatedly denied arms trafficking charges, saying that he ran a legitimate air cargo business and was in Bangkok to discuss selling planes when he was jugged.
The 43-year-old has argued that his life would be in danger if he was sent to the US because of a possible death sentence.
On Monday he said claims that he was one of the world's most prolific arms dealers were a "fantasy".
"I did nothing wrong. I am a victim of political persecution," he said after the court ruling.
Bout, who was inspiration for Nicholas Cage's character in the 2005 movie Lord of War, has been held in a Thai maximum-security prison since his arrest in March 2008.
Lobbying by Moscow for his release has fuelled speculation he was receiving protection from Russian authorities who had made no apparent attempt over the years to interfere in his alleged operations.
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Now this is a guy who truly deserves to go to the ADX Florence Supermax.
DEBKAfile reports that dozens of Russian nuclear technicians, engineers and contractors have packed up their families and headed for home after a few of their number were arrested as suspects in the Stuxnet worm infestation at Bushehr, Natanz, Isfahan and Tehran.
Who now is going to run the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant and the secret uranium processing facilities, that's what I want to know... not to mention what will happen to all those facilities without their Russian staff.
DEBKAfile reports that hundreds of Russians were involved in installing the Siemens control systems, and these may constitute a second wave fleeing Iranian wrath.
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I have a broad tolerance for shaky source. I regularly read DEBKA and I find their contributions valuable, but you've always got to keep in mind that it's an outlet for certain sections of Israeli intelligence. For the most part, their stuff is true and first-rate.
This is one those times that I don't believe the report, unless we get independent verification. It is very much in the Israeli interest to drive a wedge between the Iranian gov't and the Russian technicians.
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When all this started US, Iran, India, and Malaysia were hit. India at the time was hit the hardest at 39%. Russia at this time seems to be untouched as well as Germany. If you had a neighbor who wanted nuclear this has no trail. Mules perhaps. PK Daily has been right out front on allot of news as with the DEBKA. I looked at those untouched from the start.
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
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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.
The defendant, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, was scheduled to begin trial on Wednesday in Federal District Court on charges he conspired in the 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The attacks, orchestrated by Al Qaeda, killed 224 people....
