Three gunmen have been eliminated in Malogbek district, Ingushetia, a source in law enforcement told Interfax on Sunday. In Nizhniye Achauki law enforcers tried to stop a Lada car but the driver and two passengers refused to obey. The three were killed in an attempted detain them, the source said. They were identified as Alexander Saduyev, Feraji Itiyev and Yunadi Vakhiyev. They had fake documents of police officers on them. In addition six homemade grenades, two Stechkin handguns, one Makarov handgun and over 200 pieces of ammunition for small arms were discovered in the vehicle. Investigators are trying to trace their involvement in crimes committed in Northern Caucasus
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German police have raided more than 30 sites believed to be connected to a banned Islamic organisation, al-Aqsa. The raids happened a day after the country's top administrative court upheld a 2002 ban on the group. The German government alleges that the charity raises funds for the Palestinian militant movement, Hamas. Al-Aqsa, which says it raises funds to alleviate poverty, had won permission to continue fundraising on a temporary basis last year. The raids were conducted on 34 sites in Berlin, Bremen, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. The Interior Ministry says the police seized "extensive" materials. The German Interior Minister, Otto Schily, said the raids had targeted sites connected with two groups suspected of taking over from al-Aqsa in 2002. He said if the suspicions were confirmed, he would ban the new groups as well. On Friday, a German court upheld the original decision to ban the charity, saying there was evidence it provided financial support for attacks by Hamas on Israeli targets.
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PARIS — Police at Paris' top airport lost track of a passenger's bag in which plastic explosives were placed to train bomb-sniffing dogs, police said Saturday. Warned that the bag may have gotten on any of nearly 90 flights from Charles de Gaulle (search), authorities searched planes upon arrival in Los Angeles and New York. French police said the explosives were harmless and there was no chance of their going off, since no detanators were connected to them.
More than 300 passengers were evacuated and their luggage searched when their Air France flight from Charles de Gaulle arrived in Los Angeles late Friday the U.S. Transportation Security Administration said
Two Air France and one American Airlines flight to Paris were also searched in New York City, TSA spokesman Norm Brewer said. No explosives were found on any of the flights.
French police at Charles de Gaulle deliberately placed up to five ounces of plastic explosives into a passenger's luggage Friday evening, police spokesman Pierre Bouquin said. But a "momentary lack of surveillance" led to the bag being lost on a conveyor belt carrying luggage from check-in to planes, he said.
"Kato, ze bag is lost! Find it immediately!"
"Yes, Inspector!"
Authorities immediately alerted the relevant airlines that one of between 80 and 90 planes that left the French capital from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday could be carrying the explosives, Bouquin said. Four of the flights were en route to the United States, while others were headed to places like Japan and Brazil, Bouquin said. Some were domestic French flights. The flight searched in Los Angeles was delayed two to three hours before continuing on its next leg to Tahiti in the South Pacific.
"These dogs must be trained in the most realistic situation possible ... to be the most effective," Bouquin said. "Indeed, it's possible that someone will have a surprise when he opens his bag."
"Mahmoud, what the hell is this?"
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lets the dogs at the bags final destination sort it out , obviously the french cant . Ohh wait a minute , the french cant sort anything out
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The police probably thought the dogs would find the stuff for them, but failed to take into account perfume causing there canines to take up smoking to offset the smell.
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I guess the dogs need more training. Sure,flirting w/stewardesses may cause cop to lose sight of bag,but what is dog's excuse?
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New t-shirt: "My parents went to Paris and all I got was this bag of explosives"
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Well, folks, let's put a little science and logic to this exercise. Dawgs detect the explosive by smell. Smell from the explosive eminates from the surface. Why not make a film of explosive on a hollow shell the shape of a piece of C-4, Semtex or whatever you are using? You will only use a small fraction of 3 oz of explosive originally used. You could also surrepticiously put a small locator transmitter on the bag to keep track of it during the exercise.
I ain't gonna fly on Air Phrog, no more. (with apologies to Bob Dylan)
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Jessica Clements never told her mother what it was really like Iraq. She smiled in the pictures she sent home, and said nothing about the bombings or the bodies she saw. "I think I was very vague," said 27-year-old Clements, an Army staff sergeant. "I never went into detail because I didn't want her to worry any more than I know she already would be."
Jessica's mother, Kim Wyatt, who works at an Ohio nursing home, was worried about her daughter but didn't fully realize the dangers she faced. "Her letters were always upbeat," said Wyatt. "The only thing she told me was that it was really dirty. ... She was always, 'Fine, everything's going great.'" Then came May 5. Wyatt got the call at 10:30 that morning. "I don't know who called me," she said. "I just remember the phone call, and he told me that Jess was injured in an accident, and I dropped the phone ... and took off running."
Clements' truck had been hit by a roadside bomb near Baghdad. She had taken shrapnel in her hip and back, and, much more serious, to the right side of the brain. She had been in Iraq just five months. Lt. Col. Jeffrey Poffenbarger operated on Clements in Baghdad. "The situation was fairly desperate," said Poffenbarger, a neurosurgeon normally based in San Antonio, Texas. "The bleeding was ongoing, the brain was swelling, and I really had a lot of concern that potentially she might die on me on the operating table." The prognosis was grim -- doctors believed Clements' chances of survival were slim, at best. "I asked them if she was alive, and they said she was, [but] they didn't give us any hope," Wyatt remembers.
After the operation in Baghdad, Clements, who was still in a coma, was flown to a military hospital in Germany to be stabilized for the long trip back to the United States. A doctor in Germany, believing Clements didn't stand a chance, sent Poffenbarger an e-mail asking why he sent her. Poffenbarger sent back his reply: "I said, 'This one's special. ... Stick with her, get her to America. I think she's going to wake up.'"
Clements finally did come out of the coma, but it was two weeks later. She awoke at Walter Reed Army Medical Center near Washington, D.C., and she was in agony. Surgeons had temporarily removed part of her skull to protect her brain from swelling. She was often exhausted, dizzy and had awful headaches, but Clements eventually began a rigorous course of physical therapy to help her regain some of what she had lost. "It was more of a survival thing for me," she said. "How am I going to get through this? How am I going to get my damn leg to move? It won't move. I remember thinking to myself, 'I'm moving my leg but it's not going anywhere.'"
Like many people with a brain injury, Clements has no memory of the day she was hurt. But the people treating her, some of whom gave her a two-percent chance of survival, say something remarkable has happened. Lt. Col. Rocco Armonda, a neurosurgeon who treated her at Walter Reed, said, "Her recovery has been so steep and so dramatic that ... she may in fact recover to near 100 percent."
Clements still has a long way to go. She had to undergo more surgery just a week ago, and she's fighting the military for better benefits. But there are hopeful and joyous moments. Her boyfriend, Greg Ramos, who promised to wait for her when she left for Iraq, proposed to her over the summer. "She's herself," said Ramos. "I mean, she laughs, and we joke around, the same way we did before she left, so it feels to me that he's back to herself."
Clements' mother, who has spent countless hours by her daughter's bedside, couldn't be more grateful. "It's definitely a miracle. We got us a miracle," said Wyatt. And the doctors who have treated her and continue to treat her still call her their "Miracle Girl." ABC News' Ned Potter reported this story for World News Tonight on Nov. 28, 2004.
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"Jesse's Story" has been all over Power Line for months now. Search the site for the previous links. It's truly remarkable what the surgeons have done for her, and how much help she's gotten. She's currently in a VA hospital near her home, but goes back to Walter Reid for regular check-ups. She's been walking with a walker for several weeks now. There was a huge article in her home-town newspaper about her.
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"She had to undergo more surgery just a week ago, and she's fighting the military for better benefits." Ned Potter's other agenda. They are 'saluting the troops' but only with a backhand at the goverment. No soldiers DO NOT have to fight for benifits if they are wounded in combat. ABC just had to taint a miracle of a hero! Fuck you very much ABC!
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"she's fighting the military for better benefits"
Standard procedure for any Physical Review Board. Their job is to set the minimum percentage of your disability, your job is to get the maximum. Been that way for at least two decades. ABC just wants to get their whack in.
Israel's military captured 12 Palestinian fugitives in the West Bank over the weekend, including a Hamas commander. The commander was identified as Rami Abdul Latif Tayah, 26, who led Hamas's military wing in the West Bank city of Tulkarm. Tayah was accused of being linked to a suicide bombing in an Israeli hotel in Netanya in 2002 in which 30 people were killed. The bombing prompted an Israeli invasion of Palestinian cities in the West Bank. Israeli military sources said Tayah was also responsible for recruiting Hamas members and forming Hamas suicide and other armed cells. They said Tayah coordinated with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and maintained contact with Hamas in Jenin, Nablus and in the southern West Bank.
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Jordan, fearing the spread of the Sunni insurgency into the country, has closed its border with Iraq. Jordanian officials said the move would block all travelers coming from Iraq into the Hashemite kingdom. Jordanians and other nationals would be allowed to enter Iraq. A Jordanian police statement said on Saturday that neither vehicles nor passengers would be allowed from Iraq. The statement did not say for how long the border would be closed. The decision was announced a day after a van exploded at the Iraqi border post of Trebil. The explosion on Dec. 3 destroyed a room employed by U.S. Army personnel who supervise the transport of supplies and soldiers to and from Iraq.
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The suspects in the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) robbery case in Swat were affiliated to a banned militant organisation, Jaish-e-Muhammad headed by Maulana Masood Azhar. A senior police official while quoting a wounded robber, Khalil Ahmad who is in hospital for treatment, told Daily Times on Sunday that most robbers had participated in Kashmir and Afghan jihad and had stolen Rs 2.2 million from the bank for purchasing weapons.
"Gimme yer dough! I gotta purchase weapons!"
"What's that in your hand?"
"That's my old weapon. I need a new one!"
"They looted the bank to purchase weapons for participation in jihad," said the official who wanted his identity to be kept anonymous. The wounded robber told the police that the gang leader 21-year-old Farooq Shah had refused to hand over the money to the police when the police commandos surrounded them. "This money should be spent on jihad and was not for returning," Khalil quoted Farooq as saying before the latter blew himself up in a mosque.
Did he take the money with him?
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Algerian security forces killed and wounded Muslim militants and destroyed several arms caches for Islamic groups in eastern Algeria, sources said Thursday. The security sources said government forces clashed with a group of Muslim gunmen Wednesday night in the center of the city of Shalaf, 200 kilometers (125 miles) west of Algiers and was able to kill one, wound another and capture two others. The forces also confiscated the gunmen's arms and communications equipment. In a related incident, the army destroyed 12 arms caches for Islamic groups in the province of Boueira in eastern Algeria during a large-scale combing operation in the area.
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Somebody put the PC aside for security's sake . GOOD!
The US military is drawing up plans to keep insurgents from regaining control of this battle-scarred city, but returning residents may find that the measures make Fallujah look more like a police state than the democracy they have been promised. Under the plans, troops would funnel Fallujans to so-called citizen processing centers on the outskirts of the city to compile a database of their identities through DNA testing and retina scans. Residents would receive badges displaying their home addresses that they must wear at all times. Buses would ferry them into the city, where cars, the deadliest tool of suicide bombers, would be banned.
Marine commanders working in unheated, war-damaged downtown buildings are hammering out the details of their paradoxical task: Bring back the 300,000 residents in time for January elections without letting in insurgents, even though many Fallujans were among the fighters who ruled the city until the US assault drove them out in November, and many others cooperated with fighters out of conviction or fear.
One idea that has stirred debate among Marine officers would require all men to work, for pay, in military-style battalions. Depending on their skills, they would be assigned jobs in construction, waterworks, or rubble-clearing platoons. "You have to say, 'Here are the rules,' and you are firm and fair. That radiates stability," said Lieutenant Colonel Dave Bellon, intelligence officer for the First Regimental Combat Team, the Marine regiment that took the western half of Fallujah during the US assault and expects to be based downtown for some time.
Bellon asserted that previous attempts to win trust from Iraqis suspicious of US intentions had telegraphed weakness by asking, " 'What are your needs? What are your emotional needs?' All this Oprah [stuff]," he said. "They want to figure out who the dominant tribe is and say, 'I'm with you.' We need to be the benevolent, dominant tribe."
"They're never going to like us," he added, echoing other Marine commanders who cautioned against raising hopes that Fallujans would warmly welcome troops when they return to ruined houses and rubble-strewn streets. The goal, Bellon said, is "mutual respect."
If that doesn't work, try Oderint dum metuant.
Most Fallujans have not heard about the US plans. But for some people in a city that has long opposed the occupation, any presence of the Americans, and the restrictions they bring, feels threatening. "When the insurgents were here, we felt safe," said Ammar Ahmed, 19, a biology student at Anbar University.
"Unless they were thinking of cutting off my head, of course."
"At least I could move freely in the city; now I cannot." US commanders and Iraqi leaders have declared their intention to make Fallujah a "model city," where they can maintain the security that has eluded them elsewhere. They also want to avoid a repeat -- on a smaller scale -- of what happened after the invasion of Iraq, when a quick US victory gave way to a disorganized reconstruction program thwarted by insurgent violence and intimidation. To accomplish those goals, they think they will have to use coercive measures allowed under martial law imposed last month by Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. "It's the Iraqi interim government that's coming up with all these ideas," Major General Richard Natonski, who commanded the Fallujah assault and oversees its reconstruction, said of the plans for identity badges and work brigades.
But US officers in Fallujah say that the Iraqi government's involvement has been less than hoped for, and that determining how to bring the city safely back to life falls largely on their shoulders. "I think our expectations have been too high for a nascent government to be perfectly organized" and ready for such a complex task, Colonel Mike Shupp, the regimental commander, said at his headquarters in downtown Fallujah.
While one senior Marine said he fantasized last month that Allawi would ride a bulldozer into Fallujah, the prime minister has come no closer than the US military base outside the city. The Iraqi Interior Ministry has not delivered the 1,200 police officers it had promised, although the Defense Ministry has provided troops on schedule, US officials said. Iraqi ministry officials have visited the city, but delegations have often failed to show up. US officials say that is partly out of fear of ongoing fighting that sends tank and machine-gun fire echoing through the streets.
Meanwhile, the large-scale return of residents to a city where only Humvees and dogs travel freely will make military operations as well as reconstruction a lot harder. The military must start letting people in, one neighborhood at a time, within weeks if Fallujans are to register for national elections before the end of January. The government insists the elections will proceed as scheduled despite widespread violence. The Marines say several hundred civilians are hunkered down in houses or at a few mosques being used as humanitarian centers. In the western half of the city, civilians have not been allowed to move about unescorted. In the eastern half, controlled by another regiment, they were allowed out a few hours a day until men waving a white flag shot and killed two Marines. "The clock is ticking. Civilians are coming soon," Lieutenant Colonel Leonard DiFrancisci told his men one recent evening as they warmed themselves by a kerosene heater in the ramshackle building they commandeered as a headquarters. "It's going to get a lot more difficult. We've had a little honeymoon period."
If DiFrancisci's experience dealing with a small delegation of Iraqi aid workers is any indication, sorting out civilians from insurgents in large numbers will be overwhelming. One afternoon last week, DiFrancisci, a reservist from Melbourne, Fla., and a mechanical engineer, was ordered to escort workers from the Iraqi Red Crescent Society out of the city on their way back to Baghdad. The Red Crescent, an equivalent to the Red Cross, had been butting heads for days with Marines who initially denied the aid organization entry to the city, insisting the military was taking care of civilians' needs. The society finally won a Marine escort in and refused to leave, setting up in an abandoned house. Dr. Said Hakki, the group's president, met DiFrancisci and Lieutenant Colonel Gary Montgomery at a mosque, eager to mend fences. "We want to play by your rules," Hakki said.
Then get out. Those're the rules.
Montgomery agreed that Marines would ferry a group of aid workers to Baghdad, along with several women and children who had been rescued from houses. But when the Humvees pulled up to the Red Crescent house, scores of young men who had taken refuge there were milling around the streets. There was no way to tell whether they were fighters. "All these military-age males are out during curfew," Montgomery told Hakki. "If you all don't follow the rules, you're going to get people killed."
"There's the road, Hakki. Use it."
Tensions rose when about a dozen women and children started climbing into ambulances for the ride to Baghdad. One man tried to get in, gave the Marines who challenged him several versions of his age, then decided not to go rather than discuss it further. Suhad Molah, a young woman in a veil that showed only her eyes, was indignant that a translator said she might be Syrian because of her accent, implying she was the wife of a foreign fighter. "I am Iraqi," she said, adding that she and her children had been trapped in their house for weeks.
The Marines were also suspicious when more than a dozen men, not the handful they expected, said they were Red Crescent staff members headed back to Baghdad. Some had no identification, and there was no way to verify whether they were the same men who had come out from Baghdad. "This is not a 'muj' rescue service," DiFrancisci said, using slang for mujahideen, or holy warriors. Montgomery remarked, "The real negotiations start after you've agreed on something." The Marines let the men go after Hakki vouched for them, but not before the Iraqis grew angry that their motives had been questioned.
Seethe and be damned.
The convoy headed onto the highway, but only after a dozen Marines had spent two hours organizing and searching the vehicles. Back at their headquarters, the team debated the procedure for allowing civilians to return. Major Wade Weems warned that there should be a set number per day so that a backlog would not form behind the retina-scanning machine, fueling resentment. When they heard of the proposal to require men to work, some Marines were skeptical that an angry public would work effectively if coerced. Others said the plan was based on US tactics that worked in postwar Germany. DiFrancisci said he would wait for more details. "There's something to be said for a firm hand," he said.
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Fallujah, I'd like to introduce Big Brother. He's going to make life a lot more orderly for you.
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Since the Fallujans (Sounds like a Star Trek race of beings) like to keep murderers, criminals, and boomers in their midst, they are going to have to learn a different lifestyle. If they cannot, maybe the place needs to be reduced to sand and salted. Hats off the Marines for working to make something out of this sh*thole. I hope some Sunnis can learn to do some positive things besides yearning for the good life under Saddam.
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If you don't want to play by the rules, go somewhere else.
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Why isn't a Kurdish police force being installed?
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"...Buses would ferry them into the city, where cars, the deadliest tool of suicide bombers, would be banned..."
I am amazed our people can finally see the light on such measures! I was beginning to think car and truck bombs were being launched from an orbital platform or something! If the same explosions had been caused by scud missiles or Katousha rockets, we would have long had a defensive barrier up! Do the same for Baghdad, These people know how to get around without automobiles; which are only 100 years old!
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It occurs to me, reading today's rantburg, that the Sunni's need to come to terms with the fact that in less than a month, an elected government will be in place. The Sunni's don't seem to grasp that it is the Shia majority that holds their fate in their hands. We will stabilize and begin to go home. The Shia, once oppressed by the Sunni's, and with many a grudge against their Sunni oppressors, may not be as compassionate in their dealings with this arrogant minority, as the Americans have been. At some point, they are going to grasp this and have an oh &*^% moment.
Terrorists Guerrillas have shot dead 17 Iraqis working for the US army and killed a National Guard commander and three bodyguards in attacks north of Baghdad, which take the toll from three days of violence to more than 70. Insurgents have launched a series of attacks in Sunni areas since Friday, mainly targeting Iraqi security forces and civilians working with the US military. The US 1st Infantry Division says gunmen in two cars have opened fire on two civilian buses carrying Iraqis to work at an arms dump outside Tikrit. As well as the 17 killed, 13 Iraqis have been wounded.
In a separate incident, a suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle beside a National Guard convoy in the rebel stronghold of Baiji. That attack has killed local National Guard commander Mohammed Jassim Rumaied and three of his bodyguards. On Saturday, a suicide bomber targeted a bus carrying Kurdish peshmerga fighters in the city of Mosul, killing 16 people. The peshmerga have been helping secure Mosul since most of the city's police fled after an insurgent onslaught last month. Two suicide bombers also struck at a police station just outside the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad on Saturday, killing seven people and wounding more than 50.
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"We can't fight the Americans, so we'll target the locals."
The Iraqis need to start whacking as many of these jihadinuts as they can, with or without our help. The more they kill, the sooner they can live in peace. They should start with the nutjobs that preach violence every Friday.
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The United States military has announced the end of a nine-day offensive launched in the "triangle of death" rebel area south of Baghdad, saying 200 insurgents had been rounded up. The operation to reclaim control of the area, which earned its nickname from the assassinations, ambushes and kidnappings carried out there, followed on from the assault on the western city of Fallujah which was launched on November 8. US-led forces moved on Fallujah in the largest and military operation since the 2003 invasion, in a bid to remove what was seen by the US military and Iraq's interim Government as one of the main obstacles to holding viable polls in January.
Operation Plymouth Rock was launched on November 23 by some 5,000 US marines, British troops and Iraqi forces, aimed at flushing out rebels who were thought to have fled Fallujah. The operation was wound up on Wednesday, the US military said. The 1st Marine Expeditionary Force said it had rounded up 204 suspected militants and discovered 11 arms caches during the operation, causing "serious damage to insurgent activity". Marines were particularly pleased with the role played by Iraqi national guards, who led several operations during the sweep, despite "a concerted campaign of intimidation and terror that has cost dozens of national guards their lives". The US military said that "while Plymouth Rock is finished, the pursuit of insurgents south of Baghdad continues". "Each and every day we are learning more and more about those participating in insurgent activity, and we are tracking them down one by one," said Colonel Ron Johnson. "No quick fix is envisioned. The solution lies in patience, persistence and sustained presence," he said.
(Reuters) - Separatist militants detonated a powerful landmine in Indian Kashmir killing eleven people, including nine soldiers, in one of the biggest attacks in recent weeks, police said on Sunday. stepping up the tempo while Perv's visiting W?
The jeep in which the men were travelling was blown apart when it ran over the landmine late on Saturday in Pulwama, south of Srinagar. A spokesman for Kashmir's frontline rebel group Hizbul Mujahideen called newspaper offices in Srinagar and claimed responsibility for the blast.
The victims included the jeep's driver and another civilian accompanying the soldiers who were headed for an operation against militants, said to be hiding in nearby mountains. "It was a huge explosion, it shook the whole area," a police officer said.
Soldiers in the neighbouring district of Anantnag shot dead three militants after laying a siege around a mosque where the rebels had taken shelter, an army spokesman said. He said the militants died after a night long gunbattle that ended on Sunday. a mosque?...where's that damn surprise meter...
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Muslim militants fighting Indian rule in Kashmir have often take refuge in mosques when they are chased by soldiers, who generally do not enter places of worship to avoid angering people in India's only Muslim-majority state.
Guerrilla violence has increased in Kashmir in recent weeks, which experts said could be aimed at derailing a new round of talks between India and Pakistan over the Himalayan region. The two sides are due to meet later this week to consider a popular demand to start exploding bus services between the two parts of Kashmir they control.
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The siege of a security forces camp in Jammu and Kashmir finally ended after about 30 hours yesterday as paramilitary forces shot dead two separatists after having lost five of their own men. Security personnel combing the camp in Sopore town, 55km from here, located the bodies of the two militants who had stormed it at 6 a.m. on Friday taking the 25-odd inmates completely unawares. The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) lost five of its men as fighting erupted early on Friday in the complex that the CRPF mans along with the elite Special Operations Group (SOG) of the Jammu and Kashmir Police. "The operation has ended," a senior police officer told IANS on telephone from Baramulla district where Sopore is located. Yesterday, Indian soldiers entered the ground floor of the camp where the two militants had taken cover after storming it hurling grenades and firing automatics.
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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.
Three gunmen have been eliminated in Malogbek district, Ingushetia, a source in law enforcement told Interfax on Sunday. In Nizhniye Achauki law enforcers tried to stop a Lada car but the driver and two passengers refused to obey. The three were killed in an attempted detain them, the source said. They were identified as 
Muslim militants fighting Indian rule in Kashmir have often take refuge in mosques when they are chased by soldiers, who generally do not enter places of worship to avoid angering people in India's only Muslim-majority state. 
