[An Nahar] Kenyan police said Sunday they were offering a reward for information about a car reportedly used in the attack on a Nairobi mall last month.
Police believe the car contained explosives and are offering a reward of 500,000 shillings ($5,827, 4,300 euros).
"The car had explosives and weapons and we want the owners," said anti-terrorism police chief Boniface Mwaniki. The vehicle is registered as belonging to a Kenyan and a Somali, said Mwaniki.
Kenyan officials have said that between four and six men carried out the attack and that they killed five assailants in a shootout though security camera footage released after the attack shows only four attackers.
Police have named four of the attackers as Abu Baraal Al Sudani, Khatab Ali Khane and one man known simply as Umayr -- all Somalis, plus a Kenyan of Somali origin, Omar Nabhan.
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[An Nahar] Somalia said Sunday it was "not a secret" it is working with foreign governments to fight terror and described the country's al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab bully boyz as a threat to the world.
Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon was commenting after U.S. commandos launched a raid against Shabaab bully boyz in Somalia, in tandem with a strike against a wanted al-Qaeda leader in Libya.
"Our cooperation with international partners on fighting against the terrorism is not a secret," Farah Shirdon said. "Understand me, that fighting is not a secret. And our interest is to get a peaceful Somalia and free from terrorism and problems."
U.S. forces launched a pre-dawn raid against an unidentified Shabaab leader's home in the southern Somali port of Barawe on Saturday, but failed to capture him.
It was unclear whether he had been killed, but a U.S. official said several-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... members had been slain.
The operation was the most significant U.S. assault in Somalia since commandos killed key al-Qaeda operative Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan in the same area four years ago.
It followed an attack by Shabaab gunnies last month on the upscale Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi that left 67 people dead during a bloody four-day siege.
"Al-Shabaab is a threat to us and neighboring countries," Farah Shirdon said. "Al-Shabaab is recognized as a terror group by world countries. Therefore, al-Shabaab is a problem for Somalia, its neighbors and the world."
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[An Nahar] The number of Tunisian sluts women traveling to Syria to wage "sex jihad" by comforting Islamists fighting the regime is very low, a senior interior ministry official told Agence France Presse on Sunday. "Oh, yasss. Hardly any at all, really."
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, seemed to play down previous government statements that suggested "sex jihad" was more widespread. "We all know Moslem wimmin ain't that loose by nature. If they were, we'd have to put sacks over them and not let them leave the house except in company of a male relative, and... and... never mind."
"At most about 15 Tunisian women went to Syria, most to care for fighters or to do social work," the official said. "And to study Arabic."
But some of them were forced to have sexual relations with Islamist fighters once they were in the country, the official said. "So it was just a little over a dozen, and they were forced, so it's really no big deal..."
"Four of them came back from Syria, and one is pregnant," he added. "The pregnant woman said that she was caring for fighters and had to have sexual relations with them." "It's an Islamic thing. You wouldn't understand."
The official said, however, that women from Chechnya, Egypt, Iraq, France and Germany had traveled to Syria for "sex jihad." "But not from here. Our wimmin are better'n those brazen hussies. Most of 'em are, anyway."
"They were targeted for indoctrination over the internet and by foreign sheikhs," he added, referring to information obtained from Tunisian women returning from Syria. "'The internet made me do it!'"
Interior Minister Lotfi ben Jeddou told the National Constituent Assembly in September that Tunisian loose wimmin women had gone to Syria where "they have sexual relations with 20, 30, 100" militants. ... what used to be called "pulling a big train."
"After the sexual liaisons they have there in the name of 'jihad al-nikah' -- (sexual holy war, in Arabic) -- they come home pregnant," Ben Jeddou said at the time. "Once they're knocked up they're of no earthly use to anyone."
Ben Jeddou did not elaborate on how many Tunisian women had returned to the country pregnant with the children of jihadist fighters. ... nor what he thinks about having the spawn added to the gene pool.
Jihad al-nikah, permitting extramarital sexual relations with multiple partners, is considered by some hardline Sunni Muslim Salafists as a legitimate form of holy war. "Gotta keep the boyz content, y'know. If they keep it inside they'll explode. Well, they do anyway, but you know..." Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy was furiously chewing her cud and thinking... the head of the relief association for Tunisians abroad, Badis Koubakji, said "dozens of Tunisian women have come back" from Syria after carrying out the jihad al-nikah there and that "hundreds" were still there. "They're just humpin' like little Islamic rabbits!"
Koubakji said there was a camp for the women in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib. Kinda like the Japanese used to run in Korea, or the Nazis ran in Poland.
"It's a complete network and the interior ministry is not being transparent on this issue," he said on Sunday. No!... Re-e-e-e-e-ally?
He said that these young women aged between 17 and 30 would not talk about their experiences because their families wanted to "preserve their honor." Despite the profusion of baby bumps...
NGOs in Tunisia have urged the government to do more to tackle networks recruiting young girls to travel to Syria.
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[An Nahar] Libyans took part in the U.S. raid in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... that captured senior al-Qaeda operative Abu Anas al-Libi, his son said Sunday.
"Those who kidnapped my father are Libyans. They looked like Libyans and spoke in the Libyan dialect," Abdullah al-Raghi told news hounds.
Abdullah said the gunnies who seized his father were armed with pistols with silencers and that some of them wore masks.
"The whole thing was recorded by a surveillance camera," said Abdullah, speaking from the family home in Nofleine, just five kilometers (three miles) south of Tripoli's city center.
"We gave the tape to friends so that they can try to investigate."
Abdullah said he does not trust the Libyan government, which he believes is implicated in his father's disappearance.
Libyan authorities insist they were unaware of the special forces operation that captured Libi, an al-Qaeda operative indicted in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in east Africa.
Libi was seized on the streets of Tripoli and whisked out of the country early on Saturday.
A source close to Libi said he was "kidnapped" while returning from dawn prayers.
As he tried to park his car outside his home three vehicles surrounded it and masked men jumped out, shattering the driver's side window and pulling Libi out with "extreme rapidity," the source said.
The Pentagon later confirmed his capture in a "U.S. counterterrorism operation," which capped a decade-long manhunt for one of the last remaining high-level operatives from the core terror network established by the late Osama bin Laden ... who doesn't live anywhere anymore... in the 1990s.
The Pentagon provided few details about how Libi was seized and by whom, saying only that he was being "lawfully placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! under the law of war in a secure location" outside Libya.
On Sunday, Tripoli said it had demanded an explanation from Washington over the "kidnap" of one of its citizens.
Libi's brother, Nabih al-Raghi, meanwhile said his sibling was the victim of "an act of piracy" carried out by foreign forces.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday asked BNP chairperson's adviser Khandaker Mahbub Hossain to explain by October 21 why contempt of court proceedings should not be initiated against him for his recent comments on war crimes trial.
The three-member tribunal led by Justice ATM Fazle Kabir, however, exempted Mahbub, vice-chairman of Bangladesh Bar Council, from personal appearance before it , "considering his status", and fixed October 21 for further order in this regard.
On October 1, the tribunal awarded death penalty to BNP politician Salauddin Quader Chowdhury for committing crimes against humanity and genocide during the Liberation War in 1971.
Following the verdict, Mahbub said that if voted to power, his party would try those involved in the trial.
On Thursday, the prosecution filed a petition with the tribunal, saying that the comments were tantamount to contempt of court and sought legal action in this regard.
It also submitted to the court copies of four dailies of October 2 -- the Prothom Alo, Janakantha, Bangladesh Pratidin and Kaler Kantho -- which published the remarks of Mahbub, also a former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association
The petition also said the Prothom Alo quoted Mahbub as saying, "If the nationalist force comes to power, they will try those who are war criminals in the real sense. Those who were tried out of vengeance and the cases which were prepared on the basis of fairytale must go. And those who were involved in the farcical trial, Inshallah [if Allah wishes], they will also be tried on the soil of Bangladesh."
The court, in its order yesterday, said by issuing some "baseless" and "scandalous" statements, Mahbub challenged the power and jurisdiction of the court and its judges.
As a senior lawyer of the highest court, Mahbub "deliberately threatened" the persons involved in the trial, including judges, and "clearly threatened" independence of the judiciary, the tribunal added.
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Russia's government to pay $1.6 million to 13 Chechens, 18 of whose relatives were killed in an artillery bombardment of a Chechen village in February 2000. In its ruling, the ECHR said villagers in Aslanbek-Sheripovo had received assurances from the Russian Army that there would be no strikes on the village as long as no armed fighters were present there.
The ECHR said the case represents the first time that Russia's government had acknowledged a violation of Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which addresses the use of lethal force. The ruling can be appealed.
From September 26th but worthy of notice here at the Burg. Hat tip Josh Stanton at One Free Korea.
A COMMON illusion held by dictators is that they need only to shut the borders, turn off the Internet and control television for no one to notice the horrors they commit inside the country. The work of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea has demonstrated how wrong they are. The commission has shined a light on one of the worlds human rights sinkholes, North Korea, without ever setting foot there.
Michael Kirby, the retired Australian jurist who heads the commission, delivered an interim report last week that manages to shock on a topic that has already shocked for some time. The commissions witnesses provided evidence of systematic and widespread human rights violations, including torture, sexual violence, deliberate starvation, arbitrary detention and more.
We heard from ordinary people who faced torture and imprisonment for doing nothing more than watching foreign soap operas or holding a religious belief, Mr. Kirby said. He described a woman prisoner who witnessed another prisoner forced to drown her own baby in a bucket and a young man, imprisoned from birth and living on rodents, grass and lizards, who witnessed the execution of his mother and brother.
The commission was established on May 7 and is to deliver a final report in March. Mr. Kirbys interim report serves not only to benchmark the panels findings so far but also to underscore the regimes state of denial.
Mr. Kirby quite properly invited North Korea to respond to the testimony of witnesses who described grim lives in political prison camps, international abductions, torture and starvation. Truth is always a defense against accusations of slander, Mr. Kirby stated. An ounce of evidence is worth far more than many pounds of baseless attacks.
North Korea said it totally and categorically rejects the commissions work, and the official news agency denounced testimony before the panel as slander put forward by human scum. But it provided no facts.
North Korea wont suddenly throw open its doors and invite more inspection of this dark underside of the world. But the commission has laid down an important record of testimony and human experience. Mr. Kirby said the panel would now focus on identifying those responsible, including officials and state institutions guilty of gross human rights violations. But he pointed out that the commission is only a mechanism for discovering the truth. When its work is done, the world will have to decide what to do about it.
Likely nothing. That's the usual response to atrocity and genocide. Champ might go to North Korea and bow to Pudgy. But the report is horrifying.
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Seoul and Washington have agreed to put off talks about the transfer of full operational control of Korean troops to Seoul until next year.
The handover, originally slated for 2012, is now scheduled for December 2015, but Seoul wants another delay for fear of a security vacuum if Combined Forces Command is dismantled. Until they make a decision, the two countries will carry out a comprehensive review of the South Korean military's capability to respond to the nuclear threat from North Korea.
Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin and his U.S. counterpart Chuck Hagel reached the compromise at the 45th Korea-U.S. Security Consultative Meeting here on Wednesday. They also agreed to launch this month a joint working group headed by assistant ministers to study the issue. The group will review necessary conditions and the timing of the transfer.
A senior Defense Ministry official said the compromise opens "the possibility of re-delaying" the handover.
In last year's joint statement, the two countries specified the date for the transfer, but this year they did not.
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Perhaps the real reason is that SKor wants to talk with a grown up and not Champ or one of his minions.....
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If the budget/economy tanks, most likely there won't be any talks, just an exit. I doubt any of the countries currently on the military welfare rolls are planning to pick up the whole tab of keeping the Americans around.
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Good Political "Dialecticism" = combo of factors, not just one or two = ...
> China slamming Japan for its agreement to base US UAVS, X-Band ABM-BMD Radars, F-35's, Ospreys, + Cyberwar assets on its soil.
> Pending arrival of new US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy.
> NOKOR's anticipated upcoming Nuke test + reports it has dev a small Tacnuke warhead.
> FYI the US + SOKOR have reinterated their agreement to preemptively attack NOKOR's
milfors iff the latter shows clear signs of deploying de facto Nuke-WMD weapons in war.
The US knows that any China-involved mil conflict in East Asia will focus on PLA attempts to dominate iff not takeover the OKINAWA-TAIWAN-NORTHERN PHIL TRIANGLE, i.e. "Mahanist" China's equivalent of "Hawaii/Pearl Harbor" + other Pacific Islands into WESTPAC + FAR EASTERN PACIFIC to achieve greater international status.
[Ynet] Netanyahu already apologized for Marmara incident, but Turkey is in no rush to forgive or forget. 'Israel apologized too late,' Turkish President Abdullah Gul tells Yedioth Ahronoth. Senior Turkish advisor: As long as Erdogan is in power, things will not change
Turkey presented Israel with three demands in order to end the impasse and to restore diplomatic relations between the countries. The first demand, an apology for the deaths of Turkish civilians on the Marmara, was met last March.
The second demand, payment of restitution to the families of the nine killed -- is still under disagreement. According to one estimation, Israel is supposed to pay the families between $5 and $6 million. In return, legal proceedings taking place in Istanbul courts against IDF officers are to be dropped, and an amendment is to be passed prohibiting Turkish citizens from suing Israeli soldiers and officers in the future.
A senior diplomatic advisor in Ankara told Yedioth that even though Israel agreed to pay, an agreement still has not been reached regarding how the payment will be implemented: whether it will be "assistance to families" (as Israel prefers), or "restitution for the deaths of nine Turkish civilians" (as Turkey demands).
"The amount of the money is not the problem," said Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc, three months ago. "Israel must accept the fact that it is paying this money as a result of the faulty action it took."
The government of Erdogan also insists on another condition for the normalization of relations: the removal of the Israeli blockade on Gazoo.
Due to the differences of opinion between the two countries, the negotiations are at a dead-end.
On Friday, the Turkish president refused to describe what might bring about a breaking of the stalemate between the two countries. "Even with the differences of opinion, what is important is that meetings are happening, and the sides continue working," Gul said. "The meetings are happening discretely, far from the eye. You could say that certain progress has been made, and I hope these talks will lead to results."
But the Turkish diplomatic advisor estimated that a breakthrough was not to be expected in the near future. "As long as Erdogan is the prime minister of Turkey, there will not be a change for the positive in relations with Israel. Erdogan has lots of complaints against you already from the period of Olmert. When will a reversal in relations come? Maybe only after the presidential elections in 2014, and the elections for parliament in 2015, which will decide who will serve as the next prime minister of Turkey."
Gul spoke with Yedioth Ahronoth after he gave the opening speech at the Istanbul Forum, an annual convention held by the Turkish center for strategic communications. The forum hosts politicians, researchers and journalists, bringing them together for a series of discussions regarding international issues which touch on Turkey and the Middle East.
[An Nahar] Pakistain's powerful army chief General Ashfaq Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... on Sunday confirmed he will retire next month at the end of his second tenure, ending rumors he would seek to keep a key military role.
Kayani, who oversaw Pakistain's first democratic transfer of power, will retire on November 29 in a move likely to be seen as pushing forward the country's development as a democracy.
"It is time for others to carry forward the mission of making Pakistain a truly democratic, prosperous and peaceful country that embodies the finest dreams our founding fathers had envisaged for us," he said in a statement.
Kayani was appointed Chief of the Army Staff in 2007 and was given an additional three-year term in 2010.
The Mighty Pak Army chief is considered the most powerful man in the country, commanding a force of around 600,000 and guiding policy in defense as well as in foreign and home affairs.
The country has suffered three coups and been ruled for more than half of its 66-year history by the military.
But Kayani is generally seen as a supporter of democracy, who helped the country complete its first democratic transition of power earlier this year and has also led the military in the so-called war on terror.
He played a key role in convincing former dictator General Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... to resign in 2008 and pushing then president Asif Ali Zardari to reinstate sacked judges in 2009.
"I share the general opinion that institutions and traditions are stronger than individuals and must take precedence," he said in his statement.
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Shouldn't that be "Mighty" instead of "Powerful"?
[Dawn] Outlawed organization Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) is planning huge attacks within the next 24 hours in the picturesque provincial capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... (KP). The attacks will be majorly aimed at law enforcement agencies.
According to well-placed sources, the TTP has planned attacks on the Frontier Constabulary (FC) and police checkposts throughout the northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
Security measures have been strengthened around the city, along with at important security check posts.
According to security officials, reports have been received that a jacket wallah has entered Nowshera district. Security measures have thus gone on high alert, and security officers are now searching for the suspect.
Earlier, an attack by forces of Evil on a security convoy took place in Bannu district, killing three soldiers and injuring eight others. The Ansarul Mujahideen bad boy group of Taliban has grabbed credit for the attack, stating that such attacks will continue until drone strikes are stopped.
Peshawar has been the recipient of deadly blasts for the past two weeks, the most recent of which were the twin blasts in Qissa Khawani market which claimed 41 lives and maimed more than 100 others. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... the TTP denied all responsibility of the attacks and condemned the blasts, claiming that it had no enmity with the masses.
KP Chief Minister Pervez Khattak also directed the law enforcement agencies to take all necessary steps to ensure foolproof security in the provincial metropolis after the attacks.
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[An Nahar] The Paleostinians must "recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people" in order to achieve real peace, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.
"The Paleostinians must abandon their refusal to recognize the right of the Jewish people to their national state," he said in a speech at Bar Ilan University near Tel Aviv.
That's that, then. Oh well.
Such recognition was "a condition for reaching an agreement at the end of negotiations, but not for launching them", he said.
Peace talks between Israelis and Paleostinians were relaunched in July under the auspices of the United States after nearly three years of impasse.
The direct talks, which are being held in Israel and the West Bank under a U.S.-imposed media blackout, have been set to last nine months, and have so far yielded no concrete results.
"The root of the conflict is the Jewish state," Netanyahu said, refuting the argument that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and settlement there were the cause of the decades-old confrontation with the Paleostinians.
"Are you finally ready to recognize the Jewish state, the national state of the Jewish people?" he asked, directly addressing Paleostinian leaders, deploring that their response so far to that question has been "no".
"So long as the Paleostinians do not recognize this right, there will be no true peace," the premier warned his audience at the Bar Ilan auditorium.
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After all...you can't have a "Two State Solution" without two states.
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TOPIX, WORLD NEWS Artics claim the GDP of the Paleo economy could rise as much as 60% iff Israel would only lift its trade restrictions, which Israel is unlikely to do as long as the PA + Paleos keep chanting "Death to Israel" + routinely call for the destruction of the Jewish state.
The Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have agreed to set up buffer zones in certain parts of Mindanao to protect civilians from attacks and harassment by saboteurs of peace and the peace process.
Aside from protecting civilians, the MILF said the buffer zones were meant to promote and protect the primacy of the peace process. In addition, it aimed to contain the malicious movements, offences and activities of the saboteurs of peace and the peace process, according to the MILF on its website.
In its statement the MILF pointed out that some groups have been blatantly and maliciously challenging the security forces in the region and the peace process as a whole. Though it did not identify the groups but it was obviously referring to the breakaway Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), which recently launched a series of attacks particularly in North Cotabato province that killed at least 10 people and displaced thousands of villagers.
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Pakistani + Indonesian hardline clerics, groups are criticizing the MILF, + calling for local boyz to travel to Mindanao to wage jihad agz Manila + establish an Islamic state.
[An Nahar] As a U.N. mission to destroy Syria's chemical weapons got underway Sunday, Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... admitted in an interview with Germany's Spiegel news magazine that his government had made "mistakes" in the country's brutal conflict.
But he again denied that his forces used chemical weapons in an August 21 attack that led to threats of a U.S. strike and eventually the U.N. resolution requiring Syria to turn over its arsenal.
A team of disarmament experts from the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) based in The Hague arrived in Damascus on Tuesday and began their mission on Sunday.
In the interview published Sunday by Spiegel, Assad said his government was being "very transparent" with the U.N.-OPCW team.
"The experts can go to every site. They are going to get all the data from us, they will verify them, and then they can make a judgment about our credibility," he said.
He also dismissed assertions by U.S. President Barack Obama Jedi mind meld... that Syrian forces carried out a chemical attack that killed hundreds in the Damascus suburbs in August.
"We have not used chemical weapons. This is wrong," Assad told Spiegel.
"And so is the picture you're drawing of me, of someone who kills his own people... Obama presents not a single piece of evidence, not a shred of evidence. He has nothing to offer but lies."
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Probably more 'transparent' than DoJ, IRS, ATF, or the WH. It's all relative.
Iran and Egypt have agreed to launch flights between the two countries, the Mehr News Agency quoted Iranian Civil Organisation head Hamidreza Pahlavani as saying.
Makes it easier to ship weapons to Hamas...
During a meeting with head of Egypt's Interest Section in Tehran, Khaled Amareh, during the 38th ICAO assembly session, the two sides agreed to establish flight routes.
Direct air travel between Iran and Egypt came to a halt after the two countries severed bilateral relations following Iran's Islamic Revolution of 1979.
Tehran and Cairo have now moved to improve ties following the ousting of the Western-backed regime of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak in 2011. In March, Tehran and Cairo signed a memorandum of understanding to promote tourism between the two countries.
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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.
[An Nahar] The number of Tunisian 
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Pervez 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
