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My father's division (104th ID "Timberwolves") was first assigned to the Canadian Corps in Montgomery's army until Holland was cleared.
He still has the greatest respect for the Canadians, Aussies and Brits.
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thank you Canucks!
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A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of international troops in an eastern district of the Afghan capital Kabul on Friday, killing three service members and wounding six Afghans, officials said.
Television images showed remains of the exploded car littering the street, and several armoured vehicles stopped nearby.
The bomber struck the convoy about a kilometre from Nato's Camp Phoenix base, Kabul police spokesman Hashmat Stanakzai, who reported the Afghan injuries. The International Security Assistance Force didn't provide details on the identities or nationalities of the three service members killed.
Twelve coalition troops have died in Afghanistan so far this month including six US soldiers who died in a helicopter crash December 17. So far this year 151 coalition troops have been killed in Afghanistan, according to a tally kept by The Associated Press.
Update: Two Slovak soldiers were among the three NATO personnel killed, Slovakia's defense ministry confirmed.
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Karzai outraged denunciation in 5...4....never
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MOGADISHU -- A bomb detonated with remote control has killed at least eleven people at a restaurant in Dayniile district of Mogadishu on Friday according to witnesses, Garowe Online reports.
Dayniile commissioner, Hiirey Moallim Omar told the media that the dead included Somali Federal Government soldiers and the female restaurateur, with witnesses reporting that the eatery was busy at the time of bombing.
"A bomb went off inside the restaurant and the blast killed civilians, the restaurant owner and military officer," added Omar.
He accused Al Shabaab friends of being responsible for the attack, although the militant group remains silent about the latest deadly attack. Government sources say that the bomb was planted near the restaurant.
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[Ynet Egyptian students loyal to the Moslem Brüderbund fought police at the Cairo campus of Al-Azhar University on Saturday and set fire to two buildings, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported.
A student activist said a supporter of the Brotherhood, designated this week as a terrorist organization by the state, had been killed, although a security source denied this.
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Ahhhhhh, Al-Azhar that scholarly bastion of all that is moderate in Islam.....whadda ya mean no?
Muslim Brotherhood supporters and police clashed across Egypt on Friday, leaving at least three dead in protests after the army-backed government declared the group a terrorist organisation. Violence broke out after Friday prayers.
An 18-year-old Brotherhood supporter was shot dead during clashes in the Nile Delta city of Damietta. Another man was killed in Minya, a bastion of Islamist support south of Cairo. A third person was killed in Cairo, the interior ministry said, without giving details.
Clashes between police and protesters flared in Cairo and at least four other cities on Friday. Police fired birdshot and tear gas at student protesters at Al Azhars Cairo campus. Gunfire was heard in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, where demonstrators threw fireworks and rocks at police who used teargas, a Reuters witness said.
A number of police officers were injured in the clashes, the interior ministry said.
Officials have issued a new round of harsher warnings against anyone taking part in protests in support of the Brotherhood, saying they will be punished under terrorism laws. The government has warned that anyone taking part in pro-Brotherhood protests face five years in prison. Jail terms for those accused under the terror law can stretch up to life imprisonment. Brotherhood leaders face the death penalty.
The interior ministry said in a statement that 265 Brotherhood members had been arrested on Friday. Among them were at least 28 women.
US Secretary of State John Kerry called Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy on Thursday and expressed concern about the terrorist designation of the Muslim Brotherhood and recent detentions, the State Department said.
Was he complaining about the accuracy of the designation?
The Brotherhood, which won every election since Hosni Mubarak was toppled in 2011, has been driven underground since the army deposed him. Thousands of Brotherhood members and supporters have been jailed.
In spite of the pressure, the group has continued near-daily protests.
In a statement condemning the governments freezing of the funds of Islamist charity groups, the Brotherhood accused the government of spreading Christianity by empowering Coptic Christian charities over Islamic ones.
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[Ynet] An army tank shelled a funeral tent erected at a school in southern Yemen on Friday, killing 10 people among them children, and wounding 15 others, a medic and witnesses said.
"We received 10 bodies, among them children, and 15 wounded people," the medic told AFP.
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Funerals are Muslims', perhaps the, biggest occasion of incitement---bloodfeud tradition, etc.... Somebody finally doing something about it is good.
[Ynet] At least two people have been killed in the kaboom of an automobile in a main city of Russia's restive North Caucasus region.
The state news agency RIA Novosti cited a spokeswoman for the regional Investigative Committee, Yekaterina Danilova, as saying two people were known dead in the Friday evening blast in Pyatigorsk. The kaboom took place near a traffic cop shoppe. News reports said Sherlocks had not determined the cause of the blast and the victims had not been identified.
JALPAIGURI -- A bicycle bomb that killed five people when it exploded prematurely in eastern India was the work of terrorists militants fighting for a separate state in the Darjeeling tea district, police said Friday.
Detectives probing Thursday nights blast in West Bengal said they believed the bomb exploded accidentally as a member of the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) cycled through the town of Jalpaiguri. A senior police officer said that a KLO terrorist militant named as Lalmohon Debnath was among the five killed when the powerful device exploded on a bridge, near a school.
Preliminary investigations have revealed that Debnath was carrying the bomb to plant somewhere else, West Bengal police inspector general Anuj Sharma told AFP, adding the blast could be felt two kilometres away. A timer device had been fitted to trigger the explosion, but the bomb went off suddenly while he was on the bridge.
Debnath was blown in half... We do not think it was a suicide attack, Sharma added.
Not unless he meant to blow himself in half...
Police had received a tip-off about a possible attack and arrested three suspected KLO terrorists followers before the explosion which was carried two days before the anniversary of the groups founding in 1996, said Sharma. Ten people were also injured when the bomb exploded late Thursday. Earlier reports put the number of dead at four but a fifth victim died later in hospital.
The KLO has carried out several other bombings with devices strapped to bicycles and has also marked its anniversary with attacks in the past. Sharma said the KLO were behind a 2009 bombing in Jalpaiguri which killed four and an attack at a train station in November 2006 that claimed seven lives.
The KLO wants to create a separate state of Kamtapur in northern West Bengal which would include the tea-growing region of Darjeeling and five other districts, some of which border Bangladesh and Bhutan. It would also incorporate parts of the neighbouring state of Assam. West Bengal is one of Indias largest states and Jalpaiguri is some 600 kilometres north of the state capital Kolkata.
The Indian government agreed in July to the creation of the new state of Telangana by splitting Andhra Pradesh, a move that critics said would fuel terrorist separatist campaigns.
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Israel has informed the United States of plans to release the next group of Palestinian prisoners on Dec. 30 under a U.S.-brokered peace plan, the State Department said on Friday.
It's the "terrorists for peace" program...
"Although we had expected the release to occur on December 29, we have been informed that technical issues made it necessary to do the release a day later," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement.
The release of about two dozen prisoners, the third group to be free since the talks resumed in July, are seen by the United States as an important next-step toward reaching an interim peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians by April.
What do the Paleos give Israel in return?
A final agreement will then take about a year to negotiate.
On Thursday, the Palestinian Authority warned Israel against announcing new settlement construction in response to prisoner release, as the government did following the two previous releases.
I'm sure Bibi is shaking in his shoes...
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said if Israel goes ahead with settlement approval, the Palestinians will seek membership in 63 international organizations, including the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Erekat said they would take Israel to the international court for war crimes and violations of international law.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to announce Israel's plans for new housing tenders in settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem next week, following the release of the third group of Palestinian prisoners, an official in Jerusalem said Wednesday.
The Palestinian Prisoners Club, an independent NGO, said that as in the first two rounds of the prisoner release, this time again there will be no Israeli Arabs among those freed, nor any from East Jerusalem.
With two more stages remaining of the prisoner release, mandated by the current peace talks initiated by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, 53 of the 104 prisoners to be freed remain in Israeli jails. All were put behind bars before the 1993 signing of the Oslo Accords. Those who are not released in the upcoming stage are due to be freed in the fourth and final one. The 53 remaining there are considered the most serious criminals on the list, all having been convicted of murder or being accessories to murder, and all sentenced to life imprisonment.
They should be jugged forever but we're stupid in how we pressure the Israelis...
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The Palestinian Prisoners Club the PPC to it's members, is a less than imposing structure located off BrokenBack Road with a fine view of the sewage lagoon.
[Ynet] Syrian state TV and opposition activists say government forces have ambushed members of an al-Qaeda-linked group, killing dozens of them near a historic Christian village north of Damascus.
The TV says troops surprised fighters of the Nusra Front Friday at dawn near Maaloula, which the group along with other rebels captured in late November for the second time this year. Maaloula had previously been firmly in the government's grip despite being surrounded by rebel-held territory.
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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.
A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of international troops in an eastern district of the Afghan capital Kabul on Friday, killing three service members and wounding six Afghans, officials said.
