Afghans detain woman with suicide bomb under burqa
ASADABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A woman carrying a waistcoat filled with explosives under her all-enveloping burqa was arrested on Monday in eastern Afghanistan, provincial officials said, in the first possible reported case of a female suicide bomber in the country. She was arrested on a tip-off in Jalalabad after being followed by intelligence department officials near the border with Pakistan.
The elderly woman's identity was not given, but she was now being questioned, officials said. It was not immediately clear if the woman wanted to use the explosives herself or was carrying the bomb to deliver it.
Did she have a switch in her pocket?
If the former, she would be the first reported female suicide bomber in Afghanistan where hundreds of people, many of them civilians, have been killed this year alone in such attacks.
Despite the overthrow in 2001 of the Taliban -- who forced women to wear the all enveloping burqa whenever outdoors -- most women still wear it.
Security checkpoints in Afghanistan are usually manned only by men who are not supposed to check women for fear of offending their modesty.
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She should be put in that stadium the taliban used for executions, and detonated by remote control...
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M. Consider that she may have been a mule who has already seen one of her grandchildren beheaded and was ordered to do this to save the others. Thus, Dr. Steve's pink comment.
GHAZNI: Around two-dozen people, including several civilians, were killed in the latest spate of Taliban-linked violence across Afghanistan, authorities said on Sunday.
Three civilians, one a woman, were killed when a bomb hit their vehicle in the eastern province of Khost, a troubled region coincidentally near the Pakistani border, provincial police spokesman Mohammad Yaqob said. Two other civilians were wounded by the same bomb, which he said was detonated remotely like many others used in Taliban attacks on security forces.
The Taliban on Saturday shot dead seven men, two of them truck drivers for a Western security firm, who had been kidnapped in the past week, police and a rebel spokesman said. A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahed, said the men three policemen, two soldiers and the drivers were killed after attempting to escape from our jail. Ghazni province police chief Khan Mohammad Mujahed told AFP that three bodies had been recovered.
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Khan Mohammad Mujahed
police spokesman Mohammad Yaqob
ZABIHULLAH MUJAHED
Taliban
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Read this earlier (3AM!), and couldn't figure out how they came up with the "two dozen". Paragraph 2 says that three civilians were killed. Paragraph three says the Taliban offed seven they'd kidnapped earlier. I know I got a poor education, but I always thought 3+7=10, not 24...
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Algerian army troops aborted a terrorist attack on a security center at Ekern in Tizi Ouzou State, 110 km eastern Algiers. An Algerian security source said the army had foiled an attempt by a 10-member terrorist group to plant explosives at the security center. Both explosives were defused and the troops combed the site in order to hunt the terrorists, the source said.
In August, the same security center came under a terrorist attack that left one person dead and another injured.
The Al-Qaeda Organisation in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack.
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Saudi Arabia announced on Sunday the arrest of 28 Al Qaeda linked suspects for planning attacks in the oil-rich kingdom, following an alleged plot to commit a terrorist act during the Haj. Since December 14, 28 members of the deviant group (the term used by the Saudi authorities for Al-Qaeda) have been arrested, including one foreign resident and the rest Saudi nationals, an interior ministry official said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.
The statement said the suspects were linked to elements abroad and were planning criminal acts in the kingdom, an expression Saudi authorities use to describe Al-Qaeda attacks.
The suspects were captured in the provinces of Makkah, Medina, Riyadh and the area around the kingdoms northern borders, the statement said. It added that it was in the general interest to withhold further details of the nature of the plots and the planned targets. On Friday, the interior ministry said that security forces had arrested an Qaeda-linked group planning a terrorist act during the Haj.
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Well, if they're found guilty they can duct tape them to their big holy idol rock at the commencement of festivities for next year.
AJACCIO, Corsica (AP) -- Assailants set off two bombs nearly simultaneously in Corsica early Sunday, one of which injured two people, police officials said. The first explosion ripped into a government treasury office in the resort town of Ajaccio at about 5:30 a.m. The second blast targeted a military barracks, blowing out windows at homes nearby and injuring an elderly woman and a 5-year-old child.
The French Mediterranean island regularly faces small-scale bombings, often set off by separatists targeting government buildings and vacation homes. Most attacks target empty buildings at night. "We have the impression that there is ... an escalation of the violence," Christian Leyrit, the national government's administrator in Corsica, told LCI television. "Before, property was targeted. Today, we feel like people are being targeted, and that there is a real threat to people's lives," he said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, and an investigation was under way.
In a statement, French Defense Minister Herve Morin expressed his "indignation in the face of the cowardice of these acts" and called them "inadmissible terrorist actions."
A US military judge on Thursday ruled that Osama bin Ladens former driver is an unlawful enemy combatant and can be tried before a military commission at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, thus denying him prisoner of war status. Salim Hamdan, 37, a native of Yemen, was Bin Ladens personal driver in Afghanistan, and was captured in November 2001 with surface-to-air missiles in his car. Hamdans defence had argued that he was not a fighter, but merely a driver transporting weapons.
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Good.
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...was captured in November 2001 with surface-to-air missiles in his car.
Pardon me Mr. Hamdan, is that a SAM in your trunk or are you just glad to see me? A case of flagrante delicto in which don't ask, don't tell won't work.
SRINAGAR: The stalemate between three Hizbul Mujahideen militants holding five civilians as hostage inside a mosque and security forces in Kulgam district entered the second day on Monday.
The militants are holed up inside the mosque at Palnoo village in southern Kulgam district since Sunday afternoon after Army troops launched a search operation in the village following specific information about presence of ultras, a defence spokesman said. Efforts are being made to secure release of the five persons held hostage by the militants inside the mosque, the spokesman said.
Two persons including a soldier were injured in the initial firing by militants from inside the mosque on Sunday. However, the troops exercised restrain and did not return the fire keeping in mind the sanctity of the place of worship and safety of the people held hostage by the militants, the spokesman said.
A police spokesman said the militants are trying to buy time as they initially demanded that the deputy commissioner be brought at the site for negotiations. However, when the additional deputy commissioner was brought to the site, the militants asked for some government functionaries, the spokesman said.
The spokesman said the mosque continued to be cordoned from outside but there was no exchange of fire since Sunday evening.
The incident took place when the people were coming out after offering mid-day prayers on Sunday.
Police is using public address system to persuade the militants to surrender but so far they have not responded, the spokesman said.
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J&K crisis: Three hostages escape
In a 24-hour long armed face-off in South Kashmir's Kulgam district, two local villagers are still being held hostage inside a mosque by three armed militants.
NDTV has learned that three more hostages have just managed to escape from the militants' clutches.
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Another good reason to not be Muslim - terrorists will hold you hostage when you go to church.
SRINAGAR: Unidentified militants on Tuesday shot at a person in Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Mohammad Ramzan Ganie, a weaver by profession, was injured as the ultras fired a volley of shots on him near his house at Ganie Mohallah Kaloosa in the district, police said.
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Shades of Cleavon Little in Blazing Saddles holding gun to his head.
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Police refute reports of hostages escaping from Kashmir mosque
The holed up militants have been identified as Shiraz Ahmad Bhat, Mudasir Ahmad Mir and Ishfaq Ahmad Wagay.
Militants took refuge in a mosque at Palanyarepora village, on Sunday afternoon when the area was being searched by security forces, and also took five villagers as hostages.
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Two Afghan refugees have been picked up for questioning in the Charsadda mosque blast that killed and injured scores of people, AFP quoted security officials as saying on Sunday.
They said the men, one of them a student at a madrassa as well as being a local prayer leader, were held in addition to the several suspects detained earlier in connection with the attack. Former federal minister Aftab Sherpao was an apparent target in the attack.
The ministers son, Mustafa Sherpao, was injured in the suicide blast. The suicide attacks toll has risen to 60 and more than 200 injured, Online reported. Sherpao told a press conference at his home that the bomber might have entered the mosque earlier and had hidden himself in the ablution area, according to a Daily Times report.
No link: To a question about a possible link between attempts on his life and the unrest in the Tribal Areas, he said those involved in the attacks must know that there was no link between the Interior Ministry and the Tribal Areas.
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Al Qaeda has regrouped in Pakistans remote Afghan border area and begun to focus attacks on the countrys government and military, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday. However, the Pentagon chief said Al Qaedas activities in Pakistan have not yet affected Afghanistan, where US and coalition forces have faced increased Taliban violence in the past two years. There is no question that some of the areas in the frontier region have become areas where Al Qaeda has re-established itself, Gates said. But so far, we havent seen any significant consequence of that in Afghanistan itself. Al Qaeda right now seems to have turned its face toward Pakistan and attacks on the Pakistani government and Pakistani people, he told reporters. Gates said the Pentagon was looking for ways to improve the Pakistani armys counter-insurgency capabilities by providing equipment.
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MIANWALI: Three would-be suicide bombers were arrested near Dara Tang on Sunday. Eisa Khel police spotted four suspected people who tried to flee from the scene after they were signaled to stop. However, the police arrested three of them and seized suicide jackets and weapons from their possession. They have been identified as Wasif, Abdul Habib, and Naib Buhadir. The miscreants told interrogators that they were from Afghanistan, and were planning attacks in Punjab.
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NOWSHERA: Two shops and a warehouse were destroyed in bombing incidents in the Razakhel Piyan and Jehangirabad areas on Sunday. The first blast occurred outside a CDs shop late on Saturday in Farman Market. Wajid, the shop owner, told police that all merchandise, including CDs and computers, was destroyed in the blast. In the second incident, a shop and a warehouse where destroyed after a bomb went off in the Jehangirabad area. The area watchman, Ghulam Saddar, said that two masked people placed explosives outside the shop early on Sunday, adding that he tried to cover the bomb with sand but it went off destroying the shop and the godown.
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DERA BUGTI: Seven people including two women and a child were killed during an army operation in the Kahan area, Online reported. They were killed during the operation in Lundi village. A spokesman for the Marri tribe condemned the incident. Separately, unidentified miscreants blew up a gas pipeline in Dera Bugti on Friday, APP reported. The miscreants planted explosives which destroyed the pipeline supplying gas to Dera Bugti and other parts of the country.
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Security forces on Sunday chased and killed five miscreants who were trying to flee after attacking a Frontier Constabulary (FC) fort in the Sadda area of Kurrum Agency, Geo news reported. According to the channel, the miscreants attacked the FC fort with rockets and other automatic weapons and fled from the scene, but the security forces chased and killed them.
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Police in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) Saturday claimed to have made a significant breakthrough in the last months serial blasts in three cities in the state that killed 15 people and injured 80. The Special Task Force (STF) of the UP Police today arrested the "commander" of the Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami (HuJI) outfit and his colleague, news agency Indo Asian News Service reported.
Two men identified as Khalid Mujahid and Tariq Qasmi, were arrested today by the STF near UP capital Lucknow and also seized explosives from them.
"The two arrested men were arrested with explosives, including three kgs of RDX, several packets of ammonium nitrate, half-a-dozen detonators and three mobiles," a senior UP Police official told reporters. "Interrogation of Tariq revealed that he was heading the HuJI unit in Uttar Pradesh," the official said.
The arrested duo was masterminding various terror acts across UP since 2005, the official said.
As many as 12 insurgents of Pakiastan-based Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) Sunday surrendered in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, in what is being described as a major counter-insurgency success.
The top HM rebels, active in Gool, Mahore, Gulbargh, Reasi, Ramban, Doda and Budgam areas of Kashmir valley, surrendered before Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Gulam Nabi Azad in Ramban district today, news agency Press Trust of India reported. The surrendered included top HM insurgents Manzoor Ahmad, Mumtaz Ali, and Abdul Qayoom who were active for more than 10 years, a Jammu and Kashmir police spokesman told reporters. "With these surrenders, the HM has suffered a severe set back in Kashmir," the spokesman added.
The arms surrendered by the insurgents include eight AK-56 rifles, two SLRs, 22 AK magazines, two SLR magazines, 660 rounds of AK ammunition, 44 rounds of SLR ammunition, six grenades, two RC Improvised Explosive Devices, and two wireless sets.
That's just cab fare in Pakland. Where's the armory?
A suicide blast Sunday evening killed nine persons and wounded 23 others in an area of Pakistani northern scenic valley, the army said. Taliban-linked militants have claimed responsibility for the attack. A suicide bomber bombed his vehicle at a petrol pump on Kas Road in Mingora area of Sawat valley, said the army in a statement. It said the attack killed nine people including four security personnel and injured 23 others including 13 servicemen.
Siraj-u-Din, the purported spokesman of Taliban-linked Maulana Fazlullah, made telephone calls to the local press club in Sawat and claimed responsibility for the attack.
Meanwhile, Siraj-u-Din, the purported spokesman of Taliban-linked Maulana Fazlullah, made telephone calls to the local press club in Sawat and claimed responsibility for the attack. He also threatened to intensify attacks on security forces and government-run schools.
Security forces had been carrying out operation against Fazlullah and his supporters since last month in Sawat. They have claimed killing over 300 militants and arresting an equal number of others including foreigners of Uzbek and Pak Afghan origin.
BAGHDAD, Iraq Coalition forces captured a suspected Special Groups leader and detained seven other suspects during operations to disrupt criminal element networks early today southeast of Baghdad in the Al Kut and As Suwyarah areas.
The targeted individual was reportedly a senior-level Special Groups criminal element leader dedicated to attacking Coalition forces. He allegedly planned explosively formed penetrator, or EFP, attacks on Coalition forces throughout the Wasit Province. The man was reportedly appointed as a Special Groups criminal element leader of a punishment committee and possible death squads. He was also reported to be an associate of several other senior-level criminal element leaders who were involved in attacks on Coalition forces. Sounds like a good fellow to have off the streets; sure hope he's who they think he is - I wonder if he can recommend some friends to come join him (besides the one two paragraphs down.)
Intelligence led ground forces to the target area, where they detained three suspected criminals. The identities of the three suspects are still being determined, as is whether or not one of them may be the targeted individual.
In another operation, a wanted individual located in the As Suwyarah area is suspected of training Special Group criminal element members to perform attacks on Coalition and Iraqi forces. He reportedly received specialized training in EFP use, and facilitated the training of numerous criminals in EFP attacks. The man was also allegedly an associate of several other senior-level criminal element leaders who were involved in attacks on Coalition forces.
Intelligence led ground forces to the target area, where they captured the wanted individual and detained four other suspected criminals without incident.
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Doc, thinking he's doing a Khadaffi? Decided he can achieve his objectives better by at least temporarily cooperating with us and sacrificing some peripheral assets (or even risky 'assets')? Could be.
Iraqi tribesmen killed five militants of Al-Qaeda group in the governorate of Diyala northeast of Baghdad, a security source said Sunday. Tribesmen of Al-Ubaid tribes, backed by the Iraqi police, stormed hideouts of Al-Qaeda group in Safit area in Khales town in Diyala, the source told KUNA.
This operation, said the source, resulted in the killing of five terrorists and capturing of two others who were later turned in to government authorities in Diyala. Diyala has been a scene of violent actions between Sunni tribes and Iraqi security forces on one side, and Al-Qaeda on the other.
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Israel has managed to infiltrate Hamas's armed wing, Izzadin Kassam, by recruiting some of its members as "collaborators," Palestinian Authority security officials revealed Sunday.
Hamas officials confirmed that their security forces had arrested several "collaborators," but denied that they belonged to the Islamist movement.
This is the first time Hamas has openly admitted that Israel's security forces have succeeded in planting agents in its secretive armed wing. If true, it would be the largest network of "collaborators" that has ever been busted by Hamas. Dzhugashvili time in old Gaza town?
Credit our President George Bush and our Secretary 0f State Condoleezza Rice g(r)omgoru. He and Condi have flummoxed the Palestinian Authority, Fatah and Hama(s)s.
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Yakov Dzhugashvili and his father Stalin never got along. Allegedly once Stalin referred to Yakov as a "mere cobbler." Later according to Yakov's stepmother Nadezhda Alliluyeva she saw a young girl running away from their Moscow dacha in tears. When she entered she saw a despairing Yakov looking near faint in the room. He ran immediately to his bedroom. It turned out that the girl was Yakov's fiancee and when they told Stalin of their engagement he became enraged.
While Stalin and his wife were arguing about this a shot was heard....
The United States Defense Department was in possession of documents which indicated that was shot trying to escape, which were shown to his daughter Galina Dzhugashvili in 2003, but which she rejected, claiming that her father was never taken prisoner by the Germans, but rather was killed in battle in 1941. She continuously maintained that any photographs or letters indicating her father was at the prison camp were Nazi propaganda[citation needed].
The death toll from the violence-plagued southern border region reached 428 and the number of the injured was recorded at 1,805 in the period of nine months from January to September 2007, according to the Public Health Ministry. Dr. Mongkol Na Songkhla, public health minister said the ministry and Prince of Songkla University gathered information from 47 government hospitals in the five southernmost provinces - Songkhla, Satun, Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat.
According to the survey, from January-September 2007 there were 973 violent incidents. 428 deaths were recorded while 1,805 persons were wounded. The largest number of violent incidents -- 341 -- were reported in Narathiwat with 166 deaths and 648 people wounded, followed by Pattani with 112 deaths and Yala with 111 deaths.
The incidents mostly occurred from 7 to 8am and 8 to 9pm. Most victims were aged between 15-44 years. More than 80 per cent of the victims were male, and were victims of bombings and shootings.
Iran's first nuclear power plant will be operational within three months, providing electricity to Iran's national power grid by the summer, according to Iranian Energy Minister Parviz Fattah.
Russia, which is building the Bushehr plant for Iran, started delivering nuclear fuel to the facility a week ago as part of a compromise effort to alleviate concerns over Iran's nuclear intentions while supporting Iran's right to a nuclear energy program.
The United States, several European nations and Israel suspect Tehran has been trying to acquire nuclear weapons, but Iran denies its nuclear program is for anything but peaceful purposes. A recent U.S. intelligence summary concluded that, contrary to earlier suspicions, Iran halted its nuclear weapons development in 2003.
Iran also said Sunday it "will soon announce international tender for construction of 19 new 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plants," according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency, or IRNA, citing Kazem Jalali, an official with the parliament's national security and foreign policy commission.
Jalali said the measure would be "taken in line with" the parliament's approval "for generating 20,000 megawatt of electricity to meet domestic demands," the IRNA report said.
Fattah told reporters Saturday that the Bushehr nuclear power plant, which was previously expected to be completed last September, will become operational on March 21, 2008, according to Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, or IRIB.
The plant will deliver 500 megawatts of electricity to the power grid by summer and 1,000 megawatts by March 2009, IRIB reported.
Atomstroiexport, Russia's nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly, completed the first stage of nuclear fuel deliveries a week ago, the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency said.
The United States, several European nations, and Israel suspect Tehran has been trying to acquire nuclear weapons, but Iran denies its nuclear program is for anything but peaceful purposes. A recent U.S. intelligence summary concluded that, contrary to earlier suspicions, Iran halted its nuclear weapons development in 2003.
Atomstroiexport, the Russian monopoly, is building the $1 billion Bushehr plant under the control of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency. The Russian foreign ministry and nuclear officials said the fuel delivery was under full IAEA safeguards.
A statement on the Russian Foreign Ministry's official Web site last week said Iran had provided additional written guarantees that the fuel can only be used at and for the Bushehr plant, and that the spent fuel will be returned to Russia for utilization and storage.
The U.N. Security Council has repeatedly demanded that Iran suspend its own enrichment of uranium and has imposed limited sanctions on Tehran for refusing to comply. Russia, France, and China -- all permanent Security Council members -- have voiced concerns about the proposed sanctions.
A recent U.S. National Intelligence Estimate said Iran stopped work toward a nuclear weapon while under international scrutiny in 2003 and is unlikely to be able to produce enough enriched uranium for a bomb until 2010 to 2015.
Construction of the plant was expected to be completed in September, but was delayed because of lack of financing and delayed equipment deliveries from other countries, the official Russian news agency Interfax said.
There isn't a "WoT Inoperations" category, so I put it here. Any worse and I'd have stuck it in "WoT Politix".
But more seriously, I'm guessing their sites that would make sense to bomb are going to be right next to the power plants. Anyone know if this is true? In any case, we can probably bomb them anyway unless there's a dust storm. Would these sites being operational put the kabosh on any elements of any alleged bombing plans?
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I'd keep an eye out for Mosque, Hospital and School construction in the area.
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Tit for tat. A nuclear weapon doesn't discriminate between hospitals and schools. Niether should a counter strike if it means protecting your own innocents. They intend to kill innocents anyway, whether their own or their enemies.
I thought the Russians recently pulled out due to non-payment on the first one.
In January, he pleaded guilty in a South African court to unwittingly funding the purchase of an aircraft which was allegedly to be used by the mercenaries, but he denied any in the coup attempt. He was given a four-year suspended sentence and fined £265,000, escaping jail in a plea-bargain deal.
His wife moved with her children to the US and Sir Mark intended to follow her but his visa renewal was rejected in April.
He married Diane Burgdorf, the daughter of a millionaire Texas car dealer, in 1987.
In 1995 the couple moved with their children to South Africa, but their life was turned upside down last year when he was arrested and detained by the authorities, accused of being involved in the attempted coup. Balance at the linkie. Bit of a follow-up on yesterday's Thatcher lad's football post. Visa denied, can't permit someone to live in the US who could have possibly assisted with the overthrow of some tribal gummit in Africa now can we. Chickens home to roost for Margaret Thatcher and the Lancaster House Accord of April 18, 1980 I'm afraid.
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I'm absolutely certain that if I pull just the right string that her entire outfit would unravel, leaving her sitting there wearing just her high heels and a smile . . . .
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For all my Christian friends, Merry Christmas; for all my Jewish friends, happy Hannukah; for all my muslim friends(?), blessed Eid al Ahda; for all my non-Christmas European friends, a joyous Yule. For the rest of you, sorry!
Seems like I've been missing out. I may have to go on a Pender-bender here to recover.
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I'm with OP-- a merry whatever's appropriate to all! That, and Luke 2:14: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men."
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Now that's funny, Mike.
And totally psycho-delic. ;-p
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Wuz I supposed to hear Blue Mother Tupelo?
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GHAZNI: Around two-dozen people, including several civilians, were killed in the latest spate of Taliban-linked violence across Afghanistan, authorities said on Sunday. 
Algerian army troops aborted a terrorist attack on a security center at Ekern in Tizi Ouzou State, 110 km eastern Algiers. An Algerian security source said the army had foiled an attempt by a 10-member terrorist group to plant explosives at the security center. Both explosives were defused and the troops combed the site in order to hunt the terrorists, the source said.
AJACCIO, Corsica (AP) -- Assailants set off two bombs nearly simultaneously in Corsica early Sunday, one of which injured two people, police officials said. The first explosion ripped into a government treasury office in the resort town of Ajaccio at about 5:30 a.m. The second blast targeted a military barracks, blowing out windows at homes nearby and injuring an elderly woman and a 5-year-old child.
SRINAGAR: The stalemate between three Hizbul Mujahideen militants holding five civilians as hostage inside a mosque and security forces in Kulgam district entered the second day on Monday.
Two Afghan refugees have been picked up for questioning in the Charsadda mosque blast that killed and injured scores of people, AFP quoted security officials as saying on Sunday.
MIANWALI: Three would-be suicide bombers were arrested near Dara Tang on Sunday. Eisa Khel police spotted four suspected people who tried to flee from the scene after they were signaled to stop. However, the police arrested three of them and seized suicide jackets and weapons from their possession. They have been identified as Wasif, Abdul Habib, and Naib Buhadir. The miscreants told interrogators that they were from Afghanistan, and were planning attacks in Punjab.
NOWSHERA: Two shops and a warehouse were destroyed in bombing incidents in the Razakhel Piyan and Jehangirabad areas on Sunday. The first blast occurred outside a CDs shop late on Saturday in Farman Market. Wajid, the shop owner, told police that all merchandise, including CDs and computers, was destroyed in the blast. In the second incident, a shop and a warehouse where destroyed after a bomb went off in the Jehangirabad area. The area watchman, Ghulam Saddar, said that two masked people placed explosives outside the shop early on Sunday, adding that he tried to cover the bomb with sand but it went off destroying the shop and the godown.
DERA BUGTI: Seven people including two women and a child were killed during an army operation in the Kahan area, Online reported. They were killed during the operation in Lundi village. A spokesman for the Marri tribe condemned the incident. Separately, unidentified miscreants blew up a gas pipeline in Dera Bugti on Friday, APP reported. The miscreants planted explosives which destroyed the pipeline supplying gas to Dera Bugti and other parts of the country.
As many as 12 insurgents of Pakiastan-based Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) Sunday surrendered in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, in what is being described as a major counter-insurgency success.
A suicide blast Sunday evening killed nine persons and wounded 23 others in an area of Pakistani northern scenic valley, the army said. Taliban-linked militants have claimed responsibility for the attack. A suicide bomber bombed his vehicle at a petrol pump on Kas Road in Mingora area of Sawat valley, said the army in a statement. It said the attack killed nine people including four security personnel and injured 23 others including 13 servicemen.
Iraqi tribesmen killed five militants of Al-Qaeda group in the governorate of Diyala northeast of Baghdad, a security source said Sunday. Tribesmen of Al-Ubaid tribes, backed by the Iraqi police, stormed hideouts of Al-Qaeda group in Safit area in Khales town in Diyala, the source told KUNA.
