Moved to Saturday. Thank you, Major, rest in peace, and all our thoughts and prayers for you and your family.
Fort Carson-based Army Major Andrew Olmsted who wrote a blog from the war for the Rocky Mountain News was killed Thursday in Iraq.
He went there to teach members of the Iraqi Army how to defend their country and provide security for citizens. Major Olmsted was a veteran blogger and was determined to make a difference in Iraq. He began writing for RockyMountainNews.com on May 21.
"The sooner the Iraqi government doesn't need U.S. support to provide security for its people, the sooner we will probably be asked to leave," he said.
He left behind a final blog post on his website AndrewOlmsted.com.
Here are a few lines:
"I suppose I should speak to the circumstances of my death. It would be nice to believe that I died leading men in battle, preferably saving their lives at the cost of my own. More likely I was caught by a marksman or an IED. But if there is an afterlife, I'm telling anyone who asks that I went down surrounded by hundreds of insurgents defending a village composed solely of innocent women and children. It'll be our little secret, ok?"
No details were available on how the Major Olmsted died.
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DAMN! He was a good man. A friend of mine worked for him for a few months. There's nothing in the local newspaper, the Gazette.
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There's a background story about Major Olmsted at the link, written just before he deployed. He gave his life to make the world a better place. May his memory be for a blessing.
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DAMN !!! as said in that Texas woman way.. (that carries weight)
Major Almsted posted for years at Winds of Change -- an announced Democrat that I listened to.... his words made sense. Often went looking for his "take" on situations.
Then came the day, word was spread that he was Major Andrew Olmsted. Following that, was word that he was heading to Iraq.... another Milblogger in the mist of the fight.
A lost for America. God bless his family and friends.... and Mods.... can this keep posted throughout the weekend? Lots of folks will want to know of this. Thanks.
The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died Jan. 3 in As Sadiyah, Iraq, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked their unit using small arms fire during combat operations. Both Soldiers were assigned to the Military Transition Team, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan.
Killed were:
Maj. Andrew J. Olmsted, 37, of Colorado Springs, Colo.
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This reminds me. Everybody in the military has enlisted or re-enlisted since the invasion of Iraq. Even when the recruiting numbers were down, the guys enlisting for the combat arms were at the desired level.
Maj. Olmsted is not the only one to have voluntarily chosen to return to active duty despite, or because of, the likelihood of returning to combat.
There's something going on. It's either the guys, or the war, or both.
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Rest In Peace, Major Olmsted, may God hold your family and friends close to his heart as we count another star in Heaven to light our way.
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It's the people, Richard. I'm 61 and disabled, yet I'd go back if they asked me to. I'm sure Pappy, Old Spook, and Cybersarge, just to mention a few, have the same sense of commitment. We can't, so we support those who can, and do. Their loss is our loss. God bless them, every one.
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OP,
Truly said. Because of people like Olmsted we are winning and doing it with American perseverance, dignity and gung-ho attitude. Unlike of course the idiots some villages are missing while they run for President and CinC (God help us all).
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It's the people. Major Olmsted wrote that he went knowing he might be killed, but serving was important enough that he was willing to accept the risk. Several Rantburgers have written similar things over the years.
His blog posts clearly caused many to think, these last years. And his insistence that people who disagreed even on matters of principle could remain not only polite, but even still friends, has had an impact. His final post was put up by long-standing request at one of the sites where he blogged, and garnered polite, heartfelt condolences from as far left as the Kos site. He was an officer and a gentleman in the best tradition of our Armed Forces.
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because of people like you, and Anymouse's son, and my son, and Dave D's son, and so many others here, who have "sacked up" and volunteered to do the job, knowing it could mean REAL combat and and not just the GI Bill/training bennies they push in peacetime. They all have my thanks and admiration. They ARE America, and, I think, our real future
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(KUNA) -- Twelve people from the Missiriya tribe were killed and scores others were injured by forces of the former SPLA rebels in southern Sudan in clashes near the oil-rich Abyei region, disputed between the north and south.
The Sudanese press center said that renewed skirmishes erupted this morning when the SPLA forces stationed in the Arabian Sea north of the southern Sudan attacked shepherds and their cows, which led to the occurrence of clashes between the two sides leaving 12 dead of Missiriya tribe and scores others.
The clashes occurred hours after a visit by a delegation from the central government, including the Minister of Defense and Minister of the Sudan People's Army to the region, which witnessed fierce battles between the three parties over the past two weeks.
First Vice President of the Sudanese President of the Government of South Silva Kir Myardit yesterday ordered his forces to withdraw to within the borders of the South to end the conflict that led to the deaths of 100 people from the two sides according to unofficial statistics.
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Maybe I didn't take the history classes which covered it, but did this sort of stuff happen around Beaumont when Spindletop was discovered and exploited?
Maybe it's something unique to Sudan and neighboring regions.
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It's pure African tribalism, Glung McGurque2454. "Your tribe has something we don't have, so we're going to take it away from you." It's not just oil: it's grazing land, water, food, hunting territory, or just years and years of being the trod-upon. Modern weapons can make even a weak, exploited tribe a killer. The same thing happened among the tribes of American Indians. I'm sure it happened in Asia and Europe before the development of kingdoms.
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OP is quite correct: The concept of land and resources belonging by right to the occupants, and not to the strongest, is a recent western concept that springs from extending the Sermon on the Mount from individuals to nations.
I myself think that's a stretch, but I find it amusingly hypocritical that intelligensia of the african, asian, and Amerindian persuasion argue from that basis to condemn western civilization when their own civilizations, at the time of their conquests, had no similar principles that would have kept them from doing the same thing if they had the same power and opportunities the western colonial powers had at the times they had them.
An alleged drug peddler was killed during a "shootout" between Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members and his accomplices in the city's Agargaon area under Mohammadpur Police Station early yesterday. He was identified as Md Abdul Hannan alias Hanna of West Agargaon.
Rab personnel also recovered two firearms, four bullets, 50 bottles of contraband phensidyl and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw from the spot near Music College at Agargaon. "Grab a couple of shooting irons, a case of high-strength cough surup and hop in my rickshaw, Bubba. We's gonna go cruise down by the college and see if we can pickup some chicks!"
Rab and Mohammadpur police said Hanna was an accused on twelve systems in several cases including for murder, drug peddling, arms trading and extortion.
According to Rab-2, Hanna and his accomplices were crossing the road by a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at around 1:30am defying the Rab signal. "DUI checkpoint. Pull over to the side, please."
As the Rab men tried to intercept the vehicle, "Halt!"
they (Hannan and his cohorts) opened fire on the law enforcers, "Screw you, coppers! Bang! Bang!"
prompting them to retaliate. "KAPOW! KAPOW! BANGBANGBANG! KABOOM! I said Halt, dammit!"
Rab further said Hannan received bullets during the "shootout" and died instantly, "Urp......rosebud."
while his accomplices managed to flee. "Curly-toed track shoes, don't fail me now!"
Rab filed a case with Mohammadpur Police Station.
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Variant: 2008 a.1 CNG-run auto-rickshaw with drug peddler.
CNtl-ALT F9
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Why did the drug peddler cross the road...when the RAB was nearby?
I read this blog as well and wanted to share this letter. He was killed in an ambush in Iraq. This is the letter he asked to be posted if that were ever to happen.
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"When some people die, it's time to be sad. But when other people die, like really evil people, or the Irish, it's time to celebrate."
Jimmy Bender, "Greg the Bunny"
"And maybe now it's your turn
To die kicking some ass."
Freedom Isn't Free, Team America
The Hangu peace jirga succeeded on Friday in managing a temporary ceasefire between the warring Sunni and Shia groups in the Parachinar area of Kurram Agency. NWFP Governor Ali Muhammad Jan Orakzai had formed a peace jirga of 14 members to help stop fighting between the two religious sects, which has claimed several lives.
Zaheer said in a statement that there was an undeclared ceasefire in the agency since Thursday afternoon and that not a single shot had been fired anywhere in the area. There was complete lull in the night between Thursday and Friday and the situation remained under control, he added. The political agent asked the media to confirm reports before publishing them in the larger national interest.
A spokesman for the FATA Secretariat also rejected the reports as fabricated. The spokesman said in a statement that the situation in the agency was under control, adding that there had been no major clash in the agency in the last 2 to 3 days.
Firing: Sporadic firing incidents were reported in Sadda, Balish Khel, Ali Zai, Sangeena, Ibrahim Zai and Khawar Kili. No loss of life was reported. According to official figures, 62 people have died and 183 injured in individual firing incidents since December 24, 2007. The FATA Secretariat spokesman hoped the jirga would succeed in convincing both sides to sign a permanent peace agreement.
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At least 11 miscreants were detained here on Friday during a security forces crackdown on militants, as the curfew in the area has been relaxed from 7am to 6pm. At least one person was injured during the crackdown.
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Unidentified men kidnapped five Christians in South Waziristan on Friday. The victims were en route from Wana to Dera Ismail Khan when they were abducted from the Wana-Tank Road. The political administration confirmed the kidnapping, and said all resources were being utilised to secure the release of the abducted people.
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Pakistani Taliban have threatened to launch retaliatory attacks in several cities in the NWFP including Peshawar if the government does not end the military action against them, reported BBC Urdu on Friday.
Talking to a journalist in Peshawar, Taliban Movement of Pakistan spokesman for the settled areas Ghazi Ahmad said that the Taliban organisation had given a seven-day period to the government to end the ongoing military operation in Swat, South Waziristan and other tribal areas. If the government does not end the operation in the given time, we will attack several districts in the NWFP including the provincial capital, the spokesman said. The Taliban threat comes a day after jet planes allegedly bombarded certain areas in the South Waziristan Agency.
Various Taliban groups active in the Tribal Areas and the NWFP formed the Taliban Movement of Pakistan last month. The Taliban head in South Waziristan, Baitullah Mehsud, was chosen to head the movement.
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Two U.S. soldiers were killed and three others wounded along with a civilian interpreter on Dec. 26 when an Iraqi soldier opened fire on them during a joint patrol, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
"The incident occurred as U.S. and Iraqi army soldiers were conducting operations to establish a combat outpost," U.S. military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel James Hutton said, adding that two Iraqi soldiers had been taken into custody.
The spokesman's comments confirmed earlier reports of the incident by two Iraqi Army generals.
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Take him straight to Abu Graib...Ohh I'm sorry, it's closed because of panties and nudity! Take him to Syria to find out why...Ohh, no Rendition!! Waterboard the B****, No More?? Well hell, let him go then.
#2
Give him tenure at Yale, a speaking tour of Australia and people-mover compliments of the UK taxpayer. Print T-shirts with his picture on and hand them out to street protesters, publish his memoirs and then give him the Nobel Peace Prize.
We have to be consistent with the way we have been fighting this war.
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IMO, the only difference between the victims here and US serviceman standing trial for killing an "Iraqi ally", is that the later has better developed survival instincts. Hope his lawyers are good.
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The goal here was not to kill US servicemen (that was a fringe benefit) - it was to cause US servicement to kill Iraqi soldiers, or to at least damage the trust that has been building over the past couple of years.
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Push him out in the street wearing a T-shirt that says I Eat Pork & I Love It!
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But if we send him to Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo I thought they were only for the innocent terrorists!
Squeeze the MoFu until he spills his guts then hand him over to be barbequed. Hack the terrorist websites and put the video up for their viewing pleasure. Don't forget to include lots of Allahu akbars in the presentation.
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It would be best if the perp was hanged by the Iraqi Army after a court-martial. That's the proper way to handle this.
We can blow off steam by talking about BBQ, but among the things our people have been working on in Iraq from Day 1 are 1) respect for the rule of law 2) respect for tradition and 3) building an army that is loyal to the state and not to a person.
A proper court-martial and hanging reinforces all three ideas, and all are vital to a new Iraq.
Try him. Hang him.
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Try him. Hang him THEN BBQ him!!
Yeeaaarrggghhh!
/Major Howard Dean
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"Try him. Hang him."
I'm not holding my breath. Unless the muzzie is offered up to "political expediency" he won't be put to death. Sharia law trumps all in Iraq. It's in the iraqi constitution. Sharia law does not allow the death penalty for a muzzie who kills a kafir.
The only reason the Indonesian muzzies that pulled off the 2002 Bali bombing are on death row is that they just happened to kill other muzzies in the course of the bombing. Had no muzzie been killed in Bali there would be no death penalty for the muzzies who plotted the bombing and were captured after the fact.
We'll see what happens. Maybe allan does exist: why this muzzie pos is still alive to be questioned or even stand trial boggles my mind.
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Under Sharia law he can not be considered guilty at any angle. And I'm guess he's a muzzy.
News Flash Just In: Murtha declares him innocent and Jesse Jackson says he's a victim.
If he gets a military court-martial and a severe sentence (death or life without parole) then we know we're making progress in the culture -- or at least, their army is.
If he doesn't, then we know.
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We're making progress. But not in all parts of Iraq and not evenly. I agree tho re: the trial and hanging.
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Life without the possiblity of parole? Ain't no such thing in Islam.
This is an important moment in the story of Iraq.
Life in prison (until he gets let out at ramadan) doesn't cut it.
The coward needs to die. If he doesn't then we'll know the life of a "filthy kufir" (which is what so many of the muzzies call us behind our back) is not punishable by death in dar al islam. And that will further serve to confirm all I already know about the religion of islam.
As long as he gets the same treatment and punishment one of ours would get for doing the same thing, I suppose I can't complain. But I'm skeptical he'd stay in past the first Ramadan after his actions are "forgotten". How many times have I heard about Muslim criminals conveniently escape and then totally disappear. How many times have I heard the line "He's under house arrest" only to have him show up elsewhere enjoying life. We'll see.
And if it does come down to hanging him, would it be OK to just very very s-l-o-w-l-y lift him off the ground by his nuts with a piece of piano wire first? Then hang him, of course. Then hack the terrorist websites . . . . >:-}
BAQUBA, Iraq - The streets of Baquba, capital of the restive Iraqi province of Diyala, were deserted on Friday as security forces imposed a ban on vehicles in a bid to curb violence, an AFP correspondent said. The one-day curfew was imposed in Baquba, 60 kilometres (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, and in the provinces other main towns of Al-Khalis and Al-Muqdadiyah, military operations chief Brigadier General Raghib al-Omeiri said.
The curfew will include all types of vehicles with the aim of curbing the violence, Omeiri told AFP. The three cities under curfew are the most volatile places in Diyala province and have been witnessing violent actions on an almost daily basis.
Diyala, one of the most dangerous areas of the country, has been hit by a spate of shootings, suicide attacks and roadside bombings in recent days.
US assistant commander in chief for northern Iraq, Brigadier General James Boozer, told a news conference on Wednesday that Baquba and Muqdadiyah were the key areas of violence in Iraq, along with the northern city of Mosul.
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Now, if only you could keep this curfew in place for a few decades...
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All we get is restive? Damn what a rip-off, I was promised spiraling violence and an ever-growing insurgency. What kinda damn blog is this?
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Actually, this should have been part of the original pacification program years ago. We should have destroyed all the electrical and water infrastructure and shredded every last motor vehicle. Walking to and from the river to get water and making the most of daylight would have cut way down on time for creating mischief.
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(KUNA) -- Basra Airport, used as a military base by the British forces stationed in southern Iraq, came under missile attack by unknown militants late Thursday. In a statement on Friday , a spokesman for the British forces in the area said unknown militants attacked the military base at the airport late last night, but no human or material losses were sustained. This is the first attack against British troops in Iraq since the beginning of this year.
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Coalition forces killed two terrorists and detained 12 suspects today during operations targeting al-Qaeda in central and northern Iraq.
Coalition forces conducted two coordinated operations north of Muqdadiyah targeting associates of the al-Qaeda in Iraq network operating in the northeast Diyala River Valley region. The targeted individuals are associated with the leader allegedly responsible for directing a large terrorist group that conducts executions in the region. Intelligence reports indicate the group recently executed two people and has been engaged in numerous fire fights with Coalition forces over the last few weeks.
During one of the operations, the ground force engaged and killed two terrorists. In a separate operation, a man displayed what appeared to be fresh wounds from a previous engagement. He was treated on site and subsequently detained along with one other suspect. Coalition forces also destroyed one building in the area that was assessed to be a safe house for terrorist operations.
During an operation in Sadiyah, Coalition forces captured a wanted individual believed to be involved in an al-Qaeda in Iraq media cell north of Muqdadiyah. The wanted individual is also allegedly associated with numerous terrorists operating in the Diyala River Valley region. During the operation, the wanted individual identified himself to the ground force and was subsequently detained along with three suspected terrorists.
Southwest of Kifri, Coalition forces captured an alleged Ansar al Sunna leader for the network operating in the Diyala region. The wanted individual is allegedly responsible for numerous attacks against Coalition forces. Reports also indicate the suspect was previously injured during an Iraq forces operation, and he allegedly escaped from the hospital with the help of other terrorists, killing five Iraqi policemen during the escape.
Farther north in Mosul, Coalition forces detained five suspects while targeting an alleged al-Qaeda in Iraq leader involved in weapons facilitation and kidnapping operations. Our operations are steadily chipping away at the al-Qaeda in Iraq network, said Navy Capt. Vic Beck, MNF-I spokesman. We will continue to relentlessly apply pressure on these terrorists that carry out brutal attacks against the Iraqi people and the security forces that protect them.
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Iraqi authorities ordered a vehicle ban in the volatile city of Baqouba on Friday in the wake of a series of deadly suicide bombings and other attacks by al-Qaida in Iraq against predominantly Sunni fighters that have allied with the United States.
The ban also comes as the US military stepped up operations against al-Qaida cells and networks in Diyala province, of which Baqouba is the capital.
The US military announced it had killed a senior al-Qaida in Iraq leader, Muhammad Khalil Ibrahim, during a Dec. 28 airstrike in Mahmoudiya, about 30 kilometers south of Baghdad, in an area known as the "Triangle of Death" just south of Baghdad. It identified Ibrahim as "the deputy military leader for the al-Qaida in Iraq network operating south of Baghdad."
Baqouba police chief Brigadier Hasan al Obaidi said the ban was imposed because of the "increased violent events during last week." The ban in the city located 60 kilometers northeast of Baghdad also aimed to protect worshippers going to mosques for Friday prayers. It was to last until late afternoon.
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(KUNA) -- Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of the Fatah movement accused Hamas on Thursday of being behind the assassination of one of its leaders in the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip who collapsed during his detention in a prison run by the latter.
The brigade reported that Abdullah Qishtah, 27, was arrested with a group of leading Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades yesterday in the governorate of Rafah at the hands of the Hamas movement. He was placed in a prison it runs on Rafah that was raided by the Israeli planes this evening.
The brigade called on resistance factions to take up the responsibility it was shouldered upon against what it considered a dangerous episode facing the national resistance at the current stage. It also called on Hamas to release all Fatah leaders and cadres detained in its prisons, adding that Qishtah was one of the wanted elements to the Israeli occupation forces.
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Only one?
Yer slippin', boys.
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Chain equal numbers of each group behind barbed wire, and give them all knives.
Tragedy of Palestine? It is not a tragedy when stupid people are put in their place.
Ma'an Two Al-Qassam Brigades fighters were killed in clashes with Israeli forces in Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip on Friday. The deaths of Muhammad Awad Al-Kafarna and Muhammad Naser Al-Kafarna, during the dawn clashes, bring the number of dead to 11 in the past 24 hours in the coastal enclave.
Eyewitnesses said that Israeli forces fired seven missiles at groups of resistance fighters as they penetrated three kilometers inside Beit Hanoun. More than 25 citizens were also injured in the incursion.
Nine people died on Thursday during Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip. Twenty-five-year-old Abdallah Qishta, a Fatah member detained by Hamas, died after Israeli helicopters launched three missiles at the place he was being held. Al-Qassam Brigades member twenty-three-year-old Yasser Hillis died when Israeli warplanes targeted the Al-Shaja'eyah neighbourhood of Gaza City.
Five people from the same family were killed when Israeli artillery fired missiles at the family's home in Bani Suhayla in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday. Karima Fayyad, 52, and her sons Ahmad, 32, and Sami, 32, her 15-year-old daughter Asma and her nephew Muhammad, 18, died in the attack. Two Al-Qassam Brigades members also died on Thursday. They were Muneer Barham, 20, and Barham Abu Lihya, also in his twenties.
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MUHAMAD NASER AL KAFARNA
Hamas
MUNIR BARHAM
Hamas
YASER HILLIS
Hamas
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The sixth Kassam rocket fired into Israel by Palestinians on Friday hit a home in Sderot, lightly wounding a 17-year-old boy. Several others were treated for shock and the boy was evacuated to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon. Magen David Adom medics treated the other victims at the scene. The house sustained heavy damages in a barrage during which three other rockets were fired into the city's open territories. Earlier Friday, two rockets were fired into the town causing no casualties or damage.
Earlier, Palestinians fired eight mortar shells into the Gaza periphery town of Netiv Hashayara on Friday afternoon. Most of the shells landed in open territories.
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Yeah, but the poor oppressed Paleostinians really want peace.
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Palestinians fired eight mortar shells into the Gaza periphery town of Netiv Hashayara on Friday afternoon. Most of the shells landed in open territories. No casualties or damage were reported.
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Two terrorists insurgents and a soldier were wounded in a clash in Thailand's southernmost Yala province on Saturday morning, after suspected terrorists insurgents shot dead a local resident and wounded two during gun and bomb attacks late Friday.
According to local police, the shooting took place when terrorists insurgents ambushed patrol soldiers in Yala's Bannang Sata district. They exchanged gunfires for about 10 minutes before the terrorists insurgents fled the scene. A 23-year-old soldier was shot in his right leg and two terrorists insurgents were also injured during the fire exchange, local news network The Nation reported.
On Friday night, a 43-year-old villager was killed in a drive-by shooting near a mosque in Yala, where two security officials were also wounded in a bomb attack.
Residents of a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon found the body of an Islamic militant Friday who had been tortured and killed, local Palestinian officials and doctors said. The body of Saleh Azmi Abdullah, 28, was found in a vegetable market in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp near the city of Sidon, said Maher Shabayta, a local official with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement. Shabayta identified Abdullah as a member of the militant Jund al-Sham group, which follows the extremist ideology of al-Qaida and has clashed with Fatah members and Lebanese troops based around the camp.
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Jund al-Sham
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Tablecloths -- why do they hate us?
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Risque posing was allowed until the Hays office decided it was subversive. "Flying Down To Rio" included a scene where actresses posed topless, albeit in an innocent way.
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 alleged drug peddler was killed during a "shootout" between Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members and his accomplices in the city's Agargaon area under Mohammadpur Police Station early yesterday. He was identified as Md Abdul Hannan alias Hanna of West Agargaon.
Pakistani Taliban have threatened to launch retaliatory attacks in several cities in the NWFP including Peshawar if the government does not end the military action against them, reported BBC Urdu on Friday.
BAQUBA, Iraq - The streets of Baquba, capital of the restive Iraqi province of Diyala, were deserted on Friday as security forces imposed a ban on vehicles in a bid to curb violence, an AFP correspondent said. The one-day curfew was imposed in Baquba, 60 kilometres (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, and in the provinces other main towns of Al-Khalis and Al-Muqdadiyah, military operations chief Brigadier General Raghib al-Omeiri said.
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Ma'an Two Al-Qassam Brigades fighters were killed in clashes with Israeli forces in Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip on Friday. The deaths of 
The sixth Kassam rocket fired into Israel by Palestinians on Friday hit a home in Sderot, lightly wounding a 17-year-old boy. Several others were treated for shock and the boy was evacuated to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon. Magen David Adom medics treated the other victims at the scene. The house sustained heavy damages in a barrage during which three other rockets were fired into the city's open territories. Earlier Friday, two rockets were fired into the town causing no casualties or damage. 
