The Dutch Parliament has approved the deployment of the Dutch naval frigate Evertsen to the waters off the coast of Somalia.
The vessel, which will remain in the region for three months, will protect ships carrying United Nations food supplies. The ships are often plundered by pirates. As a result of the fighting in Somalia two million people there are dependent on food aid. The frigate will also pick up Somali refugees attempting to flee the country by sea. Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen announced that the refugees would not be able to apply for asylum in the Netherlands.
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Will the Evertsen be cleared to defend itself/convoy, or will the pirates be sayin, "Pass the Dutchie to the port hand side."?
A Jamaican national arrested Tuesday at Orlando International Airport with bomb making materials and how-to instructions has told authorities he was planning on building a pipe bomb and detonating it in Jamaica, ABC News has learned.
More PhotosSources told ABC News that federal authorities are investigating whether or not the man has mental health issues.
No, reeeeeaaaallly?
Kevin Brown, 32, told authorities he was bought the materials in Gainsville, Florida and was planning on detonating the pipe bomb on a tree stump in his native island nation. At another point, he told investigators he was going to show his friends how to build a bomb like the ones he said he saw in Iraq, according a criminal complaint, though it's unclear if he was ever in Iraq.
Brown was arrested after authorities found two pipes with end cap holes in them, two glass bottles apparently containing the explosive nitro-methane, two prescription bottles full of BB pellets, a model rocket igniter, batteries, lighter fluid and instructions on how to build the bomb, according to an FBI statement. Initial tests indicated that the liquid, was in fact, nitro-methane, though authorities were waiting for the results of lab tests late Wednesday.
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Kevin Brown, 32, told authorities he was bought the materials in Gainsville, Florida
ABC? language English second for you?
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I hope they are dam* sure they know what they are doing if they minimize this by calling it a mental issue. I doubt it is. If he had mental issues, why didn't he just run through a park somewhere with toilet paper wrapped around his head or something? This defining terrorists as mental patients is crap. They're terrorists, plain and simple. It doesn't make me feel any better knowing that a mental patient is running around instead of a terrorist.
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Put da pipe bomb in his mouf, mon, an' let him smoke it like a spliff. Cool running...
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OK, the guy has or is a problem.
A mild suggestion, tho: there is a chance he is a vet legitimately suffering from PTSD. If so, the rhetoric here will look pretty overheated.
From what I'm hearing, we weren't all that good at identifying brain trauma in people who served during the first couple years in Iraq. What used to kill or visibly injure people has in some cases caused non-visible brain damage instead.
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Maybe he built the pipe bomb according to an AQ recruiting/training video filmed in Iraq; Iraq Theatre Style Pipe Bomb for the initiating jihadi - and maybe not in Jamaica but in Jamaica airspace.
Perhaps he is mentally ill and not part of a lousy attempt to penetrate security or distraction ploy/intel gathering. Either way he is dangerous, this is most definately beyond painting waterlillys on the grocery store floor with squeeze cheese.
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Really Rant Burgers we must be more understanding and compassionate of the mentally ill.. this is a perfect case..
Because all of Rantburg knows that in addition to your much-touted military prowness and vast experience in foreign policy,, you have that medical degree in psychiatry from the Sobornne...
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OK. So we need to find out if he was a vet with head trauma or just a guy who smoked too much (or not enough) ganga and was led astray by some imam. If he's the former get him to a hospital. If he's the latter send him to the gallows.
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Because all of Rantburg knows that in addition to your much-touted military prowness and vast experience in foreign policy,, you have that medical degree in psychiatry from the Sobornne...
I do recognize that you aren't getting enough well deserved recognition, especially of late, but all I was making was some light of the situation that seems now to have touched a tender sore spot by accident...apparently.
humor is good medicine.. lame humor ehhh LOL!
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was making was some light of the situation that seems now to have touched a tender sore spot by accident...apparently.
Yeah, you did. I had a corpsman try to commit suicide two days ago. He's been back from Iraq a month.
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Without getting too heavy here it's pretty clear that we're seeing a number of walking wounded coming back from combat with no obvious physical injuries.
Suicides, divorce, domestic violence, guys driving sports cars as if they were dodging IEDs on the road to Baghdad airport in 2005. Combine that with brain trauma injuries and there really are some problems that worry commanders and those who care for returning troops.
Not excusing or calling our military 'victims'. They're not, as a whole. But some of them are hurtin in ways that are neither visible nor perhaps imagined by people who've neither fought in that sandbox nor taken care of those who've returned.
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Indeed. The statistics I've read (not one number of which I can recall, I fear) make it clear that a goodly proportion of those who would have been dead in past wars are walking (or not) wounded in this one. And lots of them are traumatic brain injuries resulting from concussions from being tossed about by IEDs. There is an awful lot of new brain science and therapeutic technique being developed for those paying the invisible cost of this war.
DARRA ADAM KHEL: Unidentified people on Wednesday blew up a bridge on Indus Highway. Authorities rerouted traffic after the bridge was blown up by explosives placed at its base.
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Two people were killed on Wednesday after their donkey cart hit a landmine in Sohbatpur, Nasirabad district, police said. Lal Khan and Ali Jan were on their way home when their cart hit a landmine planted by unidentified militants at Bhagarji, Sohbatpur. Both were killed instantly.
Two people were killed in a bomb blast in the Jaffarabad district of Balochistan. Police said that blast occurred in the Bagar area of Suhbat. The bomb, planted on a bicycle, exploded, killing a local landlord and his aide, private TV channel Geo News reported. Police cordoned off the area after the blast.
Security forces diffused a landmine found in Dera Bugti. Unidentified persons planted an anti-tank landmine near a bridge in the Sangsela area of Dera Bugti district, officials said, private TV channel Geo News reported. They arrived on the scene after receiving an intelligence report and diffused the mine, it added.
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Two Pakistani militants owing allegiance to Jaish-e-Mohammad were killed in a fierce gunfight with Indian army personnel in North Kashmir.
You seldom see gentle or desultory gunfights anymore...
An army spokesperson told NewsBlaze that Indian army and police personnel launched a combing operation at Dardpora, Bandipora in North Kashmir Wednesday morning after receiving information that militants were hiding in the area. He said that after plugging off all the possible escape routes, the soldiers zeroed-in on a residential house and asked the militants present inside to surrender.
"Come out witcher hands up!"
The militants, however, turned down the surrender offer
"Youse'll never take us alive, coppers!"
and fired from sophisticated weapons towards the soldiers.
[BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!]
The fire was returned by the troops, triggering an encounter.
"Hokay. [BANG! BANG! KAPOW!]
In the ensuing gunfight, which lasted for more than three hours,
"Cheeze, Mukkerjee! How long have we been at this?"
"Coupler three hours! Duck!"
The army spokesperson said that both the slain militants were Pakistani nationals. During the exchange of fire, the house and a cowshed was damaged where a couple of animals also perished. Two AK 47 rifles, two magazines and two pouches were recovered from the site of encounter.
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BASRA, Iraq - A roadside bomb exploded near a convoy carrying Iraqi generals in a Shia militia stronghold in the southern city of Basra on Wednesday, but the officials were unhurt, one of the officers said. Major-General Mohammed Al-Askari, spokesman for Iraqs Defence Ministry, said he was in a convoy with Basras security chief, Lieutenant-General Mohan Al-Firaiji, when the blast went off in the Hayaniya neighbourhood. The neighbourhood is a stronghold of the Mehdi Army militia of cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr and was the scene of major clashes last week between security forces and militiamen.
It was a roadside bomb. It exploded near our vehicles but nothing happened to myself or Firaiji, Askari told Reuters after the blast.
An Iraqi television correspondent was wounded in the leg, Askari said, adding that he might have been hit by a bullet.
There were reports of sporadic clashes in Basra on Wednesday, but Askari denied there had been any fresh fighting.
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One really has to wonder what percentage of Islamic terrorism ongoing in Iraq can be directly linked to Iran's instigation? 50%, 75% or higher?
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Door #3, Mark.
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We can only hope the terrorist exporting Iranian régime, along with their cohorts in Damascus, will be dealt with very soon.
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Among other thingys, OSAMA BIN LADEN + RADICAL ISLAM IS HANDING THE LEFTIES A GIFT, as no matter whom GOP-DEM wins the US 2008 Elex, he or she will have NEW WAR FRONTS + WILL NEED TO SPEND BIG B-I-G $$$ + EXPAND GOVT. BUREAUCRACIES/LAYERS, ETC. TO CONFRONT AND ROLL BACK, + PROTECT THE US FROM NEW ISLAMIST THREATS.
Its still anybody's ball = quess as to whether LEFT-hallowed MACKINDER'S WORLD ISLAND concept can be successfully defended and empowered vv RADICAL ISLAMISM VERSUS THE US-WEST. OSAMA > IS NOW POINTING THE ISLAMIST-JIHADIST SWORD SQUARELY AT "MACKINDER'S" THROAT!
Osama needs Cold War Commie Nukes-WMDS NOW TO SAVE ISLAMISM + JIHAD, AND ISN'T TAKING NO FOR AN ANSWER.
The Iraqi commander of an offensive against Shiite militias has led a convoy into a Mahdi Army stronghold that has seen some of the fiercest fighting in the southern city of Basra.
Lt. Gen. Mohan al-Fireji, who is leading the joint military-police operation, and the convoy have entered the Hayaniyah area and the troops had a little gun sex began shooting into the air in a show of force before opening traffic. The move comes a day after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki returned to Baghdad after spending a week in Basra overseeing the crackdown that provoked widespread retaliatory clashes in the capital and across the southern Shiite heartland.
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The move comes a day after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki returned to Baghdad after spending a week in Basra overseeing the crackdown that provoked widespread retaliatory clashes in the capital and across the southern Shiite heartland.
No, Mr. AP reporter; Sadr provoked, Maliki responded.
Truth: Sadr lost "face", and about 1000 casualties (killed wounded and captured). The IA and US forces freely patrol his "strongholds" in Basra, and the JAM has shown, like in Najaf, they cannot stand up and fight without getting their butts kicked hard.
Our press is trying to recreate "Tet" to the point of lying to the American people - and never correcting the initial false impression their hysterical headlines produce.
So give it up - the MSM will take the word of a looney Mullah hiding in Iran over that of a US military spokesperson. They think the religious nutball is telling the truth and the US officer is lying.
Do you truly trust peopel that are obviousl insane as a source of *real* data on things?
Try hitting the web. Look for Ausin Bay, or other trained intelligence professionals that can show you the facts of the matter, not the media spin.
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The only part about this I found unfortunate was that the Iraqi troops shot into the air afterwards. While this does signal to the locals that they won, I dislike the lack of fire discipline.
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OldSpookOur press is trying to recreate "Tet" to the point of lying to the American people - and never correcting the initial false impression their hysterical headlines produce.
The fact that tens of thousands of us now, perhaps hundreds of thousands, are able to express ourselves on the Net setting the record straight about TET is a HUGE thing for many of us.
Besides lying about history The MSM wounded America very deeply by completely writing off the countless sacrifices by the very best of us in Vietnam.
And as we are able to spread the word about TET, we undermine the G'damn medias ability to Lie about the facts in Iraq & A-Stan and Lie about the sacrifices by the new generation of Brave Men and Women.
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I just read "The Economist" spinning the Basra fight as a win for Sadr. Lying bastards. I'd like to see some British squaddies give Mark Malloch Brown what he really deserves--a first-class butt-kicking that would have him singing soprano for the rest of his life.
Southern terrorists serparatists have struck again, taking the life of a village headman in Saba Yoi district in Songkhla province this time. Authorities said Ah-ma Ali, 52, was gunned down outside a local school while driving his pick-up truck to a meeting on Thursday morning. At least three people were believed to have been behind the brutal killing. It's a well-known fact that the victim co-operated with the government to give information on terrorist separatist movements in the southern region.
Dozens of Indonesian students on Wednesday attacked a Dutch consulate in protest against an anti-Islamic film by a far-right Dutch MP, burning a flag and breaking down the gates.
Police arrested 20 of the 70 students who protested at the consulate in Medan on Sumatra island, the latest in a series of mostly peaceful rallies in Indonesia against the film made by far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders. The protesters - members of a Muslim student association - tore down the flag and burned it in front of the consulate building before breaking down the gates.
Police said the demonstrators also threw stones and eggs at the consulate building, damaging both the gate and fence. We have arrested 20 students and they are currently being questioned, Medan city police chief Muis told reporters by telephone, adding that the protest lasted around 45 minutes.
Earlier this week, demonstrations were held outside the Dutch embassy in Jakarta and in Magelang, Central Java. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday urged Indonesians not to resort to violence over the film, barred Wilders from entering Indonesia and said screenings of the film would be banned in the former Dutch colony.
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aaaa...didn't we send billions to Indonesia afterthe Quake/Tsunami?
aaaa...didn't we send an Aircraft Carrier [loaded with helicopters and supplies and Superb Americans] and a small fleet along with it to help Indonesia after the Quake/Tsunami?
I know it's the Dutch in this case but these animals [gubmint of Indo] who half ass supported the Bali Bombers and support/ed that toothy son of bitch [cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir] should NEVER get a dime of yours or my money.
If only we could D-11 the UN building and the State Dept into rubble, tiny tiny bits..... yaa I kno.. i can dream tho...
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They also emme to have forgotten how, except for rebuilding mosques, little if any aid came from Muslim countries, even from rich ones like Saudi Arabia.
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In no way to justify the violence, but by way of explanation, (in part) this is probably in some ways just a continued historical grudge -- since Indonesia was brutally ruled as a colony of the Dutch for about two centuries (i.e., the Dutch East Indies). Post WW II, there was an almost five year war fought for independence, and a lot of anti-West, anti-White sentiment created. It didn't help for the Dutch to use Christian Indonesians as their chief enforcers -- that led to some resentment along those lines too. In other words, any excuse will do when it comes to acting out against the Dutch in Indonesia.
Indonesia is a smorgasbord of cultures, religions, and ideologies -- despite being the largest "Muslim" country in the world. Nonetheless, if you'd like to ever see the likes of a Reformation Movement in Islam it's probably going to come out of the likes of organizations such as Indonesias Liberal Islam Network. Indonesia's cultural and political climate is not easily reducible to monolithic themes. (See, e.g., this link and comments there.) In part, that's the hope for the country. Melting pots are good.
Many Muslims can be our allies in the WOT -- as evidenced by the dead bodies and spilt blood of those Muslims the islamofascists target as collaborators -- whether in Palestine, Iraq, or elsewhere in the world. Indonesia has been very active in shutting down islamofascism. (See link and comments there, and this storyU.S.-Indonesia Ties Called Crucial in Struggle Against Extremism.) I can't think of another country that has arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced so many of its own citizens for islamofascist extremism -- including sentencing several of these thugs to death.
The tsunami aid was greatly appreciated in Indonesia, and built long lasting good will. Besides that, regardless, it was the right thing to do. And, if no one else (but there were, many, many besides), the Lutherans on Nias appreciated it.
At least 13 Tamil Tiger rebels and one government soldier have been killed in fresh fighting in Sri Lankas north, the defence ministry said Wednesday.
Security forces said they captured a long string of rebel defence bunkers in the northwestern district of Mannar early Wednesday, with the fighting also leaving 40 guerrillas and 12 government soldiers wounded. The latest casualty claims brings to at least 2,533 the number of rebels killed by security forces since January, according to defence ministry data. The ministry has reported losing 152 of its soldiers in the same period.
Casualty figures given by both sides cannot be independently confirmed because Colombo bars journalists and rights groups from front-line areas. The ministry also said its fighter jets bombed and inflicted extensive damage on a rebel base in Mullaittivu district in the northeast on Tuesday. There was no immediate comment from the Liberation Tigers of Eelam (LTTE).
A pro-rebel website, however, said the Tigers beat back an army offensive in Mannar on Tuesday, killing 15 soldiers and injuring 25 others. It did not give details of LTTE casualties.
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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
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Two people were killed on Wednesday after their donkey cart hit a landmine in Sohbatpur, Nasirabad district, police said. Lal Khan and Ali Jan were on their way home when their cart hit a landmine planted by unidentified militants at Bhagarji, Sohbatpur. Both were killed instantly.
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At least 13 Tamil Tiger rebels and one government soldier have been killed in fresh fighting in Sri Lankas north, the defence ministry said Wednesday.
