Polly's did bit parts in movies that included: "Make Me a Star", "Beauty and the Boss", and "By Whose Hand?". She also played Peaches La Fleur in the Broadway production of Red, Hot and Blue.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Russia and neighboring Central Asian nations have agreed to let supplies pass through their territory to American soldiers in Afghanistan, lessening Washington's dependence on dangerous routes through Pakistan, a top U.S. commander said Tuesday. Securing alternative routes to landlocked Afghanistan has taken on added urgency this year as the United States prepares to double troop numbers there to 60,000 to battle a resurgent Taliban eight years after the U.S.-led invasion.
Meanwhile, the Pakistani army said it had killed 60 militants in a stepped up offensive close to the Afghan border, a lawless region considered a likely hiding place for Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders. Washington has long urged Islamabad to take the fight to the insurgents sheltering there.
U.S. and NATO forces get up to 75 percent of their "non-lethal" supplies such as food, fuel and building materials from shipments that traverse Pakistan, a volatile, nuclear-armed country. The main road through the Khyber Pass in the northwest of the country has occasionally been closed in recent months due to rising attacks by bandits and Islamist militants.
U.S. Central Command chief Gen. David Petraeus said America had struck deals with Russia and several Central Asian states close to or bordering Afghanistan during a tour of the region in the past week. "We have sought additional logistical routes into Afghanistan from the north. There have been agreements reached," Petraeus, who oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, told reporters during a visit to Pakistan. "It is very important as we increase the effort in Afghanistan that we have multiple routes that go into the country."
Petraeus gave few details, but NATO and U.S. officials have said recently they were close to securing transit agreements with Russia and the patchwork of Central Asia states to the north of Afghanistan. Analysts say the United States' dependence on Pakistani supply routes means it has little leverage to push Islamabad too hard on issues of bilateral concern, such as the campaign against al-Qaida.
U.S. officials have said one likely new route is overland from Russia through Kazakhstan and on through Uzbekistan using trucks and trains. Another possible route is through Azerbaijan across the Caspian Sea to the Kazakh port of Aktau and then through Uzbekistan. Few analysts expect Washington to abandon the Pakistan routes altogether — unless they become impossible to traverse due to security concerns — because they are the shortest and cheapest lines. The goods arrive in Pakistan in the southern port of Karachi. Petraeus met with Pakistan's army chief, prime minister and president on the trip, the latest in a flurry of visits by high-ranking U.S. officials in recent months. Washington and other Western allies are trying to keep Pakistan focused on the al-Qaida threat as well as defuse tensions with neighboring India over the November terror attacks in Mumbai.
MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan — Suspected Taliban militants killed six alleged U.S. spies in a lawless region of northwest Pakistan where U.S. missile attacks have targeted Al Qaeda hideouts, police said Tuesday.
Word of the killings came as U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command and commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, arrived in Islamabad Tuesday for scheduled meetings with senior Pakistani officials.
No agenda for the talks in Pakistan — a key ally of the United States in its war on terror — has been announced, although U.S. missile strikes on northwest Pakistan's tribal areas have brought protests from civic groups and the government in Islamabad. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday told visiting British Defense Secretary John Hutton that such violations of Pakistani territory were "counterproductive."
Militants have responded to the attacks with a campaign of terror aimed at those accused of providing information on the whereabouts of Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders.
A tribal police official, Sharif Ullah, said the bodies of the six accused spies were found at two militant strongholds in the North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border early Tuesday.
Five Pakistani men were shot to death in the town of Miran Shah, while the sixth man — an Afghan national — had been hanged from a tree in the town Mir Ali, he said.
Ullah said notes pinned to the bodies accused them of passing on information to Americans in exchange for money and threatened other informers with the same fate.
Militants in North Waziristan have killed at least 19 people they accused of spying for the U.S. since Dec. 21, including the new victims.
Ullah said killings of accused spies were growing in scope.
"Previously the Taliban used to kill one or two American spies, but now they've killed five Pakistanis and one Afghan," Ullah said.
The slayings came hours before a bomb wounded five police officers in Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan.
Police official Mohammed Ashraf said the explosion Tuesday hit a police vehicle when it stopped on a road in Peshawar.
Unidentified assailants planted the bomb in a section of gas pipeline that is under construction, he said, adding that the possibility of a gas explosion had been ruled out.
Peshawar is the main city in the Pakistani region close to the Afghan border where the Taliban and Al Qaeda have established bases. The city has seen rising violence, including attacks on trucks carrying supplies to NATO and U.S. forces on the other side of the frontier.
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There's even more boys.
Keep looking. It might even be the guy next to you.
Bomb blasts killed three people, including two policemen, and wounded 20 others on Monday in fresh attacks linked to an extremist insurgency.
A suicide attacker blew up a car near a US base for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Khost, Afghan and US officials said. A 15-year-old boy was killed in the blast, said Dr Abdul Majeed from the town's main hospital. ISAF said five children were among 12 Afghans treated for injuries.
A second suicide bomber had apparently planned to blow himself up in the crowd that gathered after the first blast, but detonated his explosives without causing casualties, the interior ministry said. A policeman and civilian were also wounded when militants remotely detonated a roadside bomb next to a police vehicle in Khost. The town, close to Pakistan, has been battered by regular attacks in recent months.
Elsewhere, a roadside bomb exploded under a police vehicle in the southern Helmand province on Monday, a local official said. "Two policemen were killed and another four civilians were wounded in the blast," provincial spokesman Muhammad Daud Ahmadi said.
Meanwhile, NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer told a news briefing on Monday that 2009 would not be an easy year in Afghanistan. "There will certainly be more violence, because we put more forces on the ground. Successful elections will be of extreme importance," he said. "2009 will also see an infusion of the United States forces in this operation," he said. "I strongly hope that we will also see the other allies step up with more forces," he hoped. De Hoop Scheffer repeated a call on the Afghan government to do more to improve governance and stamp out corruption and drug trafficking. The NATO chief reiterated the need to see the Afghanistan conflict in a more regional focus. He said the alliance would be looking to deepen political dialogue with Pakistan, an ally in the fight against militants.
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Yemeni tribesmen have abducted a German engineer and two Yemeni workers of a gas firm in the Arabian Peninsula country, an official at the company where they work said on Sunday.
The three men who work for Yemen LNG Ltd were abducted in the Shebwa region in the south, the official said.
Disgruntled tribesmen have often kidnapped Western tourists to demand better living conditions, schools and services in the Yemen, one of the world's poorest countries outside Africa.
Earlier this month tribesmen kidnapped a South African woman and her two sons, demanding that authorities release a group of prisoners. They released them a few days after.
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Three men went on trial on Monday accused of helping bombers prepare the deadly July 7, 2005 suicide bombings with a reconnaissance mission in London. Prosecutors say Waheed Ali (25), Sadeer Saleem (28) and Muhammad Shakil 32, spent two days in the city where they visited tourist attractions including the Natural History Museum, the London Eye and the London Aquarium. Kingston Crown Court was told the trip was 'an important first step' in the plot to detonate bombs in Britain, the Press Association reported.
The trio, from Beeston, Leeds, deny one charge of conspiring with Sidique Khan, Shezhad Tanweer, Jermaine Lindsay and Hasib Hussain to cause explosions. The four young terrorists killed 52 people and injured hundreds more when they set off bombs on three underground trains and a bus.
Ali and Shakil also deny a second charge of conspiracy to attend a place used for terrorist training. It is alleged they were planning a trip to Pakistan to attend a training camp when they were arrested in March 2007.Prosecutor Neil Flewitt told a jury hearing at a retrial of the men, that they were not accused of making or transporting the bombs used in the July-7 attacks. "However, it is the prosecution case that the defendants associated with and shared the beliefs and objectives of the London bombers and so were willing to assist them in one particular and important aspect of their preparation for the London bombings," he said. He said on December 16, 2004, the defendants travelled from Leeds with one of the bombers, Hussain, to London where over a period of two days they conducted a reconnaissance of potential targets. Once there, they also met Lindsay.
"It is not the prosecution case that, at the time of the trip to London, the conspirators had made a final decision about the method of attack, the targets to be attacked or even the date of the attack," Flewitt said. "However, it is the prosecution case that the London visit was an important first step in what was, by then, a settled plan to cause explosions in the UK." He told the jury that the three defendants admitted making the trip, but for family and tourism reasons. "Moreover, although the defendants all accept that they knew the London bombers, it is their case that their friendship was innocent and that they knew nothing of, and took no part in, their plan to cause explosions in the UK," Flewitt said. Ali and Shakil also did not dispute that they were intending to travel to Pakistan in 2007 but denied it was related to terrorism, he said.
This article starring:
HASIB HUSEIN
al-Qaeda in Britain
JERMAINE LINDSAI
al-Qaeda in Britain
MUHAMAD SHAKIL
al-Qaeda in Britain
Prosecutor Neil Flewitt
SADIR SALIM
al-Qaeda in Britain
SHEZHAD TANWIR
al-Qaeda in Britain
SIDIQUE KHAN
al-Qaeda in Britain
WAHID ALI
al-Qaeda in Britain
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The Pakistani community is behind all the terrorist threats/protests etc
Ship them out if they dont like living in the UK!!!
(AKI/DAWN) - At least 13 suspected Taliban militants including a local commander were killed and several others were injured in a clash with security forces in Pakistan's volatile North West Frontier Province at the weekend.
Helicopter gunships shelled suspected Taliban hideouts in the Sandukhel and Mullahkhel areas of Kandaro tehsil in the Mohmand tribal region late Saturday, killing a number of militants, including their local commander Yaqub.
Some militants were killed when their vehicle was attacked by a helicopter. At least 40 shops and a petrol pump were bulldozed in different parts of the tribal agency by troops during an operation to clear the area of suspected Taliban militants. According to local people, troops pounded hideouts of militants with mortars late Saturday and clashes continued early Sunday.
The violent clashes occurred after Taliban attacked Pakistani troops conducting searches in the region. "They launched the attack from a hideout. Our troops responded quickly and destroyed it," said Miraj Khan, a local government official.
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Miraj Khan, a local government official
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The Taliban on Monday blew up five boys' and a girls' school in the restive Swat district, locals and officials said on Monday. The Taliban planted bombs around the buildings of five schools, which detonated late on Sunday, while the sixth was detonated on Monday afternoon. No reports of casualties were received. Meanwhile, two security personnel were injured in a remote-controlled bomb attack on their vehicle in Shand area of Madian on Monday, sources said.
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(AKI) - Western military supplies to Afghanistan were suspended through Pakistan's Khyber Pass on the border on Monday after militants attacked an army camp, killing a soldier and wounding ten others, an official said. Pakistani supply routes from the port of Karachi to land-locked Afghanistan are crucial for western forces fighting a resurgent Taliban.
They are expected to become even more important as the United States increases its troop numbers in Afghanistan.
According to Pakistan's Geo News, a government official in the region said supplies through the Khyber had been suspended indefinitely after militants attacked the military camp with rocket-propelled grenades.
"We're preparing for an assault. We have imposed a curfew in Landikotal and Jamrud. The border is also closed," said Zar Bacha Khan referring to main towns in the Khyber region.
The US military sends 80 percent of its supplies for the Afghan war through Pakistan, including 40 percent of the fuel for its troops, says the defence department.
Pakistani security forces launched a massive military operation against the Taliban on the Afghan border in December in order to secure the most crucial supply routes for NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Forty-three people with suspected links to the Taliban were detained while 107 others linked to tribal groups were arrested. Thirty-three homes and other properties belonging to suspected militants were demolished and a curfew imposed in the area at certain times of day.
The US called for the military operation after more than 450 containers carrying Afghanistan bound NATO supplies including 40 expensive bullet proof vehicles, oil and food supplies were destroyed in December.
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Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi army forces on Monday defused a Katyusha rocket and an explosive charge in two separate incidents in Mosul, a military source said.
"A force from the 3rd brigade of the Iraqi army managed to foil an attack by a Katyusha rocket in al-Muthana neighborhood in northeastern Mosul," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "The force seized a launch pad with a Katyusha rocket ready to be launched," he explained, "It also defused a bomb in al-Jameaa neighborhood in northern Mosul, without causing any casualties," he added.
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C'mon out, boys. It's safe. The Joooos are gone. Look fearsome...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Uniformed Hamas security teams emerged on Gaza City's streets Monday as leaders of the Islamic militant group vowed to restore order in the shattered Palestinian territory after a three-week pummeling by the Israeli military. Time to get back to what you're best at, bullying your own people. Learned that from the Republican Guard, didn't they ...
Hamas proclaimed it won a great victory over the Jewish state -- a view that appeared greatly exaggerated -- and the task of reconstruction faced deep uncertainty because of the fear of renewed fighting and Israel's control over border crossings. Damn, boys. Even the AP knows your fulla shit, for crissakes...
Cars and pedestrians again clogged streets. Donkey carts hauled produce and firewood past rubble and broken glass. The parliament building and other targets of Israeli attacks were piles of debris, while orange and olive groves on the edge of town were flattened. Enjoy your victory, boys. Hope you have many more...
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon planned to travel to Gaza on Tuesday to inspect damage and visit U.N. facilities hit in the fighting. Ban did not scheduled meetings with officials from Hamas, whose government is not internationally recognized. He won't be there long. I doubt there's even a three star restaurant left in the whole strip...
Israelis hope Gaza's civilians, who suffered heavily in the fighting that ended Sunday, will blame their militant rulers for provoking the Israeli assault with rocket attacks on southern Israel. Hamas, however, raced to capitalize on anger toward Israel and sought to show it remains unbowed and firmly in command of the Mediterranean coastal strip.
"We are still ready and capable of firing more rockets. We are developing the range of our rockets and the enemy will face more, and our rockets will hit new targets, God willing," said Abu Obeida, the spokesman for Hamas' military wing.
Despite the defiance, Gaza's Iran-backed leadership is likely to focus for now on assisting a traumatized population rather than re-igniting a full-blown conflict that could bring more misery to the area's 1.4 million people. Where's the evidence for that assertion?
The high visibility of uniformed Hamas police stood in contrast to the furtive movements of Hamas fighters in civilian clothing who confronted or tried to evade the Israeli onslaught that began Dec. 27. Some have suspected the Islamic group was in disarray, but even some Israeli observers have acknowledged that the tightly knit organization remains largely intact.
"We've had orders to be back, make sure everything goes well," said a Hamas police officer who gave only his first name, Mahmoud. Welcome back, Mahmoud! Did your uniform get all dirty from hiding under your bed?
Israeli officials said they hoped to pull all troops out of the Gaza Strip by the time Barack Obama was inaugurated as U.S. president Tuesday. The withdrawal would avoid subjecting Obama to a vexing Mideast problem on his first day in office, and also give Israeli politicians time to prepare for elections next month.
But Tuesday's deadline would not be met if militants resumed fire, government officials said."We reserve the right to act in Gaza," Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told Israeli television. "If they lift up their heads and shoot, we will return with great force because that is what you do against terror organizations."
Israel hopes its Gaza offensive will serve as a long-term deterrent to further militant rocket attacks on its territory. But the Jewish state ended the war without achieving guarantees that Hamas will halt missile fire or stop smuggling weapons into Gaza. Hamas' demand that Israel open Gaza's blockaded border crossings also was not met.
Israel and Egypt virtually sealed the crossings after Hamas staged a violent takeover of the strip in 2007, a closure that deepened poverty there and trapped its residents. The Israeli army has allowed humanitarian supplies in, and Welfare Minister Isaac Herzog said Israel would cooperate in "helping and easing up the pressure of the people of Gaza."
With aid groups calling for an expanded flow of shipments, Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor indicated that goods and equipment transported across the border from Israel must be closely scrutinized. "One needs to make sure that nothing that can be used as weapon will reach Hamas and that is clearly in the interest of all parties," he said.
Hamas' interior minister, Said Siam, was among those killed in the war. But a spokesman for the ministry, Ihab Ghussein, said that Hamas remained in firm control of Gaza and that civil servants were surveying the damage. "We are working despite damage done to communication, to our vehicles and the destruction of our compounds. We are on the ground and our people can feel that," Ghussein said.
Palestinian surveyors estimate the war caused at least $1.4 billion worth of destruction to buildings, roads and power lines. On Monday, Saudi Arabia pledged $1 billion to the reconstruction project. They always pledge a billion. Try collecting it.
However, a top European Union official said Europe wouldn't help to rebuild until Gaza was governed by rulers acceptable to the EU. The European bloc considers Hamas a terrorist organization. EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner suggested international help in rebuilding Gaza could come if the Fatah Party of moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas returned to Gaza. Hamas seized control from Fatah, and reconciliation efforts have failed.
U.N. humanitarian chief John "The Wad" Holmes said told reporters at U.N. headquarters Monday that hundreds of millions of dollars in humanitarian aid will be needed immediately to help Gaza's people and billions of dollars will be required to rebuild its shattered buildings and infrastructure. When the phone don't ring, you'll know it's me, Johnny Wad...
At least 1,259 Palestinians were killed in Israel's assault, more than half of them civilians, according to the United Nations, Gaza health officials and rights groups. Thirteen Israelis died, including 10 soldiers. Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida said 48 of the group's fighters died, a figure far below the hundreds of militants that Israel says it killed. Hamas also said 165 policemen were killed. Smaller militant groups reported an additional 104 fighters dead.
On Monday, Gaza City residents picked through the ruins. Electricity cables dangled all over the city. Those who could afford expensive fuel relied on generators, but donkey carts piled with tree branches and split logs plied the streets, providing the city's most impoverished with wood for cooking and heating.
In the northern town of Beit Lahiya, several teenagers stood around eight simple, unmarked graves in a graveyard that they said belonged to a Hamas leader and members of his family killed in an Israeli airstrike."People said that Hamas had given up resistance, but they were the ones who fought the Israelis when they came, so all of Gaza supports Hamas," said 15-year-old Eimad Abul Maeza. So no whining when it happens again, Eimad.
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If they reconstruct, it'll be a first. They're into destruction, not construction. Any money they get from the Soddies and Euroweenies that doesn't disappear will be used to buy more weapons.
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I'm not so sure. Hizb'allah used restoration / reconstruction to embed a whole new military infrastructure, complete with buried fiber optic comms lines, in Lebanon. Look for Hamas to do the same.
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"Military" infrastructure, maybe. But what about housing, roads, water, sewage? Do Paleos even know how to build houses? Who's gonna do the work for them? Is it gonna be like a Hamas CCC? That would be interesting.
Tuesday about 200 am local time
Israel Defense Forces officers supervising the pullout of troops from Gaza on Monday were working to have the last Israeli soldier leave Gaza on Tuesday before the Washington, D.C., inauguration of United States President Barack Obama. The IDF is expected on Tuesday to begin discharging many of the reservists drafted two weeks ago under emergency orders.
Troops began significantly reducing their presence in the Gaza Strip as early as Saturday night, immediately after Israel declared a unilateral cease-fire which put and end to Operation Cast Lead. The troops took key positions around the Strip, poised to reenter when ordered.
Hamas militants took steps to avoid violating the cease-fire on Monday, not firing any rockets into Israel and not attacking the IDF troops still stationed in the Strip.
IDF sources said that the peace was maintained despite alleged orders by Hamas leadership in Damascus for their operatives in Gaza to carry out attacks against IDF forces. Israeli officers said that the militants chose to ignore the order. of all the reports today, I find this the most significant
Getting tired of being gob-smacked, are they ...
The IDF General Staff, according to army sources, views the cease-fire and the aftermath of the 22-day operation as creating an opportunity for setting up a more effective system to prevent Hamas from smuggling arms into the Strip. This is because Egypt is reportedly showing signs - for the first time - of interest in halting smuggling, which it now views as a strategic threat.
According to intelligence reports, Iran closely monitored the situation in Gaza, and was concerned that Israel could topple Hamas' regime there. Iran is now interested, according to the intelligence reports, in helping Hamas rebuild its arsenal as soon as possible.
Israeli intelligence estimates indicate that Hamas employed a system of 250 tunnels running across the border which separates the Palestinian side of Rafah from the Egyptian side of town. Some 80 percent of these tunnels were collapsed or damaged in Israel Air Force raids, according to estimates.
Approximately 500 Hamas militants were killed in the operation, according to Israeli estimates and hundreds more were wounded. Additionally, the IDF killed hundreds of militants belonging to various armed factions and militias. The Israeli army captured 130 Palestinians in the operation. Out of that number, some 30 captives are suspected of belonging to terrorist organizations, and they are slated to remain under arrest pending trial.
In total, Hamas fired 600 rockets during the operation out of an estimated arsenal of 2,000 to 3,000 rockets with various ranges. Israeli army officials believe the IDF destroyed about 1,200 rockets in the operation.
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Meshaal might have to come back from hiding "exile" in Damascus to get his ass kicked give fresh orders to fight the Juice.
Not.Gonna.Happen.
Disobeying their Iranian masters' orders would indeed be significant
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The irony of this whole thing is that it is the Turkish method, used successfully for hundreds of years to control Arabs.
Whenever the Arabs would cut up rough, the Turks would go there, slaughter a bunch (though far less precisely), then leave. The situation would then calm down for a while before the Arabs would cut up rough again.
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Each time Israel has to go back into Gaza, they should be a little less careful in how they fight. Destroy more buildings, tear up the infrastructure more, bomb anywhere five rounds of AK-47 ammunition could be stored. About the third or fourth time, I THINK the Gaza Arabs would begin to get the message. If they don't, eventually there won't be any left.
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I find it pathetic that Israel's leaders, probably at our request, have adjusted their military operations so The Anointment of The One wouldn't be sullied by their unseemly efforts to defend themselves.
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.....so The Anointment of The One wouldn't be sullied by their unseemly efforts to defend themselves. Posted by: kirk
Again, I suspect Israel is under an Obama staff ultimatum....;<em>make it go away by the inauguration or risk future loss of military aid and assistance. Just my guess.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka's military says the navy has destroyed four Tamil Tiger rebel boats during a fierce clash off the country's northern coast.
Navy spokesman D.K.P. Dassanayake says patrol vessels attacked a flotilla of rebel boats late Monday in the sea off Mullaittivu, the last rebel stronghold. He says one naval craft was damaged in an explosion caused by a rebel boat packed with explosives. He says details of the casualties are not available.
There was no immediate comment from the rebels, who have fought since 1983 to create an independent homeland for ethnic minority Tamils.
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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
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MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan — Suspected Taliban militants killed six alleged U.S. spies in a lawless region of northwest Pakistan where U.S. missile attacks have targeted Al Qaeda hideouts, police said Tuesday.
Bomb blasts killed three people, including two policemen, and wounded 20 others on Monday in fresh attacks linked to an extremist insurgency.
Three men went on trial on Monday accused of helping bombers prepare the deadly July 7, 2005 suicide bombings with a reconnaissance mission in London. Prosecutors say 
(AKI/DAWN) - At least 13 suspected Taliban militants including a local commander were killed and several others were injured in a clash with security forces in Pakistan's volatile North West Frontier Province at the weekend.
The Taliban on Monday blew up five boys' and a girls' school in the restive Swat district, locals and officials said on Monday. The Taliban planted bombs around the buildings of five schools, which detonated late on Sunday, while the sixth was detonated on Monday afternoon. No reports of casualties were received. Meanwhile, two security personnel were injured in a remote-controlled bomb attack on their vehicle in Shand area of Madian on Monday, sources said.
(AKI) - Western military supplies to Afghanistan were suspended through Pakistan's Khyber Pass on the border on Monday after militants attacked an army camp, killing a soldier and wounding ten others, an official said. Pakistani supply routes from the port of Karachi to land-locked Afghanistan are crucial for western forces fighting a resurgent Taliban. 
