[Tolo News] NATO says no evidence has been found to confirm civilian casualties during the coalition forces' operations in Helmand on Friday
A joint investigation by NATO and the Afghan government into allegations of civilian casualties near Rigi village in the southern Helmand province on July 23 has revealed no evidence of civilian casualties, ISAF Press Release says.
"Any speculation at this point of an alleged civilian casualty in Rigi Village is completely unfounded," said ISAF Communication Director, Rear Admiral Greg Smith.
"We are conducting a thorough joint investigation with our Afghan partners and will report any and all findings when known," he added.
ISAF and Afghan National Army forces came under attacks by Taliban insurgents on Friday and the joint force responded with attack helicopters and precision-guided missiles against the insurgents.
Coalition forces reported that six insurgents were killed in the strike, including a Taliban commander.
Residents in Sangin district had claimed a few days ago that a number of people in an attempt to survive gunfire had taken refuge in a residential house when the house was hit by a foreign forces' missile, in which 45 Afghan civilians were reportedly killed.
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Autoedited by Rantburg [Tolo News] Afghan and Pakistaini Taliban have burnt down 150 houses in Barg-e-Matal district of the eastern Nuristan province, local officials say. The Afghan forces beat feet to "avoid civilian casualties" so I guess the puppies, kittens, and baby ducks weren't in the houses when they were torched?
These houses were put on fire during the 24 hours of Taliban control over the district, the governor of Nuristan told TOLOnews. ... and if you can't believe the governor of Nuristan who can you believe?
Around 4000 families have been displaced in the province due to clashes between the Taliban and Afghan forces in the past one month, he added. Were they incinerated in their houses? Or did they go to Helmand, where they all huddled together in a single house that was blown up by ferocious NATO Ostrogoths?
Barg-e-Matal district has daily been attacked by the Taliban in the past week. Provincial officials have reported no casualties resulting from the clashes. So lemme get this straight: the Afghan forces were chased out by 700 Afghan and Pak Talibs, who then beat everybody up and burned their houses down, then the Mighty Afghan whatever they were returned and killed all the bad guys but there weren't any casualties resulting from the clashes?
Barg-e-Matal district came under Taliban control for 24 hours when a group of 700 Afghan and Pakistaini Taliban captured the district after fierce clashes on Saturday night. Seems ever'body was kung-fu fighting...
An' it wuz a little bit fright'ning...
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So did a illegal drug processing lab blow up and burn down a neighborhood and the Taliban had to split?
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I can appreciate the difficulty in locating 1 or 2 very specific individuals, but how can we miss 700 Taliban moving around. Seems like a great opportunity to make a bit of pink mist.
Islamist militants based in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland will wage a holy war against the administration there until their strict version of sharia law prevails, a rebel commander said late on Tuesday.
who says his fighters are allied to the al Qaeda-inspired al Shabaab insurgents behind this month's coordinated bomb attack on Uganda's capital Kampala, urged local residents and businessmen to take up arms. "We shall never stop fighting Puntland. We are part and parcel of al Shabaab, we are brothers united by Islamic sharia (law)," Sheikh Atom told reporters in the town of Galkayo.
The United Nations says Sheikh Atom is one of the principal suppliers of arms and ammunition for al-Shabaab in Puntland. A major pirate base, Puntland has been relatively stable compared with the rest of Somalia but in recent months violence and instability has spiked in the region.
That a major pirate base is considered relatively stable tells you plenty about Somalia.
"Sheikh Mohamed Saiid Atom has been recruiting Islamists in those hilly areas [outside Bosasso] since 2005," said resident Hussein Ali. "He has indoctrinated the youth using three means: a huge amount of money from the sales of weapons, sharia law and convincing his clan they have little political influence on Puntland's administration," Ali added.
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If you see somebody else with better governance, better business, better anything, just wage war against them! Steal anything your perceived rival managed to produce.
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#1 - good description of the Original World Order.
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This might sound a little mean, but they are Muslim. I'm surprised it took them this long to declare Jihad. Of course, this is the violent version as opposed the subversive version generally found in the West.
Autoedited by Rantburg [Al Arabiya Latest] In the separatist southern region in Yemen, once home to the Queen of Sheba, today a pestilential sink of poverty and tribal ignorance four soldiers were killed and 13 wounded including a senior security official in two attacks, officials said on Tuesday, part of a wave of unrest that has raised fears of a sustained separatist insurgency.
In one of the latest attacks, gunnies ambushed a security patrol in the flashpoint province of Lahej late on Monday, killing four soldiers and wounding nine, a Defense Ministry website said, citing a regional security director.
In the other assault on Monday evening, suspected secessionists attacked military sites in the southern city of Dalea with rocket-propelled grenades and mortars, a Yemeni official said. A provincial security director was wounded along with three soldiers.
Violence in the south has increased in recent months, with separatist ambushes and government crackdowns leading to many deaths on both sides.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Houthi rebels captured 200 Yemeni soldiers in the country's north where deadly fighting between the rebels and army-backed primitives is endangering a fragile truce, a military official said on Tuesday. The higher the corpse count the more fragile it gets...
"Huthi (rebels) captured 200 soldiers," the official said on condition of anonymity, adding that "these soldiers belong to regiment 72 of the army's elite republican guard."
On Monday, another military official said that the Houthis had captured some 70 soldiers after they seized a strategic army post in Al-Zaala, a day after six soldiers were killed in fighting between the rebels and a government-backed tribe in the tense north.
Al-Zaala in Amran province controls the road between Sanaa and Saada, the rebels' secret lair.
The rebels' front man Mohammed Abdul Salam declined to confirm the number of captured soldiers.
"It might be true that there are prisoners, but no information is available on either their number or their fate."
At least 70 people were reportedly killed last week in clashes that have rattled an already fragile truce agreed in February that ended a six-month round of fighting in the conflict between the rebels and the army, which started in 2004. The Houthis and the government have repeatedly exchanged accusations of violating the February ceasefire.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A Dhaka court on Tuesday rejected bail prayers by detained Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid and Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee in five cases. Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Ismail Hossain passed the order after their counsels submitted five separate petitions seeking bail in the cases filed with Paltan, Uttara and Raman police stations on different charges.
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In words which will be greeted with alarm in Islamabad, the Prime Minister also suggested that Pakistan had links with terrorist groups, and was guilty of double dealing by aligning itself with both the West and the forces it was opposing.
Mr Camerons attack will be even more unwelcome given that he was speaking during a visit to India, Pakistans neighbour and great military rival.
During a question and answer session following a speech in Bangalore, he was asked by a member of the audience why the United Kingdom and the United States were pouring money into Pakistan, given suggestions that it was linked to the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks. Members of the Taliban are also feared to be receiving semi-official succour from Pakistan.
Mr Cameron said that the issue was one that he was extremely concerned about, adding that he had already discussed the problem with US President Barack Obama and would do so also with Manmohan Singh, his Indian counterpart.
He then went on: "We should be very, very clear with Pakistan that we want to see a strong, stable and democratic Pakistan.
We can not tolerate in any sense the idea that this country is allowed to look both ways and is able, in any way, to promote the export of terror, whether to India or whether to Afghanistan or anywhere else in the world.
That is why this relationship is important. It should be a relationship based on a very clear message: that it is not right to have any relationship with groups that are promoting terror."
We really do need to maintain that special relationship with Britain, if they're going to keep electing prime ministers willing to be as blunt-spoken on key subjects as our presidents are not. And he said all that in India. Betcha somebody important in captured in Pakistan within a few days...
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Nine individuals died in ongoing drug and gang violence in northern Mexico which included the murder of a cousin of Chihuahua governor-elect Cesar Duarte.
An unidentified man was shot to death in Juarez Monday afternoon, according to Mexican press reports.
The assault took place in the Quintas Montecarlo district on Avenida Imperio at the Juärez exit. The shooters were riding aboard a Dodge Caravan, and they fled along with at least two other vehicles after the shooting.
Five unidentified men were shot to death in three separate crimes Monday night, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. Two brothers were shot to death near the intersection of calles Durango and Oaxaca in the Morelos II district by a lone gunman firing a revolver. George and Antonio RamÃrez Orozco died at the scene and were identified by their father.
Thee men were shot to death in southern Juarez in two separate crimes in the Hacienda de las Torres Universidad district.
A man said to be the cousin of Chihuahua Governor-elect Cesar Duarte was murdered in Parral, Chihuahua Monday, say Mexican press reports. Alberto Porras Duarte was shot in front of law offices he had with partners in Parral, in southern Chihuahua. Cesar Duarte is currently on vacation in Japan.
A man was shot to death in Empalme, Sonora Sunday, according to Mexican press reports. Javier Martin Rodriguez, 27, was shot near the intersection of calles Reforma and Nicoläs Bravo, when a group of armed suspects riding a Dodge Nitro hunted the victim down and killed him. Investigators at the scene say AR-15 assault rifles were used in the attack.
An unidentified man as shot to death in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon Tuesday night, say Mexican press reports. The assault took place near the intersection of calles Elvira RenterÃa and Medallones in the Alfonso Reyes district in front of a grocery store. witesses say the shooters were aboard four vans with tinted windows.
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During the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, a whole bunch of American revolutionary radicals went down there hoping to start riots and chaos, joining Mexican radicals intent on the same.
(The following removes the 'Dept of Truthiness' efforts to portray the radicals as harmless and just minding their own business. Yeah, and William Ayers was just an 'activist', too.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlatelolco_massacre
"The government massacre took place during the afternoon and night of October 2, 1968, in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City. The violence occurred ten days before the 1968 Summer Olympics celebrations in Mexico City.
"Estimates of the death toll range from thirty to a thousand, with eyewitnesses reporting hundreds of dead. According to the reports of the head of the Federal Directorate of Security 1345 people were arrested on October 2.
"About 10,000 people had assembled for a demonstration. Around 6:30 P.M., 5,000 soldiers, 200 tanks and trucks surrounded the plaza. Witnesses to the event claim that the bodies were first removed in ambulances and later military officials came and piled up bodies, not knowing if they were dead or alive, into the military trucks."
This was how the PRI prevented a possible civil war in Mexico. Likely, if PRI returns to power, they might be a tad more forceful about the drug cartels. Right now, PRI controls the lower house, but PAN controls the upper chamber.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Turkish officials on Tuesday blamed separatist Kurdish rebels for an attack that killed four police as ethnic tensions boiled over for a second day, the Anatolia news agency reported.
Turkish police fired tear gas to break up scuffles between Turkish and Kurdish protesters in the town of Dortyol in the southern province of Hatay, a day after four policemen were shot dead, the agency said.
The Hatay governor's office said in a written statement that the attack was the work of the "terrorist organization", a euphemism used by officials to describe the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has waged a 26-year campaign for self-rule in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast.
In a separate incident Tuesday, four soldiers were wounded in a remote-controlled bomb explosion targeting a military vehicle in the neighboring province of Osmaniye, Anatolia said.
On Monday evening gunmen in a van shot four Turkish police officers, opening fire on their vehicle in the town of Dortyol in the southern province of Hatay.
While the identity of the gunmen was unclear, local suspicions appeared to be directed at Kurdish militants -- the shooting triggered clashes between Turks and Kurds.
State-run Anatolian news agency said some of the protesters chanted slogans in Kurdish in support of the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrilla group, which has recently stepped up attacks against security forces.
Turkish protesters subsequently attacked and set fire to the local offices of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy party (BDP) and Kurdish workplaces in Dortyol, broadcaster NTV reported.
The protesters also attacked shops owned by Kurds, breaking windows and furniture.
Upon reports that police were questioning three people, dozens of Turkish protesters gathered in front of the police headquarters in Dortyol, demanding that the men be handed over to them, the NTV news channel reported.
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RANCHI: One man was beaten to death and two people were injured on suspicion of being Maoists by villagers of Jharkhand's East Singhbhum district, police said on Wednesday.
"The residents of Gumadi were guarding their village late Tuesday when they saw three people coming. They suspected them to be Maoists and chased them. The three men were caught and beaten with iron rods and sticks. One of them died on the spot while two were critically injured," a police official said.
The two injured, who have been admitted to the Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital in Jamshedpur, told police that they were not Maoists and were returning to their village near Gumadi village.
In East Singhbhum and West Singhbhum districts, people guard their villages as Maoists on regular basis enter and demand food and extort money.
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Well, first you should have proof that they are Maoists, like the leadership of International ANSWER, and several administration appointees. And nothing they can say can refute their being Maoists, or Marxists for that matter, because they always lie.
During the HUAC investigations, investigators discovered that hardcore communists had a flaw. They were incapable of convincing laughter when a joke was told. Their worldview was so rigid and strict, that they could not laugh.
But then, once they are determined to be Maoist or Marxist, I can't really condemn someone who beats them to death. Or shoots them. Or hangs them. Or pours gasoline on them and ignites it. Or even impales them on a stake.
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: A total of ten civilians were wounded in a blast in central Mosul on Tuesday, according to a security source.
"Gunmen threw a hand grenade at a police vehicle patrol on Ghazi street in central Mosul on Tuesday (July 27), injuring ten civilians," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. He did not give more details.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] A group of masked, sword-wielding Shiite youths aiming to "promote virtue and fight vice" terrorized a southern Iraqi city from early July until its members were rounded up. "Hey! let's form a band of fascisti and promote virtue and fight vice!"
"I gotta go home and get my arm band!"
The group, calling itself "Suyuf al-Haq," or "Swords of Righteousness," issued death threats and sometimes beat up those it perceived as engaging in immoral behavior in areas of Nasiriyah, said a colonel in the police, citing numerous complaints they had received.
Suyuf al-Haq adopted a broad definition of vice, going after people for using or selling drugs or alcohol and for prostitution, but also for having "Western" haircuts, according to Nasiriyah residents.
The group's black-clad members also checked residents' mobile phones and confiscated them if the ringtone was an Arabic or Western song, said the police colonel, who asked not to be identified by name.
Suyuf al-Haq sprung up in early July in the Al-Shuhadah, Arido and Al-Sadr neighborhoods of central Nasiriyah, said the police chief for Dhi Qar province, where the city is located. Those areas were former strongholds of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Jaysh al-Mahdi (Mahdi Army), which was expelled from Nasiriyah by the Iraqi military in 2008. Heh. Guess what's back.
Police arrested members of Suyuf al-Haq on Thursday.
"We arrested 24 suspected members of Suyuf al-Haq. Ten of them, who are the key members, were sent to an anti-terrorism unit," said Dhi Qar police chief Major General Sabah al-Fatlawi.
The 10 "will be tried according to article four of the anti-terrorism law, because they formed a group that has a terrorist ideology and want to take away people's freedom," he said, adding that the other 14 were released on bail.
The group did not carry out any killings, Fatlawi said.
Suspects tried under article four of Iraq's anti-terrorism law can be sentenced to life in prison or death.
Spreading fear
The group spread fear "among the young people in my neighborhood," said Ali Hasoon, 35, a shop owner from Al-Shuhadah.
"We used to go out until very late," he said. "Today, we are stuck at home to avoid the 'people of the sword,'" referring to the vigilante group.
Perhaps it's time to revive that old Iraqi saying, "They bring a sword, we bring a dozen AK-47s." Whaddaya think, Mr. Hassoon? Ready to set up a neighborhood watch?
Hasoon said people likened Suyuf al-Haq's aims to those of al-Qaeda, although the latter is made up of Sunni instead of Shiite Muslims.
Suyuf al-Haq members "try to impose strange orders. It's very extremist," Hasoon said.
Hassanayn Ali, a 20-year-old student from a southern area of Nasiriyah, said that fear of the group has spread beyond the neighborhoods where it was founded.
Suyuf al-Haq has "done worse things than the (Mahdi Army) militia. They try to fight our freedom," Ali said, adding that "the fear of this group spread all over the province."
Shihab Ahmed, a 32-year-old teacher from the Arido neighborhood, hoped police had now brought the situation under control, but said he worried Suyuf al-Haq members would go even further.
"They (security forces) have to defeat this group, and find out their intention and their aims, which could destabilize" security in the area, Ahmed said.
"We have passed very difficult days, and security must deal with this subject seriously, and realize the danger."
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Another attempt at Sharia by Muslims. Does the particlur sect matter? I read that the Quran has a bunch of contradiction in it that could allow for a more peaceful approach. The problem is, most of it is oriented to conquering and suppressing others. Then there is the little problem that there is always an excuse in the book to use violence against others.
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There is a doctrine called 'abrogation', i.e. progressive revelation. The later verses are authoritative over the earlier ones. Most of the later ones are less peacebul.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Hundreds of Israeli forces have attacked Bedouins living in the Negev desert, demolishing their village and leaving about 300 villagers homeless.
According to rights activists, more than 1,500 Israeli police forces arrived at the al-Araqib village shortly before dawn on Tuesday to bulldoze the entire area.
Israeli forces razed all houses and uprooted hundreds of olive trees belonging to the villagers, the activists who tried to prevent the demolishing told AFP.
Violence also broke out as Israeli police forces attacked the villagers and the activists who tried to stop the police from destroying the houses.
Several people were wounded and some others were arrested, activists said.
And, after all that, in the very last sentence:
Israeli officials claimed that the homes had been built without legal permits.
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Sounds like the set up shop with out regard to laws or security. Considering Israelis, it's probably more a security issue than a squatter issue. Does any body put up with squatters?
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I thought Bedouins wer Nomadic, and therefore had NO home in the first place.
The lands they grazed/migrated across have been broken up by settlements and national borders. So nearly all live in villages of some sort now, although they retain their traditional tribal social structures.
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The Iran Press loves such stories whether true or not. Several years ago I traveled from Tel Aviv to Beersheba for a wedding. Outside the route along the way were several tents and camels. I asked about these people and was told they were Bedouins. It wouldn't have been much for them to be pack up and be gone the next day--essentially they were nomadic.
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The Jerusalem Post article indicates these were secondary homes for people who had their primary homes in a proper, nearby village. And that the razed buildings would be quickly and easily rebuilt once the bulldozers retreated. Also, that the olive trees had only been recently planted, strictly for the purpose of buttressing the Bedouin claim.
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As a Christian, I support the State of Isael's right to survive 100%; whereas 90% of American Jews do not. I've toured Israel and understand their situation on the ground. I'd gladly go there to offer my talents rather than stay in the US and have my intellegence further insulted on an hourly basis. I've been pushing myself in that direction. As for the Bedouins? Tough toenails!
Five Muslim men were shot and killed in a series of terrorist insurgency attacks and a gunbattle with government security forces in southern Thailand, police said on Wednesday.
In Yala province, a 26-year-old village volunteer was shot dead in a drive-by shooting as he was travelling home on a motorcycle on Tuesday evening, Police Lieutenant Issara Jantarapayom said, blaming the attack on militants bent on attacking Muslims who work for the government. In a separate attack in the same province, a suspected terrorist insurgent was fatally shot in a gunbattle with security forces late on Tuesday, he said.
In the neighbouring province of Narathiwat, a 50-year-old villager was shot dead at his home. In two drive-by shootings in Pattani province, two Muslims were killed on Tuesday evening, said Police Colonel Kritsada Kaochandi, who blamed both attacks on terrorists insurgents.
[Straits Times] MURDER charges will be read on Wednesday against 21 police officers and members of a militia linked to the massacre of 57 people in the southern Philippines last year, justice department officials said.
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima also asked law enforcement agencies to speed up the arrest of 14 key massacre suspects, including five more members of the powerful Ampatuan clan, linked to the country's worst politically-motivated killings.
'At least 21 followers of the Ampatuan family will be arraigned tomorrow for their role in the massacre,' Ms de Lima told reporters.
Andal Ampatuan Jr, a town mayor in Maguindanao province, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the killing of 57 people, including 30 journalists, blaming Muslim rebels for the deaths.
Ampatuan's father, uncle and three brothers were also charged along with 191 police officers, soldiers and members of militia who were linked to the crime. Only 62 are in custody and 134 others, including 20 Ampatuan clan members, are still at large.
Last week, the government wanted to move witnesses to the massacre to protect them after a confrontation in the Manila detention facility where they are being held with others accused in the case. In June, a witness in the case was shot dead. Earlier this month, Ms de Lima ordered prosecutors to charge two people for attempting to bribe two witnesses to retract their testimony against the Ampatuans.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Lebanese security forces have jugged a German engineer on suspicion of spying for the notorious Israeli intelligence service, Mossad.
The suspect, identified as Manfred Peter Mog, was captured in the eastern Lebanese town of Talia on Monday, a Press TV correspondent reported from Beirut.
The man, who was the first foreign national to be jugged over espionage activities, worked at the Liban Lait dairy factory.
The new arrest comes as dozens of people have been detained since last year on suspicion of collaborating with Mossad, including members of Leb's security forces and telecommunications personnel.
Earlier, Leb detained three people who worked at the state-owned telecommunication company, Alfa, as part of its crackdown on Israeli spy networks across the country launched in April 2009.
Last week, the Lebanese cabinet unanimously agreed to file a complaint with the UN Security Council against Israel over its alleged role in setting up spy rings in Leb.
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I wonder how much evidence has been fabricated in order for Lebanese to clean house and shore up certain political parties.
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big>Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Ann Doran, appeared in more than 500 motion pictures and 1,000 episodes of television shows, aka James Dean's dominating mother in "Rebel Without a Cause" (Died in 2000 at age 89)
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(from Wikipedia on Patricia Kirkwood)
Duke of Edinburgh scandal
During a performance at the London Hippodrome in 1948, after her return to England, the Duke of Edinburgh was introduced to Kirkwood in her dressing room.[7] Later that evening they went to dinner at Les Ambassadeurs restaurant in Mayfair.[7] Kirkwood reported later that: "He was so full of life and energy. I suspect he felt trapped and rarely got a chance to be himself. I think I got off on the right foot because I made him laugh."[1] Reporters recalled that the pair danced and had breakfast the next day together.
Peter Knight recalled in a private memoir: "At the amazing spectacle of the royal consort escorting the leading musical star of the epoch, and in the palpable hush that had descended upon the restaurant, the rumor mills began to grind."[5] Rumours of an affair between Prince Phillip and Kirkwood were printed in the daily newspapers. King George VI was said by courtiers to be furious when he was told about the circulating gossip.[7]
Scuttlebut had it that there was an invitation to go to the "Sweethearts and Wives" ball with the Prince at the Royal Naval College as well as talk of her receiving a Rolls Royce.[7] Such rumors of an affair with the Prince continued for many years.
Pat Kirkwood always denied that there was any affair. In 1994 she and her husband, Peter Knight, went to meet Prince Philip's aide, Brian McGrath, asking to send a message to the Queen that she was upset about the continuing tales, and that they were untrue. Philip later stated in a personal letter that the allegations were the "mythology of the press".[7] To which Patricia complained "A lady is not normally expected to defend her honour publicly. It is the gentleman who should do that."[5]
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.
[Tolo News] Afghan and 
Islamist militants based in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland will wage a holy war against the administration there until their strict version of sharia law prevails, a rebel commander said late on Tuesday.
[Al Arabiya Latest] In the separatist southern region in 
[Al Arabiya Latest] A group of masked, sword-wielding Shiite youths aiming to "promote virtue and fight vice" terrorized a southern Iraqi city from early July until its members were rounded up.
