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Yow-za! Tim musta been filming that lame "The Blind Side" flick just about that time...If all else fails, Tim and Sandra might be able to cobble together a meager mutual-admiration thingie some day. (Naw! Faith is too high-maint...)
Google Translate from a string of articles on Milenio.com For a map, here.
Saturday morning dawned in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon with several streets blocked through action by criminal gangs, according to the Mexican daily Milenio.
The actions took place primarily in the suburbs of Escobedo and San Nicolas. The first action was the hijacking of a tractor trailer rig which was used to block the Northwest Bypass. A shuttle bus and a refrigerated trailer were also hijacked and emplaced as a block on other parts of the thoroughfare.
Another block was made by several stolen sedans on Avenida Adolfo López Mateosin the Azteca district in front of the Metropolitan Hospital and where the street intersects with Calle Moctezuma.
Other similar block were located at Avenida Los Angeles in the Valle del Nogalar district.
No one was reported hurt in the several blocks.
Why'd they do it? Practicing for something or just the sheer joy of kidnapping large vehicles?
Narcobloques are usually done for one of three reasons: 1) The criminal gang wants to impeded movement of police/military forces in an area. 2) A response to a reverse such as an arrest of a capo or 3) they want to cover their own withdrawal. In Nuevo Laredo last week, for example, Los Zetas used these tactics frequently to prevent the Mexican Army from closing and engaging, and when they wanted to escape an police or army cordon.
At 1900 hrs. three armed suspects riding aboard a Jeep Grand Cherokee open fired on a Mexican Army patrol near the intersection of Avenida Felix U. Gómez and Madero in downtown Monterrey.
An ecotaxi
Ecotaxi? What's that?
carrying a family was overturned by the suspects attempting to avoid arrest injuring all on board. A standoff started and lasted 15 minutes. Two armed suspects were wounded by gunfire while the third was killed by Mexican Army soldiers attempting to flee the scene.
In the Jeep investigators found several guns.
At 1500 hrs. elements of the Mexican Army on patrol on the highway to China near the Empalme Los Herrera farm found two unidentified corpses in a state of decomposition. Both victims were males in their 30s and were bound by their hands and blindfolded.
Nineteen individuals were killed by ongoing drug and gang crime in northern Mexican states, including a prison riot which killed two inmates Sunday and a lawyer in Ciudad Obregon, Sonora killed Saturday.
Five unidentified men were shot to death in an attack in northern Chihuahua city, Chihuahua, Saturday, say Mexican news reports. The assault took place near the intersection of calles Tarahumara and Lucha Obrera in the Villa Nueva district when the five were shot at while riding aboard their Chrysler sedan. The armed suspects fled the area aboard a vehicle.
Four unidentified men were shot to death in separate crimes in Juarez, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. The first crime took place when two vendors of bonzai trees were shot to death by an armed suspect on Avenida Manuel J. Clouthier in the Plaza del Reloj district. Two armed suspects riding a vehicle approached the vendors as potential customers, then open fired killing both.
The second crime took place at a residence near the intersection of calles Antonio Maura and Valentin Fuentes in the Infonavit Casas Grandes district. One armed suspects stood watch as the other entered the home and shot the victims.
Two unidentified women were shot to death Saturday night in Juarez, according to Mexican press reports. The shooting took place near the intersection of calles Caiman and Lucha & Esfuerzo in the El Märmol district where the two were found face up shot with 9mm weapons.
Two unidentified men were shot to death in two separate crimes in Juarez, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. In the first crime a man was found shot to death near the intersection of calles Baja California and Tehuacan streets in the Polo Gamboa district. The victim was found with a single gunshot wound to the head.
In the second crime a man was found shot to death near the intersection of Antonio R. Villalba and 40 Ejidatario in the Libre district. The victim was performing masonry work as he was shot by two armed suspects.
A lawyer was killed Saturday afternoon in Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, according to Mexican press reports. Trinidad Arteaga, 41, was shot as he boarded his GMC Sierra pickup truck. He was shot at at least three times.
Three unidentified young men were shot to death in Juarez Sunday, say Mexican press reports. The victims, all under 18 were shot aboard their Jeep Cherokee by several armed suspects near the intersection of Las Torres and Libramiento Aeropuerto in the Smart Libramiento shopping center.
Two inmates were killed in a prison riot at a Centro de Readaptación Social (CERESO) in Juarez Sunday, say Mexican press reports.
The riot started at 1600 hrs. during visiting hours. Several are reported injured. Reports say visitors and guests were rounded up by prison officials and sheltered in a tunnel while the rioters were dealt with.
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The lawyer is perhaps understandable but whats up with the bonsai tree sellers? I sure wish there was some hint as to why some of these people are shot. Are a large number of people being murdered at random or for sick reasons as things fall apart?
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Are a large number of people being murdered at random or for sick reasons as things fall apart?
From what I gather, business people who are murdered are killed for failure to pay protection money, or they are involved in drug dealing and there is a problem with their goods invoice.
SEOUL -- A North Korean mine which drifted along a river into the neighbouring South killed a man and badly injured another when it exploded, military officials said Sunday. Several wooden box mines have been retrieved by South Korean soldiers and police, but it was not immediately clear how the mines ended up drifting into the South.
The explosion was reported shortly before midnight Saturday in a restricted border area in Yeoncheon, 60 kilometres (35 miles) northeast of Seoul, the defence ministry said.
A 48-year-old man died and a 25-year-old man was seriously injured.
"Han was killed by one of the North Korean wooden box mines which had drifted south along the border river," a ministry spokesman told AFP.
Apparently these mines are of a Russian design; they have little metal inside and are supposedly a bastard to detect.
South Korean soldiers and police have retrieved 29 boxes of North Korean mines in their joint search which began on Friday along all streams connected to the Imjin River, he said, of which 18 boxes were empty.
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Jesus H. Christ. Why? Are these leftovers, or a recent provocation just for the sake of being butts?
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Obviously released as a plausable denial for the Cheonan sinking.
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When I served in Korea in the 1970s, we had to help the South Korean military check the banks of the rivers every spring because the North Koreans floated down several hundred wooden shoebox mines every year, during the spring flood season. And if you did not catch them on the banks and the spring flood crest was high enough, the South Korean farmers would get blown up in the rice paddies later in the summer. One of the on-going North Korean minor acts of terrorism against the South.
LAS VEGAS -- Jacob Appelbaum, US citizen, computer programmer & security researcher, also involved with the Wikileaks Web site, was detained at the US border (US customs at the Newark airport) for three hours and questioned about the controversial whistleblower project as he entered the country on Thursday to attend a hacker conference, sources said on Saturday.
He was also approached by two FBI agents at the Defcon conference after his presentation on Saturday afternoon.
In Newark his laptop was taken and then returned. 3 mobile phones he brought with him were seized.
After he was released he made his presentation at DefCon. Then two casually dressed men identified themselves as FBI agents and asked to talk to him. Appelbaum asked when his equipment would be returned, and declined to speak further with them after getting no answer.
A few weeks earlier in mid-July Appelbaum had presented at a New York hacker conference. There he urged the largely sympathetic audience to support Wikileaks by volunteering or by donating money and boasted that Wikileaks remains uncensorable.
"You can try to take us down... but you can't stop us," he said. He also challenged modern U.S. foreign policy and called for civil disobedience by way of exposing heavily guarded secrets.
Appelbaum told that earlier audience that although he's significantly involved in Wikileaks, he has no access to classified U.S. data that may have been sent to the site.
So he's involved in Wikileaks, encourages violations of US national security laws, and boasts about his skills. Let the FBI toss him, his files, his accounts and his movements with great care, and if they can get anything on him, jug him. Any American involved in Wikileaks should be considered suspect.
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shouldn't he be on the no fly list?
although I've lost what little confidence I had with airport security. I got through with a knife I didn't realize I still had in my backpack but they confiscated my shampoo, sunscreen and shower gel.
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This could be a huge opportunity for India, to set up a vast training area in Afghanistan, rotating entire Corps, that would function as a border guard in an ironically crescent shaped pattern along the 2430km border with Pakistan.
Afghanistan and India would become bestest buddies. And Pakistan would lose its marbles.
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Hey Anonymoose, what if we train the Afghans to capture some Pak airliners and crash a bunch of them into their most crowded cities? ooohh feel the pain, main.
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Intelligence officials has said that a roadside bomb exploded as army troops were clearing a road in northwestern tribal region, killing two soldiers.
The officials said that the bomb was detonated by remote control on the road connecting the villages of Sararogha and Janata in South Waziristan.
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SRINAGAR: Four people were gunned down on Sunday by the Indian armed forces who opened fire on thousands of protesters and five civilians were killed in a blast at a police station, bringing the death toll from weeks of clashes in increasingly violent Indian-held Kashmir to 31.
The explosion happened after the police station was set on fire by residents angry at two deaths in Khrew, a town near Srinagar where hundreds had been protesting against India, a top police officer said. At least five people were killed and dozens of civilians were injured in the blast, the officer said on condition of anonymity, as he didnt want his name to be used.
There were no casualties among the police officers who fled the area as the mob attacked the police station, which also housed a state counter-insurgency police force, the officer said. A lot of explosive material used in quarry blasting was stored in the police station as the town is known for its cement industry and it might have triggered the blast, he said.
A deafening blast shook the earth beneath and a flying brick hit my head, said Muhammed Yousuf, an eyewitness. We dont know what happened inside the premises, but outside many were left injured, he said. Earlier, demonstrators started hurling stones after government forces tried to prevent them from marching in Pampore, another police officer said.
He said that the armed forces opened fire, killing two of the protesters. Another two people were killed and five others injured in firing by the government forces in nearby Khrew, where hundreds of people marched through the streets chanting pro-independence slogans, the officer said. As night fell, thousands of Kashmiris held protest marches across the state and clashed with the forces.
Many injuries were feared in the violence, police said. Hundreds of residents of Pampore and nearby villages had joined demonstrations and set government buildings and vehicles on fire after hearing about the shooting deaths of two people on Saturday, police and witnesses said.
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India should march all these "protesters" to the Pakistani border and force them to cross - with no return possible, ever. Since most of these troublemakers are working for the Pak government, they should have to live under it.
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DIALA / Aswat al-Iraq: Policemen captured two members of the Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) in northeastern Diala province on Sunday, according to a local security source.
The two AQI operatives were arrested in al-Rubaia village, al-Saadiya, Khanaqin district, (45 km) northeast of Baaquba, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The Iraqis may not be able to form a government but they seem to be able to hunt down the remaining AQI guys just fine ...
The two are wanted by security agencies and were arrested upon warrants on charges of supervising AQI armed organizations, he added.
The arrested AQI members are remanded under investigative custody, the source said, not revealing further details.
Baaquba, the capital city of Diala province, lies 57 km northeast of Baghdad.
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The Iraqis may not be able to form a government but they seem to be able to hunt down the remaining AQI guys just fine ...
Doc, the politicians were trained by our State Department and the soldiers by our military???
FIVE rockets slammed into the southern Israeli resort of Eilat on Monday but there were no immediate reports of casualties, army radio reported.
Israeli police confirmed that a series of explosions had taken place in Eilat but could not confirm a rocket attack.
"There were a number of explosions heard in and around Eilat," police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said. "As yet, nothing has been found on the ground," he added.
The radio said at least one of the rockets had landed in the sea. There were explosions just across the border in Jordan a couple of months back. I suggested at the time that they were from missiles fired from Sinai which overshot. It looks like the shooters have figured out the range.
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They certainly are busy bees in Israel today. phil_b's article was posted at 12:26 Israeli time. Two hours later Jerusalem Post staff put up another article: Jordan: 1 dead in rocket attack
Defense sources believe 6 Iranian-made Katyushas fired from Sinai.
Jordan condemned Monday the firing of a rocket that struck near the Intercontinental Hotel in Aqaba in which a Jordanian man was killed and four others were injured. The rocket was one of six which struck the area, including a second rocket in Jordan, one near Eilat, two in the Red Sea and one in the Sinai Peninsula.
The rockets were almost definitely fired from Sinai, according to sources in the defense establishment quoted by Israel Radio. The rockets were suspected to have been launched from the Sinai Peninsula by Islamic Jihad.
Eilat Police sappers said that the Grad-type Katyushas were Iranian-made, with a range of some 20 kilometers. The rockets reportedly weighed 6 kilograms each.
In April, two rockets fired landed in Eilat and the adjacent Jordanian port of Aqaba.
one rocket exploded in the Sinai
one or maybe two went into the sea near Aquba
zero or one landed in Israel near Eilat
the rest hit Jordan within or near Aquba
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Local Officials are claiming the rockets that struck both ISRAEL + JORDAN appear to be IRANIAN-MADE???
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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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Four Iraqi army soldiers were wounded on Sunday when a roadside bomb went off in eastern Mosul city.
