Hopefully they get 72 virgins that look like Bela Lugosi.
Four deadly foreign mercenary snipers hired by the Taliban have been killed after being tracked down by British Special Forces in Afghanistan.
They were among at least three pairs of crackshots recruited by the Taliban from Pakistan, Egypt and Chechnya. Chechnyans do seem to turn out their share of crazed killers and snipers ...
The mercenaries -- who can kill troops at a range of up to 650 yards -- are understood to have shot dead up to ten British soldiers in recent weeks. The victims include Sapper Darren Foster, 20, from Whitehaven, Cumbria. He was picked off from long distance by a single shot which went through a gap just 9in wide in a protected look-out post in Sangin valley, Helmand Province.
News of the Taliban deaths came as a British soldier was killed during a firefight with insurgents yesterday as he provided security for a meeting between Afghan elders and Nato forces. The soldier, from the 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, was killed during an exchange of fire in the Nad-e Ali district of Helmand.
Lieutenant-Colonel James Carr-Smith, spokesman for Task Force Helmand, said: 'He died in the course of his duty. He will be sorely missed and his actions will not be forgotten. We will remember him.' His next of kin have been informed.
The death brings to 332 the number of British troops killed in Afghanistan since operations began in 2001.
[Tolo News] At least two Taliban commanders, including ten others were killed in clashes with Afghan and coalition forces Friday afternoon in the western Farah province
In the first attack, 7 Taliban forces of Evil, including two of their commanders were killed in NATO air-strikes in the province.
The attack occurred in the province's Pusht Road district after NATO forces spotted a Taliban vehicle in the region, Faqir Ahmad Askar, the Police Chief of Farah told TOLOnews.
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May many more of these thugs die but it seems every day, Taliban "commanders" are killed only to be replaced with the thousands in line waiting to replace them.
[Tolo News] Six foreign Taliban fighters and three civilians including a woman and two kids were killed in a NATO air strike in eastern Farah province, a NATO statement said on Saturday
The operation was conducted by Afghan security forces and foreign troops and a Taliban controller who was in charge of trafficking foreign Taliban and weapons from Iran to Afghanistan was detained, it said.
It acknowledged that, "a civilian woman and two children were accidentally killed when a coalition force air weapons team engaged the gunnies,"
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YAHOO NEWS > US' NEXT TARGET: THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE TALIBAN [Planned US-Allied mil offensive in 2 mos. agz Mullah Omar's Zhari, South Afghanistan].
Yemeni troops have killed five al Qaeda gun-hung tough guys after a string of attacks by hard boyz on security personnel in south Yemen, the Defence Ministry said on Saturday.
The five turbans were killed in the restive province of Abyan where suspected al Qaeda gunnies shot dead eight soldiers and set ablaze a military vehicle on Friday, a ministry website said.
Most of the assaults since June have been claimed by al Qaeda, which has stepped up attacks on security forces in recent months, marking a shift in tactics for the global bad boy group's Yemen arm, which previously focused on foreign targets.
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ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > REAL WAR AGZ TERRORISTS ISN'T IN AFGHANSTAN, BUT [MilPol fought] IN PAKISTAN, YEMEN, + SOMALIA.
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ALLGOV.COM > US MILITARY LEADERS WANT TO STAY IN AFGHANISTAN ... TEN YEARS ISN'T [long] ENOUGH.
ARTIC > GEN PETRAEUS seemingly troubled by the US = OBAMMER ADMIN getting ready to formally withdraw from Afghanistan = AFPAK just as the US is finally starting to mil defeat + rollback the influence of the Militants [De-Americanization = Muslim-/Islamification of Anti-Militant War just starting to get real results]???
[Arab News] Bahraini authorities detained 12 people on sabotage and arson charges, a security officer was quoted Saturday as saying, after crowds burned tires and hurled petrol bombs to protest the arrest of Shiite muscle.
The protests, which took place Friday, were triggered by the arrest of a total of eight muscle and preachers during the week ahead of parliamentary elections in the island kingdom.
"They set tires, garbage skips, empty water tanks and private property on fire, in addition to hurling firebombs on roads," Bahrain's Gulf Daily News quoted an unidentified security officer as saying.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Police arrested three leaders of Islami Chhatra Shibir of Chittagong University (CU) unit including its general secretary yesterday afternoon for their alleged involvement in injuring a Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activist on the campus.
The arrestees were CU unit Shibir general secretary Nesar Ahmad Niaji, unit president Tofael Ahmad and organising secretary Shahidul Islam Rasel.
About 50 Shibir activists on motorbikes went to the university around 1:00pm yesterday and patrolled the campus for half an hour, sources said.
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Seven suspects total have been detained in the investigation of the kidnapping/murder of Santiago mayor Edelmiro Cavazos including a female police officer with ties to organized crime, say Mexican press accounts.
Nuevo Leon Procurador de Justicia del Estado, the Nuevo Leon state attorney general's office, Alejandro Garza y Garza said that the investigation into the crime is ongoing and more arrests are expected soon.
Investigators have so far seized clothing with logos of the national Procuraduria General de la Republica, the Mexican national attorney general office, they say were used in the abduction.
The accused Santiago municipal police officer, an unidentified female, is alleged to be in the pay of organized crime.
So far investigators have found that the criminal group numbering about 15 individuals used official disguise to gain access to the gated community where Calvazos lived. Calvazos, investigating the activities of the group, was forced at gunpoint into the trunk of a sedan and driven away.
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An apparent abduction attempt at a private school was prevented by private armed guards, but ended with a toll of two dead and three wounded, according to Mexican press reports.
Apparently armed suspects attempted an abduction at American School, Campus La Huasteca, in Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon, but were met with armed resistance from a number of private armed guards.
Mexican news report a total of 15 individuals died from ongoing drug and gang related violence in northern Mexico which included an unidentified man shot to death aboard a city bus in Juarez.
Four unidentified men were shot to death in three separate crimes in Juarez Friday, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. The first murder took place near the intersection of calles Morelia and Grosella in the Erendira district at about 1215 hrs when two men were shot inside a sedan. The victims are thought to be hospital employees. The second crime took place at about the same time near the intersection of calle Rio Jucar con Plan de Guadalupe in the Los Nogales district where a man was shot driving his GMC Sierra pickup truck. The third murder took place near the intersection of Avenida Hermanos Escobar and Calle Gregory M. Solís, where a man was shot while driving a Dodge Ram pickup truck.
An unidentified man was shot to death and an unidentified woman and three year old toddler seriously wounded in Juarez Friday afternoon, according to Mexican press accounts. The attack took place at a residence in the Altavista district where several armed suspects burst into a home and pursued their victim into his bathroom before shooting him. A three year old boy was shot in the head in the attack
Six people were killed and five were maimed as a vehicle hit a bomb at Tehsil Baizai on Saturday, according to the government officials.
The political authorities claim that the dear departed are members of the Peace Committee of Khowi Zai area and were going to sub-division office at Baizai.
During the journey, the vehicle of the peace committee members hit a mine, close to the Afghan border and some 80 kilometers from Beautiful Downtown Peshawar that exploded with a big bang.
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* Teenager among dead
* Angry mob tries to lynch ethnic Pakhtun
* People burn tyres, say government has failed to check killings and provide security
The Pak government's shoot-at-sight orders to law enforcement agencies have proved unfruitful as five more lives were lost in continuing violence on Saturday.
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Six gunnies were waxed in US dronzap in North Wazoo on Saturday, locals and official sources said.
Sources said that a US drone fired four missiles at two vehicles at Anghara village, some four kilometres of Miranshah, and killed all the six gunnies in the vehicles.
The official sources said that it was not known whether the gunnies were locals or foreigners.
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four missiles at two vehicles
Weren't taking any chances on leaving survivors, were they?
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After killing the basturds why don't we continue to hover, watch and see who takes the bodies away and follow them to their hideouts?
Then zap them as well.
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My guess is there was (or at least we thought there was) somebody 'significant' in one of those vehicles - somebody we seriously wanted dead - but we are not and have not been interested in body count of the rank and file and sympathizers.
The owner of a fruit shop was gunned down in the downtown Yala on Friday night. He was shot dead by two motorcycle gunmen as he was parking his motorcycle at the shop. Police have obtained a tape from a surveillance camera near the shop.
Meanwhile, two terrorists suspected insurgents escaped when security forces raided their hideout in Pattani. The two suspected bomb makers - Maha Masoree Samae, 27, and Afandi Kapa - were busy at work when their forest hideout was raided. A local police chief said that a joint police-military team raided the hideout, which triggered a gunfight. Reinforcements were called in and surrounded the area, but the suspects fled.
There was evidence that the area was used for arms training. Many bomb-making materials were seized, including mobile phones, circuit panels, urea fertiliser and wires. Some of the materials were buried underground. There was enough material to make at least 11 bombs.
Communist guerrillas killed eight coppers and a local official in coordinated attacks in the central Philippines on Saturday, the police commander for the region said.
New People's Army (NPA) gunnies murdered a village official at his home at dawn and then ambushed a police patrol sent to investigate the killing, said Chief Superintendent Arnold Revilla, the regional police chief. The rebels set off an IED as the patrol approached the village official's home, then raked it with gunfire, Revilla told reporters by telephone.
He said the dead included the deputy police commander of Catarman city, Senior Inspector Necasio San Antonio. The attackers then stole the victims' firearms, he added.
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Gloria Arroyo used make a habit of appeasing the 'surfaced' NPA elements and their sympathizers. I guess 'Noynoy', the new guy, hasn't been so accommodating.
A ship carrying women activists and aid will no longer head to Gaza via Cyprus from Lebanon on Sunday, the organisers said, after Nicosia announced it would not allow the vessel to sail from its ports.
"We will not embark tomorrow," Samar al-Hajj told Reuters. "We are working to find another place (port to sail from). There are obstacles, difficulties. We won't give up easily," she said.
Women activists had planned to take aid to Palestinians in Gaza aboard their vessel, the Mariam, which was due to set sail from Lebanon's northern port of Tripoli for Cyprus on Sunday. Israel has warned that it will not allow ships to reach Gaza, controlled by the militant Palestinian group Hamas since 2007. Cypriot police said on Friday the arrival and departure of ships to or from Gaza through Cyprus ports was prohibited, prompting the Lebanese transport minister to revoke permission for the ship to sail there, according to the organisers. Ghazi Aridi told New TV on Friday the ship would not sail as long as Cypriot authorities have refused to receive it. He added Lebanon would not give permission for sail to an unknown party.
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Iran began fuelling its first nuclear power plant on Saturday, a potent symbol of its growing regional sway and rejection of international sanctions designed to prevent it building a nuclear bomb.
Iranian television showed live pictures of Iran's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi and his Russian counterpart watching a fuel rod assembly being prepared for insertion into the reactor near the Gulf city of Bushehr.
"Despite all the pressures, sanctions and hardships imposed by Western nations, we are now witnessing the start-up of the largest symbol of Iran's peaceful nuclear activities," Salehi told a news conference afterwards.
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Well,
They've made a right proper fool of us, haven't they.
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Our American leadership has overestimated the value of sanctions and underestimated the doggedness of the Iranians.
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Barry is simply passing this one along to the next POTUS. He's a one termer, he doesn't give a damn! In three weeks it'll be time for another 10 day vacation. I predict South Africa. Madiba is 91 and slipping fast. Barry needs photographs. Could throw in a day or two stop in Kenya.
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This plant is less of a threat then the many U enrichment plants that Iran is operating.
The Bushehr will be monitored, the U-enrichment plants are not. We know where the Bushehr plant is (it is an easy target near the Persian gulf), we don't know where all the U enrichment plants are.
It will be interesting to see if the Bushehr works well. It is a patchwork of various designs. It has a capacity of about 1 GW. Although Iran will claim otherwise, it might never exceed 50 MW if some of the tech stuff doesn't match the other tech stuff.
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I've seen that some have said that now that it's being fueled the window for (the US|Israel) to attack is past. I don't see why. An attack after it's fueled would make it that much harder to restart, right? Or am I just heartless?
In this particular case, why would that be a problem, JonC? ;-p
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Its perfectly ok to bomb it now: you're just scattering unburned non-irradiated fuel that's a neutron emitter. No big deal.
Once you pull rods and start fissioning the stuff, then you're producing actinides and gamma emitters and stuff with 20000 year half-lives. Nothing short of dropping a mountain on top of top of it and entombing it will be safe.
of course, I'm working on that, but I gather that the "mode of solution" would cause some heartburn among some Rantburg regulars.
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HAARETZ OP-ED: WAKE UP! | IRAN MAY NEVER USE AN ATOM BOMB, BUT ISRAEL CAN'T TAKE THE RISK. Even a small or minor % chance of use = 100% destruction of Israel, + Iran's nuclearization will embolden Local, Regional Militant Groups unto new levels of violence [use of increasingly advanced Weapons].
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
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[Tolo News] At least two Taliban commanders, including ten others were killed in clashes with Afghan and coalition forces Friday afternoon in the western Farah province
* Teenager among dead 
Six 
The owner of a fruit shop was gunned down in the downtown Yala on Friday night. He was shot dead by two motorcycle gunmen as he was parking his motorcycle at the shop. Police have obtained a tape from a surveillance camera near the shop. 
Iran began fuelling its first nuclear power plant on Saturday, a potent symbol of its growing regional sway and rejection of international sanctions designed to prevent it building a nuclear bomb. 
