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For reals?!
The lady of the rooftop statue and the bane of Stamford White?
So sorry. Mine is Edith Nesbit, whose life, it seems, was no more respectable than Miss Evelyn's, although free-spirited rather than sordid. Fortunately for my childhood innocence, none of that crept into her writing.
A US drone attack targeted Islamist fighters in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt on Wednesday, killing four militants and blowing their vehicle into a fireball, security officials said.
Two righteous missiles kaboomed slammed into the technical vehicle in a suburb of the thriving metropolis of Miranshah, the main wild west town in the North Wazoo Waziristan district, considered by the ISI Pakistan's premier secret lair fortress of beturbanned Islamist terrorists militants and the focus of a dramatic increase in US drone zaps strikes.
Pakistani officials said the four militants were inside the vehicle, which was destroyed, and that a nearby house in the Qutub Khel suburb was damaged.
"The drone strike killed four militants," a security official in Miranshah said on condition of anonymity.
Another security official said the vehicle had been loaded with arms and ammunition.
"It detonated in the attack and the vehicle caught fire - nobody can go near the vehicle," he said.
At least not until the fire is put out ...
A burning car in the suburbs of Pakistan's tribal belt? Nobody is going near the thing until it burns itself out -- the volunteer fire fighters have to cover an awful lot of territory in those parts, I should think.
Wednesday's attack was the second in three days, after a similar strike killed at least five militants in North Waziristan's Mir Ali area 25 kilometres east of Miranshah.
Around 200 people have been killed in nearly 40 strikes since September 3, heightening tensions with Islamabad over reported US criticism of Pakistan's failure so far to launch a ground offensive in North Waziristan.
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It'll be even longer if the jihadis hadn't paid their fire bill.
Good Muslims are grateful for the opportunity to underwrite the expenses of the mujahideen in lieu of going themselves... so of course the jihadis haven't paid!
[Al Jazeera] Barack B.O. Obama has renewed sanctions against Sudan's government, keeping pressure on Khartoum
Riiight. Because it's worked so well so far.
to stick to the timetable for holding a referendum on southern independence.
Instead of just letting the south walk away ...
However, The infamous However... the US president also held out for the prospect for reconsidering Monday's decision if Sudanese leaders made progress in resolving the country's north-south dispute and improved the situation in the troubled Darfur region.
Sudan is 10 weeks away from the scheduled start of a referendum that could lead to independence for its oil-producing south. If mishandled, the referendum could destabilise the region.
How could something unstable be destabilized?
The White House issued a letter from Obama to congress saying he was extending long-standing economic sanctions, a notice required by law each year to keep them in place.
The measures restrict trade and investment in Sudan and also block the assets of the Sudanese government and certain officials, among other things.
With trust low as both sides in the referendum exchange recriminations, progress has slowed on resolving disputes such as the status of the oil-producing Abyei region, determining citizenship and forging an oil-sharing accord.
Tommy Vietor, the White House front man, said the US hoped Sudan's leaders "will make the urgent and difficult choices necessary to secure peace for the Sudanese people".
"As we work to support these choices, the United States will review the Sudanese government's progress on resolving outstanding [peace agreement] implementation issues as well as other relevant circumstances, to include improving security and humanitarian access in Darfur," he said.
"If the government of Sudan acts to improve the situation on the ground and advance peace, we stand ready to work with Sudan to ensure its rightful place in the international community."
Obama last week stressed the need to go ahead with the vote as scheduled when he spoke to Thabo Mbeki, the former South African president, who has tried to overcome obstacles in the north-south peace processor as head of an African Union panel.
South Sudan is struggling to recover from Africa's longest civil conflict, which was triggered by ethnicity, ideology, religion and resources such as oil and left an estimated two million people dead.
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[Arab News] Yemen, under pressure to crack down on gunnies operating there after a foiled bomb plot involving US-bound parcels, began the trial in absentia on Tuesday of a radical US-born preacher wanted dead or alive by Washington.
Anwar Al-Awlaki, who has been linked to a failed bombing of a US-bound plane in December 2009 that was claimed by Yemen's Al-Qaeda wing, is thought to be hiding in southern Yemen.
His daddy couldn't protect him any more? How sad for him.
Also on Tuesday, the trial of a Yemeni journalist and Al-Qaeda expert was set to continue in Sanaa. Abdulelah Shai is being tried for alleged links to Al-Qaeda, including helping to publicize the views of Anwar Al-Awlaki. Two others are on trial along with Awlaki -- a relative, Othman Al-Awlaki, and Hisham Mohammed Assem, a gunman who last month killed a Frenchman at Austrian oil and gas company OMV's site. They are also being tried in absentia.
"(The three defendants) ... were members of an armed gang that targeted foreigners," the prosecutor said when reading out the charges.
The US Treasury has blacklisted Awlaki as a "specially designated global terrorist," a move that freezes any assets he may have under US jurisdiction.
Earlier this year, the United States authorized the CIA to capture or kill him. Awlaki has also been linked to an army major who went on a shooting spree that killed 13 people last year at Fort Hood in Texas.
The two parcel bombs were intercepted last week on cargo planes in Britain and Dubai are thought to be the work of Al-Qaeda's Yemen-based arm, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), US officials say.
Yemeni police jugged a young student at Sanaa University in connection with the parcel bomb plot but released her the next day, saying it had been a case of mistaken identity.
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[Yemen Post] Sources informed Yemen Post that an oil pipeline was bombed by unknown gunmen.
The bombed oil pipeline was in Shubaika area (20 km north of Ataq city, Shabwa in the south. The explosion led to the leakage of large quantities of oil.
Government forces went to the scene immediately after the explosion took place. No suspects have been taken into custody yet.
No injuries were reported.
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[Yemen Post] Journalist and Al-Qaeda expert Abdul Elah Haidar, rejected the trial that he is given and said it was illegal. Haidar also told Judge Ridhwan Al-Namer that the National Security told him that "they will destroy his life".
Judge Namer considered Haidar's comments to be personal told Haidar to talk to the prosecution if he felt that the National Security treated him in a negative way.
The prosecution claims that journalist Abdul Elah Haidar over the last three years participated in an armed illegal gang and is working for Al-Qaeda.
The prosecutor also said that Haidar used to publish false statements through numerous media outlets in order to promote Al-Qaeda. They claim that he is damaging public interest and harming public peace.
Other accusations against Haidar were that commonly had worked as a media for the holy man of Anwar al-Awlaki was to meet with leaders of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and urged Al-Qaeda members and urge them to strike strategic objectives and interests, and foreign embassies in Yemen.
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[Yemen Post] A manhunt for those behind the plot to blow up U.S.-bound cargo planes has been continuing by the security since late on Sunday as soon as Hanan Al-Samawi was released, an official at the Interior Ministry told the Yemen Post.
Security forces together with intelligence were set out to Maarib and Shabwa to find Ibrahim Al-Asiri, who was believed to be linked to the parcel plot, the source said.
A large group of security forces had been searching different parts of the two provinces and was working to close up off some areas, according to the same source.
Al-Asiri is believed to be hiding and moving with his affiliate Nasser Al-Wahayshi- Al-Qaeda senior element.
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[Yemen Post] Security sources say that they believe that al-Qaeda blew up the oil pipeline in the province of Shabwa today morning.
This begins as security forces started a large-scale operation to arrest Ibrahim al-Asiri, the suspected bomb-maker who is believed to be responsible for a failed parcel attack
A security official said that the aim of the operation in the provinces of Marib and Shabwa is the arrest of Ibrahim al-Asiri, as well as Anwar Awlaki wanted in Washington in connection with al Qaeda.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Chief of Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), acting ameer and acting secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami and five other top leaders of opposition political parties were sued in a sedition case with a Chittagong court yesterday for making "derogatory remarks" about the prime minister and home minister.
Abu Taiyab, general secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League Chittagong (north) unit, filed the case against ICS President Rezaul Karim, Jamaat Acting Ameer Maqbul Ahmad and Acting Secretary General ATM Azharul Islam.
The others sued in the case are Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP) Secretary General Shamim Al Mamun, secretary general of a faction of Islami Oikya Jote Abdul Latif Nezami, Jatiya Gonotantrik Party (Jagpa) President Shafiul Alam Prodhan, National People's Party (NPP) President Sheikh Showkat Hossain Nilu and Bangladesh National Awami Party (NAP-Bhashani) President Sheikh Anwarul Haque.
The case was filed with 5th Judicial Magistrate's court of Judge AKM Akhter Hossain around 12:30pm.
Taiyab in his complaint stated that ICS chief Rezaul at a discussion at Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka on October 28 made the "threatening and derogatory remarks," referring to BDR carnage and Paltan killings.
The Shibir chief reportedly told the discussion, "You (PM) relinquish power. Pilkhana carnage and Paltan killings are waiting for you. You (PM) have committed the most crimes against humanity... One swallow doesn't make a summer."
The accused were involved in creating hatred against the PM and home minister in a pre-planned way, read the complaint, only to oust a democratic government. The other accused were sued as they were present at the discussion as speakers and involved in the conspiracy, stated the plaintiff.
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Elements of the Mexican Army in northern Mexican states killed a total of six armed suspects in two firefights and arrested seven alleged members of a kidnapping ring, say Mexican press accounts.
On Monday in Durango between Villa Reunion and Vicente Guerrero, a Mexican Army patrol encountered a convoy and returned fire against armed suspects riding in a four vehicle convoy, killing four suspects.
The army patrol seized a Nissan pickup truck, a GMC Sierra pickup truck a van and a tractor. Three firearms and an undisclosed amount of cocaine were also seized.
In Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon, a couple residing in a house on calle Rio Tamazunchale in the Dos Rios district fired on a Mexican Army detachment after the unit was dispatched to the area by an anonymous caller claiming armed suspects in the area.
The army returned fire killing the two suspects, an unidentified man and a woman.
Soldiers seized two AK-47 assault rifles, magazines and a Toyota Rav4 and an XTrail SUV.
In Mexicali, Baja California, a detachment of the Mexican 79 Infantry Battalion raided a safe house on Avenida Real in the Santa Paula district rescuing three unidentified hostages and arresting seven alleged members of a kidnapping ring.
Weapons seized included three AK-47 assault rifles, one 9mm rifle, and one .40 caliber handgun.
Munitions seized include two hand grenades, two 7.62x39mm magazines, one .40 magazine, one 9mm magazine, 81 7.62x39mm cartridges, nine .40 caliber cartridges and eight 9mm cartridges.
Contraband seized include 700 grams of marijuana and a van.
Twenty individuals were murdered in drug and gang related violence in northern Mexican that included two men and two women ambushed in Juarez Tuesday, and a grandmother and her granddaughter shot outside a prison in Tijuana, Baja California Saturday. For a map, click here.
Armed suspects riding aboard a convoy of pickup trucks shot up a commercial center Monday night causing damage but no injuries, say Mexican press reports. The convoy passed by the Alsups Mall near the corner of Periferico de la Juventud and Hacienda Carrizales firing on shops and cars in the parking lot. Reports say two armed groups were involved in the gunfire, but that was not confirmed.
An unidentified married couple was shot to death in their residence Monday afternoon, according to Mexican news sources. The shooting took place near the intersection of calles Acapulco and Cayena in the Industrial district where armed suspects burst into the residence and murdered the couple in front of their children, who were unharmed in the assault.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in Juarez Tuesday morning, say Mexican press reports. The victim has been bound hands and feet with duct tape and gagged with a plastic bag, and had been shot six times near the intersection of calles Matamoros and Morelos in the Insurgentes district.
An unidentified man was shot to death in Juarez Tuesday, according to Mexican news reports. The victim was found by nearby residents after they heard gunfire near the corner of Calle Feldespato and Camino Real in the Los Ojitos district. The victim was shot and apparently thrown into a ravine. Four 9mm spent shell casings were found at the scene.
Four unidentified men and women were shot to death in an ambush in Juarez Tuesday say Mexican press accounts. Armed suspects aboard a vehicle pursued and fired on a Toyota sedan with the victims aboard near the corner of calles Soneto 156 and Mesa Central in front of the Mercado de Segunda in the Fray GarcÃÂa de San Francisco district. Several spent shell casings and an undetonated grenade were found at the scene. Two other unidentified victims were wounded in the gunfire at the grocery store.
The Mexican news daily La Polaka reports three more shooting victims were found in Juarez, but with no specific location. The victims are said to be abduction victims.
Seven unidentified individuals were were found in a shallow grave near Nogales, Sonora, according to Mexican press accounts. It was earlier reported that a man and a woman were found in the La Mesa district just south of Nogales in a dried creek bed. Seven more unidentified individuals were later found in two graves nearby, all but one having been decapitated.
A US citizen was shot and wounded in Rosarito, Baja California, according to Mexican press accounts. The victim, identified as Donald Jonson, 30, was buying bread at a bakery on calle 5 de Mayo de in the Crosthwaite district when he was approached by armed suspects who shot at him five times. Johnson is reportedly received medical attention for his wounds.
A grandmother and her four year old granddaughter who had just finished a prison visit to her daughter were shot to death Saturday near Tijuana, Baja California, according to Mexican press accounts. Rosalba Peña Reyes, 42, was shot just as she exited the Penitenciaria de La Mesa where she was visiting her daughter who was imprisoned for drug related offenses. Peña Reyes lost a son two years ago who was found frozen in a refrigerator. Reports say a .45 caliber weapon and a .223 caliber weapon were used in the assault. The .223 caliber weapon was linked to eight other murders.
Four young women were shot and wounded while they were transporting in a Taxi cab in Torreon, Coahuila early Sunday morning, according to Mexican press accounts. Reports make it unclear how the shots were fired. Brenda Ivonne Medrano Contreras, 18 was reported in delicate condition while her companions, Jaqueline Castillo Cuevas, 21, Alejandra Meza Frausto, 24, and Guadalupe River Erika Lopez, 20, did not have a report on their condition available.
From the Pay-Is-Great-But-The-Benefits-Sux Department
Two unidentified Mexican Federal agents were arrested early Monday morning after victims reported two men robbing taxi cabs in Juarez, Chihuahua, according to Mexican news accounts. Juarez municipal police were called to a location near the intersection of Avenida Teofilo Borunda Sur and Calle 39th where the two agents were encountered by police armed with several handguns and several items witnesses say were stolen from them by the suspects, including cell phones and cash.
This, Mr. President, is what an 'enemy' looks like ...
Seoul believes North Korea has started research into nuclear fusion, Defense Minister Kim Tae-young said Tuesday. "We believe it is highly likely that the North is turning nuclear materials into weapons through a uranium enrichment process," he added.
He said the South believes Pyongyang has some 40 kg of plutonium which could be turned into warheads for ballistic missiles and is seeking to reduce the size of its nuclear bombs. It was previously assumed that the North is a long way from making nuclear devices small enough to fit on a missile.
Kim said the ministry is carefully monitoring signs of unusual activity at the North's nuclear test site. "There are no clear signs of the North preparing for another nuclear test," he said.
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ION TOPIX > GLOBAL COMMUNITY FACES ULTIMATE NUCLEAR TEST, CTBT wid teeth, as Perts believe Nucweaps = Nuc Arsenals have become contemporarily irrelevant or obsolete in post-Cold War modern world.
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You need a real good fission bomb to even start to make a fusion bomb. Of course the Norks could leak a bit of intelligence to earn the respect fear of the world, which could be their main goal.
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Back in May 2010, the Norks announced that they had carried out a nuclear fusion reaction. At the time, it was thought that this was a smallish experiment. given their not-completely-successful fission detonations, I don't think anyone thinks the Norks are anywhere near being able to detonate a fusion bomb.
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[Iran Press TV] A mail bomb has been intercepted at the Russian Embassy in the Greek capital Athens in the latest in a series of attacks and attempts against foreign embassies.
The Greek Police said that there were no injuries in the controlled kaboom on Tuesday.
Earlier in the day, a bomb went kaboom! at the Swiss embassy.
Switzerland's foreign ministry said that the parcel device was left at the Embassy's entrance and burst into flames when it was being checked by staff. An employee narrowly beat feet injury, AFP reported.
Additionally, parcel bombs addressed to the Chilean, German, Bulgarian, Belgian and Dutch embassies in Athens were all intercepted by police.
Another explosive package intended for the French President Nicolas Sarkozy was also found.
Only one person was reported injured on Tuesday when a parcel bomb addressed to the Mexican Embassy went kaboom! at a courier company, leaving a female worker with burn injuries to her hands.
Two men, aged 22 and 24, were jugged on Monday following the blasts. They were reportedly found wearing bulletproof vests and carrying handguns. The men are alleged to be members of an anarchist group connected to arson and minor bomb attacks on offices and homes of politicians in Greece.
The incidents come days before local elections scheduled for Sunday. It also follows deep social unrest from the austerity measures adopted by the government in exchange for a financial bailout by the European Union and International Monetary Fund.
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Bomb package also mailed to ITALY'S PM.
* ION TOPIX > CHURCHES SET ON FIRE IN RUSSIA'S MUSLIM CAUCASUS [North Caucasus province].
ARTIC = TWO RUSS ORTHODOX + ONE BAPTIST XCHS. Local Authorities preparing for more attacks or violence.
(KUNA) -- A suspicious package sent to German Chancellor's office here on Tuesday proved to be a bomb, government front man Steffen Seibert said.
The parcel scanning center of the Angela Merkel's office suspected the package during a routine inspection, so they called in explosive experts who verified that the packaged contained black gunpowder.
The explosive package was safely defused an no one was injured, the front man said, noting that the issue is still under further investigations.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... the German daily Der Tagesspiegel reported that the package was delivered by United Parcel Service (UPS), with its return address being the Greece Economy Ministry.
The package was addressed directly to Chancellor Merkel, the daily added.
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This AM: Greece stopped all airborne parcels headed overseas and screened thousands of packages Wednesday in an attempt to stop a spate of bombings
(KUNA) -- Local authorities in Virginia announced on Tuesday that shots were fired at a Coast Guard station in Virginia after a series of attack on military facilities in the area.
Prince William County Police Department spokeswoman Kim Chinn said that multiple shots were fired overnight at a Coast Guard station in Potomac Mills Circle in Woodbridge but no one was injured.
This incident is the fifth of a kind in Virginia in recent days.
On October 17 two separate shootings took place at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Virginia, later in the month a shooting incident was also reported at the Pentagon and another one at a Marine recruiting center in Chantilly.
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One of these days they'll shoot at the right military facility and encounter return fire. Deadly return fire.
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Not so, Glenmore. These people are cowards, and will never take on anyone that might shoot back. That's why all the attacks are at night, and against unoccupied sites. They WILL screw up eventually, and will be captured, but it might take another year or more.
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(KUNA) -- Four more suspected cut-throats were waxed in the third US dronezap in the Pak tribal agency of North Wazoo on Wednesday, said officials.
About three missiles were fired by two Predator drones at a moving vehicle near Mir Ali village of the agency that killed four suspected goons, security officials told KUNA.
This was the third missile strike in last three hours in the agency. Earlier two vehicles were targeted near Miramshah that killed at least ten cut-throats including foreigners.
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[Pak Daily Times] Indian troops rubbed out six hard boyz in firefights across Indian-held Kashmire, on Tuesday, raising concerns hard boyz may have stepped up violence ahead of US President Barack B.O. Obama's visit to India this week.
Kashmirei hard boyz have staged attacks across India in the past and officials voiced fears they could use violence during Obama's visit to draw global attention to the region, where separatists have fought a two-decade-old revolt against India.
International focus on disputed Kashmire, claimed in full by both India and Pakistain but divided between them, has waned in recent years, with attention diverted by the war against hard boyz in Afghanistan and Pakistain.
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[Pak Daily Times] Pakistani Taliban flogged 65 men in public in the Orakzai Agency after accusing them of using and selling drugs, the group said on Monday. The men were given 10 lashes each in an open area used by children to play football and for religious sermons in the town of Mamozai in the Orakzai Agency, said Taliban spokesman Hafiz Saeed. The floggings illustrate how Pakistan's al Qaeda-linked Taliban is still able to impose harsh punishments in some parts of the northwest despite government assertions that several military offensives severely weakened the group. "They were found guilty of using and selling drugs after which our Islamic court sentenced them to punishment that was carried out in public," said Saeed. An Orakzai tribesman said about 600 people watched the lashings after the Taliban made announcements through mosques urging people to attend. People often comply with the Taliban out of fear, although the group does have supporters. "The men were brought in groups of five and were lashed 10 times each before being released," said the tribesmen, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals.
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(KUNA) -- Pak security forces on Tuesday killed more than seventeen hard boyz and maimed several others in an operation, conducted in Mohmand tribal agency bordering Afghanistan, said officials.
The military gunship pounded suspected Islamic exemplar hideouts in several sub-regions of Pindyali district, security officials told KUNA. While the operation was still continuing, officials said, more than seventeen hard boyz have been, so far, reportedly killed. Several others were also seriously maimed in the shelling, added the officials.
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[Pak Daily Times] Unidentified myrmidons blew up a girls' school in Mohmand Agency, a private TV channel reported on Tuesday. According to official sources, two kabooms occurred near a Government Girls Primary School in Saggi area of Safi tehsil. The blasts damaged three classrooms and the corridor of the school completely. So far, about 59 schools have been destroyed by the cut-throats in the Mohmand Agency out of which 21 were of the girls, the channel reported.
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[Pak Daily Times] A US dronezap killed five people in northwest Pakistain on Monday, local intelligence officials said, the latest in a barrage of such strikes against al Qaeda and the Taliban seeking sanctuary in the region. Also in the northwest, four Orcs and similar vermin stormed a cop shoppe, killing two officers, and gunnies attacked tankers carrying fuel for NATO and US troops just across the border in Afghanistan, wounding a driver and his assistant, police said. Four US missiles were fired at a house in North Wazoo, said the officials. The identities of those killed were not immediately known. Some locals say many of those killed are often civilians; others say nearly all the victims are Islamic fascistior those actively harbouring them. There were at least 20 suspected US missile strikes in Pakistain last month.
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A series of kabooms across Storied Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, has killed at least 37 people and maimed at least 300 others, hospital and police officials say.
The bombings began at about 6:15pm on Tuesday and took place in at least 10 neighborhoods, involving booby-trapped cars, roadside kabooms and mortar strikes.
"Ten cars went kaboom! with bombs inside them. There were also four roadside kabooms and two sticky bombs," said Major General Qassim al-Moussawi, a Baghdad security front man.
The attacks appeared directed mostly at the city's majority Shia population, though some blasts occurred in Sunni neighborhoods as well.
Rawya Rageh, Al Jizz's correspondent in Baghdad, said most of the blasts happened near markets and banks and areas that are usually crowded at that time in the evening.
'Violent days' "There have been a series of attacks of a highly sectarian nature recently. The city is witnessing some very violent days," she said.
"It's all being blamed on the failure of Iraqi politicians to agree on the formation of a government. It's been eight months since the inconclusive March 7 elections failed to produce an outright winner.
"The people, observers and even some politicians believe the political impasse is giving opportunity to those intent on destabilising the country to sow chaos".
The combination of car bombs and roadside kabooms came just two days after gunnies in Baghdad held a Christian congregation hostage, in a siege that ended with 58 people dead.
The assailants took more than 100 people hostage in a standoff that ended after police stormed the church two hours later.
At least 25 of those killed were hostages.
Iraq officials launched an investigation into the church raid on Tuesday, saying they are trying to find out how the gunnies managed to storm the building despite checkpoints, an official said.
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...and our winner is?
The military said the target was Mohammed Namnam, 25, of the Army of Islam group. A military statement asserted that the Army of Islam is tied to al-Qaida and world jihad, but Palestinians said it does not have a direct, operational connection with Osama bin Ladens group. Namnam go boom boom...
Al Qaeda affiliates do not have direct, operational connections with AQ, they consult, cross-train, and loan personnel. That doesn't make them less connected than if they were in a superior-subordinate relationship.
The military said Namnam was involved in attacks against Israelis, and recently "Namnam was involved with directing a terror attack against American and Israeli targets in the (Egyptian) Sinai Peninsula, in cooperation with Hamas elements in the Gaza Strip." It gave no further details.
Whoops! Hamas is s'posed to have a hudna with Israel, it's just that these little groups are out of their control. It appears that claim is a lie.
The airstrike took place just outside the headquarters of the ruling Hamas police force in Gaza City. Another person was injured, Hamas said. Mahmoud! Fetch the broom and dust pan!
(KUNA) -- Paleostinian Islamic Jihad's military wing "Saraya Al-Quds" announced their responsibility for shooting two Israeli soldiers and firing several mortar shells at a military base east of Gazoo.
According to a statement released here on Tuesday the snipers unit of "Saraya Al-Quds" were able to shoot two Israelis directly during their guard duty for a number of Israeli workers who were carrying out drilling operations east of Gazoo.
They also fired mortar shells towards a military base, the statement added.
This attack comes as a "confirmation of the right of resistance in response to any aggression against our people and to proceed with the option of resistance and jihad until the liberation of all our lands," Saraya Al-Quds said.
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[Iran Press TV] The Lebanese army has said that another Israeli reconnaissance aircraft flew into the country's airspace, an routine Tel Aviv commits on an almost daily basis.
The army said in a statement that the plane was hovering over the capital city of Beirut on Monday morning.
Leb's military often reports airspace violations by Israeli aircrafts but does not usually open fire on them.
The airspace violations contravene the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society Security Council's Resolution 1701, which ended the Israeli war on Leb in 2006.
Leb's government, the Hezbullies resistance movement, and the UN Interim Force in Leb, known as UNIFIL, have repeatedly called on Israel to respectLeb's illusory sovereignty and stop its air surveillance flights over the country.
According to evidence-backed statistics submitted to the UN by the Lebanese government, Israel has breached the provisions of the resolution on more than 7,000 occasions by violating Leb's airspace, territorial waters, and border.
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[An Nahar] Security has been tightened around the police headquarters in Beirut's Ashrafiyeh neighborhood following reports that the Opposition is likely to carry out a "swift operation" to shake up the Leb situation and convey a message about what Opposition forces can do if an indictment was issued.
Information obtained by Internal Security Forces (ISF) said one of the main goals behind the "operation" was to seize control of the police headquarters and the intelligence bureau, Ad-Diyar newspaper reported on Tuesday.
It said the Hizbullah-led March 8 forces had previously leaked reports to a Jordanian newspaper about the Opposition's intention to target ISF headquarters.
Ad-Diyar quoted well-informed security sources as saying that the attackers are likely to wear police uniforms as a disguise to storm the headquarters.
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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
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.
A US drone attack targeted Islamist fighters in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt on Wednesday, killing four militants and blowing their vehicle into a fireball, security officials said.
(KUNA) -- Four more suspected 
