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Julie Ege aka Utta Armitage in "Rentadick" aka Helen (Scandinavian Girl at the Blofeld clinic) in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (Died in 2008 at age 64)
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We REALLY need to start napalming some hilltops. It's long overdue. If Karzai objects, take him out. He's part - probably a LARGE part - of our problems in AF.
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(Xinhua)-- Somali pirates have hijacked Panamanian-flagged vessel in the Somali basin, European Union anti- piracy force said on Thursday.
EU Naval Force front man Per Klingvall said the MV Hanniball II was seized early Thursday from Malaysia to Suez with 31 crew members.
Klingvall said the 24,105 tonne chemical tanker was carrying vegetable oils from Pasir Gudang to Suez at the time.
"The master of the vessel reported that he had been attacked and boarded by pirates in an area some 860 nautical miles East of The Horn of Africa which is considerably closer to India than it is to Somalia," he said.
The MV Hannibal II has a total of 31 crew on board. This number consists of 23 Tunisians, 4 Filipinos, 1 Croatian, 1 Georgian, 1 Russian and 1 Moroccan.
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Vegetable oil counts as a "chemical"?
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I'm sure the Panamanian navy is on their way to help their flagged ship...
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Vegetable oil counts as a "chemical"?
Per Mr. Wife, the (among other things) chemical engineer: Everything is a chemical. Like so many other things, vegetable oil is a complex mixture of hydrocarbons, ranging C8 to C22, with varying degrees of unsaturation (or saturation, depending on one's perspective -- tw).
Addition from tw: As a liquid, vegetable oil is yet another chemical mixture transported in tanker ships by sea and tanker trucks on land. It's made into cookies, used to fry potato chips, or bottled for the grocery store, but there's no point in bottling upfront for the first two and all the other commercial uses, which is where most of it goes.
[Arab News] A 26-year old American from New Jersey came to Yemen in 2008 to study religion and language, his US lawyer said -- but ended up nabbed as an Al-Qaeda suspect nearly 18 months later and was held shackled to a police hospital bed for weeks before he allegedly tried to shoot his way out.
Sharif Mobley was charged last month with killing a Yemeni soldier and wounding another during the escape attempt in March, when he allegedly convinced a guard to unshackle him, grabbed the man's gun and opened fire.
Yemeni officials first mentioned Mobley publicly after the escape attempt, saying he had been rounded up with other Al-Qaeda suspects, and tried to escape while receiving treatment.
But Cori Crider, his US lawyer currently in Yemen for his trial, said Mobley was held incommunicado for more than two months after his arrest in late January. Crider said Mobley was interrogated by US and Yemeni agents about his alleged links to Al-Qaeda, and beaten and blindfolded during the detention.
Mobley's arrest came only weeks after the failed attack by Nigerian student Umar Farouk Abdulmutalb, who allegedly used a Sanaa language school as cover to enter the country and meet with Al-Qaeda gun-hung tough guys for training before his botched attempt to blow up an American passenger jet on Christmas Day.
Since that failed attack, the world's attention has turned to Yemen as a possible destination and easy entry point for foreign beturbanned goons trying to link up with Al-Qaeda. The country hosts a number of popular religious and Arabic-language schools that attract students from around the world.
Al-Qaeda's affiliate in the country grabbed credit for the failed mail bombs intercepted last month bound to the US from Yemen, reflecting how increasingly emboldened the Yemeni terror branch has become.
Yemen has jugged a number of Al-Qaeda suspects, including Americans who were later released. Evidence that those jugged actually contacted Al-Qaeda is sketchy, and some were likely caught up in the intensified Yemeni search.
Yemeni authorities have dropped their accusations of Mobley's alleged ties to Al-Qaeda, but the American still faces the death penalty if convicted of murder and attempted murder of his Yemeni hospital guards.
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[Yemen Post] Four soldiers and 2 gunnieswere maimed when saboteurs attacked a security checkpoint in Yemen's southern Dhale province, local sources said on Thursday.
The armed saboteurs threw bombs on a security patrol and an armoured car at the checkpoint, destroying them and injuring the four soldiers, they said.
Two armed people were also maimed in the attack, a security source said.
The local sources also said that armed people, believed to be separatists, closed Sana'a-Aden road in Khawber Sanah area, preventing cars from passing.
The move triggered festivities between them and the security forces, they said.
The developments coincided with rallies in some southern cities when demonstrators protested against the detention of separatist leader Hassan Ba'oum, holding the government responsible for his safety.
Protesters carried the pictures of Ba'oum and after-reunification vice president Ali Salim Al-Beidh Vice President Ali Salim Al-Beidh, who decamped the country after the 1994 separation war, and victims of the separatist movement, Al-Harak, as well as flag of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.
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[Yemen Post] A number of Al-Qaeda leaders have recently relocated from Iran to Yemen, including former Kuwaiti front man Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a Kuwait newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Citing a western intelligence report, Al-Qabas newspaper said the information came in the western confidential report that was passed to security officials in the Arabian Gulf states and other Arab countries.
Many of Al-Qaeda gunnies in Afghanistan beat feet to Iran after the U.S. invasion following the 9/11 attacks, it noted, adding that the Iranian authorities nabbed some of them and some moved to Yemen and became commanders of the Al-Qaeda branch there.
The newspaper said the relocating commanders included Kuwaiti, Gulf and Arab wanted suspects, but it did not say how they left Iran.
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ADEN, Yemen - Gunmen attacked a military checkpoint outside a south Yemen city on Thursday and demonstrators tried to break into a jail to protest against a southern separatist leaders arrest, local officials said.
The checkpoint clash occurred hours before about 4,000 people, according to local residents, took to the streets in the southern city of Dalea for a second day of protests against Tuesdays arrest of the leader of a southern secessionist group. Hasan Baoum is accused of planning illegal demonstrations.
A Dalea official said a group of protesters broke away and made an attempt to break into a local prison, but were driven off by police.
Hours after the protest, gunmen threw a grenade at a military vehicle at a checkpoint, setting it ablaze and wounding four soldiers. Two gunmen, suspected separatists, were wounded in the attack, a security official in Dalea said.
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[Al Jazeera] A court in Britain has upheld the conviction of a man who tweeted about blowing up his local airport.
The Doncaster Crown Court on Thursday rejected an appeal by Paul Chambers, who was convicted of sending a threatening message after saying on Twitter that he would blow up an airport if his flight was delayed.
"Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your s**t together, otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!" read the tweet, which was later deleted.
Chambers insisted his post was a joke, sent to his then 600 Twitter followers, in a moment of frustration.
But a judge found him guilty of sending an offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing message over a public telecommunications network.
Judge Jacqueline Davies upheld the conviction, saying Chambers' message was "obviously menacing".
He was ordered to pay 2,000 pounds (US$3,225) in prosecution costs, in addition to a 385 pound fine.
The verdict caused a wave of outrage on Twitter from supporters of Chambers, including writer and actor Stephen Fry, who tweeted "whatever they fine you, I'll pay".
In a related development, Gareth Compton, a Birmingham city councillor, was jugged on Thursday, after allegedly posting a message on Twitter calling for a journalist to be stoned to death.
Police said Compton was jugged on suspicion of sending an offensive or indecent message. He has not been charged and was released on bail pending further inquiries.
Media reports say the post on the microblogging site said: "Can someone please stone Yasmin Alibhai-Brown to death? I shan't tell Amnesty if you don't. It would be a blessing, really.''
The post appears to have been removed. On Thursday, Compton tweeted an apology for his "ill-conceived attempt at humour".
Alibhai-Brown is a liberal columnist for The Independent newspaper. The governing Conservative Party said Compton had been suspended indefinitely.
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[Al Jazeera] At least seven police and four rebels have been killed in shootouts in Russia's Dagestan region in the North Caucasus, police say.
A source in the police force told the Rooters news agency that seven traffic coppers were bumped off on Thursday by suspected anti-government fighters in Makhachkala, Dagestan's capital, on the Caspian Sea.
The source added that four rebels were also killed in the gunfire.
Three other coppers and three passersby wer injured in the shootouts, said the source, who spoke .
The attack is the latest in the region where the Kremlin is struggling to contain an Islamist insurgency.
Last September, a suicide car boomer killed three soldiers and maimed 32 others in an attack on a military base.
Al Jizz's Neave Barker, reporting from Moscow, confirmed reports of the unrest.
"The Dagestanian interior ministry says that seven police were killed in a series of running battles with armed Islamic exemplar fighters. At least four gun-hung tough guys were killed as well," he said.
"Authorities have for many years been fighting a low-level insurgency against armed jihad boy fighters bent on gaining independence from the Kremlin."
A decade after Russia drove separatists out of power in Chechnya in the second of two wars, the mostly Mohammedan North Caucasus is plagued by near-daily violence.
With a population of 2.5 million, Dagestan has overtaken neighbouring Chechnya as the epicentre of violence in the insurgency, where poverty and the ideology of global jihad has helped foster an armed campaign to carve out an independent state governed by sharia, Islamic law.
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Liveleak commenter says it best:
"3 months of Pakistani aggression, over 4000 dead Pakistanis (according to former Pakistan Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif) only to have India retake the mountains."
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Notwithstanding the Pak agiprop, this was bad for Pakistan in several ways,
- the 4000 fatalities in the Pak army (as noted above) which were concentrated in a few divisions
- the international condemnation of Pakistan
- the fact that captured documents and Pak military statements showed the early Pak govt statements were lies
- the Pak economy took a hit, severak divisions of the Pak army were demoralized
- Pak politicos declared the Govt's actions to be a disgrace
- Clinton and then Pres Sharif signed a statement, essentially saying that Pakistan would now respect the demarcation line which of course implies that Pakistan hadn't done so.
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who can stand against the Mighty Pak Army? Lessee...aren't they 0 for 5?
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Yep.
Number one in the consumption of single-malt, tho.
[Pak Daily Times] Dozens of faceless myrmidons armed with assault rifles attacked a security forces' patrol near Afghan border in Orakzai Agency ... home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar... sparking a gunbattle that left six beturbanned goons dead, security sources said. One soldier was killed in the shootout, a security official said. The battle took place in Guavaak area in Lower Orakzai Agency near the Afghan border. The faceless myrmidons opened indiscriminate fire at the patrol, which prompted retaliation by the security personnel. Guavaak borders the Orakzai Agency, where Taliban beturbanned goons and al Qaeda faceless myrmidons often ambush security forces.
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[Pak Daily Times] Targeted killings in the city Thursday claimed eight more lives raising the corpse count to 16 within the past 48 hours.
The bullet-riddled, tortured body of a man was found near the Lyari Degree College in Kalakot police jurisdiction.
Police said the dear departed identified as Saqib, 24, son of Javed Baloch, a resident of Afshani Street, Lyari was kidnapped Wednesday after a clash between Baba Ladla group and Rehman Dakait relatives' Mohammedan Baloch group.
His body was shifted to CHK, from where the heirs took it away after completing medico-legal formalities. Police have registered FIR No 312/10 against faceless myrmidons.
Another bullet-riddled body was recovered from Ali Akbar Shah graveyard. Ibrahim Hyderi police said the victim identified as Mohammad Hussain Bengali, 25, son of Sher Ahmed, was a resident of Sector 48-F, Korangi.
SHO Lal Bux said the victim was an active worker of Bengal Action Committee, a sub-organisation of MQM, and owned a hotel in Korangi. His body was shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) for medico-legal formalities and then handed over to his heirs.
Police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unidentified suspects on the complaint of victim's brother Kamal. A Shia man was bumped off near his house in North Bloody Karachi within the limits of Sir Syed cop shoppe.
Police said Syed Shadab Rizvi, 30, son of Raziuddin, a resident of Sector 11-A, North Bloody Karachi, was returning home from the market when unidentified gunnies in a car opened fire on him.
He was shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) in an injured condition and succumbed to his injuries during treatment. His body was handed over to the heirs. DSP Altaf Hussain said the dear departed owned a business while his father was a prominent 'Zakir'.
In Azizabad, a notorious gambler was rubbed out near Sufa mosque. Police said Afzal Ahmed Shahab alias Gulfam, 42, son of Dildar, was standing outside his house when two gunnies riding a cycle of violence opened fire on him. He sustained two bullets and keeled over dead.
His body was shifted to the ASH for medico-legal formalities and handed over to the heirs.
SHO Shahrukh said the victim, the father of three, was booked in several cases of gambling and a close friend of Khalid Shehenshah.
In Sohrab Goth, 28-year-old Yousuf, son of Abdul Ghafoor, was bumped off, police said.
DSP Iftikhar Lodhi said the dear departed, hailing from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, aka Terrorism Central... , had a dispute with some of his relatives, who might be involved in his murder.
Separately, a cycle of violence mechanic was rubbed out in Khadda Market, Lyari within the limits of Storied Baghdadi cop shoppe.
Police said the dear departed identified as 24-year-old Abid, son of Ismail, was drinking tea at Bilal Hotel, when an unidentified man opened fire on him, killing him on the spot. His body was shifted to Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi (CHK). In Al Falah, a bullet-riddled body police was recovered from Zamzama Corner, Shamsi Society.
Police identified the victim as Mohammad Irfan, son of Atta Rasool, a resident of Junejo Town, Manzoor Colony. The victim worked as an electrician and a painter, they added.
Police said the dear departed was kidnapped Wednesday by unidentified culprits, who threw away his body after killing him. His body was shifted to JPMC for medico-legal formalities and handed over to his heirs.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... 25-year-old Zeeshan was rubbed out by unidentified gunnies in Keamari while his father Zafar Iqbal was also maimed. SHO Chaudhry Irshad said the dear departed was going home with his father in a car bearing registration number ATB-771 when three armed motorcyclists intercepted them and opened indiscriminate firing in front of KPT Gate No 15. Zeeshan was killed on the spot while his father sustained injuries, he added.
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[Pak Daily Times] A woman and her minor daughter were killed in a Taliban attack on Adezai anti-Taliban Lashkar early on Thursday, police and locals said.
Matani Police Station Muharir Hijabullah told Daily Times that the Taliban attacked Adezai village with rockets at 2am. He said that one rocket hit the house of Rajwali, a member of an anti-Taliban Lashkar, in which his wife and a minor daughter were killed. He said that four other villagers were also injured in the attack. It was the Taliban's first attack on Adezai anti-Taliban Lashkar after security forces' operation in suburbs of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar and the Frontier Regions (FR) some two months ago.
Adezai lashkar chief, Dilawar Khan, told Daily Times that a woman and her minor daughter were killed in the Taliban attack. He said about 40 men armed with sophisticated weapons, including rockets, attacked the village from some distance. He said the Islamic fascistiwanted to destroy his and other key lashkar members' houses, but the lashkar retaliated forcing them to flee.
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[Pak Daily Times] A salvo of US missiles targeted gunnies in the Tribal Areas on Thursday, killing six forces of Evil returning from an jihad boy bastion in Afghanistan, security officials said.
Six missiles slammed into the group in North Wazoo. The missiles targeted the group about 12 kilometres from North Wazoo's main town of Miranshah, in an area that borders Khost in eastern Afghanistan, a hotbed of bully boyz fighting US-led troops. "Several unmanned US aircraft fired six missiles targeting gunnies in Gulli Khel village near the Ghulam Khan district of North Wazoo," the official said .
He said the gunnies had been returning on foot from Afghanistan, although a local intelligence source in Miranshah said the US missiles targeted a compound of gunnies from the Haqqani network. Thursday's strike was the second this week, after a similar operation killed at least nine suspected forces of Evil near Miranshah on Sunday. Around 220 people have been killed in more than 40 strikes since September 3 straining relations with Islamabad already tense over reported US criticism of Pakistain's failure so far to launch a ground offensive in North Wazoo.
The covert US drone campaign in Pakistain dramatically increased in September as intelligence claims emerged of a Mumbai-style terror plot to launch commando attacks in European cities. The campaign is also seen as integral to US-led efforts to turn around a nine-year Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. Afghan and US officials allege that gunnies with rear bases in Pakistain enjoy at least some measure of protection from the Pak intelligence services -- charges that Islamabad denies. During a recent visit to India, President Barack B.O. Obama said Islamabad was making progress on tackling what he called the "cancer" of extremism but it was not happening quickly enough.
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KARACHI - Staring blankly at what used to be his office, the plain-clothed police investigator recalled how he had worked long hours there trying to track down some of Pakistans most dangerous militants.
The office was flattened in a suspected Pakistani Taliban suicide car bombing on Thursday at the compound of the Crime Investigation Department (CID), which focuses on apprehending militants who are bent on toppling Pakistans US-backed government.
I arrested members of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), said the investigator, who looked lost, his AK-47 assault rifle slung over his shoulder.
LeJ is one of Pakistans most violent anti-Shia groups and part of an al Qaeda-linked nexus of militants. They include the Pakistani Taliban, which claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed 15 people and wounded 100, and threatened more bloodshed.
The explosion left a crater about 40 feet (12 metres) across and 12 feet (four metres) deep in front of the gutted building in Pakistans financial capital and biggest city, where senior militants were held and interrogated.
The police investigator pointed out one of the rooms which held militants. It was reduced to broken concrete slabs and twisted metal.
Parts of nearby buildings collapsed in the attack, which took place metres from the provincial chief ministers house in a central district known as the red zone because of its high security status. The US Consulate and five-star hotels are nearby.
A security guard knelt in the rubble and sifted through a pile of bullet casings. Police said the militants first opened fire, as they sometimes do during such attacks.
Official documents were strewn across the rubble.
Security officers and rescue workers tried to steady themselves over shaky chunks of cement as they searched furiously for possible survivors. A pair of sandals raised hope, but to no avail.
A few feet away a group of security officers grunted as they pushed away a huge block of cement. Hopeful they had found a survivor. But a few minutes later the body of a paramilitary soldier, his face covered in dust, was carried away on a stretcher.
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as of a bit ago the fatality count was above 20
The Taliban evidently had an attack force of about 6 heavily armed gunmen who blew away security at a gate and then the suicide bomber went in the gate with the truck bomb
This is quite an operation given that it is so far from the Taliban home area.
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2The attackers opened fire, the a car drove into the police compound in Karachi and detonated. The building, which housed violent criminals as well as some Taliban, collapsed; a deep crater was left where the car bomb was.
The Taliban claimed credit for the blast within minutes.
Karachi has about 16 million people and is hundreds of miles away from the Taliban territory.
Over 100 were seriously injured and the fatalities will certainly increase.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Two civilians were wounded on Thursday by a bomb blast in eastern Baghdad, according to a security source.
An improvised explosive device went off on the Technical Institute street in al-Zaafaraniya region, eastern Baghdad, injuring two civilians, who were carried to a nearby hospital for treatment, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
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KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: Unknown gunmen kidnapped two citizens in southwestern Kirkuk, according to a security source.
On Wednesday night (Nov. 10), unknown armed men entered a fast food restaurant in southwestern Baghdad, where they kidnapped two citizens in front of a police patrol, which did not move to save them, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Kirkuk Police Department started an investigation into the incident to account the patrol for not saving the citizens, he added.
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GAZA CITY Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles at a building near the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis on Thursday, targeting suspected militants, the military said.
Witnesses said the strikes hit a multi-storey building and that tanks also opened fire shortly afterwards. Palestinian medical sources said there were no casualties and that a group of people inside the building were able to escape.
Israeli helicopters struck a building in the central Gaza Strip where suspected militants were hiding, a military spokesman told AFP.
It was a building housing armed militants who were suspected of targeting forces and planting an explosive device, the spokesman said, without providing additional details.
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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
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[Pak Daily Times] A salvo of US missiles targeted 
