[Tolo News] A group of 9 hard boyz in the northern Kunduz province have renounced violence, officials said.
A front man for 303 Pamir Zone in Kunduz told TOLOnews that a group of hard boyz including their commander named Hazrat have laid down their arms and joined the Afghan grinding of the peace processor.
"The group surrendered to government in Imam Saheb last night," said Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, a front man for 303 Pamir Zone.
The group was carrying out anti-government activities in Imam Saheb district of Kunduz province.
Local elders are said to have played an important role in mediating between the government and hard boyz to encourage anti-government gangs to embrace the Afghan government's peace call.
The problem with taking time off to enjoy the winter at home is that they may not have a war to return to in the spring...
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[Tolo News] A US marine rubbed out an Afghan policeman on Saturday in southern Afghanistan after a quarrel between the two, Isaf said in a statement. The Afghan policeman threatened the US marine during an offensive in southern Afghanistan and consequently raised and pointed his gun at the marine, the statement said.
After the marine shouted on the Afghan police to put his weapon down and he refused to do so, the marine fired two shots and killed the police, it said. What I like about Clive
Is that he is no longer alive.
There is a great deal to be said
For being dead.
Isaf said it's investigating the case and primary findings indicated that the marine was threatened and the Afghan police was not handling his weapon carefully.
I'd say that pointing a rifle at a Marine is clearly not handling said rifle carefully...
The two gentlemen from New Zealand were just exonerated for killing their Afghan attackers in self-defense, too.
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[Arab News] A handful of voters cast ballots Saturday, the final day of southern Sudan's weeklong independence referendum, as officials and observers noted high turnout and praised the mostly peaceful voting process.
Celebrations from southerners excited about the birth of their new nation are scheduled to begin soon. Almost everyone expects the south to vote overwhelmingly to break away from the north, cleaving Africa's largest nation in two to create the world's newest country.
Officials and observers reported high voter turnout.
Mohamed Ibrahim Khalil, the chairman of the south's referendum commission, said 83 percent of those registered in the south and 53 percent of those registered in the north had cast their votes. He also cited a 91 percent turnout rate among Sudanese voters in eight other countries. Officials had said there were some 3.9 million registered voters.
Khalil said he believed the referendum would be judged as "a good result by any international standard," noting that the commission set up the vote in four months.
"We have come a long way, making long strides to reach the stage where we are today," said Khalil, a lawyer from northern Sudan who is 90 years old.
He echoed predictions that the south would choose to split from the north. "All indications show that the south will lean toward separation," he said, adding, "I don't derive any pleasure from announcing the splitting of Sudan in two ... on the contrary, I would rather have hoped the country would remain united."
Southern Sudanese voter Naima Mubarak, 23, cast her vote on the last day of polling because she had just flown back with her husband and family from Khartoum, the northern capital, where she has lived for the past decade.
Asked if she and her family would be returning to the north, she shook her head. "We will now stay and settle here," she said.
Sudan's ruling party in the north said Friday it was ready to accept southern independence. Border demarcation, oil rights and the status of the contested region of Abyei still have to be negotiated.
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If the outcome of splitting Sudan is anything better than chaos and more civil war, I would be both pleased and surprised.
Somali pirates have hijacked a South Korean cargo ship in the Indian Ocean. South Korean officials say the ship was traveling from the United Arab Emirates to Sri Lanka with a cargo of chemicals when it was commandeered Saturday by pirates.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency quotes an official as saying the ship's current location is unclear, but that the crew seems to be unharmed. The 10,000-ton ship's crew consists of eight South Koreans, two Indonesians and 11 Burmese citizens.
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[Maghrebia] Terrorists freed the son of an Algerian entrepreneur on Thursday (January 13th) without collecting a ransom, hours after some 10,000 citizens in M'chedallah, east of Bouira, rallied to demand his release, El Watan reported. Toufik Ahmanache, 35, was kidnapped January 6th near his home in Tamourth Ouzzemour.
Geez, that's all it takes? More rallies, people, and quickly!
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[Yemen Post] The army regained control of the Al-Habilain district, Lahj, after fierce festivities with Islamic myrmidons, believed to be separatists.
The forces broke into the district and it is now under the control of the army, informed sources on Saturday, though they pointed to volatile confrontations on the streets.
The army broke into the district after it has been shelling it and confronting Islamic myrmidons, who devotedly fought the forces to prevent their progress.
At least four beturbanned goons and two soldiers were maimed during today's fighting.
The confrontations in Al-Habilain, one of the notorious places plagued by violence in southern Yemen, that started weeks ago paralyzed normal life in there, the sources said.
No people were seen and Al-Habilain has become a ghost town, they added, as they said that tens of families decamped during the last two days.
Last month, military reinforcements were deployed to the district after separatist beturbanned goons had stepped up attacks targeting troops and army posts as well as citizens and their properties, amid the continuous unrest in most o the south.
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Four faceless myrmidons were killed in an operation by security forces in Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar... , while six faceless myrmidons died when their vehicle ran over a landmine on Saturday, official sources said. The faceless myrmidons attacked a security checkpost in the Toda Khura area of Orakzai Agency, which was retaliated by security forces. Four faceless myrmidons were killed and two were jugged. Separately, a vehicle carrying faceless myrmidons hit a landmine in the Mamozai area, resulting in the death of six terrorists.
It's the faceless mymidons who plant all the landmines/IEDs, right? How deliciously ironic.
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[AFP] - Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan set ablaze 16 vehicles carrying fuel supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said.
The convoy was attacked before dawn outside the town of Dera Murad Jamali, some 400 kilometres (250 miles) southeast of Quetta, the capital of restive Baluchistan province, local administration chief Abdul Fatah Khajjak said.
"The attackers, riding in a car, opened fire on oil tankers parked at a petrol pump waiting for daybreak to resume their journey to Afghanistan," Khajjak said.
Some 16 oil tankers caught fire, but two more parked a distance away were undamaged, he said. One of the fuel tanker staff was wounded by the gunfire.
The gunmen fled after the attack and no one had so far claimed responsibility, Khajjak said. A security official also confirmed the attack.
Different take from the other post below on the deaths of our two soldiers.
[Arab News] Two US soldiers were killed and a third was injured when two Iraqi soldiers opened fire on US troops during training in the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul on Saturday, Iraqi army sources said.
The incident occurred while US soldiers were training an Iraqi military unit at Al-Ghazlani US military camp in southern Mosul, 390 km north of Storied Baghdad, they said.
"According to available information, two American soldiers were killed today during a shooting at a training session inside Al-Ghazlani military camp. Two Iraqi soldiers suddenly shot up the American soldiers," an Iraqi military colonel in Mosul, who refused to be named, said.
The US military, however, said in a statement two US service members were killed and one was maimed while conducting operations in northern Iraq, but did not give further details.
"Until now, we don't have any information on why the two Iraqi soldiers opened fire," a senior police official said.
The police and army sources both said the two Iraqi soldiers had been jugged, although it was unclear if they were being held in Iraqi or US custody.
Another Iraqi military colonel said an initial report indicated that one of the Iraqi soldiers had also been killed.
"We have an initial report that one of the Iraqi soldiers who opened fire was killed by American forces, but it's not confirmed yet," he said.
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BAGHDAD: A policeman was killed and four others wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in southwestern Baghdad on Saturday, a local security source said.
An IED went off near a police patrol in al-Bayyaa area, southwestern Baghdad, today (Jan. 15), leaving a policeman killed and four others, including civilian who happened to be near the blast site, wounded, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
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BAGHDAD--Three American soldiers were killed and one was wounded in two separate attacks in Iraq on Saturday, the U.S. military said.
The deadlier of the attacks happened in the morning when a man dressed in an Iraqi army uniform opened fire at U.S. soldiers while they were conducting a training session for Iraqi forces at a military base on the outskirts of the volatile northern city of Mosul, Col. Barry A. Johnson, spokesman for the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, said.
The attacker killed two U.S. soldiers and wounded a third before he was shot dead, Col. Johnson said, declining to give further details because the attack was under investigation. The wounded soldier was flown to a field hospital at the Balad air base north of Baghdad for treatment, he said.
Aswat al-Iraq says no dead, three wounded in the incident, so we'll need confirmation.
A third U.S. soldier was killed in a separate attack in central Iraq, while "conducting operations," according to a military statement. The U.S. Army's central division includes Baghdad and the western Anbar Province. Col. Johnson said he couldn't discuss the second attack.
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Another content free, source free diatribe from the MSM. Is this deliberate agitprop? Another attempt at treason or spying? Made to order fairy dust to make the "reporter" feel all warm and fuzzy?
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Alan Cramer - the answer to your questions is "yes."
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The bulk of this article was published in the NYT today.
I guess there is no such thing as government or military secrets any more.
Especially if it involves Israel
Except when a liberal is involved.
Just try to do an expose on George Soros or Al Sharpton.
You will be branded a traitor or a fear monger trafficking in scurrilous personal smears.
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Speculative Bullshit coupled with wishful thinking.
Content free is exactly right.
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If I may Red "Speculative Bullshit coupled with wishful thinking.Content free is exactly right."
This called journalism today. They are trying to bring money in. It doesn't matter if the story is correct or not. If incorrect they will print a retraction on page 15 in small type if at all.
Two men were killed by gunfire and a woman was seriously injured by a landmine in three separate terrorist insurgent attacks in southern Thailand Saturday.
Early in the morning, two unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle fired on an village leader in Narathiwat province as he left a mosque, instantly killing him. Police found 10 spent M16 shells at the scene of the incident.
A female rubber tapper in Narathiwat stepped on a landmine while collecting latex. Her legs were injured by the shrapnel.
The second death occurred when a schoolteacher was going home from her school in Pattani province by motorbike when two gunmen on a motorcycle gunned him down with handguns, stopping to shoot the victim again after he lost control of the vehicle and crashed.
The incident happened one day ahead of Thailand National Teachers Day on Sunday, celebrated by teachers nationwide.
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.
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[Arab News] A handful of voters cast ballots Saturday, the final day of southern Sudan's weeklong independence referendum, as officials and observers noted high turnout and praised the mostly peaceful voting process.
BAGHDAD--Three American soldiers were killed and one was wounded in two separate attacks in Iraq on Saturday, the U.S. military said.
