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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Angela Little aka Tex's Girlfriend in "Rush Hour 2" aka Sheree in "American Pie Presents Band Camp " aka Sheryl in "My Boss's Daughter" aka Beth Anne in "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" aka Jill Tantino in "The Great Fight" aka Playboys Playmate of the Month for August 1998(age 39)
NATO says Afghan and coalition forces have killed more than 50 insurgents during a military operation in eastern Afghanistan.
The coalition said Friday the fighting occurred in Paktika province's Sar Rawza district during the clearance of a Haqqani network encampment. The network is affiliated with al-Qaida and the Taliban.
NATO said the site was an area where insurgents moved foreign fighters into the country to help carry out attacks across Afghanistan.
Disenfranchised insurgents had notified NATO of the camp's location.
International and Afghan troops battled heavily armed insurgents holed up in caves and bunkers that served as a way station for foreign fighters crossing into the country from Pakistan, the U.S.-led coalition said Friday. International forces and Afghan troops, including Afghan special forces, battled insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and AK-47 assault rifles.
The joint force recovered stockpiles of weapons, including mortars, RPGs, machine guns, crates of ammunition, AK-47s, grenades and other military gear, the coalition said.
[An Nahar] British forces have jugged two British nationals in Afghanistan, authorities in London said Thursday, amid reports they were suspected of plotting against Britannia or fighting with the Taliban.
"We can confirm that British forces have jugged two individuals in Afghanistan who claim to be British nationals," the Ministry of Defense said in a statement. Clive! Nigel! How could you!
A Foreign Office spokeswoman added: "We can confirm that two British nationals have been jugged in Afghanistan."
Neither ministry would say what they were suspected of doing, amid differing reports in the British media.
The Times reported that the two men, who have dual nationality, were jugged at a hotel near the Iranian border as part of a counter-terrorism raid to thwart a possible attack against British interests.
After the dramatic swoop at the International Trade Center hotel in the city of Herat, helped by members of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), the Afghan intelligence service, they were taken into custody in Helmand, ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... it said.
A senior Afghan official, who declined to be named, told the paper: "The British asked for our help to arrest these two individuals. The NDS was providing logistical support."
The official said the individuals were "not Afghans",
Then what is their second nationality, pray tell?
adding: "It was terrorism-related. It was a UK-led operation."
Questioned about the report, a front man for the NDS, Lutfullah Mashal, told Agence La Belle France Presse: "We are not aware, we are not involved." The Interior Ministry also denied knowledge of the case and said it was not holding the men.
The Sun newspaper and the BBC reported that the Britons held were suspected of fighting for the Taliban.
The Sun said two men wearing Afghan dress were jugged in Helmand, and were being held at a military base.
A source told the newspaper: "Helmand is not a holiday destination. The authorities will be very concerned they were wandering about. The first thing they will want to know is what they were doing here."
NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces in Afghanistan normally hold suspects for a maximum of four days before releasing them or handing them over to the Afghan authorities, but a Foreign Office spokeswoman said this could be extended.
"George, send out for the mustache wax and the #7 pliers. And put the kettle on -- we'll definitely be wanting our tea later."
"The UK has a national policy of detaining beyond 96 hours in exceptional circumstances, in particular where it could provide information that could help protect our forces or the local population," she said.
Britannia has about 9,500 troops in Afghanistan as part of international forces fighting the Taliban insurgency.
Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... announced earlier this month that Britannia would withdraw 500 troops by the end of next year, but would keep soldiers there in a training role until at least 2023.
His announcement came a fortnight after President Barack B.O. Obama announced a big drawdown of U.S. forces in the war-torn country.
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NET = various Artics also indic that the agenda two Brit Nationals [Afghans] included the possible launching of attacks inside the UK???
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An attack on Queen Elizabeth II would be a really, REALLY foolish thing, especially if she were injured or killed. The Queen is very well-liked. Forty million Brits would rise up in anger. I would fear for the life of anyone suspected of even distant involvement (I.E., same nationality or ethnic group). The government may have taken away the people's guns, but there are enough pitchforks to create a deadly army.
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[Dawn] NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... troops on Thursday made Afghan cops responsible for the city of Herat.
Herat is the fourth of seven areas to transition to Afghan control this week, but critics say the timetable is politically motivated and not reflective of Afghan abilities to ward off the Taliban with violence at a 10-year high.
Underscoring the threat, a jacket wallah killed four people on Wednesday in the north's Mazar-i-Sharif, considered one of the safest cities in Afghanistan and due to be transferred on Saturday.
In Herat, a ceremony took place at NATO's International Security Assistance Force headquarters in the city, attended by the defence minister, other senior Afghan officials and Italia's economic development minister Paolo Romani.
Italia is in charge of coalition efforts in Herat.
"We don't want a parallel security force. The ANA (army), ANP (police) and our intelligence forces are prepared to defend our country and crush the enemy," said Ashraf Ghani, head of the national transition authority.
A separate ceremony was later held at an Afghan army base in the city.
Transition comes with US and Afghan officials trying to reach out to the Taliban to broker a peace deal as NATO-led troops begin a gradual withdrawal designed to recall all foreign combat troops by the end of 2014.
But the speed of the drawdown and transition has been criticised by experts who say Afghan forces are not ready to take control for security on their own.
An MP for Herat and deputy speaker for parliament, Ahmad Behzad, said that the city, which lies close to the Iranian border, is largely safe but is still plagued by unrest nearby in the province, in particularly in Shindand district.
"Herat city and the province is under threat by these places," said Behzad.
Foreign forces have been absent from the city for some time he said, but Afghan troops are still heavily reliant on the NATO presence for air support and other military equipment.
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Good luck, guys. Eventually you, too, will be taught to read and write, and don't forget to stay sober while on duty.
[An Nahar] Al-Qaeda-inspired Death Eaters kidnapped and jugged Somalia's newly appointed women's minister Thursday while she was on her way to take up office, officials and witnesses told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Asha Osman Aqiil was named women and family affairs minister on Wednesday. She was kidnapped by the Shebab fighters in Balad town, some 30 kilometers north of the capital Mogadishu.
"Asha Osman Aqiil ... is in a jail in Balad town ... after she was kidnapped on her way to Mogadishu to take her new post," said Ahmed Sheikh Mohamud, a clan elder.
"It is unfortunate that she is in the hands of the wrong people and we are praying that she is freed," a politician told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Aqiil's kidnapping is likely to cause security concerns for foreign relief groups planning to resume operations in Shebab-controlled regions after the rebels lifted a ban on their work and asked for aid in the face of a severe drought.
The hardline rebels rule much of southern and central Somalia where they have imposed strict Islamic laws, including prohibiting women from holding public office.
In the capital Mogadishu, they have waged bloody battles to overthrow the country's Western-backed government they accuse of being an apostate administration.
The government's authority in the war-ravaged capital is limited to just a few areas where it survives under the protection of a 9,000-strong African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... force.
Somalia is the worst affected country in the drought-hit Horn of Africa region. The United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... on Wednesday declared famine in two regions in the south of the country, and which are under Shebab control.
Nearly half of Somalia's estimated 10 million people are facing a food crisis, with malnutrition rates currently the highest in the world.
Relief groups and donors on Thursday said they were ready to test Shebab's pledge to allow aid through to the regions they control, provided their aid would reach those most in need.
The kidnapping of foreigners is rampant in Somalia, a Horn of Africa country ravaged by cycles of devastating violence since the ouster of president Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.
And in this area they are kidnapping their own, as well. Perhaps they aren't ready to accept foreign aid just yet -- there are plenty of others who'll be happy to take their share.
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[Al Jazeera] Libya's opposition fighters have escalated their offensive against Muammar Qadaffy's ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years... forces east of the capital Tripoli, capturing one of the most prominent government commanders along the way.
After two days of fighting, they moved their position to around 4km forward from Dafniyah, a town in Misrata.
"We move forward [now] towards Zliten," Ayman, an opposition field commander, said, referring to the coastal town 160km east of Tripoli.
"We are now close to an area called Tuesday Market in Zliten and, God willing, we will liberate our people in Zliten soon from the forces of the tyrant."
Al Jizz's Hoda Abdel Hamid, reporting from Misrata, described General Abdul Nabih Zayed, the captured commander, as the one of the most high-value prisoners taken by the opposition to date.
Zayed allegedly co-ordinated the deployment of tanks into Misrata in March which triggered the recent fighting.
"According to the military commanders here in Misrata, Zayed was actually captured yesterday as they started their offensive towards the town of Zliten. He was slightly injured, so he was brought back to the hospital here in Misrata," she said.
"Its also a significant catch because it is happening at the time the opposition started their push towards Zliten. They have made significant territorial gains. Rebel commanders are saying they are interrogating General Zayed and they are hoping he will give them significant information."
Boobytrapped oilfields
In another claim on Thursday, opposition officials said Qadaffy forces had boobytrapped vital petroleum installations in Brega so they could be blown up if his forces lost the oil town.
Mahmoud Jibril, the opposition diplomatic chief, characterised Brega on Thursday as a "big minefield" and said some oil installations were "full of bombs, explosives".
The advance towards Brega has been slowed by vast quantities of anti-personnel mines planted by retreating Qadaffy loyalists and the difficulties in attacking an estimated 200 government troops fighting from positions near the oil facilities.
At least 72 opposition fighters have died and 623 others injured since the push was launched on July 14 for Brega, located 800km east of Tripoli and 240km southwest of Benghazi, the opposition stronghold.
On the war's western front, opposition commanders said they were awaiting orders from Benghazi to start a fresh offensive from the Nafusa Mountains just days before the Mohammedan fasting month of Ramadan.
Energy shortage
With no end to the conflict in sight, the Libyan opposition is seeking new supply deals to import fuels into eastern parts of the country to help alleviate energy shortages, a source in the opposition oil ministry said on Thursday.
Even in peacetime the oil producer still needed to import some fuels because of insufficient refining capacity. Increased military demand and damage to oil infrastructure have further boosted import requirements.
"Vitol are providing some fuels but I'm not sure it's enough to serve the whole country. They are pursuing other suppliers," a source in the opposition oil ministry said.
Vitol, a trading firm, has been the opposition's major oil trading partner since the war began and has regularly shipped cargoes of oil products including diesel - badly needed to keep the country running.
Al Jizz's Anita McNaught, reporting from the eastern town of Jalu, said the Qadaffy forces have repeatedly crossed the eastern desert south of Benghazi to destroy oilfield infrustructure.
"In early July, they attacked a pumping station in Field 103, southwest of Jalu, and boobytrapped the engine room with landmines," she said.
"War has brought oil production in Libya to a standstill. And Qadaffy is determined to prevent the opposition in the east from starting its own oil business."
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make that "gangs of Moslem Hooligans"...one side dresses up as Hotel Doormen and the other side dresses up like garage mechanics and punks.
And they all were trained in the Ya Allah method of Have at Thee.
A lot of arm waving and threats and then drive off and yell over the tailgate. And the next evening you hide behind a tree and set up an improvised sandbag bunker beside the only bridge into town .
Six men who mean business can take on 200 of that crowd.
Airstrikes? Artillery? Patrolling by Toyota pickup trucks across country with effective communications and a good map are more important. A squad in the back and a few cellphones.
The airstrikes are to knock out the enemy logistics and communications. Then you maneuver to find how to get in or around. No need to fight them if you can simply cut them off.
Then send in sniper teams to make the garrison sit down all day. You dont need the town if you control the roads. The town will fall on its own if you nibble it to death and it cant get back to Momma. Cut the town off by maneuver and strangle it. Interdict the roads around a town and seal the town off. Ambush any relief. Burn the vehicles, take the ammo and equipment, and shoot the prisoners.
Systematic, every damned day, consistent pressure, no prisoners. You will know in a week who is a fighter and who is a civilian punk. Put the punks to garrison what you take, use the fighters to make solid teams and keep up the advance. No, you cant take a break and have a candy bar.
No one is going to do it for you, Achmed.
But you know what your REAL problem is gonna be? AFTER its all over if you see someone trying on funny hats and putting on sunglasses. Dont just watch that guy....mark him down. He has to go to the latrine sometime. Wait until his pants are down.
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Sad fact followed oil and gas for almost two decades now and what they got the United States does not need. There were contracts in place and as we are in South Korea protecting them from the North and they held one of if not the largest deposits makes a person wonder do we really have any leaders?!?
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de Medici, if I hadn't already realized you were full of sh&t, your comment about cutting off the comms and logistics of tribal locals - in the desert - would have provided ample evidence.
[Yemen Post] A young protester was killed and two others injured when elite republican guards fired at a youth-led demonstration in Yemen's Taiz province where the army has been shelling some areas in response to allegedly attacks by armed people.
Republican guards stationed inside Al-Thwara hospital for two months fired at the demonstrators as they came close to a street near the hospital, locals said.
Tens of thousands of people erupted into the streets today chanting slogans condemning the crimes of the remaining officials of the Saleh regime and the failed liquidation attempt of head of the Islah Party in Sana'a, Muhammad Al-Yodoumi, a day ago.
They also urged an immediate action to make the month-long revolution a success and achieve its goals, to form a transitional council that should include all the components of the popular youth-led uprising and condemned external interventions affecting the revolution course.
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[Emirates 24/7] Ayad Al Shabwani, a leader of Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), has been killed in fighting with the army, a military source said on Thursday.
Another one bites the dust, hurrah! Could this be another payoff for the bin Laden raid?
Shabwani was killed on Tuesday in heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... that continued into Wednesday between the army and suspected Al-Qaeda faceless myrmidons near Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan province, east of the main southern city Aden, the source said.
The official Saba news agency had said earlier that "two prominent members of the Al-Qaeda leadership were killed ... in Abyan province," naming them as Ayad al-Shabwani and Awad Mohammed Saleh al-Shabwani.
Yemen had said before that Ayad al-Shabwani was killed, along with five other leaders, in a January 15 air strike on a convoy of vehicles. Three days later, AQAP denied that either Shabwani or the five others had been killed.
Militants believed to be linked to Al Qaeda took over much of Zinjibar in late May, and have been battling security forces ever since, displacing thousands of residents.
Yemen is the ancestral homeland of veteran Al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who now dances with worms... who was killed in a US commando raid in Pakistain on May 2.
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A huge explosion wrecked government buildings in central Oslo on Friday including Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's office, injuring several people, a Reuters journalist said from the scene.
The cause of the blast was unknown but the tangled wreckage of a car was outside one building and the damage appeared consistent to witnesses with that from car bombs. Police and fire officials declined comment on the cause.
The blast blew out most windows on the 17-storey building housing Stoltenberg's office, as well as nearby ministries including the oil ministry, which was on fire. Heavy debris littered the streets and a tall plume of brown smoke over the city center.
A Reuters correspondent counted at least eight injured people. Norwegian news agency NTB said that Stoltenberg was safe in the blast, which happened around 3:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. EDT)."It exploded -- it must have been a bomb. people ran in panic and ran. I counted at least 10 injured people," said Kjersti Vedun, who was leaving the area.
NATO member Norway has sometimes in the past been threatened by leaders of al Qaeda for its involvement in Afghanistan. It has also taken part the NATO bombing of Libya, where Muammar Gaddafi has threatened to strike back in Europe. However, political violence is virtually unknown in the country.
Last week, a Norwegian prosecutor filed terror charges against an Iraqi-born cleric for threatening Norwegian politicians with death if he is deported from the Scandinavian country. The indictment centered on statements that Mullah Krekar -- the founder of the Kurdish Islamist group Ansar al-Islam -- made to various news media, including American network NBC.
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Who knows, this incident may wake up the vikings in them. Look back into the 100+ articles in RB about Krekar on Rantburg and see what playing footsie with this nutbag has cost Norway.
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Ironically they'll probably have to hire Israeli security consultants.
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Now there's a mass shooting by a guy dressed as police there at a Labour Party youth camp. Wonder if the Norse will revert to their roots now and play vikings and muslims.
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While government officials in Oslo are saying this is likely the work of Islamic terrorists, In DC Janet Napolitano is reported to have said "I did not know they had neo-nazi militias in Norway" when she heard the news. President 0bama has instructed the Justice department to investigate the Norwegians for possible hate crimes for their defamatory statements about the 'religion of piece' and is seeking sanctions and is preparing a press release blaming bush and using the crisis to call for new tax hikes and restrictions on 2nd amendment rights here at home.
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This is what happens when you welcome a violent group into your country that refuses to integrate.
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Looks like they also have something else to deal with...
Reports in local media came through of a shooting incident at Utoeya, an island south of Oslo where Stoltenberg's Labor party youth section's yearly gathering was taking place.
Daily newspaper VG said on its website a man dressed as a policeman was shooting wildly and had hit many people.
It was not clear whether or how the incidents were linked.
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#14 - Sadly, I actually had to think twice about whether you were being sarcastic.
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The initial call is that they're related. Suspect arrested.
Head of Information for the police in Northern Buskerud, Bjorn Erik Sem-Jacobsen, told NRK.no that a person is arrested for shooting drama at the Labour Party summer camp for youth.
V Edkommende was dressed as a policeman when he came to the island. We have great reason to believe that the shooting has a connection with the explosion in Oslo earlier today, says Sem-Jacobsen.
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Drudge Report is currently featuring an extremely graphic and disturbing picture from the shooting scene. Very, very disturbing. There is also a link to an NYT article that says "Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami, or the Helpers of the Global Jihad, issued a statement claiming responsibility for the attack".
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This was a severe attack. Being a socialist left oriented country I wonder how they will deal with this. Very open society, wealthy, oil industry all over the world, home of the nobel peace prize. Never seemed to fear such an attack. The young men were said to think that the war in Afghanistan was better than sex. The Norwegians didn't like hearing that.
Three cheers for Fred and badanov! That spoilt little Saudi brat found a friend who can do some basic coding. They may get all of Saudi Arabia cut off, at the rate they're annoying the boss.
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Sadly, I think it'll still take a few more of these before parts of Europe wake up. They just don't understand that the war with islam has always been a war to the knife. I don't consider islam a religion, it's a death cult. The sooner the world wakes up to it's threat, the sooner it's taint will be gone from the world.
As for the girly boy in Saudi, just because we don't wail and flog ourselves, doesn't mean we have no compassion. Vermin killed human beings in Oslo and Norway today. We reserve our compassion for humans, not the vermin causing it.
Frank Herbert had one thing right. There's humans, then there's people. And while humans are people, not all people are human. They have chosen to remove themselves from the human race.
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Some of their filth leaked past
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Ole Poopy Plaints has more issues than The Saturday Evening Post.
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In April 2011, Alan M. Dershowitz sharply criticized Norway for its treatment of Jews, writing that "All Jews are apparently the same in this country that has done everything in its power to make life in Norway nearly impossible for Jews. Norway was apparently the first modern nation to prohibit the production of Kosher meat, while at the same time permitting Halal meat and encouraging the slaughter of seals, whales and other animals that are protected by international treaties. No wonder less than 1000 Jews live in Norway.[47]
Dershowitz also stated, regarding efforts by Norwegion Academics to institute a boycott of Israelis that while administrations of Norwegion universities "have refused to go along with this form of collective punishment of all Israeli academics... in practice...Jewish pro-Israel speakers are subject to a de facto boycott" and cited this as a reason why the faculties of several Norwegion universities refused to invite him to speak about Israel (although he did subsequently give three lectures at the invitation of student groups). Dershowitz noted that the only other country that prevented him from lecturing at its universities was South Africa during the apartheid era.[48]
In June 2011, a survey by the Oslo Municipality found that 33% per cent of Jewish students Oslo are physically threatened or abused by other high school teens at least two to three times a month (compared to 10% for Buddhists and 5.3% of Muslims) The survey also found that 51% of high school students consider Jew a negative expression and 60% had heard other students use the term
A bomb ripped through Oslo's central government district on Friday and a gunmen dressed as a policeman then opened fire at a youth camp on a nearby island, killing 17 people altogether, police said.
In the biggest such attack in western Europe since the London transport bombings in 2005, seven died when the bomb exploded on the Norwegian capital in mid-afternoon scattering glass, shattered masonry and twisted steel across the streets.
Shortly afterwards, a gunman opened fire at the youth camp of the ruling political party on Utoeya island, north-west of Oslo. Police said nine or 10 people were killed and they believed the two attacks were linked. The gunman was arrested.
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Phager the Rash2607- Yes they have issues that few are aware of. I understand that Norwegians were used to work at death camps. This is something not spoken of. Why they have this flaw is unknown to me or how pervasive it is in their culture. The mind of a socialism left perhaps.
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Some of the authorities are also hinting at the Norwegian right. The shooter's confirmed as Norwegian, described as having "nordic features". Anything's possible, I suppose.
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Remember other attacks in the US quickly ascribed to "the right wing", include Loughner in Tucson; and Joseph Stack who crashed his plane into an office complex in Austin, who before he was unveiled as a rabid leftist, was called by the NYT "the first Tea Party Terrorist".
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Rolling TV news in Ssweden from Norge saying it's a Norrman. Just waiting for a name now. If it's mojammahedin, the gloves are off, it is sinking in. Lot of innocents may feel some pain.
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The 32-year-old man has been active in video games and has been involved in the online game World of Warcraft. I forbindelse med dette spillet har han lagt ut et bilde av et pistolløp. In connection with this game, he posted a picture of a pistolløp
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The Norwegian cops are now saying at least EIGHTY killed in the island shootings. Shooter is described as a home grown, self described "nationalist".
[Dawn] A federal court has released previously sealed documents from a recent trial in Chicago related to the deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India in 2008.
The US District Court in Chicago opened 26 documents Wednesday from the trial of businessman Tahawwur Rana. They are primarily motions attorneys filed before and during Rana's trial. More documents will be released later.
A month ago, jurors cleared the Pak-born Canadian of involvement in the Mumbai siege. The 50-year-old was convicted of lesser charges, including providing material support to the Pak bad boy group blamed in those attacks.
Defense attorneys have said the documents slated for release were unlikely to provide many details not already made public.
Rana is currently in jail awaiting sentencing.
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[Dawn] A NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... oil tanker was destroyed as the result of an kaboom in the Khyber tribal region on Thursday, DawnNews reported.
The blast reportedly occurred inside the tanker, sources said.
The Pak-Afghan border highway was subsequently blocked after a massive traffic pile-up, which resulted in the suspension of supply, security sources told DawnNews.
The bulk of supplies and equipment required by foreign troops in Afghanistan are shipped through the Khyber tribal region.
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I think I've read that most of the casualties in Iraq have actually been on oil supply convoys. (IEDs of course..)
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[Dawn] A PML-N leader was bumped off outside his office in the Patel road area of the city on Wednesday.
According to police, Saleem Jadoon, a former union council nazim, was in the basement of his office along with some friends when a man called him outside. When he stepped out the man who was wearing a mask opened fire.
He was immediately taken to the civil hospital and later to the Combined Military Hospital where he died. Hospital sources said the bullet had hit him in the head.
PML-N activists gathered at the hospital and took the body to his house.
The activists led by MNA Sardar Yaqoob Khan Nasar marched on different roads of the city and gathered outside the Quetta Press Club.
They raised slogans against the government and demanded immediate arrest of the killer.
Sardar Yaqoob Khan said Mr Jadoon had been killed to sabotage the polling for LA-30 in Quetta.
He alleged that after the incident supporters of MQM freely cast bogus votes in the election.
He accused the provincial government of having failed to protect people.
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[An Nahar] A kaboom on Thursday killed at least two Pak oil workers in a remote town in the country's troubled southwest that borders Afghanistan and Iran, police and doctors said.
The blast hit a convoy of Pakistain's government-run Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDCL) in the mineral rich province of Baluchistan, where rebels are fighting for autonomy and demanding a greater share of natural resources.
"We received two dead bodies and seven injured from the blast site," Siddiq Ahmed, a doctor told Agence La Belle France Presse by telephone from the local district hospital in the town of Jafarabad, where the attack took place.
Police said the bomb was fixed to a cycle of violence and parked on the roadside about 272 kilometers southeast of the picturesque provincial capital Quetta.
"It was a remote-controlled device which hit the oil and gas officials' vehicle," Mohammed Tariq, a senior police official, told AFP.
Baluchistan is riven by Islamist militancy, sectarian violence between majority Sunnis and minority Shiite Mohammedans and a separatist insurgency.
Baluch rebels rose up in 2004 demanding political autonomy and a greater share of profits from the region's wealth of natural resources. Hundreds of people have since died.
Separately a jacket wallahwent kaboom!" in front of a vehicle of a military contractor in Kotkai village of the troubled South Wazoo tribal district bordering Afghanistan on Thursday, security officials said.
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[Al Jazeera] Activists in Syria say the country's third largest city, Homs, has been attacked by the army.
Videos released on the internet suggest security forces fired on densely populated parts of Homs with tank shells and machine guns.
It is claimed at least 40 people have been killed across the city in the past week as the authorities continue to use deadly force to contain the anti-government uprising that started four months ago.
One resident told the Rooters news agency by phone that the army fired at worshippers in eastern Khalidiya district as they left the Khaled Ibn al-Walid mosque in the early hours of Thursday morning.
"There is heavy military deployment in Homs; military checkpoints are everywhere in the city. There is heavy shooting in Bab al-Sebaa, one house was burned and the humanitarian conditions are dire," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based independent rights monitor, said in a statement.
Last Friday, more than one million people turned out across Syria, mainly in the cities of Hama and Deir al-Zour, to protest against President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... 's rule and to demand the release of hundreds of detainees seized at earlier anti-government rallies.
"Many gunnies on the streets [are] shooting randomly," Al Jizz's Rula Amin reported from the Lebanese capital Beirut, citing sources in Homs.
"People are telling us some of the injured and people who have been killed are still on the streets. People have not been able to pick them up because there's so much [gunfire]."
A resident of the city said mosque loudspeakers were calling for people to the aid of Bab al-Sebaa.
The resident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of government reprisals, said the neighbourhood had been subjected to heavy machine-gun fire since 4am.
Activists said some of those being incarcerated had played leading roles in protests while others were Homs residents who had been randomly jugged.
Some said family members of activists had been incarcerated in order to force their relatives to turn themselves in.
Our correspondent said that demonstrators and government officials had given very different accounts of what was happening.
"If you talk to the activists in the opposition, they say these are security people shooting at people who are potentially protesters, getting Dire Revenge™ for taking the streets," she said.
"They accuse militias loyal to the government of carrying out all of the vandalism acts and the shooting.
"If you look at the government media and websites, they talk of sectarian violence inside the city and they speak of armed gangs that had been shooting, injuring and killing members of the security [forces]."
On Wednesday, troops commanded by Assad's brother surrounded the Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... suburb of Harasta, sealing of its dozen entrances as part of an ongoing crackdown on urban centres that have experienced protests on a daily basis.
"They are wearing combat fatigues, helmets, ammunition belts and carrying assault rifles. Water, electricity and phones have been cut," a resident said.
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[An Nahar] Syria's security forces Thursday pressed a clampdown against dissidents in the central city of Homs, where shots were heard, arrests were made and many streets were deserted, rights activists said.
"(Security forces) entered houses and made arrests," said Rami Abdel Rahman of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, reached by telephone.
"Shots were heard in Homs from dawn," he added. "Most streets were deserted because of the military operations. Tanks were seen around the fortress and entrances too many neighborhoods were closed."
Activists say pro-regime gunnies have killed at least 20 people in Homs since Monday, including seven mourners at a funeral.
Fierce fighting rocked the city at the weekend, with activists reporting more than 30 people killed in festivities among Christians, Sunni Mohammedans and President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... 's minority Alawite community.
Syria's third-largest city, Homs has spearheaded demonstrations against Assad and his regime since protests erupted on March 15.
The army had already entered the city in May in a bid to stop rallies calling for the fall of the regime.
Activists meanwhile called for more protests countrywide after the main weekly Mohammedan prayers on Friday, following a pattern that has become standard in many parts of the Arab world since popular uprisings toppled the veteran rulers of Tunisia and Egypt earlier this year.
Using the Facebook site Syrian Revolution 2011, one of the motors of the revolt against Assad's autocratic rule, the activists said Friday's protests will be in support of the residents of Homs.
It appealed for a mass turnout to honor "the grandsons of Khalid and for national unity."
Khalid ibn al-Walid, a companion of the Prophet Mohammed known for his courage and military prowess, is buried in Homs.
Last Friday, more than one million people turned out across Syria -- mainly in the cities of Hama and Deir al-Zour -- to protest against Assad's regime and to demand the release of hundreds of detainees seized at earlier pro-democracy rallies.
Human rights activists said at least 28 non-combatants were killed, including 16 in the capital Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... and a child, when security forces opened fire to quell last week's protests.
The activists say the government's crackdown has left more than 1,400 civilians dead since mid-March. Thousands more have been placed in long-term storage.
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