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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 10/19/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Birthday/Daily Gam Shot 10/18

Inger Stevens aka Rachel Warren in "Hang 'Em High" aka Ruth Manning in "A Guide for the Married Man" aka Katrin "Katy" Holstrum in "The Farmer's Daughter (TV series)" aka Sarah Crandall in "The World, the Flesh and the Devil" aka Julia Madigan in "Madigan" aka Nina Wylie in "Man on Fire" aka Mrs. Joan Molner in "Cry Terror!" aka Annette Claiborne in "The Buccaneer" aka Lily Langford in "5 Card Stud" aka Anna in "A Dream of Kings" (Died in 1970 at age 35)



On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 10/19/2011 3:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Lindsey Vuolo aka November 2001 Playmate of the Month aka Cindy Wiliams in "The Weekend" aka Bust: 34DD, Waist: 24, Hips: 35 aka Miss July in "Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 2003" (age 30)


Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 10/19/2011 3:36 Comments || Top||

#3  poor girl can't even afford clothes that fit her
Posted by: Frank G || 10/19/2011 13:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Inger Stevens was haunting in the Twilight Zone episode The Hitch-Hiker, which itself was adopted from a radio horror show.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 10/19/2011 15:32 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
American and Pakistani forces launch joint attack on Haqqani Network
American and Pakistani forces have launched a coordinated offensive against the Haqqani Network, the feared Taliban faction which recently attacked the US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan's army chief said on Wednesday
His confirmation came hours after Pakistan's military chief General Kayani ruled out a full scale offensive against the group and issued a stern warning to the United States against any incursion into Pakistan territory.

In a speech to members of the Pakistan National Assembly Defence Committee, General Pervez Ashfaq Kayani reminded Washington that Pakistan is a nuclear power, not another Afghanistan or Iraq, and that the United States should think "ten times" before launching a unilateral operation against the Haqqanis on Pakistani soil.

Analysts close to the Pakistan army leadership however said his comments were for "domestic consumption" and to cover Islamabad's submission to growing American demands to take action against the militant group.

General Sher Mohammad Karimi said Operation Knife Edge will target Haqqani Network fighters using the lawless border area of North Waziristan Agency in Pakistan to launch cross-border raids into Afghanistan. The militant group, which has strong ties to al-Qaeda, has also become powerful in Khost and Paktika provinces which border North Waziristan in eastern Afghanistan.
Posted by: tipper || 10/19/2011 15:05 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A little of the old hammer and anvil, hopefully.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 10/19/2011 18:03 Comments || Top||

#2  How many lollipops and ice cream cones can a Predator carry?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/19/2011 18:44 Comments || Top||

#3  General Kayani prolly still has the Haqqanis on his cellphone speed dial. Lying asshole
Posted by: Frank G || 10/19/2011 21:32 Comments || Top||

#4  General Pervez Ashfaq Kayani reminded Washington that Pakistan is a nuclear power, not another Afghanistan or Iraq, and that the United States should think "ten times" before launching a unilateral operation against the Haqqanis on Pakistani soil.

Does General Kayani mean to suggest that Pakistan would launch a nuclear war against the U.S.? That strikes me, in my ignorance, as unwise.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/19/2011 23:04 Comments || Top||

#5  #4 I interprete Kayani's statements as meaning the PAK Army will resist any US-led mil incursion into North Waziristan or other Pak areas, PAK WILL WAGE WAR AGZ INDIA AS DIVERSION, + lastly Pakistan = Iran = handing out Nuke-WMD techs to Terror Groups to launch Terrops agz the US-West.

IMO PAK = IRAN = STAY ON STRATEGIC DEFENSIVE = KEEPING ANY PER SE MIL CONFLICT WID US-NATO/ALLIES CONFINED TO WEST ASIA + NEARBY REGIONS.

I.E. Let the Terror Boyz attack CONUS-NORAM, while Pak waits for US to attack it.

Lest we fergit, IRAN > has stated that, in a worst-case scenario + as pertinent, its Army-IRGC-Basij forces will retreat into neighboring countries or regions [read, RUSSIA + EX-SSRS], + launch anti-US "People's War" guerilla campaigns agz occupying US = US-Allied forces inside Iran.
DITTO PAKISTAN EXCEPT PAKISTAN WILL HAVE BOTH RUSSIA, + BFF CHINA.

Lets not fergit that whole Iran Mad Mullahs' threat to "nuke their own country/soil to defeat the Zionist-Crusader Invader Occupier US" thingy.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/19/2011 23:42 Comments || Top||

#6  PAK COAS Gen. Kayani's statement has also been ascribed as meaning a de facto US war agz Pakistan will be 10X harder for the US than as agz Iraq or Afghanistan, since Pak is already an established nuclear power.



ION KAYANI + OTHER ...

* PAKISTAN DEFENCE FORUM > KAYANI SAYS PAKISTAN DOES NEED US [military] AID [anymore], WARNS AGZ UNILATERAL ACTION, espec by the US agz Pakistan.

* SAME > GENERAL KAYANI: PAKISTAN SOVEREIGNTY TO BE PROTECTED AT ALL COSTS.

* SAME > YOUTUBE [Geo TV]: KAYANI THREATENS US, FLEXES NUCLEAR MUSCLE.

* SAME > KAYANI: PAK ARMY ORDERED TO FORCEFULLY RESIST ANY MILITANT OR FOREIGN-LED INCURSION FROM AFGHANISTAN.

* SAME > KAYANI: PAKISTAN NOT USING HAQQANIS TO WAGE PROXY WAR AGZ AFGHANISTAN.

* SAME > PAKISTAN AWAITS US NOD ON [new] RULES OF ENGAGEMENT.

* SAME > MINSTER SAYS KAYANI WAS ASKED TO STAGE A COUP, agz President Zardari by an "important Western Power".

["TWILIGHT ZONE" anthem here].


versus

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US SHELTERING MULLAH FM
[M. Fazlullah - Chief, Swat Taliban] + TTP TERRORISTS, in Afghanistan.

* SAME > NATO VIOLATED PAKISTANI AIRSPACE IN BALOCHISTAN [Qila Abdullah region]: ANP.

ANP = Awami National Party.

* SAME > PAKISTAN LOST TWO [full] BRIGADES IN WAR ON TERROR., to include 1 ea. 3-Star + 2 ea. 2-Star ranking Generals.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/20/2011 0:05 Comments || Top||


Afghans, Nato launch 'new push against Haqqanis'
[Dawn] Afghan cops and their NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
allies have launched a new push against the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network along the troubled Pak border, senior defence officials said on Tuesday.

The United States recently accused the Haqqanis of orchestrating a 19-hour siege of the US embassy in Kabul, a September truck bombing on a NATO outpost that maimed 77 Americans and a June attack on Kabul's InterContinental hotel.

US commanders say the network, a faction of the Afghan Taliban, is their most potent enemy in eastern Afghanistan and increasingly capable of launching high-profile attacks in Kabul.

Afghan Defence minister Abdul Rahim Wardak said operation "Knife Edge" was launched two days ago, while a senior defence ministry official said it was "largely against the Haqqani network".

Washington last month dramatically escalated pressure on Pakistain to crackdown on the Haqqani network, with the then military chief Admiral Mike Mullen accusing Pak intelligence of involvement in the embassy siege.

The accusations caused damaging diplomatic rifts as the West seeks to end the 10-year war in Afghanistan.

The Afghan ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, said the operation was tied to the recent spats between Washington and Islamabad, but gave no details about its scale.

A NATO front man confirmed only that "enhanced official operations" were ongoing in the eastern region that borders Pakistain, but offered no further details for security reasons.

Speaking to news hounds ahead of a weaponry exhibition in Kabul, Wardak said the operation would "deliver a crashing blow to the enemy's capabilities to conduct operations, especially terrorist operations during the winter".

"This operation is launched along the border because the enemy lately operates along the border on both sides. Sometimes on this side and sometimes on the other side," said the Afghan chief of army staff, Sher Mohammad Karimi.

On Monday, the Pentagon said cross-border attacks emanating from Pakistain against US-led forces in Afghanistan have increased since US troops killed the late Osama bin Laden
... who no longer has to waste time and energy breathing...
near Islamabad last May.

US soldiers in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
province told the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
that rocket fire had dramatically increased from Pak territory.

There were at least 102 "close-border" attacks against three US outposts in Paktika since May, compared to 13 during the same period last year, it said.

Afghanistan and Pakistain have for months traded accusations of responsibility for deadly attacks across both sides of the border.

Afghanistan is building up its national security forces, including a 193,000-strong army, trained and equipped mostly by the United States, which has around 100,000 troops in the country fighting the Taliban-led insurgency.
Posted by: Fred || 10/19/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


Dozens of Militants Killed in Kunar Offensive
[Tolo News] More than 100 forces of Evil have been killed by foreign troops in an operation in eastern Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral...
during the past week, Isaf said.

The operation to clear forces of Evil was conducted in Ghazi district of the province. Three local commanders and 115 other fighters were killed, according to Isaf.

Kunar's governor, Fazlullah Wahidi, said the operation would bring peace to the province.

Kunar shares a border with Pakistain and recently forces of Evil have been active in the province, targeting local Afghan officials and police check points.

The operation coincides with reports saying that the United States has deployed hundreds of troops along the Afghanistan-Pakistain border.

Nearly 500 soldiers have been moved to the region bordering Pakistain's North Wazoo tribal area, a senior Pak government official said.

The official added that the motive behind the shift was as yet unknown, but that the deployment could be part of a military drill to later launch a ground assault against the Taliban-allied Haqqani network of cut-thoats.
Posted by: Fred || 10/19/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


US forces 'massing on Afghanistan-Pakistan border'
The scale of the American build-up, including helicopter gunships, heavy artillery and hundreds of American and Afghan troops, caused panic in north Waziristan where tribal militias who feared they could be targeted gathered in the capital Miranshah to coordinate their response.

Local officials in the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) warned that Pakistan's armed forces would repel any incursion across the border by American forces, but military sources in Islamabad and Afghan officials suggested the build-up was part of a coordinated operation.

Relations between Washington and Islamabad have deteriorated dramatically in recent months as American officials increased pressure on Pakistan to launch an offensive against the Haqqani Network, which mounts attacks on Nato forces in Afghanistan from bases in North Waziristan.

Islamabad has fiercely resisted American pressure, claiming its forces are overstretched and stating its priority is to fight Taliban factions which have declared war on Pakistan, rather than those, like the Haqqanis, who focus on cross-border attacks on Nato forces.

According to Pakistan Army sources, the U.S had informed Islamabad about the planned build-up and described it as part of a "cordon and search operation" in which Haqqani Network fighters will be pushed over the Afghan border from North Waziristan and then "encircled, arrested or killed" by American forces lying in wait.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 10/19/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'd like to vote for "killed".
Posted by: gorb || 10/19/2011 0:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes, use that swarm technique to overpower them and learn their logistics. This has now become a containment game.
Posted by: newc || 10/19/2011 0:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Also remember that Pakistan is massing troops on that border too.
Posted by: newc || 10/19/2011 0:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Pff...plenty more to replace casualties. Pakistan is nothing if not stuffed full of unnecessary young men with zero future.
Posted by: gromky || 10/19/2011 3:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Practically speaking, now with a more than half the population of the US. 187 million in 2011, CIA estimate.

On the plus side, only 15.5% are Pushtun, the most ornery of the lot.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 10/19/2011 8:09 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Suicide car bomb rattles Mog, kills 4
MOGADISHU, Somalia: A suicide car bomb exploded near Somalia’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday, killing at least four people even as Somali and Kenyan leaders met and agreed to cooperate on military action against Islamist insurgents.

The blast rattled central Mogadishu and killed at least three passers-by and the suicide bomber, said police official Ali Hassan. Six people were wounded and taken to the hospital, he said.

The explosion did not damage the ministry building but did tear down a stone wall in front of it. Hundreds of on-lookers gathered to see the demolished car scattered across the road. Several body parts littered the street.

“The car bomb blew up among people and cars passing down the street. I don’t know if his target was the civilians, but thanks to Allah the loss was not so big,” said Mohamed Nor Siyaed, an eyewitness.
Posted by: Steve White || 10/19/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
Libyans push into Qaddafi hometown from east
SIRTE: About 1,000 Libyan revolutionary troops launched a major assault on Muammar Qaddafi’s hometown on Tuesday, surging from the east to try to capture the last area under loyalist control.

Revolutionary fighters have been locked in battle in Sirte and suffering heavy casualties after launching what they said would be an all-out final assault on Oct. 7. Libyan fighters have squeezed the diehard Qaddafi supporters into an area comprising just a few blocks but have been unable to gain full control of the city.

The push to rout the remaining resistance from Sirte came a day after commanders announced they had captured most of a second stronghold, Bani Walid. While welcoming successes in Bani Walid, Libya’s new leaders have said they would only declare liberation after the fall of Sirte, which would have symbolic value as well as give them control of the country’s ports and harbors.

Fighters who have been besieging Bani Walid, 90 miles (140 kilometers) southeast of Tripoli, for weeks have finally gained control of the city center, which was deserted on Tuesday. Buildings were pockmarked from bullets and rocket fire. The only doctors in the main hospital were foreigners. A revolutionary commander on the scene, Ali Abdel-Rahman, said fighters were able to gain control over Bani Walid on Sunday evening after receiving much-needed ammunition and supplies the day before. He said they faced little resistance, although three revolutionary fighters were killed.

“We didn’t find a regular army but only loyalists of Qaddafi, snipers with automatic weapons,” he said. “Some of the Qaddafi brigades took off their uniforms and vanished.”

He said even families had fled the area. “There was a widespread perception that there would be a massacre here and pools of blood, but on the contrary, it was very bloodless, swift and with no resistance.”

That has been the pattern throughout the eight month conflict that began as an uprising against Qaddafi’s repressive rule of nearly 42 years. His opponents have frequently faced fierce resistance from within cities only to find the areas largely abandoned after they enter, raising the prospect that Qaddafi’s supporters could flee and wage an insurgency.

The longtime leader has been on the run since Tripoli fell in late August and he has issued several audio recordings trying to rally supporters from his hiding place.

There also have been reports of looting as revolutionary forces closed in on the two areas that have waged the fiercest resistance.

Abdel-Rahman said field commanders were meeting to try to find a solution to the problem in Bani Walid, including the possibility of sealing off all the gates to the city. He insisted the fighters who liberated Bani Walid were not to blame but said some who came later to comb the area were stealing goods from houses.

“The fighters who liberated Bani Walid are not the ones who looted the houses, but the fighters who came later on to comb the area. They stole and looted from houses,” he said.
Looting a liberated city. Boy that's never happened before in the annals of warfare...
Posted by: Steve White || 10/19/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
Islamic fundamentalists kill Borno lawmaker
[Nigerian Tribune] BORNO State, again, boiled on Sunday evening, when suspected Islamic fundamentalists reportedly rubbed out a politician representing Konduga constituency in the state House of Assembly, Alhaji Modu Bitumbe.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that the dear departed was killed in front of his house while relaxing, at Gomari area of Maiduguri.

The development threw the vicinity into confusion, as people scampered for safety.

Both the police and the military task force deployed to end unrest in the state confirmed the killing of the politician.

The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Simeon Midenda, while confir-ming the incident, said "the pattern of the killing is similar to the Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or Big Louie...
attack."

Also, Colonel Victor Ehhaleme, the head of operations of military task force, confirmed the killing.

Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed this guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread...
the remains of Alhaji Bitumbe was buried on Monday at Maiduguri Central burial ground.

The funeral ceremony was attended by dignitaries, including the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Alhaji Modu Goni, who led other members of the legislature.

Bitumbe was elected into the legislature on the ticket of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last April election and was, until his death, the chairman of the House Committee on Information.
Posted by: Fred || 10/19/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram

#1  I'm sure it was in accordance with Sharia law.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/19/2011 4:34 Comments || Top||

#2  It's a religious obligation, y'know.
Posted by: Fred || 10/19/2011 10:43 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Five Shot Dead in Sanaa Protests
[An Nahar] At least five protesters were killed and dozens maimed on Tuesday as gunnies loyal to President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower...
shot up demonstrators in the Yemeni capital, an Agence La Belle France Presse journalist and medics said.

The bodies of two demonstrators were taken earlier to a makeshift hospital in Change Square, where anti-Saleh protesters have camped out, an AFP photographer said. Dozens of demonstrators were maimed or hurt by tear gas.

A medic said the corpse count at the field clinic had risen to four.

Another dead protester was taken to the Republican government hospital, along with four others maimed, including one at death's door, a medic there said.

Demonstrators came under fire from gunnies and police in Ziraa Street as they marched from Change Square to Al-Qaa neighborhood, which is controlled by Saleh loyalists, witnesses said.

Armed men loyal to Saleh had erected tents in the street to block the march. The protesters came under attack after passing the tents towards Al-Qaa, a district where government buildings are located.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/19/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Cease Fire in Yemen Capital
[Yemen Post] In statement issued to the press the Information Committee for the Army of the Revolution announced this evening that it had reached a truce with the government, as both parties agreed to stop the bloodshed in Hasaba district of the capital.

For the past 4 consecutive days, Hasaba had been subjected to intense bombings from the government forces as president Saleh is believed to want to destroy Sheikh Sadeeq al-Ahmar defenses in this northern district of the capital to better re-assert his hold over the capital.

On another related matter, sources within the Defense Minister announced that the government has ordered defected General Mohsen Ali Mohsen to withdraw all his troops, without exception, from the capital, Sana'a, adding that the 1st Armored Division should retreat some 200 kilometers away or war would ensue.
Posted by: Fred || 10/19/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
Death toll at Vallecillo rises to 25
exclusive from RantburgFor a map, click here. For a map of Nuevo Leon, click here. Additional information from Nota Roja

By Chris Covert

The death toll in a series of encounters between Mexican security forces and criminal drug gangs nearly tripled as 25 were killed in and near Vallecillo in Nuevo Leon, according to Mexican news reports.
To read Rantburg reports on the fighting in Vallecillo, Nuevo Leon, click here
The death toll for the weekend fighting included one Mexican soldier and two Policia Federal agents.

Reports say an additional eight armed suspects died Sunday probably during search operations by security forces following an early Saturday morning raid of a villa. Another five were killed Saturday during the series of firefights at a "narcoranch", now identified as El Rancho San Javier, along with the additional deaths of Mexican security personnel.

Mexican news reports say the ranch was used as a training and supply center for Los Zetas.

A total of 37 individuals have been killed in and around Vallecillo since October 7th, when the first of the encounters took place. The deaths included 31 armed suspects and six security operatives.
To read Rantburg reports on the initial encounter at Vallecillo, click here.
Vallecillo has suffered an increase in drug gang violence since October 14th when one leader of Los Zetas cartel, Jose Andres Mireles Quiroz, AKA El Chabelo, was detained last Friday. Reports are shootings in the area increased during that time.

In an unrelated shooting, three members of an unidentified family travelling aboard a minivan were shot to death on a remote Paras-Agualeguas road 11 kilometers south of Paras when armed suspects attempted to hijack the vehicle. Paras is 30 kilometers east southeast of Vallecillo on Nuevo Leon State Highway 2, near the Tamaulipas border.

The town clerk of Vallecillo was quoted by Milenio as saying criminal gangs have been appearing in and around the town for five months, and despite repeated efforts to inform state authorities, nothing had been done until last week.

Milenio also reported Monday that only four municipal police agents were left at Vallecillo, since three had resigned in the face of violence. Patrols by as many as 10 Nuevo Leon state police agents were increased in the area just prior to the last series of encounters.

Vallecillo, with a population in the of less than 2,500 inhabitants, is approximately 20 kilometers northeast of Sabina Hidalgo, Nuevo Leon. The town sits astride Mexican Federal Highway 85 that goes from Sabinas Hidalgo to Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas.

Nuevo Laredo is Los Zetas' only uncontested border crossing into Texas and the US. The area immediately north of Sabinas Hidalgo and north of Monclova, Coahuila is also known as Los Zetas territory, and is where numerous seizures by Mexican military forces of caches of weapons and munitions, as well as drugs awaiting transshipment into the US have taken place in recent weeks.

Security forces near Vallecillo Sunday seized five rifles, one handgun, eight 40mm grenades, 79 pairs of boots, 2,001 rounds of ammunition, personal quantities of marijuana and cocaine, two cell phones, and two vehicles.

An unidentified official with the Nuevo Leon Agencia Estatal de Investigaciones (AEI) hinted Tuesday that the area around Vallecillos may contain a number of graves of victims.
Posted by: badanov || 10/19/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Tajikistan says 7 fugitives caught in Afghanistan
[Hurriyet Daily News] Tajikistan's state security service says seven of the 25 prisoners who decamped in a brazen jailbreak in August have been recaptured in neighboring Afghanistan.

National State Security Committee front man Nozirdzhon Buriyev said Monday that among the captured runaways are two Tajiks convicted on charges that included attempting to violently overthrow the government and three Afghan citizens incarcerated for arms trafficking and murder.

The violent breakout this summer dealt an embarrassing blow to the Central Asian nation's government that has faced what it called an Islamist insurgency. This weekend's arrests bring the tally of runaways killed or recaptured up to 17.
Posted by: Fred || 10/19/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan


The Grand Turk
Kurdish rebels kill 24 Turkish soldiers
Kurdish guerrillas killed 24 Turkish soldiers in an assault on military posts in southeastern Turkey early on Wednesday. Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants opened fire with automatic rifles on a military post at Cukurca in Hakkari province, on the Iraqi border. Several places are reported to have come under attack.

Gov. Muammer Turker confirmed the attacks, but gave no information on casualties. NTV television said as many as 24 security force members were killed.

The rebels have intensified their attacks in recent times, killing dozens of members of the country's security force and at least 17 civilians since mid-July.
Posted by: ryuge || 10/19/2011 02:54 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tsk, tsk, tsk.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/19/2011 4:32 Comments || Top||

#2  If correct, this is the most successful PKK attack on Turkish troops since 2008.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 10/19/2011 11:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Turkey responds by sending troops into Iraq & air strikes.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/19/2011 13:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Turkish losses now 26 repor killed, 18 wounded.

Meanwhile, ERDOGAN = has retaliated by sending Turkish mil airpower, ground units, + elite commandos agz PKK enclaves in Iraq. TURKISH OFFICIALS ARE CLAIMING UP TO 15 PKK MILITANTS HAVE BEEN KILLED???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/19/2011 22:03 Comments || Top||


'Plane carrying 11 Palestinian prisoners lands in Turkey'
Turkish FM says inmates' crimes erased as a result of exchange for kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, denies claims prisoners may post threat to Turkey, 'Today's Zaman' reports.
You wanted 'em, you got 'em. Do enjoy the result
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/19/2011 00:12 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Any chance they can slip this POS on board with them.
Posted by: tipper || 10/19/2011 11:25 Comments || Top||

#2  despite his bid to remain in the country with his wife and eight children
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/19/2011 12:09 Comments || Top||


At least eight killed in Bitlis bomb attack
[Hurriyet Daily News] Five coppers and three civilians died today in Güroymak district of the southeastern province Bitlis in a suspected roadside kaboom.

A bomb that was planted in a manhole went off while a police vehicle was passing, just outside Güroymak, security sources said.

Bitlis Gov. Nurettin Yılmaz told news hounds in the eastern city that five coppers and three non-combatants were killed in the kaboom, which was caused by a remote-controlled bomb. "Four other people were maimed and are now receiving treatment at the Bitlis State Hospital," he said.

Security sources said the main suspects in the attack were cut-throats from the outlawed Kurditan Workers' Party (PKK). The PKK has increased its attacks in recent months, namely against the police and civilian targets.

A 2-year-old girl and her father were among the civilian victims. They were travelling in a van behind a police car, according to reports. Eyewitnesses said a large hole was formed in the spot where the bomb went off. Several people were taken to the hospital, including coppers. Security forces launched a large-scale operation in the region.

President Abdullah Gül called Gov. Yılmaz to obtain information on the terror attack, Anatolia news agency reported.
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PKK suspected in deadly blast
ANKARA: A land mine explosion killed five police officers and three civilians in Turkey on Tuesday, in an attack that security sources blamed on Kurdish terrorists rebels.

The mine, planted on a rural road in a village near the Guroymak district of Bitlis province in the mainly Kurdish southeast, was detonated by remote control as a police car was passing by, the Anatolia news agency quoted governor Nurettin Yilmaz as saying.

The death toll rose to eight when one of the four who were injured died at a hospital, the governor told the agency. A two-year-old girl was among the dead. The remaining three who were injured were at the intensive care unit, said the governor.

Security forces combed the area in search of the terrorists assailants, believed to be members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The terrorists rebels have lately intensified their attacks in a war for autonomy in the country’s Kurdish-dominated southeast, killing dozens of members of the country’s security force and at least 17 civilians since mid-July.

Land mine attacks by suspected PKK terrorists guerrillas have become common in Turkey’s eastern and southeastern provinces.
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Home Front: WoT
LA to KC Flight Disrupter Screaming Jihadi Death Threats
Somewhere in the heavens above Amarillo, angry shouts rang out from the back of Southwest Airlines Flight 3683.

"You're all going to die," a man dressed in black screamed at passengers Tuesday afternoon. "You're all going to hell. Allahu Akbar," translated as God is great in Arabic.

Federal authorities arrested Ali Reza Shahsavari, 29, of Indialantic, Fla., onboard the Boeing 737 after pilots made an emergency landing at Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport at 3:30 p.m. He is being held in the Randall County jail on a federal charge of interfering with a flight crew.
Note that the name is Persian...
None of the 136 passengers and five crew members on the flight from Los Angeles to Kansas City was hurt, said Brad Hawkins, spokesman for Dallas-based Southwest.

Police said the incident began with Shahsavari arguing with another passenger. The flight crew separated the men, said Amarillo police Cpl. Jerry Neufeld.

Shahsavari went into a bathroom and yelled obscenities from the rear of the plane, said passenger Doug Oerding, of Sacramento, Calif. Attendants tried to calm Shahsavari before a female flight attendant finally succeeded in quieting him. Oerding said.

As the tension mounted, the aircraft began to gain speed and descend, Oerding said. The slender Navy veteran said he put his shoes back on in preparation to act.

"All of us guys were looking at him like, 'Are we going to have to do something?'" Oerding said after finishing a cigarette outside the Amarillo terminal while waiting to reboard the plane.
A pack, not a herd...
Amarillo Aviation Director Patrick Rhodes said an emergency call was placed about 3:30 p.m. to the control tower at Rick Husband. The caller initially reported a male passenger was attempting to break into the cockpit, Rhodes said. Amarillo police said the call came from the cockpit.

"He was being disruptive and unruly on the flight, but he was not specifically trying to break into the cockpit," Rhodes said.

When the plane reached a gate at the airport, police boarded it and arrested Shahsavari without incident, Neufeld said.

"He was waiting at the door when we went in," Neufeld said. "He cooperated with officers."

FBI Special Agent Mark White, based in Dallas, said the event did not appear to be an act of terrorism. He described Shahsavari as a U.S. citizen who might have experienced an episode of mental illness.
That's some great FBI deduction at work, there, Agent White. Were you able to determine if he was a Muslim or not?
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#1  There was a weird incident in San Antonio this am with 5 characters id'd as 'Muslim'. I submitted an article.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/19/2011 13:16 Comments || Top||

#2  It's published, Anguper Hupomosing9418. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/19/2011 13:29 Comments || Top||

#3  “All of us guys were looking at him like, ‘Are we going to have get to do something?’”

Fixed if for ya, Doug. No charge.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 10/19/2011 13:39 Comments || Top||

#4  “All of us guys were looking at him like, ‘Are we going to have to do something?’” You mean like throw him off the plane at 30,000 feet?
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/19/2011 14:27 Comments || Top||

#5  one is sure that the FBI and DHS are readying a statement that this has nothing to do with terrorism.
Posted by: abu do you love || 10/19/2011 14:50 Comments || Top||

#6  as in that it their first priority before investigation of the facts at all.
Posted by: abu do you love || 10/19/2011 15:09 Comments || Top||

#7  "He fell down. Thirty-five times."
Posted by: mojo || 10/19/2011 17:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Has big sis blamed it on TEA partiers yet?

Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/19/2011 18:37 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Lashkar seeks food after peace in Mohmand
[Dawn] Head of aman lashkar (peace body) of Mohmand
... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
Malik Sultan on Monday expressed concern
...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended...
about food shortage and closure of educational institutions in the militancy-hit tribal agency and demanded the intervention of the
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
governor and international donor organizations for corrective measures.

Mr Sultan told a news conference here at the press club that houses, fields, tube-wells, livestock and public facilities stood destroyed in the agency due to militancy with the locals struggling to earn livelihood for their families.

He said lawlessness ruined businesses, educational institutions and health facilities to the misery of the families majority of which had returned after remaining away for quite some time.

To a question, the head of the aman lashkar said livestock, which was a major source of income in the agency, was destroyed, adding that the people had been leading miserable life in damaged houses with no resources at their disposal.

He said farmers wanted to live a life they had spent before the arrival of cut-throats but were too poor to buy seeds and fertilizers to grow crops.

Mr Sultan said over 2,000 families of Khwaizai and Baizai localities had already returned to their respective villages but the remaining were reluctant to move back to their homes due to fear of starvation in absence of food in adequate supply.

Appreciating Pakistain Army for launching operation against cut-throats and flushing them out of the agency, he said the tribal people, especially those living in Mohmand agency, saluted soldiers for making the tribal area peaceful.

To anther query, the head of the aman lashkar said only 25 people from Baizai area and 10 from Khwaizai tribes supported Death Eaters, while none of Mohmand rustics supported the myrmidons.

He demanded provision of funds, seeds and fertilizer to locals so that they could rebuild their destroyed houses and cultivate crops to meet both ends.
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Army being deployed in Kurram today
[Dawn] Army troops will begin deployment in Parachinar, the headquarters of Kurram Agency
...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
, and its surroundings from Tuesday (today), official sources say.

This follows an undertaking given by the tribal elders and other stakeholders to abide by the Murree Agreement that rival factions of Kurram Agency had signed in October 2008.

Mosques in the area announced on Monday that troops would start patrolling the town from Tuesday. Residents were cautioned not to carry or display arms in public and cooperate with the security forces. They were told to carry their national identity cards with them when going out.Elders of various tribes again signed the Murree peace deal in Parachinar on Oct 9, 2011. Members of the jirga who are facilitating peace talks and bigwigs had also witnessed the ceremony.

Residents said that several checkpoints were being established in and outside the town having a population of over 40,000. They said that Parachinar city was being sealed from all sides.

Concerned officials in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar expressed ignorance about the proposed movement of troops in the volatile valley. Sources said that after Parachinar the army and paramilitary forces would be deployed along Thall-Parachinar Road to make the highway secure for passengers traveling between Kurram and Peshawar that had remained unsafe since November 2007.

Security forces completed operation against bully boyz in central Kurram in August last and return of internally displaced persons to their area had been started.

In another significant development, security forces placed in long-term storage several 'important' persons from different parts of Kurram Agency and Peshawar during the last couple of days.

Official sources said that Syed Kazim was placed in long-term storage from Parachinar while Shamsur Rehman, a close associate of Commander Fazal Saeed Haqqani, was picked up from Bagun, lower Kurram, last week. Four other unidentified persons had been placed in long-term storage from different areas of lower Kurram.

Sources said that secret agencies picked up Eid Nazar, an important character behind the unrest in Kurram, from Peshawar a few days back. Police did not confirm his arrest. These sources said that the placed in long-term storage persons had been shifted to Kohat for interrogation.

Meanwhile,
...back at the hoedown, Bob finally got to dance with Sally...
the political administration placed in long-term storage 35 residents from Chappari in connection with kidnapping of two paramilitary soldiers.

Officials said that residents had been placed in long-term storage under the territorial responsibility clause of the Frontier Crimes Regulation.
Two soldiers were going from Thall garrison to their base in Alizai when gunnies kidnapped them from the main road last week.
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Verdict reserved on transfer of Lakhvi trial
[Dawn] The Lahore High Court chief justice on Monday reserved verdict on a federal government's petition challenging court's jurisdiction to hear an application seeking transfer of trial proceedings against one of the Mumbai terrorist attacks accused Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi from Rawalpindi to Lahore.

The counsel for the federal government argued on Monday that the case against Lakhvi (petitioner) was registered at Islamabad, therefore, the Islamabad High Court had the jurisdiction to hear the transfer application.

Advocate Khwaja Sultan, on behalf of the petitioner, opposed the government's plea and argued that the IHC could only pass an order to the extent of Islamabad.

He said the Lahore High Court had a vast territorial jurisdiction and could transfer the case to anywhere in Punjab. After hearing both sides, the chief justice reserved the verdict.

Lakhvi, an activist of banned outfit Lashkar-i-Taiba, alleged the trial was not being conducted fairly and the trial court (anti-terrorism court) was also being influenced by the government.

He also made security reasons as one of the grounds taken for the transfer of trial proceedings from Rawalpindi to Lahore.
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'Sectarian' attack in Lyari leaves man dead
[Dawn] A 45-year-old man was rubbed out by armed motorcyclists outside his house in Lyari while he was heading to work on Monday morning, police said.

The officials added that Akhtar Raza, son of Mehram Ali Sherazi, was killed at the same place where his brother, Anwer Raza, a bank manager, had been killed nine months back.

Resident of Qasr-i-Raza, the victim was an employee of the Pakistain Telecommunication Company Limited, a trustee of an Imambargah and an activist of the Pakistain People's Party, the police said.

Akhtar Raza was taking his cycle of violence out of the house when unidentified gunnies riding a cycle of violence arrived there and opened fire on him before speeding away, said an official at the Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
i cop shoppe.

The victim suffered multiple bullet wounds and was struck down in his prime, the official said, adding that the body was shifted to the civil hospital for medico-legal formalities.

Later in the evening, funeral prayers of the dear departed were offered at the Bara Imambargah Kharadar.

"The circumstances show that it was apparently a sectarian killing," said SSP South Naeem Ahmed Sheikh.

A few months back, the victim's brother, also an activist of a Shia organization, was killed in the same area, the SSP added.
Quoting eyewitness accounts, the police said that the victim was attacked by three assailants riding a cycle of violence.

The police Sherlocks collected 11 spent bullet casings of a 9mm pistol and four spent bullet casings of a TT pistol from the crime-scene.

The SSP said the victim suffered multiple bullets. The accurate number would be confirmed after the release of his post-mortem examination report, he said.

A Jaffaria Alliance front man said that the victim was the trustee of a mosque and an Imambargah, situated in Lyari. The victim's brother, who had been rubbed out earlier this year, was the Lyari town coordinator of the Jaffaria Alliance, the front man added.

Bloody Karachi Division PPP deputy information secretary Sohail Abdi said that Akhtar Raza was party's coordination secretary of PS-108.
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Southeast Asia
Filipino soldiers clash with rebels; 15 killed
MANILA: Philippine troops battled Muslim terrorists guerrillas in fierce fighting in a volatile southern province Tuesday that killed at least 15 combatants and left 10 soldiers missing, officials and rebels said.

Regional military spokesman Lt. Col. Randolph Cabangbang said the fighting erupted at dawn Tuesday near Al-Barka town on Basilan island when troops were investigating reports of terrorist rebel incursions, and that sporadic clashes continued late into the night in the remote region. At least 12 soldiers were killed and 11 wounded, and 10 others were missing, he said.

Moro Islamic Liberation Front spokesman Von Al Haq said at least three terrorists rebels were killed in the clash. He said government troops provoked the fighting by attacking the terrorists rebels in their Al-Barka stronghold in violation of an existing cease-fire.

Army troops shelled the terrorist rebel stronghold after the initial clash, trapping villagers in the fighting, he said.

Cabangbang said troops were deployed to check reports by villagers that a group of terrorists gunmen known to be holding kidnap victims had strayed areas close to their communities. He said the troops did not intrude into the terrorist rebel stronghold and were fired upon by the Moro terrorists rebels, prompting them to fight back, he said.

The gunmen were led by a terrorist commander identified as Dan Laksaw Asnawi, who escaped from a Basilan jail in 2009 with 30 other terrorists inmates. Asnawi was detained for his alleged involvement in the beheading of 14 marines during a 2007 clash in Al-Barka, Cabangbang said.

“When we’re running after a terrorist criminal and get near their area, they cannot just kill our soldiers,” Cabangbang told The Associated Press by telephone.
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Policeman, local official gunned down in southern Thailand
Seven gunmen opened fire on three policemen who were investigating a murder at a shrimp farm in Pattani province, killing one of them. The attack left Pol Sub/Lt Wit Sitthitrakul, 56, deputy inspector of Panare station, dead. Pol Snr Sgt-Maj Maroseh Muha, 39, received a gunshot wound to his ear, while Pol Snr Sgt-Maj Anan Jehma, 40, was shot in the chest.

The three officers were inspecting a shrimp farm owned by Atikorn Ungrangsi, who was gunned down on Oct 13, when a black pickup truck pulled up and the men in the back opened fire. Pol Sub/Lt Wit was killed immediately. The two other officers briefly took part in a firefight with the gunmen who retreated and abandoned their truck about 1 km away.

Checkpoints were set up to track down the attackers, who stole a car to escape. Police found blood in the abandoned pickup and alerted hospitals to look out for anyone with gunshot wounds.

Meanwhile, in Narathiwat province, a former local official was gunned down yesterday morning shortly after leaving his oil palm plantation. Passadee Ramae, 50, an local official, was found dead with a gunshot wound to his head in his pickup truck. He was apparently shot while driving his truck, which careened into a roadside tree. Police retrieved two spent shell casings from an AKA assault rifle nearby.

Meanwhile, Fourth Army commander Lt Gen Udomchai Thammasaroraj came out to praise security forces for their coordination and urged them to continue efforts to restore peace and order in the area.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
4 Dead as Syrian Troops Launch 'Fiercest' Crackdown near Capital
[An Nahar] A Syrian rights group called on Tuesday for Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Trampler of Homs...
to be tried for "crimes against humanity" as troops reportedly mounted the fiercest raids in 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...
region of their seven-month crackdown on dissent.

Activists also reported that security forces rubbed out three people in the southern province of Daraa, cradle of the anti-regime protests that erupted in mid-March, and a fourth in the town of Qusayr on the Lebanese border.

On the political front, neighboring Turkey welcomed Syrian opposition leaders for their first formal talks as it strives to find an end to the bloodletting that has claimed more than 3,000 lives so far.

The Syrian League for the Defense of Human Rights blamed Assad for the deadly repression of dissent and said he should be "tried for crimes against humanity," in a statement received by Agence La Belle France Presse.

The watchdog said 3,482 people, including 212 children and 99 women, have been killed since mid-March and 4,232 maimed, adding that more than 191 deaths "were the result of torture in detention centers."

U.N. human rights
...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
chief Navi Pillay said at the weekend that more than 3,000 people, including 187 children, have been killed in the regime's crackdown.

She warned that Syria risked "a full-blown civil war."

In Tuesday's violence, three civilians were rubbed out and dozens maimed when security forces opened fire in the Daraa town of Herak, according to the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The Local Coordination Committees, an activist network spurring protests, said demonstrators had taken to the streets there to protest the arrest earlier Tuesday of a local holy man, Sheikh Wajih Kaddah, by pro-regime thugs.

The LCC reported tank fire and said electricity was cut throughout Herak.

The Observatory also reported that a sniper killed an intelligence officer in Idlib province bordering Turkey as armed resistance to the security forces spread, while search operations in the flashpoint central province of Homs killed one person and maimed 15 people.

Around the capital, "several towns were targeted by the fiercest security operations since the start of the revolution" the Observatory said.

"The army and the security services have imposed a complete blockade and snipers are posted on tower blocks," it added.

"Residents are being prevented from getting to their places of work or study and dozens of young people were set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock."

Troops also jugged 25 people in Daraa and 15 in the town of Saraqeb in Idlib province, the watchdog added.

In Homs province, troops killed one person in the town of Qusayr and maimed nine in villages during search operations for army deserters, the Observatory said.

"Convoys of armored cars crisscrossed the streets of Qusayr, firing on anything that moved and particularly at cycle of violences."

On Monday, the Observatory said troops killed 27 people, most of them civilians but some of them police, in Homs city.

In Ankara, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu received Syrian opposition leaders for their first formal talks and urged them to forge a united front in pursuit of a peaceful transition from Assad's iron-fisted rule, a Turkish diplomat said.

"Turkey advised the (Syrian National Council) to be unified and work together to proceed towards democratic and peaceful transition in Syria ... because the current situation cannot be sustained," the diplomat said.

The SNC, the largest and most representative Syrian opposition grouping, was founded in Istanbul at the end of August and numbers 140 members, half of them living in Syria.

Ankara had developed close ties with Assad's regime over the past decade but has expressed growing frustration with the president's failure to address popular demands for reform.

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