Last year, green-on-blue attacks accounted for 15% of Coalition deaths
According to reports several armed militants attacked a US military base in eastern Kapisa province of Afghanistan on Friday. The incident took place in Kapisa city and unconfirmed reports suggest that the armed men are Afghan national army and police officers. Or dressed as such; the Talibunnies are known to do that...
The assailant armed men are also equipped with Humvee armoured vehicles and modern military equipment and at least one US soldier has reportedly been killed following the clashes.
In the meantime a local government official speaking on the condition of anonymity said the incident took place while Afghan soldiers were leaving the military base and a verbal conflict started between US and Afghan soldiers. The source further added at least one US soldier and one Afghan soldier were killed during the clashes and no one else was injured.
NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) following a statement also confirmed the report and said, "Individuals wearing Afghan National Army uniforms turned their weapons against International Security Assistance Force members in eastern Afghanistan today, killing one ISAF-contracted civilian."
ISAF further added, "The incident is currently under investigation."
[TOLONEWS] A local Taliban leader named Biragh has been killed in a joint Afghan and 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... troops operation in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province, Isaf said Wednesday.
"An Afghan and coalition force killed a Taliban leader, Biragh, during a security operation in Marjeh district, Helmand province, yesterday," Isaf said in a statement.
Biragh was responsible for conducting improvised bomb and small arms attacks against security forces. He coordinated the activities of multiple fighters and played a crucial role in facilitating weapons to cut-throats throughout Helmand district, Isaf said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features. If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... a Taliban IED expert Mushtaq was also killed in a joint operation in the Kunduz district of northern Kunduz province on Tuesday, Isaf said.
"Mushtaq, also known as Azizullah or Khalid, was heavily involved in IED operations throughout Kunduz province. He personally carried out multiple IED attacks against Afghan and coalition forces, and distributed IEDs to fellow beturbanned goons," Isaf said.
An beturbanned goon was also killed in a joint operation and two others were maimed including a Taliban capo in a joint Afghan and Isaf raid in the Giro district of eastern Ghazni province, yesterday.
The Taliban capo exercised operational control over Taliban fighters in the area and was responsible for IED attacks against Afghan and coalition forces, Isaf said.
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[TOLONEWS] Violent festivities with Taliban Islamic fascistiin north-eastern Badakhshan province have killed at least 18 Afghan National Army soldiers, officials said Wednesday.
Another six ANA soldiers were maimed in the festivities.
"Sixteen Afghan National Army soldiers have been killed in the Warduj District of the province on Wednesday," provincial front man Abdul Maroof Rasikh told TOLOnews.
Two other the soldiers were killed on Tuesday in festivities with the Taliban, Rasikh added.
The deaths in Warduj happened when a supply convoy of Afghan soldiers was ambushed by Taliban Islamic fascistiand most of the soldiers were held hostage, Rasikh said.
"Negotiations using tribal elders as intermediaries were carried out and six of the soldiers were released alive, but another 16 were executed. The bodies were turned over to the authorities by the same elders" he said.
Six Taliban Islamic fascistiwere also killed in the festivities and eight others were maimed, he added.
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... other security officials said that the security forces had launched a clearing operation in the district to clear it of cut-thoats.
It was one of the single deadliest attacks on government soldiers by the Islamic fascistiin recent time.
Warduj district lies along the highway leading into the Wakhan Corridor, an area of very high mountains bordered by China and Pakistain, and one that is popular with foreign trekkers.
It comes a day after the Ministry of Interior said that 11 Taliban have been killed and 19 more injured in a joint Afghan cops operations across Afghanistan in the past 24 hours.
"In past 24 hours, Afghan National Police conducted several joint clearance operations with the cooperation of Afghan National Army, NDS and Coalition Forces to clean some of the areas from faceless myrmidons and enemies of peace and stability of Afghanistan," the MOI said in a statement on Tuesday.
The operations were done across Kandahar, Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , Laghman, Zabul, Paktiya, Uruzgan, Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces.
"During the same 24 hour period, Afghan National Police discovered and defused six different types of mines placed by enemies of Afghanistan for destructive activities in Nimroz, Kandahar, Faryab, Kunduz and Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... s," it added.
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[TOLONEWS] An apparent attempt to attack Islamic Unity Party leader and National Front member Mohammad Mohaqiq has left three civilians with injuries after a makeshift bomb went kaboom! near Mohaqiq's planned destination in western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province, officials said.
Mohaqiq was due to fly into Herat airport Thursday morning and meet National Front members at the stadium in Herat city.
At around 10:30, an improvised bomb (IED) hidden in a cycle of violencewent kaboom! near the stadium, injuring three civilians, according to provincial police chief Rahmatullah Safi.
Moments later, a second blast happened on the road to Herat airport in the area of Sar Jangal. The distance between the two blasts was about 10 kilometres.
According to Safi, the second kaboom -- which took place when a group of security forces were passing by -- caused no harm.
Both bombs happened around the time Mohaqiq was due to be in the area, however, his plane landed only after the kabooms occurred.
In a separate blast on Thursday, four children have been injured by an IED kaboom in Herat's north district Rubat Sangi, officials said.
No other details were available.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pool hall, Peoria Slim swung his cue at Hurley's head... a policeman has been rubbed out by a number of men in Rubat Zoori village of Herat's Shindand district.
Safi said that two suspicious men have been tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! for their link to the killing, but did not elaborate on the details.
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[An Nahar] A French-Malian citizen nabbed You have the right to remain silent... in November for allegedly seeking to join Islamist Islamic fascistiin Mali has been expelled to La Belle France where he will be held for questioning, a French judicial source said Thursday.
Ibrahim Aziz Ouattara, 25, was arrested on November 3 in central Mali on his way to join the Islamists, after allegedly entering Mali through Portugal under a false identity.
He faces potential terrorism charges in La Belle France.
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[An Nahar] Two Britons were kidnapped on Thursday by Bedouin rustics in Egypt's Sinai but released soon afterwards following negotiations with security officials, police chief Magdi Moussa told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"They have been released and are heading back to their place of accommodation," Moussa said.
The release follows "intense negotiations" between the kidnappers and security officials, he said.
The British husband and wife were kidnapped from a bank in a town as they headed towards the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, the official said.
The kidnappers told news hounds they were demanding the release of four people held over arms trafficking.
State television identified the pair as the head of a petrol company in Egypt and his wife.
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kidnapped from a bank in a town
New world 'mugging'.
[Libya Herald] Several hundred gunnies stormed Alassema TV station this afternoon, Thursday, in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... 's Gurgi district, smashed the place up and kidnapped five members of staff including the channel's manager and its chief executive officer.
According to Rajab Ben Gazi, one of Alassema's presenters who was present during the attack those involved were a mix of revolutionaries, Islamists and civilians. "Some of them were shouting 'the blood of the deaders will not go in vain'. Others set fire to part of the building and destroyed a lot of the channel equipment," he said.
Another member of staff told the Libya Herald that some were dressed in uniform and others in civilian clothes. They accused the station of causing fitna -- dissension and discord.
The gunnies then seized channel manager Juma Usata and his secretary, Mohamed Atif, its executive director, Nabil Shaibani, and two Alassema presenters, Mohamed Huni and Mahmoud Sharkisi.
"They accused us of being linked to Mahmoud Jibril (the head of the National Force Alliance) and said that our manager, Juma Usta, is a Qadaffy loyalists because he worked as manager of a Chamber Commerce and Industry during the Qadaffy regime," Ben Gazi said.
"The gunnies were asking about the editors of the channel and who was the responsible for the news tickers," he added.
"They told me to leave Tripoli immediately and return to Misrata."
The gunnies later released Sharkisi, Huni and Atif. Sharkisi said that he had been treated respectfully and that no one touched or hurt him.
Usata and Shaibani are still missing.
Following the attack, a force from the Chief General Staff arrived to assess the situation to take necessary measures to secure the place and assess the damage.
There are allegations circulating in Tripoli this evening linking the attack to Tuesday's seizure of Congress members and the attempt to force them to pass the "Political Isolation Law" which would ban senior Qadaffy officials from office, and the shooting at Congress President Mohamed Magarief's car afterwards.
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[MAGHAREBIA] A blood-stained Tizi Ouzou court sentenced two cut-throats to 20 years in prison, El Moudjahid reported on Wednesday (March 6th). The defendants were convicted for the deadly 2007 attack on a blood-stained Tizi Ouzou bus station. They had previously been charged with the October 2006 murder of blood-stained Tizi Ouzou APW head Rabah Aissat.
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[MAGHAREBIA] In an effort to force passage of Libya's controversial "Political Isolation" law, some 500 protesters on Tuesday trapped politicians inside the Meteorological Institute near Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , Libya Herald reported on Wednesday (March 6th).
The General National Congress (GNC) members had moved to the Crimea site from their building near the Rixos hotel to avoid the confrontation, but the demonstrators had reportedly been tipped off about the change of venue.
Nasiriyah representative Juma Sayah was attacked and beaten as he tried to flee the premises, while GNC President Mohamed Magarief came under fire as he drove away from the building.
Bullets smashed the side windows of the president's vehicle but failed to penetrate a second internal glass shield. The car was also equipped with run-flat tyres.
"There was no security," said Union for Homeland leader Abdulrahman Sewehli.
The day-long standoff did not end in a vote on the bill, which would ban any former Qadaffy regime official from holding office.
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[News24] Pirates attacked an oil industry supply vessel in Nigerian waters this week and kidnapped three crew, security sources said on Thursday, in the latest attack off the coast of Africa's biggest crude producer.
The captain, chief engineer and second engineer were kidnapped on Monday when gunnies boarded the Malaysia-flagged Armada Tuah 22 about 90km off the coast of the Brass region in the Niger Delta, three security sources said.
One of the sailors kidnapped was Indonesian, the sources said. The vessel is a tugboat contracted to supply an offshore oil platform. Nigeria's navy front man gave no comment.
A fishing vessel, Orange 7, was attacked on March 2 in a similar position and one of the crew was killed, sources said.
There has been a surge in piracy attacks off the coast of Africa's most populous nation this year with gangs showing signs of moving further afield and using more violent tactics.
Oil majors Exxon Mobil and Shell said last month that security was a major factor in making Nigeria one of the most expensive oil-producing countries to operate in.
Oil and shipping companies have to hire crisis management teams, pay higher insurance premiums and face the prospect of ransom payments, as well as brace themselves for damage to their reputations.
The prime suspects for most attacks are Nigerian oil gangs, who already carry out industrial-scale theft of crude oil, known as 'bunkering', in the restive onshore Niger Delta swamplands.
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[Yemen Post] Yemeni security authorities thwarted on Wednesday an attempt to smuggle 9000 pills of Captagon drugs into Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face... , the interior ministry reported.
The stash was seized in the western port city of Hodeida and the main suspect Ali Abdullah Al-Sarhi, 29 years old, has been tossed in the slammer Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! , it said.
The pills were concealed inside boxes and a wedding dress which were put inside a parcel, it said, pointing out that the drugs were shipped onboard one of the buses of Bin Muammar Company for Land Transport.
Since the unrest started here in early 2011, the trade in drugs and weapons has thrived in Yemen, which observers say has become a transit hub and a good market for weapons and drugs in recent years.
The authorities have seized many stashes of drugs and several arms cargoes just as the country is struggling to return the situation to normal after the unrest.
Separately, unknown gunnies assassinated Wednesday a security officer in the eastern province of Hadramout ...the formerly independent Qu'aiti state and sultanate, annexed by Communist South Yemen in 1968, encompassing a region along the Gulf of Aden, extending eastwards to the borders of the Dhofar region of Oman. The people are called Hadhramis and speak Hadhrami Arabic. The city Tarimis estimated to contain the highest concentration of descendants of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI) anywhere in the world, approximately seven in every square yard... where many key military and coppers have been targeted since last year, the ministry said.
Yasir Muhammad Hamdain was rubbed out by criminal elements in the Qatn town in the Hadramout valley, it said, quoting a local security source as saying "the gunnies were onboard a pickup and bravely ran away before the authorities arrived at the killing site".
Hamdain worked for the supply department of the provincial security authority and a hunt has been launched for the perpetrators, it continued.
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[Bangla Daily Star] BNP politician Shammi Akhter and constable Sharifa Akhter lie on the street as BNP MP Asfia Ashrafi Papia rushes to her colleague's aid at Nayapaltan yesterday. During a scuffle inside the minivan in which they were being picked up by police, Shammi fell off the rolling vehicle and took the policewoman with her. The two, along with two other female BNP politicians, were tossed in the slammer Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! for nearly 9 hours by police. Photo: Star
Sporadic incidents of vandalism, arson, kabooms and festivities between activists of the BNP-led alliance and law enforcers marked yesterday's dawn-to-dusk shutdown by the 18-party combine.
Pro-hartal activists also clashed with ruling party men in three districts, leaving a Jubo League ... the youth wing of the Bangla Awami League... activist dead in Chapainawabganj.
The BNP-led alliance enforced the hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... to protest "the attacks on a BNP rally on Wednesday by police and armed ruling party men."
In Dhaka, police picked up four female BNP politicians -- Ashfia Ashrafi Papia, Shammi Akhter, Rasheda Begum Hira and Rehena Akhter Ranu -- in front of BNP's Nayapaltan office around 10:30am. The politicians were released around 7:30pm.
Pro-hartal pickets vandalised and torched vehicles, went kaboom! cocktails, and put barricades on roads in at least 12 districts during the shutdown. They also set fire to railway tracks in Comilla.
In the capital, they attacked and torched vehicles at Motijheel, near parliament, Shanir Akhra, Gopibagh and in front of Dhaka College.
In the early hours of the hartal, three journalists were maimed as they were caught in a clash between hartal supporters and anti-hartal activists at Basabo.
The injured were among other journalists present there to cover hartal, said police constable Ishak. He, however, could not give any details about the injured newsmen.
In Chapainawabganj, pro-hartal activists fought with ruling party men, leaving 26-year-old Abdur Rahman, a Jubo League activist, dead and 10 others injured at Poladanga in Bholahat upazila.
The pro-hartal pickets also set alight a fire service vehicle at Mushribhuza in the upazila.
Police and witnesses said BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... activists brought out a procession from Mushribhuza village around 10:30am in support of the hartal. When they reached Poladanga bazar, they attacked shops, and set fire to a warehouse and two cycle of violences.
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By Chris Covert
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A total of eight unidentified individuals were killed in fighting in Nuevo Laredo in Tamaulipas on Wednesday and Thursday, according to an official government news release.
The Tamaulipas state Procuraduria General de Justicia del Estado (PGJE), or attorney general released a statement Thursday evening which said that in several encounters in the city five individuals were also detained and seven were wounded in firefights, including two unidentified Tamaulipas state ministerial police agents.
At around 1822 hrs Wednesday, a gunfight took place between rival gangs near the intersection of calles Independencia and Comonfort in Viveros colony, where three unidentified men were found dead, two of them aboard a Volkswagen Jetta with a third nearby.
The same evening five unidentified individuals were killed and five others were wounded in an intergang firefight on Calle Pedro J. Mendez. According to the news release one unidentified woman in her 60s was found dead at the scene. Later a man in his 40s, a woman in her 20s and a minor youth died while receiving medical attention.
Thursday morning a police operation in a raid at a residence near the intersection of calle Bolivar and Riva Palacio in Juarez colony involving Tamaulipa state ministerial agents and local municipal police ended up with two unidentified ministerial agents wounded. A total of five suspects were detained.
The Procuraduria report said that evening a number of shooting incidents took place in Nuevo Laredo, and both Mexican Army and Policia Federal troops began to intensify patrols in the city.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
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I gotta guess that 8 killed overnight in a Mexican border town isn't really news. A gang hit and then retaliation against family members.
Unlike here, the fact that it even was reported IS news.
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Mexican Army units and Durango state police agents detained 21 suspected members of a kidnapping crew in the La Laguna region of Mexico, according to Mexican news accounts.
A news report which appeared on the website of Expreso news daily said that Durango state Fiscalia General del Estado (FGE) Sonia Yadira de la Garza Fragoso held a press conference announcing the arrests.
According to Fiscalia Garza Fragoso, the 21 suspects had operated throughout the La Laguna region including in Gomez Palacio, Ciudad Lerdo in Durango, and in Torreon in Coahuila. The crew was allegedly responsible for attacks on the businesses and home of Gomez Palacio mayor Rocio Rebollo.
The crew is also suspected for the kidnapping of two employees of El Siglo de Torreon newspaper, and for the murder of Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) candidate for mayor of Ciudad Lerdo, Mario Alberto Landeros Campero and his driver Cesar Almilkar Valenzuela Morales, both found dead Wednesday in Ciudad Lerdo.
Durango is currently involved in primary elections for state deputies and municipal elections to be held July 7th.
Perhaps more importantly, the crew is allegedly responsible for the murder of six traffic police agents in Gomez Palacio last week.
The detainees were identified as Julio Cesar Najera Rosales, 24, Luis Fernando Martinez, 30, Alonso Ivan Ormero, Federico Aguilar Chaidez, Ruben Hernandez, Julian Valles, Hector Gomez, Uriel Reyes, Sergio Resendiz, Jaime Ramirez, Luis Resendiz and Fernando Martinez.
Separately, Saul Garcia, Sergio Garcia, Ramiro Hernandez, Miriam Aguilar, Hilda Mejia, Dora Luz Rodriguez, Miriam Muñoz and two unidentified minors were also detained.
The arrests also including the taking of six rifles, three machines guns, seven handguns, five bulletproof vests, telephone equipment, four vehicles and personal quantities of marijuana and crystal methamphetamine.
The detentions are the first major mass arrests since 700 Mexican Army troops were moved into La Laguna last week. Last week an additional contingent of Policia Federal troops had also been deployed to the area.
The arrests come on the heels of another announcement by Fiscalia Garza Fragoso Tuesday which was reported on the online edition of El Siglo de Durango Wednesday, who told local press that more progress was taking place in security operations in the region.
Senora Garza Fragoso also said during the press conference that she was unaware the reasons why a Policia Federal troop contingent had been deployed to Durango city. This admission means that neither her office nor apparently the governor, Jorge Herrera Caldera had been consulted by federal officials about the new deployment.
The new Policia Federal deployment is in contrast with the past in which federal security officials have made a point of meeting with state and local officials to detail their security plans. But it is also a likely break with past practices in which state officials are to take greater responsibility for their own security strategies, that federal officials will be keeping their plans secret whenever they can.
Separately, the newly installed Durango state Secretaria de Seguridad Publica Estatal (SSPE) Roberto Flores Mier said Tuesday that police who fail the new confidence test would be given a second chance to take and pass the tests.
According to the report 4,232 local and state police agents statewide had taken confidence tests. According to a report by the outgoing SSPE, Jesus Antonio Rosso Olguin, on February 21st, roughly ten percent of the agents had failed the tests. Rosso Olguin was sacked the next day.
The timing of Rosso Olguin's report is interesting, although his departure was timed just one day after six La Laguna police agents were killed in a single evening in Gomez Palacio. Durango state officials have not elaborated the reasons why Rosso Olguin left.
At least one Durango politician has disputed that police agents who failed tests will be given a second change.
Durango city mayor Adam Ramirez Soria was quoted in a El Siglo de Durango story Thursday that while the national average for police who failed tests is about 15 percent the rate in his municipality is less than 10 percent. He said that contrary to the earlier statement by SSPE Flores Mier, police agents who fail tests will not be given second chances.
Nationwide Mexican state SSPEs are under increasing pressure by the new security strategy implemented by newly inaugurated President Enrique Pena to get local and state police agents certified by November. In January the Mexican national Secretaria de Gobernacion (SEGOB), or interior minister Miguel Osorio Chong, who is Pena's plenipotentiary in his new security plans has told SSPEs nationwide that every police agent will be certified by November or will out of work.
Meanwhile in Durango, the capital of Durango state an unidentified judge has delayed until March 23rd whether to continue detaining the 64 local police agents from Ciudad Lerdo and Gomez Palacio, according to a separate report posted on the website of El Siglo de Durango.
Seven weeks ago 159 local police agents were disarmed by the Mexican Army and detained, 64 of which were placed in preventative detention colloquially known as rooting. Past news reports do not make clear the length of the detention,. Typically, rooting requests are for 30 days or more.
Rooting is a legal tool used by Mexican prosecutors to place suspects in detention without charge or trial until an investigation is complete.
It is most commonly used with drug trafficking suspects but it has also been used against errant state government officials. The maneuver is meant to keep otherwise dangerous suspects from escaping until trial. Rooting also known as arraigo has been severely criticized in the past, but it is also a legal tool that can only be used with permission of a judge.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
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Security forces in Russia killed the leader of one of the rebel groups fighting to create an Islamist state in the North Caucasus and two other terrorists militants on Thursday, said Russia's anti-terrorism committee.
One law enforcement officer was killed and another injured in a gunfight with the terrorists militants in the Vedeno district. The dead leader, Adam Khushalayev, who had adopted the name Abu-Malik, had been wanted for over a decade, and had taken over as head of a insurgent group after its leaders were killed in January.
The leaders before him, the brothers Khuseyn and Muslim Gakayev, had been blamed for organizing several high-profile attacks, most recently a suicide bombing that killed four interior ministry soldiers last August.
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman held a press conference in Los Angeles today to announce that he is moving to North Korea.
I'll help him pack...
The eccentric sports icon explained that leader Kim Jong-Un has granted him an estate outside the capital Pyongyang and hired him to become the coach of the North Korean national basketball team.
Rodman plans to live in the totalitarian dictatorship part time until at least the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Brazil, for which the North Korea squad hopes to qualify for the first time.
The bizarre career change comes the week after Rodman returned from a surprise trip to North Korea, in which he became the first American to meet Kim Jong-Un and subsequently described him as a "friend".
After his announcement Rodman took questions from the assembled journalists, who were especially keen to inquire about his increasing engagement with a regime known for terrible human rights abuses.
"Yeah, I heard in the media that maybe he's killed thousands in death camps," Rodman explained,"But how do we know that's true? This is the same media that told us that Pol Pot and Stalin killed millions, and everyone knows that was just CIA propaganda right?
Oh yeah, right. Sure. I think I heard it that way in college...
"So I don't know anything about that. You can't believe what you hear in the media. He's always been real cool with me, so I'm cool with him, ya know?
"America puts people in jail too. Don't act like we're different just because we give them a trial and all that. That's some nonsense right there. Just some nonsense."
Asked about North Korea's prospects for qualifying for the basketball competition at the 2016 games, Rodman says he's optimistic about their chances.
"They got some good ball players over there, and they just need a little guidance. See that's what I'm all about. That's what the Olympics are all about. Trying to bring peace though sports.
"Maybe if Obama stopped all this CIA drone nonsense and started playing more basketball, we wouldn't be having all these problem
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Good satire, had to read it twice. There is a give-away line, but it was still within reach of something the admitted addict and star of the movie Double Team would say.
[Dawn] Unidentified armed persons thrashed a member of a polio vaccination team in Landi Kotal on Wednesday and threatened the health workers to stay away from anti-polio drive in the area.
Agency Surgeon Dr Samin told Dawn that a group of armed men intercepted four members of a vaccination team in Peerokhel area and started beating one of the health workers identified as Adnan Khan.
The armed persons also snatched kits from the vaccinators.
The health workers were also threatened to stop taking part in the vaccination campaign.
Health officials have constituted 125 teams to carry out the ongoing anti-polio campaign in Landi Kotal tehsil.
Health workers said that they were not provided Khasadar escort during the campaign.
The officials of the local administration visited the site of the incident while the Khasadar Force conducted a search operation in the area but no arrests were made.
Dr Samin said that vaccination campaign would continue in the area. He said that though the three-day campaign was completed but a 'catch-up day' would be observed to cover the missed children in some parts of Landi Kotal. The incident was the first of its kind in Landi Kotal.
A bomb blast had damaged a store where polio vaccines were kept at civil hospital in Jamrud on Tuesday. The blast also injured a lady health worker.
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When they catch this cretins they should put them in an iron lung for the rest of their miserable lives. Death is too kind for them.
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[Dawn] Rangers forces launched an intensive targeted operation in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... area on Thursday, hours after the severely tortured bodies of two paramilitary personnel were recovered from Mewa Shah Graveyard.
All entry and exit points of the restive area, marred by gang wars and drug mafias, were blocked as a large contingent of paramilitary personnel launched the operation against alleged criminals.
According to DawnNews, more than 12 people were also tossed in the clink Book 'im, Mahmoud! in the operation.
Rangers personnel also claimed to have freed at least three people held captive by criminals in the ongoing operation.
Earlier on Thursday, eight people, including two Rangers personnel, were killed in the violence-ridden city, police said.
The bodies of two Rangers personnel, bearing torture marks, were found from Mewa Shah Graveyard in Lyari.
Police said both personnel were severely tortured before being killed.
The victims belonged to the intelligence wing of Sindh Rangers and went missing since Wednesday while performing duty in Lyari.
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[Dawn] Twenty-five bully boyz have been killed as jet fighters on Thursday targeted orc hideouts in upper Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers...
Earlier in the morning a security forces convoy was targeted in Nadar Mela with an IED, which resulted in the death of one soldier while three others were maimed.
Assistant political agent Rafiq Mohmand told Dawn.Com that the orc stronghold of Gundai Mela in Mamozai has been taken over by security forces. Eight bully boyz were killed during the offensive.
He said that during air strikes in Inzar Mela, Jandri Kalle and Adu Khel area of Mamozai, four orc hideouts were destroyed while 12 bully boyz were also killed, adding "those killed are mostly affiliated with the TTP."
Five bully boyz were also killed in another clash.
Officials also believe that the fall of Gundai Mela to the security forces is a huge success due to the strategic location of the village.
The adjoining mountainous region, near the Dogar village 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... , is also a key weapon supply route for Orakzai orcs.
However security forces, after taking over key villages in the TTP stronghold of Mamozai, are not advancing to the areas bordering Kurram Agency and Tirah Valley.
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A man said to be an informant died in a hail of bullets in front of his house in Pattani's Panare district late on Wednesday night. The attack occurred about 11:30 p.m. at Ban Laem Paeng in tambon Ban Klang.
Saree Jeh-alee was arriving home after attending a religious class when gunmen hiding in nearby bushes opened fire at his car with M16 rifles. The car was riddled with bullet holes and Saree was hit multiple times. He died at the scene.
Documents found on his body showed that he acted as an informant for both the police and the military and had been arrested on drug charges in December last year.
[An Nahar] Malaysia said festivities between intruding Filipino cut-throats and its security forces had left 60 people dead as of late Thursday, as it rejected a ceasefire offer from the fighters' leader.
Police chief Ismail Omar said 32 followers of a self-proclaimed Philippine sultan had been killed in two confrontations since Wednesday near the scene of a three-week standoff in Sabah state, after a military assault to dislodge them.
That brought the total dead to 60, including 52 thugs. Eight Malaysian coppers were killed in skirmishes last weekend.
Troops and police are currently hunting the Islamic cut-throats in a remote region of Borneo island, where they landed last month to assert a long-dormant territorial claim in what has become Malaysia's worst security crisis in years.
A front man for their Manila-based leader, who called for a midday ceasefire, said 235 people including eight women took part in the original incursion.
Prime Minister Najib Razak, who flew to the region Thursday to inspect security operations, said he told Philippine leader Benigno Aquino by phone the ceasefire offer was rejected.
"I told President Aquino they must lay down their arms immediately," Najib told news hounds in a village near where the army and police were searching for scores of thugs.
"They have to surrender their arms and they have to do it as soon as possible."
The "sultan", Jamalul Kiram III, declared a unilateral ceasefire for 12:30 pm (0430 GMT) and urged Malaysia to reciprocate.
But Najib said Malaysian forces would press on with the offensive, sending more soldiers into the hilly region of vast oil palm estates and pockets of jungle.
Anger has mounted in Malaysia over the incursion, which began February 12 when fighters arrived from the southern Philippines to press Kiram's claim to the area.
Kiram says he is heir to the Sultanate of Sulu, which once ruled islands that are now part of the southern Philippines as well as Sabah.
The main group of cut-throats was holed up in the sleepy farming village of Tanduo for three weeks until two deadly shootouts with security forces at the weekend triggered a military assault to dislodge them.
The attack scattered the fighters and security forces were combing through huge oil palm groves for them.
U.N. Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... urged a peaceful resolution of the bizarre incursion.
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It's kind of weird how Third World countries like Malaysia that whine on and on about past colonial humiliations never fail to assert colonial-era boundaries.
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How do you eject invaders from your sovereign territory peacefully?
Mr. Moon has been breathing the silliness vapors from Oyster Bay too long he's lost touch with International Law. Every country has a right to use deadly force to defend their sovereign boundaries. Screw colonial boundaries...they are sovereign.
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no love for the Malays, but I'd kick their Sultanate ass into the sea as well
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If Malaysia goes all Islamic then you can kiss Indonesia good bye and maybe even Singapore. The Malays are okay by me and Penang and the Highlands are still spectacular.
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If Malaysia goes all Islamic
Malaysia is Islamist. They've got religious police running around enforcing Islamic law on Muslims. Neither Indonesia (with the exception of Aceh) nor the Philippines has this. And the reason is that Muslims in Malaysia are originally from Aceh, the source of the Islamic warriors who overran the original Hindu kingdoms of the region. If Spain hadn't conquered the PI when it did, there's a good chance that the archipelago now known as the Philippines would have some orthodox Islamic name today. And they are all Malays - the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia all have Austronesian roots.
Syrian warplanes bombarded the northeastern provincial capital of Raqqa for a second consecutive day on Wednesday, killing at least 39 people, opposition activists said.
The Local Coordination Committee, a grassroots activists organisation, said 17 people were killed in one raid alone, on a square in the city. Video footage showed fighters putting dismembered bodies in an ambulance.
Thousands of families, many of whom are already refugees from the neighbouring provinces of Aleppo and Deir Al Zor, have been fleeing Raqqa to surrounding countryside since it came under heavy aerial bombardment following an announcement by the opposition on Monday that it was captured, the sources said.
There were about 25 air raids on Raqqa today. The civilian population is being driven out, activist Abdallah Abu Gheith told Reuters by phone from Raqqa.
The poor, sandswept city, whose economy was devastated by a water crisis that hit grain and cotton production in the east before the revolt, is situated on the Euphrates River, 160 kms (100 miles) east of Syrias industrial and commercial hub of Aleppo.
Photographs taken by activists purportedly showed the education department building gutted by bombardment, and the body of a loyalist sniper they said was killed in a battle to take a military intelligence compound in the centre of the city.
Another activist working with refugees said most of the refugees have moved to the rural environs of Raqqa but lack of food and facilities there means they could soon head to Turkey, which already hosts many thousand Syrian refugees.
Opposition sources and residents said rebel fighters captured Raqqa on Monday and toppled a statue of President Bashar Al Assads father, in what would be the first major city to be captured since the revolt erupted against four decades of Assad family rule in March 2011.
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[Dawn] Rangers forces launched an intensive targeted operation in 
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