[An Nahar] A jacket wallahwent kaboom! Tuesday at the house of a Tuareg military leader in the northern Malian city of Kidal, witnesses and a military source said.
"The suicide bomber was waiting for someone in the (MNLA) colonel's house when he was caught by some youths and set off his bomb. He is dead and there is one person maimed," the military source told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Residents confirmed an attack on a house in the city, currently under the control of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), a Tuareg rebel group.
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A total of seven unidentified individuals were found dead in southern Tamaulipas state last week, according to Mexican news reports.
A news report which was posted on the online edition of Grupo Informador said the victims were found in three narcofosas, or burial pits in Abasolo municipality May 30th in Guadalupe ejido.
A unit of the Mexican 8th Military Zone located the graves last Wednesday. The victims had been dead for about a year. One of the dead was reportedly a woman.
Abasolo is roughly halfway between Ciudad Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas and San Fernando on Tamaulipas Highway 38.
Meanwhile in Ciudad Victoria, an intergang firefight has led to the securing of weapons and ammunition, according to Mexican news accounts.
A news account which appeared on the website of Milenio news daily said the gunfight took place Monday at around 1655 hrs near the intersection of Calle 5 Ceros and Bulevar Praxedis Balboa between armed suspects.
The news report said he shooters were in two vehicles, a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck and a compact sedan.
The gunfight took place in Horacio Teran colony and ended in Moderna colony. A Mexican Army road patrol located a GMC Acadia where weapons were found.
Two rifles and six weapons magazines as well as a quantity of ammunition were seized.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
The padlocks to hatches of an aqueduct outside of Boston that supplies drinking water to the metropolitan area were found cut Monday, leading to local concerns after there was a trespassing incident. Officials say the drinking water does not appear to have been tampered with.
Did the 'officials' stand there at the press conference and each drink a glass in front of the reporters?
The CBS affiliate is reporting the details, noting that three padlocks were cut from separate access hatches located at approximately half-mile intervals along the aqueduct. Police say there is evidence of an attempt to cut a fourth lock.
State Police are investigating, though they say there is no evidence of any crime other than vandalism.
Because lock-cutting at the local aqueduct is a high school graduation rite of passage, ya know...
The MWRA says it doesnt appear anyone tried to tamper with the water supply and there does not appear to be any contamination or changes in water quality.
Last month, State Police stepped up patrols at public water supplies after seven people were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir in Belchertown.
Seven people. Chemical engineering students, remember? From Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Singapore?
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One day they'll be holding a press conference under a mushroom cloud saying "now let's not be hasty about saying it's terrorism...."
Or worse, "we always admitted the nuking was terrorism. But we're sure it was just the work of a few lone wolves..."
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Here in a small town north of Atlanta, there was a break-in and tampering with disinfection chemicals about a month ago. 400 folks were told to boil water. My thought is, it'll take a LOT of something to impact Boston MWRA (unless it's something really nasty, then I'm hopeful of user error before it enters water supply), but why won't they hit small water suppliers (like this one in GA).
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BA -- they don't have contaminate the water supply. They could just shut it down. Or even just CLAIM to have contaminated the supply.
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I'm trying to think of something you could put in the Boston water supply that would make Boston a worse place to live than it already is. Coming up blank.
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They vote for what they are getting. At every level. Enjoy!
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Rob: So true. But, I'm *more* worried about actual health impacts, or even death. "Thinning the herd" in Boston by just shutting down the water supply may not be tooooo bad .
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What, and how much of it, could they put in that much water that wouldn't be diluted too much to kill people (or even make them really sick)?
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a few hundred gallons of raw sewage might do it.
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Authorities could find 3 dead camels, 2 hooka pipes and a well read Koran floating in the reservoir and still not have a clue who popped the locks.
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Nerve agents are unpleasant even in very small concentrations. Don't know about water solubility.
Something introduced into the water system would not have to be toxic to cause a panic - just change the taste, smell or color. Terrorism is all about theater and media.
[BETA.DAWN] An Indian policeman and five others were maimed in a grenade attack Tuesday by suspected snuffies on army vehicles in Indian-administered Kashmire, police said.
"Militants hurled a grenade at two army vehicles that were parked along the highway injuring a head constable and five civilians," superintendent of police, Ramesh Jala, told AFP over the phone.
No bully boy group grabbed credit for the kaboom in Anantnag town, 50 kilometres south of the main city of Srinagar.
The attack comes less than a week after suspected snuffies of the Hizbul Mujahideen, one of around a dozen rebel groups said to be fighting to end Indian rule over Kashmire, killed two Indian soldiers in an ambush in which one bully boy also died.
Last month, government forces claimed they had killed the chief of Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... in Indian-administered Kashmire during an early morning gun-battle in the congested downtown area of Srinagar, the summer capital of the state.
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[An Nahar] Jordanian prosecutors on Tuesday charged 13 men with carrying out "terrorist" acts for their alleged roles in riots in the southern city of Maan over a double murder there.
Military state security court prosecutors accused the 13 suspects from the restive city of carrying out "terrorist acts by using flammable materials (in the riots) as well as rioting and unlawful assembly," a court official told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Security forces jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! the men on Monday after riots erupted a day earlier over the murder of two men in the city.
Angry rioters, who torched shops and the post office, accused police of failing to arrest those behind the murders last week.
Businesses and shops in the city closed for two days in a row as part of civil disobedience, but "things are back to normal today (Tuesday)," a resident told AFP.
A YouTube video that "showed unknown people kicking the corpses of the two men" had fueled people's anger, Maan MP Amjad al-Khattab said on Sunday.
Police said investigations were still under way, insisting that the video footage had been fabricated.
Maan's rebellious past dates back to the beginning of the past century, when it was the seat of the Great Arab Revolt that crushed Ottoman rule.
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[An Nahar] The Turkish army returned fire after shots were fired at military targets from across the border with Syria, the military said in a statement Tuesday.
"A group on the Syrian side of the border fired 60 shots at an armored personnel carrier and tactical vehicles... which was reciprocated in kind" late on Monday, it said, adding that there was no damage or casualties.
The Syrian shots targeted a military post in the Narlica region of Hatay province near the Syrian border, it added.
The Turkish army fired 50 shots in return, according to the army statement published online.
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[An Nahar] Shellfire near the Russian embassy in Damascus killed a civilian and maimed a member of the security forces on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
"It was recorded that five shells hit the Al-Adwi area of Damascus," the Britannia-based watchdog said.
"Some of them struck near the Russian embassy, where sources reported one civilian was killed and one member of the regime forces was maimed."
The Russian embassy has been targeted several times by rebel rockets and shells, but Tuesday's shellfire was the nearest they had come to a direct hit. That's because there's not a lot on trigonometry in the Koran.
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Is the right article linked? The article title is "BLIND TO TERROR: THE U.S. GOVERNMENTS DISASTROUS MUSLIM OUTREACH EFFORTS AND THE IMPACT ON U.S. MIDDLE EAST POLICY"
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The ME is going up in flames and the Beeb turns it into a children's rights issue. Where would we be without such insightful journalism? I feel bad for the Brits who are forced to pay for this stuff.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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