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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Birthday Gam Shot

Carolina Gynning [Sweden][Filmography](age 35)



Swedish Meatballs Design


Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 10/06/2013 2:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Ah'm still stunned by the cowgirl.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/06/2013 3:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Nice meatballs!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/06/2013 7:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Way too much belladonna.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/06/2013 7:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Ain't "Meat" Balls, nice anyway.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/06/2013 14:59 Comments || Top||

#6  ...imho, crazy (in a seriously whacky sense) eyes...
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 10/06/2013 17:01 Comments || Top||

#7  In January 2007 Gynning announced she was tired of her breast implants and was selling them on eBay for charity.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 10/06/2013 17:16 Comments || Top||

#8  ...imho, crazy (in a seriously whacky sense) eyes...

For sure. Kinda looks like a plasticized version of this chick.
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) || 10/06/2013 17:39 Comments || Top||

#9  Yep Martha for me everytime.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/06/2013 18:09 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Fog of War: NYT sez US commandos seize al Shabaab leader in Nairobi attack response
[Ynet] A US Navy SEAL team seized a big shot of the al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
krazed killer group from a seaside villa in Somalia on Saturday in response to a deadly attack on a Nairobi shopping mall last month, the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
quoted US officials as saying.

The SEAL team seized the unidentified target in a predawn firefight after approaching the beachfront house in the Somali town of Barawe by sea, the paper reported on its website.
So is this a separate raid, or was it Americans instead of the Brits and Turks the Al Shabaab spokes-turban claimed?
I think this was the raid they were talking about, and that they were taking a wild guess at who the raiders were.
I'm impressed. Using a SEAL team to grab a Shaboob number three? Obama authorized that? Really?
U.S. forces take part in 2 Africa raids targeting alleged terrorists
U.S. military forces were involved in two separate operations in Africa - one of them targeting a member of the group Al-Shabaab that was behind last month's Kenya mall attack, and the other going after an al Qaeda leader tied to bombings of two U.S. embassies.

The Al-Shabaab raid took place in Somalia, where that terrorist group is based, sometime in the past 24 hours, a senior U.S. official said Saturday evening.

The team of U.S. Navy SEALs had to withdraw before it could confirm whether it killed the target because they came under fire, the official said. The SEALs made the "prudent decision" to withdraw rather than engage in further combat, according to the official.

The other mission ended in the capture of Abu Anas al Libi, who is suspected to have played a significant role in the August 7, 1998, bombings of American embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and Nairobi, Kenya, U.S. officials said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Curious they were at the same time. And the Libyan deal - why not last month, or last year?

Prolly a coincidence.
Posted by: Bobby || 10/06/2013 10:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Obama authorized that? Really?
Look for another new AfriCOM commander soon.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/06/2013 11:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Keep the troops busy, less time to biatch about the current pay situation and closed commissaries back home ( static from COMMATVAQHOUSEPAC can be a real morale buster)
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/06/2013 12:50 Comments || Top||

#4  COMMATVAQHOUSEPAC?
Posted by: RandomJD || 10/06/2013 13:12 Comments || Top||

#5  In related news "Libya Apologizes For Harboring Islamofascistic Terrorist Leader Protests 'Kidnap' Of Al Qaeda Suspect".

Apparently the Libyans didn't understand any part of "We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them."
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 10/06/2013 13:17 Comments || Top||

#6  We
here is the vid or pics of Champ intently watching the live feed? Or was he on the links while the op went down?
Posted by: Bobby || 10/06/2013 14:32 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm impressed. Using a SEAL team to grab a Shaboob number three? Obama authorized that? Really?

Don't be messin' wit Kenya.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/06/2013 15:16 Comments || Top||

#8  COMMATVAQHOUSEPAC
Sorry Random, that is Naval-ese for Spousal Unit.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/06/2013 18:03 Comments || Top||

#9  Right - what does it stand for?
Posted by: RandomJD || 10/06/2013 21:16 Comments || Top||

#10  We just called it COMNAVHOUSEPAC. The airdales do it differently.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/06/2013 21:35 Comments || Top||

#11  The Seal raid was pushed back into the sea by a dozen heavily armed shabaab regulars.
Posted by: Thrans Splat1574 || 10/06/2013 22:28 Comments || Top||

#12  By most accounts, US Army's DELTA FORCE captured senior "core" Al-Qaeda leader Abu Anas al-Libi in the Libya raid, while the USN SEALS struck AL-Shabaab/Shabab but the target wasn't found.

* WAFF > [Hurriyet] AMERICAN, BRITISH, + TURKISH SPECIAL FORCES HIT AL-QAIDA IN SOMALIA + LIBYA.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US COMMANDOS NAB AL-QAIDA LEADER LINKED TO 1998 EMBASSY BOMBINGS.

versus

* NAHARNET.LB > BRITAIN SAYS FORCES NOT INVOLVED IN SOMALI RAID.

* SAME > LIBYA, SOMALIA RAIDS SHOW [both] US REACH, MESS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/06/2013 23:28 Comments || Top||

#13  COMMATVAQHOUSEPAC. Right - what does it stand for?
Yep,, us Airedales do do it different. pappy, thanks for omitting the required adjective regarding the F@@@ing airdales.

Anyway: COMmander Medium ATtack Electronic ATtack House PACific

(back when we had real attack airplanes and not plastic toys. don't know how they got VAQ out of Electronic Attack ( The EA6Bs) )
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/06/2013 23:53 Comments || Top||


Shaboobs ‘repel raid' by unidentified foreign troops
MOGADISHU -- Foreign troops from an unidentified country raided a house in Barawe, a coastal town in Lower Shabelle region of southern Somalia, and Al Shabaab militants reportedly repelled the foreign troops, Garowe Online reports.

Local witnesses reported on VOA Somali Service that unidentified foreign troops “came from the coast with boats and helicopters" and raided a house in Barawe around 2am local time Saturday morning. At least one person was killed in the raid, locals reported.

Sheikh Abdulaziz Abu Musab, spokesman for Al Shabaab’s military wing, confirmed the raid and disclosed in a recorded press statement that the militants “repelled a midnight raid by white infidel soldiers”.

Abu Musab said: "We fought back against the white infidel soldiers with bombs and bullets, and they ran back to their boats. One member of Al Shabaab was killed and the white infidel soldiers failed their mission. We found blood and equipment near the coast in the morning,” he added in a recorded press statement posted on militant websites.

Somali government officials have issued no public comment on the raid. Due to Al Shabaab' secrecy, it was not clear who was the target of the raid on the Barawe house. Barawe coastal town is home to Al Shabaab senior leaderhip, although no one knows the whereabouts of the militant group’s chief Ahmed Abdi Godane.
Posted by: Steve White || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab

#1  The raid was "repelled" the same way a drone strike is "repelled."
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/06/2013 12:43 Comments || Top||

#2  ...looks like they have been identified...
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 10/06/2013 21:34 Comments || Top||


Somali Pirates Jailed by Seychelles Court
[Shabelle] 11 pirates have been convicted in the Seychelles Supreme Court of committing acts of piracy and operating a pirate vessel between 7 -- 11 May 2012. Their sentences ranged from 18 months to 16 years.

The pirates had been apprehended by the Royal Netherlands Navy frigate, HNLMS Van Amstel, on 11 May 2012, after the warship's Lynx helicopter sighted a suspicious fishing dhow towing 2 skiffs, 400 nautical miles off the Somali coast.

When the warship's boarding team approached the dhow, the Dutch Navy crew found 11 suspected pirates of Somali origin and a total of 17 hostages on board.

After taking the suspected pirates to HNLMS Van Amstel, the Dutch boarding team found significant evidence that linked the 11 men to an armed attack on Motor Tanker 'Super Lady' a few days earlier.

The 17 freed hostages, who were Iranian fishermen, were very grateful to the Dutch sailors for rescuing them from the armed pirates.
Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Pirates


Uneasy calm returns to Mombasa as leaders condemn deadly violence
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] An uneasy calm returned to Mombasa on Saturday following festivities Friday between protestors and police that left four people dead and at least seven with serious injuries.

Musselmen, Christian and politicians roundly condemned the violence, calling for calm and a speedy resolution of the cold-blooded killing the previous night of a holy man and three others that provoked the violent protests.

Masjid Musa Mosque holy man Sheikh Ibrahim Umar Ismail, popularly known as Rogo or Logo, was killed together with three companions as they returned home late on Thursday evening.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Kenya


Shebab says British, Turkish special forces attacked Somali base
[Al Ahram] Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab said Saturday British and Turkish special forces staged a nighttime sea and air attack on one of its bases, but Britannia denied any involvement.
Are the Turks capable of operating so far from home? And why would they?
Leaders of the Islamist snuffies in the southern Somali port of Barawe said commandos rappelled from a helicopter and tried to storm a house belonging to a senior Shabaab commander, but the assault failed.

The assault comes two weeks after Shabaab gunnies attacked Kenya's Westgate shopping mall, massacring 67 people in a four-day siege. Six Britons were among the dead.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab

#1  Britain is officially denying their involvement???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/06/2013 23:30 Comments || Top||


Somali militants say Western forces killed Chechen fighter
[Al Ahram] Somalian Al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
snuffies said on Saturday Western forces had raided a coastal town under cover of darkness, killing a rebel fighter; officials said the target had been a Chechen leader of the Islamist group.

Foreign forces landed on the beach at Barawe, about 180 km (110 miles) south of Mogadishu, and launched an assault at dawn that drew gunfire from rebel fighters in one of the militia's coastal bases, Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, front man for Al-Shabaab's military operations, told Rooters.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


Africa North
Libyan gunmen kill 15 soldiers
[Bangla Daily Star] Gunmen have attacked a military checkpoint south-east of the Libyan capital 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...
killing 15 soldiers, the authorities say.

A military official said the attack was near Bani Walid, a stronghold in 2011 of supporters of former leader, Muammar Qadaffy
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Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Police, pro-Morsi protesters lock horns in Cairo
[Al Ahram] Clashes erupted between security forces and supporters of deposed president Mohammed Morsi
...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator...
near Cairo Opera House and Rabaa El-Adawyia district on Saturday, Al-Ahram's Arabic website reported.
The Opera House, close to downtown, and nearby Cairo Club shut their gates as police forces fired teargas.

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Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Abu Anas al-Libi snatched
A man suspected of being a leader of Al Qaeda and having a role in planning the bombings of the United States Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 was seized from the streets of Tripoli on Saturday by a team of armed men, officials familiar with the situation said.

The suspect, born Nazih Abd al Hamid al-Ruqhay and known by his nom de guerre Abu Anas el-Liby, has been high on the list of the United States government's most-wanted fugitives since at least 2000, when a New York court indicted him for his part in planning the embassy attacks. The F.B.I. had offered a bounty of up to $5 million for information leading to his capture.

The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of attempts to locate Abu Anas, declined to make public further details on his capture.
Posted by: Au Auric || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  Seek and ye shall find. Abu Anas al Libi in Libia," Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said in a statement. "He is currently lawfully detained under the law of war in a secure location outside of Libia. Abu Anas al Libi has been indicted in the Southern District of New York in connection with his alleged role in Al Qaeda's conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals and to conduct attacks against U.S. interests worldwide, which included Al Qaeda plots to attack U.S. forces stationed in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Somalia, as well as the U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya." Multiple senior U.S. officials told Fox News that Libi is being held on a ship at sea. "Libi could be held at sea for a matter of weeks before he is turned over to law enforcement authorities," one senior U.S. official told Fox News.
ABC reported Seal Team 6 went in and did a rendition--something Obummer campaigned against. But they are still bringing him back to criminal courts instead of Gitmo.
Posted by: Anging Hatfield6648 || 10/06/2013 12:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh well done, Anging Hatfield6648!
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/06/2013 17:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Since he will be tried in civilian courts, he will probably walk. Much of the evidence against him is probably based on intel sources that the government won't dare use in open court. Plus, they probably forgot to read him his Miranda rights before capturing him.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/06/2013 22:33 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Ugandan forces seek German terror suspect
[Daily Nation (Kenya)]
Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Arabia
Bahrain charges ex-MP with inciting terror
[Al Ahram] Bahrain's prosecutor-general on Saturday said he had referred prominent Shiite opposition ex-MP Khalil Marzooq to court on charges of "inciting terrorist crimes."

Marzooq, a senior figure in the main Al-Wefaq opposition formation, who was tossed in the clink
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
on September 17, also faces charges of "promoting acts that amount to terrorist crimes," Abdulrahman Al-Sayyed said in a statement.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  This week it was reported that former head of the JCS Hugh Sheltor claimed that the US was behind the destabilization of both Egypt and Bahrain. In the latter case, Saudi Arabia had to save the situation when it sent its troops to Bahrain. Why this report has no legs, especially in the Middle East, is baffling.
Posted by: Knuckles Clunk9664 || 10/06/2013 12:08 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Cop injured in blast; doctor abducted
[Dawn] A policeman was injured in a roadside blast, while a senior doctor was kidnapped here on Monday.

A Peshtakhara cop shoppe official said a police van was damaged when a roadside kaboom went off near the Tajabad graveyard. "Suspected snuffies had planted an IED near the graveyard to target the police. However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
the attackers failed to blow up the van, and only windowpanes of the vehicle were smashed," he said.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Karachi operations: Police claim to arrest eight alleged target killers
[Dawn] Rangers and police personnel claim to have tossed in the clink
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
at least eight alleged hit mans during operations in several areas of 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...
on Saturday, DawnNews reported.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Terror alert triggers operation in Chilas; two 'high-profile terrorists' arrested
[Dawn] Security forces launched a massive operation against anti-peace elements in Chilas after receiving a tip-off about the presence of two high-profile bully boyz in the remote northern town on Saturday.

The two bully boyz were tossed in the clink
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
after forces cordoned off the entire town in a major operation, they claimed.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


'Most suspects under arrest are activists'
[Dawn] With the Rangers-led '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...
operation' entering the second month on Saturday, the law-enforcement agencies prepared themselves for more vigorous action following the arrest of over 800 suspects -- most of them said to be associated with political parties -- by the paramilitary force during the much publicised campaign against militancy, assassinations, extortion and kidnapping for ransom.

Amid criticism from certain quarters, bigwigs from the Pakistain Rangers, Sindh, and the Karachi police said they were determined to move fast after one month to achieve certain targets that they hoped would ensure a long-awaited sustainable peace in the metropolis.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Indian army says seven rebels killed in Kashmir
[Dawn] India's army, which says it has been locked in a nearly two-week battle with dozens of suspected Pakistain-backed rebels, said Saturday it killed seven faceless myrmidons in 24 hours in disputed Kashmire.

The military says it has been fighting 30 to 40 rebel infiltrators who crossed the heavily militarised Line of Control (LoC) dividing Kashmire between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistain last month.

"Four faceless myrmidons were killed in the Fateh Gali area" of Indian Kashmire on Saturday, Colonel Rajesh Kalia told AFP, adding three other rebel suspects were killed in another gunbattle in nearby Gujardur area the previous day.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Iraq
At Least 30 Killed in Baghdad Bombings
[An Nahar] An attack targeting Shiite pilgrims in Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
killed 23 people and maimed at least 65 on Saturday, officials said.

Accounts differed as to whether the attack in the Adhamiyah area of north Storied Baghdad was a bomb followed by a suicide kaboom, or a suicide kaboom alone.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq


Journalists and anti-Qaida fighters killed in Iraq
[Al Ahram] Iraqi officials say attacks across the country have killed five people, including two journalists working in a northern city.

Police say a news hound and cameraman for the private Al-Sharqiya TV channel were shot on Saturday while working on a report in the city of djinn-infested Mosul, about 360 kilometers (220 miles) northwest of Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
. It was not immediately clear why they were targeted.

Three other people were killed and five were maimed when a roadside kaboom hit a checkpoint manned by Sunni forces of Evil opposed to Al-Qaeda in the town of Youssifiyah, 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Storied Baghdad, police officials said.

Hospital officials confirmed the casualties. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to journalists.
Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Girl in Israeli Settlement Shot in Possible Attack
[An Nahar] A nine-year-old Israeli girl from a settlement near the West Bank city of Ramallah was at death's door after being shot late on Saturday, police and emergency services said.

Police front man Micky Rosenfeld told Agence La Belle France Presse the girl, from Psagot east of the Paleostinian political capital of Ramallah, was "shot while playing in the garden outside her house".

"She was shot in the upper part of the body," he said.

Rosenfeld said the girl was taken to a hospital in Jerusalem, and that police were looking at different leads, "including that it was a terrorist attack".

He said residents of Psagot had been ordered to stay inside their homes until further notice.

A front man for Israel's Magen David Adom emergency services said the girl was taken to hospital conscious but at death's door.

Last month an Israeli soldier was rubbed out in the southern West Bank city of Hebron in what the army believes was a Paleostinian sniper attack, although no suspects were later apprehended.
According to Ynet, her condition has stabilized. It adds:
Israeli girl lightly maimed while playing in yard in settlement located north of Ramallah says terrorist was standing at point blank range from her; army suspects infiltration from nearby Paleostinian town
Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The joys of Peace.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/06/2013 1:27 Comments || Top||

#2  O Brave Lions of Islam, Defenders of the Faith, Shooters of Little Girls, may your parts shrivel and turn gangrenous.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/06/2013 2:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe a bad translation. Otherwise how is getting shot only a possible attack?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/06/2013 11:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Because it could have been the unfortunate results of a fatal quantum shift.
Posted by: Shipman || 10/06/2013 13:19 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Gun battle leaves four terrorists, two policemen dead
Security forces in Narathiwat province killed four terrorists insurgents on Saturday, including Abdul Roheng Da-eso, alias "Black Pele", in a 15-minute gun battle that left two policemen dead. About 50 police and soldiers raided a house after authorities were told by an informant that a group of key terrorists insurgents, including Abdul, were hiding there.

While approaching the house, the troops were spotted by the terrorists insurgents who opened fire, sparking a fierce exchange that lasted about 15 minutes. As the battle raged, Pol Lt Col Atipat Supanwiwat and Pol Sgt Maj Wichit Otthon were gunned down and Pol Sgt Yothin Chantaradet was wounded. The battle ended when seven terror insurgent suspects surrendered and exited the house.

In the house, four suspects were found dead, one of whom was identified as Abdul, who faced more than 10 arrest warrants for violent attacks in Rueso district.

In a separate operation, soldiers nabbed two men suspected of being involved in a bombing that killed four military officers on Oct 2 in Yala province. The two are Dolo Bueraheng and Aha Maso, who are suspected of having a role in a bombing that killed eight soldiers in June.

Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Pracha Promnok said Saturday the five demands made by Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) during peace talks were "acceptable overall", however he said the details still needed thorough review. Pol Gen Pracha, in charge of security affairs, said after meeting with 32 advisers that the next round of negotiations had been set for Oct 20 in Kuala Lumpur. He said, "The five demands of the BRN look acceptable overall, but agreement is not 100%."

Army chief Prayuth Chan-och, however, insisted the demands were unacceptable.
Posted by: ryuge || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria: Fighting rages around Barzeh in Damascus
[AAWSAT.NET] Syrian forces loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Scourge of Qusayr...
continued shelling the Barzeh district in Damascus on Friday, Asharq Al-Awsat has learned. Several Free Syrian Army battalions are stationed in that part of the Syrian capital.

Anti-Assad activists told Asharq Al-Awsat that the "regime renewed its shelling of the neighborhood in the eastern part of the capital using heavy artillery, tank shells and heavy machine guns," with intermittent festivities erupting on the outskirts of the Damascus neighborhood as a result of regular forces trying to enter from several sides.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Syrian military shells town on coast: Activists
[Al Ahram] Syrian government forces shelled a vulnerable Sunni community in a coastal province dominated by Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Scourge of Qusayr...
's Alawite sect on Saturday, activists said, raising fears that residents of the isolated town could face mass killings by pro-Damascus militias.

Two Syrian rights groups said shelling of the town of Al-Mitras began at dawn, killing six people. The town lies near two other Sunni Mohammedan towns of Bayda and Banias. Rights groups charge that regime supporters killed at least 248 people in those two communities in May. They said regime forces shelled Bayda before militias entered and carried out the alleged massacre.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  The sad thing is, nobody cares anymore. Assad is an evil man, so are the Al Nusra and other Islamist elements he is killing.
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/06/2013 16:56 Comments || Top||



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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.
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Sun 2013-10-06
  Abu Anas al-Libi snatched
Sat 2013-10-05
  Boko Haram: 186 killed, 15 arrested as Military raids insurgents' camp in Yobe
Fri 2013-10-04
  Belgium Extradites Nisar Trabelsi to U.S.
Thu 2013-10-03
  Iranian cyber warfare commander shot dead in suspected assassination
Wed 2013-10-02
  Iraq Executes 23 People in Two Days
Tue 2013-10-01
  Drone strike in North Waziristan kills two, injures one
Mon 2013-09-30
  US drone kills three in Pakistan
Sun 2013-09-29
  Boko murders up to 50 students in their sleep
Sat 2013-09-28
  Sudan Arrests 600 over 'Vandalism'
Fri 2013-09-27
  Peshawar Bus Bombing Kills 17 Govt Employees
Thu 2013-09-26
  Syria rebels reject opposition coalition, call for Islamic leadership
Wed 2013-09-25
  AQIM replaces dead emirs
Tue 2013-09-24
  Nairobi attack: Kenya's President Kenyatta says siege over
Mon 2013-09-23
  Egyptian court bans Moslem Brüderbund activity, confiscates assets
Sun 2013-09-22
  Death toll in Pakistan church bombing rises to at least 40

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