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GolfBravoUSMC.... I understand that %90 of the cattleman's wives in Miles City Montana are failed Hollywood Starlets ... my question is the other way around... What percentage of failed Hollywood Starlets end up in Miles City?
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Yeah but rich ranchers with 100K acres and an appreciation for actresses in need of a sugar daddy. Highest percentage of divorce lawyers too ... for some reason.
There heyday with the Crossroads is long gone but it still has some draw. times ago here - for a few years the food was free but the booze cost. .
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Ebbang Uluque6305 - the mixed drinks started at $8 shots at $6. Food was a loss leader.
Now in the downtown, at the start of WW-II .. dad tells me a large T-Bone with all the fixing and a beer was 50 cents in a bar where folks still wore six-guns. (His brother owned the Penguin ice-cream store there and since a army camp was nearby made that cost in a second).
KWALE, KENYA: Police in Diani Town in Kwale County are holding a wanted terror suspect believed to be behind two grenade incidents in the area early this year. Police claim the suspect Seif Setu alias Nowe is trained with Al Qaida linked militants in Somalia.
The date of arrest is not clear but The Standard has reliably learnt about his detention from Kwale police who allege that they have held him since last week. One of the grenades linked to him was hurled at Tandoori discotheque on New Year Day injuring ten revelers while police say he threw a second one to police on patrol at Kona ya Musa area in Diani mid January,although it did not explode. Seifs arrest is a major breakthrough in the fight against terror according to Msambweni OCPD Jack Ekakoro.
"The suspect is to be arraigned in court for three counts," said the OCPD on Monday suggesting that prosecutors have already drafted charges against the suspect.
Ekakoro claimed that apart from the two grenade incidents, Seif is also accused of attempted murder after he shot at his father-in-law last year who luckily did not die. â"We do not know when he came back from Al Shabab training but all the evidence we have in our possession including at the scene of Tandoori link him to the three criminal activities,â" he said.
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GALKAYO, Somalia -- Unidentified gunmen have gunned down the head of local NGO in Galkayo city on Saturday evening according to witnesses, Garowe Online reports.
Abdi Mohamed Adan, director of NRO aid agency was killed on his way to home between Agarweyne hotel and the Maize factory in Garsoor neighborhood, eyewitnesses reported. The masked attackers used pistols for the killing and immediately escaped from the scene of crime.
Puntland security forces are said to have arrived at the spot where the assassination occurred, with local reports telling that investigations and search operations are underway. No group claimed the responsibility for the attack.
Galkayo, situated at Puntland's southern gate connects the state to the south-central regions where Al Shabaab militants, armed clan militias and criminal gangs remain active.
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[Egypt Independent] On Wednesday, Cairo Criminal Court sentenced two defendants to life in prison, seven defendants to 10 years with labor and another 22 suspects to seven years.
All of them were convicted for being involved in Nile City violence.
They were convicted with thuggery, possessing weapons and resisting authorities.
The court also cleared another 22 suspects.
The incident took place in August 2012 when an alleged criminal died during an attack on the Nile City towers.
The administration said that the victim was demanding them to pay royalties in order to avoid the break in.
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[Egypt Independent] Beni Suef police tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! four suspects for allegedly attacking Saft al-Sharqiya security forces in an ambush that left five coppers dead on Thursday.
Preliminary investigations said that the perpetrators were four individuals and that they lived in a village at al-Wasta town.
Authorities said that one of them was a teacher and the other worked at an NGO for reciting Koran.
The four criminals were allegedly affiliated with the Moslem Brüderbund and allegedly received one million pounds to commit the crime.
Allegedly LE800,000 were shared by two suspects, with the remainder of the money was given to the other two.
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[Egypt Independent] Military Spokesperson Ahmed Mohammed Ali announced that two houses in Sinai had been targeted for sheltering "very dangerous" myrmidon elements.
Ali posted on Facebook saying, "Air defense plans targeted on Wednesday two houses of very dangerous bully boyz affiliated to the terrorist Moslem Brüderbund group in the south of Sheikh Zuwaid."
The operation led to the destruction of a "deserted house with a farm, owned by Ayesh al-Wahshy, a dangerous myrmidon in North Sinai. The house is used for sheltering myrmidon elements and stockpiling weapons and ammunition."
A large blast also went kaboom! at the house, according to Ali, due to the presence of large amounts of explosives and ammunition inside.
"Air Defense forces also destroyed a house belonging to Morsy al-Joker, an myrmidon involved in targeting a military helicopter on Friday," Ali added.
"Armed forces in North Sinai reported killing two myrmidons, Salman Abu Zereiy and Gamil Sueliman Abu Zereiy, during the aerial bombardment of bully boyz havens south of Sheikh Zuwaid," Ali said.
Many North Sinai residents deny ties to terrorist groups and say they are victims of random and retaliatory attacks by army forces.
Head of the Sinai Tribes Union Ibrahim Menai told Egypt Independent that the Egyptian military follows a policy of scorched Earth, referring to the burning of houses and mass tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in North Sinai.
Menai said the strategy has caused many innocent people to suffer injustice at the hands of the army. "You create every day 100 terrorists. And if you kill people, you will create many terrorists," he said.
An informed source in the armed forces told Egypt Independent that all attacks on residences are carefully chosen through collected intelligence, proven to be places of terrorist gatherings, and have resulted in little to no collateral damage.
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[Egypt Independent] The Moslem Brüderbund condemned on Wednesday the murder of Major General Mohammed al-Saeed, head of the Interior Ministry's technical office, and described it as a "disappointing liquidation." It also condemned the shooting at the Virgin Mary Church in the 6 October City.
In a statement published on its official website, the group said it condemns all forms of violence and bloodshed, regardless of the perpetrator or victim. It called for the arrest of the responsible criminals and for them to be brought to justice.
The group also called for the investigation outcomes to be transparent and available to the public.
Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis grabbed credit on Tuesday for the murder of Saeed.
Saeed was shot on Tuesday morning in front of his house in Haram district by two persons on a cycle of violence. He passed away on route to the hospital.
The Interior Ministry said later that security services are intensifying efforts to arrest the criminals.
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[An Nahar] Libyan troops on Wednesday retook a southern air base captured by loyalists of the slain dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...whose instability was an inspiration to dictators everywhere, but whose end couldn't possibly happen to them... who had occupied it for two weeks, a military official told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The army and former rebels succeeded in capturing the Tamenhant air base, in the suburbs of the main southern city of Sebha, military front man Colonel Ali al-Chikhi said.
"The units are in the process of securing the base, which has an area of 15 square kilometers (six square miles) and tracking down supporters of the old regime," he said.
Two people were killed and six maimed in the fighting, a medic at Sebha hospital said.
Fighting first erupted in Sebha on January 11 between the Awled Sleiman, an Arab tribe, and members of the Toubou ethnic minority, which has long complained of neglect by authorities 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... .
Since then at least 107 people have been killed and 154 maimed, the hospital official said.
Supporters of Muammar Qadaffy -- who was tossed and killed in a 2011 uprising after ruling Libya for more than four decades -- exploited the chaos and took over several parts of the city, including the air base, officials said.
City council head Ayub al-Zarruk said a "tense calm" prevailed in Sebha on Wednesday, but that few people were venturing out because of fuel shortages and most shops remained closed.
Sporadic gunfire broke out as troops pursued Qadaffy loyalists, Sebha Operations Center front man Al-Ferjani Akila told AFP, adding that "government forces have deployed in large numbers in different areas."
Authorities have struggled to bring order to Libya in the three years since the uprising, as many powerful rebel brigades have refused to give up their arms or join the security forces.
Earlier on Wednesday the interior minister escaped unscathed when gunnies opened fire on his car in an apparent liquidation attempt in Tripoli.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Terrorists attacked a Tunisian family during a home invasion in Kasserine, Tunisie Numerique reported on Tuesday (January 28th). Four terrorists tried to kidnap the father after he was wounded in a mine explosion in Ouled Messaoud, family members told Mosaique FM. When military forces arrived to search for the perpetrators, they found and dismantled a second explosive device on the road.
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The other Kasserine Pass battle. The dangers of a lack of military readiness/training and equipment. We will have a some rebuilding job after Champ leaves office.
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Biggest problem at Kasserine was leadership. Starting with this guy. Build a his HQ in a ravine 30 miles behind the line and used a Recon Company as personal protection. He came well thought of tho, it don't take long in a war to figure who's who.
Libya's interior minister escaped unscathed from an assassination attempt in Tripoli on Wednesday, the LANA news agency reported. Seddik Abdelkarim, who is also deputy prime minister, was in his car when "unknown gunmen fired a barrage of bullets" at the vehicle, the agency said, adding that no one was killed or wounded in the attack.
Wednesday's attack was confirmed by Al Bahlul Al Sid, the head of the minister's office, who did not provide further details.
The minister was on his way to parliament when his car was fired upon, LANA reported.
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[DAWN] Three kabooms including a suicide kaboom targeting security personnel 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... killed at least four people on Wednesday, officials said.
The dead included three paramilitary Rangers and a private security guard, while four others were maimed.
In the first incident, two IEDs were placed close to a Rangers' checkpost in the busy North Nazimabad neighbourhood, killing one soldier and wounding three when they were detonated remotely.
"These were the IEDs which were installed in cement blocks targeting Rangers," senior police officer Amir Farooqi said.
Later, a jacket wallahwent kaboom! at the entrance of the Rangers' headquarters located in the same area of the city, killing two troops and a civilian security guard, and wounding another.
"The suicide attacker walked in and tried to enter into the gate when he was intercepted by the security officials and he went kaboom!," Farooqi said.
A front man for the Rangers confirmed the toll. "The Rangers personnel who spotted and intercepted the suicide bomber will be awarded highest Rangers gallantry award," he added.
The injured were rushed to the nearby Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for treatment.
Speaking to Dawn.com from some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location via telephone, s front man for the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) grabbed credit for the attacks.
The blasts came hours before Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... said his government was ready to give another chance to peace talks despite a recent spate of attacks and suicide kabooms by the bully boys.
Sharif announced a four-member committee to facilitate the dialogue process.
TTP front man Shahidullah Shahid said the Taliban have convened a meeting of the Shura (council) to "assess the committee formed by the federal government for peace talks."
Earlier this month a Taliban suicide attacker killed one of Pakistain's best-known coppers, Chaudhry Aslam Khan, famed for his fearless work tackling gunnies in the city.
Karachi, a city of 18 million people which contributes 42 per cent of Pakistain's GDP, has been plagued by sectarian, ethnic and political violence for years.
Pakistain has endured a bloody start to the year with more than 100 people killed in attacks in January.
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[An Nahar] Iraqi forces Wednesday wrested back control of key areas west of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... that have been out of government hands for weeks amid a deadly standoff between forces of Evil and security forces.
The battles in Anbar province, a mostly-Sunni desert region bordering on Syria, and a protracted surge in nationwide violence, have killed more than 850 people this month, fueling fears Iraq is slipping back into the all-out conflict that plagued it from 2006 to 2008.
Washington has said it plans to sell Iraq 24 Apache attack helicopters in a $4.8 billion deal to help the country fight Death Eaters.
But foreign leaders have also urged the Shiite-led government to address long-term grievances in the disaffected Sunni community to undercut support for militancy.
Security forces and allied tribal fighters regained control Wednesday of Albu Farraj, just north of Ramadi, as well as a district on the outskirts of Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... officials said.
"Iraqi security forces have taken control of Albu Farraj," said defense ministry front man Mohammed al-Askari, describing the area as an "important base" for Death Eaters, including the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL).
"We will give it back to the tribes and police forces to return the area to normal."
Officials said Iraqi forces also took back Al-Nasaf, on the western outskirts of Fallujah.
Security forces have been locked in battles in Ramadi, where forces of Evil hold several neighborhoods, and have carried out operations in rural areas of Anbar province.
Anti-government fighters also hold all of Fallujah, on Storied Baghdad's doorstep.
ISIL has been involved in the fighting, and witnesses and tribal leaders in Fallujah say the group has tightened its grip on the city in recent days, but other Death Eater groups have also taken part in the battles.
It is the first time forces of Evil have exercised such open control in Iraqi cities since the peak of violence that followed the 2003 US-led invasion.
The standoff has forced more than 140,000 people to flee their homes, the U.N. refugee agency said, describing this as the worst displacement in Iraq since the 2006-2008 conflict.
In Storied Baghdad and the main northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , multiple shootings and bombings killed seven people Wednesday, including two members of the security forces and three anti-Qaeda militiamen.
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Israeli soldiers shot dead a 19-year-old Palestinian north of the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday, Palestinian medical and security sources said. The shooting, which took place just north of the Ofra settlement, was confirmed by the Israeli army in a statement that said a terrorist had opened fire at troops and they had returned fire, hitting him.
Palestinian sources identified the victim as Mohammad Mubarak, 19, from Jalazun refugee camp.
A Palestinian terrorist opened fire at an IDF (army) post near Ofra. The soldiers responded immediately in order to eliminate the imminent threat to their lives and fired towards the terrorist, identifying a hit, the army said.
Eye-witnesses told AFP that Mubarak was not armed, and had been harassed by soldiers who made him remove his clothes. The Israeli army distributed pictures of a gun it said Mubarak had used to open fire.
Palestinian sources said Mubarak was working as a labourer for a local construction company working on the road connecting Ramallah and Nablus, as part of a USAID-funded project. His father is local-elected leader of the Jalazun camp, they said.
Palestinian housing and public works minister Maher Ghneim condemned the Israeli army cold-blooded killing of Mubarak, during his work on a project coordinated by the ministry. Ghneim called on international organisations to investigate the incident, and slammed Israeli media for distorting the story by saying Mubarak had initially opened fire at the soldiers.
Mubarak was being buried covered in the yellow flag of the Fatah movement his father represented.
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More than 40 people were killed and a school district supervisor was kidnapped in separate incidents around Mindanao, days after a major peace deal was struck with the largest Muslim militant group in the Philippines.
The bloodiest battles involved a group opposed to the peace deal, but military leaders said the timing of the fighting was not related to the announcement of the peace agreement and was initiated by police officers and soldiers trying to arrest militants. Col. Ramon Zagala said, "There is no direct link between the signing of the peace agreement and this operation. But it has an effect on the peace process. We consider this group to be a spoiler to the peace agreement."
On Saturday, the Philippine government finalized details of a peace agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) that would give the group control over an area of Mindanao and let it share the wealth from the area's resources in return for the militants gradually giving up their weapons.
Many groups, including the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, which has been engaged in fighting in the last few days with the military, and the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf group, are opposed to the deal and seek a separate, strict Islamic state on Mindanao.
Two days after the weekend peace deal was struck, the Philippine police and military began an assault against the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, a militant group of several hundred fighters. The bodies of at least 37 militants have been recovered in remote villages in the central part of Mindanao, Zagala said. One soldier was also killed.
He said, "This was a law enforcement operation initiated by the government and led by the Philippine National Police. This is not your ordinary bandit group. They are well armed and well organised, so the Armed Forces of the Philippines were needed to support the police."
The police and military coordinated the operation with the MILF, the group that entered into Saturday's peace deal, because the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters operate in territory nearby. Zagala said the MILF did not oppose the government assault on the smaller militant group.
In unrelated fighting on the eastern side of Mindanao, a government soldier and three militants from the communist New People's Army were killed in a battle Wednesday. On Monday, in a separate incident, a school district supervisor on the western coast of Mindanao was kidnapped by eight armed men.
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muslims look at peace deals as a weakness!
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Needs a picture of Korben Dallas negotiating.
(I was looking on the photo database here and might have accidentally posted a blank message. Sorry!)
While unrest in the far South continued yesterday with two attacks that killed a total of four people, including two soldiers, police in Pattani province set up checkpoints to look for three stolen motorcycles that they fear will be used in future bomb attacks.
Pattani deputy police chief Pol Colonel Thanongsak Wangsupa instructed officials to set up checkpoints, especially on main roads, to intercept the transport of illegal items such as weapons, explosives and suspicious vehicles. A Thai security intelligence source had alerted police that a group of five or six terrorists insurgents had made away with three motorcycles to cause chaos in community areas of Pattani.
In Yala province, two soldiers were killed when a motorcycle bomb went off last night. The two soldiers were riding motorcycles as part of a convoy towards their base after a community activity at a local school. Police suspect the terrorist insurgent cell led by Apisi Yusoh was responsible for a motorcycle bomb that was parked alongside the road and went off while the convoy was passing through.
Elsewhere in Yala, three volunteer rangers were wounded by two bombs yesterday morning. Police suspect that a terrorist insurgent cell, led by a man identified as Saudi Satorpa, carried out the attack.
Meanwhile, unknown gunmen gunned down two villagers and seriously wounded another at a rubber plantation in Narathiwat province district yesterday morning. The three men, who are related, were going to tap rubber when the gunmen opened fire at them and then fled.
[An Nahar] Syrian government forces dropped barrel bombs on rebel-held districts of Aleppo Wednesday, killing 13 people as they pressed an assault southeast of the northern city, a monitor said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported more than 20 barrel bombs had been dropped on the town of Daraya, southwest of the capital Damascus.
And the Britannia-based group reported government troops battled rebel forces near Krak des Chevaliers, a famed Crusader castle between the central city of Homs and the Mediterranean coast.
The fighting came even as both sides reported "positive" results at peace talks in Geneva after four days of deadlock.
A woman and a young girl were among the dead when government helicopters dropped the controversial munitions on the Maadi district of south Aleppo, the Observatory said.
The explosives-packed barrels were also dropped on the nearby Salhin, Sheikh Najjar and Ashrafiyeh neighborhoods, it added, without having any immediate word on any casualties.
Government forces have launched an offensive to the southeast of Aleppo, Syria's pre-civil war commercial capital, aimed at securing the international highway and expanding their area of control around Nairab airbase, security sources said.
The offensive has already won them their first gains in the area in more than a year, with the capture of the Karm al-Qasr district on the city's southeastern fringes, the Observatory said Tuesday.
Elsewhere in Aleppo province, festivities erupted between rebels and fighters of the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... in the town of Al-Bab.
Despite ostensibly fighting on the same side of Syria's war, festivities between the groups erupted in early January after growing anger over ISIL's reported abuses of civilians and rival rebels.
The Observatory said on Wednesday at least 1565 people had been killed in the festivities, including 208 civilians, 878 rebels and Islamist fighters and 459 ISIL forces.
Twenty others killed in the fighting had not yet been identified, the group said, adding the total number of deaths among fighters from both sides could be much higher because of attempts to conceal the true figures.
And near Krak des Chevaliers, government forces launched four air raids on the town of Zara, in an area where fierce battles with rebels left 26 people dead on Tuesday, the Observatory added.
As international pressure mounted at the peace talks in Geneva for the two sides to reach agreement on steps to address the plight on civilians trapped by the fighting, a bigwig said the government was ready to grant safe passage to all those who wanted to leave the besieged Old City of Homs.
Provincial governor Talal Barazi told the state SANA news agency that "preparations to guarantee the exit of civilians who want to leave the Old City" were complete.
The Old City has been under siege for some 600 days, according to the opposition, with aid agencies unable to enter for more than a year.
There has been disappointment over the failure of the two sides to agree any humanitarian measures, especially for besieged residents of Homs, Syria's third largest city, where U.N. trucks are waiting for access to deliver food and medical aid.
The regime has agreed to allow women and kiddies to leave besieged areas of the city, but the opposition wants aid to be allowed in.
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Carole Lombard was a bombshell;
Barrel bombard, controversial.
One was chums with Hedda Hopper,
One was chucked out of a chopper.
How'd they stack up as to blast?
I'd say Carole was unsurpassed:
La Lombard, lovely sans apparel,
Was built like a bombard, not a barrel.
[An Nahar] State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged on Wednesday 13 people with belonging to the armed terrorist group, the al-Qaeda-affiliated Abdullah Azzam Brigades ... Leb's current al-Qaeda affiliate, named after a guy whose car the current head of al-Qaeda had boomed... , reported the National News Agency.
Detainee Jamal Daftardar is among those who have been charged.
They were accused of planning to carry out terrorist attacks in Leb and recruiting and training individuals ahead of transporting them outside of Leb.
Saqr also charged them with forging identification papers, firing rockets towards Israel, and possessing weapons and explosives.
Daftardar was tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in the western Bekaa region on January 15.
The Abdullah Azzam Brigades grabbed credit for the November 19 double suicide kaboom against the Iranian embassy in Beirut.
The brigades have grabbed credit for attacks throughout the region, including the 2010 bombing of a Japanese oil tanker in the Persian Gulf and firing of several rocket strikes from Leb towards Israel.
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The Turkish armed forces attacked a convoy of al Qaeda-linked rebel vehicles in Syria in retaliation for cross-border fire on Tuesday, destroying three vehicles, Turkish media said on Wednesday, Today's Zaman reported.
Turkish troops opened fire on Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) positions in northern Syria after a mortar shell fired from Syria landed in Turkish territory during clashes between ISIL and the Free Syrian Army, broadcaster NTV reported.
It said a pick-up truck, a lorry and a bus were destroyed in the Turkish retaliation on Tuesday evening. There were no reports of casualties and NTV did not say exactly where along the border the attack occurred.
CNN Turk said Turkish forces retaliated after light arms fire was directed at two Turkish military vehicles. The Turkish military was not immediately available to comment.
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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.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Libya's interior minister escaped unscathed from an assassination attempt in Tripoli on Wednesday, the LANA news agency reported. Seddik Abdelkarim, who is also deputy prime minister, was in his car when "unknown gunmen fired a barrage of bullets" at the vehicle, the agency said, adding that no one was killed or wounded in the attack.
Nawaz Sharif
[An Nahar] Syrian government forces dropped barrel bombs on rebel-held districts of Aleppo Wednesday, killing 13 people as they pressed an assault southeast of the northern city, a monitor said.
