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Susan Oliver aka Pilot of the Year 1970 and winner in 2760-mile transcontinental race known as the "Powder Puff Derby" aka Norma in "BUtterfield 8" aka Frequent Guest Star on TV Shows in the 50s-80s (Died in 1990 at age 58)
Bonus Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot (Too good to pass up.)
Kim Novak aka Madeleine Elster in "Vertigo" aka Gillian Holroyd in "Bell, Book and Candle" aka Carlyle 'Carly' Hardwicke in "The Notorious Landlady" aka Mildred Rogers in "Of Human Bondage" aka Linda English in "Pal Joey" and many more (age 78)
"The head of publicity of the Hollywood studio where I was first under contract told me: You're a piece of meat, that's all. It wasn't very nice but I had to take it. When I made my first screen test, the director explained to everyone: Don't listen to her, just look."
Kim Novak Trivia:
Raises horses and llamas in Oregon and California.
Has appeared in ten different issues of Playboy, the last time being January, 2004.
[Tolo News] Afghan Police has freed a trader who had been kidnapped by some kidnappers in Kabul last week.
Well done, Afghan police!
Ministry of Interior's criminal investigation department says an Afghan trader who had been kindapped in Kabul last week has been sprung in an operation launched by the department.
The criminal investigation department said the trader was freed this morning, but did not provide name and further details about him.
Three of the kidnappers including their leader have been nabbed while hiding in the 16th district of Kabul, the department added.
"Fortunately we were able to free the trader from the claws of the kidnappers," Mohammad Zaher, head of the Criminal Investigation Department said.
Investigations are underway to track the whole group.
Insecurity and intimidation are considered the biggest challenge for investment in Afghanistan.
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[Tolo News] At least 15 people were killed and 40 others including two coppers were maimed after Death Eaters attacked Kandahar police headquarters on Saturday, officials said.
Four blasts occurred near Kandahar police headquarters at 12:30 pm and beturbanned goons started gunfire at police headquarters.
Fifteen people including non-combatants were killed and 40 others were maimed in the attack, a statement released by Afghanistan's Caped President's Office said.
President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai has condemned the Kandahar attack, added the statement.
The festivities continued for about six hours.
"Insurgents had seized a business building opposite the Kandahar police headquarters and werel exchanging fire with Afghan forces in the area," Ahmad Wali Karzai, head of Kandahar provincial council told TOLOnews.
Insurgents first threw a grenade at the police headquarters and then started firing, he added.
Police had blocked the roads near the Kandahar police headquarters and government buildings near the site of the incident.
TOLOnews news hound said that Afghan national army choppers were seen hovering over the city.
The festivities continued in the police headquarters, Ministry of Information and Culture, Zarnigar Hotel and a shiite mosque in Kandahar city.
Taliban have grabbed credit for the attack.
Kandahar is bordered by Pakistain and beturbanned goons are active in some districts and villages of the province.
Nearly a month ago, a jacket wallah killed Kandahar's deputy governor as he left his home in the province.
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[Ennahar] Three gunnies were killed in less than 24 hours in the region of Sidi-Bel-Abbes (430 km west of Algiers), an Algerian security source said Saturday.
A terrorist, who had joined the gangs in 1994, was killed during a raid by security forces in the mountainous region of Tafrent, the source said, quoted by news agency APS.
Friday afternoon, two members of the terrorist group "Houmat Ed-Daawa ES-Salafia (Defenders of Salafist Preaching HDS) were killed during this operation in the same area, the source said.
The HDS is a splinter group of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), which was founded in 1996 in western Algeria.
The GIA, the most bloodthirsty of the Algerian gangs had been dismantled by the authorities in January 2005.
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[Arab News] Thousands of Algerians defied a government ban on protests and a massive deployment of riot police to rally in the capital Saturday, demanding democratic reforms a day after similar protests toppled Egypt's authoritarian leader.
Heavily armed police tried to seal off the city of Algiers, blocking streets, lining up along the march route and setting up barricades outside the city to try to stop busloads of demonstrators from reaching the capital.
But despite the heavy security, thousands flooded into downtown Algiers, clashing with police who reportedly outnumbered them at least three-to-one. A human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... activist said more than 400 people were nabbed.
"Into t'Paddy Wagon wit' yez!"
Tensions have been high in this sprawling North African nation of 35 million since five days of riots in early January over high food prices. Despite its vast gas reserves, Algeria has long been beset by widespread poverty and high unemployment, and some have predicted it could be next Arab country hit by the popular protests that have already ousted two longtime Arab leaders in a month.
Protesters chanted "No to the police state!" and "Bouteflika out!" -- a reference to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has led the nation since 1999.
The heavy police presence and barricades turned Saturday's 3-mile (5-kilometer) march into a rally at the First of May square.
Ali Yahia Abdenour, head of the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights, said women and foreign journalists were among those jugged Saturday. Abdenour, 83, was also jostled by security forces who surrounded him and tried to persuade him to go home.
Under Algeria's nearly two-decades-long state of emergency, protests are banned in the capital, but many ignored repeated government warnings to stay away. One activist called Saturday's protest a key turning point.
"This demonstration is a success because it's been 10 years that people haven't been able to march in Algiers and there's a sort of psychological barrier," said Ali Rachedi, the former head of the Front of Socialist Forces party. "The fear is gone." Organizers said an estimated 28,000 security forces were on hand for the protest, which they said drew about 10,000 participants. Officials put the protest turnout at around 1,500.
Said Sadi, head of the opposition Rally for Culture and Democracy, RCD, said the scale of the police deployment showed "the fear of this government, which is in dire straits." "We're going to continue to demonstrate and to defy the authorities until they fall," Sadi vowed.
Saturday's protest came just a day after an uprising in Egypt forced Hosni Mubarak to resign after 30 years in power and a month after another "people's revolution" in neighboring Tunisia forced autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali into exile on Jan. 14.
The success of those uprisings is fueling activists' hope for change in Algeria, although many in this conflict-scarred nation fear any prospect of violence after living through a brutal Islamist insurgency in the 1990s that left an estimated 200,000 people dead.
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[Arab News] Troops in Yemen have beaten some anti-government protesters who were celebrating the resignation of Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak and demanding the ouster of their own president.
Hundreds of protesters in Sanaa, Yemen's capital, had tried to reach the Egyptian embassy on Saturday.
The ouster of Mubarak after an 18-day uprising raised questions about the long-term stability of Yemen and other Western-allied governments in the region. President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, after serving as a lieutenant colonel in the army. He had been part of the conspiracy that bumped off his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, in the usual tiresome military coup, and he has maintained power by keeping Yemen's many tribes fighting with each other, rather than uniting to string him up. ... of Yemen has been in power for three decades and tried to blunt unrest by promising not to run again.
Witnesses say several thousand protesters were driven out of Sanaa's main square by troops and plainclothes security agents on Friday night.
The scuffles came hours after government supporters forced around 300 protesters assembled at Sanaa University to quit a demonstration. As numbers swelled into the thousands, they began marching toward the Egyptian Embassy.
"The people want the fall of the government," protesters chanted. "A Yemeni revolution after the Egyptian revolution."
But a group of government supporters confronted the protesters. Scuffles broke out and the pro-government activists used traditional knives and batons to force the protesters to flee.
Two people were lightly injured, witnesses said.
President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh, eyeing protests in the Arab world, has promised to step down when his term ends in 2013 in a major concession to opponents in the Arabian Peninsula state, a key US ally against Al-Qaeda.
He also promised not to pass power to his son.
His move followed sporadic anti-government protests, and the opposition has yet to respond to his call to join a unity government. The opposition wants talks to take place under Western or Gulf Arab auspices.
On Friday night, Yemeni authorities jugged at least 10 people after anti-government protesters in Sanaa celebrated Mubarak's downfall, US-based Human Rights Watch said.
The group said the celebrations turned to festivities when hundreds of men armed with knives, sticks, and assault rifles attacked the protesters as security forces stood by.
"The Yemeni security forces have a duty to protect peaceful protesters," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "In this case, security forces seem to have organized gunnies to attack the protesters."
There was no response from the government, which said on Saturday that it respected the choice of the Egyptian people.
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[Yemen Post] Private sources told the Yemen Post that the second in command of Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was killed in a bomb kaboom while he was preparing it to be used against Yemeni and foreign targets.
Isn't that the job of Number 4 technician types? You let management into the lab, you get trouble, just like this.
Last month, Al-Shihri announced a holy war against the Houthi northern Shiites in Sa'ada, Jawf, and Ameran, accusing Iran's regime of backing Iranian catspaws.
Al-Shihri, 35, did not finish high school and worked on trade before joining Al-Qaeda. Yemeni authorities accused him of being behind the operation that targeted the U.S. embassy in Sana'a.
Saeed Bin Ali Bin Jaber Al-Shihri or as called ''Abu Sufyan Al-Azdi", who was nabbed near the Pak-Afghani border at the end of 2001, trained on the methods of fighting inside cities in a camp located in the north of Kabul, Afghanistan, according to documents disclosed by the Pentagon as part of his file in Guantanamo Bay.
He arrived in Afghanistan two weeks after the September 11 attacks 2001, via Bahrain and Pakistain. Afterward, American interrogators said that he sought to participate in relief efforts.
He was jugged in Guantanamo Bay for six years. He was then received by Soddy Arabia along with 11 others including the former leader of Al-Qaeda Mohammed Al-Awfi who both underwent the counseling program of the Saudi intelligence for a year before he disappeared to appear later in Yemen in mid-2008.
That went well.
Saeed Al-Shihri got married to Wafa after returning from Guantanamo Bay through her brother, Yusuf Al-Shihri the wanted person No. 85 to the Saudi authorities. He was Saeed's companion in Guantanamo Bay. Yusuf Al-Shihri was killed in October of 2009. The Saudi intelligence announced that it found in Yusuf Al-Shihri's phone an audio video recording of Saeed Al-Shihri requesting financial support.
In 2009, Al-Qaeda in Yemen announced its merger with Soddy Arabia's Al-Qaeda organization to form Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
I seem to recall something about Saudi Arabia becoming an unwelcoming environment... and staffing inexplicably falling below acceptable levels. That whole "mutual synergies" thingie was only offered as a justification later.
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Thousands of protesters, including youths, human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... activists, journalists, and lawyers erupted into the streets in Yemen's provinces in joy after the announcement of the Egyptian President Mubarak's fall.
In Sana'a, tens of thousands of demonstrations celebrated in the streets, saluting the Egyptian people's move, and calling for Yemeni people to revolt against the Yemeni government.
Protesters chanted ant-government slogans, demanding President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... to step down.
In return, Yemeni security forces intercepted protesters on their ways to the Egyptian embassy stopped them to reach the embassy.
In Aden, Taiz, Hadramuot, and all provinces thousands of protesters staged to the street hailing the fall of the Egyptian President.
On the other hand, youths and activists called on Facebook for Yemeni people to hold a rally in order to protest against the Yemeni regime.
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[Yemen Post] Thousands of college students and other people marched on Saturday to Tahrir Square in a peaceful demonstration that originated at Sana'a University, but 'bullies' prevented them from walking into the square where rustics and pro-regime fans have been stationed.
The bullies or pro-Saleh protesters started to clash with the anti-government demonstrators who withdrew saying our demonstration is peaceful.
But Saleh's supporters pursued them and hurled stones at them. There were no injuries and the anti-government protesters ended their demonstration vowing they will continue their protest after the Tunisian and Egyptian people.
Early today, pro-government protesters gathered at Sana'a University and when students wanted to take to the streets they clashed with them injuring a student. Also, guards at the university nabbed five student protesters.
Thousands of pro-regime people are continuing to occupy Tahrir Square in an attempt to prevent people or opposition rally from coming here to liberate themselves after the victorious Egyptian people.
Among the maneuvers by the ruling party, many tents have been set up in the square including those for selling books, bags and other materials. Plus, Minister of State and Mayor of the Secreatariat Capital Abdul Rahman al Akwa'a opened today plastic art and handicrafts exhibitions in the square.
Anti-government protesters rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud: Go Ali after Mubarak, the people want to oust the regime, and quit our tyrant leader.
In the meantime, the Joint Meeting Parties, the opposition, which has recently stepped up protest against the regime will hold on Sunday a presser in Sana'a, head of the opposition coalition said.
The opposition also plans to launch the second stage of their protest that will including massive demonstrations.
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As per CNN + FOX NEWS this AM, despite the Egyptian Military's claim that its intervention is NOTa substutute for PROPER LEGAL/CONSTITUTIAL CIVILIAN GOVT, + its Pledge to support Free Elections in September as under Egyptian law. MANY TAHRIR SQUARE PROTESTERS ARE VOWING TO STAY IN SAME UNLESS FREE ELEX ARE IMMEDIATELY HELD, OR IN ALTERNAT WIDIN 60 DAYS, + A NEW COALITION CIVIL GOVT. IS FORMED.
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* NEWS KERALA > ANALYSTS DOUBT EGYPT ARMY'S COMMITMENT TO SMOOTH TRANSITION OF POWER, given its historical preferences.
CSIS-vs-Egyptian Pert Opinion.
* DAILY TIMES.PK > PEOPLE REVOLUTIONS [People Power] DOESN'T GUARANTEE DEMOCRACY, espec as described in 2005 Report by US-based FREEDOM HOUSE Human Rights Group.
President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, after serving as a lieutenant colonel in the army. He had been part of the conspiracy that bumped off his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, in the usual tiresome military coup, and he has maintained power by keeping Yemen's many tribes fighting with each other, rather than uniting to string him up. ... chaired on Friday evening an expanded meeting with the National Defense Council, politicians and the security committee.
This meeting came after Egyptian President Mobark's resignation in which he handed his authorities to the Egyptian Military Council peacefully after the call of the of Egyptian people to step down.
President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... discussed several issues regarding economic reforms and the efforts of construction and modernization of the armed forces as well as issues related to improving the wages of government staff and personnel of the armed and security forces.
He also approved new measures to launch the financial allowances for government employees, following the application of the 3rd phase of the strategy of wages and salaries in order to improve their living conditions.
President Saleh endorsed necessary measures to reduce public expenditures of all government facilities and stop purchasing any accessories or building any unnecessary buildings, giving priority to equip the completed buildings and facilities.
During the meeting he stressed the need to combat tax evasion and take legal action against taxes and customs duties evaders.
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Seven armed suspects and one civilian were killed in a shootout in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon early Saturday morning, according to Mexican press accounts. The shootout involving criminal suspects and state police stretched in the Las Puentes and Santo Domingo sectors of San Nicolas de los Garza, a suburb of Monterrey.
The shooting incident began when Nuevo Leon Seguridad Publica del Estado (SPE) police agents initiated a pursuit of armed suspects who were aboard three vehicles. Reports say the gunfight and pursuit last almost an hour.
The pursuit included gunfire exchange and ended at the intersection of avenidas Republica Mexicana and Santo Domingo in front of a public park where armed suspects crashed into four other vehicles including a taxi. The unidentified driver of a privately owned vehicle died in the crash.
The seven armed suspects who died were killed by state agent gunfire. Shades of the RAB...
Two unidentified state police agents were hurt in the pursuit, one of the seriously injured requiring hospitalization. Seven other armed suspects escaped arrest.
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Actually, army on gang gunfights in Nuevo Leon are down since about December, especially since the deployment of new Mexican security forces in the north and the combining of the Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon Mexican army zones for specific operations.
Now, gang on police facilities assaults are way up. My guess is that those are cyclical with drug shipments through Monterrey, and they seem to coincide with crappy weather on the border.
Seventeen individuals were murdered in ongoing dfrug related violence in the northern Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora, according to Mexican press accounts. For a map, click here
A woman in her 20 was found shot to death in southern Chihuahua state Friday. Unice Salazar Lozoya, 25, was found near the Jimenez-Camargo highway days after she was reported abducted in Camargo. The victim suffered a single gunshot wound to the head.
Two unidentified men were shot to death in southern Juarez. The victims were leaving the Clinica Contra Adicciones drug rehabilitation center near the Bip Bip Rapiditos convenience store near the intersection of calles Centeno and Jilotepec where they were shot by several armed suspects.
Two unidentified ranch workers were found shot to death near Trias, Chihuahua, west of Chihuahua city Friday. The victim were found on the Ejido Santa Rosa in the Angel Trias colony shot numerous times and left beneath a Dodge Dakota farm truck.
An unidentified man was shot to death in Juarez Friday. The victim was attacked by armed suspects at his residence near the corner of calles Pablo Tellez and Mijes in the Azteca colony. Reports say the shooters arrived in a Chevrolet Tahoe prior to the shooting.
One Juarez municipal police was shot to death and another was shot and seriously wounded in Juarez Friday night. Gerardo Garcia and Arturo Hernandez were attacked aboard their official patrol vehicles near the intersection of avenidas Paseo Triunfo and Vicente Guerrero. Reports do not make clear which officer died.
An unidentified man in his 30s as shot to death in his car in Juarez Friday night. The victim was driving his Cadillac Deville sedan when he was shot near the intersection of calles Michoacan and Miguel Hidalgo in the Salvarcar colony. Family members at the scene said the victim had been under a death threat for some time before he was killed.
One unidentified armed suspect was killed and three others were arrested in a shootout in Juarez Friday nught. The suspects were intercepted by a unit of the Policia Federal near the corner of calles Morelia and Tecnologico when the shooting started. Three of the victim's accomplices attempted to escape through the Pink Panther bar nearby, but were placed under arrest before they could make good their escape.
An unidentified teenage male was shot to death in northern Chihuahua, Chihuahua. The victim was shot in the Real de Mina colony as he was walking with acquaintances when armed suspects aboard a sedan shot at the victim, killing him.
Five unidentified men were found shot to death in two separate crimes near Chihuahua city Saturday.
Four men were found shot to death on a road near the town of El Sauzal. The victims were gagged, hands bound and shot once each.
A man was found shot to death on the road to Gran Morelos. The victim was gagged with his hands bound, and shot several times.
A kidnap victim was found dead in Juarez Satutday. Laura Evangelina Murillo Flores, 42, was abducted days ago, and negotiations for a ransom payment were in progress. The victim was found near the corner of calles Quinta Blanca and Vicente Guerrero in the Las Quintas colony.
An unidentified individual's skeletal remains were found near Sonoyta, Sonora Friday. The victim was found on Kilometer 20 of the Sonoyta-Puerto Peñasco road. The victim had been shot to death, and several spent AK-47 assault rifle cartridge casings were found at the scene.
[Arab News] Colombian rebels released to the International Red Thingy on Friday two more captives, a young marine they captured eight months ago and a 48-year-old town councilman seized in 2009. That brought to three the number of captives that the leftist The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, have released this week. Two more liberations are slated for Sunday.
The two were flown to safety from remote southern Colombia in a Brazilian military helicopter.
However, The infamous However... hopes that a new batch of liberations by the FARC could augur peace talks were dampened by the kidnapping Wednesday by suspected rebels of two men authorities identified as paper company employees.
That same day, the FARC freed another town councilman, its first unilateral release of a captive since May of last year.
President Juan Manuel Santos complained Thursday that the new abductions indicated the FARC was playing "a double game" -- "on the one hand mounting liberations with great fanfare and on the other continuing to kidnap." He said he had considered suspending permission for the liberations but decided against it thinking of the families awaiting the men.
In all, 17 so-called "political" hostages of the FARC have been freed since early 2008. Fewer than 20 remain in rebel custody, several for more than 12 years. All the releases have been brokered by leftist ex-Sen. Piedad Cordoba.
One of two Brazilian choppers loaned for the mission was used Friday to evacuate a soldier from the area. Armed forces chief Adm. Edgar Cely said the soldier's left foot was blown off by land mine.
Normally, freed hostages have arrived to freedom in the gear they wore as captives in the jungle: rubber boots, sweat pants and the like.
The councilman freed Friday, Armando Acuna, was wearing a light gray suit and a pink tie when he got out of the helicopter in the southern quiet provincial capital of Florencia.
He told news hounds they were gifts of the rebels.
The FARC, Latin America's last remaining rebel army, has been fighting a succession of Colombian governments since 1964. It has suffered a series of withering blows in recent years, including the killing of its military chief, Jorge Briceno, in a September bombing raid.
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[Geo News] KARACHI: A man was killed while five others injured in a shootout in Khada Market, Layari, here on Saturday.
The incident took place in Khada Market, Layari area when five pedestrians were attacked by unknown suspects riding on a cycle of violence. The victims were critically injured, and were being taken to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi (CHK) when Imran, 25 pegged out.
The other injured were Jamsahid, Ali Akber, Hafeez and Sikander.
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[Geo News] The security forces carried out a search operation on the tip off locals at Gumbat area of Batkhela Malakand agency when a jacket wallah blew up the explosives injuring three soldiers.
According to ISPR, the security forces encircled the bomber who went kaboom! the detonators tied with his body whereas another would be bomber was nabbed before he could explode the explosives.
Moreover, five suspected beturbanned goons have been nabbed during the search operation.
The injured soldiers were shifted to the nearby hospital. The security forces cordoned-off the area.
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[Al Jazeera] At least 28 people have been killed and more than 20 others maimed in an suicide kaboom on Shia Mohammedan pilgrims near the Iraqi city of Samarra, according to police sources.
Women and children were reportedly among the victims of Saturday's bombing.
The attack, which targeted pilgrims on travelling on a bus, was the second suicide kaboom this week near Samarra, a Sunni-majority city, about 100km north of Storied Baghdad.
Jane Arraf, Al Jizz's correspondent in Storied Baghdad, said: "This attack appears to have been particularly daring.
"According to police sources, a jacket wallah managed to get on to a slowly moving bus that was heading out of a parking lot, filled with Shia pilgrims."
The AFP news agency quoted a police official and a hospital source as saying that "about 27" people were killed in the attack. The Rooters news agency reported police sources as putting the toll at 28.
Samarra houses the gold-domed shrine of Hassan al-Askari, a revered ninth century imam, which draws pilgrims from Iraq and round the world.
Saturday marked the annual commemoration of his death.
Eight people were killed and 30 maimed on Thursday when a suicide car boomer attacked a group of Shia Mohammedan pilgrims heading to the city.
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"Iraqi pilgrims" and "suicide blast" always go together.
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Fairly thorough article, and given what was published at the time BEFORE these Professional geeks got into their pondering, it seems the amateur geeks were spot-on in their analysis.
Eighteen people, including soldiers and civilians were wounded when a homemade bomb hidden in a pickup truck blew up in Yala city center today. A local police spokesman said seven were seriously wounded and taken to the hospital.
A closed-circuit television camera showed that a man parked his pick-up in the city center around 7:30 a.m. before the bomb was detonated remotely while soldiers were passing.
The police spokesman said the fire caused by the explosion damaged 12 shops with losses estimated at 10 million baht. Firemen spent around three hours to get the blaze under control.
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.
Kim Novak Personal Quote:
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President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
[Yemen Post] Private sources told the Yemen Post that the second in command of Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was killed in a bomb 
Eighteen people, including soldiers and civilians were wounded when a homemade bomb hidden in a pickup truck blew up in Yala city center today. A local police spokesman said seven were seriously wounded and taken to the hospital.
