A month after losing control of their southern base in Marjah, the Taliban have begun to fight back, launching a campaign of assassination and intimidation to frighten people from supporting the U.S. and its Afghan allies. At least one alleged government sympathizer has been beheaded. There are rumors that others have been killed. Marjah residents awake to letters posted on their doors warning against helping the troops. Hollywood's Freedom Fighters spreading their make-believe version of freedom. Perhaps Matt Damon would be kind enough to do a USO show for these islamic murderers.
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Perhaps Matt Damon would be kind enough to do a USO show for these islamic murderers.
Wouldn't that be hard to do that with his eyes shut and his fingers stuck in his ears?
Attackers killed 12 people Wednesday morning in a small Christian village in central Nigeria, officials said, cutting out most of the victims' tongues in the latest violence in a region where religious fighting already has killed hundreds this year.
The attack almost mirrored the tactics used by those who carried out similar massacres in Christian villages last week when more than 200 people were slaughtered.
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PARIS -- Members of the militant Basque separatist group ETA killed a French police officer in a shootout near Paris on Tuesday night, the French authorities said Wednesday. Officials said it was the first time a member of France's security forces had been killed by the group, which operates primarily in Spain but has long used southwestern France as a staging area for its activities. Under increasing pressure from French and Spanish law enforcement agencies, ETA has in recent months moved some of its operations deeper into France.
In a statement on Wednesday, President Nicolas Sarkozy confirmed that the officer had been killed "during an exchange of gunfire with an ETA terrorist commando unit."
On Tuesday night, the Paris prosecutor's office said, the police stopped to question four people seen filling the gas tanks of four vehicles at the side of a road in Villiers-en-Bière, a village 30 miles southeast of Paris. Although the police officers did not realize it at the time, the four cars were among six that had been stolen earlier in the evening from a nearby dealership.
For reasons that remain unclear, the officers decided to arrest the four people and were placing them in handcuffs when the two other stolen vehicles arrived at the scene. Occupants of those vehicles began shooting at the police, who returned fire, according to the Paris prosecutor's office, killing the officer. All but one of the suspects escaped.
The police arrested the remaining suspect, a 27-year-old man who reportedly spoke Basque and presented himself as an ETA operative. They also recovered what appeared to be the weapon that killed the officer, a .357 Magnum with its serial number scratched out, Agence France-Presse reported.
The French and Spanish police have detained 34 people believed to be ETA operatives this year, according to the Spanish Interior Ministry, and several of the group's top military and political leaders have been arrested in the past year. Also, large stocks of weapons and explosives belonging to the group have been seized in France in recent months.
Many experts say they believe that ETA has been seriously weakened by the recent arrests and that it has been split by a conflict between its militant and political wings. In regional elections a year ago, a pro-Spanish government came to power in the Basque region of Spain for the first time in 30 years.
Classified as a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union, ETA seeks an independent state in the Basque regions of northern Spain and southwestern France. Since its inception in 1959, the militant group has been blamed for more than 825 deaths, primarily in bomb attacks against security officers.
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It sounds like a cross fire gone awry to me. What time of day did this occur? A magnum was found, but how many round of bullet?
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ETA has ever been very, very careful, never, never, ever to attack French security forces since being able to use France as a rear base (or at least the French authorities only putting half their heart in catching ETA people) was vital for its survival.
It is not a question of firefights going awry: old ETA would have never opened fire to begin with. Now the French, and most specially the French policemen, are royally pissed off with ETA. No more looking the other way.
Whether she was seeking love or vengeance, or just an escape from her dreary, small-town existence, Colleen LaRose searched the Internet and found Muslim extremists eager to engage the unhappy American.
LaRose, 46, spent long days chained to her Pennsburg, Pa., apartment caring for an elderly parent. Now, "Jihad Jane" may now spend her life in prison unless she persuades a U.S. judge she is not a security threat.
On Thursday, LaRose makes her first court appearance since a stunning indictment last week that charged that she plotted with terror suspects abroad to kill a Swedish artist who had offended Muslims.
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- After four days of deliberation, a Cumberland County jury found hit-and-run rampage suspect Abdullah El-Amin Shareef guilty of eight charges, including first-degree murder and attempted murder, for a hit-and-run rampage that encompassed parts of three counties in 2004.
Shareef, 31, of Raeford, will be sentenced on Thursday. He faces the death penalty.
Authorities said Shareef stole a city-owned van in Fayetteville on April 14, 2004, hit and injured three men -- Robert Fortier, David McCaskill and Gary Weller -- in Fayetteville, then ran over Lonel Bass in Linden, killing him. Shareef abandoned the van, took Bass' pickup truck and continued north, authorities said, running down Seth Thompson in Harnett County before crashing the truck in Fuquay-Varina, where he was arrested.
Jurors found Shareef guilty of the first-degree murder of Bass. He was found guilty of the attempted first-degree murders of McCaskill and Weller.
Shareef was found guilty of two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury stemming from his attacks against McCaskill and Weller. Jurors found Shareef guilty of misdemeanor assault with deadly weapon against Fortier, but not guilty of the attempted first-degree murder of Fortier.
In addition to the murder and assault convictions, Shareef was also found guilty of two counts of felony possession of a stolen vehicle and one count of felonious larceny.
Shareef showed little reaction when the verdict was read. Victims and their family members hugged and cried following the verdict. Shareef pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. His attorneys have said he suffered from untreated paranoid schizophrenia at the time of the crimes.
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but not guilty of the attempted first-degree murder of Fortier
PESHAWAR: Five security personnel were killed and one injured when dozens of terrorists stormed a checkpost on Peshawar's boundary with the Khyber tribal area, a security official said on Wednesday. The official said that a security post, jointly manned by the Frontier Constabulary and the Peshawar Police, came under attack from terrorists late on Tuesday night.
The militants killed three men of the Frontier Constabulary, including a hawaldar, and two police constables,' said Senior Superintendent of Police Sher Akbar, adding that the identities of the attackers were not known.
According to official sources, security forces had picked up a police constable, who was on duty at the post, for questioning.
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QUETTA: Four officials of the Balochistan Frontier Corps (FC) were injured in a hand grenade blast followed by firing on their vehicle at Brewery Road on Wednesday, while one of the attackers was also killed.
According to local police and FC officials, the assailants first hurled a hand grenade and then opened fire at the security vehicle, which was on a routine patrol in the area. As a result, four FC personnel were injured and shifted to a hospital for treatment while one of the assailants was also killed during an exchange of fire with the FC personnel, while the rest of the attackers managed to flee.
Separately, a man was killed in an explosion in a house in the Chalobawri area of Quetta.
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LANDIKOTAL: A bomb attack blew up a NATO oil tanker at the Wali Khel area of Landikotal in the Khyber Agency on Wednesday. According to official sources, the tanker was carrying 44,000 litres of oil to NATO troops in Afghanistan.
There were no casualties in the blast. The bomb had been fitted to the oil tanker, which caught fire after the bomb went off,' the sources said. The blast resulted in the main Pak-Afghan Highway staying blocked for several hours.
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I'm surprised NATO has any (road) tankers left given the rate at which they get burned and bombed.
Probably Soviet Union era vehicle leased from Ukraine.
HANGU: At least six Taliban were killed and five arrested in a clash with a lashkar in Kurram Agency on Wednesday, officials said. Political administration officials told Daily Times that six Taliban were killed and five others arrested during a clash with the local armed lashkar at Dagar area of Kurram Agency.
Separately on Tuesday, a local lashkar killed 10 terrorists belonging to the Mullah Toofan group of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan in Kurram Agency. According to official sources, the clash occurred after the terrorists attacked a lashkar, aiming to abduct some of its members. In retaliation, the lashkar killed 10 of the attackers.
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PESHAWAR: Security forces on Wednesday killed five terrorists, including two Taliban commanders who were wanted over an uprising in Swat, the military said. Bakht Farzand and Mian Gul, who had a Rs 10 million reward on their heads, were killed along with three other militants in a clash in Pattan town.
They were killed in a joint operation launched by the Pakistan Army and police in Pattan,' the military's media centre in Swat said. One soldier and one police constable were wounded in the encounter,' it added.
The operation was mounted following an intelligence report that the militants were hiding in the area, a security official said, requesting anonymity.
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MIRANSHAH: US drone strikes killed at least 10 terrorists and injured three others in North Waziristan on Wednesday. Four drones struck a vehicle at Hamzoni, 10 kilometres west of Miranshah, at around 7:45am, killing five terrorists and injuring another.
The second attack took place in Mayzaar Madda Khel village in Datta Khel tehsil, 40 kilometres from Miranshah, at around 8am. At least five foreign terrorists travelling in a pick-up truck were killed, a security official said.
The exact identities and nationalities of the terrorists are still not known and it was not immediately known whether they included any high-value targets, but security officials confirmed the death toll.
North Waziristan's prominence in the covert US drone war has grown since a Jordanian al Qaeda double agent blew himself up killing seven CIA employees in a neighbouring Afghan province last December.
Under US pressure, Pakistan's military claims to have made big gains against Taliban and al Qaeda strongholds over the past year, following major offensives in Swat and South Waziristan.
But Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has said his government is in no hurry to launch a military offensive against terrorists in North Waziristan. We have a strategy. We have to hold the areas first and we should not be in a rush,' Gilani said.
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WASHINGTON An al-Qaida leader believed to have played a key role in the bombing of a CIA post in Afghanistan last December was apparently killed by an American missile strike last week, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday.
The counterterrorism official said Hussein al-Yemeni was believed killed in a strike in Miram Shah, the main town in North Waziristan. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information.
Drone strikes in Pakistan's border region, largely conducted by the CIA, have escalated in recent months, proving an effective way to target al-Qaida and Taliban leaders hiding in the rugged mountainous border. While Pakistani officials have criticized the strikes, it is widely believed that Islamabad privately supports the attacks and works with the U.S. to provide intelligence.
CIA director Leon Panetta said the stepped-up campaign has driven Osama bin Laden and other leaders deeper into hiding and left al-Qaida and the Taliban in Pakistan's tribal regions in disarray. "Those operations are seriously disrupting al-Qaida," Panetta told The Washington Post in an interview. "It's pretty clear from all the intelligence we are getting that they are having a very difficult time putting together any kind of command and control, that they are scrambling. And that we really do have them on the run." Well...no wonder the ACLU's pissed off.
Al-Yemeni is considered an important al-Qaida planner and explosives expert who had established contact with groups ranging from al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula to Afghan and Pakistani Taliban militant groups. He is also known as Ghazwan al-Yemeni. The counterterrorism official said al-Yemeni was in his late 20s or early 30s and was a conduit in Pakistan for funds, messages, and recruiting but that he specialized in suicide operations. ...but not anymore.
A jihadist Web site linked to al-Qaida recently announced his death, said Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer who now is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's Saban Center."This is another sign that drone operations and stepped-up efforts against al-Qaida are having an impact in the tribal regions," Riedel said Wednesday. He said al-Yemeni served prison time in Yemen in 2005 before being released and has since moved through Afghanistan and Iran and was a trainer for the Taliban.
In the CIA base attack, a Jordanian suicide bomber killed seven CIA employees and a Jordanian intelligence officer. The bomber, a Jordanian doctor identified as Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, detonated his cache of explosives at Camp Chapman, a tightly secured base in Khost. CIA officials has cultivated al-Balawi in hopes of obtaining information about al-Qaida's second in command, but he turned out to be a double agent. In a video broadcast after his death, the bomber said the attack was meant to avenge the death of the former Pakistani Taliban leader in a CIA missile strike.
Aggressive attacks against al-Qaeda in Pakistan's tribal region have driven Osama bin Laden and his top deputies deeper into hiding and disrupted their ability to plan sophisticated operations, CIA Director Leon Panetta said Wednesday. So profound is al-Qaeda's disarray that one of its lieutenants, in a recently intercepted message, pleaded with bin Laden to come to the group's rescue and provide some leadership, Panetta said. Panetta credited improved coordination with Pakistan's government and what he called "the most aggressive operation that CIA has been involved in in our history," offering a near-acknowledgment of what is officially a secret war.
"Those operations are seriously disrupting al-Qaeda," Panetta said. "It's pretty clear from all the intelligence we are getting that they are having a very difficult time putting together any kind of command and control, that they are scrambling. And that we really do have them on the run."
Panetta is one of several senior officials who have stepped forward to argue that the administration is making gains against extremists, in part to rebut Republican criticism that President Obama has weakened national security. He is not the first CIA director to point to progress in the war against al-Qaeda, claims that sometimes prove too ambitious. "I have an excellent idea of where [bin Laden] is," then-CIA Director Porter J. Goss told an interviewer in 2005.
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This article starring:
Ayman al-Zawahiri
Hussein al-Yemeni
st notably Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
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'Secret attacks' is from the journo, not apparently Panetta.
These attacks are so secret we have to wait a whole 24 hours to read about them at the Burg.
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ION DAILY TIMES.PK > 33% OF INDIANS LIVE IN A STATE OF FAMINE, conditions of which induce them = Indian youth to turn towards Radicalism including Armed Militancy-Insurgency.
* TOPIX > HUNGER, POVERTY MAJOR CAUSES FOR REGIONAL MILITANCY.
* SAME > NORTH AFRICA: AFRICAN AL QAEDA [espec AQIM] SHOULD STOP TARGETING CIVILIANS.
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While I agree the attacks are valuable, I would not say they have hobbled al Qaeda. And Obama does deserve credit for at least managing to do this right.
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Hobbling Al Qaeda is all very well, but until the various Taliban and other jihadi groups are hobbled also, the jihadi war against the West and against those they deem taqfirs -- not pius enough -- will continue unabated. Even the capture, trial and execution of Osama bin Laden himself would do nothing to end the war the jihadis continue to prosecute against all who do not believe exactly as they do.
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DAILY TIMES.PK > THAI RED SHIRTS DECLARE "CLASS WAR". Dey's is Callin' for an Uprisin'/Rebellin'!
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: One U.S. serviceman has died in a non-combat incident, the first U.S. casualty to be reported this month.
A United States Division North Soldier died of injuries sustained in a vehicle roll-over while conducting a patrol in northern Iraq, March 15,' read a U.S. army statement received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency. Three other Soldiers were injured and evacuated to a military medical facility where they are currently being treated,' the statement indicated.
The incident is under investigation,' it added.
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Vehicle accidents and helicopter crashes are the killers in peacetime.
While the military has tried to provide advanced driver training to prevent the accidents, conditions in training can't replicate those in the field. And... in the field folks can tend to get lazy.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Six persons have been injured in an explosive charge blast in the capital Baghdad, a local security source said on Wednesday.
This evening, an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by unknown men in al-Waziriya neighborhood, northeastern Baghdad, hit a military convoy, wounding four civilians and two servicemen,' the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. The blast has caused damage to a number of stores and a vehicle, the source added.
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The case against a Navy SEAL accused of not protecting an alleged Iraqi terrorist took a major turn Friday when a military judge ordered that five key defense witnesses be granted immunity to testify on his behalf.
Petty Officer 1st Class Julio Huertas is one of three SEALs accused in the controversial case, which has led to protests and calls from members of Congress for the charges to be dropped.
Huertas faces court martial for dereliction of duty, impeding an investigation and making a false official statement. A member of SEAL Team 10 at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, he was one of the commandos who captured Ahmed Hashim Abed in Fallujah in early September. A sailor guarding the detainee claimed to see one SEAL punch Abed while Huertas and a third SEAL watched.
Four other SEALs and a Navy corpsman who were present on the day of the alleged incident, including the detachment commander, dispute the guard's claims. Because they'd been told they also faced prosecution, they requested immunity before testifying in the case. Army Maj. Gen. C.T. Cleveland, the head of Special Operations Command Central, denied their requests in February.
The military judge hearing the case against Huertas, Cmdr. Tierney Carlos, said Friday that the witnesses would offer testimony shedding doubt on the guard's allegations. Not granting them immunity, he ruled, is either an attempt to gain tactical advantage over the defense or showed the government was overreaching.
Carlos gave Cleveland until March 24 to provide immunity to the witnesses or he will abate the proceeding -- a legal term for postponing it indefinitely.
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The real sh!t is that this farse is proceeding at all. War is a b!tch and the fact that it is against an undeclared opponent makes this a bigger travesty.
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This is not being done through the SEAL chain of command, and I think it is likely being done, as was suggested a while back, to punish the SEALs as an organization.
It goes back to the ship piracy action, in which the captain of the ship was taken by pirates, and the SEAL team on the US warship rescued him, captured some pirates, and offed some others, *before* they had been ordered to do so.
This deprived the not-SEAL chain of command lots of juicy micromanagement, all the way up to the White House. And they are pissed, and want to punish the SEALs over it.
However, there are a LOT of very honorable men in the Navy, with a very low tolerance for b.s., and they won't cotton to having SEALs used as pawns in some REMFs game of ass-kiss chess.
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Anonymouse, since this comes from the WH and Obambi's politico/press flacks, your comment is an insult to the honor of REMFs everywhere. Even REMFs have more integrity than this.
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The message seems to be "don't take prisoners".
Bringing a prisoner back means you face prosecution for assault or rudeness or bad etiquette or something.
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The message should be - for the guard that is doing the tattle-telling, watch your back buddy! Blanket party bingo, using rocks instead of soap bars. what a POS.
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The message should be - for the guard that is doing the tattle-telling, watch your back buddy!
Yeah, because everyone knows, there are training accidents...and then there are training accidents!
So, at what point can we openly declare Obama an enemy of The Constitution, and begin impeachment proceedings? Dear God, I hope we make it to November.
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The Major General is now in a bad fix : if he ignores the military court ruling, he can be cited for Command Interference in a Judicial Proceeding; and if he gives immunity, he pisses off Nobama. He should NOT have intervened to start with. Besides which, this military judge's ruling will follow the General for the rest of his career - making another star will be difficult at best, since the military REALLY hates commanders interfering with court martials.
A rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip killed a man inside Israel Thursday, Israeli medics said, in the first death from a rocket attack since Israel's Gaza offensive last year. Magen David Adom, Israel's emergency service, said the man killed was about 30 years old and appeared to be a farm worker from Thailand employed in an agricultural community just north of Gaza.
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There are large numbers of Thai migrant workers in Israel. I trust the relevant people do the right thing and make sure his family gets appropriate compensation.
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The Thai migrant thing is a result of the Palestinian intifadas. Before that the work was done by Palestinians on work passes from the West Bank and Gaza. But when too many of them tried killing their employers and blowing up pizzarias...
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A teenage boy was among three people shot dead by terrorists suspected insurgents in the Thai south, police said Wednesday, as the Thai premier and crown prince paid a visit to the restive region.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was due to leave Bangkok, as mass protests enter a fourth day there, to arrive on Wednesday afternoon in the troubled far south, where more than 4,100 people have been killed in six years of unrest.
The 13-year-old was killed and his mother and father were seriously injured when terrorists militants opened fire on their car in Yala town late on Tuesday night. The same night, in the main town of nearby Pattani province, a 38-year-old Muslim religious teacher was shot dead and his seven-year-old son was wounded in a drive-by shooting as they left a mosque by motorcycle.
A 43-year-old Buddhist man was also shot dead at his house in neighbouring Narathiwat province, while a police sergeant was seriously wounded on Wednesday morning in another gun attack.
Abhisit was due to arrive in Songkhla province early on Wednesday afternoon to welcome Thailand's Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, who will preside over the royal cremation of a senior police commander killed last week.
American-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki is calling for jihad against America, claiming "America is evil" in a new audio message obtained by CNN.
"With the American invasion of Iraq and continued U.S. aggression against Muslims, I could not reconcile between living in the U.S. and being a Muslim, and I eventually came to the conclusion that jihad against America is binding upon myself just as it is binding on every other Muslim," he says in the recording that runs more than 12 minutes.
CNN could not authenticate the recording as being by al-Awlaki, but sources have told CNN that they believe the voice on the recording is him and that the recording is genuine. Al-Awlaki's voice in the recording is measured and clear, as he takes on the cadence of a preacher. He singles out Muslim Americans for a provocative message:
"To the Muslims in America, I have this to say: How can your conscience allow you to live in peaceful co-existence with a nation that is responsible for the tyranny and crimes committed against your own brother and sisters? How can you have your loyalty to a government that is leading the war against Islam and Muslims?"
Just last week, Yemeni authorities subdued a New Jersey man, Sharif Mobley, as he tried to shoot his way out of a local hospital. He had been captured days before in an al Qaeda raid. Senior U.S. security officials confirmed to CNN that Mobley left his home in New Jersey to seek out al-Awlaki. The officials say that Mobley made contact with al-Awlaki and was eager to meet up with him eventually in the belief that al-Awlaki could become his al Qaeda mentor.
Al-Awlaki's sermons and recordings have been found on the computers of at least a dozen of terror suspects in the U.S. and Britain. In addition, al-Awlaki admits to having communication with U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, charged in the shooting deaths of 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in November.
In the new recording, al-Awlaki encourages the United States to release the correspondence between him and Hasan. He accuses the Obama administration of having something to hide. "His (Obama's) administration tried to portray the operation of brother Nidal Hasan as an individual act of violence by an individual. The administration practiced the control on the leak of information concerning the operation in order to cushion the reaction of the American public," said al-Awlaki.
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How can your conscience allow you to live in peaceful co-existence. There. Fixed. Muslims cannot live in peaceful co-existence with anyone, period. Not even themselves.
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.
PARIS -- Members of the militant Basque separatist group ETA killed a French police officer in a shootout near Paris on Tuesday night, the French authorities said Wednesday. Officials said it was the first time a member of France's security forces had been killed by the group, which operates primarily in Spain but has long used southwestern France as a staging area for its activities. Under increasing pressure from French and Spanish law enforcement agencies, ETA has in recent months moved some of its operations deeper into France.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: One U.S. serviceman has died in a non-combat incident, the first U.S. casualty to be reported this month.
