L'état-major des forces armées maliennes a publié deux communiqués concernant les opérations menées contre les combattants dans le cadre de la campagne « Dugu-Koloko ». Du 6 au 9 novembre, l'armée, avec le soutien de ses partenaires, a mené des frappes sur plusieurs fronts du pays.
Dans le nord, l'aviation a frappé un regroupement de combattants à 50 km de Menaka, six positions à 90 km au sud de Kidal et un point de rassemblement à 40 km de Tessalit. Selon l'état-major, toutes les cibles avaient été confirmées par les services de renseignement avant les frappes.
À l’ouest, à 65 km de Nioro, une importante base abritant des motos et des véhicules a été détruite. Près de Nampala, une patrouille a neutralisé trois combattants qui percevaient de force la zakat auprès des habitants du village de Kolima. Deux fusils d’assaut et une moto ont été saisis ; l’armée n’a pas fait état de pertes dans ses rangs. Le matin du 9 novembre, une autre cible a été frappée dans la région de Tonka.
The Malian Armed Forces General Staff has issued two statements concerning operations carried out against fighters as part of the “Dugu-Koloko” campaign. From November 6 to 9, the army, with the support of its partners, conducted strikes on several fronts across the country.
In the north, the air force struck a gathering of fighters 50 km from Menaka, six positions 90 km south of Kidal and a rallying point 40 km from Tessalit. According to the General Staff, all targets had been confirmed by intelligence services before the strikes.
In the west, 65 km from Nioro, a major base housing motorcycles and vehicles was destroyed. Near Nampala, a patrol neutralized three fighters who were forcibly collecting zakat from residents of the village of Kolima. Two assault rifles and a motorcycle were seized; the army reported no losses among its ranks. On the morning of November 9, another target was struck in the Tonka region.
Troops Kill ISWAP Commander, Mallam Ali, Two Terrorists in Fierce Battle at Adamawa Outpost
By: Zagazola Makama
Troops of the Nigerian Army have dealt a significant blow to the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorist network, neutralising two insurgents, including Mallam Ali, identified as the Amirul Fiya (commander in charge of fighting forces) of the notorious Timbuktu Triangle enclave in Borno State.
The terrorist commander was killed during a failed midnight assault on troops of 226 Battalion at their Forward Operating Base (FOB) in Zangula Kilba Junction, Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa State.
The attack occurred at about 12:05 a.m. on November 10, 2026, when ISWAP fighters launched an assault on the military position, apparently seeking to overrun the base.
However, the troops, supported by local hunters and Rangers, mounted a determined resistance, repelling the attackers and inflicting casualties on the terrorist group.
Military sources said two terrorists were neutralised during the encounter, including Mallam Ali, whose position as Amirul Fiya of the Timbuktu Triangle makes his elimination a significant operational development against ISWAP's command and fighting structure.
The Timbuktu Triangle, located within the Lake Chad operational theatre, has remained one of the strategic areas associated with ISWAP's activities, including the movement and deployment of fighters.
Following the successful defence of the base, troops recovered two AK-47 rifles, four magazines and a substantial quantity of ammunition.
The recovered ammunition included 125 rounds of 7.62mm x 54, 77 rounds of 7.62mm x 51 and 20 rounds of 7.62mm x 39, alongside two belted links of 7.62mm x 54 ammunition.
Other items recovered were a mobile telephone, wristwatch, camel bag and ₦15,000 cash.
The killing of Mallam Ali is expected to deal a blow to ISWAP's fighting hierarchy, particularly if his operational responsibilities and communication networks are further exploited through intelligence gathered from the recovered items.
Troops of the Nigerian Army have dealt a significant blow to the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorist network, neutralising two insurgents, including Mallam Ali, identified as the Amirul Fiya (commander in charge of fighting forces) of the notorious Timbuktu Triangle enclave in Borno State.
The terrorist commander was killed during a failed midnight assault on troops of 226 Battalion at their Forward Operating Base (FOB) in Zangula Kilba Junction, Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa State.
The attack occurred at about 12:05 a.m. on November 10, 2026, when ISWAP fighters launched an assault on the military position, apparently seeking to overrun the base.
However, the troops, supported by local hunters and Rangers, mounted a determined resistance, repelling the attackers and inflicting casualties on the terrorist group.
Military sources said two terrorists were neutralised during the encounter, including Mallam Ali, whose position as Amirul Fiya of the Timbuktu Triangle makes his elimination a significant operational development against ISWAP's command and fighting structure.
The Timbuktu Triangle, located within the Lake Chad operational theatre, has remained one of the strategic areas associated with ISWAP's activities, including the movement and deployment of fighters. More at the link
[Jpost] Saudi Arabia's civil defense said its air defenses intercepted and destroyed missiles launched by the Houthis, and debris fell in several locations.
Saudi Arabia said debris from two ballistic missiles intercepted by its air defenses fell in the Mecca region on Wednesday, as the kingdom and Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement exchanged attacks in an escalating conflict.
The Houthis launched the missiles towards the region, and air defenses intercepted and destroyed them, with debris falling in several locations, including Sabuhah village, Saudi Arabia's civil defense said in a statement.
The Houthis have repeatedly denied Saudi accusations that they target Mecca and Medina, Islam's two holiest cities, saying their military operations are directed at military and strategic targets elsewhere in Saudi Arabia. They have yet to comment on the latest incident.
"This hostile targeting of civilian objects constitutes a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and reflects the dangerous hostile approach pursued by the Houthi militia," Saudi Arabia's civil defense said early on Thursday.
#عاجلٌ من #صنعاء :انفجارٌ عنيفٌ مدوٍّ يهز مدينة صنعاء هزًّا قويًّا، قبل قليل
صنعاء -خاص
دويٌّ هائلٌ سُمع في أنحاءٍ واسعةٍ من المدينة، وتصاعدٌ كثيفٌ لأعمدةٍ من الدخان.
الانفجار وقع في محيط مبنى شركة النفط في شارع الستين، ومحطة المفزر لتعبئة الغاز شمالًا.
معلوماتٌ مؤكدةٌ تشير إلى أن مليشيا الحوثي الإرهابية حولت الموقعين إلى موقعين عسكريين خطيرين، ووضعت فيهما منصاتٍ لإطلاق الصواريخ وراداراتٍ عسكريةً وأنظمةَ توجيهٍ، وسط أحياءٍ سكنيةٍ مزدحمةٍ.
انفجارٌ ضخمٌ وقع داخل مخازنَ للوقود والغاز ملاصقةٍ تمامًا لمنصات إطلاقٍ وراداراتٍ، ما فجّر المكان تفجيرًا هائلًا.
تضررٌ بالغٌ لحق بعددٍ كبيرٍ من المنازل المحيطة، وحالةٌ من الذعر الشديد والترقب الكبير تسود العاصمة.
فرق الإنقاذ تتحرك تحركًا عاجلًا نحو مواقع الانفجار، والتفاصيل تتوالى تباعًا.
A violent, thunderous explosion has just rocked the city of Sanaa with tremendous force.
Sanaa - Exclusive
A massive boom was heard across large parts of the city, and thick columns of smoke rose into the air.
The explosion occurred near the National Oil Company building on Al-Sittin Street and the Al-Mafzar gas filling station to the north.
Confirmed information indicates that the terrorist Houthi militia had turned both sites into dangerous military positions, installing missile launchers, military radars and guidance systems in them amid crowded residential neighborhoods.
A massive explosion occurred inside fuel and gas storage facilities located directly adjacent to launchers and radars, causing a devastating blast.
A large number of surrounding homes were severely damaged, and a state of intense panic and anxious anticipation prevails in the capital.
Rescue teams are urgently heading to the sites of the explosions, and details continue to emerge.
سيطره قوات صنعاء على أجزاء إضافية من محافظة لحج في مناطق المضاربة والعارة، وانسحابات بالجملة من قوات العمالقة السلفية في اتجاه الشرق والجنوب.
سيكتمل الطوق حول قوات العمالقة في مطار ذوباب، وخلال ساعات أو أيام يصبحون في حكم الأسرى.
يجب على قوات الشرعية تامين جنودهم وشبابهم الذين يموتون بشكل مجاني نتيجة معركة أشعلوها غير مدروسة.
بانسحابات اليوم والتطورات في الأسبوع الأخير يمكن القول إن معركة فجر اليمن حصلت معركة عاصفة الحزم، والاثنين شهدوا خسارة كبيرة للتحالف السعودي والقوات اليمنية المواليه له.
يبدو أن قوات صنعاء تريد تحسين موقفها التفاوضي لذلك تضغط في اتجاه السيطرة على لحج كضمان موقف قوي في التفاوض من جهة، ولعقاب ميليشيات العمالقة السلفية عندما خرجت من الجنوب ناحية الشمال.
كنت أتحدث مع صديق وقلت له أن قوات العمالقة تلقت ضربة عسكرية كبيرة لن تفيق منها لسنوات، وكل الجهد والتسليح والتدريب طوال الخمس سنوات الماضية راح هباءا، وما بناه الخليجيون في 5 سنوات تم هدمه في 30 يوما.
Sanaa forces have taken control of additional parts of Lahj Governorate in the Al-Madaribah and Al-Aarah areas, while the Salafi Giants Forces are withdrawing en masse toward the east and south.
The encirclement of the Giants Forces at Dhobab Airport will be completed, and within hours or days they will effectively be prisoners.
The legitimate government forces must secure the safety of their soldiers and young men, who are dying for nothing because of a battle they recklessly started.
With today's withdrawals and the developments over the past week, it can be said that Operation Dawn of Yemen has become Operation Decisive Storm, and both have seen major losses for the Saudi coalition and the Yemeni forces allied with it.
It seems that Sanaa forces want to improve their negotiating position, so they are pressing to take control of Lahj to secure a strong negotiating position on the one hand, and to punish the Salafi Giants militias for moving north out of the south on the other.
I was talking to a friend and told him that the Giants Forces had suffered a major military blow from which they would not recover for years, and that all the effort, armament, and training over the past five years had gone to waste. What the Gulf states built in five years was destroyed in 30 days.
[FoxNews] Rioters set fires, smash storefronts in Barcelona over country's housing crisis
Unruly protesters set fires, smashed storefronts and launched fireworks at riot police across parts of Spain on Wednesday as a massive nationwide strike over soaring housing costs disrupted transportation and businesses.
Violent scenes unfolded in Barcelona, where some demonstrators vandalized stores along the city's popular Paseo de Gracia shopping boulevard, set small bonfires and launched fireworks at officers arriving in riot gear and armored vehicles, according to The Associated Press.
The violence erupted after a largely peaceful march as Spain experienced its first general strike in 14 years, with workers demanding relief from skyrocketing rents and the rising cost of living.
Housing activists claimed 400,000 people marched through Barcelona, while city officials estimated attendance at 55,000. Government officials reported another 120,000 demonstrators gathered in Madrid despite heavy rain, the AP reported.
The nationwide walkout disrupted public transportation, forced some businesses to close and blocked major roads. Police made arrests across the country, while officers used pepper spray against demonstrators in Madrid, according to the AP.
The unrest comes amid growing frustration over Spain's housing crisis, fueled in part by the eviction of an 87-year-old Madrid woman who had lived in her apartment for seven decades before reportedly facing a tripling of her rent. She died weeks later, according to the BBC.
The housing crisis has become a major political flashpoint ahead of Spain's Nov. 29 parliamentary elections, with Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez reportedly encouraging workers to exercise their right to strike.
But the demonstrations have also sparked a political clash, with conservative opposition leaders accusing Sánchez's government of exploiting the unrest for electoral gain, according to the BBC.
Meanwhile, Spain's largest labor unions declared the ongoing strike a success despite business groups disputing claims of widespread participation.
[Jpost] The IDF said Hamas used Nasser Hospital to store weapons, operate command centers, and plan attacks against Israel before the strike targeted the terror cell.
The IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) struck a Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... terror cell, including a "senior Hamas terrorist," planning to advance terror attacks from within Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, the military confirmed on Thursday.
A military source told Maariv that the "senior" terrorist who was targeted in the strike was the terror group's Khan Yunis Brigade commander.
The Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... occurred at the southern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip hospital during the night between Wednesday and Thursday, the military stated.
Hamas-linked Gazook media reports claim that six people were killed in the strike. The IDF has not yet announced a specific number of casualties.
The strike also came after Hamas murderous Moslems "had established a presence within the hospital complex and used it as a command center for military and terrorist activities against IDF troops and the State of Israel," the military added.
Such terror activity constitutes a blatant violation of international law and a cynical exploitation of civilian infrastructure," the military said, noting several examples of this.
These included "storing weapons within the hospital complex, conducting interrogations and torture by Hamas's internal security and intelligence services within the hospital complex, operating command-and-control rooms within the hospital complex, using hospital facilities as observation posts and shelters for terrorists," and more, the military said.
[AnNahar] Security forces arrested five Hezbollah members on Tuesday on the outskirts of Batroun and Bsharri. The five men reportedly had papers and maps, which they managed to tear up before their arrest.
Journalist Riad Tawk reported in a video published by Beirut Time that the documents contained lists of locations across the Koura, Batroun, and Bsharri districts, as well as references to weapons, including sniper rifles.
The five men are currently under investigation.
Following the incident, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said the era of absent accountability and impunity has ended, stressing that the ongoing investigations will have no boundary other than the rule of law.
MTV reported Wednesday that Hezbollah operatives evacuated communication devices and phones from a northern Leb ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... apartment used by the five arrested members, anticipating a raid by the ISF Intelligence Branch.
[AnNahar] Kataeb Party Leader MP Sami Gemayel said Wednesday that Hezbollah has "lost its way to the south," ending up in Fanar, Bsharri, Tannourine, and Dahr al-Baidar.
The remarks, posted Wednesday on the X platform, come after security forces arrested five Hezbollah members on the outskirts of Batroun and Bsharri.
"Dragging Lebanon into wars, defying state decisions, smuggling a truck of explosives, and having armed groups operating in the heart of Mount Lebanon are what truly threaten national security and civil peace," Gemayel said, calling for referring Hezbollah's leadership to the Judicial Council.
"If this behavior doesn't justify sending Hezbollah's leadership to the Judicial Council, we might as well abolish the council altogether," he charged.
[Rudaw] The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency on Wednesday reported another incident involving a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, less than a day after a separate tanker was struck by an unidentified projectile off Oman, amid escalating attacks on commercial shipping in the strategic waterway.
In its Warning 202-26, UKMTO, the British military agency that monitors shipping and issues alerts, classified the latest report as "Suspicious Activity." It said the status of the crew, damage assessment and environmental impact were unknown at the time of reporting.
The alert followed a separate incident on Tuesday, when the master of a tanker reported being struck by an unknown projectile 19 nautical miles northeast of Lima, Oman.
UKMTO said the crew were safe and no environmental impact had been reported. "Vessels are advised to transit with caution and report any suspicious activity to UKMTO, whilst authorities investigate," the maritime monitoring agency said in its warning.
The agency did not identify either the vessels or the party responsible for the incidents.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy said on Tuesday that a third oil tanker had went kaboom! after striking a naval mine while attempting to cross what it described as an unauthorized route through the Strait of Hormuz.
"As a result of their attempts to navigate dangerous and unauthorized routes, these tankers are striking naval mines," the IRGC Navy's public relations office said in a statement carried by the official IRNA news agency.
The alerts come amid an increase in the number of reported attacks on commercial shipping in and around the strategic waterway.
Noam Raydan, a William Sudhaus Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said in a post on X that at least seven attacks had been reported and confirmed in the Strait of Hormuz and surrounding waterways so far in November.
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) said 133 maritime incidents had been confirmed in the Strait of Hormuz and the wider Middle East region as of November 10, with 25 seafarers killed.
IMO's incident list includes the tanker GRIT, which was damaged 14 nautical miles northeast of Lima, Oman, on November 3.
Raydan said GRIT had loaded Iraqi Basra crude in late October.
She also said available data indicated that another tanker, which she identified as VIEIRA (IMO 9234654), had loaded Basrah crude the previous month. The IMO identifies the vessel under the same identification number as VIEILA.
Separately, ADNOC Logistics & Services said one of its vessels was damaged in an attack in UAE territorial waters in the Arabian Gulf on Tuesday afternoon.
"Response efforts by the relevant teams are ongoing," the company said, adding that it would provide further updates as information became available. It did not identify the vessel or those responsible.
[Rudaw] Relatives and tribal members gathered in the capital of Iraq’s western Anbar province on Wednesday for the memorial service of former Iraqi Sunni politicianAhmed al-Alwani, 57, whose body was found late Tuesday inside an apartment in Beirut.
One of Alwani’s cousins accused Lebanese Hezbollah of the killing, attributing the liquidation to Alwani’s firm political stance against the group and its affiliated armed factions in Iraq.
"All indications suggest that the computer system at Rafik Hariri Airport in Beirut was hacked by Lebanese Hezbollah, especially since Dr. Ahmed had previously expressed his political views freely regarding this party and its proxies in Iraq," his cousin, Ammar al-Alwani, told Rudaw’s Shko Omer.
Rudaw could not immediately confirm the above statements against the Iran-backed group. However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... the Sunni politician was a prominent critic of former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and a key organizer of the Sunni anti-government protest movement in Ramadi throughout 2013.
Lebanese authorities announced finding the body of Alwani late Tuesday. While local media suggested that he was strangled to death, nothing conclusive has been established.
Iraqi Parliament Speaker Haibat al-Halbousi said Wednesday that Alwani died "under mysterious circumstances," requesting Iraqi and Lebanese governments to uncover "the truth" surrounding his death.
Alwani was arrested by Iraqi forces in late 2013 and spent ten years in prison before being released following tribal mediation and advocacy efforts. Alwani had been living in Erbil since 2023 until his sudden departure for Beirut on November 5.
He maintained his political postures after relocation to Erbil. In an interview in July, Alwani claimed that "Maliki’s government ordered the arrest" on account of his stance in facing "corruption, extremism, and parties’ allegiances to other countries."
Hezbollah is an integral part of the Iran-led Resistance® Axis. The Islamic Resistance® in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iraqi armed factions loyal to Iran, is also part of the axis.
After the US-led invasion of Iraq and the ouster of dictator Saddam Hussein, Sunni groups were sidelined by Shiite political parties.
Sectarian conflict dominated the Iraqi political scene between 2006 and 2008, with tens of thousands killed in the country, excluding the Kurdistan Region.
In 2012, Maliki’s government arrested Rafi al-Issawi, then finance minister. The arrest was widely viewed by Sunni populations as an attempt to continue excluding the group in the post-2003 political system led by the majority-based Shiite rule.
Alwani was arrested at his home in the capital of Ramadi in December 2013, hours after engaging in armed festivities with security forces. His arrest came after he was accused of criminal masterminding the Sunni protests.
The officials said Ahmed al-Alwani arrived in Beirut flying in from the northern Iraqi city of Irbil five days ago. Al-Alwani had reserved a room at a hotel in Beirut's commercial Hamra district, the officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
The officials said that al-Alwani moved shortly afterward into an apartment in Beirut's Tariq al-Jedideh neighborhood that was rented for two days for $200 by two Syrians and a Lebanese national.
When the real estate agent tried to reach al-Alwani after the two days passed, the man did not answer, said the four security and two judicial officials.
On Monday night, a police force entered the apartment and found al-Alwani dead after being hit on the head then strangled.
The officials said police intelligence is questioning the taxi driver who picked up al-Alwani from the airport and a search is ongoing for the men who rented the apartment.
Al-Alwani, a Sunni Muslim, was arrested in Iraq in December 2013 after being sought on terrorism charges for inciting violence against the Shiite-led government.
Al-Alwani's brother, five guards and two troops were killed in an exchange of fire with security forces when his entourage resisted the arrest in the city of Ramadi in Iraq's western province of Anbar.
Al-Alwani was released in Iraq in April last year.
Judicial officials told AFP that surveillance cameras showed him "voluntarily arriving with two other people at the building where his body was found."
The officials added that the suspects had taken Alwani from the airport to his hotel when he arrived in Beirut last week.
[Rudaw] Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Wednesday launched artillery and dronezaps on forested mountains near several villages in Mariwan county, Kurdistan province, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reported.
The bombardment began at around 7:30 am, local time, after IRGC forces were deployed around the villages of Gagel, Haneh Sheikhan and Qamisheleh, according to local sources cited by the Gay Paree-based network.
"Several suicide (kamikaze) drones struck various locations across these heights and went kaboom!," rights group cited the source as saying, adding that the drones "were launched from IRGC military bases in other cities and were guided by the organization's personnel."
The attacks come as Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... grapples with armed insurgencies on two fronts: Kurdish opposition gangs in the west, known as Rojhelat, and Baloch gangs in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan.
The recent confrontations in Rojhelat follow months of regional tensions since the US-Israeli war against Iran began in late February.
The bombardment lasted about an hour, ending at around 8:30 am, KHRN told Rudaw English on Wednesday.
"As of the time of this report, IRGC forces remain present in the area, and the atmosphere continues to be described as heavily securitized," KHRN said.
Although the targeted mountains have no permanent residents, local people use the area to keep beehives and graze cattle, the network said. It did not report any casualties.
According to KHRN, the operations are aimed at members of Kurdish opposition groups whom Iranian authorities accuse of maintaining a presence in the mountains.
The network said similar operations have been carried out in different mountainous areas, with residents receiving advance warnings and being prohibited from entering the affected areas for two weeks.
Similar operations and access restrictions have affected areas around Shaho mountain, Kamyaran and Sarvabad over the past few weeks, according to the network.
"These operations are destroying forests and the environment. Shaho and Kosalan are protected areas under Iranian environmental law, but they build roads and develop these areas while also bombarding them," Rebin Rahmani, a member of KHRN’s board of directors, told Rudaw English.
The Shaho and Kosalan mountains were designated a protected area in 2009, according to KHRN. Environmental activists cited by the network have reported damage to forests and pastures from military activities, including the construction of bases and access roads.
Last month, Iranian forces also bombarded Shaho mountain with artillery and drones. In mid-October, IRGC forces deployed heavy equipment near Daleh Marz village in Sarvabad county and struck the Dasht-e Qalb area. Authorities also restricted access to parts of the mountains.
Those operations took place amid fighting between Iranian forces and the Eastern Kurdistan Units (YRK), the armed wing of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK). The YRK warned in October that it would respond to further IRGC attacks.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
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