At Herat, Ismail Khan's men have set up a checkpoint on the border with Iran and taken control of the main hospital and prison. He is planning local elections but said he has no "desire for power'' himself. Excited crowds at the city's main bazar jostled for a chance to buy bright yellow packets of U.S. food aid.
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Politically correct revisionism in Noo Yawk... OJ to honor Ground Zero with his presence... Enron shredded evidence... Museum works to trivilialize the Holocaust... California congressman scores 50 Grand in pork for tatoo removal... California to sue PG&E for going bankrupt...
At the behest of the Professionally Sensitive, a model of the three firefighters raising the flag which was unveiled on December 21, to have replicated the photo exactly, was reworked to depict firefighters of three different races (the original three were all white), because "people of all races contributed to the rescue effort." OJ is expected to tour Ground Zero as part of a new documentary he's making about his "life and times and the American justice system." The firm that audited the books of collapsed Enron Corp., Arthur Andersen LLP, disclosed that a "significant but undetermined" number of documents related to the company had been destroyed. A Jewish museum's planned exhibit that includes a Lego concentration camp and "designer" canisters of poison gas was criticized as trivializing the atrocities committed during World War II. Rep. Lois Capps, D-Calif., scored $50,000 in federal funding last month for a tattoo removal program in her Santa Barbara, Calif., district. California's attorney general filed suit against PG&E Corp., alleging the San Francisco-based company engaged in illegal, unfair and fraudulent business practices that drove its utility subsidiary Pacific Gas and Electric Co. into bankruptcy. PC Rampant, OJ, Stinking Corruption, Trivializing the Suffering of 6 Million, Pork, and Demagogues. I repeat: Mickey Kaus was right, just a little off on his time frame. Which shall we choose? The Banality of Evil? Or the Evil of Banality?
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Spanish authorities have smashed a fraud ring based in the Canary Islands that they believe may have links to Lebanese militant group Hizbollah and the pro-Syrian Shi'ite Amal movement. The two-year investigation led by high-profile High Court judge Baltasar Garzon ended with the arrest of 17 people including the suspected leader of the ring, Lebanese citizen Mohammed Jamil Derbah.
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Abu Qatada, 40, a Muslim cleric living in London has been named by the Spanish authorities as a pivotal figure in the al-Qa'ida terror network in Europe. Qatada, a Palestinian with Jordanian nationality, is named as al-Qa'ida's "spiritual leader" in Europe and one of its key financiers.
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The Moro National Liberation Front has abandoned its 1996 peace agreement with the Phillipine government, said a spokesman for Nur Misuari, a former rebel leader and the governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. About 600 gunmen from the rebel faction attacked an army camp in the deadliest fighting since the peace deal took effect.
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Indian troops shot dead 11 Mujahideen in three encounters around Srinagar, while seven civilians were injured in two landmine explosions. Six gunmen killed belonged to the Hizbul Mujahideen group.
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Peru arrested a Pakistani man on terrorism charges in coordination with U.S. and European intelligence agencies and Interpol. Interior Minister Fernando Rospigliosi said the 24-year-old man was arrested in southern Peru and was being brought to Lima for investigation. He gave no details of his alleged crime. Officials could not supply his name.
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15 people occupied an office of the ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Chemnitz, eastern Germany, protesting the recent parliamentary vote to provide up to 3,900 soldiers for the US-led anti-terror alliance. The protesters released a declaration, condemning "the parliamentary approval of German military participation".
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
