Colombia's military says five soldiers have been killed in the country's northeast in combat with leftist rebels. The local commander, Gen. Paulino Coronado, says the five were killed Friday in a rural area of Tibu, a hotly contested coca-growing region near the Venezuelan border.
Coronado said Saturday his troops mounted the offensive in Tibu against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in February. Colombia's military command says the FARC blew a hole in the Cano Limon oil pipeline in the area on Wednesday, spilling 4,000 barrels of crude into the Tibu River.
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the FARC blew a hole in the Cano Limon oil pipeline in the area on Wednesday, spilling 4,000 barrels of crude into the Tibu River.
Of course the international media were all over this deliberate environmental catastrophe. Wait, they weren't? Why could that have been?
Turkish air strikes in northern Iraq this week left more than 150 Kurdish rebels dead, the Turkish army says. "According to initial estimates, this operation allowed us to neutralise more than 150 terrorists," the army said in a statement on its website.
A PKK spokesman said that only six rebels were killed and they were from a different faction.
Didn't hardly know them ...
Turkey has staged several cross-border raids into northern Iraq over the past few months in pursuit of the rebels. The strikes, which began on Thursday and ended on Friday, were carried out against PKK guerrillas based in the Qandil Mountains in northern Iraq, the Turkish army says.
All targeted posts in Qandil area were destroyed during the operation, according to the Turkish army's statement.
KHAR: A bomb exploded at Akbar Shaheed Market early on Saturday, destroying three shops and partially damaging eight others. No casualties were reported in the blast, which was heard in remote areas of Bajaur Agency. The Bajaur Police said it was investigating the incident.
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Unidentified militants blew up a music CD centre, along with 16 other shops, in the Kabal tehsil of Swat late on Friday, while police defused a separate bomb.
The bomb, which went off in the Kala Kilay area and destroyed the music centre, caused millions of rupees worth of lost property. The remote-controlled device detonated at 2am, APP reported.
Separately, police said that a bomb disposal squad had defused a 20-kilogramme bomb and that cases had been registered against unidentified militants and investigations had started. The Online news agency quoted locals as saying that the Taliban had threatened owners of the CD Centre to shut down their business in the past. Following a deadlock in talks between the provincial government and the Taliban, the law and order situation in Swat is worsening. Armed Taliban have started patrolling the areas of Manglor, Kabal and Matta.
On Saturday, Malakand Range Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Tanvirul Haq Sipra told a cheque-distribution ceremony for the families of policemen killed during the Swat insurgency that a police housing colony and public school would be opened in the region.
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Activists of the Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) killed a man in Sarband Police Station jurisdiction on Saturday, police said. Sources within the police told Daily Times that Mukarram, son of Asadullah, was chastised by LI men for not offering Asr prayers and standing outside a mosque. When Mukarram told the men that it was his personal matter, the LI men shot him dead. Locals blocked the Bara Road after the incident. However, no first information report (FIR) was registered by the time this report was filed. LI men previously attacked a shrine in Shaikhan village on March 3 and killed at least 12 people in the limits of Badbher Police Station. LI chief Mengal Bagh and 500 other people were charged for the attack on the shrine and killing of villagers.
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I find it odd that this would merit an MNF press release - is it news that Saddam is still dead? I also find it unusual that we hear of SF operating alone, rather than as advisors to Iraqi units. There's a message being sent in this piece.
BALAD, Iraq U.S. Special Forces soldiers detained seven suspected insurgents and killed four during a reconnaissance patrol in the Jazeera Desert, approximately 237 miles north of Baghdad, May 1. Approximately?
U.S. SF soldiers conducted a patrol to identify enemy safe havens and weapons caches in an area where insurgents have been known to conduct operations.
During the patrol, U.S. SF soldiers came under small-arms fire and returned fire killing two armed individuals near the village of Lazaga. As U.S. SF soldiers cleared a building in the village, they found two men holding hand grenades. Both men were shot and killed after displaying hostile intent. A further search of the village led to the detention of seven suspected insurgents.
This patrol is one of several recent operations in the Jazeera Desert to disrupt insurgent activity in the area. The detention of these seven individuals will also improve the security situation and help reduce attacks against Iraqi and Coalition forces, said Col. Bill Buckner, Multi-National Corps Iraq spokesman.
The U.S. military said Sunday a roadside bomb killed four Marines in western Anbar province - the deadliest attack in that area in months. The Marines were killed Friday, but no other details of the incident were released.
Anbar was once a stronghold for insurgents battling against U.S. forces. But in the past year the vast desert province has largely been calmed with the rise of the Awakening Council movement - Sunni fighters who woke up and now turn their guns on al-Qaida instead of U.S. forces.
Thursday's attack was the most lethal in Anbar since Sept. 6, when four Marines were killed in combat. The military did not release details of those deaths.
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In 1988, former leader Saddam Hussein gassed his own people in the city of Halabja. For the U.S. he was then seen as a good boy.
Today, the power that helped Saddam build the same chemical weapons he dropped on Halabja is reported to be carrying out a repeat of his crimes. That is the impression several Iraqi members of parliament had following a fact finding mission of the Sadr City in Baghdad which the U.S. occupation troops have been bombarding and encircling for weeks.
The aerial bombardment and military operations the U.S. is carrying out in Sadr city are similar to what happened in Halabja, Iraqi member of parliament Falah Hassan said.
Except for the poison gas. And the murder of women and children. Other than that ...
U.S. helicopter gun ships and warplanes have been pounding the city, home to more than 2 million people their declared aim is to have it flushed of gunmen. While gunmen are nowhere to be found, those bearing the brunt of U.S.s disproportionate use of force are none but the citys impoverished inhabitants.
Sadr City is a warren of mainly one-story houses, most of them shabby and dilapidated. Iraqi demographers say the city is even more densely populated in terms of the number of people per square kilometer than the city of Gaza in Palestine.
Last weeks count by the Sadr Movement whose military wing the Mahdi Army is resisting U.S. occupation put the number of civilians killed at more than 800. The U.S. only speaks of killing armed men.
Iraqi legislators who visited the city said they found no gunmen on the streets and narrow lanes of Saddam City. Nope, not a one, but we did see fluffy bunnies and baby ducks.
Kurdish legislators who were on the visit also made parallels between what Saddam did in Halabja and what the U.S. is currently doing in Saddam City. The Kurdish deputies spoke on the strict condition of anonymity.
The current situation in Saddam City is no less tragic than when Halabja was gassed as those that are being targeted and killed (by U.S. fire) are innocent people, said Hassan who had arranged for the deputies to visit the city.
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Yeah, yeah. It's an outrageous claim. But I found that I couldn't bother to slog through the article. That's bad news for our enemies who rely soley on propaganda rather than strength or right of cause. Blah, Blah..."occupation". Why should I waste my time pondering the meaningless claims of compulsive liars?
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800 civilians dead? Show us the bodies. Can't do it? Well, how about 80? Still can't do? Then surely you can come up with 1%, 8 innocent bodies. And who are these members of parliament. Name us a few. Ah shucks, just kidding yuz guys. I'm really one of the MSM boyz and I wouldn't doubt your word. Not for a minute. Nope, not even a minute.
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The agenda of the reporter is totally given away by the fact that halfway through the article, instead of calling the area "Sadr City", he begins to refer to it as "Saddam City". Another lying Baathist POS trying to turn a victory into a defeat. May he be infected with 30 unknown diseases that cause boils, an itching rash, and super-sensitive skin.
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If Saddam had used conventional bombs, then there would be a comparison. America is using the rules of engagement and following the Geneva Convention, which is like 1 hand behind our back.
BAGHDAD - At least 24 people were killed and 26 injured in separate attacks in Iraq, sources and US military said on Saturday.
US air force continued to strike Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City on Saturday, killing 18 people and wounding 23, medical sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. The sources said the dead included camp-followers women and shields children. The air raids come as part of a security offensive launched by the Iraqi government on March 25 and aimed at clearing Sadr City of militants and criminal gangs.
Meanwhile, the US military said their soldiers killed six suspected terrorists during operations in Baghdad on Friday and Saturday.
During military operations in Jabla, in the southern city of Hillah, joint US-Iraqi security forces detained 29 suspected terrorists, security sources said, adding that a number of weapons and explosives were also confiscated.
In Kirkuk, some 250 kilometres north of Baghdad, three Iraqi police officers were wounded when a bomb went off targeting an Iraqi patrol, police sources said.
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An air raid in northern Iraq earlier this week killed more than 150 Kurdish rebels, reported the Turkish military Saturday. The military said it successfully hit all its targets in a three-hour air operation on Mount Qandil. The raid ended early Friday. The military had said earlier its warplanes bombed the Kurdish rebel group PKK deep inside Iraq but had not given casualty figures. The leadership of the Kurdish rebel group is believed to be hiding in the Qandil region - about 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the Turkish border.
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Keep the pressure on the PKK terrorists, and the Iraqi Kurds will emerge as a state with good relations with the Turks. The sub groups within ethnic groups have been the bad apples in a lot of barrels for a very long time. keep whackin em.
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I agree with TP2099: If you can't settle for half a loaf now, with the possiblity of getting more later, then you deserve everything you're getting.
The Georgian Defense Ministry says two servicemen from the former Soviet republic have been killed in Iraq. Defense Ministry spokesman Giga Tatishvili says the two died Friday when a booby-trapped car exploded 35 kilometers (22 miles) southeast of Baghdad. Tatishvili said Saturday that another Georgian serviceman was wounded in the attack. The impoverished nation in the strategic South Caucasus region is a devoted US ally. It has had 2,000 troops serving in the US-led coalition forces in Iraq since August 2003.
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I might be wrong, but I believe they have 3,200 in country. The Georgian brigade is in Wasit Province and is key in securing the Iranian border in that region.
A Palestinian man has died of his wounds after IDF soldiers shot him close to a checkpoint in the southern West Bank, police said Saturday. The IDF said the 30-year-old man approached the checkpoint carrying a knife on Friday and attempted to stab a soldier. The army said troops opened fire and wounded the man, identified as Khalil Zaarir. He later died in an Israeli hospital.
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Life is hard.
It's harder shorter if you're stupid homicidal.
RIP. (Rest in pieces.)
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This headline gets the "hardest to read" award of the day.
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Commas are now going for $1.200 the EM - must conserve - hypens chepaer: But better?
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As Allah wills it. "Really," the poor god must be saying to himself,"when will these stupid people recognize my message? Must I cause Iran and Syria to be conquered as well?" Picture the slumped shoulders as their god sets about seeing to what must be done, to make the Muslims submit as they promise five times daily.
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Poor Allah! I'm starting to feel sorry for the old dude. If I was a deity with such chump-ass followers, I'd shoot myself.
Imagine you are sitting around with the rest of the gods at happy hour when Odin turns to Yaweh with an air of feigned non-chalance and says "So, what have your people been up to lately?" Poor ol' Allah just rolls his eyes and thinks "Here we go again."
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"If I was a deity with such chump-ass followers, I'd shoot myself."
If I were a diety with such chump-ass followers, Steve, I'd shoot the chumpsfollowers.
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Ummm, Barbara, a sudden thought, maybe, just maybe, that's really what's happening here, allah has turned his back on his "Too stupid to live" followers(using the word extremely loosely) and we're doing allah's job of extermination of those he deems too stupid to live?
He's certainly NOT helping them.
Hmmm?
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Egyptian security forces found hundreds of kilograms of explosive material in the central Sinai Peninsula, reported Israel Radio Saturday afternoon. Egyptian sources believed that the explosives were intended for transfer to the Gaza strip.
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One passenger died and 13 others were injured and hospitalised when four passenger carriages of a train ran off the rails in southern Songkhla province, raising suspicions that terrorists militants may have torn up the tracks. The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) said Sunday morning that the cause of the accident was not yet determined. Normal service was to be restored Sunday afternoon.
Fourteen injured passengers were sent to a hospital in Hat Yai city. One man died shortly after admission, of multiple abdomen injuries, officials said. An expectant mother travelling as well gave birth at the hospital, they said. Both mother and her newborn child were in safe condition.
The accident raised suspicions that southern terrorists militants had torn up the rails, as they have done dozens of times in the past. Railway experts were investigating the accident on Sunday.
Scattered gunbattles and a roadside bomb blast in Sri Lankas embattled north killed 11 Tamil Tiger rebels and three government soldiers, the military said Saturday.
Sporadic fighting in northern Mannar district killed 10 rebels and two soldiers on Friday. Fifteen insurgents and four troops were also wounded, said a Defence ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of government regulations. Tamil guerrillas triggered a bomb targeting an army truck in northeastern Welioya region Friday night, killing one soldier. Separately, a gunbattle along the front lines in Welioya killed one Tamil rebel and wounded 13 others, four of them soldiers, he said.
Rebel spokesman Rasiah Ilanthirayan was not immediately available for comment Saturday.
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The Scimitar is awesome, love it.
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OT Movie Review: Iron Man - just got back from seeing it with #2 son - 5 stars - loved it! Jihadis are bad guys, they get killed doing bad things, the US military are good guys(!), snappy and funny dialogue/script, Robt Downey Jr was actually really good as Tony Stark, even Gwyneth Paltrow (who I can't stand) was....good as Pepper Potts. Good special effects, and his V2.0 suit was killer. Highly recommended
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by the way, it was playing at the gynormous multi-plex every half hour and the 11AM show was 3/4 full. Should make big bucks. Are you listening, Hollywood? Amazing that it's not a "Lions for Lambs", "In The Valley of Elah" or "Redacted"-type anti-American money loser, and the public likes it. Go figure?
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yep, Via Drudge: The total combined estimated global box office for Marvel Studios' Iron Man is $201,000,000.
for 3 days....
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Say, ever notice that you never see Gloria Talbott and Yvonne Craig in the same place at the same time. Just sayin' is all.
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or Betty Page?
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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.
Turkish air strikes in northern Iraq this week left more than 150 Kurdish rebels dead, the Turkish army says. "According to initial estimates, this operation allowed us to neutralise more than 150 terrorists," the army said in a statement on its website. 
Activists of the Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) killed a man in Sarband Police Station jurisdiction on Saturday, police said. Sources within the police told Daily Times that Mukarram, son of Asadullah, was chastised by LI men for not offering Asr prayers and standing outside a mosque. When Mukarram told the men that it was his personal matter, the LI men shot him dead. Locals blocked the Bara Road after the incident. However, no first information report (FIR) was registered by the time this report was filed. LI men previously attacked a shrine in Shaikhan village on March 3 and killed at least 12 people in the limits of Badbher Police Station. LI chief Mengal Bagh and 500 other people were charged for the attack on the shrine and killing of villagers.
The U.S. military said Sunday a roadside bomb killed four Marines in western Anbar province - the deadliest attack in that area in months. The Marines were killed Friday, but no other details of the incident were released.
In 1988, former leader Saddam Hussein gassed his own people in the city of Halabja. For the U.S. he was then seen as a good boy.
Iraqi legislators who visited the city said they found no gunmen on the streets and narrow lanes of Saddam City. 
A Palestinian man has died of his wounds after IDF soldiers shot him close to a checkpoint in the southern West Bank, police said Saturday. The IDF said the 30-year-old man approached the checkpoint carrying a knife on Friday and attempted to stab a soldier. The army said troops opened fire and wounded the man, identified as Khalil Zaarir. He later died in an Israeli hospital.
