A high-profile Arizona law-enforcement officer who has been outspoken about his support for the state's controversial new immigration law is receiving death threats, myFOXphoenix.com reported late Monday.
Some of the threats against Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu were from the Mexican mafia and drug cartel members.
Outside law enforcement teams brought in to investigate the threats found them credible.
Babeu was very outspoken about the need to secure the state's border with Mexico -- a known entry point to the U.S. for drug smugglers and illegal immigrant traffickers -- and supports law SB1070, which makes illegal immigration a state crime.
Despite the threats, Babeu declined a personal security detail because the county resources were already stretched.
"I understand this threat, yet I will not run in fear or change my support for SB1070 and my demands for President Obama to secure our border with 3,000 armed soldiers in Arizona and start building the fence again," he said.
"I'm always armed, and as every law enforcement member knows, we always have to be aware of our surroundings and possible threats."
Pinal County is nearly 5,400 square miles and much of the desert is known as a drug and human trafficking corridor.
Pinal County is just East of Maricopa County, and it is not a border County. It contains a big part of the Tohono O'odham Nation and the Gila River Indian Community. This means undeveloped tribal lands.
The Tohono O'odham res is about the size of Connecticut and goes all the way into Mexico. And this is the problem. The only border crossings for them are some iron gates.
So drug smugglers take a corridor through their lands all the way up to Pinal County.
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But not to worry, Sherriff BO OBama is to the rescue. Lets sue Arizona and let the sherriff die at the hands of the drug lords. Where are the feds??? The secret service??? The security that the nasty hate monger preacher that Zero loves would be helpfull, or maybe the new black panthers can leave the polling booths for just a few and actually do something good for America!
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There's a new cop in this Taliban stronghold where criminals, insurgents and powerbrokers wield more influence than the Afghan government. Nearly 600 members of Afghanistan's most elite police unit have arrived in Kandahar to help staff new checkpoints one of the first visible signs of NATO's slow-moving campaign with Afghan forces to ramp up security in the nation's largest city in the south.
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[Quqnoos] Afghan security forces arrested 10 Taliban militants in an operation conducted in the western Ghor province on Sunday night.
The operation was conducted to wipeout Taliban from the province's Chaharsada district, said a spokesman for regional police commander in the west, Abdul Rawoof Ahmadi.
"Two Taliban insurgents were killed in this operation," he added.
Afghan and coalition forces have increased their attacks recently, in an effort to wipeout insurgents from Afghanistan's volatile regions.
In NATO air-strikes in the central province of Maidan Wardak on Saturday, 13 Taliban militants, including a top Taliban commander were killed.
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This is why the war is failing and always will fail. You don't arrest terrorists, you simply shoot them after interrogation, as it permits in the Geneva Convention.
[Quqnoos] At least three civilians were wounded in a suicide attack in the western Herat province on Monday morning, officials say.
The incident happened in the province's Shindand district at 8 o'clock in the morning when the suicide attacker blew up himself before reaching his target, said the sub-governor of Shindand, Lal Muhammad Omarzai.
"A woman is also among the wounded," he added.
In another report, six civilians were killed in an explosion in the southern Zabul province on Sunday. The incident occurred when a civilian vehicle was hit by a road-side mine blast in the province's Nowbahar district, said the police chief of Zabul, Ghulam Jailani Farahi.
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At least 16 people were killed in fighting between rival factions in Mogadishu as chaos engulfed the Somali capital and spurred the war-torn country's neighbours into action, officials said Tuesday. Most of the latest victims were combatants killed in several incidents on Monday, as Islamist insurgents continued to close in on the shrivelling perimetre controlled by the government but also fought among themselves.
"Violent elements attacked government forces in northern Mogadishu, sparking heavy fighting. They were defeated and several of their fighters were killed," government security officer Mohamed Abdirahman told AFP. "Two of our soldiers were also killed as well as three civilians who were caught in the crossfire," he added.
Insurgents have been harassing government forces in northeastern districts lately to seize positions from which they can target bases of the African Union mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and disrupt their supplies by striking the seaport. Rebels from the Al Qaeda-inspired Shebab movement and the Hezb al-Islam group in May 2009 launched a major offensive which President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed's forces and his AMISOM protectors have been unable to repel.
Ali Muse, the head of Mogadishu's ambulance services, also told AFP that three other civilians, including two from the same family, were killed when an artillery shell smashed into their home in Halimoheyte district.
In a separate incident in the southern Labadhagah neighbourhood, six Hezb al-Islam militants, including one of the group's top commanders, were mowed down when gunmen in a minivan intercepted their vehicle, witnesses said. Minutes later, two Shebab fighters were killed outside a nearby mosque where the group's top leaders usually preach, in an apparent retaliation for the earlier executions.
Heads of state from the regional body IGAD (Inter-Governmental Authority on Development) held an extraordinary meeting in Addis Ababa Monday and pledged to send 2,000 more troops to beef up AMISOM. IGAD said it hoped to deploy the extra troops by September but did not specify which of its six members states would provide soldiers.
IT's time the UN recognised the functional state of Somaliland and the semi-functional state of Puntland and started channeling aid money to them and away from the totally inept, thieving and largely absent Transitional Federal Government that they insist on propping up.
500 + elected members in the TFG that purports to rule the 'unified' country.
The biggest decisions they make is whether to order the latte or the cappuchino in Java House, Nairobi where they sit warming the seats with their big fat bums.
[Maghrebia] Three Algerian gendarmes were killed and two others injured Sunday (July 4th) by a roadside bomb blast in the Jijel town of Ziama. The attack came just days after terrorists killed 11 gendarmes near the Mali border. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the Tinzaoutine ambush.
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Using IEDs against fellow Muslims? Interesting twist.
So much for the idea that it's "our presence" that provokes "violent extremism."
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In Guinea-Bissau, To further make their point, pro-drug gang troops also briefly arrested the prime minister. Subsequent negotiations convinced the government to let the pro-drug gang officers have their way. The troops made the government an offer it couldn't refuse.
Two security officers were killed and three injured in a shootout with suspected al-Qaida terrorists in a southern town on Monday, said Yemeni authorities.
An official statement Monday said two suspects were arrested after the clashes in Mukalla, in southern Hadramwat province. It gave no further details.
Residents told The Associated Press a security force surrounded the suspects' hideout during the 45-minute shootout. The witnesses said the militants lobbed grenades at the force, prompting a hail of gunfire.
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Bangladesh police said on Monday they had detained 200 activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami for staging violent protests after three top party leaders were arrested on charges ranging from obstructing police to sedition.
That was fast. And accomplished without any help from the Rapid Action Battalion, too.
Almost like they were expecting it.
If they were expecting it then it follows that many/most of the 200 detained have violent headaches right now ...
The activists attacked vehicles, public offices and a police station in Chittagong on Sunday when the Jamaat-e-Islami party called for nationwide protests.
They were demanding the release of the three leaders -- party chief Moulana Motiur Rahman Nizami, his deputy Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and another key leader Delwar Hossain Saidee -- who were held on police remand last week for interrogation. Protests were also held in other districts, but police moved in to prevent violence, witnesses and police said. Nearly 150 were detained in Chittagong and the rest across the country, police said. Jamaat is a political ally of the opposition Nationalist Party led by former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia, who has demanded their release and asked the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to stop "persecuting" the opposition.
Many Bangladeshis accuse Jamaat of collaborating with the Pakistani army during the 1971 war of independence, in which around 3 million people were killed at the hands of the Pakistani army and collaborators during the nine-month war.
Things have been awfully interesting in Bangladesh ever since the ISI organized that little troop rebellion.
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A large kidnapping operation was busted by Mexican Naval Infantry in Tamaulipas yielding a large number of seizures of drugs and weapons, according to Mexican news reports.
Mexico foiled an attempt by Hezbollah to establish a network in South America, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Hezbollah operatives employed Mexicans nationals with family ties to Lebanon to set up the network, designed to target Israel and the West, the Al-Seyassah daily said.
According to the report, Mexican police mounted a surveillance operation on the group's leader, Jameel Nasr, who traveled frequently to Lebanon to receive information and instructions from Hezbollah commanders there.
Police say Nasr also made frequent trips to other countries in Latin America, including a two-month stay in Venezuela in the summer of 2008.
Nasr was living in Tijuana, Mexico at the time of his arrest, the report said.
The report follows warnings from the United States that Hezbollah and its backer Iran are stepping up operations in the region.
In June, a U.S. congresswoman wrote to the Department of Homeland Security to warn that Hezbollah was increasing its presence in Central and South America.
In her letter, Congresswoman Sue Myrick called on the U.S. to work with Mexican forces, as there was intelligence that Hezbollah was working in conjunction with Mexican drug cartels on the U.S.-Mexico border.
In 2009 a U.S. commander tasked with overseeing U.S. military interests in the region said Hezbollah was linked to drug-trafficking in Colombia.
"We have seen... an increase in a wide level of activity by the Iranian government in this region," Admiral James Stavridis told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
"That is a concern principally because of the connections between the government of Iran, which is a state sponsor of terrorism, and Hezbollah," he said.
In February a U.S. court in Miami indicted three men for raising funds for Hezbollah, which the U.S. classifies as a terrorist organization.
Hezbollah is believed to have been behind the bombing of a Jewish cultural center in the Argentinean capital Buenos Aires in 1994, in which 85 people were killed.
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It's nice to see Mexico step up on this. They must be learning to recognize murderous psychopaths.
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as there was intelligence that Hezbollah was working in conjunction with Mexican drug cartels on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The ruling caste is aware enough of what Hezhollah and Hamas have done to another failed state like Lebanon and wouldn't like the Americans to follow the Israeli model to address it.
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Quietly, Mexico has long known about murderous foreign psychos, as well as how to deal with them.
PRI was especially fierce against communists, even though on the surface Mexico looked very socialist friendly. If a real communist turned up, he would quickly be a dead communist. With one exception--Trotsky.
And now that PRI is regaining a lot of its former power, the days of Islamic fundies will likely be curtailed. PRI does not want Islam in Mexico.
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It's already got a foothold there. A few years ago the insurgency in Chiapas suddenly stopped, amid persistent rumors that Commandante Marcos had converted to Islam. Whether he converted or not, der Spiegel reported in 2005 that he had entered into an alliance with Muslim financiers in the 1990s and that conversions were multiplying among the Maya and others in southern Mexico. A 2009 story from Radio Netherlands agrees and gives more current details.
Four individuals were killed in ongoing drug and gang violence in northern Mexican which includes four Mexican Federal agents shot and wounded and a Monterrey city police officer shot and seriously wounded Saturday evening.
Four Mexican Federal agents were ambushed and wounded in Juarez Saturday night, according to Mexican press reports. The assault took place in the Cordova Americas district when armed suspects blocked a road with a vehicle that appeared tp agents to be abandoned and open fired on the agents.
Agents' wounds do not appear to be life threatening but all four required hospitalization.
An unidentified teenage girl was found shot to death south of Chihuahua, Chihuahua Saturday night. The victim was found near the intersection of calles Sierra San Blas and Sierra Pedernale in the Sierra Azul district. Witnesses at the scene say she was shot by armed suspects riding aboard a dark colored Nissan.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in Juarez Sunday morning, according to Mexican news accounts. The victim was found near the intersection of calles Almendro and Ãlamo, in the Jardines del Bosque district. He has been gagged with tape and handcuffed to the front gate of a residence.
Two unidentified men were shot to death in two separate crimes, Sunday morning at about 1100 hrs. according to the Mexican daily La Polaka.
One victim was found shot twice in the head with a 9mm weapon near the intersection of calles Juan Escutia and Ejido San Agustin in the Papalote district. The second victim, in his 20s, was found near the intersection of calles Puruandiro and Jiquilpa in the Erendira district. He was also shot with a 9mm weapon.
Sonora PolicÃa Estatal Investigadora (PEI) agents arrested two men they say were hitmen Sunday, according to Mexican news reports. Macario Sänchez Alapisco, 40, of Mazatlan, and Juliän Javier Ruiz Zazueta, 50, were arrested aboard a Dodge SUV in Hermosillo on Avenida Navarrete in the Las Quintas district. Police found a 9mm pistol with two unexpended rounds.
Agents say Sänchez Alapisco offered the PEI agents 200 pesos and a "good show" at his home if he was released.
Subsequently, state prosecutors ordered a raid on the home on 5th Street where police found two pistols, 5 .45 caliber rounds, two of them hollow points, and 11 9mm cartridges. Also found was nine .380 caliber bullets, an ice pick, grey tape and a black balaclava.
A Monterrey, Nuevo Leon metropolitan police office was shot and seriously wounded in Monterrey Saturday night, according to Mexican news reports. Teodoro Cisneros Arriaga was shot on Avenida Eugenio Garza Sada in the Altavista district about 1800 hrs. Cisneros Arriaga apparently dismounted his official unit after he noticed he was being followed by armed suspects aboard another vehicle, and fired on the suspects. Cisneros Arriaga was hit in the chest and abdomen.
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Well El Paso (pop. 665,055) is the rich gated suburb of Juarez (pop. 1,120 m). Sorta like Windsor, Ontario (pop. 216,473) is to Detroit (pop. 912,062).
Note: 'Food City' is part of the regional Bashas grocery store chain, catering mostly to Mexicans and Mexican-Americans. Currently Bashas is trying to emerge from bankruptcy, though it's unclear whether this will hinder or help, by closing less used stores.
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Tere is a good side to all this. For the last 30 years American companies, whorlpool, MD Helicopters, and other have move portions of their operation to Monterrey Mexico. Now with the crime rate and extortion so high they are all relooking their decisions. To move the type of manufacturing they have there is costly and time consuming. I suspect those companies are expanding their US operations to reduce the losses.
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...yes, it's interesting how the corporate bean counters never seem to calculate the cost to operate with issues that are hard to quantify or aspects that within their own little corner office fish bowl never dawn on them. Then again no one has taught real history for nearly two generations in most of society, even back then after the usual recitation of events and players, it became the excuse for 'studies' rather than a practical tool. The military still values the old academy of study, though it has its own institutional tendencies to ignore the warnings and cautions.
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Elements of the Mexican Army seized a pickup truck loaded with a variety of munitions south of Navojoa, Sonora, according to Mexican press accounts.
No arrests were reported. Navojoa is roughly 600 km. south of the Arizona border on Mexican Federal Highway 15.
Vehicle seized: late model Chevrolet Silverado.
Naturally. Successful bad guys (Mexican sub-species) always have cool, late-model American cars.
Munitions seized: 25 AK-47 assault rifles, 24 cartridge loaders for .223, 8 cartridge loaders for 7.62x39mm, 4,000 5.56x45mm cartridges, 4,116 7.62x39mm cartridges, 25 .45 cartridges, and 46 7.62x39mm magazines.
Just out for an afternoon drive, so they just went with what was lying about.
The Lahore Police on Monday claimed to have arrested six terrorists involved in the attacks on the worship places of Ahmedis and recovered large quantities of explosives and weapons from their possession.
Addressing a press conference, Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Lahore Muhammad Aslam Tareen said that the terrorists identified as Haroon Saeed, Rizwan, Umair, Umer,
Javed Alam and Abbas were also involved in different terrorist activities, including the attacks at the Jinnah Hospital and Moon Market. He said that police had recovered 18,000 kgs of explosive material, six kalashnikovs, 21 grenades and 600 bullets, adding that terrorists Haroon Saeed and Rizwan had also been involved in insurgency activities in Afghanistan, while Umair and Umer were acting as facilitators and Javed Alam and Abbas were the owners of the houses where these terrorists were living.
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At least 10 militants were killed and four others injured when fighter jets bombed their hideouts in Orakzai Agency, security sources said on Monday. According to the sources, fighter planes bombed the hideouts of militants in the Jabba and Mamozai Sama areas of upper Orakzai Agency, killing 10 militants and injuring another four. Five hideouts of militants were also destroyed in the airstrike, the sources said. Local sources, however, put the death toll even higher. Meanwhile, prolonged load shedding has adversely affected the performance of the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA)'s kiosk at Malango area in the agency. Local people have to wait for days in order to get their computerised national identity cards (CNICs) due to the lack of required facilities and unscheduled power outages. They have demanded that the government investigate the performance of the NADRA staff.
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Four terrorists were killed on Monday when they tried to storm a security camp in Timar Garah in Lower Dir on Monday. One security personal was killed, while 11 others were also injured in the attack.
The four militants, who were traveling in two vehicles, opened fire on the gate of the Balam Bat scouts cantonment in Timar Garah at 2am on Monday. Two of them hurled hand-grenades at the security personnel deployed at the gate and tried to force their way into the compound. Security forces deployed at the gate fired on the militants and repulsed the attack.
They then blew up their vehicle. The other two bombers were also killed and their vehicle was destroyed when the security forces retaliated.
An Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement said that a suicide attack had been foiled at Timar Garah by security forces. The statement said that four militants, traveling in two explosive-laden vehicles, tried to attack a base. "Troops fired upon both the vehicles and destroyed them, killing all the militants inside," the statement said. One soldier was killed while seven were wounded in the incident, the statement said.
However, police officials said that 11 security personnel and passers-by were injured in the blast.
Following the attack, the security forces imposed a curfew and started a search operation against militants in the area.
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The U.S. military said Tuesday it is pressing criminal charges against Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, 22, for allegedly transferring classified data onto his personal computer and adding unauthorized software to a classified computer system.
Manning of Potomac, Maryland, is suspected of leaking a classified 2007 video of an Apache helicopter strike that killed 12 civilians in Baghdad, including two journalists from the Reuters wire service, the military said.
Manning was deployed with the 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, in Baghdad, Iraq, according to the military.
According to Wired.com, Manning leaked the video to the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks.com, which posted the video in April. Wired.com reported that Manning confessed to the leak in a series of online chats with a former computer hacker.
He allegedly owned up to leaking other items to WikiLeaks, including a classified Army document assessing the threat level of the website, according to the article, as well as State Department cables.
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There is a public interest defense. The film reveals that the helicopter group acted in good faith. Errors of perception - and not judgment - were made. Exposure would lead to prevention of repetition of same. The charged soldier can probably convince a tribunal that release can be characterized as "good conduct." As much as I support the armed forces, concealment by government sucks.
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does that also apply to teh classified documents, diplomatic cables, etc. that this POS also leaked?
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Yeah, variety V3.s of the Daniel Ellsbergh defense. Greater good is gooder.
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There is no way a court martial is going to let this boy pass. My average guess is 10 years in Leavenworth. The court may mitigate or add on to this based on personalities.
The problem is layered. He could have leaked "innocently", or even "honestly", to a US media source; but instead he sent it in to Wikileaks, who are a "bad faith" organization. This will be seen as just slightly better than leaking to the enemy.
As such, it interferes with the good order and discipline of the military.
The film reveals that the helicopter group acted in good faith. Errors of perception - and not judgment - were made.
How nice of you to allow that.
Exposure would lead to prevention of repetition of same.
So would an internal investigation. Exposure might also lead to second-guessing or inaction, with a friendly in an aircrew or on the ground getting killed as a result. Did you think about that?
The charged soldier can probably convince a tribunal that release can be characterized as "good conduct."
What color is the sky in your world?
As much as I support the armed forces, concealment by government sucks.
Srsly - you'd be more honest by leaving off the first eight words.
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Seven people, including a policeman, were wounded in a bomb blast that targeted a police checkpoint in western Mosul city on Monday, according to a local security source.
The explosion targeted a federal police checkpoint in Zanjili area, western Mosul, leaving seven, including one policeman, injured, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
A gunman hurled the bomb and escaped, he said, adding the civilians happened to be near the blast site.
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KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: A combined Iraqi army and police force captured on Monday eight wanted persons and seized their vehicle southwest of Kirkuk city, a senior security official said.
A force from the Daqquq police, the national investigation department, the anti-crime department and the Iraqi armys 15th Brigades 2nd Contingent launched search raids in al-Qadissiya compound and al-Wataniya village, (25 km) southwest of Kirkuk, arresting eight wanted men on different charges and seized a vehicle belonging to armed groups, Brig. Sarhad Qader, the director of the Kirkuk Districts Police Department (KDPD), told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
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One person was killed and 27 were wounded in four bomb explosions in Iraq on Monday, according to a CNN report.
The fatality occurred when at least one police officer was killed and another wounded as a roadside bomb struck a police patrol in Baghdad, CNN learned from an Iraqi Interior Ministry source.
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[Ma'an] Egyptian security forces thwarted a weapons-smuggling operation into the Gaza Strip on Monday, a security source said.
Forces along the border city of Rafah received information that explosives prepared for smuggling through the tunnel complex were being stored in a warehouse 120 meters from the border in the Al-Ahrash neighborhood, the source said.
According to the official, a security patrol with sniffer dogs was dispatched to the scene where 10 small bags containing half a ton of TNT explosives were found.
10x(small) = 0.5 ton. Clearly I'm missing a factor somewhere...
You're missing the Gaza Factor. Any bag holding only 100 pounds of TNT is small, somewhere along the lines of a school book bag.
The stash also included mortar shells and 30 anti-aircraft missiles from the World War II, and were removed and prepared for a controlled detonation, the source said. World War II anti-aircraft missiles? Must have missed that episode of the Military Channel.
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Bit old but first article I've seen corroborating that the Iranians kidnapped the 3 US hikers from inside Kurdistan.
June 25, 2010: In northern Iraq, Kurdish villagers, who saw three American hikers seized by Iranian border guards a year ago, came forward with eyewitness accounts of the incident. The villagers testified that the three Americans were on the Iraqi side of the border, when the Iranian border patrol troops, who frequently cross the border, showed up. The Iranians decided to grab the Americans, and quickly took their captives across the nearby border. Iran is trying the three hikers as spies, and trying to get the U.S. to offer ransom (freed Iranian terrorists, cash, tech, whatever) for them.
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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.
Two security officers were killed and three injured in a shootout with suspected al-Qaida terrorists in a southern town on Monday, said Yemeni authorities.
Bangladesh police said on Monday they had detained 200 activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami for staging violent protests after three top party leaders were arrested on charges ranging from obstructing police to sedition.
At least 10 militants were killed and four others injured when fighter jets bombed their hideouts in Orakzai Agency, security sources said on Monday. According to the sources, fighter planes bombed the hideouts of militants in the Jabba and Mamozai Sama areas of upper Orakzai Agency, killing 10 militants and injuring another four. Five hideouts of militants were also destroyed in the airstrike, the sources said. Local sources, however, put the death toll even higher. Meanwhile, prolonged load shedding has adversely affected the performance of the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA)'s kiosk at Malango area in the agency. Local people have to wait for days in order to get their computerised national identity cards (CNICs) due to the lack of required facilities and unscheduled power outages. They have demanded that the government investigate the performance of the NADRA staff.
Four terrorists were killed on Monday when they tried to storm a security camp in Timar Garah in Lower Dir on Monday. One security personal was killed, while 11 others were also injured in the attack.
