You've probably noticed that I'm working on the translator. I expect it'll be an on-going project for awhile.
It's pretty crude, just a direct replacement of common word combinations: "death toll" becomes "corpse count," "arrested" becomes "jugged", "Peshawar" becomes "Beautiful Downtown Peshawar," and so on. Right now it's only on the moderator's popup editor. When I've got it where I want it, it'll show up on the Poster.
I've been tagging them as "Rantburg translation" but I might change that to "Autoedited by Rantburg." Bad's doing actual translations (from Spanish to English). "Editing" is probably a more accurate description.
Give me feedback -- maybe favorite phrases with suggested renderings.
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I love it!
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Islamabad = city of Islam
Afghanistan = Islamic Republic of the Afghans
Pakistan, Iran similarly
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What ever you do, DON'T LET JOSEPH M near it!!!! I will have to start taking LSD to understand it!!
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Anonymous or unnamed sources should be rumor mongers or something like that.
corpse should be dead tango
militant needs something.....hmmm....terrorist, or something more colorful.
We need to post a list of main phrases or words used by MSM and let the readers go at it. Then we can make a spreadsheet or database and pick the best words or phrases from suggestions. It would be fun.
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Militant would be jihadi-bot
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Alternative to "Anonymous or unnamed sources" - "LLL sock puppets"
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I use "hard boy" as the translation for "militant." "Extremists" become "krazed killers."
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Alternative to "Anonymous or unnamed sources" - "LLL sock puppets"
Now I'm having a dilemma. I don't want to hurt LLL sock puppet feelings more than they already are, but at the same time I don't want to give the jihadi-bots any more reason to be upset with us.
Execellent work on the Translator. Now please begin your collaboration on the new Rantburg-S and a Google Earth icon that will orient us on the topically referenced Lat/Long.
Mugabe -> Kleptocrat Mugabe
Congressman(woman) ??? -> The Honorable Mr(Ms). ??? (Note: the irony of this one is too much)
Cincinnati Reds -> The long suffering Cincinnati Redlegs
Al Gore -> The Goracle
suicide bomber -> 'splodydope
Ann Coulter -> Ann Coulter, today's Cassandra,
Attorney General Holder -> foolish Attorney General Holder
Jamie Gorelick -> Jamie Gorelick, the wicked,
Central Command -> the Sandbox
Nobel Laureate -> Nobel Laureate in a different field
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Any government official commenting anonymously or on the condition that he/she not be named --> squealer
Any government spokesperson --> mouthpiece
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http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/
The Dialectizer takes text and translates it to one of the following: Redneck, Jive, Cockney, Elmer Fudd, Swedish Chef, Moron, Pig Latin, and Hacker (an early version of Hacker, not yet evolved into full L33T-speak).
For example: "Yo've probably noticed thet ah's wawkin' on th' translato'. ah speck it'll be an on-gwine projeck fo' awhile."
"Yer've probably noticed that I'm bloody well workin' on the bloomin' translator, right? I expect it'll be an on-gahn project for orhile."
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I'm lovin the ingenuity/creativity of motivated Rantburgers.
Militant = Dead man walking; 72 virgin candidate
Jihadist = Headbanger
Current Government = Puzzle palace
BO and people around him = leftist extremist
Islamics = latent jihadists = radicals
Attorneys who sue for copyright violation = bottom feeders (or fill in the blanks with your favorite expression)
Ah, the translator project--something to get out of bed for. Should there be a page for recommended translations much like there is a page for "seedy politicians" and "opinion" pieces?
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for party affiliation change (D-**) to (D-ranged)
All my other favorites have already been suggested.
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Put the article into Mucky-speak and your legal worries are over. [only problem is that you may be carted away for, er, observation for an indeterminate time]
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Should there be a page for recommended translations much like there is a page for "seedy politicians" and "opinion" pieces?
My vote is a regular post immediately following the Bloid every day until Fred is satisfied with the result. I realized that after the first flood of suggestions it will peter out for a while, but the occasional brilliant thought will then have a place to bloom.
Pakistan = Land of the Pure OR the soi-disant "Punjab-Afghan-Kashmir Land" (or was Pakhton/Pashtun in there too, somewhere? I've managed to confuse myself on the question).
Rantburg translation PESHAWAR, Pakistain (AFP) -- US missiles hit a compound in Pakistain's tribal belt Sunday, killing four hard boys in a second dronezap in as many days in the region seen as al-Qaeda headquarters. The missiles fired by a pilotless drone targeted the compound in Shaktoi area in South Wazoo, a Pakistaini security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP.
"The US drone fired two missiles into a hard boy compound in Shaktoi and we have reports that four hard boys have died," he said. "One missile landed in the compound and another hit a vehicle soon after it entered the premises," he said, adding that five other hard boys were wounded. An intelligence official and a local administration official also confirmed the dronezap.
A security official said the target appeared to be the vehicle, which had arrived from neighbouring North Wazoo. "The vehicle was destroyed and the compound was badly damaged causing the casualties," he added. "The identity of the deaders was not immediately known. It was not clear if any foreigners were there, he said, adding that there were reports that the drone fired four missiles. That's 20 in 2 days.
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hopefully the death toll will exceed the birth rate in that area.
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Looks like the hunting is good this weekend. Another hit...
Later Sunday, two missiles hit a house in Taipi village near Miran Shah, the main town in North Waziristan, killing seven suspected militants, said the officials.
The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a U.S. Navy member they said was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said Sunday.
U.S. and NATO officials confirmed that two American Navy personnel went missing Friday in the eastern province of Logar, after an armored sports utility vehicle was seen driving into a Taliban-held area. Afghan officials believe one was killed and the other captured when they apparently took a wrong turn and ended up in a dangerous area of Logar.
Abdul Wali, the head of the provincial governing council, said local authorities responded to the Taliban offer made through intermediaries by saying, "Let's talk about the one that is still alive." The insurgents said they would have to talk to superiors before making any deal.
Local media in Logar reported the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on the two Americans.
However, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated Press on Sunday that that he had no information about U.S. sailors in Taliban hands. He said he was looking into the reports and for the moment is not claiming responsiblity.
It appeared that Friday's attack was a spur-of-the-moment decision and that the militants are trying to figure out their next move.
The two sailors left their compound in the Afghan capital, Kabul, in a vehicle Friday afternoon, but never returned, NATO said in a statement. Vehicles and helicopters were dispatched to search for them, and NATO launched appeals on local radio stations offering $10,000 rewards for information leading to the return of either one.
A NATO official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the event, confirmed the two were Navy personnel, but would not identify their unit to avoid jeopardizing search operations. The official said it was unclear what the two were doing or what would lead them to leave their compound. The official would not say whether the two were on official business.
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I wonder if they were SEALS or just regular squids. 2 regular squids outside the wire with no protection? Seems odd. Chaplin and RP? 2 "Corpse-men"? I wonder if their new blue camoflage made them stick out?
[Pak Daily Times] Police searched for weapons and residents were on edge here Saturday ahead of the one-year anniversary of a deadly uprising by the Nigerian Taliban, with fears it would strike again.
A sect leader believed killed appeared on video issuing threats recently, adding to concerns that the militant group was reforming, though local police dismiss the clips as digital mock-ups and insist he is dead.
Authorities have set up night checkpoints and are searching vehicles in a bid to keep weapons from entering the city of Maiduguri - the centre of the uprising.
A dozen police vans escorted by a siren-blaring armoured car had been regularly rumbling through the city's streets, but the show of force was halted recently because it rattled residents, a police officer said.
"This is part of the security strategy because these troublemakers may want to use the cover of night to bring in arms," said a police sergeant at a checkpoint on Friday night, where about a dozen cars waited. Last year's uprising began on July 26 and spread to four states, though it was centred in Maiduguri in the country's mainly Muslim north. It ended four days later with more than 800 dead, most of them sect members. The military and police launched an assault on the sect's headquarters, leaving it in rubble.
The sect leader, Mohammed Yusuf, was also killed. Police were accused of killing him after he had been captured alive, but officers said he was shot while trying to escape from custody. His deputy, Abubakar Shekau, was believed killed as well, but video clips have emerged in recent months in which he threatens to "avenge the killings of our brethren."
"What happened was only the prelude, the actual show has not started yet," he says in one clip. While Monday marks the anniversary of the start of the insurrection, Friday may pose a larger risk since it is the date Yusuf was killed. The scale of the uprising and military assault last year shocked the country, Africa's most populous and where roughly half of the 150 million population is Muslim.
The sect, while known as the Nigerian Taliban, is also called Boko Haram, which means "Western education is sin" in local dialect. Its ranks had been filled by a range of recruits, including university drop-outs, unemployed youths and those seeking to turn Nigeria into an Islamic state. "Everybody is apprehensive of what might happen in the next few days," Maiduguri resident Abdulqahhar Idrissa told.
"Rumours are all over the city that members of Boko Haram are going to strike during the anniversary and everyone is afraid because we know the agony we went through last year during the fighting." Authorities have said in recent weeks that there were concerns the sect was reforming, and hundreds of anti-riot police reinforcements have been deployed in Maiduguri.
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Is this or is this not all ultimately traceable to Saudi Arabia for funding and exporting virulent Islamist movements throughout the Islamic world?
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[Pak Daily Times] Tribal mediators succeeded Saturday in reaching a ceasefire between Yemen's northern sock puppets of the Medes and the Persians and an army-backed tribe after days of fighting that killed at least 70 people, a tribal chief said. Sheikh Qassem Qubaida, who led a mediation team of tribal chiefs, told AFP that the Houthis and the Bin Aziz tribe, led by MP Sheikh Sagheer Aziz, were "persuaded... to stop firing".
He said that the fighting which had flared up again on Friday night around the village of Bin Aziz in Harf Sufyan, in northern Amran province, stopped at around 11:00 am (0800 GMT) on Saturday. The road linking the restive Saada region with the capital Sanaa through Amran, which was blocked for about a week, was being opened "by clearing the mines planted by the Huthis," he said.
A witness told AFP that Houthis attempted to storm the house of Aziz on Friday night, adding that they bombed the house of his nephew, killing him. This brought the weekly corpse count from the fighting to at least 70 people, after 69 were killed in earlier clashes. The toll is expected to rise further as casualties from Friday's night gunfight were not counted. The week's clashes have rattled an already fragile truce agreed in February that ended a six-month round of fighting in the conflict between the rebels and the army, which started in 2004. The Huthis and the government have repeatedly exchanged accusations of violating the February ceasefire.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Police arrested 24 members including two leaders of Allahar Dal, an Islamist outfit, in Rother Bazar village under Sadar upazila of the district yesterday.
The arrestees were having a 'secret meeting' in the house of Haji Moinuddin, a member of the organisation, said Gaibandha Sadar thana police.
Police also seized some books on Islamic revolution during the drive.
The arrests were made following a tip-off from the villagers who objected to such meetings on every Saturday.
During primary interrogation, the arrestees confessed that they are active members of the outfit and followers of Matin Mehdi, the kingpin of the organisation, now facing death sentence in a court verdict, police said.
The Allahar Dal men will be produced before the court on Sunday with the prayer of a ten-day remand for each of them for further interrogation, said Gaibandha Superintendent of Police Mohammad Sahadat Hossain.
Earlier, police arrested nine members of the outfit from Sadullapur and Gobindaganj upazilas last month.
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A Coahuila court has ordered the preventative detention of at least two of the CERESO officials, for 20 days.
An "interrogation" video posted by groups associated with the Los Zetas criminal gang have apparently led to the arrest of seven people including a prison director in Durango, with suspected ties to the July 18th massacre in Torreon, Coahuila, according to Mexican press reports.
Sunday morning Mexican news reports say Rodriguez is to be detained without charge for 20 days pending an investigation for the charge of murder. Under Mexican Federal law certain persons can be detained for up to 40 days as a preventative measure if their alleged crimes are serious enough to warrant it.
Lerdo, Durango police agent Rodolfo Najera, shown having been beaten in the video, apparently told Los Zetas members while at gunpoint that several people at the Gomez Palacio, Durango Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO) No.2 planned and carried out the murder of 17 birthday party goers early on July 18th.
Najera was one of four Lerdo police officers who came up missing since last Tuesday. Najera was subsequently murdered on the same video.
Saturday was learned that director of the CERESO, Margarita Rojas Rodriguez as well as three of her staff, including a deputy director, Jose Luis Zaragoza, were placed under arrest for their alleged involvement the the July 18th and other similar mass murders.
In other news reports Saturday, it was learned that three prison guards and one inmate were also placed under arrest as the alleged shooters in the incident. Other information has it that at least 31 guards at CERESO No. 2 are under investigation or arrest.
Rojas Rodriguez had attended law school in Saltillo and took over operations at CERESO No.2 in August, 2009 from Ernesto Fernandez Perez who had been forced out after less than a month following a prison riot in which 20 inmates were killed.
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From NY Times today: Prisoners in a northern Mexico jail were allowed out at night to carry out murder-for-hire jobs using jail guards weapons and vehicles. Among the jobs, the authorities said, was last weeks attack on birthday revelers at a party hall. The gang shot randomly into the crowd, they said, killing 17 people.
Ballistics studies confirmed that four guns used in the shooting were the same as those assigned to jail guards, Ricardo Nájera, the spokesman for the attorney generals office, said. Mr. Nájera said the jails director, Margarita Rojas Rodríguez, allowed prisoners to leave in official vehicles and use the guards guns in the executions.
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Elements of the Mexican Army fought armed suspects in Nuevo Leon, killing two and placing two under arrest according to Mexican press reports.
The Mexican 7th Military Zone was conducting an early morning patrol in the municipality (county) of Herrera when they happened upon two suspects riding a Ford Explorer, who then fled from the soldiers. They were immediately captured.
Following a brief interrogation, the suspects told the military about a drug farm at a farm about seven kilometers away. Are the Mexican military interrogators learning from the RAB?
I doubt the Mexicans needed instruction on mustache was and Number 7 truncheons. They have a loooong tradition of their own.
Once the requested reinforcements arrived, the military force went to the farm known as La Palmas when they were fired on by armed suspects. One suspects was killed by return fire, while three others retreated into a farmhouse. Still dark, soldiers continued exchanging fire with the suspects killing one. Two fled in the early morning darkness. As if they were never there ...
When Nuevo Leon state Agencia Estatal de Investigaciones (AEI) agents arrived at noon they found one unidentified armed suspect in his 40s with dead an AK-47 assault rifle, and the second dead armed suspect inside the farmhouse in his 20s also with an AK-47 assault rifle. No shutter gun?
Also found were: 10 AK-47 assault rifles, two 9mm pistols and hundreds of weapons cartridges, as well as several military style uniforms.
Ten individuals died in ongoing drug and gang violence including a two year old child shot to death with his father in Juarez, Chihuahua and a Nogales, Sonora police officer shot to death.
An unidentified bus driver was shot in front of his passengers in Juarez Thursday, say Mexican news reports. The attack took place on the road Juärez-Porvenir and Manuel J. Clouthier when the driver realizing he was the target, attempted to escape to the back of the bus only to fall over shot dead.
A man was shot aboard his Jeep Liberty Thursday according to Mexican press reports. Gustavo Prieto Ruiz was shot as he tried to escape the attack near the intersection of Municipio Libre and Libertad in the Chaveña district.
Another, unidentified, man was wounded in the leg and treated at a local medical facility.
Three unidentified men were hunted down and shot dead in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Thursday evening, according to Mexican press reports.
Apparently all three victims were together in the Riberas de Sacramento district when they were attacked by several armed suspects. The victims attempted to escape the assault by running in different directions.
The first victim was shot near the intersection of calles RÃo Orinoco and RÃo Negro. The second victim was shot near the intersection of calles Rio Rhin and Rio Urual. The third victim was shot in a vacant house on Calle Rio Danubio. Reports say one of the victims was a police agent on disability.
Three unidentified men in their 20s were shot to death in Juarez Friday afternoon, according to Mexican press reports. The assault took place near the intersection of Avenida Tecnologico and Bulevar Teofilo Borunda in the city center as the trio were changing a flat tire on their Dodge Nitro when a single armed suspects shot the three without warning. The Dodge Nitro had Texas plates.
An unidentified man and his two year old son were shot to death late Friday night in Juarez according to Mexican press reports. The assaut took place on calle Riveras del Maple in the Riveras del Bravo 9 district. The driver attempt to reverse his Jeep vehicle but was unable to escape the shooting.
A Nogales police officer was shot to death Friday morning, accoridng to Mexican press reports. Jesus Enrique Salas Reyes, who was assigned to Sexual Crimes and Domestic Violence area, was shot at about 1030 hrs. as he arrived at work. He was shot with AK-47 assault rifles. Reports say armed suspects were waiting for the officer aboard a Nissan Altima.
Mexican Federal agents seized 841 kilograms of marijuana and several vehicles in a raid near the Juarez airport expansion Thursday, say Mexican press reports. The raid took place on Calle Kenia.
Stolen vehicles seized include: a Dodge Durango truck, a Ford Lobo, a Ford Expedition, a Chevrolet Suburban, a Jeep Liberty, a Lincoln Escalade and a Hyundai Tiburon. Other vehicles seized include: a Dodge Stratus, a Mercury Grand Marquis, a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck and a Suzuki.
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Jim,
Are these clowns in the drug business or the used car business?
Karl, I just don't know it's kinda hard to say looking at this assortment of wheels and tires.
Jim, are the federales finding themselves in a new growth industry for Mexico? I mean the market for these cars in Yemen must be pretty good.
Karl, actually, all of the weapons seized will show up at a gun fair in Minnesota in about three weeks.
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[Pak Daily Times] Seven people including three senior military officers were killed in a spate of attacks by hard boys in Russia's unrest-plagued North Caucasus region, reports said Saturday.
The officers died when they came under fire late Friday in the town of Buynaksk in the region of Dagestan, Russian news agencies and state television reported. ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
Two lieutenant colonels -- the head of the armaments department in the local chief of staff and another senior officer in the department -- gave up the ghost, state television said. ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
The third officer, the head of the rocket and artillery weaponry service for the 136th motorcycle brigade, died on his way to hospital. They have a motorcycle brigade? It has a rocket troops and artillery staff?
Two hours later, a Russian serviceman was killed when unidentified individuals entered inside the military base in Buynaksk and stabbed him after stealing his mobile phone, news agencies said. It was not immediately clear if the two incidents were linked.
In another fatal attack in Dagestan, the chief administrator in the village of Cherniayevka in the Kizlyar district was shot and killed near his house.
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North Korea has renewed its request to examine the wreckage of the sunken South Korean warship Cheonan.
Afraid you missed something, boys?
Actually, it's been raised - but they don't need to be told that...
Good point. Take them out to sea and ask them, "is this the spot? Over you go!"
The request was made Friday during a second round of talks with the UN Command at the border village of Panmunjom. Those talks were arranged this month to discuss the March sinking.
The U.S.-led military command said afterward it demanded that the North admit responsibility for the sinking. North Korea denies responsibility, despite an investigation that found remains of a North Korean torpedo. Its official news agency said its delegates asked to send a team of experts to examine the wreckage, repeating a demand made at the earlier meeting. A third round of talks was tentatively scheduled for July 29.
North Korea's news agency said its delegates also demanded that the United States and South Korea cancel a naval exercise scheduled to begin Sunday in the East Sea. North Korean officials made the same demand at a regional security forum in Vietnam, where a spokesman warned of a "physical response" if the exercise goes ahead.
The UN Command, which enforces the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War, has conducted its own investigation of the Cheonan incident.
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Autoedited by Rantburg [Pak Daily Times] At least eleven people were killed and another 10 injured in various incidents of assassination across Karachi on Saturday.
The assassinations in the city continue despite a ban on riding double and waving guns, and the grant of extra powers to Pakistain Rangers to maintain peace in the country's financial hub. Tension prevailed in the city as unidentified assailants torched four vehicles and a number of shops and pushcarts.
Shahrah-e-Faisal police have booked Awami National Party (ANP) workers for killing a Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activist in an attack on the party's office in Gulistan-e-Johar late on Friday. Paperwork was started but nothing else was done against Liaquat Bangash, Haroon Bangash, Qadir Bangash and several others.
Separately, unidentified gunnies killed two people and injured another in Surjani Town. Police identified the dear departed as Badshah alias Pasha, Arafat alias Yasir Khan and Akbar. They were sitting in an office minding their own business in Taj Muhammad Goth in Khuda Ki Basti when two gunnies shot them up.
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Rantburg translation [Pak Daily Times] Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi Bajaur Agency chief Dr Ismail laid down arms along with six other terrorists and announced their full support for the Pakistain Army in the war against terrorism, officials said on Saturday.
According to political administration officials, Dr Ismail surrendered along with six other terrorists to the political authorities in a grand tribal jirga of the Badan tribe in Mohmand tehsil, which was held at Khar, the headquarters of the Bajaur Agency. Bajaur Scouts commander Colonel Nauman Saeed, Khar Assistant Political Agent Iqbal Khattak and other tribal elders were also present on the occasion. Addressing the jirga, Colonel Saeed said that terrorism had damaged the socio-economic life of the residents of the agency. He said that successful military operations restored peace and prosperity in the area and now it was the responsibility of the tribal elders to keep the agency free of terrorists.
Colonel Saeed praised the role of the Mohmand tribes in the operation against terrorists and said the tribal elders had helped eliminate terrorists from the area. Ismail, denouncing terrorism, said, "Pakistain is our country. Bajaur Agency is our native land and we would not allow anyone to disturb the peace of the agency".
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[Pak Daily Times] Terrorists on Saturday murdered the son of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, aka Terrorism Central Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain in Nowshera.
According to police, two motorcyclists opened fire on Mian Rashid Hussain and his nephew Amjad, while they were walking in a bazaar. Rashid gave up the ghost, while Amjad was maimed in the attack.
Rashid, 30, was the only son of Mian Iftikhar Hussain and was working as assistant director in the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar Development Authority (PDA). For the past two years, the KP information minister had been receiving death threats from hard boys for his outspoken stance against terrorism.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik blamed the attack on the Taliban, saying government ministers and their families had been on an insurgent hit list.
Condemning the murder, the ANP leadership said that killing of their family members would not weaken their stance against the Orcs and similar vermin. "Such cowardly acts by the Orcs and similar vermin will further strengthen our resolve against terrorism," the party leadership said in a statement.
ANP chief Asfandyar Wali Khan and other ministers strongly condemned the incident and said that Orcs and similar vermin had now started targeting their family members.
"The ANP will not bow down to Orcs and similar vermin and will continue to make sacrifices for the sake of establishing peace in the province by continuing the war against Orcs and similar vermin," he said.
ANP leader and federal minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour also condemned the attack.
Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani has expressed his profound grief over the death. He telephoned Iftikhar Hussain and strongly condemned the "cowardly attack" and said they'd get right on it.
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Autoedited by Rantburg Al Qaeda in Iraq has claimed responsibility for two attacks against its former Sunni Muslim allies which killed at least 43 people last Sunday.
We knew that ...
In the deadliest attack, a boomer struck members of the government-backed 'Sahwa' militia as they lined up to be paid on Baghdad's southwestern outskirts, killing at least 39 and wounding 41, Iraqi security sources said.
In the second, a boomer killed four and wounded six at a meeting of local Sunni militia leaders in western Iraq, near the Syrian border, police in Anbar province said.
In a statement posted on a website often used by Islamists, Al Qaeda said it had conducted the attacks as part of action against 'leaders of apostasy', a term used for Sunni fighters who once allied with Al Qaeda but turned on the hard boy group in 2006/07, helping US forces turn the tide in the war. 'A lion of the Islamic State managed to intrude among the cattle after they were blinded by pickings of money thrown by the ... government and they fell into the torture of God,' the statement said.
Sunni Islamist turbans linked to Al Qaeda have sought to exploit the political vacuum created by a failure of Sunni, Shia and Kurdish factions to agree on a coalition government following an inconclusive March 7 parliamentary election, and have carried out a series of attacks since the vote.
It's more like a death rattle. There aren't many in Iraq who want to return to 2005, or 2000.
Sahwa leaders have been among the primary targets. Some of the attacks have been attributed to acts of Dire Revenge™ by former fellow turbans, while others have been blamed on long-running blood feuds between families.
The US military has increasingly taken a backseat role since pulling out of Iraqi urban centres in June last year and US troops will end combat operations formally on Aug. 31, before a full withdrawal next year.
US military leaders say Al Qaeda's capabilities in Iraq have been severely degraded in recent months. General Ray Odierno, the top US military commander in Iraq, said in early June that 34 of the top 42 Al Qaeda leaders in Iraq had been killed or captured in the previous 90 days.
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FOXNEWS AM > is repor that AL QAEDA IN THE MAGHREB aka AL QAEDA IN NORTH AFRICA [AQIM/AQNA] is claiming to had killed their French hostage in retaliation for the recent French-Mauritanian oper.
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Sixteen civilians were wounded in a hand-grenade blast that targeted a police patrol in central Mosul city on Saturday, according to a local security source in Ninewa province.
A hand-grenade went off near a police patrol in al-Sammaka souk (outdoor market), al-Maydan area, central Mosul, leaving 16 civilians wounded, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The wounded included women and children who happened to be in the shoppers-crammed souk during the time of the attack, he said, adding the assailants escaped through the alleys of the neighborhood after the attack.
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Rantburg translation WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: Three bandidos were jugged Saturday on charges of involvement in firing rockets in the direction of a U.S. military base in western al-Kut city last week, a security source in Wassit said.
"An interior ministry force jugged three men in al-Jihad neighborhood, western Kut, wanted on suspected involvement in firing four rockets on the U.S. forces' Delta base, (7 km) western Kut, in accordance with warrants issued by the Iraqi justice," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"Initial investigations are now underway with the four jugged men prior to their referral to the prosecutor on Sunday morning," he added, not giving further details.
These three are now undergoing painful interrogation at what was formerly known as Camp Cropper ...
Unidentified gunnies had reportedly fired four Katyusha rockets in the direction of the U.S. army's military base Delta on July 20.
Kut, the capital city of Wassit province, lies 180 km southeast of Baghdad.
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[Pak Daily Times] Iran said on Saturday that it has arrested suspected accomplices of two boomers who attacked a Shia mosque in the restive southeast earlier this month killing at least 28 people. "Some of those who helped the boomers behind the Zahedan crime have been identified and some have been arrested," state news agency IRNA quoted deputy interior minister Ali Abdollahi as saying.
He did not specify how many were in custody. "It is evident to us that the people who carried out the terrorist attack in Zahedan's Jamia mosque were linked to the Rigi group," Abdollahi said, referring to the Sunni hard boy group Jundollah, whose long time leader Abdolmalek Rigi was executed in Tehran last month. Jundollah claimed the July 15 twin bombing in Zahedan, capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province, which it said targeted members of the elite Revolutionary Guards. Police said that the day after the twin bombing they killed six "criminals" in Sistan-Baluchestan province and arrested 40 people for "creating disturbances" in Zahedan.
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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.
You've probably noticed that I'm working on the translator. I expect it'll be an on-going project for awhile. 
PESHAWAR, Pakistain (AFP) -- US missiles hit a compound in Pakistain's tribal belt Sunday, killing four hard boys in a second dronezap in as many days in the region seen as al-Qaeda headquarters. The missiles fired by a pilotless drone targeted the compound in Shaktoi area in South Wazoo, a Pakistaini security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP.
North Korea has renewed its request to examine the wreckage of the sunken South Korean warship Cheonan. 
[Pak Daily Times] At least eleven people were killed and another 10 injured in various incidents of assassination across Karachi on Saturday. 
[Pak Daily Times] Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi Bajaur Agency chief Dr Ismail laid down arms along with six other terrorists and announced their full support for the Pakistain Army in the war against terrorism, officials said on Saturday. 
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Sixteen civilians were wounded in a hand-grenade blast that targeted a police patrol in central Mosul city on Saturday, according to a local security source in Ninewa province.
WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: Three bandidos were jugged Saturday on charges of involvement in firing rockets in the direction of a U.S. military base in western al-Kut city last week, a security source in Wassit said.
[Pak Daily Times] Iran said on Saturday that it has arrested suspected accomplices of two boomers who attacked a Shia mosque in the restive southeast earlier this month killing at least 28 people. "Some of those who helped the boomers behind the Zahedan crime have been identified and some have been arrested," state news agency IRNA quoted deputy interior minister Ali Abdollahi as saying. 
