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Fer gawd's sake. You can HEAR that the timing is off. Jeez. PM time.
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Worst case of headspace & timing neglect I've seen in years. He'll stop when a casing gets jammed in the chamber. This should be saved as a TRAINING FILM for recruits and AIT students!
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The US is buying new ones all the time, the latest models have fixed headspace and timing, so barrel changes don't require the Go/No Go gauge any longer. http://tiny.cc/hbo7e
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You know, I wonder if that particular gun is actually listed on their TOE. It's not unknown for US units to 'aquire' additional weapons, steal them from other places and put captured equipment to use. It's entirely possible that the vehicle it's mounted on is actually supposed to have an M240 instead, yet they scrounged up an M2HB for it.
That doesn't forgive the lack of proper maintenance, but it could be why the gunner seems unfamiliar enough to keep it in proper repair.
(Xinhua) -- Police gunned down two suicide bombers who were attempting to enter the office of Farah's provincial governor on Sunday, provincial police chief Mohammad Faqir Askar said.
Well done, O brave policemen!
"Two suicide bombers equipped with suicide vests and explosive devices were attempting to enter the office of provincial governor this morning but police identified and shot them dead," Askar told Xinhua.
Before opening fire, police wanted to check them but they refused and attempting to target policemen stationed around, the official further said.
There were no casualties on civilians and passersby, Asker emphasized, saying both the suicide bombers killed on the spot were Taliban loyalists.
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At least 9 soldiers were killed when armed men attacked a security checkpoint in Yemen's Southern Abyan Province, where many were killed and injured during fierce clashes between the security forces and suspected Al-Qaeda militants last week.
The Alsahwa website quoted informed sources as saying militants launched an RPG attack against the personnel of the checkpoint in the Almashrou'a area in Jaar district when soldiers were breaking their fast at Maghrib.
The attackers burned the bodies of the soldiers, a security patrol and the attack site and chanted Allah is great and their attack was in retaliation for attacks against their brothers in the province, the sources said.
The heinous attack followed fierce confrontations with suspected Al-Qaeda members in the Lowder and Jaar districts in which more than 40 were killed including soldiers.
Last week, confrontations resumed after the authorities said they had retaken control of the Lowder district.
Also, the developments come amid the continuous hunt for Al-Qaeda terrorists throughout Yemen and fears of the west about growing presence of Al-Qaeda in the country.
Yemen has recently denied there are U.S. and British bases providing assistance to root out terrorism, saying the national authorities are capable to fight terrorism alone and they have always proved their competence in tackling terrorist issues.
[Al Arabiya] Yemen denied on Sunday that foreign forces are involved in its battle against al-Qaeda, as Sanaa's security forces went on high alert after eight soldiers were killed by suspected jihadists.
"We are surprised at groundless allegations in several media reports lately on the presence of British soldiers and on the arrival of U.S. forces to aid in fighting terror in Yemen," the defense ministry's 26sep.net news website quoted a Yemeni official as saying.
The official said that Yemen's cooperation with the "United States or other countries" in fighting terrorism is "restricted to the exchange of information which facilitates its hunt (for) terrorist elements and handing them over to justice."
Suspected al-Qaeda militants have carried out several attacks in past weeks against Yemeni soldiers, the latest of which killed eight soldiers and a civilian in the town of Jaar in the southern Abyan province on Saturday, according to a security official.
The interior ministry had on Saturday called for tighter security at intelligence headquarters throughout the country and said it had put security units on alert.
The ministry, in a statement posted on its website, stressed "the importance of increasing security vigilance and deploying patrols in the capital and the provinces, in addition to tightening security measures on vital facilities and buildings."
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"Foreign" read, US-NATO.
ION TOPIX > {AllAfrica] SOUTH AFRICA: PIRACY ON EAST COAST [Somalia = East Africa] IS CREEPING CLOSER. Movin' + Spreadin' down towards Southern Africa espec SA.
More details in tomorrow's 'Burg.
The top enforcer for the Edgar Valdez Villareal was arrested today in the Mexican state of Morelos, according to the Mexican daily Milenio.
[Gulf News] A shootout between the Chechen president's personal protection detail and suspected separatist insurgents has left 19 people dead, including five civilians, officials and media reports said.
At least 12 suspected insurgents and two security officers were killed when the rebels entered Tsentoroi, Ramzan Kadyrov's home village, early yesterday, his spokesman Alvi Karimov said. TV reports said five civilians were killed in the crossfire.
Kadyrov, who is thought to regularly supervise security operations in the field, was in the village at the time and directed the counter-offensive, Karimov said.
"We let them into the village so they couldn't escape," Kadyrov told Channel One television, which showed him examining the bodies of the suspected militants strewn across a road. "We forced them into a place where they could be eliminated," he said.
Police in 2009 averted a possible assassination attempt on Kadyrov, shooting dead the driver of a car suspected of containing explosives before he could reach a construction site where Kadyrov was due to make an appearance.
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The argument over an Arab militant's widow last weekend became so heated that gunfire broke out among insurgent factions, leaving eight people dead, militant sources told AKI from the Pakistan's North Waziristan.
The dead include Usman Punjabi, the abductor of British journalist Asad Qureshi.
Tension mounted between the Punjabi (non-Pushtun Pakistanis) and Mehsud (local tribe) militants after an Arab militant was killed in a drone strike, leaving behind his widow.
'The widow was rich and after the incident of husband's death she was alone. The local Mehsud tribesmen took her into their custody and were aiming to arrange her marriage to one of their own men. Usman Punjabi objected and insisted she must be left to her own free will to select whether she wants to marry into the Mehsud tribe,' said a source who witnessed the event.
After the Muslim Ramadan breakfast Saturday morning, all militants belonging to Mehsud tribes and the Punjabi camp gathered in a local school in Dande Darpa Khail in North Waziristan near Afghanistan to discuss the widow.
The argument between the two parties intensified until both parties pulled out their guns and opened fire. A total eight people were killed, including Usman Punjabi.
'We have killed the spy', Mehsud's members cried after killing Usman Punjabi.
Usman Punjabi was the abductor and assassin of former ISI official Khalid Khawaja and also abducted former ISI official Colonel Imam and British journalist Asad Qureshi.
Usman refused to release those he abducted despite the instruction of Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar. The fate of abducted is still unknown.
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"I say we stone her to death!"
"I say we lash her to death!"
"Uh, guys, she's rich."
"I say I marry her!"
"Uh, she should have free choice!"
Blam blam blam blam blam blam blam blam!
"I'm the only one left standing, so I'll marry her. Good thing she didn't get killed in the crossfire."
Usman Punjabi objected and insisted she must be left to her own free will to select whether she wants to marry into the Mehsud tribe,' said a source who witnessed the event.
Sounds like a desperate argument of last resort given the way these clowns do things.
After the Muslim Ramadan breakfast Saturday morning, all militants belonging to Mehsud tribes and the Punjabi camp gathered in a local school in Dande Darpa Khail in North Waziristan near Afghanistan to discuss the widow.
And to think our miliary was respecting Ramadan for some reason. And it sounds like schools are the equivalent of the OK Corral for them, too.
'We have killed the spy', Mehsud's members cried after killing Usman Punjabi.
"We killed the spy!" sounds an awful lot like "Oops, it's all good".
Maybe we could get these guys to kill each other if we just give every terrorist widow there $1000.
[Dawn] A bomb blast at a restaurant in the northwestern town of Mansehra killed one person Friday, local police chief Mohammed Sajjad said. He said the police were investigating who planted the bomb and why.
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[Pak Daily Times] The bodies of a key Taliban commander and of another terrorist were found on Sunday, police said. Police officials told Daily Times that they had found the bodies in Santgtan area of Kabal tehsil. One of the bodies was of Qari Abdullah, a key Taliban commander in Swat. Police said that Abdullah had been wanted in several acts of terrorism.
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[Pak Daily Times] Two security forces personnel were killed and three others injured in a remote-controlled bomb attack in Bara on Sunday. The bomb hit the vehicle, killing two security men and injuring three others, while the vehicle was destroyed. Curfew remains imposed in the area.
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[Pak Daily Times] An activist of the Sunni Tehreek (ST) was shot dead in the Garden police precincts on Sunday, following which a shopkeeper and a hawker were killed and another wounded in riots.
Saddar Town SP Javed Akbar Riaz said the victim Irfan Qadri, 22, alias Mama, was fired at by two men on a motorcycle after he came out of the Aqsa Masjid in Ranchore Lines near Mehfooz Sheermal House.
The victim died on the spot, while the culprits managed to escape, Riaz said, adding that the police shifted the body to the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) for legal formalities.
No case was registered till filing of this report; however, the police claimed they have started their investigation on various aspects of the killing.
Moin Qadri, a member of the ST while talking to Daily Times said the victim was an activist and younger brother of ST Lyari sector in-charge Imran Qadri.
He condemned the incident and demanded the government to arrest the culprits who were involved in this incident.
After the news of the incident spread, a large number of members and activists of the ST gathered at the hospital.
As riots broke out over the incident a shopkeeper and hawker were gunned down and another wounded when armed ST motorcyclists opened fire at the shops to close them in protest.
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[Pak Daily Times] Maoist guerrillas killed five policemen in a gunfight in India's central state of Chhattisgarh on Sunday, a senior police officer told AFP. Three of the men belonged to the elite Border Security Force paramilitary group and two were regular police officers, Chhattisgarh's anti-Maoist operations chief Ramniwas, who only uses one name, told AFP. The clash took place in Kanker district, 175 kilometres (110 miles) south of the state capital Raipur. Kanker is the headquarters of a police jungle warfare school, which trains security personnel in the government's increasing efforts to tackle the Maoist insurgency. Chattisgarh is a stronghold of the rebels, who killed 15 police officers in an attack in the state two months ago. Authorities in New Delhi launched an offensive last year to tackle the worsening insurgency, but since then the Maoists have hit back with a series of bloody strikes. Maoist rebel groups have fought for decades in east India against state and central government rule, drawing support from tribal groups and landless farmers left behind by the country's economic expansion.
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(Xinhua) -- Infighting between two groups of an infamous militant organization "Punjabi Taliban" had left eight dead including leader of the group Usman Punjabi, but the growing threat of rebrand terrorists still looms large in the country plagued by devastating floods and terrorism.
Usman Punjabi was central figure in kidnapping of two former Pakistani intelligence officers and a British journalist, in North Waziristan tribal areas of Pakistan and was nominated in several incidents of terrorism across Pakistan.
The two groups of Punjabi Taliban disputed and killed each other in a bloody clash over the work distribution on Saturday evening in Haji Muhammad Kot area of troubled North Waziristan, about 65 kilometer from Wana. Six militants including group leader Usman Punjabi were killed while two people lost life from the disputing group of militants generally comprising ethnic Punjabi speakers from eastern Punjab province, local sources told Xinhua.
The killed militants were activists of the Punjabi Taliban group also infamous as "Asian Tigers", a splinter group of disbanded extremist Sunni sectarian organizations Lashkar-e- Jhangvi and Sipah-e-Sahaba and jihadi rebrand Jaish-e-Muhammad.
Previously unknown, Punjabi Taliban and its leader Usman Punjabi were famed after he had been named in kidnapping of three important people on March 26 this year. One of the abducted men Khalid Khawaja, a former Pakistani intelligence agency, Inter- Services Intelligence (ISI) operative was killed by Punjabi as government failed to meet kidnappers' demand. Khawaja's body was found on April 30 in Karam Kot, 7 kilometers south of Mirali in North Waziristan.
Probably, Khawaja had been killed for his offer of organizing Taliban's talks with government, local analysts believe, as it might have raised suspicions about him. A note was reportedly found on Khawaja's body saying that he was working for Americans and anybody working for them would find the same fate. Khawaja had been persuading Taliban to give up suicide bombing and stop attacking in mainland Pakistani cities.
Taliban frequently execute people on suspicion of espionage in the tribal areas of Pakistan. On Saturday evening two sons and a pedestrian were killed as shop of a local resident Shahbaraz Khan was destroyed in a bomb blast in Angorada, Waziristan tribal area.
The other two including former ISI officer Col. (retired) Amir Sultan Tarar alias Col. Imam and British journalist of Pakistani origin Asad Qureshi were released on May 6. It was not known whether any ransom was paid or what had led to their release. Militants had demanded U.S. 10 million dollars in ransom for the British journalist, but keeping mum about Col. Imam.
The Punjabi Taliban phenomenon is seen as a growing threat in the country. Pakistani government had accused them of conducting various terrorist incidents including the July 1, triple suicide bomb attacks on "Data Darbar", a widely revered 11th century Sufi saint shrine in eastern city of Lahore. Over 50 people were killed and another 200 injured in the widely condemned incident.
The group was also held responsible for attack on visiting Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore on March 3, 2009 and bombing of Ahmadi temples in May 28 this year in Lahore that killed over 100 people and a number of other subversions. However, a spokesman of Punjabi Taliban has denied the allegations.
According to Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik, 44 percent of the 20,000 madrassas or religious seminaries in Pakistan are located in Punjab province. The Pakistani government has banned 29 faith-based extremist or jihadi organizations. 729 of the 1,764 people on government's most wanted list also are from southern part of Punjab, the stronghold of extremist militants.
Washington had also expressed serious concerns over the growing threat of Punjabi Taliban in Pakistan, particularly with reference to the U.S. led war against terror in the rugged northwest tribal areas of Pakistan.
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hopefully the flood will wash them away, kind of like the Boxing Day Tsunami did in Aceh
If Toba erupts that could snuff out the remainder with luck
(Xinhua) -- At least two Pakistani security troops were killed and several others injured Sunday morning in a bomb blast in Khyber tribal area, northwest of Pakistan, local sources told Xinhua.
One vehicle was also destroyed in the remote controlled bomb blast at a security checkpoint in Mamra area that occurred in Bara sub-district of the Khyber Agency bordering Afghanistan. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the bomb attack, local sources told Xinhua.
Militants have accelerated their attacks on security forces, particularly after Pakistan government had initiated a crackdown on the flood relief camps run by different disbanded militant organizations, allegedly at the behest of the United States.
Both Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and U.S. Senator John Kerry expressed concern over the militants run flood relief camps saying that the disbanded groups might exploit the situation in their favor. Pakistan is facing the worst floods in its history for a month that had affected over 20 million people.
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(PTI) A gunbattle broke out between suspected militants, trying to sneak into India from across the border, and security forces near the Line of Control in Uri sector of Jammu and Kashmir this evening. The gunfight erupted when army troops challenged a group of persons who were trying to infiltrate into Uri sector, about 110 km from here, Lt Col J S Brar said. The exchange of fire was still on, he said.
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Meanwhile....
To wit,
* WORLD NEWS > {JKLF Party Leader] MALIK WARNS OF IRAN-STYLE UPRISING [+ NEPAL-style] IFF SOLUTION IS DELAYED.
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CHINESE MIL FORUM > {NYT OpEd] NYT CLAIMS CHINA TAKING DE FACTO CONTROL OF GILGIT-BALTISTAN | CHINA'S DISCREET HOLD ON PAKISTAN'S NORTHERN BORDERLANDS [NW corner of disputed Kashmir wid China].
ARTIC > Iff any international journalists ever visit or investiagte, they may find a SIMMERING NEAR-REVOLT AMONG LOCALS + UP TO 11,000 PLA TROOPS INVOLV IN SECIRTY + VARIOUS "BILATERAL",
"ECONOMIC" PROJECTS e.g. BEIJING-PAID-FOR, PLA-CONSTRUX, PLA-CONTROLLED MOUNTAIN RAILROADS + other "PAK" infrastructure???
[Dawn] After a day of sectarian violence, Gilgit was tense but calm city on Thursday and all major shopping and business centres remained shut. Roads gave a deserted look and attendance in government offices and schools was thin.
Police arrested 11 suspects in connection with the torching of six houses by a mob near Yadgar chowk on Wednesday. Two policemen have been taken into custody in connection with the murder three days ago of a man who was a 'Hafiz-i-Quran'.
Paramilitary troops patrolled sensitive areas and police and scouts searched vehicles.
Sources said police teams had been formed to look for people involved in violence.
Law-enforcement personnel launched a search operation on Wednesday night, but no-one was captured and no weapon was found.
Chief Minister Syed Mehdi Shah presided over a high-level meeting which directed law-enforcement agencies to deal sternly with law-breakers.
The chief minister and Force Commander of Gilgit-Baltistan Maj-Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa visited the affected areas. The chief minister assured the affected families that their losses would be compensated and the perpetrators would be brought to book.
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[BosNewsLife] Suspected Islamic militants have killed three American Christian aid workers who were helping victims of Pakistan's worst floods in recent memory, a well-informed source in the Pakistani military told BosNewsLife Saturday, August 28.
The source spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to discuss the exact details surrounding the killings in the country's volatile north-western Swat valley. He said Pakistan's military recovered the bodies of the relief workers in Swat valley Wednesday, August 25, shortly after they were kidnapped. The human remains were brought to the United States embassy, he said.
The names of the victims and their organization have not yet been released publicly due to security concerns and "not to create panic" among foreign aid workers, the source added. Additionally, under standard procedures, close relatives were expected to be informed first about the victims' identities. The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad refused to confirm or deny the report, saying it had no more information.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the killings, but the Taliban threatened to attack international relief workers, calling the presence of foreigners in Pakistan "unacceptable." Not saying this didn't happen, but no confirmation from any news or government organization.
Dammit. The worst, worst, worst thing is that the children suffer for the mistakes, avarice and idiocy of adults.
[Aswat al-Iraq] Two children were killed in a blast from a hand-grenade in Kirkuk on Sunday, according to a senior security official in the city.
"Two children -- five and six years of age -- were killed after they tampered with a hand-grenade they found in the district of al-Riad," Brig. Sarhad Qader, the director of the Kirkuk Districts' Police Department (KDPD), told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"The bodies of the two children were removed to a nearby hospital," he added.
Also in Riad, a tribal feud broke out in the village of Qarha, (45 km) southwest of Kirkuk, leaving seven persons wounded, including two in a serious condition, Qader said.
"The KDPD forces intervened and disengaged the clashing tribes and are still present in the village to investigate the incidents," he added.
Qader did not reveal further details.
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Terrorist choose to fight in crowded urban areas where there are women and children.
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"Daddy" brought his work home again?
One of the "good" things about working in a classified field is that you couldn't bring your work home with you. Of course, that OFTEN meant you didn't get home until late - sometimes two or three days late...
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[Iran Press] The Turkish Air Force has attacked northern Iraq, bombarding the positions of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) including their main mountainous hideout.
On Thursday and Friday, Turkish warplanes pounded Mount Qandil, from which the militants launch their operations against Turkey, as well as the Hakurk area, the military said in a statement, the Associated Press reported. The statement did not mention the casualties.
The PKK, which is on the terrorist list of much of the international community, has been fighting Turkey since 1984. The militants called off a unilateral ceasefire in June and resumed their assaults with their spokesman Ahmed Denis warning that "We will take our operations to all Turkish cities."
The Qandil mountain range is also where Israel and Israeli firms operate within the Iraqi borders.
The International Strategic Research Organization, a Turkish think tank, warned earlier in the year that retired Israeli military men and members of the Israeli spy agency Mossad had been sighted providing training to PKK gunmen in Iraqi Kurdistan.
An American political campaigner was detained in the city of Diyarbakir in the southeastern Turkey earlier this month for alleged PKK links, raising further suspicion of the militants' maintaining association with the foreigners.
Jake Hess is suspected of collaboration with the reported PKK offshoot, the Union of Kurdistan Communities (KCK).
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[Aswat al-Iraq] Intelligence cell of the Baghdad Operations Command (BOC) defused a group of the Al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI) organization in southern Baghdad.
"The BOC's Falcons Cell dismantled the AQI's al-Farooq Group that functions in southern Baghdad," Gen Qassim Atta, the AQI's official spokesperson, told the press on Sunday.
He explained that through intelligence effort, the BOC has been able to acquire leads that should help arrest those involved in recent attacks in Baghdad.
Congratulations to the BOC! Have fun following the leads provided by captured cell phones and computers.
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Have fun following the leads provided by captured cell phones and computers.
Not to mention the ones provided by thumbscrews, truncheons, and mustache wax! I've also heard that bamboo shoots under the fingernails and crank telephones can be used quite effectively to extract needed information, but only if you're not members of a US organization, where using such things is a no-no.
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KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: Security forces in Kirkuk on Sunday captured two wanted persons and two suspects others and seized munitions in different areas of the province, according to a senior security official.
A force from the Kirkuk Districts Police Department captured two wanted men in a checkpoint on the Kirkuk-Huweija road, (65 km) southwest of Kirkuk, KDPD Director Brig. Sarhad Qader told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The wanted men are Abdullah Muhammad Ibrahim, 27, a local resident of Tal al-Ward village, al-Abbassi district, a member of the al-Naqshabandiya Army group, while the other is Ali Hussein Muhammad, 40, a local resident of Halawa village, al-Huweija district. They were both handed over to the anti-crime department for interrogations, Qader said.
He added that a combined force from the KDPD and soldiers from 2nd Contingent, Brig. 46, 12th Division raided the villages of al-Rassouliya and al-Uwaydat in al-Huweija district and handed them over to the Huweija police station for investigations.
Meanwhile, a source from the Kirkuk-based Joint Coordination Center (JCC) seized scrap munitions that belonged to the former Iraqi army in the village of Qarat Naw, Shawan district, (35 km) north of Kirkuk.
The munitions, which included 30 mortar shells of 60 mm. caliber, were removed by Shawan police station patrols without incident, the source added.
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(KUNA) -- A mortar shell fell on a town in southern Israel on Sunday but caused no casualties, the Israeli army said. An army spokesman told the Israeli radio Palestinian gunmen fired a mortar shell from southern Gaza Strip which landed in Ashkol town, east of Khan Yunus. The explosion did not cause human nor material damage, he said. No Palestinian faction claimed responsibility for the attack.
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Hezbollah to the north, Hamas in the middle, and now the Motars to the south. :-)
Three volunteer defense guards were wounded seriously when a bomb tied underneath their pick-up truck exploded on Monday morning. The incident happened about 8:35 AM while the pick-up truck was passing a checkpoint. Police believed the bomb was activated by mobile phone.
(Xinhua) -- Leftist rebels and government troops clashed anew in southern Philippines on Sunday, leaving two people dead and several others wounded, the military said.
Among those killed in a series of clashes in Marihatag town in Mindanao region's Surigao del Sur province were a female New People's Army (NPA) fighter and a government soldier, said Lieutenant Colonel Triumph Dominic Bagaipo, spokesperson of the army's 4th Infantry Division.
The clashes erupted when patrolling soldiers from the army's 36th Infantry Battalion chanced upon a group of rebels said to be in foraging mission in a village in Marihatag at 1 p.m. sparking a 30-minute gun fight that left a soldier wounded, Bagaipo said, adding two running gun battles followed in the same village that left a soldier dead and two others wounded.
Army rangers serving as a blocking force ambushed the fleeing insurgents, killing a woman guerrilla and wounding another rebel who was able to escape during the confusion, Bagaipo told Xinhua, adding an M-16 rifle was recovered from the slain rebel amazon.
Sunday's clashes occurred just days after rebels killed five soldiers manning an isolated army outpost in a rebel-infested village in the region.
The NPA, armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, has been waging a guerrilla campaign in the countryside for four decades. Military estimates the NPA strength at more than 4,000 fighters scattered in more than 60 provinces throughout the country.
Peace talks between the government and the leftists bogged down after the United States included the NPA and its parent body as foreign terrorist organizations in 2002.
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(Xinhua) -- Masked gunmen lobbed grenades inside a Catholic church in southern Philippines early Sunday, wounding three persons, police and military said.
The grenades were hurled by two masked gunmen as dozens of parishioners attended the early Sunday service in Kalilangan town, in Mindanao's Bukidnon province, said Delilah Panes, a local police investigator.
Lieutenant Colonel Dominic Triumph Bagaipo, spokesperson of the army's 4th Infantry Division, told Xinhua by phone, "Fortunately the explosives did not go off properly causing only three injuries. It's a police matter but the army will provide support (in the investigations)."
No group claimed responsibility for the attack but the military blamed al-Qaeda linked militants in previous attacks.
Last year, six people were killed when militants detonated a remote controlled bomb outside a Catholic Church in the southern Philippine city of Cotabato.
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[Iran Press] An Israeli surveillance balloon has entered Lebanon's airspace in violation of the country's sovereignty, according to the Lebanese army.
The army issued a statement on Friday, confirming that the surveillance balloon hovered over Baalbek and other Lebanese regions.
Earlier in the day, an Israeli reconnaissance plane also reportedly violated Lebanon's airspace. The aircraft, which entered Lebanese airspace over the southern border town of Naqoura, proceeded to fly over eastern Lebanon and the capital Beirut.
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Where to start...
1. Iran Press?
2. Lebanon can't shoot down a balloon?
3. I expect that Israeli reconnaissance planes are a common occurrence over Lebanon
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It had on it the insidious message:
מזל טוב צו דיין געבורסטאָג!
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something tells me the Israelis use something better than a civil war era recon balloon.
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מזל טוב צו דיין געבורסטאָג!
Mazel tov, Zev Dayan geburstag? Isn't that last word German? I remember birthday as yom huledet...
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All you usually erudite Rantburgers are missing the obvious implications of the balloon: The Israelis are gearing up for massive Zeppelin raids against Lebanon when war strikes!
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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.
[Gulf News] A shootout between the Chechen president's personal protection detail and suspected separatist insurgents has left 19 people dead, including five civilians, officials and media reports said.
[Dawn] After a day of sectarian violence, Gilgit was tense but calm city on Thursday and all major shopping and business centres remained shut. Roads gave a deserted look and attendance in government offices and schools was thin. 
[Aswat al-Iraq] Intelligence cell of the Baghdad Operations Command (BOC) defused a group of the Al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI) organization in southern Baghdad. 
KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: Security forces in Kirkuk on Sunday captured two wanted persons and two suspects others and seized munitions in different areas of the province, according to a senior security official.
(Xinhua) -- Masked gunmen lobbed grenades inside a Catholic church in southern Philippines early Sunday, wounding three persons, police and military said.
