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I'll have to find the photographic evidence of the tom turkey I rode from when I was four until I was about six. The thing was MONSTROUS! My dad killed him when he attacked my baby brother. He dressed out at something like 46 pounds.
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[Emirates 24/7] Four Afghan non-combatants were killed on Saturday in two separate suicide kabooms in the east of the country, the interior ministry said.
In the first a man, woman and child were killed and 25 others injured when a jacket wallah on a bicycle blew himself up near the public health directorate in Mihtarlam, the capital of Laghman province. The acting provincial governor said earlier that the blast was caused by a bicycle bomb.
Another suicide kaboom a few minutes later in the Serahi Alishang area of the city killed one man and injured eight, the interior ministry said.
The Taliban grabbed credit for both attacks and said that six coppers and five intelligence agents were killed while two police vehicles were destroyed, but the group regularly inflates casualty figures.
Homemade bombs or improvised bombs have become the weapon of choice for Taliban Islamic fascistiand are responsible for most fatalities and casualties among Afghan and NATO troops as well as civilians.
Last Saturday, explosives attached to a cycle of violence killed 10 civilians in a market in a remote town in northern Kunduz province. The target of the attack -- a pro-government militia leader -- was also killed.
This week a group of 29 domestic and international aid agencies urged NATO leaders meeting in Lisbon to do more to protect civilians, as they discuss the timetable for the handover of security powers to Afghan forces.
This year is the deadliest year for civilian casualties in Afghanistan, according to the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society.
The number of ordinary Afghans killed in the conflict rose by a third in the first six months of 2010 to 1,271, with most deaths caused by turban attacks, the world body said in its six-monthly update in August.
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[Arab News] Somali pirates have seized a Seychelles fishing vessel with seven crew members near the Indian Ocean island nation, and are being pursued by its coasties, a Seychelles minister said in a statement on Saturday.
"A 33-foot fishing vessel called Faith has been hijacked by Somali pirates approximately 240 nautical miles north of Mahe," said the Indian Ocean island nation's Minister for Home Affairs, Environment, Transport and Energy, Joel Morgan.
Mahe is the largest Seychelles island. Morgan said the waters where the incident took place were within the exclusive economic zone around the Seychelles coast.
The men were captured while fishing for sea cucumbers on Friday. The pirates were heading northwest toward Somalia.
Rampant piracy off the coast of Somalia has made it the world's most dangerous shipping lane, earned sea bandidos tens of millions of dollars in ransoms and raised insurance premiums for ships.
Pirates have been casting their nets further offshore, spreading southeast toward Seychelles and east in the direction of India.
Kenya, Mauritius, Seychelles and Tanzania are bearing the brunt of piracy and have said they are ready to prosecute pirates jugged by international naval forces patrolling east Africa.
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seized a Seychelles fishing vessel with seven crew members near the Indian Ocean island nation,..
So much for the excuse that Somalis were reverting to piracy because international fishermen were trolling their waters rendering their own fishing trade unsustainable.
[Emirates 24/7] The Nigerian army on Saturday said it had jugged more than 50 bully boyz suspected of involvement in a string of recent kidnappings of oil workers.
Special taskforce front man Timothy Antigha told AFP the army raided a camp in the oil hub of Rivers state in southern Nigeria on Friday and rounded up "the gang leader and over 50 of his gang members" responsible for the kidnapping of 19 oil workers, including foreigners in recent weeks.
"They were the group that kidnapped the Exxon Mobil workers and the Afren group workers and were responsible for other previous kidnappings and robberies in the past," he said.
The military freed the 19 hostages in an operation on Wednesday from the creeks of the Niger Delta region, the heart of one of the world's largest oil industries. The victims included American, Canadian, French, Indonesian and Nigerian nationals.
But no arrests were made during the operation to rescue the hostages.
The gang was captured from Bokokiri in the Degema local government area of Rivers state during an operation that lasted eight hours on Friday, said a military official.
"We had surrounded the whole place and ...so they had to surrender. They were forced to surrender because of fire power," said one senior military official who took part in the raid.
The source however said in all 62 gang members were jugged.
"They didn't deny any of the crimes and said they are sorry for what they did," the source told AFP.
Over 30 rifles, some 10,000 rounds of ammunition and 12 machine guns were recovered.
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"They didn't deny any of the crimes and said they are sorry for what they did,"
good. Now kill em
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"They didn't deny any of the crimes and said they are sorry for what they didthey got caught"
Fixed.
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The leader of the leftist guerrilla group known as FARC is dead, after a rebel camp was attacked, Saturday.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said the camp was bombed by the air force, and several items reputedly belonging to the commander of FARC, Fabian Ramirez were found. He said that indicated that Ramirez was apparently killed in the attack. Weapons, computers and a backpack were discovered in the rubble of the camp. computers, huh? Emails from Hoogo?
Authorities soon identified and confirmed Ramirez was among the dead. His body was discovered by ground troops in the aftermath, once the area was secured.
Ramirez, whose real name is Jose Benito Cabrera Cuevas, was the commander in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. He died along with four or five other guerrillas suspected to have been in the jungle camp during the early morning raid. The camp was located near San Vicente del Caguan, in southern Caqueta, the president said. "Hey! What's that sound?"
In 2002, Ramirez claimed responsibility for kidnapping the then-presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, and was wanted in the U.S. on drug-trafficking charges.
This will be the second most important act in the fight against FARCs military structure since Mono Jojoy, the guerrillas military head, was killed in a similar raid in September. Columbia's got some inside info...
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His name's Ramirez? Says he's a Spaniard? Did they take his head?
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This is huge in the fight against FARC -- the only way to do this kind of decapitation is to have someone(s) on the inside feeding you information. Likely scenario -- FARC leadership keeps getting zapped for a couple of years and then the new El Supremo negotiates a deal with the government for amnesty and weapons handover. Of course, that El Supremo will have been the one feeding the Columbian military the coords of the other leadership all along.
(Itar-Tass) -- A criminal case is opened over the murder of a FSB officer in Kabardino-Balkaria, a source at the Investigation Committee's department in the republic told Itar-Tass on Saturday.
Murat Tlizamov, 30, aide of the Baksan district's duty commandant of the Federal Security Service's ... the successor to the KGB... department in the republic, was rubbed out in the city of Baksan late on Friday.
At about 22:50 Moscow time, at the corner of Karashayev and Komarov Streets, an unidentified attacker fired several shots from a 9-mm-caliber PM pistol at Tlizamov, who was walking to his home. The officer died at the site, the source said.
Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev, speaking at a meeting in Pyatigorsk on Friday, noted that the highest terrorism threat level among the North Caucasian republics was in Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria.
High activity of the bandit underground was reported in the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, he noted.
It is necessary to once again probe deep into the complicated situation marked with the more than five-time growth of terrorist crimes, the minister emphasised.
Six times more shooting attacks and five times more kabooms have been committed in Kabardino-Balkaria this year than over the same period last year. Activities of gunnies leaders are aimed more and more at stirring up interethnic conflicts and creating hotbeds of tension, he said.
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Germany has begun a widespread search in Berlin for two suicide bombers, according to sources.
The Islamists are thought to be planning an attack on a high-profile location in the Berlin soon, according to someone familiar with the investigation. Police are searching travel and visa records and inspecting new arrivals from the Middle East and South Asia.
Authorities believe the two men they are searching for in Berlin arrived in the there about six weeks ago from Wazoo. They are said to be going to great lengths to avoid being seen as devout Muslims and are changing hideouts regularly. It is believed that they are waiting for bomb detonators that may be transported from Turkey to Berlin by unwitting friends or relatives.
Der Spiegel reported Saturday that police fear an assault with bombs and small arms could be aimed at the Reichstag. A temporary fence was erected around the historic building earlier this week as a precaution.
German authorities also have evidence that a second group of terrorists is planning to travel from Wazoo via the UAE to Germany soon. This group is believed to be planning a small-arms attack on one or more German cities before March, according to a source.
There are at least three terrorist hit teams suspected to be in Europe right now. European police have been searching for a jihadi known only as Mauritani, whom they believe is planning an attack with six accomplices for weeks.
[Al Jazeera] US airline pilots will be allowed to bypass heightened security screening procedures brought in at United States airports last month. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) relented on Friday under pressure from pilots angry that they already undergo rigorous background checks.
"Allowing these uniformed pilots, whose identity has been verified, to go through expedited screening at the checkpoint just makes for smart security and an efficient use of our resources," John Pistole, TSA administrator, said in a statement.
Earlier this week, two pilots filed a lawsuit against the TSA and Department of Homeland Security arguing the patdowns and full-body scans they had to undergo violated protections against unwarranted searches afford by the US constitution.
"This new patdown is significantly more invasive and intrusive than the former patdown in that, among other things, the officer literally places his hands inside the traveller's pants," the lawsuit said.
But pilots will now be able to skip the new screening checks if they are employed by a US carrier, are on airline business and in uniform. They will have to show their airline identification and a second form of identification, which will be checked against crew databases, the TSA said.
"Establishing a secure system to positively identify and verify the employment status of uniformed pilots is a common sense, risk-based approach that allows TSA to dedicate more resources to unknown threats," Paul Onorato, the president of the Coalition of Airline Pilots Associations, said in a statement.
The new measures come as rights groups and some congressmen continue to complain over new full-body scanners installed in 65 US airports. Pilots had also opposed the scanners for fear of the potential health hazards from being forced repeatedly to pass through them.
The TSA has offered to manually pat-down passengers who refuse to be screened by the devices which take an x-ray of the entire body, but this has also led to a rash of complaints.
Next week's Thanksgiving holiday will test the capability of the scanners and the officials operating them with calls on the internet for a "national opt-out day" on November 24 that would see fliers snarl air traffic by refusing the checks.
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MIR ALI, Pakistan Four suspected U.S. missiles slammed into a house in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing six people in an area near the Afghan border teeming with local and foreign militants, intelligence officials said.
The house destroyed in the strike was located in Khaddi village in North Waziristan, part of the semiautonomous tribal region in Pakistan that is almost entirely controlled by militants, said the intelligence officials. The dead included three militants and three local tribesmen who were harboring them, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
[Pak Daily Times] Five terrorists, including three key cut-thoats, have been killed in festivities with security forces in Swat, a private TV channel reported on Saturday.
According to the security sources, the shootout took place in the Totano Bandi area of Kabal when the forces received a tip-off that some faceless myrmidons were trying to enter the valley. The security forces sealed the area and launched a search operation after which the gunnies shot up the forces. Ammunition has also been recovered from their possession after the shootout, the channel reported.
Earlier, security had been beefed up in Swat on the eve of Eidul Azha while vacations of all the police officials had been cancelled.
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(KUNA) -- Police on Saturday morning claimed arresting about 14 suspected Talibs and seized weapons from their possession. A joint team of police and law-enforcement agencies conducted a raid on a house in Dhoksyedan village, located in the outskirt of Rawalpindi, police sources told KUNA. They said all the suspected hard boyz belong to South Wazoo tribal agency and are of ages between 18 and 25. Sources said that the hard boyz believed to have been planning some terrorist activity in the city, adding, police has seized arms and ammunition from their possession. It was not immediately clear if any high-profile was among the jugged. Sources said that senior police officer will release details of the arrests soon.
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(KUNA) -- Unidentified assailants destroyed 10 NATO oil tankers Saturday morning in a northern Pak city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, said police. Suspected Islamic fascistifired rockets at NATO oil tankers, standing at a workshop, in Peshawar. Local media reports citing police sources said that the tankers caught fire and all were destroyed. The reports said that police also defused a bomb device, found at the site of the attack. The attackers decamped from the scene while opening fire. NATO oil tankers and food trucks frequently come under attack, while traveling to Afghanistan.
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Imagine there's no Pakistan.
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Coming as blessings from Gandhiji to the future world.
KARBALA / Aswat al-Iraq: Karbalas hospitals received 16 dead bodies and 140 others injured while ambulances carried 367 people suffering from different health problems to hospitals, a local health official said on Saturday.
Three hospitals in Karbala received 156 people killed or injured during Eid al-Adha holidays, among them 16 motorcycle accidents, in addition to six people killed while al-Hindiya hospital received 15 cases including four killed, and Eid Tamur town hospital received eight injury cases, Salim Kadhim told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Kadhim also said there were other deaths and injuries in different towns and villages of Karbala during the Eid holidays, including car accidents and clashes.
The holy Shiite city of Karbala lies 108 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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Pamplona bull running looks like a bunch of lady-boys compared to the EID holiday in Karbala.
An assistant village chief in Pattani province was shot and seriously wounded on Saturday.
Abdulnasae Baekor, 51, was riding his motorcycle on a village road when two men on anther motorcycle told him to stop. He stopped his vehicle and turned to talk to the two men.
The man motorcycle passenger took out a pistol and shot him twice in the head and fled.
Now that the recent flooding has subsided in southern Thailand, the killings can begin again.
[An Nahar] Four inmates were wounded in a quarrel in the Jeb Jennin police station on Saturday. The prisoners used sharp objects in the brawl that abruptly erupted into rioting. "Take that, oh, miserly mustchioed one!"
"A sharp object! No! Aaaiiieee! I am stabbed!"
"Hey, Rube!"
They were rushed to a hospital in the area. "Call for Doctor Kildare! Doctor Kildare to the blue courtesy phone!"
In the wake of the incident, Internal Security Forces reinforcements were summoned from a number of police stations in Rashaya and Western Bekaa to contain the situation and keep it under control.
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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.
Germany has begun a widespread search in Berlin for two suicide bombers, according to sources.
