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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Barbara Steele aka Elizabeth "The Pit and the Pendulum" aka Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith in "Nightmare Castle" aka Lavinia Morley in "Curse of the Crimson Altar" Famous Quote "I never wanted to climb out of another fucking coffin again" (age 73)
Today I dumped an article in the hopper, about the kidnapping of the police chief -- actually the sole police person -- of a small town on the Mexican side of the Guatamalan border by Guatamalan drug gangs. It was a good article, but I had to: the article was from the El Pasa Times, one of R1ghth4ven's clients. We will not link to sites that benefit that company.
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...or google the story to see if other sources are out there besides APeeee. [not that 'they' have ever lifted other people's work, of course not, never, nada]
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I'm now blocking all the know WrongHaven sites with BlockSite add-on and a HOSTS file on my computer.
My brain trust(son & daughter) got me up to speed on how to accomplish this.
I too, want to do everything possible to make sure their hit traffic falls to near zero.
A relative works for the State of Minnesota in a capacity that looks to reduce exposure to the State.
I got him up to speed on these bastards.
He thinks he will be able to block all WrongHaven clients from being accessed from all of the States computers.
Ain't karma a b!tch.
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My brain trust(son & daughter) got me up to speed on how to accomplish this.
I'm going to have to find a brain trust of my own, Mikey. I managed to download BlockSite, but despite good instructions the last time we discussed this -- a few weeks ago -- I haven't figured out how to do the HOSTS file part. :-(
The entire state of Minnesota? Goodness. The Instapundit has repeatedly commented that it's not wise to fight with bloggers... in the long term.
[Tolo News] Afghan and Nato forces have launched ground and air operations in eastern Nangarhar province to wipe out jihad boys, provincial officials said.
The operation began in Shirzad district a week ago to target cut-throats in the area, officials said. There were no Afghan, Nato and civilian casualties in the operation, officials added.
Shirzad district has experienced increasing insecurity recently. Nato and Afghan forces have siezed weapons and vehicles of the cut-throats in the operation, provincial officials said.
"Almost all villages in Shirzad district have been cleared of jihad boys, and checkposts will be set up in different areas to ensure long lasting security," Gul Agha Shirzai, the governor of Nangarhar, told TOLOnews.
Local residents have welcomed the operation but have called on the government to implement reconstruction projects in the district as soon as possible.
"Now that security has improved in the area, we ask the government to implement reconstruction projects here," a local resident told TOLOnews.
The Afghan and Nato forces said they will continue the operation until all the villages are cleared completely.
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[Tolo News] Ten gun-hung tough guys renounced violence and laid their weapons in western Herat province, provincial security officials said on Tuesday.
A Taliban unit including their commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani, who was involved in insurgency in Robat Sangi district of Herat province surrendered to government forces, a statement by Herat National Security Department said.
The unit also gave in some arms including AK-47 and RPGs to the provincial government.
Mullah Abdul Ghani said he was in charge of 40 gun-hung tough guys and the rest will soon join government.
Robat Sangi a volatile district located in Herat province has mostly been the scene of bloodiest attacks targeting government and foreign troops.
During the past two months more than 700 gun-hung tough guys have renounced violence and surrendered to government in different parts of the country.
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Somali pirates released a German-operated chemical tanker but others seized another vessel carrying a cargo of petroleum, maritime sources said on Tuesday.
The Marshall Islands-flagged Marida Marguerite and its crew of 22 was hijacked in May by pirates firing automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades 120 miles south of Oman. It was freed after its hijackers receiving a ransom.
Andrew Mwangura, head of the Kenya-based East African Seafarers Assistance Programme, said the Marida Marguerite was sailing to safe waters.
Mwangura said later Somali pirates seized the Antigua and Barbuda-flagged Ems River in the Gulf of Aden while it was heading towards the Suez Canal.
The Ems River is a 5,200-dwt cargo vessel, also owned by a German company.
"The ship was taken on Monday, and has about eight crew," Mwangura said.
The European Union naval force, which patrols the Indian Ocean to help crack down on piracy, confirmed on its website the vessel had a crew of one Romanian and seven Filipinos.
The EU force said the Ems River was on its way to Greece from Jebel Ali in the United Arab Emirates at the time of the attack.
"MV Ems River was pirated approximately 175 nautical miles northeast of the port of Salalah, Oman," the EU force said.
It said there were 26 vessels and 609 hostages being held by pirates after being hijacked off the coast of Somalia.
A ransom of about $5.5 million was paid on Sunday for the release of the Marida Marguerite, seized while on its way from Kandla in Gujarat, India, to the Belgian port of Antwerp with a crew of 19 Indians, two Bangladeshis and one Ukrainian, Mwangura said.
He said the ship was probably heading for its original destination of Antwerp.
Pirates are making tens of millions of dollars in ransoms from seizing merchant ships in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden, despite efforts by foreign navies to crack down on such attacks.
The hijackings have driven up insurance premiums and forced ships to take longer, costlier routes to avoid piracy hot spots.
Industry officials say marine insurers in London's insurance market have widened the stretch of waterways deemed at high risk from Somali pirates as the armed gangs strike further out at sea.
Somalia has been without a functioning government since 1991, when rival warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and turned on each other. Gangs of pirates emerged from the ensuing chaos to threaten shipping in the Indian Ocean.
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[Magharebia] Moroccan security services broke up a terror cell that allegedly planned to commit car boom attacks in the kingdom and abroad, MAP reported on Monday (December 27th). According to the Moroccan Interior Ministry, the six suspects jugged December 10th in Oujda, Nador and Casablanca were all bomb-making experts and "cybernauts". The terror network targeted foreign interests in Morocco as well as national security facilities.
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[Ennahar] A cabaret singer and the imam of Malik Benabi mosque in Bachdjarah have been presented yesterday in Algiers before court along with three others accused for belonging to armed terrorist group active in the region.
The members of this terrorist support cell active in "El Feth phalanx", led by terrorist Abu Kheithama, belonging to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which was about to commit suicide attacks with explosives.
The role of the imam was to coordinate between the members of the terrorist group.
The arrest of the accused occurred following investigations by the security services on 19 November 2008 around a support cell. Information was received regarding the involvement of the imam of Malik Benabi mosque of Bachdjarah and his contacts with the phalanx el Feth, led by terrorist Abu Kheithama, aka Bentitri active in the regions of Boumerdes, Tizi Ouzou and the center.
The imam (B. T.), aged 34, from Bordj Bouarreridj, was prosecuted twice for terrorism cases. He was sentenced to 4 years in prison in 1991 and seven (7) years in prison in 1994 for belonging to terrorist groups. He has benefited from the provisions of the law on civil concord in 1999.
For hi part, (B. Omar), cabaret singer and musician, said he knows the man named Walid, the fugitive with whom he worked at a market in Bachdjarah, but denies having relations with terrorism.
The prosecution requested the sentence of 15 years in prison for the nine accused including the imam of the mosque of Bachdjarah
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Paris - France's DGSE foreign intelligence service said on Tuesday it has received "proof of life" of one of its officers held hostage by Islamists in Somalia since July 2009.
A DGSE source said the service had received from the kidnappers "a reply to a personal question" to which Denis Allex, a French secret agent kidnapped by an Islamist group on July 14 2009, was able to respond, proving he was alive.
"No detail was given by his captors on the state of his health nor on his location or the conditions in which he is being held," the source added.
The source declined to give further details "for obvious reasons of discretion" given the "particularly difficult" negotiations under way with the kidnappers.
Allex was seized on July 14 2009, as was another French agent who was held by different captors and freed the following month.
France said the two were in Somalia to help train local security forces but the al-Qaeda-inspired al-Shabaab militant group that seized Allex accused them of gathering intelligence for the French government.
The Shabaab have demanded the immediate end to any political and military support from France for Somalia's fragile central government and the withdrawal of all foreign advisers and private security firms in Somalia.
Somalia has been riven by internal strife for years, with the strongest groups waging a bloody offensive against forces loyal to the weak transitional government.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The corpse count from a series of Christmas Eve bombings and reprisals in central Nigeria has risen to at least 80, the emergency management agency said on Tuesday, bringing the nationwide toll to 86.
"We have gone around the five hospitals where casualties from the kabooms and the violence that followed in Jos were taken," said Daniel Balarabe Gambo, deputy director of communications for the National Emergency Management Agency.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... a group Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad claimed the attack.
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ION TOPIX > {AllAfrica] CAN: TERRORISTS ARE INVADING NIGERIA.
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There have been arms shipments through the coast. Al-Q has stated elevated interest in Nigeria. The arms are probably filtering to the Congo and Darfur - the moslems are setting their routes through the heart of the country where they will incidently make mayhem on the Christians.
[Pak Daily Times] Two Pak brothers accused of collecting money and recruiting jihadis for al Qaeda have gone on trial in the United Arab Emirates, a daily reported on Tuesday. The Paks, accused of collecting money and recruiting people for al Qaeda, appeared in court on Monday, The National reported. The pair, charged with "running a jihadi organisation and aiding and abetting al Qaeda", has confessed to having links with the jihadi network, the court was told according to the report. They also "had direct communication with a senior member of al Qaeda", the daily said without elaborating. The report only identified the suspects as "AkW", a 49-year-old project manager, and "AsW", a 43-year-old marketing manager, and said they arrived in the Gulf emirate in 2008.
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Where is the surprise meter?
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Going to Dubai in Feb.Travel broadens the mind which i know you have too.
My point yesterday that upset you? is the lack of worldly knowledge from the American students i have met does not help the US Rep in the wider worlds eyes.Personally i blame the media/Education which is insular not the students fault!Personally i like to know what goes on around the world not UK only.I knew most World Capitals by twelve.No offence was meant!Paul
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Paul, again I apologize. I look forward to hearing your observations from Dubai. Is your education and outlook typical of Britain, or were you a special case?
At School we learned in Classical Studies about Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire.
In History i learned about World War 1 and 2 and the Russian Revolution.
I think lessons have been dummed down since to get a better pass mark but our knowledge of worldwide affairs is better due to our news channels which are alot more international than yours.The average Student would know/be aware of Putin,Obama,Cameron,Sarkozy,Mugabe,Gadaffi,Chavezetc from the news.
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A Guatemala's state of siege declared ten days ago in the Alta Verapaz department has compelled the primary target of those operations to threaten civilian residents and others through text messaging, according to Guatemalan news accounts.
Los Zetas criminal gang, suffering from setbacks as Guatemalan security forces beginning counternarciotics operations targeting them, texted threats saying they would counter government moves by attacking public places such as shopping malls.
Government spokesman for the Interior Ministry, Nery Morales, said the government would not attend any threat from anyone about their ongoing operations.
Government security forces have scored a number of early hits against Los Zetas narcotic operations since December 19th seizing more than 150 weapons, drugs, vehicles including armored vehicles, light aircraft and an amount of cash.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Five men planning to shoot as many people as possible in a building housing the newsroom of a paper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad were arrested Wednesday in an operation that halted an imminent attack, intelligence officials said.
Denmark's intelligence service said it arrested four men in two raids in suburbs of the capital, Copenhagen, and seized an automatic weapon, a silencer and ammunition. Swedish police said they arrested a 37-year-old Swedish citizen of Tunisian origin living in Stockholm.
"An imminent terror attack has been foiled," said Jakob Scharf, head of the Danish Security and Intelligence Service, or PET. He described some the suspects as "militant Islamists with relations to international terror networks" and said that more arrests were possible.
PET said it seized a 44-year-old Tunisian, a 29-year-old Lebanese-born man and a 30-year-old who were living in Sweden and had entered Denmark late Tuesday or early Wednesday. The fourth person detained was a 26-year-old Iraqi asylum-seeker living in Copenhagen.
The Danish intelligence service said the group had been planning to enter the building where the Jyllands-Posten daily has its Copenhagen newsdesk and had wanted "to kill as many of the people present as possible." The four men face preliminary charges of attempting to carry out an act of terrorism. They will face a custody hearing Thursday. Glad to see they broke this one up. Hopefully no more terrorists in Saudi Sweden are planning mischief.
[Pak Daily Times] A low-intensity blast at the cafeteria lawn of Bloody Karachi University on Tuesday left four students of the Imamia Students Organisation (ISO) injured.
The kaboom occurred when ISO activists were preparing for noon prayers in the lawn of the main cafeteria of the university. After the blast, law enforcement agencies' personnel, Bomb Disposal Squad (DSP) staff, ambulances of various welfare organisations and students rushed to the scene and shifted the injured to the nearby Patel Hospital.
BDS officials, Sherlocks of FIA's Special Investigation Group and various other agencies reached the spot to evaluate the nature of the blast. Experts, after paramilitary investigation, disclosed that the bomb was planted at the ISO stall where ISO workers offer their prayers daily.
DIG (East) Commandant Shaukat, SSP Naeem Sheikh, Gulshan-e-Iqbal TPO, SSP Mazhar Mashwani of the Crime Investigation Department (CID) and SSP Raja Umar Khitab of the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) also inspected the site of the incident.
BDS and SIG Sherlocks cordoned off the scene of the crime and took samples for laboratory tests.
SIG and BDS Sherlocks said the blast was low intensity, in which gunnies used some 150 to 200 grammes of kaboom. They added that the blast could have been more harmful or even fatal if the gunnies had used pellets in the bomb. The blast also damaged the cafeteria's wall, a window and destroyed a tree, which reduced its intensity and saved students' lives.
DIG Shaukat said the actual nature of the blast and explosives would be determined after a laboratory examination.
Later, enraged ISO workers took out a rally from the campus to the university road, chanting slogans against Rangers, deployed at the university and KU administration. ISO senior leader Qasim Karbalai said that two out of the four injured students, Wajid Ali and Irfan Haider were maimed critically, while the two slightly injured students, Jawad and Haider Ali, were discharged after first aid.
He added that they had informed the KU administration about cut-thoat elements' presence in various students' organisations but the university's administration "did not take any action". He pointed out that a complete wing of Rangers was deployed at the campus but they were reluctant to provide security to students.
It is pertinent to mention that Sherlocks are looking into different aspects of the blast, including disputes of ISO with rival student organisations.
Sources say that a clash between the ISO and PSF that took place a couple of weeks ago could be a major issue.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan and Interior Minister Rehman Malik took strict notice of the incident. The CM has asked the Bloody Karachi capital city police officer and Sindh IGP to submit a detailed report on the incident.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hideout... KU will remain open today (Wednesday), however, the examinations scheduled for today have been postponed.
This was decided at a meeting held at the campus and presided over by KU Vice Chancellor Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui.
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[Pak Daily Times] The security forces killed at least two bully boyz and injured four others in a shootout in the Mohmand Agency, a private TV channel reported on Tuesday.
According to details, the shootout began after the Taliban attacked a checkpost in the Mohmand tribal region, an official said. The bully boyz armed with sophisticated weapons launched an attack on the Ziarat security checkpost in Saafi tehsil. In retaliatory action, security forces killed two of the attackers and injured four others.
Separately, a security official was injured as a land mine went kaboom! in Ambar tehsil of the tribal region, the channel reported.
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[Pak Daily Times] Seven people were killed, including the Pakistain People's Party (PPP) Youth Wing president, while one did away with himself in separate incidents of violence and mishap in different areas of the metropolis on Tuesday.
A 32-year-old, mother of three children and her relative were bumped off in the name of honour in her home at Zia Colony in the limits of Korangi cop shoppe. Police said the incident occurred at house No 1039 where the culprit Akbar Ali rubbed out his sister-in-law Rohi Bano and relative Sanaullah, 24, over suspicion of illicit relations and later confessed to his crime at the cop shoppe.
They said Bano's husband Didar Hussain had died two years ago while Sanaullah was their relative and used to live in the same house. The victims belonged to Shikarpur, interior Sindh, the police informed. Police have jugged the accused Akbar Ali and registered FIRs 423/10 and 424/10 on the complaint of the victim's brother Mansoor.
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[Emirates 24/7] India's Home Ministry has issued a countrywide alert after receiving information of a potential terror strike by a Pakistain-based snuffy group.
The ministry official says more police patrols and strict security checks have been ordered in India's financial capital, Mumbai, and several other cities following credible reports that a banned snuffy group was planning a terror attack over the New Year weekend.
The Home Ministry official was speaking Tuesday on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to the media.
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[Dawn] At least 18 suspected forces of Evil and non-combatants were killed on Tuesday in what appears to be a surge in US dronezaps in the volatile North Wazoo, official sources said.
The corpse count from seven back-to-back strikes in the region adjacent to the border with Afghanistan during the past 24 hours jumped to 43.
On Monday unmanned aircraft targeted three vehicles in Mirali tehsil, killing 25 suspected Islamic myrmidons. The majority of those killed belonged to Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar... and Bannu district.
Local officials said that two missiles were fired at two suspected compounds at around 10am on Tuesday in Sherkhel area, an abandoned Afghan refugee camp in Ghulam Khan tehsil. Four people were killed.
The area people said that Kochis (Afghan nomads) lived in the compounds.
Local people were searching the place for survivors when the drone fired two missiles, killing four more people and injuring three others.
The names of the dead and maimed could not be ascertained.
In the third strike, a pickup truck carrying the maimed people from Ghulam Khan was targeted near another abandoned refugee camp called Nawab camp. Two missiles were fired in which four people were killed.
Sources said that two cars were heading towards the destroyed truck when the drone fired another volley of missiles, leaving another six people dead.
AP adds: The strikes come in the final days of a year that has seen an unprecedented number of dronezaps as part of a ramped-up US campaign to take out Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters seeking sanctuary outside Afghanistan.
Around 115 missile strikes have been launched this year -- more than doubling last year's total. Nearly all have landed in North Wazoo, a region that allegedly hosts several Islamic myrmidon groups battling the US and Nato troops in Afghanistan, including the Haqqani network.
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Seven dronezaps in 24 hours send 43 to a better place
From my perspective maybe. From theirs, it's going to be a worse place. Much worse.
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The international community would have issued a warrant for Bush if he had drone zapped anyone.
The MSM would have gone nuts and the demos would have filled articles of impeachment.
[An Nahar] Security forces stated on Monday that the situation in the Ain al-Hilweh Paleostinian refugee camp is under control "and there are no negative repercussions to Ghandy al-Sahmarani's murder."
They told the Central News Agency that the army has bolstered its presence at the entrance of the camp in anticipation of any development that may serve to destabilize the situation.
Head of the Paleostinian Armed Struggle Mohammed Abdel Hamid Issa, also known as al-Lino, stressed that Fatah was not involved in the murder, adding that the situation is under control "as all Paleostinian factions seek to avert strife."
A Lebanese security source told the news agency that Sahmarani and slain Fatah Islam bad turban, Abdel Rahman Awadh, had worked to execute attacks against the Lebanese army and United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society Interim Force in Leb.
Awadh was killed by the Lebanese army in an ambush on August 14.
The source clarified that Sahmarani was not killed by a gunshot to the head, but he was killed by hanging and by being beaten on the head by a sharp object.
His hands and legs were then tied and his corpse was dumped in Ain al-Hilweh, it added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... Voice of Leb radio reported on Monday that investigations by the Paleostinian and Islamic forces in the camp have succeeded in uncovering Sahmarani's murderers.
A source from the investigation said that those behind the murder are from Sahmarani's inner circles.
Al-Lino also revealed that investigations have also uncovered the side behind the Sunday bombing of a shop owned by a Paleostinian Armed Struggle official Rasmi Nasrallah.
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[An Nahar] State security seized machineguns and rocket-propelled grenades during a raid of a farm in the western Bekaa town of Hawsh al-Harimi on Tuesday. Also Tuesday, fishermen found old weapons off Mina in the northern port city of Tripoli. Navy divers are working to bring the arms back to shore.
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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.
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[Ennahar] A cabaret singer and the imam of Malik Benabi mosque in Bachdjarah have been presented yesterday in Algiers before court along with three others accused for belonging to armed terrorist group active in the region.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Five men planning to shoot as many people as possible in a building housing the newsroom of a paper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad were arrested Wednesday in an operation that halted an imminent attack, intelligence officials said.
The security forces killed at least two 
[Dawn] At least 18 suspected 
