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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Angie Everhart aka Trish Anderson in "Take Me Home Tonight" aka Brooke Caldwell in "Bigfoot" aka Samantha in "Payback (II)" aka Julie in "Cloud 9" aka Supermodel in "Coming Attractions" aka Natalie in "Bandido" aka Samantha Vassar in "The Real Deal" aka Mary Sanders in "Heart of Stone" aka Jessica in "Point Doom" aka Jane Woods in "Gunblast Vodka" aka SI Swimsuit Favorite in the 90s (age 42)
I mentioned this yesterday as a tag on a post but wanted to put this in as a moderator note as well.
All GunWalker-related posts should be listed as 'WoT Background' (red) if background, and as 'WoT Operations' (blue) if about arrests, attacks, etc. If in the US, file under 'Home Front: WoT' if in Mexico, file under 'Caribbean-Latin America'.
GunWalker, the narco-gang-vigilante violence in Mexico, the links between those gangs and (for example) Hezbollah, and the failing Mexican state are indeed WoT related.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
AoS.
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As per FREEREPUBLIC, the well-armed + violent DRUG CARTELS allegedly control 1/2 of Mahico = Mexico???
KABUL -- NATO officials in Afghanistan stopped transferring detainees to Afghan custody in several provinces this week in response to a U.N. investigation that found evidence of systematic torture at some detention centers, the military command said Tuesday night. The findings of a report on detainee abuse, which the U.N. mission here intends to make public in coming days, will probably embolden insurgent groups, which have sought to portray Afghan officials as lackeys of Western crusaders. It goes without saying that the Taliban, not being lackeys and running dogs for the infidels and apostates, will be far, far better at extortion, torture and murder than other Afghans who lack devotion to REAL Islam. Oh, I don't know, torture in that region of the world seems to run deep in the several cultures. I don't want our detainees tortured (putting panties on their heads is not torture, pulling out fingernails is), and if we can't trust our Afghan 'allies', then we'll have to keep the detainees.
[An Nahar] An Afghan district governor and three of his guards were killed Tuesday when their vehicle was blown up in a Taliban roadside kaboom in the east of the country, an official said.
Asil Khan Khogyani, the governor of Sherzad district in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, was killed along with his guards while driving to work in the troubled region, said Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the provincial administration front man.
"Asil Khan was killed in a roadside kaboom. Three of his guards, one of them also driving the car, were also killed," he added.
Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahed, contacting Agence La Belle France Presse from Qazi's guesthouse an undisclosed location, said the myrmidon group was responsible.
"In a kaboom, the Sherzad district governor was murdered today," he said.
Roadside bombs are the most commonly used weapon of the Taliban and are responsible for the bulk of military deaths in the U.S.-led coalition force and Afghan cops.
The home-made devices are placed on dirt roads used by Afghan and foreign military forces and are often detonated remotely.
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From the Press Agency That Cannot Be Named...
Libyan fighters have surrounded ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi, and it is only a matter of time until he is captured or killed, a spokesman for Tripoli's new military council said Wednesday. ...or not.
The council's deputy defense minister said, however, that Libya's former rebels had no idea where Gadhafi was, and they were focusing on taking control of territory instead of tracking down the former leader. ...all righty then.
A keenly observant, rubbish monitoring Graeme Smith, a foreign correspondent for Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper, found the papers and this delightful nuus scoop "blowing in the wind" on a street corner in the wealthy Tripoli suburb of Bab Akkarah where many of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's ruling elite, and some of his sons lived.
"The documents were sitting on the side of the curb, not blowing at that moment, but rather sitting, where someone possibly a careless contracting officer, had abandoned them," Smith said from Tripoli. "It would seem they were dumped in a hurry." An empty sixpack of Castle and crumpled package of Hiltons were also found nearby.
[Tripoli Post] Although representatives of Libya's National Transitional Council have reportedly accepted the Bani Walid elders's request for the peaceful handover of the town to the rebels' control, sources close to the rebels have said that they would wait perhaps until tomorrow to get inside the city.
The rebels wanted the rebels' word that they would not fire their weapons once inside and that the people inside the city would be assured of their safety.
The National Transitional Council has confirmed that the rebels have managed to arrest Khaled Kaim, the deputy foreign minister in the ousted Al Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years... regime.
Though Khaled is only considered a 'small fish' he was considered to be close to the deposed Libyan leader because on occasions he could speak on behalf of the regime
It is not yet known whether he was captured or gave himself up like Abdulati Al-Obeidi who has made it a point to clarify that he was not captured but he himself got in touch with the NTC and gave himself up.
In another development, China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday that it would recognise Libya's National Transitional Council as the country's legitimate government "when conditions are ripe". The front man however, did not spell out what the conditions would be.
China has not joined Western powers in formally recognising the NTC as the legitimate authority in Libya, but has acknowledged its "important role" after Muammar Al Qadaffy's ousting as the rebels swept into Tripoli last month.
In the meantime, China said it will tighten control over exports of arms following a report that companies offered to sell weapons to Muammar Al Qadaffy's regime in violation of United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... sanctions.
Talks between the companies and Al Qadaffy's representatives in Beijing in July took place without the government's knowledge, Jiang Yu, a spokeswoman for China's ministry of foreign affairs, said in Beijing yesterday.
At a briefing Tuesday she said the companies were acting on their own, adding that China hoped Libya's new government would respect its interests and honour existing contracts.
Jiang spoke after comments by Libya's new leaders yesterday that Libya's relations with China will suffer if the report that Chinese state companies offered to sell Al Qadaffy $200 million of arms during the rebellion is confirmed.
"If indeed the Chinese government agreed to sell arms to Al Qadaffy only a month ago, definitely it will affect our relationship with China," the National Transitional Council's finance minister, Ali Al Tarhouni, told Al Jizz.
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There seems to be some confusion in this article about who the rebels are now. Maybe now that the NTC controls Tripoli they consider Daffy's people to be the rebels...as if the tables have turned.
[An Nahar] Libya's new authorities resumed talks on Tuesday with local leaders in Bani Walid, one of the last bastions of Moammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years... , bidding to end a tense standoff over the oasis town.
Negotiations for the peaceful surrender of Bani Walid, which anti-Qadaffy fighters encircled last week, had collapsed Sunday, and the latest talks were aimed at reassuring Warfalla rustics, elders and the local community.
"No-one will be mistreated; We shall not attack property and we shall not assault anyone," Mahmoud Jibril, the number two in the National Transitional Council, told the meeting in a telephone call from Benghazi.
"God willing the negotiations will be successful," he said, calling the talks "a historic opportunity for Bani Walid and the Warfalla tribe" that dominates the region.
Representatives of Bani Walid urged Libya's new leaders to declare a general amnesty, saying the meeting at a mosque on the outskirts of the besieged town had cleared the suspicions of its people.
"We are here to spare bloodshed," a Bani Walid leader, Sheikh Abdul Qadir Mayad, told the gathering.
He admitted however that there were "obstacles and doubts" within the community as a result of six months of regime propaganda and media interference.
"Bani Walid has reached the stage where they realize the previous system is over. Bani Walid is with Libya, it is not an exception," said the sheikh.
Another local leader, Miftah al-Bagul, voiced similar concerns and stressed the key to the anti-Qadaffy forces winning over the population was entering the town peacefully and quickly restoring basic services.
"We are here to stop divisions and to avoid bloodshed ... We do not want 20 rebels to die, nor one hundred civilians," said Bagul.
"The behavior of the rebels is important ... The issue of services is very important. If after two or three days after the rebels enter Bani Walid they bring services, their image will change."
Representatives of Libya's new leadership assured the elders they would be safe at home, there would be no Dire Revenge™ and that those with blood on their hands would be tried under existing laws rather than by military or special courts.
"We want to live by the law too," said another elder, adding that most of Bani Walid's people want peace, although small armed pockets wanted to fight as a result of the Qadaffy regime's propaganda.
The tone of the meetings was cordial and respectful throughout, with both parties committing to the shared goal of avoiding further bloodshed and seeking to establish trust.
The NTC's chief negotiator, Abdullah Kenshil, expressed optimism about the progress of the talks which started and ended with prayers and salvos of celebratory gunfire.
"The result of these talks is that our colleagues from Bani Walid met us and were reassured that we do not mean them harm and we will preserve their lives," he said.
Kenshil said at the weekend that the pro-Qadaffy forces in Bani Walid numbered between 30 and 50 men, "very well-armed, with machine-guns and rocket-launchers and snipers."
Anti-Qadaffy fighters have moved to within 15 to 20 kilometers of the oasis town with a view to launching an assault if the talks broke down.
"If we find any resistance we think it will not be from the people of Bani Walid but from remnants of the regime," said fighter Abdullah Abu Asarah.
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We do not want 20 rebels to die, nor one hundred civilians
Nice you put it in perspective, so your Thugs are worth 5 Civilians, Bullshit.
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[Yemen Post] The General People's Congress, Yemen's ruling party, meets on Tuesday to discuss how to start dialogue with the opposition, the GCC and the U.S. and EU ambassadors after an order from President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... to find a suitable mechanism to sign and start implementing a GCC-brokered power transition deal in the country without delay.
Al-Mithaq newspaper, the mouthpiece of the party, said on Monday the GPC General Committee will hold a meeting chaired by Vice President Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi, the first deputy of the GPC chief, to discuss the mandate and find suitable ways to start talks with the JMP, the GCC Foreign Ministers and the U.S. and EU envoys to Sana'a.
The meeting will discuss a number of political, economic and organizational reports within the general policy of the GPC for the coming period, the paper said.
In his speech on the eve of Eid Al-Fitr, President Saleh said he had assigned the GPC General Committee to talk to the opposition and foreigners involved in the efforts to tackle the Yemeni crisis to sign the GCC plan without postponement.
Under the GCC plan, Saleh will hand power to his deputy in a month and will call for new presidential elections in ninety days; the opposition will be responsible for forming a national unity government; and a military committee will be responsible for the army restructuring.
Saleh, convalescing in Soddy Arabia after a June liquidation attempt, had backed out of signing the plan three times at the last minute; the latest in May after the ruling and opposition parties already inked it in Sana'a with the GCC Secretary General in attendance.
Yemen has been gripped by seven-month protests calling for the ouster of the regime, and in recent months, the country has started experiencing severe crises topped by fuel crisis and associated price hikes as well as battles with Al-Qaeda in the south and insecurity in other parts.
The problems along with most recent signs of a possible civil war have triggered fears about the country's future at a time when the international community is exerting major efforts to solve the political crisis to maintain Yemen's stability and unity.
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[Yemen Post] Tribesmen captured on Monday a jacket wallah in Yemen's southern province Abyan, two days after a suicide kaboom killed six soldiers and injured eight others at a military checkpoint between Abyan and Aden, Saba said.
The bomber tied an boom belt around his waist and he confessed to planning to blow himself up at a local market in the city of Lawder, one of the main strongholds of Al-Qaeda hard boys, the Yemeni news agency said.
"He was handed over to a military camp where the explosives were defused".
"He also disclosed that there were two other suicide bombers in the city," it added.
The army and tribal fighters supporting it started a search for the two bombers as Al-Qaeda has changed its tactics from open battles into suicide attacks in Abyan.
Al-Qaeda has recently received devastating blows during the continuous battles with the army supported by the local tribes in Abyan, and in response, its cut-throats carried out several suicide operations killing and injuring soldiers and pro-government tribal fighters.
The Interior Ministry said that 300 snuffies had been killed and their hideouts and weapon stores had been destroyed since the battles started in May after Abyan was declared as an Islamic emirate.
Late last week, a car laden with explosives was seized in Lawder that was defused safely.
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[Yemen Post] A source, close to big shots within the ruling party announced that al-Jawf province, in northern Yemen, was being overflowed by Islamic fascistifrom the provinces of Marid and Shabwa.
Furthermore, several convoys of weapons were seen being transported from the Saada region to Arhab, where fierce festivities are still taking place between rustics loyal to the revolution
Which revolution? Aren't there something like six going on in various parts of the country at the moment?
and the government forces. Rumor has it that the tribes are preparing an unprecedented assault against the government forces posted there.
The anonymous source also said that the tribes were setting temporary shelters to house the new troops, organizing the men into divisions before sending them as reinforcement towards Nehm and Arhab. The troops are believed to be under defected General Ali Mohsen direct command.
The source added that the government was determined to defend its military position in the Arhab region, as it was considered to be a strategic point of defense of the utmost importance since nothing else stood in between Arhab and the Yemeni capital, Sana'a.
The military equipments received by the tribes are believed to have been sent by al Houthi rebels, long standing enemies of the regime and sheikh Faris Manaa, a well known armed dealer and close friend of Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar.
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Reported on April 6, 2009: The aging, ailing, cigar-smoking icon Fidel Castro had three members of Congress visit with him today in Havana, which resulted in the bearded one asking, "How can we help President Obama?" In an effort to improve the relationship between Cuba and the U.S., [CBC members] Reps. Barbara Lee(D-Oakland), Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.) and Emanuel Cleaver II (D-Mo.) [and other Democrats] were the first U.S. officials to meet with the 82-year-old former dictator since his intestinal surgery in July 2006.
Ah yes, the island paradise 90 miles from our shores. I recall the USSR had missiles there at one time threatening the U.S. I don't think there is any hope for Cuba until the Castro bros. are long gone.
Safely ensconced with the Castro brothers' hospitality, Hezbollah's operatives can carry out missions such as acquiring passports, recruiting informants and forging documents. More disturbingly, they have been tasked to network with Hezbollah's other terrorist cells in Venezuela, Paraguay and Mexico, all in need of logistical support for attacks.
The Caribbean Dossier? Not very original. Hmmmmmmm, and who I wonder who might might be the target of such attacks? So, whatever happened to the Monroe Doctrine?
[An Nahar] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced a total freeze on military and trade ties with Israel and threatened Tuesday to visit Gazoo as the one-time allies' diplomatic spat intensified.
Only hours after Israel said the continued presence of its defense attache at the embassy in Ankara indicated there was no definitive break with Turkey, Erdogan declared a suspension to all military and commercial relations.
That's an efficient way to get rid of lots of jobs in one fell swoop. Betcha Greece will be happy to provide replacements at favorable terms...
Pick up a small part of Greece's debt service and they'll do most anything, I wager...
And despite pleas from top diplomats at the weekend to end their row over last year's attack on a Gazoo-bound aid flotilla, Erdogan risked causing further offence by berating Israel for behaving like "a spoiled child".
Oddly enough, the Wall Street Journal just had an opinion piece on the U.N. report subtitled, "Israel is vindicated on the Gaza flotilla, but Turkey still pouts". Go ahead and berate, Prime Minister, while the world snickers.
Last week, Turkey announced that the Israeli ambassador Gaby Levy was being expelled and all bilateral military agreements were suspended as it angrily rejected the findings of a United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... probe into the deadly flotilla raid.
Now in his first official reaction since that announcement, Erdogan went even further.
"We are totally suspending our trade, military, defense industry relations," Erdogan told news hounds.
Look for engines falling off airplanes and tanks running off their treads, and no spare parts to be had from the Israeli suppliers. Note to self: always time temper tantrums after refurbishments are completed.
"Further sanctions" against Israel would follow, he added.
"Prayers are going up to Allah to smite them, even as I speak," he added additionally.
Once Israel's closest friend in the Mohammedan world, Turkey has been increasingly critical of the Jewish state since Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in 2002.
There was widespread outrage in May last year when eight Turkish nationals and an American of Turkish descent died on the Mavi Marmara, the lead ship of the six-vessel convoy taking aid to the Paleostinian territory of Gazoo, in a raid by Israeli special forces in international waters.
A new U.N. report has criticized the "excessive" force in the raid but also angered the Paleostinians by upholding Israel's right to impose a naval blockade on Gazoo to prevent arms reaching the Islamist movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.
Unlike other European countries which regard Hamas as a terrorist group, Turkey has refused to blacklist the Islamists who are the rulers of Gazoo and Erdogan said he may pay a visit to Gazoo, entering via neighboring Egypt.
"We are talking with the Egyptians on this matter ... A trip to Gazoo is not finalized yet," Erdogan, who is due to visit Egypt next week, told news hounds.
Such a visit would be bound to infuriate Israel but Erdogan seemed in no mood for diplomacy.
"Israel has always played the role of a spoiled child," he said in reference to Israel's attitude towards the Paleostinians.
Earlier in the day, a senior Israeli defense official had sounded a warning to Turkey while saying that the military attache would remain in place in the Ankara mission.
"There's no break with Turkey: the proof is that our military attache in Ankara will remain in his office and that consular services there will continue to function," Amos Gilad told Israeli public radio.
"A solution to this crisis must be found," he added, saying Israel should seek to resolve it through its European and U.S. connections, as well as through NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
"Turkey has a lot to lose with an bad boy policy."
There has been widespread disquiet at the fallout between the two countries with the U.N. Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... among those expressing fears that it could impact on the wider Middle East grinding of the peace processor.
Turkey was the first Mohammedan-majority country to formally recognize the state of Israel in 1949 and the two countries had held regular joint military exercises.
Turkey has also long been a favorite tourist destination for Israelis who are barred from visiting many other countries in the region.
The spat has already impacted on tourism with Turkish travellers complaining that they were singled out for strip searches while flying out of Tel Aviv over the weekend.
The Israeli foreign ministry also said that 40 of its nationals were held for an hour and a half for questioning at Ataturk International Airport on Monday before they were released.
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The Hellenic Genocide is commemorated on May 19 and September 14, which is coincidentally, rapidly approaching.
The Hellenic (Greek) Genocide was the systematic torture, massacre and ethnic cleansing of several million Hellenes (Greeks) perpetrated by the Turks in Asia Minor, Constantinople (now called Istanbul by the Turks), Eastern Thrace, Imvros, Tenedos, Macedonia, Cappadocia and Pontos.
Most of the victims were massacred between 1895 and 1955. The present estimate is that some 2,000,000 Greek children, men and women of all ages were killed during that period.
And there are others. This is just the first one that came to mind.
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TURKEY has chosen to expand its naval presence + monitoring in the Eastern Mediterranean, which IMO likely has mor to do wid the situation in CYPRUS than wid Israel.
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Cyprus has always been a flash point. Looks like it will be again soon. One part Greek and one part Turk. Turkey wants Cyprus totally in the worst way. "Cyprus is particularly seen by the
United Nations (UN) as the laboratory for the
new world order". The Turkish PM looks to become
a destabilizing influence in this part of the world. This will change things for the West as well as Israel. JM you are correct to bring this up. I look for trouble soon in Cyprus. The Greeks have a long bitter history with the Turks.
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Besoeker, the Greeks were happy to return the favor. Check out the Greek invasion of Anatolia, 1919-1923.
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yes the Greek committed atrocities during their occupation, probably 2000 to 10000 deaths and many structures and some entire villages burned but then when the Greek ,military left, the Turks upped those figures; in only a few years probably killing 20,000 to 100,000, confiscating property, etc.
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When have the Greeks and Turks ever gotten along?
[Dawn] David Petraeus was sworn in Tuesday as head of the CIA to direct the civilian covert war against Al-Qaeda after years of command in Iraq and Afghanistan as America's most influential general.
Petraeus, 58, who succeeds Leon Panetta, ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... now the defense secretary, hung up his army uniform less than a week ago after a 37-year military career to take on the new role as spymaster.
"Duty, honor and country," said Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... as he swore in Petraeus at the White House.
"The day I met you in Afghanistan, those words came to mind. You have had a truly distinguished career, general. You've excelled in every single thing you've done."
Not that he'll take back any of the things the Dems said about the general in 2007...
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Gonna be fascinating to watch this play out. Will Petraeus be able to run COIN against his treacherous and leak-prone subordinates or will the legendary entrenched bureaucracy grind him down. No idea what the over/under is.
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Petraeus' in unquestionably brilliant, but his brand of "COIN" is failing at an alarming rate. McChristal saw it falling apart. We've squandering billions on schools, make-work projects, and infrastructure. Civil action programs in Afghanistan are an illusion of progress. Afghanistan is not Peoria, it's like no place else on earth. The Pentagon is finally realizing that the only way to deal with the tribal realities of the Taliban is to take down the leadership and the facilitators. We're bailing water out of the boat but only until we can reach the dock and climb to safety. The boat will still sink.
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U.S. General David Petraeus said on Wednesday that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was fomenting anti-American sentiment due to the perception of U.S. favoritism towards Israel.
Israel is very different from its neighbors Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan or for that matter other Mideast islamic countries. Our relationship with Israel ought to be treated differently.
At least 11 people died and over 76 were wounded in a bomb blast outside Delhi High Court today. The explosive device is thought to have been in a briefcase outside the High Court complex between Gate No. 4 and 5. It exploded while hundreds of litigants were waiting to get passes to enter the premises.
Union Home Secretary R K Singh said the blast was of "medium to high intensity" and created a "deep crater". Asked whether the blast was a terrorist attack, Singh said "it had all the makings of an improvised explosive device set up by a terror group."
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[Dawn] The corpse count in an overnight clash between two groups in New Bloody Karachi rose to six on Monday and the police claimed to have locked away about a dozen suspects in an 'operation' after the incident.
A bigwig said the total of six people, including a woman, were killed in an exchange of gunfire between the two sides fighting over the management of a hospital in Godhra.
"We have enhanced police deployment in the affected area where our 20 mobile vans and over 125 coppers are patrolling and are deployed in different pockets," said SP Salam Sheikh of New Bloody Karachi.
"We have locked away nearly a dozen suspects and seized arms from them.
"A much larger number of suspects are being interrogated by the Rangers as well."
He said the dispute between two religious groups over the management of an area hospital led to the violent situation on Sunday night but claimed that the deployment of the police and Rangers in the area had helped resume normal life on Monday.
[Dawn] Two suspected assassins, each said to be involved in at least three murders, on Monday were remanded in police custody for interrogation.
A judicial magistrate remanded one of the suspects in police custody in a murder case till Sept 10.
The special investigation unit of police said it had placed in durance vile Shahroz in Lines Area and seized illicit weapons found in his custody and later recovered a body from a house in New Bloody Karachi on a lead given by the suspect on Sunday.
The SIU police produced the suspect before the court of a judicial magistrate (central) and sought his physical remand. They stated that the suspect confessed to his involvement in the killings of three other men, besides a number of suspects were still on the lam.
The court handed over the custody of the suspect to police on physical remand for five days and directed the investigation officer to produce him on the next hearing.
According to the prosecution, the suspect confessed that he along with his accomplices -- Umair alias Shahbaz, Chutta Khan, Rashid, Asif and Noreen -- had killed a police informer, Mohammad Dildar, at their rented house in New Bloody Karachi and kept the body inside a box in order to dispose it of sometime during the night.
The police informer had gone missing on Sept 2. Acting on the information obtained from the suspect, the police recovered the body of the dear departed.
The suspect also disclosed his involvement in the murders of Kamran, Abid and Asif, it added.
A case (FIR 311/2011) was registered at the Khawaja Ajmer Nagri cop shoppe under Sections 302 (premeditated murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistain Penal Code on a complaint of the dear departed's brother.
The same suspect was remanded by a judicial magistrate (east) in police custody in an illicit weapon case till Sept 10.
The suspect was booked under Section 13-D of the Arms Ordinance registered at the SIU cop shoppe.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed this guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... another suspect allegedly involved in assassinations was remanded in police custody on Monday by a magistrate till Sept 8.
Majid alias Kalu said to be associated with one of the several criminal gangs operating in Lyari was produced before a judicial magistrate (west).
The suspect was booked in three murder cases registered at the Pak Colony cop shoppe. The police claimed that the suspect also confessed to his involvement in other assassinations.
Murder suspect sent to jail
A judicial magistrate (east) on Monday remanded a suspect in jail custody in double murder and illicit weapon cases till Sept 11.
Majid Moosa was accused of killing Amin-ur-Rahman and his son, Mohammad Asim, on Aug 22 near Teen Hatti. The suspect was placed in durance vile on Aug 28 and the police recovered the crime weapon on a lead provided by the suspect. On Aug 29, the court remanded him in police custody till Sept 5.
A case (FIR 260/2011) was registered at the Jamshed Quarter cop shoppe under Sections 302 and 34 of the PPC on a complaint of Amin's brother. Another case (FIR 267/2011) was registered under Section 13-E of the Arms Ordinance.
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[Dawn] Two Death Eaters were killed when a bomb went kaboom! prematurely in Kalosha area of South Wazoo Agency on the night between Sunday and Monday, sources said.
They said that two Death Eaters were planting an bomb on the road leading to the house of Taliban capo Sharif Wazir in Kalosha area when it went off, killing them on the spot.
Sharif Wazir was a confidant of Taliban capos Mullah Nazir and Nek Mohammad. He had played a prominent role in eviction of Uzbek Death Eaters from South Waziristan Agency in 2008.
Sources said that Death Eaters were planting the bomb to target Sharif Wazir.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard... the bodies of two brothers, who had gone missing mysteriously, were found in Humrang Beebak area on Monday.
Sources said that the family had no enmity with anyone in the area. They said that the two brothers had fallen victim to terrorism.
In another incident, explosives damaged a house in the border area of Angoor Adda on Monday.Locals said that the explosive went off inside the house of Nazar Jan, a member of Ahmadzai Wazir tribe. The house was partially damaged in the kaboom. No loss of life was reported.
In Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central, a girl was injured when suspected Death Eaters fired rockets and missiles at border areas of Mamond tehsil.
According to residents and political administration, Death Eaters targeted Manro Jangle and Speray localities with rockets and missiles. Some of the rockets landed at populated areas. A girl was injured when a rocket hit a house. The house was partially damaged.
Locals said six rockets and five missiles were fired by the jihad boys. Security forces and tribal lashkar retaliated and forced the attackers to flee, they added.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi police said today that two civilians were hit by a sticky bomb explosion in a civilian car west of the capital, Baghdad.
The security source told Aswat al-Iraq that the bomb exploded in Manour area, near a restaurant, west of Baghdad, which resulted in the two casualties.
The car was severely damaged, as the source added.
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"in Manour area." Like "Manure area"? Sounds about right.
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From Scooter's article: Let me be frank if we catch anyone trying to set a sticky bomb in our place, we will beat him very severely before we inform the authorities, he added.
[Emirates 24/7] Gunmen ambushed and killed eight Iraqi soldiers as they were heading back to base after a midnight shift in the country's west, security officials said Tuesday.
An army lieutenant was among those killed and another soldier was maimed in the late Monday night ambush, a military official and a policeman said.The attack was a sobering reminder of how vulnerable Iraqi security forces remain as the US military starts to leave.
On Tuesday, Iraqi troops were searching for the gunnies in and around the town of Haditha in the western Anbar province, 140 miles (220 kilometers) northwest of Storied Baghdad. ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... In the Iraqi capital, two government officials said US authorities informed Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that the American military withdrawal has officially begun.
The notice, given on the day that parliament returned to work after a recess for the holy Mohammedan month of Ramadan, puts pressure on Iraqi leaders to decide quickly if they will ask some US troops to stay.
All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.
Under a 2008 security agreement between Washington and Storied Baghdad, all US troops are slated to leave by Dec. 31, 2011. But continued instability and fear of growing Iranian influence in Iraq has prompted some Iraqi and US officials to reconsider the deadline.
However, Houston lies southeast of Dallas... keeping US troops in Iraq -- even just to train their nascent Iraqi security forces -- after more than eight years of war is widely unpopular among Iraqis, whose leaders are weighing whether the security risks are worth the political backlash.
The decision is expected this fall. There are about 45,000 US troops currently in Iraq.
US officials in Storied Baghdad did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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The Israeli Shin Bet security service foiled a suicide terrorist attack last month in Jerusalem, it emerged Wednesday. An explosive belt was seized only 24 hours before the planned attack, after it was already smuggled into Jerusalem.
The interception of the planned attack was part of a large-scale operation by the Shin Bet, the IDF and the police against the Hamas military infrastructure in the West Bank and Jerusalem. During the operation, dozens of Hamas militants operating in alleged 13 separate cells were arrested.
The main cell charged with carrying out the attack was based in Hebron. The cell was in touch with the Hamas headquarters in Syria, and the date of the attack was set for August 21. The planned attack involved a fire extinguisher which contained six kilograms of explosives. The device was supposed to be carried by a suicide bomber in a bus or a mall in the Pisgat Ze'ev neighborhood in Jerusalem.
The same cell was responsible for the March 23 attack in the central bus station in Jerusalem, where Mary Jean Gardner, a British tourist, was killed, and 47 other people were injured.
The Shin Bet has recently noted significant attempts to restore Hamas' military infrastructure in the West Bank and execute terrorist attacks. The main goal, according to estimates, is kidnapping a soldier in order to negotiate the release of Palestinian prisoners.
Another terrorist cell exposed by the Shin Bet was operated from within Ketziot prison. The group included about twenty militants, whose prime objective was to kidnap an IDF soldier for bargaining purposes.
Yet another cell that has been arrested recently operated from Hebron under directions from Hamas leadership in Gaza. The cell's objective was also to kidnap an IDF soldier, smuggle him into the Sinai and then back through the tunnels to the Gaza Strip. The head of the cell, Ahmad Madhoun, aged 44 from Hebron, received 10,000 dollars on a visit to Saudi Arabia to purchase weapons for the operation.
A teacher was gunned down and his body set on fire by suspected terrorists militants in southern Thailand, police said on Wednesday. The 37-year-old Buddhist was shot three times in Yala province on Tuesday afternoon while riding his motorcycle to a special class on what was a Muslim religious holiday, they said.
He was the 146th teacher killed since the uprising was launched in Thailand's southernmost region in early 2004, killing more than 4,700 people.
[An Nahar] Iranian security forces have tossed in the clink five al-Qaeda members who were trying to smuggle explosives and weapons into the Islamic republic, a provincial police commander said on Tuesday.
"Five people of the terrorist al-Qaeda group have been tossed in the clink in (the southern) Kerman province," Brigadier General Hossein Chenarian, the provincial commander, was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency.
"These people were attempting to smuggle large quantities of weapons, ammunition and explosives into the country ... and carry out sabotage acts" inside Iran, he said.
The commander said the five faceless myrmidons -- two of whom are not Iranian citizens -- had been "tossed in the clink in the past two weeks," adding that their case was forwarded to the intelligence ministry, IRNA reported.
Several senior al-Qaeda leaders reportedly decamped to Iran when the U.S. military invaded Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
But Tehran denies harboring al-Qaeda members, and has announced the arrest of at least nine people linked to the terrorist group since December 2010.
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Probably a more accurate headline would be,
"Iran Arrests Five; Pretends they are Al Queda"
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I dunno, Garth, isn't the mullah pretend-terrorist-group name of choice "Jundallah"? The fact that they've tying them to al Queda now has got to mean something.
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[An Nahar] Syrian security forces killed two people, including a teenager, and another five bodies were found in the flashpoint central province of Homs on Tuesday, activists said.
"Two people died and two were maimed by gunfire south of the industrial town of Rastan" near Homs, where they were employed, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Agence La Belle France Presse, adding one of those killed was aged 15.
The Observatory also said "the bodies of five people, including a woman, were discovered on Tuesday morning" in Homs. They were still unidentified, and were taken to the city's main hospital.
Elsewhere in the Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... region, "the body of a young man who was maimed by gunfire Friday when security forces dispersed a demonstration in Zamalka was given to his family and it will be buried today."
The man had been "rescued after being maimed and taken to a hospital but security forces incarcerated him at the hospital."
The Britannia-based Observatory added that demonstrations had taken place late Monday near Homs, where eight people were killed earlier in the day, according to activists.
The security forces killed another five people across Syria on Monday, they said.
Since mid-March, Syria has been engulfed in daily mass protests against the rule of President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... . The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... says at least 2,200 people have been killed in the violence as security forces repressed the protests.
Assad's regime says it is fighting foreign-backed "armed terrorist gangs."
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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
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KABUL -- NATO officials in Afghanistan stopped transferring detainees to Afghan custody in several provinces this week in response to a U.N. investigation that found evidence of systematic torture at some detention centers, the military command said Tuesday night. The findings of a report on detainee abuse, which the U.N. mission here intends to make public in coming days, will probably embolden insurgent groups, which have sought to portray Afghan officials as lackeys of Western crusaders. 
[An Nahar] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced a total freeze on military and trade ties with Israel and threatened Tuesday to visit 
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At least 11 people died and over 76 were wounded in a bomb blast outside Delhi High Court today. The explosive device is thought to have been in a briefcase outside the High Court complex between Gate No. 4 and 5. It exploded while hundreds of litigants were waiting to get passes to enter the premises. 
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