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Abu-Zaid al Kuwaiti Drone-zapped During Breakfast
Today's Headlines

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Page 4: Opinion
Arms, Allies, and the Horror in Syria	1 06:15 Besoeker [11125]
Sunday Morning Coffee Pot: Mexico's PRI faces life competing to advance its agenda	0 [11130]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Abu-Zaid al Kuwaiti Drone-zapped During Breakfast	18 23:23 tipper [11137]
7 found dead in Zacatecas state	1 15:12 Frank G [11128]
Egyptian opposition to shun Mursi's national dialogue	0 [11123]
Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal visits Gaza for first time	3 15:12 Frank G [11125]
Leb: Army Units Deploy in Tripoli as Clashes, Sniper Fire Renew at Night	0 [11129]
Protesters Encircle Morsi Palace	1 06:42 Besoeker [11126]
Jordan Fires Back after Syria Bullet Hits Soldier	0 [11124]
Germany Charges Man with Spying on Moroccan Dissidents	0 [11124]
Yemen Foils Prison Break by 25 Qaida Convicts	0 [11129]
Three Killed in Blast at Nairobi Mosque	0 [11123]
Afghan Spy Chief Wounded by Underpants Bomber	0 [11125]
GHQ attack case: Military court rejects appeals of ex-army men	0 [11125]
Egypt protesters break through barrier around Morsi's palace	3 06:25 Besoeker [11130]
Violence claims eight more lives in Karachi	1 08:30 American Delight [11123]
Blast in Quetta injures five: reports	0 [11124]
Illegal local radio stations taken off air in Swabi	0 [11128]
Jamaat attacks cops again: 8 injured in 2 districts	0 [11126]
Egypt justice minister says Morsi 'ready' to postpone referendum	0 [11124]
Egypt's president sends messages of 'compromise' as tens of thousands surround palace	0 [11125]
Egyptian presidency 'ready' to postpone constitution referendum	1 21:23 JosephMendiola [11132]
Anti-Morsi protesters set up barricades, distribute blankets outside palace	0 [11124]
Ghad Party reports Egypt's Morsi postpones constitution referendum	0 [11127]
Brotherhood says 'ready to defend democracy'	5 18:36 Galactic Coordinator Tojo9070 [11129]
Assault on Damascus suburbs feared amid raging violence	1 21:36 JosephMendiola [11132]
Page 2: WoT Background
Britain Convicts a Muslim for Disciplining her Child	5 20:58 JosephMendiola [11128]
HRW: Iran's statements not incitement to genocide	2 17:00 SteveS [11125]
Pak asks Karzai to share information about spy chief bomber	1 20:01 trailing wife [11126]
Egypt: Army warns it will not allow 'dark tunnel'	2 22:29 Barbara [11126]
UN: No offensive in Mali until next autumn	3 14:34 g(r)omgoru [11125]
Japan poised to shoot down Nork missile	5 21:53 JosephMendiola [11123]
UN Chief Renews Plea for Syrian Refugee Aid	1 08:31 American Delight [11123]
Meshaal Hopes to Become Gaza 'Martyr'	4 15:40 Frank G [11123]
U.S. Expresses 'Deep' Concern over Tripoli, Tariq al-Jadideh Unrest	3 12:46 Besoeker [11127]
ElBaradei Gives Conditions for Talks in Egypt	0 [11124]
U.N. to Reinforce Golan Heights Force as Syria Troubles Mount	1 13:36 SteveS [11130]
Tunisia President Denounces North Africa Arms Trafficking	0 [11124]
Shiite Protesters Demand Bahrain PM's Ouster	0 [11122]
Bahrain Crown Prince Urges Talks with Opposition	0 [11124]
Dutch to Send Patriot Missiles to Turkey-Syria Border	1 13:10 DepotGuy [11126]
Minister Says 'Probably Dozens' More Like Merah in France	0 [11123]
Belgium Raises Terror Level ahead of Anti-Islam Film Release	0 [11125]
U.N. Has 'Major Concern' over Myanmar Displaced	0 [11123]
Lawsuit Targets French Paper over Naked Mohammed Cartoons	0 [11125]
U.S. Diplomat Hopes Song Can Win over Pakistan	14 22:21 Bright Pebbles [11122]
Pakistani Taliban recruiting via Facebook	0 [11130]
Obama welcomes Morsi's call for dialogue	2 09:36 Shinert de Medici2790 [11126]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Champ asks for $60b for east coast constituents and storm victims	6 18:10 Eric Jablow [11124]
New Think approved by the Common Core State Standards	11 21:04 JosephMendiola [11126]
Former IRA terrorist Martin McGuinness greets Hillary Clinton as she arrives in Ulster	9 21:54 tipper [11125]
U.N. Confirms Rapes in DR Congo Unrest	4 15:39 Mullah Richard [11124]
Ukraine Opposition Names Tymoshenko its Presidential Candidate	1 10:47 Raj [11124]
German Opposition Launches Bid to Topple Merkel	0 [11123]
Flood victims still waiting for help	3 09:13 Procopius2k [11126]
Newsweak fires 50 on editorial side	14 18:35 Shipman [11125]
Page 6: Politix
Inhofe: Obama funneling billions to UN for climate-change redistribution	1 20:39 rjschwarz [11128]
Despite Tax Increase, California State Revenues in Freefall	14 23:37 Pappy [11130]
Federal Government Borrowed 46 Cents Of Every Dollar It Has Spent	12 21:00 JosephMendiola [11127]

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Sunday Morning Coffee Pot: Mexico's PRI faces life competing to advance its agenda

Two national security initiatives were presented to the Mexican Chamber of deputies last week but only one, a proposal submitted by former president Felipe Calderon Hinojosa in 2009, managed to gain any support in the evenly split legislature.

Out of power for 12 years, and even with a freshly minted president in Enrique Pena Nieto, Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) politicians are facing the hard reality of having to form ad hoc coalitions to advance its legislative agenda, and the sobering possibility their numbers may well dwindle in the 2015 federal midterm elections.

On Rantburg's Sunday Morning Coffee Pot, Rantburg.com and Borderlandbeat.com correspondent Chris Covert examines the politics.

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Arms, Allies, and the Horror in Syria

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#1 The recently updated casualty figures for what ended here in 1865 is now estimated at nearly 700,000. They aren't even in the same ballpark. I don't recall the well known author, the late Shelby Foote mentioning any Syrian involvement in our troubled past. Stay home and stay out of it!

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Who's in the News
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14	Arab Spring
5	Govt of Syria
3	Govt of Pakistan
2	Salafists
2	Hamas
1	al-Shabaab
1	Global Jihad
1	Jamaat-e-Islami
1	TTP
1	Taliban
1	al-Qaeda in Arabia

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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.

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Two weeks of WOT

Sat 2012-12-08
Abu-Zaid al Kuwaiti Drone-zapped During Breakfast

Fri 2012-12-07
6 dead, 450 injured in clashes at Egypt's presidential palace

Thu 2012-12-06
Two Dead as Egypt Islamists Overrun Opposition Tents

Wed 2012-12-05
Hundreds of thousands besiege Egypt's presidential palace to protest draft constitution

Tue 2012-12-04
Syria FM Spokesman 'Defects' from Regime, Leaves Syria

Mon 2012-12-03
Car bomb in Syria's Homs kills 15: State media

Sun 2012-12-02
Mullah Nazir orders out Mehsud Taliban fighters

Sat 2012-12-01
Egypt assembly approves new draft constitution

Fri 2012-11-30
Damascus fighting cuts off airport, Emirates suspends flights

Thu 2012-11-29
Bomb injures top Talibunny Mullah Nazir

Wed 2012-11-28
Packed Tahrir Square defiant as deadlock prevails

Tue 2012-11-27
30 Inmates Escape as Gunmen Attack Nigerian Police Unit

Mon 2012-11-26
Syrian Rebels Claim Capture of Helicopter Base Near Damascus

Sun 2012-11-25
Thousands of anti-Morsi protesters spend the night in Egypt's Tahrir square

Sat 2012-11-24
7 People Killed in Pakistan Shiite Procession

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