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I note that Brittney has a potential "button popping" problem.... not that I am saying that this is bad, only that I would like to be present when it happens...pleeease.
Oh and the germam shepherd looks a little hungry, did the cameraman get away ?
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the F-16s we just gave Egypt won't be much good in this situation
however, Egypt also got a bunch of Abrams tanks
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"however, Egypt also got a bunch of Abrams tanks"
As I understand it, lg - and I certainly could be wrong - tanks need point guards (or whatever they're called) around them, or it's fairly easy to come up behind or from the side and disable the treads or stick a limpit-type mine/bomb on/under them. Aren't tanks blind except for in the front? Do you think the Egyptians know they need to guard the tanks' flanks while the tanks are in action? Or will they think Allen will take care of it?
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the M1 Abrams is a pretty powerful and also pretty sophisticated assuming it was maintained by and is being controlled by trained personnel.
In Iraq, the enemy, who were, at times disciplined and armed with various explosives weren't able to do much against them.
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"assuming it was maintained by and is being controlled by trained personnel"
True, lg - but does their version of "trained personnel" involve inshallah?
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[Ynet] Protest is northeastern city over controversial court ruling spirals into riot, festivities with security forces
Clashes between protesters and police in the Egyptian city of Port Said have so far left 253 people maimed.
The riot in the northeastern city broke out after a decision by the Interior Ministry to move 39 prisoners awaiting trial to an unknown location. The prisoners are awaiting a verdict over their alleged involvement in a deadly football riot.
The verdict, expected next Saturday, is for the remaining defendants in a case which resulted in death sentences in January for 21 defendants, sparking festivities that killed at least 40 people.
A security official said protesters threw petrol bombs and stones at the cop shoppe in the restive Suez Canal city, where a general strike entered its third week. Police responded with tear gas.
Protesters on Saturday torched a cop shoppe in Port Said and prevented fire engines from reaching the blaze.
Residents of Port Said and other canal cities have long complained that Cairo marginalizes them. Last year's football riot which killed 74 people, mostly supporters of a visiting Cairo team, exacerbated Port Said's isolation, they say.
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[MAGHAREBIA] At least one person was killed and another wounded in the Libyan town of Mizdah on Friday (March 1st) following clashes between two rival tribes, according to a member of the General National Congress.
Congressman Ibrahim Abu Shaala, a member of the Mashashiya tribe, said that a brigade from the Guntrar tribe, itself linked to the Zintan tribe, was attacked by unknown assailants late Friday night.
Mashashiya residential neighbourhoods then came under fire from rocket launchers and tanks, according to the congressman. He added one family was slightly wounded and five homes were destroyed.
The Nefusa Mountain town witnessed a number of ethnic clashes last year between rival tribes, before the interim government intervened and deployed army forces to quell the violence.
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[MAGHAREBIA] A group of baton-wielding salafists on Saturday (March 2nd) prevented secondary school pupils from performing the "Harlem Shake" dance in El Kef.
The incident at the "Ahmed Amara" lyceum in the northern governorate came a day after hundreds braved the rain in front of the education ministry in Tunis to perform the dance.
The Friday action came in response to a probe ordered by the education minister into a dance video recorded at the Imam Mohammedan High School in the Menzah 6 district of Tunis.
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The Harlem shuffle? Jeez, what happened to the goofy looking Korean guy...
#2
Since twitter and facebook didn't usher in an era of Enlightenment style democracy and peace, this is being seized upon as the force that will. Sheesh...
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[An Nahar] A policeman was killed and an army officer was among dozens of people maimed on Sunday in the Egyptian city of Port Said as residents clashed with police, the military said.
The army said the policeman died and the military officer was hit in the leg when they were struck by gunshots fired by unknown assailants outside the headquarters of the Port Said governorate in northeast Egypt.
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[An Nahar] Gunmen have attacked an Egyptian Coptic church in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, assaulting two priests, the foreign ministry said Sunday, days after dozens of Egyptian Christians suspected of proselytizing were incarcerated Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
The foreign ministry said it "strongly condemned Thursday's attack on the Egyptian church... and the aggression towards Father Paula Isaac and his deputy by the irresponsible gunnies."
It did not elaborate on the attacks or give any details of injuries.
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[An Nahar] Angry residents of a town in northern Tunisia hurled stones at the car of visiting Islamist leader Rached Ghannouchi on Sunday, a security source said.
At the sight of Ghannouchi, several dozen people in Thala shouted "Get out!" -- one of the rallying cries of the revolution that toppled the regime of former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.
The chief of Tunisia's ruling Ennahda party quickly got back in his car, which some protesters then pelted with stones, breaking the rear window, the same source said.
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[An Nahar] At least 50 Al-Qaeda-linked rebel fighters have been killed in recent days in festivities with French and Malian troops near the town of Gao in northern Mali, a Malian military source told AFP on Sunday.
"Fighting continues on Sunday morning some 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of Gao between Islamists and Malian troops supported by the French army. We have the situation under control," said a Malian military source contacted by phone from the capital Bamako.
"At least 50 MUJAO Islamists have been killed since the day before yesterday (Friday)," he added, referring to rebels from the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa.
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[An Nahar] Nigeria's military said Sunday that it killed 20 Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Islamists while repelling an attack by the bully boy group in the embattled northeastern state of Borno.
"Boko Haram beturbanned goons attempted to attack a military barracks (in Borno) at about 5:00 am (0400 GMT)," front man Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa said in a statement.
He said the attack occurred in the village of Monguno, about 200 kilometers (124 miles) from Borno's restive capital of Maiduguri, considered Boko Haram's home base where the radical group has been blamed for scores of deadly attacks.
The raid on the military barracks "was repelled," Musa said. "The encounter led to the deaths of 20 Boko Haram terrorists."
He said that the gunnies, armed with Kalashnikovs and rocket-propelled grenade launchers had stormed the military site in three 4X4 trucks and eight cycle of violences.
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A bomb exploded this afternoon in front of the hotel in Dhaka where India's President Pranab Mukherjee is staying on his official visit to Bangladesh. Nobody was wounded.
The president was in his suite at the Hotel Sonargaon when the blast took place nearly half a kilometer away, Deputy High Commissioner Sandeep Chakravarty said. He added that the explosion was part of the protest that have become a near-daily occurence in Dhaka, was caused "by a harmless device" and that the president was not the target.
[Dawn] Authorities deployed soldiers in a northern Bangladeshi district Sunday after activists of the country's largest Islamic party clashed with police, leaving three people dead during a nationwide general strike called to denounce an ongoing war crimes trial.
Separately two people died Sunday in a northwestern district during similar festivities.
With the latest casualties, the corpse count in days of rioting has risen to 51 since Thursday after a war crimes tribunal sentenced Jamaat-e-Islami
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[Bangla Daily Star] It was all lies -- outright and outrageous -- but it worked. Jamaat's propaganda machine used a photoshopped image of Delwar Hossain Sayeedi ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami... 's face on the moon yesterday to entice people to unleash a second wave of terror that left at least 19 people, including a policeman, dead in five districts.
Bogra witnessed the worst, as Jamaat-Shibir men assembled locals through repeated announcements over loudspeakers that "Sayeedi's face was seen on the moon and it's your holy duty to save him; otherwise, we all will go to hell". Around 4 in the morning, they launched into attacks on police in different upazilas.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Absurd it may look, but a picture of convicted war criminal Delwar Hossain Sayeedi ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami... superimposed on the face of moon posted in Jamaat-Shibir Facebook page "Basherkella" was actually sold to a large number of people as an omen.
And that omen, to these people, is a call to fight the government and free Sayeedi, a top Jamaat leader, at any cost.
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[Bangla Daily Star] n utter inhumanity, Jamaat-Shibir men yesterday gauged out one eye of a policeman and hacked him indiscriminately to death at Sanatanpur police camp under Harinakundo upazila in Jhinaidah.
With the murder of constable Omar Faruque, the corpse count of law enforcers rose to six in a countrywide reign of terror that Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... and its student body Islami Chhatra Shibir
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ruled out a general amnesty for Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) members in connection with the resumption of talks between Turkish security forces and jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, AA reported.
"Amnesty can not be discussed. We do not intend to forgive the killers of children. This is a lie, do not believe rumors. As long as my party (Justice and Development Party, AKP) is in power, the amnesty will not be discussed", Erdogan said.
Erdogan made this remarks amid reports that the Turkish secret service has started a new round of talks with jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan. The PKK leader has been serving a life sentence at a Imrali prison on an island off Istanbul since his capture in 1999.
In December 2012, the Turkish National Intelligence Organization started negotiations with the PKK with an ultimate goal of disarming the movement.
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[BBC.CO.UK] At least 45 people have been killed by a bomb kaboom in the Pak city of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , police say.
The blast in the mainly Shia Moslem area of Abbas Town destroyed several buildings and set others on fire. Some reports spoke of a second kaboom.
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[Dawn] Pakistain's security forces conducted operations in the Khyber and Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... s killing 15 suspected hard boyz and destroying three bad boy hideouts, DawnNews reported on Sunday.
At least seven suspected hard boyz were killed during a security forces operation conducted in Sipah Lakhkar area of Khyber tribal region.
Military jets bombarded several targets in Mamozai area of Orakzai Agency's Tirah vally destroying three suspected hideouts.
Eight alleged hard boyz including a key commander were killed during the blitz in Arghanju and Sama Bazar areas, according to Assistant Political Agent Muhammad Rafiq
In another unrelated incident two CD shopes were blow up in Mian Mandi Bazar in Haleemzai area of Mohmand tribal region.
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[Dawn] Ten people, including three activists of the Majlis Wahdat-e-Moslemeen and one of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... , were bumped off in the city on Saturday, police said.
The killings were mostly reported during the first half of the day and the deadliest one was that of three young friends in Orangi Town.
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[Dawn] Three separate attacks in Shia-dominated areas on Sunday in central Iraq have killed at least four people and maimed 14, officials said.
The deadliest was in the Husseiniya area northeast of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , where three roadside kabooms went off simultaneously, killing three civilians, a police officer said. He said 11 others, including three coppers, were maimed.
Another police officer said a soldier was killed when a bomb attached to his car went kaboom! in the northern Utaifiya neighborhood of Storied Baghdad.
Two health officials confirmed the causality figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorised to release information to news hounds.
In Karbala, 90 kilometers south of Storied Baghdad, a jacket wallah set off his explosives-laden belt near the two revered Shia shrines and maimed three people, Gov Amal-Din al-Hir said.
Violence has ebbed across Iraq in recent years, but forces of Evil frequently attack security forces and civilians in an attempt to undermine the country's Shiite-led government.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) Malaysia is sending hundreds of soldiers to a Borneo state to help neutralize armed Filipino intruders who've killed 8 policemen in the country's bloodiest security emergency in years.
Nineteen Filipino gunmen have been slain since Friday in skirmishes that shocked Malaysians unaccustomed to such violence in their country.
[An Nahar] Islamist holy man Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir and his supporters staged a sit-in Sunday at Nejmeh Square in central Sidon after security forces prevented them from heading to al-Karameh roundabout, where the protest was initially scheduled to be held.
The sit-in was held amid strict security measures enforced by the army and the Internal Security Forces, state-run National News Agency reported.
"The state's practices against us increase our determination to carry on with our protests until all demands are fulfilled, especially the evacuation of the tenants of the two apartments operated by Hizbullah and loaded with weapons in Abra," Asir said during the sit-in.
Asir and his supporters had also rallied on Friday and Saturday near the Bilal bin Rabah Mosque in the Sidon suburb of Abra to protest claims that Hizbullah rented apartments in the vicinity of the mosque.
On Sunday, army units and the ISF blocked all roads leading to Abra and diverted traffic to Sidon's western boulevard as a security precaution, NNA said.
MTV said the army closed all roads in Abra with military vehicles ahead of the protest.
"The army has encircled al-Karameh roundabout in Sidon and prevented vehicles coming from outside the city from approaching it," LBCI television reported.
"We're determined to hold a sit-in at al-Karameh roundabout and we will head there on foot if we were prevented from moving forward," sources close to al-Asir told LBCI.
Later, LBCI said Asir and his supporters blocked the road at Nejmeh Square.
"We reject the security siege and media blackout," Asir said during Saturday's protest.
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for a second I thought it said Aesir and I got a tad excited. Damn - it would have been cool...
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[An Nahar] Security forces on Sunday foiled an attempt to liberate a prisoner from a hospital in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , only eight days after gunnies stormed another hospital in the northern city and set free a man under arrest for allegedly being involved in the shooting at Youth and Sports Minister Faisal Karami's convoy.
"Prisoner H. M. slashed parts of his body with a sharp object and after he was rushed to one of the city's hospitals, a group of people arrived and tried to liberate him, prompting security forces to fire in the air to disperse them," state-run National News Agency reported.
The prison was quickly transported to Tripoli's serail, NNA said.
Al-Jadeed television reported earlier that heavy gunfire was heard in the vicinity of Monla Hospital in Tripoli.
For its part, LBCI television said security forces foiled an attempt by "unidentified, knife-wielding assailants to liberate a prisoner from Monla Hospital in Tripoli."
On February 23, an gang stormed the Islamic Hospital in Tripoli and freed prisoner Mohammed Youssef who is accused of involvement in the attack on Karami's convoy.
Youssef was handed over to security forces a few hours later after a mediation by Mohammedanholy mans.
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[An Nahar] An Iraqi soldier was killed and three people including a soldier were maimed inside north Iraq in fire exchanged between regime forces and rebels in Syria, the defense ministry front man in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... said.
The casualties were caused by "fighting at the Yaarubiyeh border crossing inside Syria" on Saturday, Mohammed al-Askari told Agence La Belle France Presse by telephone.
"The Iraqi forces that were hit by the fire were about 600 meters (yards) away from the crossing" into Iraq's Nineveh province, Askari said.
He also said that four maimed Syrian soldiers were treated at an Iraqi hospital during Saturday's fighting.
Mohammed Rahim al-Shammari, the head of the Nineveh provincial council security and defense committee, told Agence La Belle France Presse that no one was controlling the Syrian side of the crossing on Sunday, and that there was no activity there.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[MAGHAREBIA] A group of baton-wielding salafists on Saturday (March 2nd) prevented secondary school pupils from performing the "Harlem Shake" dance in El Kef.
[An Nahar] Gunmen have attacked an Egyptian Coptic church in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, assaulting two priests, the foreign ministry said Sunday, days after dozens of Egyptian Christians suspected of proselytizing were 
[An Nahar] Nigeria's military said Sunday that it killed 20 
A bomb exploded this afternoon in front of the hotel in Dhaka where India's President Pranab Mukherjee is staying on his official visit to Bangladesh. Nobody was wounded.
[Dawn] Authorities deployed soldiers in a northern Bangladeshi district Sunday after activists of the country's largest Islamic party clashed with police, leaving three people dead during a nationwide general strike called to denounce an ongoing war crimes trial.
[Bangla Daily Star] It was all lies -- outright and outrageous -- but it worked. Jamaat's propaganda machine used a photoshopped image of 
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ruled out a general amnesty for Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) members in connection with the resumption of talks between Turkish security forces and jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, AA reported.
[BBC.CO.UK] At least 45 people have been killed by a bomb 
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[Dawn] Ten people, including three activists of the Majlis Wahdat-e-
[Dawn] Three separate attacks in Shia-dominated areas on Sunday in central Iraq have killed at least four people and 
