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There was a "colony" of Jewish Moroccans living in San Francisco in the late seventies - restraunteurs and small business owners - almost without exception they were, male and female, extremely good-looking. Happy genetic combination?
I was once engaged to a woman who was a Moroccan Jew via Sardinia.
She was extremely beautiful and a sweet spirit. Her dad was pretty well connected with a conservative party in the Knesset and he wouldn't stand for a gentile in the gene pool so she and I parted ways.
I thought the option was to transfer to Washington and become a desk flying drone instead of a field manager. She was just so tied to her family. Lots of tears on both sides on that split up. I really wanted her to have my children.
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I just got a message that I need ti install Java to run some things on this page. I didn't do it and everything looks fine.
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GHAZNI: A roadside bomb exploded under an Afghan bus southwest of Kabul on Monday, killing nine people and wounding at least 22 others in an attack blamed on Taliban militants, officials said.
Today at around 8:00 am an IED (improvised explosive device) hit a bus, Attaullah Khogyani, the governors spokesman in Wardak province, told AFP. At least 22 people are wounded and nine others, including a woman, are dead.
Khogyani said the Taliban, who have been fighting for 11 years against the US-backed Kabul government, were behind the attack.
The bus was a government service making daily trips between the capital Kabul and Ghazni, the neighbouring province further to the southwest. I helped evacuate several dead and wounded. There were lots of people in the bus. Only a few survived unhurt, others were killed and wounded, witness Mohammad Sarwar told AFP by telephone.
Ghulam Farouq Wardak, the public health director of the province, confirmed that nine people had died and said there were three children among the wounded. Several of those taken for medical treatment were described as in a critical condition.
Wardak is a Taliban hotbed close to Kabul and seen as a key strategic battleground in the fight against the Islamist extremists.
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Life would be easier for Mursi if the dhimmis just knew their place...
CAIRO A second Egyptian died on Monday of wounds sustained in clashes at Cairos Coptic cathedral the previous day in an outbreak of sectarian violence that the government and Muslim and Christian leaders sought to calm.
A security source said a 21-year-old Muslim man, named only as Mohamed, died of a fractured skull in hospital after fighting between local Muslims and Copts who had been attending a funeral for four Christians shot dead in a town near Cairo on Friday.
The health ministry said at least 90 people, including 11 policemen, were wounded around the cathedral in one of the worst sectarian flare-ups since the fall of autocratic president Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
Prime Minister Hisham Kandil said the government was taking all measures to protect the safety of Egyptians of all faiths, promising to bring to justice the perpetrators of sectarian attacks and to crack down on unlicenced weapons. He also spoke to the heads of the Coptic church and of the Al Azhar institution to discuss ways to resolve the crisis and prevent any repetition, a cabinet statement said.
Muslim and Christian religious leaders appeared together on late-night television to call for calm and national unity after the clashes around St. Marks Cathedral, headquarters of the Coptic church, which raged for several hours on Sunday.
Muslims pelted Christians sheltering in the church compound with petrol bombs and rocks after angry young Copts leaving the funeral service chanted slogans against President Mohammed Mursi and his Muslim Brotherhood movement.
Witnesses accused the police of standing by as the Copts were attacked and of firing teargas at mourners in the compound as they emerged from the cathedral under a hail of rocks. But a statement posted on the Interior Ministrys website on Sunday evening blamed Christians for starting the violence by vandalising several cars.
As the procession passed Ramses Street, some of the mourners destroyed a number of cars which led to clashes and tensions with the areas residents and (we) are currently intervening to separate the groups, it said.
Mursi telephoned Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II on Sunday evening to condemn the violence, telling him that any attack on the cathedral is like an attack on me personally, the state news agency Mena reported. Mursi ordered an investigation and sent his interior minister to the scene.
Debris-strewn streets around the cathedral were quiet on Monday morning with riot police blocking access. The wreckage of at least two burned-out cars and a carpet of bricks and stones littered the street that had been the main battlefield until late on Sunday evening.
The Muslim Brotherhoods spiritual leader, Mohamed Badie, said in a statement on the movements website that the attack on Christians in the town of El Khusus was alien to all Egyptians. He blamed the violence not on Muslim radicals but on unnamed forces seeking to divide Egypt.
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Good luck getting people to ease up on the violence. It's what crappy third-world dictatorships use to keep people calm.
One person was killed and more than 80 wounded in clashes at the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in central Cairo on Sunday after a funeral service for four Egyptians killed in sectarian violence, state media said. The man killed on Sunday was identified by MENA as 30-year-old Mahrous Hana Tadros.
Police fired tear gas to try to disperse the crowds but clashes continued late into the evening. MENA said 11 policemen were among the wounded.
Violence also broke out near a Coptic church in El Khusus north of Cairo, where four were killed late on Friday when members of both communities started shooting at each other. MENA said 12 people were wounded, and two apartments and a cafe set on fire by petrol bombs.
In Cairo, trouble erupted after hundreds of angry Copts attended the funeral service at St. Marks Cathedral for Fridays killed Copts, chanting With our blood and soul we will sacrifice ourselves for the cross.
Some mourners also shouted slogans calling for the departure of President Mohammed Mursi and his Muslim Brotherhood movement as the coffins were carried head-high into the church.
Mursi condemned the violence, telling Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II in a telephone call that any attack on the cathedral is like an attack on me personally, MENA reported.
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[Ynet] French military forces launched a fresh offensive Monday against jihadists in the northern Malian region of Gao who have staged a series of attacks since being ousted from power earlier this year, a French colonel said.
For a map, click here. For a map of Tamaulipas state, click here.
By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
A total of ten unidentified individuals were killed in ongoing drug and gang related violence in Tamaulipas since last Friday according to Mexican private and official news sources.
An APRO wire dispatch which appeared on the website of El Diario de Coahuila news daily said that criminal gangs executed seven individuals, some of whom were said to have been informants for the Mexican Army.
A message left at the entrance of Ciudad Mante Monday listed two of the victims, executed by Los Zetas for being informants. A Mexican Army captain, said by the message to be the informants' handler, was identified as Army Captain Alejandro Martinez Vazquez.
Messages such as the one left in Ciudad Mante are colloquially known as narcomantas or narcopintas, the most common form of mass communication local drug cartel groups have with the public.
Two other victims were found over the weekend in Ciudad Victoria, the state capital of Tamaulipas. One of the victims was dumped near the base of the Mexican 77th Infantry Battalion, 8th Military Zone. Another message was left at the scene, but its contents were not disclosed.
The wire dispatch also mentioned, without detailing specifics, three other deaths related to drug trafficking.
Last Saturday the Tamaulipas state Procuraduria General de Justicia del Estado (PGJE), or attorney general released a statement reporting that three armed suspects were killed in an armed confrontation with a Mexican Army road patrol in Nuevo Laredo.
The firefight took place at around 1600 hrs near the intersection of Carretera Nacional and Alvaro Obregon in Concordia colony. The suspects were travelling aboard a Mercury Grand Marquis when the exchange of gunfire took place.
Soldiers secured one rifle and six weapons magazines at the scene.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Four days of fierce fighting in northwestern Pakistan left 30 soldiers and nearly 100 militants dead as the army attempted to wrestle control of a remote, mountainous valley from the Taliban and their allies, military officials said Monday.
The army launched its offensive in the Tirah Valley on Friday after weeks of fighting between rival militant groups forced tens of thousands of civilians to flee the area. The valley is located in Khyber, part of the semiautonomous tribal region bordering Afghanistan, the main sanctuary for the Taliban in the country.
The army has launched scores of operations against the Pakistani Taleban in the tribal region in recent years, but certain areas like Tirah have remained outside their control. The Taliban have remained a serious threat and continue to launch attacks throughout the northwest and other parts of the country with frightening regularity.
The Pakistani Taleban have been waging a bloody insurgency against the government because of its alliance with the U.S. in fighting Islamic militants, and to establish Islamic law in the country. The group is allied with the Afghan Taliban but has focused its attacks inside Pakistan instead of Afghanistan.
The fighting in Tirah over the past four days has killed 30 soldiers and 97 militants, military officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. The air force has also conducted heavy bombing during the offensive, they said.
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A suicide car bombing in Damascus on Monday killed 19 people and injured many others, among them many in serious condition, Syria's state media and activists reported.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a statement that the casualty toll reached 19 dead, including 15 civilians and at least four government troops, while 60 civilians were injured, DPA reported. Syria's state-television put the death toll at 15 dead and 146 wounded, including women and children, in an updated casualty report of the suicide bombing that targeted the area close to Syria's Central Bank between the Sabaa Bahrat square and Shahbander Street.
Television footage showed bodies on the street and medical workers carrying the injured on stretchers to ambulances. Many buildings were damaged and cars were burnt in the explosion near the central bank building.
The state broadcaster denied reports that there were clashes in the area and said roads were closed to pave the way for ambulances.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack, the first since a blast killed 53 people in February.
Syria's Prime Minister Wael al Halqi who toured the blast scene pledged that the Syrian government is standing by its people and accused "the terrorist group Al Nosra Front" of being behind today's bombing.
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A Syrian human rights group says nearly 9,000 government troops have been killed in two years of fighting between President Bashar Assads forces and rebels trying to topple him. The Syria-based Violations Documentation Center has been keeping track of the dead, wounded and missing since the start the uprising against Assads rule. It said on Monday 8,785 Syrian troops have died in the fighting.
The rare report on the regimes death toll was compiled from government and opposition sources.
At the start of the revolt, authorities published names of the fallen troops daily. As the uprising turned more violent and eventually became a civil war, reports of casualties on government side vanished from the public domain.
Germans did the same thing in WWII...
More than 70,000 people have died since Syrias crisis erupted in March 2011.
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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.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Four days of fierce fighting in northwestern Pakistan left 30 soldiers and nearly 100 militants dead as the army attempted to wrestle control of a remote, mountainous valley from the Taliban and their allies, military officials said Monday.
A suicide car bombing in Damascus on Monday killed 19 people and injured many others, among them many in serious condition, Syria's state media and activists reported.
