[DAWN] Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. telephoned Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... on Sunday evening to discuss the ongoing reconciliation process with Afghan Taliban, the PM House said in a statement.
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[AlAhram] Leading member Essam Derbala, 58, was locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in mid-May
A leader of the hardline Islamist group Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya has died in jail after being detained for almost three months, the group said on Sunday.
Essam Derbala, 58, spent over two decades in prison under former president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... during the group's armed insurgency against the state in the 1990s.
The group said on its website that Derbala was "denied medicine, which caused him to fall into a deep coma that resulted in his death."
The group blamed authorities for his death, describing it as "murder."
The interior ministry said in a statement that Derbala suffered fatigue on Saturday and died while being transferred to the hospital due to "a haemorrhage from the nose and a drop in blood pressure and respiration."
He was arrested in mid-May of this year on charges of belonging to an outlawed grouping supporting the blacklisted Moslem Brüderbund.
Interior minister aide Hassan Abdel Razak, Who is in charge of security in Minya, said necessary security measures have been taken to counter violence before, during or after the burial of Derbala, Al-Ahram's Arabic site reported.
Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya was behind the massacre of 62 people, 58 of whom were foreign tourists, at a Luxor temple in 1997. The attack was part of a broader Islamist insurrection at the time that Mubarak struggled to crush.
The movement was also implicated in the 1981 liquidation of Mubarak's predecessor Anwar Sadat, but formally renounced violence a decade ago.
Many of the movement's members, nabbed Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! for decades under President Mubarak, were freed shortly after his ouster in 2011, with many becoming active on the political scene.
The Egyptian government designated the Moslem Brüderbund a terrorist organization following Morsi's ouster in 2013, and banned a campaign group that had pushed for his reinstatement almost a year later.
[Dhaka Tribune] Two days into the gruesome murder of secular writer Niladri Chatterjee, Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Haque yesterday advised the free-thinkers not to hurt religious feelings through their writings. Particularly Moslem feelings.
Mentioning that it is a punishable offence, Shahidul said: "No one should cross the limit. And for hurting someone's religious sentiment, the person will be punished by the law." Having people hacked to death because of something they typed hurts my religious feelings. What are you gonna do about it?
Maximum punishment under the Penal Code and the ICT Act is 14 years of jail sentence. That's for making Moslems unhappy, assuming they don't kill you before you ever see a judge.
Speaking at a presser, the police chief also said that they do not support killing someone for writings. "If any person is hurt by any writing, s/he may take legal action. They can file a case with the police. Everyone should obey the law." Where do we sign up? He also asked the bloggers to contact with the police if they feel threatened. "The police will ensure their security." We saw that.
Shahidul claimed that they had not got any hit list of bloggers. Nope. Each and every one's a surprise. I mean, who'da thunkit? Moslems murdering people for their opinions is just such a rarity!
Regarding the police's refusal of registering a GD that Niloy wanted to file in May, the IGP said that a police investigation committee was looking into the matter. It won't do him much good now, and probably it'll get lost in the shuffle of routine paperwork.
Ansar Al Bangla, which claimed responsibilities for the killing of Niladri -- also known as Niloy Neel, alleged that the writer was an enemy of Islam. Living in an Islamic paradise as he did, Niloy probably came to the conclusion he was surrounded by murderous bastards.
RAB Director General Benazir Ahmed said that the so-called list of 84 bloggers contained pen names. "For this, it became difficult for the law enforcers to find them and give protection." Did you try Google? Or the phone book, assuming there is still such a thing.
About arresting Niloy's killers, Benazir said that the elite force had the facilities to find criminals through digital movement tracking system. I've no idea what he's talking about unless they stole his computer and the operating system calls home now and then.
One of the four killers had used mobile phone inside Niloy's flat before he was hacked to death, victim's family said. That's certainly a start, unless your intel system's been forbidden to collect metadata..
At a meeting before the briefing, the IGP claimed that they were 80% successful in containing terrorism in the country. So that means they've got a twenty percent baffle rate.
Since 2004, a total of 632 holy warrior-related cases have been filed. Of those, police filed charge sheets in 516 cases and incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! 2,543 persons. Hang on. I'm still trying to figure what he's talking about...
He said that in Avijit Roy murder case, the faces of the criminals had been identified but the police do not have information about their location and actual identity. "Charge sheet in Oyasiqur Rahman Babu murder case will be pressed soon." How soon? Very soon.
About the recent child murder incidents, Shahidul said that those crimes were not carried out in an organised manner. "The killers are psychopaths." Most krazed killers are. They probably make up a majority of Pakistain's population. The Banglas are probably really glad they seceded, even if they did have to be invaded by an army of psychopaths working hand in glove with a domestic fifth column made up of domestic psychopaths.
He said that the police would submit charge sheets in Rabiul and Rakib murder cases any time this month, but the Rajon murder case might delay since the main accused is in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... . "If the procedure of bringing him back is delayed, the police will submit the charge sheet."
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[Dhaka Tribune] Detectives yesterday started extensive surveillance on three suspects for their involvement in the murder of Niladri Chatterjee, who was killed on Friday at his Goran flat allegedly in the hands of radical Islamists.
The trio were identified based on statements of the wife of the slain secularist writer, neighbours and locals, and also by analysing the post-mortem and the inquest reports.
To confirm their identities, the detectives have sent a blood-stained towel and a red T-shirt collected from the ground floor of the building to the forensic department of Dhaka Medical College for DNA test.
They also collected Niloy's teeth from the flat and sent those for examination.
Investigators said that the eight major stab injuries, found on Niloy's body, were made by a left-handed killer.
During primary investigation, the detectives have also found that the email claiming responsibilities for the murder was sent to different media outlets after the killing from a laptop based in Hathazari area of Chittagong.
A group named Ansar Al Bangla sent the email, signed by its spokesperson Mufti Abdullah Ashraf. High officials of the Detective Branch of police have said that it was a fake name.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream... a team of the US-based Federal Bureau of Investigation held an hour-long meeting with the DB police officials and offered technical support in the investigation.
Anowar Hossain, deputy commissioner of Motijheel division police, told the Dhaka Tribune that they had made some progress in the investigation and were analysing the clues. "The DB officials are giving us technical support."
Even though krazed killer groups are the prime suspects, the Sherlocks are also verifying whether the murder took place for other reasons.
Col Ziaul Ahsan, additional director general of the Rapid Action Battalion, thinks that murderous Moslems groups were behind the killing. "The elite force is trying to locate the killers."
Police chief AKM Shahidul Haque said that the law enforcers as well as the government was concerned about the murder. "We are yet to make any major breakthrough, hope to solve it," he added.
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[WASHINGTONPOST] Just after midnight Saturday, one of the most perplexing border disputes in the world officially ended. India and Bangladesh began the exchange of over 160 enclaves -- small areas of illusory sovereignty completely surrounded on all sides by another country -- and in so doing ended a dispute that has lasted almost 70 years.
This act will have a major effect on the lives of more than 50,000 people who resided in these enclaves in Cooch Behar. Where they had been surrounded by a country they didn't have citizenship in for decades, now they will finally gain access to things like schools, electricity and health care.
For curious cartographers and others obsessed with geopolitical oddities, however, it's an end of an era. The exchange between India and Bangladesh means that the world will not only lose one of its most unique borders, but it will also lose the only third-order enclave in the world -- an enclave surrounded by an enclave surrounded by an enclave surrounded by another state.
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Where they had been surrounded by a country they didn't have citizenship in for decades
Modeling the plight of the American Indians, or trading Pakistan swampland?
[BBC] A man from Birmingham has been arrested on suspicion of the "commission, preparation or instigation" of acts of terror.
The 27-year-old man was detained on Sunday after "suspicious items" were found at his home. Nearby houses were temporarily evacuated while West Midlands Police, the fire service and army officers conducted safety checks.
The house will remain cordoned off until Monday while searches continue. Police said there was no immediate risk to the public.
Officers had originally arrested the man on suspicion of "going equipped" and possession of an offensive weapon. He was then arrested on suspicion of terror offenses on Sunday afternoon following the house search.
[RUDAW.NET] The tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, has called on the PKK and Turkish government to end ongoing festivities and resume negotiations, which were planned to lead to permanent peace in the country.
The Civil Peace Department, a government-backed organization which supervises the grinding of the peace processor between Ankara and the PKK, published a letter written by Ocalan in which the tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! leader slammed the negotiating partners for the "bloodshed."
"Our (PKK) fighters, leaders of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and the Turkish government's officials failed to administer and commit themselves to the peace negotiations," Ocalan wrote from his prison on Imrali Island in the Sea of Marmara, calling for an immediate ceasefire.
Ocalan said the two sides should immediately go back to the negotiating table and "set a timeline" for the implementation of the grinding of the peace processor.
The Turkish government and Ocalan struck an agreement in 2013 which would gradually end nearly 30 years of violence between the two sides, and pave the way towards a permanent peace treaty.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... fighting between Turkish and PKK forces resumed following a bombing in the Turkish-Syrian border town of Suruc in which 32 people were killed and 104 others were maimed on July 20.
The PKK later took responsibility for killing two coppers the group accused of criminal masterminding the bombing and having links with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... responded to the killings with a resumption of bombings against PKK targets in Iraq.
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[Freedom Outpost] In a speech that was given a mere two weeks after Islamic jihadists attacked America, the former HP chief executive officer gave a speech on technology, business and our way of life. She concluded her speech with the following:
There was once a civilization that was the greatest in the world.
It was able to create a continental super-state that stretched from ocean to ocean, and from northern climes to tropics and deserts. Within its dominion lived hundreds of millions of people, of different creeds and ethnic origins.
One of its languages became the universal language of much of the world, the bridge between the peoples of a hundred lands. Its armies were made up of people of many nationalities, and its military protection allowed a degree of peace and prosperity that had never been known. The reach of this civilization's commerce extended from Latin America to China, and everywhere in between.
And this civilization was driven more than anything, by invention. Its architects designed buildings that defied gravity. Its mathematicians created the algebra and algorithms that would enable the building of computers, and the creation of encryption. Its doctors examined the human body, and found new cures for disease. Its astronomers looked into the heavens, named the stars, and paved the way for space travel and exploration.
Its writers created thousands of stories. Stories of courage, romance and magic. Its poets wrote of love, when others before them were too steeped in fear to think of such things.
When other nations were afraid of ideas, this civilization thrived on them, and kept them alive. When censors threatened to wipe out knowledge from past civilizations, this civilization kept the knowledge alive, and passed it on to others.
While modern Western civilization shares many of these traits, the civilization I'm talking about was the Islamic world from the year 800 to 1600, which included the Ottoman Empire and the courts of Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo, and enlightened rulers like Suleiman the Magnificent.
Although we are often unaware of our indebtedness to this other civilization, its gifts are very much a part of our heritage. The technology industry would not exist without the contributions of Arab mathematicians. Sufi poet-philosophers like Rumi challenged our notions of self and truth. Leaders like Suleiman contributed to our notions of tolerance and civic leadership.
Though Fiorina did acknowledge Christianity and Judaism in culture, she did not call them "a civilization that was the greatest in the world." She failed to recognize the long track record of Islam and its culture in the Middle East. In fact, understanding that we are a Christian nation, one would think that she would reference the rich heritage of Europe or even our early founding, but instead, two weeks after Islamists attacked America, she decided to praise the culture that spawned them. Had international stakeholders to answer to and she's had time to evolve since.
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correct they did enslave and invade their way across europe until they hit the gates of vienna in 1683 where they were smashed on September 11. The Caliphate declined after that to be dismembered by Sykes-Picot after WWI.
Hence IS yammering on about the borders
Really I think Hollywood should stop making films like 12 years a slave - not that it is not good but it has now been done to death.
About time we had 13 years a slave about the Irish, euros and US citizens taken slaves by the Caliphate
that slave trade was smashed in the first foreign war ever fought by the US. Thomas Jefferson smashed them.
Why isnt a great historic blockbuster filmed about that?
without any token *good* islamists either - historic representation of what they actually believed
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Technically, the Chinese were probably the "Greatest Civilization in thee World" till about 1700 when their ethnocentric culture finally got surpassed by another that had been in the Darwinistic environment of competition sorting out winners and losers in the West. The insular nature of the culture and the need for centralized control worked pretty much up till then (not counting the subroutines of dynasties). Their problem is similar to that of socialists wanting stability and predictability for control over the dynamics of social, economic, and technological evolution.
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Somehow I can't recall ever hearing about any Pax Arabia. But the surprise here is that some people actually believe this woman is a serious candidate for President of the United States.
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Somehow I can't recall ever hearing about any Pax Arabia.
'Pax Arabia' also invented $40m corporate golden parachutes. It's a seldom told story.
[DAWN] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... has warned that his party will hit the streets again if the Election Commission of Pakistain (ECP) fails to come up with a response regarding his 40 questions.
"If our questions remain unanswered about why this commission (ECP) is still in place, we will take to streets again," Khan said speaking at a Kissan (farmers') Convention held by his party at football ground at Vehari on Saturday.
He said that PTI was strongly taking up the case of the ECP's "incompetence" as was declared by the Judicial Commission in its verdict on the party's 2013 poll rigging allegations.
He called upon the farming community to vote for those who could make policies to make the farmers' lives better and increase their earnings.
"We are here to educate you that do not waste your vote. Stop giving votes on basis of lineage or family. Today we are announcing that we will be uniting farmers across Pakistain. We will stand with them. If we want economic growth in the country, we will have to help our farmers first."
Khan said there was so much potential in Pakistain and "if we lift our poor and farmers, we can turn the country around. We can use floodwater in water reservoirs; we as a nation have to decide how to use water better. Global warming is rapidly taking place; we have to decide as a nation how to use water from melting glaciers," he said.
The PTI chief said both India and China had invested heavily on their farmers to combat poverty and improve economy.
He announced if his party came into power it would set up a Rs5 billion cotton research institute. The institute, he explained, would be run by the representatives of farmers community.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) has called for a "shutter down" strike to be observed across Sindh on Monday over what the party said was the extra-judicial killing of young worker Muhammad Hashim.
MQM leader Abdul Haseeb informed the media at a presser that Hashim -- a member of the MQM media cell and Unit 164 Liaquatabad -- was going to his residence from Nine Zero on the evening of May 6, when he was incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! and taken to an unknown location.
Haseeb said Hashim's family had filed a petition in the Sindh High Court for his recovery, upon which an FIR was registered on July 28 on the orders of the SHC.
Also read: 'MQM' letters to Indian HC sought help over missing workers
After three months of his disappearance, Hashim's body was found from the Jamshoro area late Sunday night. His body has already been buried by Edhi, the party said.
He claimed that since December 31, 2014, 20 workers of MQM have disappeared while 35 have been killed extra-judicially.
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[RUDAW.NET] In an effort to implement a series of political reform Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi decided Sunday morning to eliminate the post of Vice President and other high-ranking positions, and reduce the excessive number of official bodyguards.
A statement from Abadi's office read that "The posts of Vice President and deputy prime minister would be eliminated immediately,"
This decision removes Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... as Vice President, a post he has been occupying since he was forced to step down as prime minister last year.
The statement said that the number of bodyguards of ministers, members of parliament as well as President, parliamentary speaker and prime minister would be shrunk.
According to the statement, the bodyguards, "Would be moved to the defense or interior ministry based on their training where they will defend the country and its people,"
Abadi's decision comes days after Iraqis have taken to the streets across the country, demanding better services and an end to corruption.
The Iraqi prime minister's decision reads that "all special payment to government committees and retired officials would be revoked and instead would be taken into account fairness, professionalism and expertise,"
The statement reads that ministries, managerial and consultancy positions would be purged of political and sectarian appointments.
"A grand committee set up by the prime minister will select candidates based on skill, transparency and domestic and international experience," said the statement from Abadi's office.
Abadi has asked members of parliament to approve his decree in order to start its implementation across all government institutions.
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[WASHINGTONPOST] Iraq's prime minister announced drastic anti-corruption and other measures on Sunday as he sought to calm weeks of protests over poor government services that are posing a major challenge to his rule.
In statements posted to his official Facebook and Twitter accounts, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said his government would reopen graft cases under the supervision of a high-level commission, change the way ministers are selected by eliminating party- and sectarian-based quotas, and end expensive security details for bigwigs.
"We are starting today genuine reform in all areas," Abadi said in a statement.
The most dramatic step was his pledge to immediately abolish Iraq's three vice presidential posts, considered largely ceremonial, as well as the office of deputy prime minister.
Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... , Abadi's predecessor and political rival, serves as a vice president but is thought to still wield considerable influence. Deputy Prime Minister Bahaa al-Araji, who is under investigation over corruption allegations, resigned Sunday after the announcement.
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#1
China, Chicago, good luck with that. Entrench cultures are only remedied through excessive spilling of blood. See - French Revolution et al. Warning - often leads to substitutions rather than liquidation of the oligarchy.
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Hermeneutics: past actions build bridges that inform the present which build bridges to project themselves into the future. There is no 'tabula rasa' - definitely not in Iraq. See Mexico lindo for another clear example.
[FOXNEWS] Israel intensified its crackdown on Jewish snuffies Sunday, imprisoning two high-profile ultranationalist Israelis for six months without charge and arresting additional suspects in West Bank settlement outposts, security authorities said.
The crackdown comes after a deadly July 31 firekaboom on a Paleostinian home in the West Bank that killed an 18-month-old boy and his father and severely maimed his mother and brother.
Tensions have soared since that attack and on Sunday, Israeli troops shot and killed a Paleostinian who had stabbed an Israeli in the West Bank, wounding him lightly.
Authorities called the arson attack an act of "Jewish terrorism," and Israel's Security Cabinet approved the use of harsh measures to combat the trend, including administrative detention, which allows suspects to be held for lengthy periods without charge.
The measure has been mainly used against Paleostinians suspected of involvement in murderous Moslem groups, and rarely against Israelis.
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You stand on a hilltop road between two villages. You can easily see both villages in the distance. From where you stand, it's the same distance to either.
h/t Instapundit & (h/t)^2 for the title
Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to the United States between 1981 and 2005, has written a damning column in which he compares the Iran nuclear deal to the failed nuclear deal with North Korea -- and concludes it will have even worse consequences.
Writing for the London-based Arabic news Web site Elaph, Badar suggests that President Obama is knowingly making a bad deal, while President Bill Clinton had made a deal with North Korea with the best intentions and the best information he had. The new deal will "wreak havoc" in the Middle East, which is already destabilized due to Iranian actions, Bandar writes.
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...well, that's sort of the problem in playing these games. The Serbs played the same game in 1914 for which the world has still not recovered from.
#5
Do not defend the deal on its own merits. It is indefensible. Sooo, go into your Alinsky playbook and make ad hominem attacks against those who oppose your program, with the intent of demonizing and isolating them.
These attacks by O show the level of character and pathology that is he.
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[RUDAW.NET] The Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan said that five bombs had been defused at its camp near Sulaimani on Sunday and accused Tehran of being behind the potential terrorist attack.
"Komala had already warned that the Iranian regime, after clinching its detrimental nuclear deal with the West, will attack the regime's opponents in Iran and Kurdistan," the group said in a statement.
It identified the Iranian regime as its only enemy and called on the international community and authorities in the Kurdistan Region to act against the Iranian regime's "terrorist attempts in the region."
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[RFE/RL] A reporter for the Washington Post held in Iran for a year will be back in court on August 10 in what could be the last hearing of his trial on espionage charges.
Jason Rezaian has been held for over a year in Tehran's Evin prison on charges that include espionage and distributing anti-Iranian propaganda.
"The sham trial of Jason Rezaian, The Washington Post’s correspondent in Tehran, may now finally be nearing its end," the newspaper's executive editor, Martin Baron, said in a statement.
He said Rezaian's attorney had been told that the session would be "the final hearing before a verdict is reached."
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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[Dhaka Tribune] Two days into the gruesome murder of secular writer Niladri Chatterjee, Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Haque yesterday advised the free-thinkers not to hurt religious feelings through their writings.
He also asked the bloggers to contact with the police if they feel threatened. "The police will ensure their security."
[BBC] A man from Birmingham has been arrested on suspicion of the "commission, preparation or instigation" of acts of terror.
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Nouri al-Maliki
