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I thought at first we'd been hacked, but it's just a stoopid html trick. I'll filter it.
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Thank you Fred. If your site goes down I might just have a nervous breakdown. I cannot stand to watch the news on TV anymore. All we have left is your site and LGF.
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"Thank you Fred. If your site goes down I might just have a nervous breakdown. I cannot stand to watch the news on TV anymore. All we have left is your site and LGF."
Thank God! I'm not the only one!
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You're not alone, Dave D. and Anon. Lots of us pajama-wearers feel that way! :-D
[in case the link doesn't work, it's http://www.cafepress.com/cp/browse/N-20667333_p-2_pv-righties.13542975_Ne-3_nr-1_bt-1]
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You're definitely not alone.
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Anyone have a good place to buy comfortable and meaningful pajamas? e.g. a 2nd amendment pajama worthy of an infidel?
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Kalle - if you can use a t-shirt as pajamas, I'm sure you'll find something you like at cafepress or those shirts. ;-p
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Fred / Mods - There are a bunch of phoney borgboy posts - all over the place - screechy shit and all missing the distinctive style of the real McCoy...
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Fred, why not ban Boris IP? Or at least take it back to his ISP - or if he is coming through an anon proxy, ban the proxy at least for the next coupel of days.
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Fred, you need to filter ALL html out of the inputs.
Seems boris is not content with having his website on the web, he feels he must also silence any others that show his world view to be false. Typical Democrat this election, unfortunately.
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Don't get me wrong...... I've got nothing against america or Americans id just rather distance myself from all the lies of the politicians all over the world. You have every right to kill those who threaten or kill your own people - You have the right to fight terrorism world wide - But you don't have the right to shove your political bullshit down my throat. Who cares who wins the election ? Our election over here has been & gone, we dont need to sit through another one
You dont have to come here if you dont like the tone or tenor. Nobody is holding a gun on you to make you come here - indeed, some of our more excitable posters here would probably be holding a gun on you to encourage your departure.
There are plenty of places, like Democratic Underground or Daily Koz where those of your ilk can go.
a: make no sense
b: have red eyes
c: can't stop eating
d: think that message boards are there to entertain & harass other people
e: all of the above
f: Think politics is entertaining
g: Think muslims look human
h: cawn't spwell
i: reek like a reefer
The Saudi embassy in Kuwait City was briefly evacuated on Saturday after officials received information a parcel containing explosives was inside the seaside compound, a security source said. The embassy received a suspect parcel and then an anonymous telephone call that the parcel contained explosives, the source said. Police evacuated the compound, retrieved the parcel and detonated it. The source said it was not yet clear what was inside the package. A similar scare earlier this week in a building housing a branch of the Kuwaiti Central Bank turned out to be a hoax.
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Two car bombs injured 13 people in the capital of Russia's Chechnya on Sunday, medical staff and officials said. The first explosion hit a convoy of cars carrying pro-Moscow police at 7.40 a.m. The second hit the main city hospital 45 minutes later as the wounded were brought in, injuring civilians including a doctor. The powerful second bomb smashed windows at the hospital, destroying the car that carried it and damaging other cars. "Some people are severely injured, but there is no threat to their lives. All 13 are in the ninth city hospital, where the explosion took place," said Ilya Shabalkin, spokesman for the Russian military command in Chechnya, where Russia has been fighting separatist rebels for a decade.
Rebels frequently lay mines on the roads of the mountainous region, targeting military and police convoys. Russian soldiers are killed almost daily, and automatic gunfire echoes around Grozny and other towns at night. A member of the "kadyrovtsy" -- a pro-Moscow paramilitary force made up mainly of former rebels and led by the son of assassinated local leader Akhmad Kadyrov -- said the Sunday bombings were part of a feud with Islamic extremists. "We are battling them, and this feud does not stop here," said the heavily-armed man, who identified himself only by his nickname 'Bely', as he stood outside the hospital.
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...A certain amount of jostling for position greeted the first hours after his departure. The first to step forward were the former and current Palestinian prime ministers Mahmoud Abbas and Ahmed Qureia. Abbas is Arafat's Number 2 in the PLO executive; Qureia, the senior Palestinian Authority official. A third was Salim Zaanoun, head of the Palestinian Legislative Council. A fourth was the ambitious Mohammed Dahlan, former Gaza Strip strongman. This foursome can do no more than try and keep things running pro tem until Arafat's fate is settled one way or another. Without his seal of approval - which was not granted - its members' standing is not very solid.
Biding their time are the real Palestinian heavyweights, together with the al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades created by Arafat for the suicide campaign against Israel, the radical Hamas and the Jihad Islami. The latter two have already staked a claim to a share in the post-Arafat "unified national government." The battle for the succession will not begin as long as the Palestinian leader is alive. Until then, president Jacques Chirac, an avowed friend of the "Palestinian struggle," will be firmly by his side and likely to take a hand in the choices.
The rising men at this moment, according to DEBKAfile's Palestinian sources, are Arafat's closest advisers and his top terrorist masterminds: Hanni al-Hassan, Saher Habash, Azzam Muhammad, Nabil Abu Rdeina, Ramsi Roh and Force 17 commander Faisal Abu Serah. This group, together with extremist Farouk Kadoumi, the self-exiled deputy chairman of the Fatah executive, will remain in Paris as long as Arafat is confined to hospital. They will try run Palestinian Authority business from the French capital. Claiming they are relaying orders from Arafat, they will gradually erode the authority of the Abu Mazan-Abu Ala clique. These candidates do not auger well for the hopes harbored by many Israelis of Arafat's eclipse automatically opening the way for non-violent Palestinian peace negotiators to step forward — or even a downturn in terrorist attacks. Quite the contrary, the contest promises to jar the entire region and unleash fresh terrorist energy.
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DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources report Indian Air Force sighted bin Laden a few days ago on Tibet-Laddakh region close to the North-Eastern corner of Pakistan bordering India and China. Indian forces went on red alert.
Grain of salt. I heard the same thing on Fox News, but they probably got it from Debka.
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Debka---The grain of salt starts here...but every once in a while they hit a home run.
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Wait a moment...didn't they just put him in Iran under 'protective custody' of some of the hardline mullahs? Either he has the fastest magic flying carpet, or we're looking at body doubles for the eyes in the sky throw off!!
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It was with great sadness that I saw Binny's tape, especially since I was CONVINCED he was Tora Bora wormdirt. Saying that, now that we know he is alive, it is time to find and kill him. And those with him. And those in the same town. And those in the same province......
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Saying that, now that we know he is alive, it is time to find and kill him.
I disagree. This is one maggot we want to take alive. I'll settle for dead or vaporized but would much more prefer intact. We need to debrief this @sshole until briefs go out of style. We also need to parade this sick f%&k in front of the Arab world just before we slip a needle into his worthless veins.
If ever there was a more potent way of humiliating every single d@mned stinking ratfaced jihadi at once, I've certainly not heard of it. This turd has a date with Mr. Red, White and Blue Syringe and it's up to our warriors to make it all come true.
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I find Zenster to be a kindered spirit, but this time he (she ?) is wrong. I think we want Bin Laden taken, but NOT taken alive. The world-wide impact Zenster wants can be had by parading the dead carcass in front of the Al-Jizz cameras. The last thing we want is a show trial. Besides, as I recall, Cofer Black promised President Bush to bring him the head of Osama. Literally. In a box.
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A friend asked me how often I thought Debkafile was accurate. I didn't have an answer. What say you Rantbergers? On a scale of 1 - 10, how often is Debka on the money? Anybody got an idea?
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I am thinking of the whining on the home front as the MSM, Dims, da Black Caucus, Johnny Cochran, etc. worry about Binny's rights.
Brett, every single whiner should be made to watch an endless loop of the Twin Tower impacts, complete with footage of the falling jumpers, for an unbroken 24 hour period.
Meanwhile, who's watching Mr. Z?
Over there! Why, it's a pink rhinoceros!
I find Zenster to be a kindered spirit, but this time he (she ?) is wrong. I think we want Bin Laden taken, but NOT taken alive.
It's "he." As with other high level captures like Hambali, there is not only the actual intelligence harvested from the individual, but also a ripple effect of changed cell phone numbers, abandoned blind drop locations, evacuated safe houses and all sorts of disrupted operational infrastructure that radiates from a capture of this magnitude.
Far better that we should scoop up bin Laden alive so as to maximize the damage and discomfiture of al Qaeda. My only regret is that Osama would thereby miss the opportunity to enjoy several days in the wild with an untreated gut shot.
We need to show various footage of bin Laden being questioned (including - if necessary - mockups of him chatting freely with his interrogators), being tried in an American court of law or military tribunal and then being promptly executed. An unmarked grave to prevent any enshrinement would be the finishing touch.
Should we merely carry down bin Laden's body fragments from some unnamed peak, it would have all the impact of Moses having descended from the mountain top bearing shards. The Arab street would forever convince themselves that our's were merely empty claims. Only by incontrovertibly demonstrating to one and all that we will find, capture (then interrogate) and kill those who seek to do America harm, will we begin to dissuade those who plot against us.
Mark, I find it hard to allot Debka more than a 50/50 shot. However, given the chance, every so often even a blind pig will root up a truffle.
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By James Rupert
BORDER CONTROL POST 3, Afghanistan - In the predawn dark Sept. 1, about 200 armed men charged in from Pakistan, firing rockets and rifles at this mountaintop military base. Beating off the attack, "we killed three of them and captured one," said Sakhi Rahman, the Afghan post's commander. "They were all Pakistani."
And who's surprised by that?
And can we send the border post a Marine gunny to advise them on marksmanship?
Pakistani border forces posted nearby did nothing to halt the attack, Rahman told visiting U.S. troops last weekend. Rather, when the invaders fled back across the border, Pakistani troops helped them carry and treat their wounded, he and other soldiers here said.
Nope. No reaction from the surprise meter.
While Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, has made his government an essential U.S. ally in its "war on terror," some Pakistani officials and security forces continue to support the Islamic militant Taliban movement, notably in attacks into Afghanistan, U.S. and Afghan military sources said. Pakistani border forces have helped truck Taliban militants to the frontier and even have supported attackers with rifle fire, they said.
Following pressure from President George W. Bush, Musharraf sent extra troops to parts of the Pakistani-Afghan border last month, and senior U.S. military officials have said Pakistan has clamped down on border infiltration, although it has not arrested Taliban leaders there. Pakistan's foreign ministry spokesman, Masood Khan, said the estimated 70,000 troops along the border form "a large chunk of Pakistan's forces and represents a large commitment" by Musharraf's government "to root out terrorists of any persuasion."
From bunkers dug into their rocky mountaintop, Rahman and his Afghan troops look over the Pakistani region of Waziristan. At Musharraf's order, Pakistan's army this year has attacked deep into Waziristan, an autonomous tribal territory, to uproot the largely foreign al-Qaida movement of Osama bin Laden. Pakistan has arrested an estimated 600 al-Qaida activists in the past three years and killed others in battle, including Chechens, Arabs, Uzbeks and local tribesmen who took their side. But the Taliban movement is more local -- born in Pakistan among the Pashtun tribes that dominate the Pakistani and Afghan border regions. It was bred, scholars say, by Pakistan's military intelligence agency as a way to install a pro-Pakistani government in Afghanistan.
But coincidentally, when the Paks began serious operations in South Waziristan the "Taliban" attacks in Afghanistan dropped off dramatically...
Since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan forced the Taliban from power here in 2001, many of the movement's prominent leaders have been living as refugees in Pakistan. Afghans and many specialists on the region say such Taliban exiles have organized and financed attacks on U.S. and Afghan government targets in Afghanistan...
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"all lies!lies! ...and coincidences. It can all be explained..."
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Attacking a US fire base on the top of a mountain? That would not be my first choice. In fact, it would rate right up there with trying to have my way with a porcupine.
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I think it's about time for both the Pakistanis and the border tribesmen in Waziristan to be "treated" to an Arclight demonstration. I'm sure such a demonstration would prove most beneficial in reducing border strife - especially until the nearby tribesmen recover their hearing, maybe in six to eight months. Even if the area hit was inside Afghanistan (but close - say 30 yards inside...) it would make a nice "impression". For some Islamic fundamentalists, it's the only kind of impression they understand.
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What would probably do the trick is to send a handful of F-117s, one at a time spaced minutes apart to drop cluster bombs on attacking Paki-wakis when Afghan border outposts come under attack. The next best thing would be to have a gunship on call for "shredder duty".
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All civilized nations should launch pre-emptive military strikes on ANY foreign soil that is harboring, finacing, supporting or operating on. If they cant control their own shit, then we will flush it for them
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Assalam Walikom - My name is troll & im a assalickin salami sucking mud monkey from Mecca. My father was stomped to death last rama-daman-ding-dong. My religion has existed for over 1,400 years & during that time & up untill this present date we have left a trail of blood.
Islam rises and falls on Muhammad. He is the religion's sole prophet, Islamâs solitary example, Allahâs lone conduit. Without Muhammad, Allah, the Qurâan, and Islam would be unknown.
his words arenât believable. According to the Qurâan and Hadith, Muhammad was a thief, rapist, and terrorist. Itâs hardly the example youâd want your neighbor to emulate, but who are you to judge ? We are peacefull people remember..
Muhammad, Allah, Mecca, and the formation of Islam are completely unknown to secular history. All we know of them is derived from the Qurâan and Hadith. The earliest and most important collection of Hadith is called the Sira, or Biography. Compiled by Ibn Ishaq, the Sira provides the only written account of this man, his god, place and religion within two centuries of his death. There is no other valid source from which Muhammad can be seen, or Islam can be interpreted, differently.
But who are you to judge ? We are peace loving people......remember.
Using Islamâs most holy books I was able to reorder the Qurâan chronologically and set it into the context of Muhammadâs life. The result is bone chilling. The depiction of the prophet by the most revered Muslim sources reveals behavior that is immoral, criminal, and violent. The five oldest and most trusted Islamic sources don't portray Muhammad as a great and godly man. They confirm that he was a thief, liar, assassin, mass murderer, terrorist, warmonger, and an unrestrained sexual pervert engaged in pedophilia, incest, and rape. He authorized deception, assassinations, torture, slavery, and genocide. He was a pirate, not a prophet. According to the Hadith and the Qur'an, Muhammad and his henchmen plundered their way to power and prosperity. And by putting the Qur'an in chronological order and correlating it with the context of Muhammad's life, we find that Allah mirrored his prophet's character. Muhammad's god condoned immoral and criminal behavior. Allah boasts about being a terrorist. He claims to have deceived men, to have stolen their property, to have enslaved women and children, to having committed acts of murder, genocide, and sadistic tortures.
But Who are you to judge ?? We are peace loving people remember.... What kind of people would conceive and perpetrate a scheme that would lead to the burning, mutilation and death of 350 young children as was done in the school in Russia? What dogma was responsible for motivating Islamic women to strap bombs to their bodies and board two Russian aircraft filled with passengers for the purpose of blowing them up and killing everyone?
.........Remember we are peace loving people
Militants holding three UN hostages on Sunday set a three-day deadline for foreign troops to leave Afghanistan, saying they will kill the hostages otherwise. The hostages' governments will "witness the death of their nationals in three days" unless several demands are met, said Mullah Mohammad Ishaq, spokesman for the Jaishul Muslimeen, a breakaway Taliban group. The demands are the departure of foreign troops and the United Nations, condemnation by the Philippines and the UN of "the invasion of Afghanistan by foreign forces" and the release of Afghans from foreign prisons, he said. British-Irish woman Annetta Flanigan, Kosovo woman Shqipe Hebibi and Filipino diplomat Angelito Nayan were snatched at gunpoint from their vehicle in Kabul last Thursday.
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I agree to the last demand. We will release the Afghans from foreign prisons through an airdrop at a location agreeable to both parties. Use of parachutes at the discretion of of the US commander on the ground in Afghanistan.
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U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan killed five suspected militants and detained nine others Thursday in an attack on an "al Qaeda facilitator" believed to be planning an attack against coalition forces, a coalition military spokesman told CNN Saturday. The operation happened near Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, according to Maj. Mark McCann. He said he had no information about the target of the operation or whether the "facilitator" was among those killed or detained. McCann said they had "reasonable and credible information" the al Qaeda operative was planning an attack against coalition forces.
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A headless body found Saturday in Baghdad has been confirmed as that of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda, Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said Sunday. "It is to our great sorrow that after putting all our efforts into securing his prompt release he has become a victim of terrorism," Machimura said.
A radio report said his body was found wrapped in the American flag.
He told a press conference the confirmation was through match of fingerprint and other physical characteristics. Machimura described the killing as "unforgivable" and vowed Japan "will firmly go on with the war on terror along with the international community." Besides Koda, four Japanese had been killed in Iraq by unidentified gunmen in two assaults, two of them were diplomats and the rest were journalists. Despite the killing, the possibility remains low for Japan to withdraw troops, considering its repeated hard-line assertions on the issue. There are about 500 ground troops posted in the southern city of Samawah on a rebuilding mission. They are scheduled to return at year end, but the government reportedly is mulling on extending the operation by around another one year. photos of Islamic jihad cult ritual victim, Shosei Koda, prior to being taken hostage by terrorists
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U.S. forces detained a key Iraqi tribal leader and two family members during an early morning raid Saturday in Baghdad, his family said. Sheik Hisham al-Duleimi, along with his son and his brother in law, were arrested at their home, according to the sheik's brother Samer al-Duleimi. The U.S. military had no immediate comment. The U.S. soldiers confiscated the weapons of the sheik's guards before entering the house and searched it "in a rude manner," Samer al-Duleimi said. "We do not know why he was arrested. Sheik Hisham was only helping ensure the release of Iraqi and foreign prisoners. He has contacts with the Americans and he has done no harm to anybody," he said. Al-Duleimi is an influential Sunni tribal leader who has helped negotiate the release of several foreign hostages, including truck drivers from India, Kenya, and Egypt.
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I wonder how long certain parties in Japan will stew over something like this before getting extreme, as in dispatching some first rate assassins to work a little revenge.
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Anonymoose, you mean ninjas? Yeah, what ever happened to that great tradition?
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Notice that he was savagely murdered w/in days of his kidnapping, unlike the previous Japanese "hostages".
Notice also that he was not produced in a pleading video. He probably refused to cooperate. God bless his soul.
Initial reports were that he was travelling around the world and made an impulse decision in Jordan to cross the border for a few days, despite pleas from locals (not sure we can believe them). I've met a number of such lonely, young Japanese travellers in Asia. Usually quite smart, and daring.
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Evry time I hear about the death cultists(tm)dissing Japan, I cant help but think about the stories that grampa used to tell about WW II in the Pacific. I hope we haven't completely beaten it out of them.
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Do the Japanese have the third or fourth largest commitment in Iraq?
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About 100 people were reported killed on Saturday in fighting between Puntland and the rival Somali territory of Somaliland, which accused Puntland's leader, now Somalia's new president, of waging war on it. Abdullahi Yusuf, elected president on Oct. 10, has pledged to work peacefully with breakaway Somaliland as he tries to restore order to Somalia, which descended into anarchy in 1991 following the ousting of dictator Mohammad Siad Barre. But his election alarmed Somaliland, hostile to a man long seen as its archfoe in the neighbouring autonomous territory of Puntland. It warned Yusuf on Oct. 12 against any attempted aggression and said it was on alert against any move to reunite Somaliland with the rest of Somalia.
"Full mobilisation of our soldiers is going on and will continue until Yusuf's forces leave our territory," a spokesman for the Somaliland president said on Saturday, adding that fighting had stopped because of heavy rains. A spokesman for Somaliland's office of defence said the death toll from the fighting, which erupted on Friday at the village of Adi-Addeye, about 30km north of Las Anod, had risen to 109. It was not immediately clear whether that figure referred to combat casualties or civilians or both. The spokesman said nine Somaliland soldiers were also killed in the fighting. Las Anod has been a flashpoint during previous flare-ups between the two armies. Puntland and Somaliland have fought sporadic clashes for years over the ownership of several eastern areas of Somaliland claimed by Puntland's leaders as their own, on the basis of ethnicity. But the cause of the fresh bout of fighting was not clear, with both sides accusing each other of starting it.
They learned nothing from Ethiopia and Eritrea -- fighting over worthless sand.
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How come Arab/Muslim nations do not rush 'peace keeping forces' to stop this bloodshed of fellow Muslims?
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The US should support the independence of Somaliland and let the Europeans harvest the noxious fruit of southern Somalia.
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Arab/Muslim nations are equal opportunity haters and killers. Jews come first, non-jew infidels come next and then muslims. It is, in the long view, a matter of total indifference .
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A politician belonging to India's ruling Congress party and his 12-year-old son were among six people killed in separatist-linked violence in restive Kashmir, police said Saturday. Bashir Tiker, 45, a member of India's ruling Congress party, was gunned down overnight by suspected rebels with his son Mohammed Akram in the Mahore area of southern Udhampur district, a police spokesman told AFP. Tiker's wife was also seriously injured when the militants barged into the politician's ancestral home and opened indiscriminate fire with automatic guns, he added.
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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.
...A certain amount of jostling for position greeted the first hours after his departure. The first to step forward were the former and current Palestinian prime ministers 
U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan killed five suspected militants and detained nine others Thursday in an attack on an "al Qaeda facilitator" believed to be planning an attack against coalition forces, a coalition military spokesman told CNN Saturday. The operation happened near Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, according to Maj. Mark McCann. He said he had no information about the target of the operation or whether the "facilitator" was among those killed or detained. McCann said they had "reasonable and credible information" the al Qaeda operative was planning an attack against coalition forces.
