TREE HUGGER FRIED ALIVE WHEN LIGHTNING STRIKES BIG OAK!
By LAUREN HEDLEY
Tree-hugging Clare Sanderson was fried alive when lightning hit the oak tree she embraced like a lover while protesting a logging operation.
"She was yelling 'Down with loggers! Trees are our friends!' when -- Boom! Crack! -- the lightning struck and then all I heard was a whimper," recalls Mike Michelou, an environmental activist who witnessed the tragedy just west of tiny Lenoir, N.C.
He has blocked the memory of the sizzling sound.
"I was hugging another tree about 10 yards away and I could see everything. The lightning ran down the side of the oak right into the top of Clare's head.
Probably attracted to the tin-foil hat.
"The tree was scorched and burned and smoking, but it didn't fall.
Unlike Baghdad (bite me, Robert Fisk)
"But Clare did. She looked like a pile of charcoal."
As opposed to her usual appearance, that of a bundle of rags.
Police confirm that Sanderson, 28, "was instantly electrocuted by a rogue bolt" that ripped out of the sky on "a perfectly sunny day with no storm clouds in sight."
Rantburg has better sources than the WWN, particularly at [No Such Agency]. These hint that the incident was really a test of Karl Rove's newest psychotronic device and it went horribly wrong.
A spokesman for the logging operation issued a statement saying that the firm was "real sorry the tree hugger was killed, but the forest is no place for a woman anyway."
"She did have a purty mouth though"
"I think this was God's way of saying that these enviro-nuts ought not to be standing in the way of progress," he added. "I really do think He made an example of her."
Published on: 04/07/2005
My favorite WWN story of all time ran in about 1985 and claimed that a UFO with a Confederate flag painted on the bottom had buzzed a bullfight in Mexico. It reportedly played Dixie as it sped past the gaping crowd. They even had a picture. At one time, there was apparently someone at WWN who really knew about old aircraft. They repeatedly ran stories claiming that missing World War 2 planes had been found in various odd places, chiefly outer space. Interestingly, the longer the range of the real aircraft, the farther from Earth it was alleged to have been found: A TBM Avenger in orbit, a B-26 Marauder on the Moon, and a B-29 on Mars.
On the evening of April 1st, an attempt was made on the life of Abkhazian Prime Minister Aleksandr Ankvab. His four-car motorcade was ambushed and fired on with automatic weapons as the Prime Minister departed from Sukhumi.
The Prime Minister and Vice-Premier Leonil Lakerbaya were riding together and were not injured. Their driver, Roman Geria, was injured and taken to the hospital. This was the second attempt on Aleksandr Ankvab. The first attempt was on February 27th.
The Minister of Internal Affairs of Abkhazia, Otar Khetsiya, believes that this attempt was carried out by the same people who participated in the first attempt. He reported to journalists that law enforcement agencies are actively searching for the criminals.
"The previous and present attempts are both components of one chain. The continuation of an attempt by the local Mafia," commented Aleksandr Ankvab.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Abkhazia declared that it would pay 150 thousand rubles for information leading to the criminals.
"Those, who planned the physical elimination of Aleksandr Ankvab, do not want to allow changes to criminality and criminal impunity that destroy the very basis of our state," according to an April 3rd statement released by representatives of a number of social and political movements in Abkhazia.
In a document signed by Merabom Kishmariya (of the Amtsakhara Movement), Irina Agrba (of the Aytayra Movement), Artur Mikvabiya (of the United Abkhazia movement) and Azaretom Ayba (of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Abkhazia), they noted that the organizers and the executors of terrorist acts against the Prime Minister are those who do not agree with the present management of the country and its domestic policy, the main content of which is economic reform and an uncompromising fight against crime.
During mass demonstrations President of Bashkiria Mourtaza Rakhimov flees the capital Ufa accompanied by body guards, Airat Dilmoukhamedov, leader of the National Movement of Bashkiria, told the news conference entitled 'Georgia-Ukraine-Kirghizia. Next stop - Bashkiria?' on 5 April. What he dislikes about Kirghizia's take on 'orange revolution' is that Akayev was allowed to escape.
Airat Dilmoukhamedov, chairman of Coordination Council of the United Opposition of Bashkortostan, Ramil Bignov, leader of the republic's Tartar National Movement and Anatoly Doubrovsky, Councillor, chairman of Political Public Association Rous told journalists about a wide-scale popular movement in Bashkiria that aims to remove present power in the autonomy. Besides 30 local social and political organisations the Council also comprises eight Federal political parties such as Communist Party, Rodina party, Liberal Democrats, Yabloko, Narodnaya Volya and Pensioners' Party.
Opposition leaders said that more that 20,000 people turned up at the demonstration that took place in Ufa on 26 March to voice their opinion of the existing authorities.
The resolution adopted at the rally contains demands to end withdrawal of benefits until the proper mechanism has been put in place. Utility rates must be frozen until the rise in the pensions and wages. The energy complex which currently belongs to Rakhimov's "family" has to be returned to the state. Rafael Divayev and Anatoly Smirnov, senior officials of the Interior Ministry, must be prosecuted for many incidents of brutality against civilians. President of the Republic of Bashkortostan Mourtasa Rakhimov must resign immediately for a number of violations of the Constitution and numerous breaches of Russian laws. Heads of town and district administration must be elected by direct vote. During the rally there were also demands for Russian President Vladimir Putin's resignation, opposition leaders revealed.
They claim that 117,000 signatures to demand Rakhimov's resignation have been collected. A picket is to be held in Luabyanskaya Square in Moscow on 7 April which will be attended by members of all popular and political forces of the region. During the picket the list of protesters' demands will be presented to Russian President. Opposition plans to stage a protest in Ufa on 1 May which is to carry on until Rakhimov resigns.
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After two senior-level meetings between North Korean and Chinese leaders over the last two weeks to discuss the North's nuclear-weapons program, the Chinese have failed so far to persuade North Korea to rejoin nuclear disarmament talks, senior administration officials and diplomats said Friday. not enough pressure? "rail accident" didn't work?
As a result of the continuing deadlock, informal discussions have begun among the five parties to the talks on new, more aggressive strategies that could be used if and when it is decided that the talks have reached a dead end. Curb your dog, China - prove you're at least a regional power before you pretend to be a world power
Among the steps being discussed, the administration officials and diplomats said, are increasing the frequency and intensity of United States and South Korean military exercises in the region. Even now, North Korea grows incensed with each exercise. Seething and Juche, Ver 9.043
In addition, intelligence gathering operations and reconnaissance about the North would be increased in a manner that the North Korean government would be sure to notice, the officials said. And enforcement activities against North Koreans involved in drug trafficking and weapons smuggling, among other illegal activities, would be expanded, possibly including increased patrols that might lead to interceptions of North Korean ships. Two years ago, Australian authorities seized a North Korean ship carrying 110 pounds of heroin off Australia's southern coast.
No decision has been reached to step up the use of these tactics. For the past year and a half, under a program called the Proliferation Security Initiative, the five nations have declared themselves ready to intercept ships that may be carrying illicit cargo, but there has not been an actual interdiction recently. how about a "loss at sea"?
Senior diplomats said the parties had agreed informally that they would continue holding out for North Korea's return to the talks until June, when a year will have passed since North Korea walked away.
American officials say they have set no deadlines for the North Koreans to return. But now, "there is a palpable sense of frustration," a senior administration official said.
China told the United States this week that North Korea had agreed in principle to return to the talks, " 'when the conditions are right' - the same they have been saying for months," the official said on Friday. "Nothing has changed, as far as I am concerned," he added. "Nice try"
Also on Friday, Richard A. Boucher, the State Department spokesman, said, "We still do not have a clear commitment from the North Koreans to come back to the talks, or a date that they would come back to the talks."
All of the officials and diplomats said that at least for a few more weeks, they will continue pushing North Korea to return to the talks. Now that's tough talk!
During her visit to Beijing on March 21, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed the Chinese to put pressure on North Korea. Since then, North Korea's prime minister, Pak Pong Ju, and the first vice foreign minister, Kang Sok Ju, have visited Beijing. Mr. Kang is in charge of the nuclear disobedience issue.
Several officials and diplomats noted that, while Mr. Pak was in Beijing last month, the Chinese government also agreed to grant North Korea significant new loan guarantees, though the details were not known. Officials also pointed out that Chinese trade with North Korea has increased significantly over the last year. One Asian diplomat put the rate of increase at 40 percent. Oh boy! That'll help! Is China a paper dragon?
Reports from the region suggest that China is still holding out a significant buttplug carrot for the North Koreans should they change their minds and return to the disarmament talks - a state visit by President Hu Jintao. It would be the first visit to Pyongyang by a Chinese leader since September 2000. However, Japan's Kyodo news agency, quoting diplomats in Beijing, reported that because Mr. Kang "took a tough attitude" during his meetings in Beijing, China was saying "it has become difficult" to schedule President Hu's visit.
On Tuesday, the head of North Korea's Parliament, Choe Thae Bok, said there was "no justification" for a return to the talks.
The North Korean government has called for a session of its rubber-stamp Parliament for next Monday. No one knows for certain what the Parliament will be asked to do, but given Mr. Choe's remark, some diplomats are speculating that it will be asked to ratify North Korea's decision not to return to the talks.
In the days since Mr. Pak's visit to Beijing, North Korea has issued several bellicose statements that have discouraged the five nations involved in the negotiations with the North - South Korea, Japan, China, Russia an the United States.
Agence France-Presse reported that in a speech on Friday, Kim Yon Chun, the North Korean Army chief of staff, said that Washington's "persistent hostile policy" would prompt the North to further "bolster its self-defensive nuclear deterrent." "and juche, and army first, and stuff!"
North Korea regularly issues statements with conditions, demands or objections on a range of topics, and the senior State Department official said American policy now is to try not to respond to any of them.
On March 31, however, North Korea issued a new statement that caught everyone's attention.
"Now that the D.P.R.K. has become a full-fledged nuclear weapons state, the six-party talks should be disarmament talks where the participant countries negotiate the issue on an equal footing," the Foreign Ministry said, referring to North Korea by the initials of its formal name.
With that, the officials and diplomats said, North Korea seemed to be saying it should be regarded as a legitimate nuclear power on a par with the United States, Russia or China.
"From that, it would be very difficult to go back to the assumption that they unilaterally have to disarm," a diplomat from one of the five nations said. "This one could possibly change the whole basis of the negotiations."
Several diplomats and officials said they learned that even China was unpleasantly surprised by the new statement.
The senior State Department official said the United States found the statement "very unhelpful," but added "we're not quite sure what it really means."
The official said he was quite upset when he first learned of the new position but added, "one of my rules is always to apply what I call the North Korean discount to these statements," meaning they may not always be as serious as they seem.
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Equal footing? WTF. The Norks might have a few nukes, we have at a minimum hundreds deployed and many more in storage. There is no equal footing. If we decided to remove the NORKS from the map we could do so. All the NORKS can do is talk shit. We can actually act. no need for us to talk shit.
Screw these assclowns both north and south. Get us the hell out of South Korea and let these North Korean fudgepackers starve.
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This is more evidence that Steven Den Beste is right: what we're doing is a strategy called "engaged apathy". We don't really care if these clowns ever come back to the table or not. We're just waiting for them to implode, or for some general to take out Kimmie.
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as long as they don't export their poison
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It's also a humiliating display of Beijing's inability or unwillingness to coerce a recalcitrant client at the time they are attempting to increase their influence in their near abroad. The longer it goes, the dumber they look.
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Militia volunteer Jack Montrose trains his binoculars south of the cactus-studded Arizona border and spies a group of people hunkered down behind a railway embankment on the Mexican side.
"I can see eight to 10 of them out there, and if it wasn't for us here they'd come right on through," said Montrose, who wore a magnum pistol strapped to his hip in a leather holster. "This border is just wide open."
The 67-year-old from Fallon, Nevada, is among 300 to 400 volunteers of the "Minuteman" civilian militia mounting a round-the-clock search for illegal immigrants along a 23-mile section of the border through April 30.
Volunteers from as far afield as California and Maryland say the project, which takes its name from a militia during the American Revolution, is a peaceful protest at the government's failure to secure the U.S.-Mexico border.
Many cite a recent CIA warning that al Qaeda militants could be preparing to cross from Mexico to carry out attacks in the United States, and say they see the fence as a threat to the security of "heartland America."
"Some day in this country we are going to see them walk into Wal-Mart and blow themselves up, or a small school somewhere, like they do over in Israel," said local resident Freddie Puckett as he gestured at the seven-strand border fence.
Robin Hvidston, a 50-year-old real estate agent from Upland, California, who has been out in the desert all week, says the volunteers are "just run-of-the-mill American citizens" concerned about security and the cost of illegal immigration.
"It's a combination of hot issues that is getting a lot of Americans up out of their armchairs and out on to the streets," she said, wearing a button declaring her to be an "Undocumented Border Patrol Agent."
The volunteers' self-appointed role as defenders worries some. Mexico's government calls them vigilantes and the U.S. Border Patrol says they are untrained and unwelcome because they get in the way.
Local residents are divided but many see them as a menace.
"The majority of the people in the community are offended and insulted because of their mentality toward Hispanics," said Ray Borane, the mayor of Douglas, which he said is 92 percent Hispanic. "I've seen them out there ... and they are no more than revelers."
The militiamen chose to make their stand in Arizona because the desert state accounted for half of the 1.2 million immigrants nabbed crossing the 2,000-mile frontier last year.
Contractor Larry Morgan said that while he loves Mexicans "as people," the "invasion" of immigrants is placing a major strain on state services back in his native California.
"We are in economic trouble, our schools and hospital emergency departments are shutting down and our jails are filled with illegal aliens, and it's bankrupting the state of California frankly," he said.
The volunteers say they have spotted 300 immigrants and tipped off Border Patrol agents to help catch them since the project began last weekend, and they are planning a "Minuteman Two" later in the year.
"We feel that we have been effective, and most of us are ready to do another one," Hvidston said. "I think this is the beginning of many similar projects."
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Local residents are divided but many see them as a menace.
"The majority of the people in the community are offended and insulted because of their mentality toward Hispanics," said Ray Borane, the mayor of Douglas, which he said is 92 percent Hispanic. "Iâve seen them out there ... and they are no more than revelers."
*sniff sniff*
Smells like bullshit to me. Any hard numbers on these allegations? Any names?
The Malaysian Prime Minister says Western countries must be prepared to discard their prejudices against Islam and be willing to engage in genuine dialogue with Muslim countries. Abdullah Badawi made the comments in Sydney tonight to a gathering of the Asia Society of Australia. Mr Abdullah says a number of Muslim countries are taking steps to overcome what he has called shortcomings and failures in the Muslim world.
He says other predominantly Muslim countries can learn from the Malaysian approach and renounce extremism and end sectarian violence. But he says reforms in the Muslim world must be accompanied by changes to the foreign policies of Western countries. He says the international community must take a stand to help stop injustice, oppression or aggression against Muslim countries. Mr Abdullah leaves Australia tomorrow.
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Right away sir, my PDA is synchronizing my "to do" list as we speak.
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we'll quit focusing on Islam and just narrow-cast for societies that "seethe", hokay? Whoops! Same results.... STFU and live with it. And get a real moustache
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Okay, once they stop the injustice, oppression *and* aggression inherent in Sharia Law; stop being unjust, oppressing, or being aggressive against people of other religions, and those with no religion; and make an effort to conform to the minimum social and cultural norms of other nations instead of just demanding that what *they* want be accommodated, SURE THING. The West, that is, civilization, has shown time and again that all it really wants is peaceful coexistence, mutual respect and free trade. It knows it can only have this with nations that are true democracies, and with people who embrace modernity and do not hate and fear freedom, science and technology.
Hassan's making a pretty bald-faced declaration that no damned democratic elections are going to have an effect on what Hezbollah does. There must have been a fresh shipment of money, guns, and lawyers from Teheran this week.
Hizbullah's leader slammed the opposition Friday saying they were avoiding any serious dialogue over Lebanon's future, concentrating only on disarming the resistance and ignoring Israel's increased violations of the country's territories.
That means they haven't given in to what Nasrallah and his Iranian puppet masters want. I consider that a good sign, even though he obviously doesn't...
Speaking during a funeral service at the Shahed Compound in Beirut's southern suburbs, Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said: "Just because we said dialogue does not exclude the arms, all opposition leaders forgot all other issues and concentrated on disarming Hizbullah as though the arms are the core of the Lebanese problem."
Perhaps they regard the arms as being the core of the Lebanese problem? The Lebanese problem, after all, boils down to the aftermath of a brutal civil war. Other groups have given up their arms, at least openly, and only Hezbollah retains them. What's that say about future prospects?
According to Nasrallah, the opposition's leaders have told the resistance group that dialogue and negotiations can wait until after the coming parliamentary elections. He said: "What would change after the elections? Are they expecting a 'decisive victory'? They are mistaken if they think any shift in the balance of power could get them what they want. This country does not work along the concept of winners and losers."
Somebody was commenting yesterday on Hezbollah's quaint Nazi-style salute. They use that because they're Nazis. Dictatorships don't work along the concept of winners and losers in elections; they work along the concept of Fearless Leader deciding and the myrmidons executing. If Joe Voter doesn't like it, they'll break his head.
Debate about disarming Hizbullah has resurfaced since Syria began withdrawing its troops from Lebanon in the wake of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Nasrallah said the opposition is merely stalling and described the dialogue between its members and loyalists this week as illusions aimed at deceiving the Lebanese people and giving them false hope.
"We prefer that they remain hopeless..."
In his accusations, he included all "moderate and immoderate" opposition leaders with whom he has met, saying they were sending "the wrong message as though stances and alliances are actually changing."
"And they're not. We're gonna make sure they don't."
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Nasrallah's gotta figure out a reason to keep Hezbollah armed and in control....maybe a setup bombing of Lahoude, blamed on the Joooos? Nahhh that was the Hariri plan.
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I suggest some external force do Lebanon a favor and kill this rat faced bastard.
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I'd suggest the Lebanese do themselves a favor and take responsibility for their own country. I'm sure osme external force would lend them what they need.
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By Rami G. Khouri
The question of Syria and its regional policies - on Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Palestine/Israel, terrorism, economic reform, weapons of mass destruction and others - has garnered considerably more attention among Middle East observers in the last six months than at any other time in recent years. Yet, observing, analyzing and understanding Syria and its policies is one of the more complex challenges of contemporary Middle Eastern politics, mainly because decision-making in Damascus takes place largely out of view of the public.
That's pretty much a characteristic of dictatorships, isn't it?
Consequently, there is much speculation about the intentions, motivations and plans of Syria's main players, and little certainty when it comes to future policies. This has been exacerbated by the intense international pressure on Damascus - formally through the UN Security Council, informally and bilaterally from the U.S., France and other Western powers - which seems to be spurring changes in Syrian policies. The withdrawal from Lebanon is the most immediate one, and others may follow.
It'll be interesting to see what they are...
In this paradoxical context of obvious changes taking place in Syria yet without much clarity about the direction of change or the line-up of the key domestic players, the thoughts of the special adviser to the Syrian president become particularly intriguing, especially when he speaks the language of change, transparency, reform, free markets and accountability.
... when these decisions are paradoxically being made in the Star Chamber.
This language has been heard before in Damascus, but was not always pursued or implemented in a sustained manner.
That's an indication of competing hardline and reformist elements. Keep an eye on the cemetaries to track who's winning this week...
It is back, with more clarity and precision, perhaps driven by the gravity of the challenge facing the government. Presidential adviser Nibras al-Fadel spends much of his time working on issues of economic and administrative reform in Syria. When we sat down for a long chat in Doha, Qatar last weekend during a meeting focused on promoting Arab economic competitiveness, his language and style reflected his experience: bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering, public administration and technology and policy, from ENA and the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and MIT in the U.S., and 20 years of consulting and management work in Europe and the U.S. "We are in a serious and dangerous context in the Middle East, and we should see the options before Syria as an opportunity. There is no change without discontinuity, and there is usually no discontinuity without an external factor. We learned this in physics class, and it applies to organizations, systems and countries alike," says Fadel.
You've got your external factors: People are looking at you and they're evaluating your usefulness. On top of that, your populace — "the masses," in Baathspeak — is communicating with the outside world and being communicated with in turn. If you repeat a lie often enough, people will come to accept it as the truth, until it bumps up against empical observation, at which time it becomes fertilizer.
"If we hope to ensure the well-being of Syria, especially its prosperity and stability, we have to achieve the elements needed for a sustainable competitive environment in today's world. Three in particular stand out. First is sound macro-economic management based on a free market regulated by a strong state, and integrated into the world economy where globalization is an opportunity and not a threat.
If the "macroeconomic management" include five year plans, fiddling with wages and prices and the other typically socialist stuff then you're going to continue having problems. I suspect, though, that what he's saying is that they're trying to figure how to jigger the Chinese model of capitalism under an intrusive state to fit it into Syria...
Second is good governance and democratic values, promoting human rights, dignity and freedom, and not pitting different religious, ethnic and other population groups against each other. The third is peace, which in our case is the relatively basic idea that some of our land is occupied and we want it back."
That'd be the Golan Heights. Negotiations work better than making faces and running terrorist networks. But it hasn't been the Syrian way to consider the relative value of loaves: half versus none, for instance.
He makes the point that achieving peace in the Middle East is not necessarily a prerequisite for reform.
That's a blinding statement of the obvious that's been either denied or danced around for years...
He also insists that "we should not make the mistake of going from one extreme to the other, suddenly ignoring the requirements of ending occupation, to speak only of reform."
But if you institute the reforms, the problem of the occupation might simply evaporate.
There's more at the link, if you're interested...
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Thousands lined Portland's Congress Street on Friday to cheer for the state's servicemen, its emergency workers and the NFL champion New England Patriots.
Billed as the city's biggest ticker-tape parade, the event featured hundreds of soldiers, sailors and other members of the military marching in front of an enthusiastic crowd, estimated at 30,000.
Onlookers bellowed excitedly as each contingent of soldiers paraded into view. The marchers were met by shredded paper, a multitude of small U.S. flags and signs that read: "Welcome Home Heroes" and "America Rocks!"
Soldiers said they were overwhelmed by the response, calling it a tremendous show of pride and support.
From the sidelines, Peter Smith was equally emotional.
"It kind of gives me chills," Smith said, shouting to be heard over the tumult.
Helicopters flew over the parade route, and a P-3 Orion from the Brunswick Naval Air Station seemed to skim the rooftops as it made a few loud passes over Congress Street.
Many in the crowd wore the red, white and blue jerseys of the New England Patriots. Some painted their faces to show the depth of their dedication, shouting themselves hoarse when three fire engines carrying members of the football team bearing the New England Patriots passed by in as the parade's finale.
Team owner Robert Kraft and six players, including All-Pro and captain Richard Seymour, joined in the parade to honor Maine's the nation's servicemen and women and to celebrate their recent Super Bowl victory.
"It was a great welcome home," said Sgt. Chris Boyce, dressed in the desert fatigues of the Maine Army National Guard's 133rd Engineer Battalion. "It couldn't be any better, having the Patriots here."
Chad, Africa's newest oil producer, has accused neighbour Sudan of seriously threatening its security. The allegations made on Friday were likely to sour bilateral relations, already weakened by a vicious war in Sudan's Darfur region, which borders eastern Chad. Chad's Defence Minister Emmanuel Nadingar said there is "a build up of politico-military forces in the El-Geneina zone. It's not a secret. Three thousand Chadians are organised, prepared and heavily kitted out by the Sudanese government to destabilise Chad." He added that security measures had been taken to protect Chadians while waiting for clarifications from Khartoum. El-Geneina is the capital of the West Darfur state near the border with Chad, an arid landlocked state twice the size of former colonial ruler France. The Darfur crisis has created political and economic problems for Chad, with the government coming under pressure from both sides of the conflict for support. Chad has also accused Sudanese militias of launching cross-border attacks.
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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.
TREE HUGGER FRIED ALIVE WHEN LIGHTNING STRIKES BIG OAK!
The Malaysian Prime Minister says Western countries must be prepared to discard their prejudices against Islam and be willing to engage in genuine dialogue with Muslim countries. Abdullah Badawi made the comments in Sydney tonight to a gathering of the Asia Society of Australia. Mr Abdullah says a number of Muslim countries are taking steps to overcome what he has called shortcomings and failures in the Muslim world. 
Chad, Africa's newest oil producer, has accused neighbour Sudan of seriously threatening its security. The allegations made on Friday were likely to sour bilateral relations, already weakened by a vicious war in Sudan's Darfur region, which borders eastern Chad. Chad's Defence Minister Emmanuel Nadingar said there is "a build up of politico-military forces in the El-Geneina zone. It's not a secret. Three thousand Chadians are organised, prepared and heavily kitted out by the Sudanese government to destabilise Chad." He added that security measures had been taken to protect Chadians while waiting for clarifications from Khartoum. El-Geneina is the capital of the West Darfur state near the border with Chad, an arid landlocked state twice the size of former colonial ruler France. The Darfur crisis has created political and economic problems for Chad, with the government coming under pressure from both sides of the conflict for support. Chad has also accused Sudanese militias of launching cross-border attacks.
