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Good morning.
Posted by: Fred || 05/23/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I love Lucy.
Posted by: gorb || 05/23/2008 1:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Loosee, you got some 'splainin' to do!
Posted by: Mike || 05/23/2008 6:33 Comments || Top||

#3  The first movie she appeared in was "Room Service" with the Marx Brothers.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 05/23/2008 8:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Not only a great-looking woman and a great actress, but a very smart woman who demanded and received respect in Hollywood. Gotta like that.
Posted by: Steve White || 05/23/2008 12:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Deacon, just a heads up. According to IMDB, "Room Service" was her 48th! film, but in all fairness most of the early films were uncredited. More importantly, nice gams.
Posted by: Total War || 05/23/2008 13:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Nice gams indeed. She started out as a dancer.
Posted by: lotp || 05/23/2008 13:12 Comments || Top||

#7  A pioneering businesswoman, too. She and Desi were the first to use three cameras to film their show and to own the product, enabling “I Love Lucy” to remain in syndication forever.

And anyone who doesn't shed a tear watching “Lucy is Enceinte” isn't human.
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 05/23/2008 18:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Total War, I didn't do any research but got my information from a book written by Grouch Marx. Aparantly he was misinformed.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 05/23/2008 18:59 Comments || Top||

#9  waggle your eyebrows when you say that
Posted by: Frank G || 05/23/2008 19:27 Comments || Top||


Britain
Muslim fanatics radicalised mentally ill convert into becoming a 'nail bomber'
It looks like they are using actual retards...
Anti-terrorist police are today examining the home of a Muslim convert who allegedly detonated a nail bomb in a family restaurant. Nicky Reilly, 22, who has a history of mental illness, suffered serious facial injuries after one of two devices exploded in the lavatories of the Giraffe eaterie in Exeter. He is currently under armed guard in hospital.
Nice pic at the link. That's quite a hole he put in his head.
The team of detectives from Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command are also trying to establish if he had been radicalised.
Think he's been "radicalised", Muldoon?
Well, setting off a nail bomb is one of those telltale signs they told us to look for in cop school, sarge.

Devon and Cornwall Deputy Chief Constable Tony Melville said Reilly appeared to be a "vulnerable" individual who had been "preyed upon" and "radicalised". He said: "Our investigations so far indicate that Reilly, who has a history of mental illness, had adopted the Islamic faith.
A match made in heaven.
"We believe that he was preyed upon, radicalised and taken advantage of."
So, what? You cut him loose?
Reilly was arrested by police at the scene of the explosion. He suffered lacerations to his eye and some facial burning after one device exploded. Another device found in the vicinity of the restaurant did not explode. None of the customers or 15 staff at the restaurant was hurt.

The Plymouth first-floor flat Reilly shares with his mother is currently being searched by police officers. It was from here that he'd travelled by bus to Exeter. Scott Allen, who lives in the flat below, said Reilly could have come into contact with groups of what he believed were Muslims who gathered in the area. Mr Allen, who said he'd grown up with Reilly, said there was sympathy in the local community for the 22-year-old and added: "I would say they picked on him because of his vulnerability. "He had always been a follower and had always wanted friends."

Mr Allen added Reilly, who is about 6ft 3in and weighs around 14 stone, had become more reclusive over the years."When he did go out he would not speak to anyone," said Mr Allen, who added that his neighbour used to collect James Bond model cars and played games on his computer. Another neighbour, 17-year-old Aly Turner, said he understood Reilly was "into" the Muslim faith, but did not talk about it to him.He did not talk to many people," he added. He went on: "He was a bit of a recluse, he did not have many friends locally."
He was a...quiet boy.
Police and bomb disposal teams were called in yesterday after diners at the Giraffe restaurant in Exeter city centre heard three blasts go off in a toilet as they were having lunch. Two explosive devices were made safe and have been sent off for forensic examination.

Deputy chief constable Melville said: "Witnesses described how a male entered a toilet in the restaurant shortly before an explosion was heard." Officers had to break down the cubicle door because the man refused to come out, witnesses said. When he emerged, wearing jeans and a dark t-shirt, blood was running down his face and all over his clothes.
So...who are your new playmates, Nicky?
Posted by: tu3031 || 05/23/2008 10:20 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Global Jihad

#1  Islam is a mental illness.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/23/2008 11:30 Comments || Top||

#2  This incident is much bigger than an isolated act.

No one was critically hurt but because a mentally retarded English Kid [in England!] was brain-washed to do this heinous ACT it exposes once again the evil underbelly of Islam.

Is Islam incompatable with the West?
Posted by: RD || 05/23/2008 11:32 Comments || Top||

#3  addendum:
Long Shot: Could be that the Kid, all on his own, dreamt up the entire thang for acceptance into the group...etc. /not likely tho.. IMO

As we've seen in past events, Islamic groups have exploited anyone who would opt to be a SplodyDope.

How sophisticated these other "bombs" are will also be a clue.
Posted by: RD || 05/23/2008 12:13 Comments || Top||

#4  I suspect more than a few muzzie boys down at Nicky's local mosque regret that Nicky survivied the work accident. From reports I've read Nicky's mother isn't a big fan of Nicky's co-religionists.
Maybe mum will convince Nicky to cooperate with the authorities. Watch to see if Nicky gets a public defender appointed to him or if the mosque takes up a collection to provide him with retained counsel.
Posted by: MarkZ || 05/23/2008 13:32 Comments || Top||

#5  The mentally ill recruiting the mentally ill. What is there some kind of handshake or something. As the saying goes, it takes one to spot one.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/23/2008 14:55 Comments || Top||

#6  So, the only person hurt was himself.
Should cut down on recruiting somewhat.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 05/23/2008 15:14 Comments || Top||

#7  This is pathetically low.

You'd almost think they worked for Hartford.
Posted by: Icerigger || 05/23/2008 16:49 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Official kidnapped in Mohmand
Unknown men kidnapped an official of the Mohmand political administration, Geo News reported on Thursday. The official, whose name was not disclosed, was abducted by armed men in the Ghazi area of Haleem Zai tehsil of the agency.
Posted by: Fred || 05/23/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Rocket planted to target Cadet College defused
Police on Thursday defused a rocket planted by unknown militants targeting the Cadet College of Mastung, officials said. According to reports, Mastung DSP Abdul Haq, along with a police team rushed to Killi Tul Darey Khan, one kilometre from the college, where unknown militants had planted a rocket aimed at the college. They defused the rocket, which was attached to a detonating device. Academic activities were at their peak at the college during the incident where 500 students and large numbers of staff were present.
Posted by: Fred || 05/23/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


TV journalist slain in Bajaur
A journalist from a private TV channel was gunned down in the Bajaur tribal region on Thursday moments after he interviewed Taliban spokesman Maulvi Umar, his colleagues said. Muhammad Ibrahim, a correspondent for Express News in Khar, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen, the channel’s Peshawar bureau chief Jamshed Baghwan told Daily Times.
Posted by: Fred || 05/23/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  He said Ibrahim, in his 40s, was returning after interviewing the Taliban spokesman when masked gunmen stopped him near Inayat Kalay, 15 kilometres from Khar. “He was shot dead on the spot while attackers took away his video camera and motorcycle,”

If he was interviewing the Taliban, one wouldn't ordinarily think they would "off" him. If not the Taliban, who? Common garden variety thugs?
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/23/2008 10:54 Comments || Top||

#2  This needs to happen more often, the Taliban needs to have any and all Favorable media outlets cut off.

One down thousands to go, war is dangerous.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 05/23/2008 15:17 Comments || Top||


Two militants arrested in Pulwama
Two militants were arrested by the security forces in separate incidents in Pulwama district on Thursday.

Bilal Ahmad Chopan of Jaish-e-Mohammad was arrested by a joint search team of police, the CRPF and Rashtriya Rifles at Panzoo village in Tral area of the district, a police spokesman said.

The arrest of Chopan of Ganishpora village in Pahalgam comes barely six days after the security forces gunned down six hardcore militants of the outfit in the Tral belt. Three hand-grenades and an AK magazine with six rounds of ammunition were recovered from him, the spokesman said.
Posted by: Fred || 05/23/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jaish-e-Mohammad


Front Page 'HuJI militant was sent to trigger blasts in Delhi'

Rehman (second from right), suspected militant of the Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami (Huji), who was arrested by the Special Branch of the Delhi police on Wednesday. At his instance, the police recovered 3.1 kg of RDX on Thursday.
Abdur Rehman, the alleged Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami (HuJI) militant who was arrested outside the New Delhi railway station on Wednesday, planned to carry out explosions at markets and crowded places in the Capital, according to the Special Cell of the Delhi Police.

Rehman, at whose instance the Special Cell seized 3.1 kg RDX, five detonators and a timer device from Janakpuri in West Delhi in the early hours of Thursday, is also suspected to be involved in the Varanasi blasts in March 2006.

At a press conference here on Thursday, Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Karnal Singh said Rehman’s name had cropped up during interrogation of alleged HuJI militants Jalalluddin alias Babu Bhai and Naushad, who were arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force with an RDX consignment and an AK series assault rifle last June.

The Special Cell, which suspected Rehman’s involvement in the Samjhauta Express blast in February 2007, had traced his residence to Shamli in Muzaffarnagar, but he escaped to Bangladesh. Acting on a tip-off by the Central Intelligence that he would reach Delhi on a train from Howrah after crossing the India-Bangladesh border, the police arrested him on Chelmsford Road around 8.30 p.m. on Wednesday.

Rehman purportedly disclosed that he had hidden a consignment of RDX near a ‘madrasa’ in D-Block of Janakpuri. He told the interrogators that Qamar alias Nata, the Bangladesh-based HuJI commander, had sent him to Delhi to hand over the explosives to a module that was to carry out blasts here.

Mr. Singh said Rehman was initiated into terrorism after he came in contact with Babu Bhai in 2002. The same year, Babu Bhai and Rehman went to Bangladesh and then to Pakistan using forged Bangladeshi passports. In Pakistan, Rehman allegedly underwent a three-month specialised training in manufacturing improvised explosive devices and handling of weapons.

Rehman then returned to India via Bangladesh and on Nata’s directions, started motivating young men from different parts of U.P. to join the outfit. He had allegedly sent Naushad, a resident of Bijnaur, to Pakistan for training. Rehman remained underground all the while working as a maulana in different mosques of western U.P., said Mr. Singh.

According to Mr. Singh, in mid-2005, Nata directed Rehman to shift base to Delhi and he started working as a maulana in a mosque at Dabri in south-west Delhi and arranged hideouts for the HuJI terrorists. During this period, Nata and Babu Bhai visited him several times to discuss safe transportation and storage of explosives and also plan out terrorist strikes. In January-February 2007, Babu Bhai handed over 10 kg of RDX to a HuJI militant Rocky alias Guru, from which 3.1 kg of the high explosive was given to Rehman, Mr. Singh said.

After Babu Bhai and Naushad were arrested, the plan to carry out blasts in Delhi was postponed and Rehman buried the RDX in Janakpuri and fled to U.P. where he kept changing his hideout. Nata then directed him to receive a militant named Shabbir Ahmad, but Shabbir was arrested by the Special Cell last July at Chandni Chowk here.

To evade arrest, Rehman sneaked into Bangladesh last October where he stayed with Nata at Rajshahi and allegedly took training in the assembling of timers using watches along with two other militants. “We are trying to identify the other two,” said Mr. Singh. Incidentally, watches were used as a timer device in the Jaipur blasts.

A Jaipur police team is expected to join the interrogation soon.
Posted by: Fred || 05/23/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: HUJI

#1  You on the right, yes you in the blue checkerd shirt, FIRE.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 05/23/2008 15:34 Comments || Top||


Iraq
AQI Moneybags Poobah captured by Iraqi Security Forces
Iraqi security forces detain al-Qaida leader north of Baghdad

TIKRIT, Iraq, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi security forces have detained a senior al-Qaida leader during an overnight raid in Salahudin province, a provincial security source said on Friday.

The detention operation began late on Thursday when provincial security forces raided the Cars Market area in the northern provincial capital of Tikrit, 170 km north of Baghdad, and detained Abu Ahmed, a leader of al-Qaida Iraq's network in the province, Major Ahmed al-Fahal, from the provincial police of Salahudin told Xinhua.

Fahal clarified that the detainee is a financier of al-Qaida organization in Iraq's northern provinces of Salahudin, Kirkuk, and Nineveh, and he led several attacks against the Iraqi security forces in Salahudin.

On Monday, Iraqi security forces captured Abdul Khaliq Awad al-Sab'awi, leader of al-Qaida military operations in the northern Nineveh province, during an operation carried out at the al-Qadsiyah neighborhood in the city of Tikrit. The latest detention in Tikrit came as the U.S. and Iraqi security forces are conducting a major offensive in the northern province of Nineveh to uproot al-Qaida militants from their latest strongholds in Iraq.
This article starring:
Abdul Khaliq Awad al-Sab'awi
Abu Ahmed
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 05/23/2008 07:07 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq

#1  Intelligence seems to be improving all the time in Iraq. It is hard to buy weapons and ammo without dinero.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/23/2008 10:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Man...and just before a three day weekend, too.
Posted by: Kelly || 05/23/2008 18:04 Comments || Top||


Iraqi troops move deeper into Sadr City
Iraqi troops backed by tanks tightened their grip on Baghdad's Shiite stronghold of Sadr City on Thursday after a truce ended weeks of deadly street fighting between US troops and militiamen. Thousands of soldiers in tanks, armored cars and trucks moved deep into the impoverished district in northeastern Baghdad, witnesses said.

Convoys of Soviet-era tanks and armored cars were seen rumbling along dusty and crowded streets and moving into narrow alleyways, meeting no resistance from the anti-American Mehdi Army militia which had controlled the area.

Children were seen offering water to soldiers in the scorching summer heat.

There were similar scenes on Tuesday when troops made their initial foray into Sadr City which had been off limits to them for two months while US troops battled supporters of the Mehdi Army, lead by cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The Sadrists welcomed the deployment of the Iraqi troops in line with the truce but said they do not want any US troops in Sadr City.

Maliki on Thursday met Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the most revered Shiite cleric in the country in the central shrine city of Najaf, the government said. "When politicians come to see Sayyed Sistani, he always recommends that the state should impose its authority and that arms should only be in the hands of the authorities to defend the downtrodden," said the premier, who is also a Shiite.

The elderly and fragile Sistani shuns the limelight, never speaks with the press and rarely makes public appearances. As is customary, there was no comment from his office on the premier's visit.
Posted by: Fred || 05/23/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Mahdi Army

#1  BZ Iraqi Army!
Posted by: OldSpook || 05/23/2008 19:45 Comments || Top||


U.S. airstrike kills 8 Iraqi civilians: police
BAIJI, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi police said on Thursday a U.S. helicopter airstrike killed eight civilians, including two children, but U.S. forces said the six adults killed were militants suspected of links to a bombing network. An Iraqi television station accused U.S. troops of shooting dead one of its cameramen as he walked to his Baghdad home. The U.S. military denied it had killed any civilians in the area. The body of a second journalist, a reporter for al-Sharq newspaper, was found dumped in a field with nine other corpses in Diyala province, police and colleagues said.

Colonel Mudhher al-Qaisi, police chief in the town of Baiji, north of the capital, said a U.S. helicopter fired at a group of shepherds in a vehicle in a farming area on Wednesday night. "This is a criminal act. It will make the relations between Iraqi citizens and the U.S. forces tense. This will negatively affect security improvements," Qaisi told Reuters.
Posted by: Fred || 05/23/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1  Locals claim that the Easter Bunny was also killed in the attack.
Posted by: Iblis || 05/23/2008 1:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Must've been Take Your Kids to Work Day...
Posted by: tu3031 || 05/23/2008 13:28 Comments || Top||


Iraq: 29 Al-Qaeda gunnies nabbed near Baquba
(AKI) - Joint US-Iraqi forces on Thursday arrested 29 al-Qaeda gunmen in a military operation south of Baquba, police said.

According to the news agency Voices of Iraq, the operation was targeting members of the Islamic State of Iraq. "Police forces, backed by US troops, waged a security raid targeting al-Qaeda hideouts in al-Jabal al-Saaed mountain in Bahraz district, south of Baquba, detaining 29 al-Qaeda gunmen, including seven leaders of what is called the Islamic State of Iraq," General Ghanem al-Qureshi told Voices of Iraq.

Baquba, the capital of Diyala, is located 60 kilometres northeast of Baghdad.

This article starring:
Islamic State of Iraq
General Ghanem al-Qureshi
Posted by: Fred || 05/23/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq

#1  Did they put up a fight or have Coalition forces learned that they are at their most vulnerable when their eyes are squeezed shut and their toes are curled up during their 10-minute long "goat break"?
Posted by: gorb || 05/23/2008 15:50 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Thai terrorist killed during raid, two others arrested
One suspected Islamist terrorist rebel has been killed and two other were arrested after a morning raid by the security forces in a village of the conflict-ridden province of Narathiwat in Thailand's Muslim majority south. Some 70 police officers and soldiers raided Dalae village early on Friday after a tip-off that a group of terrorists insurgents were hiding there, local media reported. The ten-minute gun battle that followed left also three soldiers injured.
Posted by: ryuge || 05/23/2008 08:37 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Five Thai police and military personnel wounded in multiple attacks
Five police officers and soldiers were wounded in several terrorist insurgent attacks in Pattani and Yala, with one attacker killed and two others wounded. A remote-controlled bomb was detonated at a rest area along a road in Pattani's Khok Pho district. The bomb blast wounded 1st Lt. Panyawut Yusri, who was rushed to hospital.

In Yala, police exchanged gunfire with at least four assailants in Bannang Sata district. Three police officers were wounded and hospitalised, while one attacker was killed and two others suffered minor injuries. They were detained for questioning at the police station. In Krongpinang district, a teacher protection unit consisting of police, soldiers, and local volunteers was ambushed as it was on patrol. They exchanged gunfire with attackers, who later retreated. One soldier was wounded.
Posted by: ryuge || 05/23/2008 08:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Sri Lanka
Fighting in north kills 20 rebels, 2 soldiers
Another day, another dozen or so rebels iced.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Scattered battles across Sri Lanka's volatile northern region killed 20 ethnic Tamil rebels and two government soldiers, the military said Thursday.

A defense ministry official said the latest battles erupted Wednesday along the front lines of the island's civil war, with the worst fighting in the Welioya region where soldiers killed 17 rebels. The official said three soldiers were wounded in that fighting. Other clashes Wednesday in the Mannar and Vavuniya regions bordering the rebels' de facto state in the north killed three guerrillas and two soldiers, he said.

Rebel spokesman Rasiah Ilanthirayan was not immediately available for comment.

Government forces have for the past several months tried to break into the rebels' well-guarded northern strongholds from four main fronts, promising to crush the insurgents and dismantle their de facto administration by the end of the year. But military analysts have said the military's progress has been slower than expected and the rebels retain much of their capacity to resist.
Posted by: Steve White || 05/23/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There must be a lot of "military analyst's" out there and they seem to know everything. Just ask them... /s
Posted by: tipover || 05/23/2008 17:26 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Berri summons MPs to presidential election on Sunday
Speaker Nabih Berri on Thursday scheduled a Parliament session to elect the commander of Lebanese Armed Forces General Michel Suleiman as president at 5 p.m. on Sunday, as key Arab and international figures prepared to head to Beirut to attend the session. Among the figures expected to attend are Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, Arab League chief Amr Moussa, European Union Foreign Policy Commissioner Javier Solana and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.

UN Chief Ban Ki-moon and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice were also among the expected guests, according to local media reports.

Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) leader MP Michel Aoun contacted Suleiman on Monday to congratulate him ahead of Sunday's session. "I entrust you with this delicate responsibility," Aoun reportedly told Suleiman, whose election would end a six-month presidential vacuum, making the army commander Lebanon's 12th president.

In remarks to the Kuwaiti daily Al-Qabas, Suleiman said that "the Lebanese have finally chosen the path of life."

Suleiman thanked Qatar and the Arab League for their efforts to end the Lebanese crisis. Under Qatari and Arab League auspices, rival Lebanese leaders clinched a deal on Wednesday in Doha to end the political feud that had blocked a presidential election and had exploded into deadly clashes earlier this month.
Posted by: Fred || 05/23/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Nabih Berry of Amal, and Nasrullah of Hezzbolah dangled the political plumb of the Presidency in front of the Lebanese Army Commander so as to keep the Lebanese Army neutral during the war of shiite aggression last week in Lebanon.
Posted by: Punky Elmineling4042 || 05/23/2008 8:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Suleiman was offered the position long before this latest coup attempt. He's also been on good terms with Hesb'allah for a long time.
Posted by: Pappy || 05/23/2008 9:17 Comments || Top||

#3  A truly professional soldier...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/23/2008 22:19 Comments || Top||



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  AQI Moneybags Poobah captured by Iraqi Security Forces
Thu 2008-05-22
  Hezbollah Wins Veto After Talks End Lebanon Stalemate
Wed 2008-05-21
  Egyptian official: Israel has accepted Gaza cease-fire
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  Commander Says al-Qaida ''Virtually Destroyed'' in Kirkuk
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