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Long story behind that, after WW2 rxperiments proved the German helmet provided superior neck Cover, but it was'nt possible to use the NAZI helmet without a huge backlash, so we (USA) waited until time dimmed memories to use the suprior helmet style.
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I haven't tried any of the newer helmet designs but I suspect that in addition to the better protection that they have a better Center of Gravity and retention systems. The old steel pot was pretty "tippy" when trying to run.
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The inside has velco backed small pads that can be moved around to make it comfortable. Once the chin strap which is connected to the strap around the back of your neck is set, you can nod, get in a prone position and run and the helmet pretty much doesn't move or bounce up and down on your head noticeably. Plus, they feel lighter. Still didn't stop me from developing arthritis in 3 neck vertabrae though, mainly because 8 pounds on your head is eight pounds too many, but its better than the alternatives:-0
[ADN Kronos] Taliban militants in Afghanistan on Monday were reported to have launched attacks on government buildings south of the capital Kabul, killing at least one police officer. It was five police officers in another story...
In a third story (which I just made up) it was seventeen policemen... and they didn't use rockets, they killed them with their teeth!
The militants reportedly fired four rocket propelled grenades
Did they use one of those multiple launcher thingies the Russians used in World War II, or did they stand in the middle of the street shooting from the hip like Rambo?
at the governor's compound and local police headquarters in the city of Pul-i-Alam, capital of Logar province, about 60 kilometres south of the capital, the governor's spokesman Din Mohammad Darwesh said. A spokeswoman for US and NATO-led troops in the capital, said they were investigating reports of a Taliban assault in Logar.
Monday's reported attack resembled the brazen assaults on the eastern cities of Khost and Gardez last month, when suicide bombers, some dressed in women's burkhas, and gunmen attacked government buildings.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid was reported as saying six suicide bombers had entered Pul-i-Alam. Attackers inside the buildings were reported to have been surrounded by Afghan soldiers and police.
That worked well. Not how the jacket wallahs intended, but well nonetheless.
Taliban militants have vowed to derail the presidential elections on 20 August and have stepped up their attacks.
Do they realize this will be another win like Al Qaeda in Iraq, if the elections go off more or less as planned? Nobody mentions AQI anymore, when once that was the battlefield that would establish AQ's Caliphate...
Four civilians including a child were injured on Monday when a roadside bomb struck a police van in Khost, in eastern Afghanistan. The injured were taken to hospital and one was reported to be in a critical condition, local officials said.
Six Taliban fighters planting roadside bombs were killed by their own explosives in the restive neighbouring southern province of Zabul, an official cited by Afghanistan's Pajhwok news agency said on Monday. Nawbahar district chief Mullah Zarif said the Taliban's commander in the district, Mullah Muhammad Naeem, was killed along with two associates in the explosion. Another three guerrillas perished in a similar incident that occurred in Makhan locality of the same district, Zarif added, without giving further details.
A suicide truck bomber died on Monday when he detonated his explosives close to a NATO patrol in the centre of Kunduz, capital of northern Kunduz province, said local police chief Abdul Razaq Yaqoubi. The suicide bomber was the only victim of the attack, Yaqoubi said.
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[Quqnoos] A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of NATO-led forces in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz on Monday, officials said.
The north is supposed to be the safer area.
There were no casualties on the troops, said an Afghan Army official, Major Abdul Wakil Ehsas, while monitoring the blast scene, 4 km south of the provincial capital.
Are the Taliban as laughable as Al Qaeda in Iraq yet?
More so -- Hekmatyar can't throw a grenade ...
"A suicide bomber driving explosive-laden car blew it up close to the ISAF forces in Sedarak area at 7:25am and partially damaged an armored vehicle," Major Ehsas told Quqnoos.
Apparently not close enough ...
OMG!!!!!!!! Partially damaged an armored vehicle? With a VBIED? Utterly pathetic. Perhaps if their master bomb makers didn't keep finding themselves at the wrong end of hellfire missiles, and their drivers were true believers instead of madrassah boys just discovering what graduation means, we kufrs wouldn't find ourselves once again laughing at Taliban ineptness.
Troops from Germany and Belgium are making the majority of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stationed in the relatively peaceful northern Afghan province. A purported Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the bomber has killed around 10 foreign soldiers.
"Our boy done good!"
Afghan government officials and ISAF forces dismissed the claim.
Trying very hard not to snicker openly as they spoke.
This is the second time over the past two days that ISAF forces came under attack in Kunduz province. Militants also opened fire on German troops in Kunduz province on Sunday but caused no loss of life or damage.
Truly pathetic. Dear Reader, let this be a lesson to you to get a well-rounded education from a reputable institution. Firmly eschew the nearby madrassah, even should they offer a full scholarship.
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[ADN Kronos] The Italian government has welcomed the release of 10 Italian hostages freed by Somali pirates at the weekend. The Italians were among 16 European hostages - five Romanians and one Croatian - released by the pirates on Sunday.
The pirates seized their cargo ship, the Buccaneer, in the Gulf of Aden on 11 April.
Italian foreign minister, Franco Frattini, said that Italian troops had taken no action to release the hostages and no ransom had been paid.
If the troops didn't do anything, then for sure a ransom was paid ...
In a statement, Frattini said he was pleased to see the hostages released and thanked those in Italy and Somali who were involved in a lengthy process to negotiate their freedom.
There has been a dramatic increase in the incidence of piracy in the Gulf of Aden since the beginning of 2008. This increasing incidence of piracy has added to an increase in shipping costs and hindered the delivery of food aid shipments to the struggling Horn of Africa.
Ninety percent of the World Food Programme's shipments arrive by sea, and ships are now required to have a military escort.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab is forcibly removing gold and silver teeth from residents in southern Somalia because it says they contravene strict religious law, locals from a coastal town said on Monday.
Residents in Marka say al-Shabaab has been rounding up anyone seen with a silver or gold tooth and taking them to a masked man who then rips them out using basic tools. "I never thought al-Shabaab would see my denture as a sin. They took me to their station and removed my silver tooth," resident Bashir told Reuters. "In the station, I met several men and women whose dentures were being pulled out by a masked man they called a doctor. The doctor used a pincer or his gloved hand depending on the strength of the tooth," Bashir said.
"As you smile your silver tooth accuses you. I was at a counter with my friend when three armed al-Shabaab ordered me to follow them," he added. "I am afraid they want to make money from taking all this precious metal."
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Two Yemenis jailed in the United States over terrorism charges received a hero's tumultuous public welcome on their return home Tuesday after serving more than six years in prison. Several ministers, tribal chiefs and hundreds of supporters welcomed Sheik Mohammed Ali Hasan Al-Moayad and his assistant at San'a airport brandishing his picture, Yemeni flags and banners saying it was Death to Infidels "freedom's day."
The two were arrested in 2003 and convicted of supporting terrorist groups such as Al-Qaida. Al-Moayad was sentenced to 75 years in prison and Mohammed Zayed received 45 years, but on Friday, they pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of supporting the Palestinian militant group Hamas and given six years time served. Were they serving their sentence in California?
Bodyguards of the tribal chiefs, brandishing Kalashnikov rifles, forced their way into the main airport hall defying security and police orders to welcome the returning men. Weapons in airports. It's somehow very islamic.
Al-Moayad, 60, a well-known cleric and high-ranking member of the Islah opposition party and Zayed changed out of their prison uniforms into man dresses local Yemeni garb.
Tens of thousands of supporters lined both sides of the road outside the airport as Al-Moayad's motorcade made its way to the hospital for a routine checkup.
The sheik was reported to have been suffering from liver disease and other illnesses. Then they should have been sent to Bangladesh.
Sheik Abdel-Majid al-Zindani, who has been described as Osama bin Laden's spiritual mentor, was among those welcoming Al-Moayad at the airport. The U.S. has called al-Zindani "a specially designated global terrorist" and his al-Imam University in San'a is said to finance al-Qaida and recruit fighters. Two more returning veterans recruits courtesy of Barack Obama.
Al-Moayad is expected to be received by President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who had worked with U.S. administration to release him.
"U.S. President George Bush's administration has turned Al-Moayad into a national hero," Mansour Ali, a writer and researcher, told The Associated Press at the airport. Because Yemenese is on the other side.
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Kuwaiti authorities said Tuesday they have arrested an al-Qaida-linked group allegedly planning to attack a U.S. military base in the small oil-rich state.
The Interior Ministry said in a brief statement that State Security has detained a "terrorist network" of six Kuwaitis who gave "detailed confessions" about plans to attack Camp Arifjan, the main U.S. base in the country, as well as the headquarters of the country's security agency, in addition to other facilities it did not name.
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A good article, ed. Y'all go read the whole thing. Slightly more here:
Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television said the attack was planned to be carried out during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which starts on around August 20.
And for those of us not connected to the American military:
Arifjan base lies south of the Kuwaiti capital close to the Saudi border.
[Bangla Daily Star] Three suspected operatives of outlawed Biplobi Communist Party were brutally killed by their rivals in Kushtia. The severed heads of Ayub Ali, 35, of Boritupi, Joad Ali, 27, of Bangshitola under sadar upazila, and Abdul Kaiyum, 45, of Bhabanipur in Kumarkhali upazila were found in front of the Kushtia Roads and Highways Department office yesterday at 8:45am.
Later, villagers of Sonaidangi in sadar upazila, 20 kilometres from the town, found three bodies and informed police. Police rushed to the spot and recovered the bodies at about 1:30pm.
Police claimed that outlawed Gono Bahini had committed the crime to ensure their supremacy over other outfits and the contractors of RHD. Superintendent of Police of Kushtia Shahabuddin Khan said it is a popular way to show their power to realise extortion from the contractors. The same Gono Bahini chopped off a contractor's head in June 7, 1997 and killed two members of outlawed Gono Mukti Fouz on June 16.
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Good title. I had to come see where commies' heads are getting chopped off!
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The head of a Chechen aid group and her husband have been found shot dead in the trunk of their car a day after being kidnapped, police and an official of the Russian human rights group Memorial said Tuesday.
Memorial's Alexander Cherkasov told The Associated Press that the bodies of Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband were found in a suburb of the Chechen capital, Grozny. A Chechen Interior Ministry spokesman said the bodies had gunshot wounds to the head and chest.
The pair were taken from the office of Sadulayeva's group, Save the Generation, on Monday.
The abductions followed last month's kidnapping and killing of another prominent rights activist, Nataliya Estemirova. Rights activists blame the forces of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov for abductions, killings and torture.
Cherkasov said Sadulayeva's group was helping children in Chechnya, a region that has been devastated by two separatist wars over the last 15 years.
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[ADN Kronos] A Tunisian terrorist Karray Kamel bin Ali, known as Abu Hamza, who was arrested by Bosnian police on Friday night, will be deported when he completes his jail term, local media reported on Monday.
Hamza, 43, has been serving a four year jail term for assault in central Bosnian city of Zenica. He was previously convicted for terrorist activities in Tunisia. He was granted a one week leave in July, but failed to return to prison on 27 July.
Bosnian police and Interpol issued a warrant for his arrest and he was apprehended by police on Friday.
Sarajevo daily Dnevni avaz quoted officials as saying he would be deported from the country after serving the rest of his term. "It's very unlikely that he will be granted any more leave before serving his term," director of Zenica jail Nihad Spahic was quoted as saying.
Brilliant decision, Legume! How do you do it?
The police said Hamza was aided by his common law wife and three Bosnian men, who were arrested.
No leave for them until their sentences are completed, one hopes.
Hamza was among thousands of mujahadeen who came from Islamic countries to fight with local Muslims during Bosnia's 1992-1995 civil war. Many have remained in the country, married local women and obtained Bosnian citizenship.
Bosnian authorities have revoked the citizenship of several hundred people, after reports that some former mujahadeen were indoctrinating young people with radical Islam and even operating terrorist training camps.
Dnevni avaz said Hamza would be deported to his home country when his jail term ends next year.
Hamza was sentenced to 12 years in prison in Tunisia for terrorist activities and has already served a seven-year sentence in Bosnia for murder and racketeering.
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Pakistan has refused to claim the bodies of nine attackers of 26/11 which have been lying in a mortuary in Mumbai for over eight months. Eeeeewwwww!
India had asked Pakistan to take the bodies of the nine terrorists, all Pakistani nationals, who were killed during gunfight with security personnel, sources said here today.
Pakistan, however, has not owned them up, delaying their burial, the sources said.
And they won't own up, for important reasons under international law ...
Authorities in Mumbai want to dispose off the bodies as preserving them is a major problem and delay could lead to their decomposition.
Mumbai police has written three letters to the Union Home Ministry, saying that the bodies should be handed over to Pakistan at the earliest.
Addresses of at least four of the deceased are known on the basis of account given by Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist captured during the attacks, according to Mumbai police. Kasab had given correct addresses of Abu Ismail, who accompanied him at the attack on CST railway station and Abu Aksha and Abu Umar, who carried out attacks at Nariman House and Bada Abdul Rehman, killed at the Taj Mahal hotel.
The other deceased terrorists are Abu Ali, Chhota Abdul Rehman, Afadulla, Syed Abu Umer.
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Dump them at the border, leave.
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If Pakistan won't take them, and the Muslim cemeteries in India won't take them (as I assume they won't), choose one of the following: lay them out for the buzzards on the Line of Control, bury them at sea, bury them in a Potters Field (unhallowed ground), or burn them. The bodies are like evidence no longer needed after a conviction, and there's no reason for India to expend funds to preserve them ad infinitum.
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While you all might have meant it in jest, India's best response would be to bury them in a non-Muslim cemetery with a Hindu ritual, and make a show of it. That would put the Pakistani government on the spot, as its radicals would freak out.
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I second Scooter's motion.
Better yet, why not wrap them in pigskin and bury them any old place.
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Ummm, pigskin is valuable, used for soft leather, the skin costs more than these murderers are worth.
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Fine, Jim. Wrap them in pig's entrails then.
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While you all might have meant it in jest, India's best response would be to bury them in a non-Muslim cemetery with a Hindu ritual, and make a show of it.
Tuesday's attack took place near the small mountain town of Kanniguram in South Waziristan, a stronghold of Mehsud, who is branded by Washington a key Al-Qaeda facilitator in Pakistan with a five-million-dollar bounty on his head.
"Two missiles were fired by a US drone. It was a militant compound," a Pakistani government official told AFP on condition of anonymity. Another Pakistani military official told AFP: "At least 10 Taliban militants were killed in the attack. It was a drone attack."
Kanniguram is seven kilometres (four miles) south of Laddah, the village where a suspected US drone fired two missiles into the house of Mehsud's father-in-law last Wednesday.
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Let us know when they start zapping them in Lahore and Karachi.
WASHINGTON: Pakistan's nuclear facilities have already been attacked at least thrice by its home-grown extremists and terrorists in little reported incidents over the last two years, even as the world remains divided over the safety and security of the nuclear weapons in the troubled country, according to western analysts.
The incidents, tracked by Shaun Gregory, a professor at Bradford University in UK, include an attack on the nuclear missile storage facility at Sargodha on November 1, 2007, an attack on Pakistan's nuclear airbase at Kamra by a suicide bomber on December 10, 2007, and perhaps most significantly the August 20, 2008 attack when Pakistani Taliban suicide bombers blew up several entry points to one of the armament complexes at the Wah cantonment, considered one of Pakistan's main nuclear weapons assembly.
These attacks have occurred even as Pakistan has taken several steps to secure and fortify its nuclear weapons against potential attacks, particularly by the United States and India, says Gregory. In fact, the attacks have received so little attention that Peter Bergen, the eminent terrorism expert who reviewed Gregory's paper first published in West Point's Counter Terrorism Center Sentinel, said "he (Gregory) points out something that was news to me (and shouldn't have been) which is that a series of attacks on Pakistan's nuclear weapons facilities have already happened."
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"Pakistan insists that its nuclear weapons are fully secured and there is no chance of them falling into the hands of the extremists or terrorists"
"other than the official ones, of course"
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and d) deception and secrecy
Heh heh. I'll bet they attacked a frozen yogurt stand.
Indian authorities have detained a North Korean vessel and are searching it for radioactive material, the first time a ship has been seized and boarded under sanctions adopted by the United Nations Security Council in June.
The cargo ship, M V San, was spotted Friday, officials said, and detained under the authority of the United Nations resolution passed after North Korea tested a nuclear device in May.
The ship anchored without authorization in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a territory of India in the Bay of Bengal, last week, according to the Indian military.
Indian officials said it was carrying more than 16,000 tons of sugar bound for the Middle East. But the ships proximity to Myanmar, a North Korean ally, and the fact that it had no apparent reason to be in the area raised suspicions.
The coast guard intercepted the ship after chasing it for six hours, and detained 39 North Korean crew members.
After two days of searching and of questioning the crew, Indias Navy and Coast Guard handed the ship over to police and intelligence services, having found no evidence of illegal cargo, according to the Press Trust of India.
Ashok Chand, a senior police officer in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, told Reuters that further tests were being conducted.
But it remains a mystery why the ship was in Indian waters at all.
India has watched warily for signs that North Korea is helping Myanmar build a nuclear reactor.
Adm. Sureesh Mehta of the Indian Navy told reporters in Delhi over the weekend that the ship had no business to be there.
The Security Council resolution, intended to punish North Korea for its nuclear test, forbids North Korea to traffic in a wide range of nuclear and conventional weaponry and calls on United Nations members to search North Korean ships, with the crews consent, if there are reasonable grounds to suspect that banned cargo is aboard.
The United States Navy tracked a North Korean freighter suspected of carrying banned cargo for about three weeks in June and July. As an American destroyer shadowed the ship, North Korea said it would consider its interception an act of war.
The ship, believed to be heading to Myanmar, finally turned back to its home port without incident.
Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has long been suspected of buying North Korean arms as well as providing transit services for North Korean vessels engaged in illicit trade.
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[Dawn] Eleven militants and five members of an anti-Taliban Lashkar were killed in a fierce gun battle in Khwaizai tehsil in Mohmand tribal region on Sunday morning.
According to official sources, a group of militants attacked the residence of the pro-government chief of the local peace committee in Khwaizai at about 2am. The attack was repulsed by the Lashkar and the clash ended at around dawn.
The sources said that Malak Ajmal, the chief of the peace committee, suffered serious injuries and was taken to the agency headquarters hospital in Ghalani where he died. Four men of the Lashkar were killed and seven are missing.
During the clash 11 militants, a key local commander among them, were killed and seven injured.
Both sides used heavy weapons during the clash and security forces also pounded militants' positions with artillery from Ghalani.
In Spinki Tangi area, a child and two women suffered injuries when an artillery shell fell on a house.
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[Geo News] Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik said two sources have confirmed the death of Taliban chief in Pakistan Baitullah Mehsud.
Addressing at National Assembly here, he said Hakeemullah Mehsud and Waliur Rehman scuffled with each other with ensuing death of the former. The interior minister said he did not blow any trumpet of anything; an attack on Mehsud was conducted in the night falling between August 5 and 6, adding intelligence sources confirmed his death. Malik continued that Baitullah's doctor also confirmed his (Mehsud) presence at the house in the attack night.
Regarding the huge number of arms and ammunition in possession of the extremists, the interior minister remarked it is only 'some state' that is providing arms and ammunitions. He added that he is raring to give in camera briefing regarding where the extremists get the weapons from and how their network functions.
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Nah, I heard on the radio this morning that Hakeemullah called all the newspapers and announced he was alive. His brother, too. He just couldn't come to the phone.
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Baitullah? Baitullah? Are you there?
Yes, I am here. And there. And there. And there. And there. And there. And there. And there. And there. And there. And there. And there. And there. And there. And there.....
[Geo News] The security forces continued search and clearance operations in Swat and Malakand during the last 24 hours.
According to a press released by Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), on a tip off, the security forces apprehended terrorist Muhammad Sadiq (a school teacher who has been indoctrinating young boys towards militancy) at Darmai near Fatehpur and terrorist Fahim in Drushkhela.
Security forces apprehended a terrorist Saeed Ullah from Madrassa of known terrorist Moulvi Rasheed at Drushkhela.
Security forces conducted search operation at Shalko Sar and apprehended 6 suspects. Also, the search operation was conducted in Kabbal. During exchange of fire with terrorists, a soldier embraced Shahadat.
Security forces raided at Bagh in Totalai Tehsil of Buner and arrested terrorist commander Yasin along with arms and ammunition.
At least three terrorists were killed in a retaliatory fire by security forces when terrorists attacked a military convoy which was moving from Dosali to Damdil near Razmak in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) today. Three security forces personnel were also injured in the exchange of fire.
The security forces also continued relief activities, as so far 249,044 cash cards have been distributed amongst the IDPs of Malakand.
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[Dawn] Troops shot dead four people on Monday as soldiers prevented fresh attempts by militants to infiltrate Indian-administered Kashmir from Pakistan, officials said. 'Alert troops killed a militant infiltrator on Monday thus preventing another attempt by the militants to cross the LOC,' Indian army spokesman J.S. Brar told AFP, referring to the Line of Control that splits Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
In the southern district of Reasi Monday, security forces shot dead another three militants during a forest gunbattle, a police spokesman said.
Police attributed the surge in activity to the Indian national holiday on August 15, which marks the country's independence from British rule in 1947. Since last Sunday, the army has foiled nine attempts by the militants to infiltrate from the Pakistani side of the disputed Kashmir region. The fighting has left nearly 20 militants and three soldiers dead.
In New Delhi Monday, Indian army chief general Deepak Kapoor suggested the militants had support from the Pakistani army because of their sophisticated equipment. 'The possibility of a certain amount of support to them (militants) by the established institutions (in Pakistan) cannot be ruled out,' he told reporters.
The army says militant attempts to cross the ceasefire line into Indian-administered Kashmir normally increase in the summer as the snow melts in the mountain passes. There has been a sudden spurt in violence in the Himalayan region since last Saturday when militants killed two policemen in Srinagar.
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[ADN Kronos] Israeli air force jets bombed a suspected smuggling tunnel along the Gaza Strip border with Egypt late Sunday. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
The last safety lecture from the inspector at Mutual of Gaza must have taken ...
The bombings were a response to overnight Qassam rocket and mortar shell fire from the coastal strip into southern Israel, an Israeli military spokeswoman said. The spokeswoman said the strike targeted a tunnel under the town of Rafah suspected of being used to smuggle explosives into southern Gaza from Egypt.
I thought the tunnels were for baby rabbit food ...
Israel has frequently attacked tunnels it says are used to smuggle weapons or materials to build weapons, though such raids have occurred less frequently in the past few months.
On Sunday, Gaza militants fired mortars at a northern crossing into Israel just as Palestinian patients were being transferred for treatment in Israeli hospitals, a Palestinian official said. Two radical Palestinian groups, the Popular Front and the Democratic Front, said they fired 12 mortars at the Erez crossing. The Israel Defence Forces said about six shells exploded near the Erez crossing as the transfer was in progress.
So did the other six never exist, or did they land short of the border?
Earlier Sunday, a Qassam rocket fired from the southern Gaza Strip at the western Negev area. No one was hurt and no damage was caused. This attack was the first such strike since 16 July. The last rocket to hit Israel also struck an open area in the Sdot Negev area, slightly injuring an 18-year-old Israeli.
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Dire Revenge(TM) for depriving baby rabbits of their dinner in 10..9..8..
[ADN Kronos] Fingerprint analysis is expected to show that a man killed by Indonesian police at the weekend was not fugitive terror suspect Noordin Mohammed Top, according to senior police. Police sources said tests on a body recovered after the shootout are likely to confirm that it is not that of the main suspect wanted for hotel bombings in Jakarta. "It's not him. We know from his facial structure as well as his fingerprints," a police source told the media. "We're continuing to track his whereabouts."
Noordin was reported by the local media to have been shot dead by police after a 17-hour siege at a remote property in Central Java on Saturday. At least one body was brought out of the house after the police siege, but sources said on Sunday that the dead man was an associate of Noordin, and not him.
DNA tests were being conducted in Jakarta on Monday to confirm the identity of the body. "It takes three days to do a DNA test and the body was delivered yesterday for checks," Dino Djalal, an adviser to Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said. "The body was obviously that of a terrorist, it is just a question of whether or not it was Noordin Top or not. Even if it was not Noordin Top it is an achievement on the part of the police to raid that house where they found explosives and militants."
One of Noordin's wives and their children were reporte d to be travelling to the capital to provide samples.
Senior counter-terrorism official Ansyad Mbai refused to comment on the identity of the body retrieved from the property. "It's better that we wait for the forensic identification," he said.
Noordin, a 40-year-old Malaysian Islamist, is wanted for multiple suicide bombings against western targets in Indonesia since 2003. Noordin was thought to have masterminded the 2002 Bali bombing, which killed 202 people, the 2003 JW Marriott hotel bombing in Jakarta, the 2004 Australian embassy bombing in Jakarta, and the 2005 Bali bombings. He is one of the most wanted alleged terror masterminds in Asia, and has a 100,000 dollar bounty on his head from the Indonesian government. The police source indicated that Noordin may have escaped from the Central Java farmhouse before police laid siege to it around 4pm local time on Friday.
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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.
[ADN Kronos] Taliban militants in Afghanistan on Monday were reported to have launched attacks on government buildings south of the capital Kabul, killing at least one police officer.
[Quqnoos] A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of NATO-led forces in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz on Monday, officials said. 
[Bangla Daily Star] Three suspected operatives of outlawed Biplobi Communist Party were brutally killed by their rivals in Kushtia. The severed heads of Ayub Ali, 35, of Boritupi, Joad Ali, 27, of Bangshitola under sadar upazila, and Abdul Kaiyum, 45, of Bhabanipur in Kumarkhali upazila were found in front of the Kushtia Roads and Highways Department office yesterday at 8:45am.
[ADN Kronos] Israeli air force jets bombed a suspected smuggling tunnel along the Gaza Strip border with Egypt late Sunday. There were no immediate reports of casualties. 
