#6
"Evelyn Nesbit, age 16, was a
star in the popular musical
Floradora, known as "the
girl in the green velvet
swing." Stanford White
wined and dined her,
swung her around
Manhattan in horse
carriages, and introduced
her to high society. He took
her to various of his
"hideaways" for intimate
suppers. Eventually, he
struck. After plying her
with champagne, he took
her to a bedroom,
complete with mirrors and
flashing lights, and dressed
her in a Japanese kimono.
Then she passed out. When
she awoke, she was no
longer a virgin".
[Al Arabiya Latest] A suicide bomber killed 13 people, including three senior officials in Afghanistan's southwest region. 35 people were also wounded in the attack in Farah City, capital of the Farah Province, said Police Chief Faqir Mohammad Askar
Farah, a mainly desert province along the border with Iran, is one of the areas that has seen a rise in insurgent attacks this year as Taliban militants have spread to the west and north from their traditional bases in the south and east.
The suicide bombing came a day after police said Afghan security forces backed by tribal militia killed six Taliban militants in the same province after the rebels beheaded two tribal leaders on the weekend.
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[Jerusalem Post Front Page] Yemeni security forces have foiled a plot to assassinate the head of the local Jewish community, Yahiya Ben-Yousef, Kuwaiti Al-Siyasa newspaper said Friday. According to the report, three armed Shi'ite rebels were arrested when they entered the Jewish compound in the Yemeni capital Sana'a. They were reportedly caught in possession of guns.
Yemen's tiny Jewish community has been in a precarious position in recent years, underscored by the murder of Jewish teacher and community activist Moshe Yaish Nahari last year, in Omran, north of Sana'a. Abdel Aziz Yehia Hamoud al-Abd, a retired Yemeni air force pilot, was sentenced to death for the murder.
In August, Israeli sources confirmed that the overwhelming majority of the final remnant of Yemen's ancient Jewish community was looking to leave. "About 120 of the Yemeni Jews want to move to Israel, 100 want to move to the US,' a source told The Jerusalem Post. "And between 20 and 30 want to stay."
At the end of last month, The Wall Street Journal reported that the US State Department had recently spirited nearly 60 Jews from Yemen and resettled them in the United States.
According to the report, nearly 350 Yemenite Jews lived in the country before the operation. Those who have already moved to the US are likely to be joined by 100 more, while the remainder will most likely move to Israel.
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JUDENREIN: The goal of all Arab/Farsi governments.
[Dawn] A US Federal Court has rejected Dr. Aafia Siddiqui's defence team's appeal to dismiss the case against her as the alleged crime was not committed on the American soil.
At a pre-trial hearing Judge Richard Berman cited a congressional statute as well as past precedent to rule that the court had jurisdiction in Dr. Siddiqui's case.
Siddiqui, is in a New York jail charged with attacking US interrogators in Afghanistan in July 2008 and was brought to New York in US custody the following month.
The defence argued that it was against the Geneva conventions to try Dr. Aafia Siddiqui for attempted murder in the US when the crime was allegedly committed in Afghanistan.
Siddiqui on her part protested the proceedings and was sent to another room to watch the proceedings on a closed circuit TV.
In another motion, the defence asked the court to throw out the first count of the indictment against Dr. Siddiqui on technical grounds but that motion was also dismissed.
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[Dawn] Two people were injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire at two Nato containers near Mastung city.
According to police, the containers were carrying goods for Nato forces and were on their way to Afghanistan when unidentified motorcyclists opened fire at the containers in Chhoto area.
Muhammad Irfan who sustained serious injuries was rushed to Quetta while Manzoor Ahmed was shifted to Mastung Headquarters Hospital.
Law enforcement agencies have cordoned off the area and started search operation.
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Jacarandas, blue tinged trees,
Laughing children, all say please.
Smiling nannies loud and chatting,
Queens Club cricket, Rhodies batting.
Braais and picnics, Maleme Dam,
Tanganda tea and Colcom Ham.
Greeting friends to talk and talk,
Hillside Dams were safe to walk.
Snakes and mossies, flying ants,
Schoolboy rugby, winning chants.
Swimming parties,sleep-in nights,
Christmas Carols by candle light.
Honest Police, able and willing,
Downing's rolls ten for a shilling.
Sunday car trips, Matopos caves,
OM's and Busters Saturday raves.
Week-end outings to Vic Falls,
Dancing and Ballet in Curtain Calls.
Beautiful gardens, Centenary Park,
Window shopping just after dark.
Burger and Hot-dogs, Eskimo Ices,
Aromas from cafes of curry and spices.
Snow white tackies, Bata shoes,
Charity fetes, tombola and booze.
Clear blue skies or heavy rain,
Wish I could live it all over again.
Memories fade, so much to tell.
Oh Yes, Dear Rhodesia
I remember you well.
#7
That was the best, Besoeker. Many thanks, just the first line got me going. I reckon it was a Byo, (Skies, as in 'Blue skies'), chap who penned that, just substitute names, it be Bamba-zonke, (Sby) and everywhere else Rhodie-ville, works. Long gone days, but values still to be fought for.
Lekker!
[Dawn] Four soldiers were killed when militants stormed a security post in a troubled tribal region bordering Afghanistan, officials said Friday.
Armed with heavy weapons and rockets, militants launched the attack on a post in Chinar town in the Bajaur tribal region, local administration chief Ghulam Saeed Khan told AFP.
'Four soldiers were killed and three wounded,' Khan said adding that troops retaliated killing six attackers.
Security officials, confirming the casualties, said the attack was mounted late Thursday.
'Militants first lobbed rockets and then moved close to the post and opened fire with heavy weapons,' one official said.
Militants have recently stepped up attacks on security forces and government installations in Bajaur, one of Pakistan's seven semi-autonomous tribal districts considered a stronghold of Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked extremists.
The violence has surged since Pakistan launched a major offensive in the Taliban bastion of South Waziristan on October 17. Officials say the aim is to distract the army's attention from South Waziristan.
In February, the army declared a major six-month operation in Bajaur successful. But violence continues to rock the region.
Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal areas have been infested by hundreds of extremists who carved out safe havens after the ouster of Afghanistan's hardline Taliban regime in a US-led invasion in 2001.
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[Dawn] Eight militants were killed and many others injured when security forces pounded their positions in Bara after an attack on a security checkpost on Friday, officials said.
They said that after repulsing an attack by militants, the forces pounded militants hideouts with heavy artillery in the Gandao locality.
A statement issued by the media cell of the Frontier Corps in Jamrud said eight militants were and many others injured in the action.
A security official in Jamrud told Dawn that one soldier was killed and three others injured when a military vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device on the Sheen Kamar road in the Nawee Kamar area while on routine patrol.
He said soon after the incident the forces cordoned off the area and arrested seven suspects during a house-to-house search operation.
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[Dawn] The capital police announced on Friday that it had captured a suspect involved in a suicide attack at a UN office last month and a string of other bomb blasts.
'Five blasts took place in Islamabad in 2009, four of them have been investigated and he is involved in the four blasts,' Islamabad police chief Kalim Imam told a press conference.
Police paraded the suspect, Jamshed alias Tahir, before journalists. Mr Imam said the suspect aided in the acts of suicide attack on the World Food Programme office in Islamabad in which five UN workers were killed.
He brought the bomber to the World Food Programme (office), Mr Imam said. Police found suicide jackets, about eight kilograms of explosives and ball bearings used to make bombs in his possession.
Mr Imam said that the man was a key activist of 'Ghazi Force' formed and operated by Maula Niaz Raheem, a former student of Lal Masjid.
According to police, Ghazi Force was formed to carry out 'reprisal or revenge activities' for the 2007 operation against Lal Masjid.
Mr Imam said the suspect had admitted before a magistrate that he was the mastermind of suicide bombings in Swat and Islamabad, including the attack on Rescue-15 police office.
Police said Jamshed was arrested from Rawal Lake area where he was waiting for his accomplices coming from Orakzai Agency.
He said Jamshed monitored activities around the WFP office for three days before providing FC uniform and suicide jacket to the bomber. The Ghazi force provided four suicide jackets to Jamshed for an attack on Adyala Jail where several terrorists are detained.
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[Dawn] A passenger train derailed after Maoist militants blew up a key track in eastern India, killing one person and injuring at least 30 others, a police official said Friday.
The militants bombed the track shortly before the train passed through a sparsely populated area in Jharkhand state Thursday night, said Sindhu Hembram, a deputy inspector general of police.
Eight of the train's coaches went off the tracks and toppled over, killing one woman instantly, Hembram said. Five of the 30 injured passengers were in critical condition, said B.N. Mete, a railway official.
Efforts were under way Friday to clear and repair the track, which is one of main rail routes linking the cities of Calcutta and Mumbai.
The militants, who say they are inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, have been fighting for more than three decades demanding land and jobs for farm labourers and the poor. Thousands of people, including police, militants and civilians, have died in the violence in recent years.
The militants have called for a 24-hour strike in Jharkhand on Friday to protest next week's elections for the state legislature.
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[Dawn] A US missile attack killed eight people, including foreign militants on Friday in the second such attack in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt in two days, security officials said.
The strike took place in the district of Mir Ali, northeast of Miramshah, the main town of the North Waziristan tribal district, officials said.
'At least eight people were killed in the drone attack. A compound used by militants was targeted,' a senior security official told AFP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.
Another security official described the target as a Taliban training centre in Palooseen village. There were foreigners among the dead, the official said, using a term employed widely in Pakistan to mean Al-Qaeda operatives.
North Waziristan neighbours South Waziristan, where Pakistan has been pressing its most ambitious offensive to date against Taliban militants since October 17, sending troops backed by fighter jets and helicopter gunships into battle.
Northwest Pakistan has seen a surge in the US strikes, which fan anti-Americanism in the country, since President Barack Obama took office and put the country on the frontline of the war on Al-Qaeda.
Obama has reportedly increased pressure on Islamabad to fight not just Tehrik-i-Taliban, which launches attacks within Pakistan, but those using Pakistan as a base from which to fight the Kabul government and Western troops in Afghanistan.
Another US drone attack killed six militants, including three foreigners, in North Waziristan overnight Wednesday to Thursday, officials said.
A foreign 'terrorist' named Salah al-Somali was the target, but there was no confirmation on whether he died or not, military officials said.
The US military does not, as a rule, confirm drone attacks, which US officials say have killed a number of top-level militants but Islamabad publicly opposes as a violation of its sovereignty.
Criticism of the strikes has lessened somewhat in public since a US drone attack killed Pakistan's much feared Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud on August 5 and analysts say Islamabad gives its tacit support to the strikes.
Since August 2008, at least 65 such strikes have killed around 625 people, although it is difficult to confirm the precise identity of many of those who die given that the remote region is largely closed to outsiders.
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Italian police on Saturday arrested a Pakistani father and son accused of helping fund and providing logistical support for last year's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, authorities said.
The two were arrested in an early morning raid in Brescia, where they managed a money transfer agency, police in the northern Italian city said.
The day before the attacks began on Nov. 26 they allegedly sent money using a stolen identity to a U.S. company to activate Internet phone accounts used by the attackers and their handlers, said Stefano Fonsi, the head of anti-terror police in Brescia.
The transfer was just $229 but gave the attackers five lines over the Internet, which are difficult to trace and allowed militants to keep in touch even during the rampage, Fonsi said.
Italian police began the probe in December after being alerted by the FBI and Indian police about the transfer, Fonsi told The Associated Press.
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Two more Pakistanis were arrested in Saturday's raids for allegedly committing fraud, money laundering and other crimes through the masked transfers, but they were not linked to the Mumbai attacks. A fifth Pakistani man escaped arrest and was still being sought.
An additional 12 people were flagged to prosecutors for possible investigation but were not arrested, Fonsi said.
Just by using the stolen identity, the suspects had transferred some euro400,000 ($590,000) between 2006 and 2008 to various countries. The network also used its contacts in Pakistan to help illegal immigrants enter Italy, Fonsi said.
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#2
Gee, a couple of poor down trodden Muslims living in impoverished Italy...see, poverty is the cause of terrorism (sorry, could not find the cynicism button on my key board),
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Al Arabiya Latest] A suicide bomber killed 13 people, including three senior officials in Afghanistan's southwest region. 35 people were also wounded in the attack in Farah City, capital of the Farah Province, said Police Chief Faqir Mohammad Askar
[Dawn] A US Federal Court has rejected Dr. Aafia Siddiqui's defence team's appeal to dismiss the case against her as the alleged crime was not committed on the American soil.
[Dawn] Eight militants were killed and many others injured when security forces pounded their positions in Bara after an attack on a security checkpost on Friday, officials said.
[Dawn] The capital police announced on Friday that it had captured a suspect involved in a suicide attack at a UN office last month and a string of other bomb blasts.
[Dawn] A passenger train derailed after Maoist militants blew up a key track in eastern India, killing one person and injuring at least 30 others, a police official said Friday.
[Dawn] A US missile attack killed eight people, including foreign militants on Friday in the second such attack in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt in two days, security officials said.
