[Iran Press TV Latest] The Bullet-ridden bodies of four Afghan policemen have been found in the city of Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, a local official says.
The Taliban militants have reportedly claimed responsibility for the attacks in southern Afghanistan.
"They seem like they were killed overnight by someone, maybe Taliban, at their post," said Daud Ahmadi, a provincial government spokesman.
"We don't see any signs that they were killed in fighting," he noted.
The officers' weapons and a police vehicle were also missing from the post at the gate of a government building in the center of the city, Ahmadi said.
Taliban militants have been blamed for several such incidents in the past.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] A loud explosion has rocked the Afghan capital after a terrorist bomber blew himself up near a US military convoy in Kabul.
The explosion caused casualties among foreign troops and Afghan civilians, security sources said.
According to a security source, the attack was aimed at foreign troops since it happened near the city center close to foreign military bases.
"The blast took place on a road leading east from the city center, close to several large bases for foreign troops," said the source. "There are casualties among Afghan civilians and foreign forces."
US soldiers were blocking access to the scene on the Jalalabad road, the main highway leading east out of the capital, a witness told Reuters.
Meanwhile, Afghan security forces arrested a man over last week's deadly assault on key government sites in the heart of Kabul, authorities said Tuesday.
The National Directorate of Security identified the suspect as a 29-year-old man named Kamulddin and released a video of him confessing to the strike.
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Love the way folk from the UK are blocked from posting on their site :)
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A suspected suicide car bomber has struck near a US military base in the Afghan capital Kabul, officials say.
At least six civilians were hurt. Nato said eight American soldiers received minor injuries.
Afghan and Nato officials said the blast went off outside a US base called Camp Phoenix on the road leading east out of the city centre.
Security has been tight in Kabul since militants attacked the highly fortified centre of the city on 18 January.
A statement from Nato's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said the explosion was outside the main gate of Camp Phoenix.
It was most likely an improvised bomb hidden in a vehicle, Isaf said.
There are no reports of any deaths.
The Taliban claimed to have carried out the attack in a text message sent to the Associated Press news agency.
[Quqnoos] The Afghan intelligence agency has said fighters smuggled over the border from Pakistan were responsible for a recent attack on Kabul
The Afghan intelligence officials in Kabul released video footage on Tuesday of a man arrested in connection with the attacks who said that the Haqqani network were behind the militant operation.
The man, identified as Kamal Uddin, said in his alleged confession that there had been seven suicide bombers in the Kabul attack, which took place last week.
In a search operation in his house, Afghan intelligence forces seized plenty of weapons, explosives and Mobile Simcards, related to a neighbouring country.
"I was in charge of two suicide bombers and took them to a shopping centre near the presidential palace," he said, noting that he had housed the suicide bombers and their co-ordinators ahead of the attacks.
The attacks, said to be the most co-ordinated offensive on the capital for years, took place while Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, was swearing in some of his cabinet minister.
At least five people were killed and about 70 more wounded in the protracted gun battles in different locations in Kabul.
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That's Lawyer Speak, every thing's "Alleged" until proven, after proving it, it's still "Alleged" even while serving time and continues until either you run out of money, or fire that lawyer.
Translation (Jimspeak) Fake concern by someone paid to lie for you.
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[Maghrebia] The former leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb's Mauritanian branch confirmed the health of the three Spanish humanitarian aid workers kidnapped in Mauritania in late November. 'We're taking very good care of them; they have everything they need. The treatment is impeccable," Khadim Ould Seman told Spanish newspaper El Periodico in a telephone interview from the Nouakchott prison on Monday (January 25th). He claimed that his "outside contacts" had briefed him on the status of the hostages.
The jailed terrorist warned, however, that unless Spain complies with the captors' demands, Albert Vilalta, 35, Alicia Gamez, 35, and Roque Pascual, 50, could suffer the same fate as Edwin Dyer. Al-Qaeda kidnapped the British tourist in January of 2009 near the Mali-Niger border and beheaded him six months later.
In related news, Mauritanian security services detained two merchants in Bouhdida, near Aleg, for questioning about alleged commercial business exchanges with al-Qaeda, ANI reported on Monday (January 25th). A primary suspect in the December 18th abduction of an Italian tourist couple in Mauritania was also remanded on Monday to the central prison in Nouakchott. At the time of his arrest last month, Malian national Abderrahmane Ben Meddou reportedly confessed that in return for the promise of a large pay-off, he provided al-Qaeda with information about the movement of the Italians.
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Someone in Mauritanian security services should simply state that whatever happens to the Spanish would also happen to him, using a VERY dull blade. In public. In company with a fat sow pig, which would be buried with him. These people are savages. They need to be treated as savages. This war will end a whole lot sooner if we do than if we don't.
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U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops, The Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing unnamed senior administration officials.
Yemeni troops in the past six weeks have killed scores of people, among them six of 15 top leaders of a regional Al Qaeda affiliate, sources told the newspaper. The operations were approved by President Barack Obama and begun six weeks ago and involve several dozen troops from the U.S. military's clandestine Joint Special Operations Command.
A Yemeni official told the Associated Press Tuesday that the U.S. military and intelligence agencies have been participating in joint operations for some time with Yemeni troops, and the two countries are currently in discussions to build a new aviation unit to help bolster Yemen's counterterrorism forces. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military operations, said that while the intelligence sharing has been critical, the Yemen military badly needs helicopters for its counterterrorism operations. U.S. officials have said repeatedly that American advisers do not take part in raids in Yemen, but provide intelligence, surveillance, planning and other weapons assistance.
As part of the operations, Obama approved a Dec. 24 strike against a compound where a U.S. citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-Yemeni Islamic cleric, was thought to be meeting with other regional Al Qaeda leaders. He was not the focus of the strike and was not killed.
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The recent huge increase of Al-Quieda in Yemen folks turning up dead was never due to the generosity or forebearance of the host nation. Someone ran an article a week or so ago about the Yemeni approval of the USAF use of the island of Socotra Island for an airstrip.
Gen. David Petraeus, who oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, was in Yemen Saturday (01/02) "as part of our ongoing consultations with and efforts in support of Yemen," a senior administration official said. "We have made Yemen a priority over the course of this year, and this is the latest in that effort." The official called the visit "productive."
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Leak from WH, the day before TSOTU Address, showing BHO is 'tough on terror'??
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It got too hot for them in Iraq, so the brave foreign jihadists scampered to Afghanistan and Pakistan. It's getting too hot for them in Afghanistan and Pakistan, so the brave foreign jihadists scampered to Yemen and Somalia. Now it's even getting too hot in Yemen. Where can a brave foreign jihadist go anymore to bravely fight unarmed hotel guests and primitively armed villagers without having to worry about people fighting back in a robust way?
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this just shows more of the incompetence of Zero's admin. If this effort has been going on for a while that's great. BUT, they blow the kudos with PR stunts like trying the bastards in civilian courts, mirandizing the panty bomber, etc. all to "show solidarity" with their base.
Which is it? Which attitude is sincere and which is political spin?
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Many thanks, faithful friends and tools at WaPo. Your reward is not paradise, since you unfortunately persist in being drunken infidels, but a "princely" sum from Saudi Arabia should meet your next payment on that cute flat in Soho.
[Al Arabiya Latest] A Yemeni court sentenced on Tuesday seven suspected al-Qaeda members between five and ten years in jail after convicting them of plotting to attack foreign interests and tourists, as the government said it will not allow foreign covert operations against al-Qaeda on its territory.
The seven suspects were arrested while preparing explosives and monitoring tourist buses to attack them, according to police. Their trial began on Oct. 17.
They were convicted of "plotting to form an armed gang to execute criminal acts targeting foreign tourists and interests and government installments," according to the verdict.
Three of them, Hussein al-Marwalah, Mohammed al-Ghawly, and Hani al-Aleeni, were sentenced to 10 years in prison, while three others, Yossuf al-Hajjaji, Abdullah al-Matari, and Amin al-Najjar, were jailed seven years.
The seventh, Muteab al-Qadi, was sentenced to five years in prison.
The militants chanted "God is Great" and praised al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden as their leader after they heard the verdict.
Yemen has been the target of a number of attacks claimed by al-Qaeda against foreign missions, tourist sites and oil installations.
The Yemeni government has intensified its military campaign against global terrorist group as international pressure mounted on Sanaa to clamp down on the militants who are believed to be regrouping in the impoverished country.
Al-Qaeda branch in Yemen -- al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) -- has claimed responsibility for the botched Christmas Day attack on a U.S. airliner.
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"Yemeni court sentenced on Tuesday seven suspected al-Qaeda members between five and ten years..."
But when is their escape/jail break scheduled for? In Yemen, that's the more relevant time frame.
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In Yemen, jail means saved.
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In Yemen, jail means R & R before the next sortie.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Houthi fighters in Yemen say Saudi air raids continue to strike northern areas of the country even after their leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi called for a ceasefire with Riyadh.
In a statement released by al-Houthi's office, the fighters said Saudi warplanes carried out attacks on al-Maran region in north of the country. Several other civilians were wounded in the attacks. The air raids were launched against the fighters after they withdrew from at least 46 positions along the Saudi-Yemeni border.
According to the statement, the pull-back by the fighters came as a gesture of goodwill to end the three-month clashes in the region. Saudi Arabia joined the Yemeni government's campaign against the Houthi fighters in November 2009.
In a message posted on the internet on Monday, al-Houthi offered a truce to Saudi Arabia to avoid further civilian casualties. He however threatened to wage an "open war" should Riyadh continue attacks on northern Yemen.
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Maybe Miz Rice can come out of retirement to help you.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Yemen Houthi rebels said on Tuesday they had withdrawn completely from Saudi territory as part of truce offer extended to the world's top oil exporter, with whom they have clashed along the Yemen-Saudi border.
"There has been a complete withdrawal from all Saudi positions and territory," the office of rebel leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said in a statement posted on a rebel web site.
The leader of Yemen's rebels offered a ceasefire to Saudi Arabia on Monday, and said his fighters would withdraw from the kingdom's territory to avoid more civilian casualties.
The offer by Abdul-Malik al-Houthi followed three months of border fighting between Shiite rebels and Saudi forces which have used aircraft to bomb rebel targets.
"To avoid more bloodshed and to stop aggression on civilians ... we offer this initiative," Houthi said in an audio recording posted on the Internet.
Yemen's central government has been fighting the rebels on and off since 2004, but the conflict intensified last summer when Sanaa launched Operation Scorched Earth to quash the latest upsurge in violence.
Saudi Arabia stepped into the fray in November when rebels seized some Saudi territory, prompting Riyadh to wage a major military offensive against them. The conflict in northern Yemen has displaced around 200,000 people, according to the United Nations.
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I'd guess that things are getting too hot for the Houthis, they are losing on all fronts, so they want to secure their northern flank with a truce while fighting to the south. The Germans did the same thing with the Russians in 1917. Didn't work well for them, either.
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[Kyodo: Korea] A 40-year-old North Korean doctor at the North"s embassy in Ethiopia defected to South Korea in November last year after entering the South Korean embassy there in mid-October, a news report said Tuesday. The defector, identified only by his family name Kim, stayed in the South Korean embassy for two to three weeks before moving to South Korea, the TV news channel YTN said, citing a diplomatic source.
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Kim? That narrows it down
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And Frank gains a lead in the Snark o' the Day competition for Wednesday 27 January, year of our Lord 2010.
Or for the traditionalists among us, the year 5770 since Adonai created a garden and walked among those he raised up.
[Kyodo: Korea] North Korea has declared two maritime areas near the inter-Korean maritime border in the Yellow Sea ''no-sail'' zones in a move that has prompted the South Korean military to go on high alert, South Korean media reported Tuesday. Yonhap News Agency quoted military officials as saying the North made the declaration Monday with regard to waters near South Korea"s northernmost islands of Baeknyeong and Daecheong.
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VARIOUS > seems this DPRK "no sail zone" intrudes into de facto SOuth Korean maritime territory.
I'm sure a US Carrier Battle Group making a port call at In'chon wouldn't be much bothered by Kimmie's little "no-sail zone", especially if the carrier's aircraft were flown off first.
We REALLY need a battleship or two to deal with these little tinpot dictators. They think they can get away with anything since we don't have the means to put tons of hot metal and high explosives on target within seconds.
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[Geo News] The tribesman on Tuesday shot down another US unmanned spy plane through anti-aircraft gun in North Waziristan region.
According to sources, four US drone aircrafts were hovering over different parts of Waziristan when the tribesmen shot fire at them with anti-aircraft gun. As a result one of the aircrafts crashed in Miranshah area.
According to an eyewitness, the plane's wreckage fell into Afghanistan's area.
This was the second drone plane, which was shot down by tribesmen this week.
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This doesn't seem so complicated. Software on the crippled UAV should dump all munitions at the calculated source of any ground fire that hits the UAV. Mini HARMS...
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MQ-1 or MQ-9 ?
Nah I suspect something smaller like RQ-11
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Just to add ...
Area this happened in was near the town of Miranshah, which is Haqqani area . Several strikes already happened there in the last 2 years , you would suspect that the players on the ground would adapt after the first strike on that madrassa (Daande Darpkhel)back in 2008 .. Whudda thought about AA flak guns *facepalm*
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I've some experience on AA guns---hiting a drone without radar guidance shouldn't be all that easy. If this is true (remember who we're dealing with) I suspect some operator is up for a bit of a hard time.
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Sounds like an opportunity to start flying paired high-low UAVs, the low 'un a low-value "staked goat" to get the AA batteries to open up & reveal themselves, the high member of the pair to spot the offenders & paste them good and proper.
May require more than one UAV on the high side, depending on the technical limitations.
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Give 'em an arclight and see how effective they are shooting at that.
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MQ-1 ceiling is low enough that they are vulnerable to AAA, especially in mountainous areas. Flying at 20K" in 10K" mountains will leave it vulnerable. No radar needed as it would be a red strobe light implicating the Paki gov.
My guess it is the Paks way of extracting jizya for their own Predator fleet. A few 12.7 or 14.5s and ammo is cheap. Better to ramp up MQ-9 Reaper activity in the "good taliban" areas where if the Pakis want to shoot them down they will have to use fighter aircraft.
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My intelligence sources say that This Aircraft was the one downed by the Taliban.
Damned shame............
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[Geo News] The NWFP government has expelled 55 employees Tuesday for having connection with extremists.
The decision was taken at a high profile meeting headed by Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti.
The meeting was attended by senior ministers Bashir Ahmed Billour, Rahim Dad Khan besides administrative secretaries.
The CM was told, during the meeting, that 155 employees of various departments were facing charges of having connection with militants. Out of which 55 were axed from their jobs and departmental actions were being underway for 83 other officials.
It may be noted that the list includes 120 workers of education department, 4 of police, 2 of watershed on farm management and 3 workers of public health engineering.
The CM ordered to complete the inquiry within a month's time, saying except the departmental actions, the alleged government officials should be treated according to the law.
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120 workers of education department
Members of the Cane and Whip Section of Islamic Discipline and Obedience.
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Seven people including District Police Officer Jaffarabad, have been injured in a blast in Dera Allah Yar town of Jaffarabad district.
According to police, the DPO Syed Farid Ali was on his way to office from his residence in his official vehicle when an explosive device planted on a motorbike went off in New Bus Adda as his vehicle passed by.
The DPO and two other police officials, along with four civilians received injuries as a result of the blast. They were rushed to a hospital for medical treatment. Several vehicles are also reported to have been damaged in the blast.
Police reached the spot after the blast and cordoned off the area.
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One of the things we in the military were taught as the Badder/Meinhof gang kept trying to blow up military installations in the Wiesbaden/Frankfurt/Mainz area was to alter our driving habits so that we didn't drive the same path every day. That was kind of hard to do since there were only two ways to reach our compound, but most of us tried it. The Pakistanis haven't learned that, and they keep being hit with roadside bombs, ambushes, and other such attacks. Pakistanis are such SLOW learners.
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[Dawn] A former union council naib nazim has been killed in a firing incident in Khuzdar district on Tuesday.
Police said that unknown gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on Abdul Khaliq a former UC naib nazim and killed him on the spot. The incident took place at Gazgi Chowk, Khuzdar.
This incident is the latest in a spate of attacks in Khuzdar. The dead body has been taken to civil hospital Khuzdar for postmortum.
So far no group has claimed the responsiblity for the attack. But police say it was an apparent act of target killing.
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[Dawn] Security forces killed 15 militants in a gunfight in a remote tribal district near the Taliban strongholds of North and South Waziristan, the military said Tuesday.
An official said the insurgents could have fled a military operation in South Waziristan, and were seeking to carve out new safe-havens in other areas of the semi-autonomous tribal belt that runs along the Afghan border.
The clash took place after militants attacked a security check post on Monday in the Tindo area of Kurram tribal district, more than 200 kilometres southwest of Peshawar.
"Terrorists attacked a security forces post in Tindo area, which effectively retaliated," a statement from the paramilitary Frontier Corps said.
"During an encounter between security forces and terrorists, 15 terrorists were killed and several others have been injured while eight security personnel received minor injuries," it added.
Mountainous Kurram district bordering Afghanistan has a history of sectarian tensions, but had until recently been spared the violence that has plagued much of the tribal belt, which is outside direct government control.
But as about 30,000 Pakistani troops backed by fighter jets move across South Waziristan trying to dismantle the Taliban's long-standing bases, officials say that the militants are trying to regroup elsewhere.
"In recent weeks there are some groups who fled the Waziristan operation and are trying to operate in Kurram," said a local security official who asked not to be named as he was not authorised to speak to the media.
The military launched multiple assaults on Taliban havens last year. Their statements about militant death tolls are impossible to confirm independently as the areas are out of bounds to reporters and aid groups.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] A suicide bomber killed at least 18 people and wounded 80 others near an Iraqi Interior Ministry building in central Baghdad on Tuesday, ministry officials said.
Many of those injured or killed in the vehicle-borne explosion at a ministry forensics office in Baghdad's Karrada neighborhood were police, the ministry official said.
After the attacks, ambulances and firefighters rushed to the scene. The ministry building suffered major damage, a Reuters photographer reported.
The bombing came a day after a trio of suicide attacks on well-known Baghdad hotels, two of them hubs for western visitors and journalists in Iraq, killed at least 36 people.
The coordinated bombings, which shattered a seven-week lull in major assaults on government and other supposedly secure targets, fuels tension before Iraq's March 7 parliamentary elections.
Such attacks may present a setback to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who is seeking a second term, and other incumbents who hope voters will credit them for the sharp reduction in violence in Iraq over the past two years.
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Find the one that doesn't fit
(1) Chinese made umbrellas.
(2) Nation building in ME.
(3) Playmobil toys.
Iraqi Kurds have expressed joy over the execution of 'Chemical Ali' -- a key player in the Baath regime's war machine, which killed thousands of Kurds.
Ali Hassan al-Majid al-Tikritieh, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's first cousin and one of his most trusted men, nicknamed 'Chemical Ali,' was executed in Baghdad on Monday.
The punishment was meted out for Majid's part in the 1988 chemical weapons attack on the northeastern Iraqi village of Halabja, which killed over 5,000 Kurds.
In the attack, government warplanes showering Halabja for five hours with mustard gas and nerve agents in the most deadly chemical weapons attack on civilians in history.
"I have heard the news of the execution [of] the criminals whose hands [are] stained with blood. This is a happy day for the Kurdish people," Reuters quoted Iraqi Kurd Saman Faruq as saying.
Behnam Karim, another local, said, "As a Kurdish citizen I am very happy because of the decision. But I wish the decision can define Halabja's crime as a genocide."
The verdict was issued earlier in the month, prompting jubilation in Halabja, where people were seen cheering and playing music on the streets.
However, the former intelligence chief, who also held the interior and defense ministry portfolios, considered the massacre a feather in his cap.
The ruling for the attack on Halabja was the fourth death sentence Majid received.
In December 2008, he received another death sentence for war crimes committed during the 1991 Shia uprising in southern Iraq, where about 100,000 people were massacred.
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Don't get me wrong, this is A GOOD THING. In the larger scheme of things, it's like someone with 1.3 billion warts being happy because 1 wart shrank...
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It's like somebody with cancer rejoicing over curring a toothache, MM.
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It's like somebody with cancer rejoicing over curring a toothache, MM.
If you knew the pain of a toothache (even without mentioning the fact that an infected tooth can kill you) you wouldn't talk so slightly. A cancer will kill you but AFAIK at early stages it doesn't hurt. A toothache can make you twist in pain.
Four explosions rocked Sri Lanka's Jaffna peninsula early on Tuesday morning.
At least two bombs went off outside the home of a ruling party activist in the Jaffna peninsula, but there were no reports of casualties, the Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) said.
"We have a complaint that two bombs were thrown at the home of Subramaniam Sharma, an organizer for the (ruling) Sri Lanka Freedom Party, early this morning," spokesman D. M. Dissanayake said.
No further information has been provided about the incidents.
Security has been on high alert in Sri Lanka for the upcoming presidential election.
Election fever has gripped Sri Lanka as 14 million registered voters are eligible to vote in the polls on Tuesday, January 26.
The two main candidates -- former army commander General Sarath Fonseka and President Mahinda Rajapaksa -- will be competing in the first national election since the government declared victory in the war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May.
There are 20 other candidates, but none are viewed as serious contenders.
Rajapaksa's campaign denies allegations that they are planning voter fraud, saying they will not need to do so to secure a victory.
Results are expected to be announced on Wednesday, January 27.
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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
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Houthi fighters in Yemen say Saudi air raids continue to strike northern areas of the country even after their leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi called for a ceasefire with Riyadh. 
