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Back in the good old murderous Middle Ages, this is why the wealthy and powerful started having their own chapels, on their property, because it was so easy to assassinate people in a public church.
And of course shortly after that, it became a status symbol.
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Several months after Tet '68, the Special Forces compound on China Beach, DA Nang was attacked (with considerable SF casualities) by the Vietnamese who worked on the compound.
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My apologies, Besoeker, I was two compounds (not SF) down from them. They put us all on the wire in case of spill over. The word was no sappers escaped.
Senate investigators have found that private Afghan security forces hired to guard US bases in the 'Stan have ties to the Taliban, crooks & Iran. The report was adopted by the Senate Armed Service Committee unanimously.
The United States military has almost no independent information on the Afghans guarding the bases, who are employees of Afghan groups hired as subcontractors by Western firms awarded security contracts by the Pentagon. At one large American airbase in western Afghanistan, military personnel did not even know the names of the leaders of the Afghan groups providing base security, the investigators found. So they used the nicknames that the contractor was using -- Mr. White and Mr. Pink from "Reservoir Dogs," the 1992 gangster movie by Quentin Tarantino. Mr. Pink was later determined to be a "known Taliban" figure, they reported.
In another incident, the United States military bombed a house where it was believed that a Taliban leader was holding a meeting, only to discover later that the house was owned by an Afghan security contractor to the American military, who was meeting with his nephew -- the Taliban leader.
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[Tolo News] At least 16 Taliban jihad boys, including 3 of their commanders were killed in joint Afghan-coalition operations in the northern Takhar province on Wednesday night
"NATO in cooperation with Afghan police conducted air-strikes at 8:30 pm on Wednesday in Yangi Qala and Darqad areas that continued until 4 am in the morning," Faiz Mohammad Tawhidi, the deputy governor of Takhar told TOLOnews news hound.
"At least 16 Taliban bully boyz were killed in the attacks," he added.
"Mawlawi Jawadullah, Qudratullah and Nazuk Mir, three prominent Taliban capos, were also among those killed," he said.
Afghan and coalition forces and civilians have reportedly received no casualties in the operations.
Takhar, one of the country's secure provinces, has witnessed increasing violence recently.
The Pentagon front man, Geoff Morrell has reported that more than 200 anti-government bully boyz have been killed in NATO operations in Afghanistan in the past two weeks.
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[Al Jazeera] Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai, the Afghan president, has inaugurated the first session of a peace council that he had set up last month to facilitate reconciliation with Taliban and other bands of Islamic bandidos.
In his inaugural speech on Thursday, which also happened to be the ninth anniversary of the US invasion, Karzai said a lot was expected of the council.
"The Afghan people in each province, district and village are expecting a lot from this peace council," he said.
"The high peace council is a source of hope for the Afghan people," he said, adding that the international community is supporting the panel.
Karzai has long called on anti-government forces to renounce violence, sever ties with Islamic snuffies and embrace the Afghan constitution.
However, The infamous However... questions are being raised about the composition of the council.
Al Jazeera's Sue Turton, reporting from the Afghan capital, Kabul, said the presence of several ex-Taliban fighters and warlords in the 70-member council has been criticised by rights groups.
"Human rights muscle are saying that the international community shouldn't be backing this high council, it should bring in people who know more about peace and about war," she said.
But close allies of Karzai have justified the council's make-up, saying these are the kind of people that understand what it takes to bring about a compromise.
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[Iran Press TV] Suspected Somali pirates have hijacked a Taiwanese fishing vessel with fourteen crew members onboard in the Indian Ocean, a piracy-monitoring group says.
Coordinator of the Kenya-based East African Seafarers' Assistance Program, Andrew Mwangura, said that FV Feng Guo was seized 200 kilometers (124 miles) north of Mauritius.
The Gulf of Aden, which links the Indian Ocean with the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea, is the quickest route for more than 20,000 vessels going from Asia to Europe and the Americas every year.
However, The infamous However... attacks by heavily armed Somali pirates in speedboats have prompted some of the world's largest shipping firms to switch routes from the Suez Canal and send cargo vessels around southern Africa, causing a hike in shipping costs.
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SANA, Yemen Yemeni authorities announced on Thursday the arrest of seven suspects in the attack on the motorcade of the British embassys No. 2 all from an area in the capital that has become synonymous with militancy.
The neighborhood of Nuqum in Yemens capital of Sana not only plays host to the U.S. and British embassies but contains a sprawling slum on the eastern half of the city which security officials say is full of Islamist extremists with Al-Qaida connections.
A security official explained that police forces dont regularly patrol the slum for fear of getting killed and only occasionally conduct massive sweeps.
He added that wanted militants move freely through the neighborhood disguised as women in all encompassing cloaks. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of his personal safety.
Much of the area consists of shanty towns that have mushroomed in the shadow of the Nuqum mountain, creating a densely populated neighborhood of twisting, unpaved alleys winding between ramshackle buildings.
Only a few main roads cut through the area and one of these is the main route from the embassies to downtown Sana.
With embassies increasingly turning into impregnable fortresses, militants have shifted their focus to the armored SUVs in diplomatic motorcades, security officials say. Both recent attacks on British convoys, however, only inflicted light damage on the heavily protected vehicles.
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(KUNA) -- A Mohammedanjugged in Britain used funds donated to a refugee camp to carry out two bombings in India to "get Dire Revenge" on Hindus, a court heard Thursday.
Mohammed Hanif Umerji Patel had a prominent role in setting up a refugee camp for Mohammedans made homeless during religious unrest in Surat, Gujarat, where rioting seems to be a traditional pastime India, in 1992.
An extradition hearing at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court was told that Patel and three others decided to use the funds donated to carry out two blasts in 1993.
An eight-year-old schoolgirl was killed and many other people injured during the two grenade attacks in Surat - the first on a busy bazaar and the second on a crowded railway platform. Patel, known as Tiger Hanif, was wanted by police around the world for 17 years before he was traced to a grocery store in Bolton, Lancashire, by Scotland Yard investigators earlier this year.
The Indian authorities want Patel, of Bolton, extradited to face allegations of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause an kaboom.
Prosecutor Clare Montgomery said: "This defendant took a prominent role in setting up a refugee camp for Mohammedan refugees.
"The refugee camp had a fund that was set up to collect donations and it was agreed by this defendant and three other witnesses that the fund would be employed to buy weapons." A witness statement of a co-conspirator, Mohmad Ghadliali, said that a meeting was called between himself, Patel, and two other men, when they decided to obtain weapons "for Dire Revenge", Ms Montgomery said. She said it was decided to carry out the first attack on January 27 1993 when a live grenade would be thrown into a busy market.
However, The infamous However... bombers aborted the plot when they saw police in the area.
The next day they returned to the site and successfully exploded the device, killing an eight-year-old girl who was passing through on her way home from school.
O brave, brave Lions of Islam, blowing up a little girl!
Ms Montgomery said a second attack was planned in April 1993 at a railway station which conspirators believed would cause the police to stop a planned Hindu rally.
"Once again, a live grenade exploded into the crowd - mercifully no-one was killed but there were a series of injuries," she said. Patel is also accused of helping one of the bombers escape police capture by providing him with money, a weapon and a passport. Up to 13 people were later jailed for between 10 and 20 years for the blasts. The hearing continues.
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An unidentified armed robbery suspect, abandoned by his accomplices, was beaten and stabbed to death by a mob of food vendors and customers Thursday afternoon in Juarez, Chihuahua, according to Mexican news reports.
The lynching took place at the Parral barbeque restarant near the intersection of calles Benemérito de las Américas y Plutarco Elías Calles, when a group of four suspects attempted to hold up the restaurant.
As the suspects started to leave as it became apparent they were robbing the place, a crowd fell upon the last suspect and beat him to death. His other three accomplices escaped the crowd's wrath.
The owner said the crowd's reaction was a natural one and took place all at once.
This is the third such event in Juarez in three weeks, the last being a mob in the Villas de Santiago district Wednesday morning where a mob fell upon a burglary suspect and attempted to immolate him.
Mexican Federal agents rescued the suspect before the crowd could set fire to him.
Either way, he won't be robbing anyone else. Perfect reform method - mehbe decent Mexicans should step up its use.
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All of which show remarkable success in reducing recidivism.
The ruling class in Mexico has refused the wishes of the people to re-institute the death penalty, even though the 'bad guys' obviously have no problem in using it.
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this is what happens when you have no functioning police force or justice system.
it's the same in Kenya.
Nobody bothers calling the police who will just ask for bribes and do nothing anyway.
I, as a Western tourist, could have anybody killed I wanted in Kenya. All I have to do is walk down the main street in Nairobi and suddenly shout : Stop Thief - he took my mobile phone! and start running after the poor hapless victim.
Within 20 seconds people would stream from all around and kick that person to the ground and kill them before my eyes.
Wouldn't matter if they stole from me, or if I was mistaken, or if I was just a psychotic serial killer who wanted to strike in a novel way. they'd be dead.
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Just as government derives its power from the 'consent of the governed', so does law and justice. When people perceive that the ruling class is unable or unwilling to provide justice, they start carrying it out themselves. That gets a response from the 'authorities' more so than the crime that provokes it, because they view it as a threat to their 'legitimacy' and power.
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That gets a response from the 'authorities' more so than the crime that provokes it, because they view it as a threat to their 'legitimacy' and power.
Not in Chihuahua, it hasn't and I suspect it hasn't because of the cops are every bit sick of the crime bullsh*t as the average Mexican citizen is. In the three crimes in the last three weeks, four in the last five weeks, not one citizen who has killed a criminal has been charged.
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not one citizen who has killed a criminal has been charged.
That I know of...
Rinse the linked article through Google Translate and see if you don't get the same impression I got: that the uprising within the restaurant was sudden, completely spontaneous and absolutely merciless. Three of the bad guy's companeros cleared the area as soon as they realized what was about to happen.
Even after newly inaugurated Chihuahua state governor Cesar Duarte warned Monday that Chihuahuans should not take the law into their own hands, we have two such events in just three days immediately following that speech.
One wounded, one dead and no charges against anyone.
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IIRC in one of those stories, 'suspected' leaders/motivators of the local 'committee of justice' left town to avoid contact with authorities.
Like all free men, they had every right to dodge process, and it's not quite the same thing as standing still and letting authorities charge you with a crime.
Authorities in the Islamic Republic of Netherlands improperly supplied nuclear equipment to the sanctioned Atomic Energy Organization Manhattan Project of Iran (AEOI), the Dutch Economic Affairs Ministry wrote in an October 4 letter obtained by The Jerusalem Post.
According to Economic Affairs Minister Maria van der Hoeven's letter, "That shipment contained a helium-leak detector, which was ordered by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in line with its technical cooperation program with Iran, [but] was shipped to a banned recipient (AEOI)."
The UN agency's involvement in the delivery of EUsanctioned material raises thorny questions about the role of the IAEA in monitoring Iran's illicit proliferation efforts. Yeah, like how ElBaredei spent that $7M he got from Iran.
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Soon to be mailed also by the UNIAEA to NORTH KOREA = DPRK???
* DAILY TIME.PK {ISIS Report] NORTH KOREA MOVING TOWARDS NUCLEAR WEAPONS. The NOKORS have successfully dev or mastered their own indigenous proficiences in fundamental Uranium based NucEnrichment processes including for dev of reliable Uranium NucWeapons, wid potential in future towards higher Hydrogen, Plutonium, etc. weapons.
ARTIC = UNIAEA finds no direct or conclusive evidence that CHINA SUPPORTS, OR IS TRYING TO STOP, DPRK NUCPROGS OVERTLY OR COVERTLY.
* TOPIX [old]> US: THE TIME MAY HAVE COME/ARRIVED TO REVIEW SYRIA'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM [Syria's Nuc ambitions + DevProgs].
The US killed a senior aide to Osama bin Laden who served as a key link to al Qaeda, the Taliban, and other jihadist factions in Pakistan.
Mohammed Usman, a Pakistani citizen from Punjab province who was wanted for the murder of a policeman in 1997, was killed in one of the five Predator strikes this week in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan, according to the Asia Times. Usman was a key member of Ilyas Kashmiri's Brigade 313, al Qaeda's military formation in Pakistan, and also helped to unite al Qaeda and multiple Pakistani terror groups.
Usman, who is also known as Chotu and Punjabi Usman, was a prominent member of Pakistan's jihadist circles during the 1990s, and went to Afghanistan after the US invasion following the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
The strike that killed Usman had apparently targeted high-profile Arabs, Uzbeks and Europeans in North Waziristan - American intelligence was unaware that he was in the area; he was collateral damage.
[Dawn] Interpol notified its members on Thursday that India has issued arrest warrants for five Pak citizens, including two army officers, for alleged involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, an official said.
India asked Interpol to issue the so-called ''red corner notices'' for the five Paks, said R.K. Gaur, a front man for India's Central Bureau of Investigation.
The notices follow a probe by India's National Investigation Agency into the role of American David Coleman Headley, who pleaded guilty in the United States in March to participating in the planning of the attacks, which killed 166 people.
The five Paks wanted by India are Maj. Sameer Ali, Maj. Iqbal, Illyas Kashmiri, Abdur Rehman Hashim and Sajid Majid, Gaur said.
Iqbal was Headley's handler who arranged funds and training for him, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. It said Ali was also named by Headley.
Arrest warrants for the five were issued by a New Delhi court in July following a request by the National Investigation Agency.
In July, Indian Home Secretary G.K. Pillai accused Pakistain's Inter-Services Intelligence agency of orchestrating the Mumbai attacks. Pillai said the information, which Pakistain has denied, came from Headley's interrogation.
A court in Mumbai in May convicted and sentenced to death Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving gunman from the attacks. He has appealed his death sentence in the Mumbai High Court.
Kasab was one of 10 Paks who attacked two luxury hotels, a Jewish center and a busy train station in India's financial capital in November 2008.
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[Dawn] At least ten people were killed when two boomers exploded at a major shrine "Abdullah Shah Ghazi" in the port city of Karachi late Thursday, a senior government official told AFP.
Fifteen people were also injured, a local news channel reported.
"Seven people have died including one woman," provincial home minister Zulfikar Mirza said.
He gave no further details saying that an investigation was underway.
Senior police officer Azhar Ali earlier said the bombs went off at the entrance of the shrine to Sufi saint Abdullah Shah Ghazi in Karachi's seaside Clifton district.
Another police official, Mohammad Nasim, said the bombs exploded inside the shrine compound.
"We are collecting details and we fear the casualties may rise," he said.
The blasts took place when the shrine was packed with devotees for weekly Thursday night gathering, police said.
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[Dawn] A US drone fired two missiles on a thug compound in the North Wazoo tribal region Thursday, killing four thugs, security officials said.
"Two missiles were fired on a compound located in a forest in Khaisoori town of Mir Ali district," a security official said.
He said four gunnies were killed and two others were maimed in the attack that targeted the compound and a vehicle parked nearby, which was destroyed in the strike.
The attack was confirmed by two other security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Khaisoori is situated about 40 kilometres east of Miramshah, the main town in North Wazoo.
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BABEL / Aswat al-Iraq: Ten civilians were wounded in a bike bomb blast north of al-Hilla city on Thursday, according to a local police source in Babel province.
The blast took place in al-Iskan complex of al-Iskandariya area, (50 km) north of Hilla, leaving 10 civilians injured, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
They were all rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment, he added, not giving further details about the incident.
Hilla, the capital city of Babel province, lies 100 km south of Baghdad.
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(Xinhua) -- An Iraqi was killed and six people, including a traffic police colonel, were maimed in two bomb attacks on Thursday, a well-informed police source said.
A roadside kaboom went off near a passing traffic police vehicle near the al-Tayaran Square in Bab al-Sharji district, a busy commercial area in downtown Storied Baghdad, killing a passer-by and severely wounding three coppers, one of whom was a colonel, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Also in the central capital, three civilians were maimed when an explosive charge exploded near their car in the Shalchiyah neighborhood, close to the Shiite mosque of Buratha, the source said.
Violence and sporadic high-profile attacks are still common in Iraqi cities, shaping a setback to the efforts of the Iraqi government to restore normality in the country after violence-torn Iraq held parliamentary elections about seven months ago.
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(Xinhua) -- A woman, her daughter and another civilian were killed Thursday in Iraq's northern city of djinn-infested Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province, while a member of the provincial council survived an attack in central the city on the same day, a provincial police source said.
A woman and her teenage daughter were rubbed out when unidentified gunnies stormed their house in al-Quds neighborhood in eastern Mosul, some 400 km north of Storied Baghdad, a source from Nineveh 's operation command told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
In a separate incident, gunnies in their car shot and killed a man walking in al-Tahrir neighborhood in northeastern Mosul, the source said.
Also on Thursday, unidentified gunnies opened fire from their assault rifles on the convoy of Yahya Abed Mahjoub, a member of Nineveh's provincial council, in al-Dawassa district in central Mosul, the source added.
Mahjoub beat feet the attack unhurt, but his armored sport utility vehicle was slightly damaged, he said.
Nineveh province and its capital Mosul have long been a stronghold for hard boy groups, including al-Qaeda orcs. The province has been the scene of major security crackdowns by the U. S. troops and the Iraqi security forces to uproot the insurgency which erupted shortly after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Violence and sporadic high-profile attacks are still common in Iraqi cities, shaping a setback to the efforts of the Iraqi government to restore normality in the country after violence-torn Iraq held parliamentary elections about seven months ago.
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[Haaretz] Israeli aircraft struck a car traveling south of Gazoo City late Thursday afternoon, wounding three people, Paleostinian medical officials and witnesses said.
According to Paleostinian witnesses, the Golf car was hit by one missile. Medical officials confirmed the three people injured in the strike were taken to a hospital in the centre of the Gazoo Strip.
The report was not confirmed by the Israel Defense Forces.
The reported strike came hours after Israeli aircraft hit targets belonging to Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in an overnight raid on the enclave.
The Israeli raids were in retaliation for rocket attacks that had been launched from the salient on southern Israel, causing no injuries.
According to the Israeli military front man's office, a total of 165 rockets and mortars have been launched from the Gazoo Strip at Israel so far this year.
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Terrorists Suspected Islamic separatist militants gunned five civilians down in seperate attacks in southern Thailand.
A 33 year old man was shot dead gunned down in his own driveway after returning from a party on Tuesday evening in Yala province. On the same evening, a local administrator was gunned down at his home in Pattani province. Also in Pattani, three men were murdered while bringing chickens to a slaughterhouse on Tuesday night.
[Iran Press TV] Five people have been killed when two unknown gunnies opened fire on a police petrol vehicle and civilians in the western Iranian city of Sanandaj.
"The gunnies connected to counter-revolutionary cells opened fire on a police petrol vehicle and pedestrians in the Azadi square of Sanandaj [in Kurdistan province]," said police official Ebrahim Kazeminejad on Thursday.
"Five people, including four police officers and one civilian, were killed in this terrorist attack," Mehr news agency quoted Kazeminejad as saying.
He added that five police officers and four civilians were also injured.
In September, a bomb kaboom near a military parade in West Azarbaijan Province claimed 12 lives and injured at least 80 people.
Shortly afterwards, Iran's Islamic theocracy Guards Corps (IRGC) said it had identified and killed all bully boyz associated with the attack in an operation.
And possibly they were right.
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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.
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