[Al Jazeera] Nato-led troops have killed more than 30 Taliban fighters after their base was attacked in Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province in southern Afghanistan, the military coalition has said.
What is it the Marines say about being surrounded?
Fighters attacked the remote outpost "from all directions" using rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and small arms fire, the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said in a statement on Saturday.
"Initial operational reporting indicates more than 30 bully boyz were killed in the failed attack," the statement read.
Zemarai, an Afghan army general, said the bodies of at least 15 fighters were seen lying on the battlefield after the attack.
Afghan troops were still collecting bodies at the site, Isaf said. It said five Isaf soldiers were maimed in the attack.
Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban front man, said they had attacked the base and that six police outposts had been overrun in the attack. Speaking by telephone from Qazi's guesthouse an undisclosed location, Mujahid said Taliban fighters had inflicted "high casualties" on Isaf and Afghan forces but gave no further details.
He said eight Taliban fighters had been killed.
Pre-dawn attack
James Bays, Al Jizz's correspondent in Kabul, the Afghan capital, said the attack took place in the early hours, at 1.30 in the morning.
"The Nato release says the number [of attackers] was about 30 but we spoke to the Taliban leader who said the number of attackers was 70," he said. "It was won in the end by close air support from planes and helicopters that were called into the area."
The Taliban and other gangs have launched a series of brazen assaults on foreign bases and government buildings in the past year in a bid to topple the government and force out foreign troops.
Last month, five boomers were killed during an attack on a similar-sized base in neighbouring Paktia province, to the north of Paktika.
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What is it the Marines say about being surrounded?
"We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!"
"So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those bastards won't get away this time!"
(KUNA) -- An Algerian army officer and two soldiers were maimed in a bomb kaboom in Buoaira State, 120 km east of Algiers, on Saturday, local security sources said.
They added in press remarks a home-made bomb exploded near an army truck. The blast injured the officer, who lost one of his legs, and two soldiers.
The injured were rushed to Ein Al-Na'ja Hospital in Algiers, they added.
The army is combing the area in search of the attackers.
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[Yemen Post] As many as three people were killed and seven other injured in festivities between Houthis and pro-government clan in the Al-Nushoor village very close to Sa'ada city, local sources told the Yemen Post on Saturday.
According to the same sources, the incident happened when the gunnies from Houthis attacked Al-Awjari pro-government clan and started firing, which was soon hit back by the Al-Awjari tribe.
In the exchange of gunfire two Houthi affiliates and one of Al-Awjari tribe were reportedly killed and other seven injured from both sides.
The gunfire continued for at least two hours and the dead bodies and injured were shifted to nearby Hospitals, the sources said, adding that the incident was caused by the long-standing enmity between Houthis and Al-Awjari tribe.
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[Yemen Post] Armed people fired on two oil trucks on their way from Aden to Taiz on Friday night in the Karish district, Lahj, burning one of them and damaging the second.
The driver of the burned truck was unhurt, eyewitnesses said.
The eyewitnesses said the two trucks came under heavy fire by unidentified gunnies who had run away before the forces were dispatched to the scene.
The trucks were carrying petrol, but only of them caught fire and the second suffered damages, they said.
Later, forces were seen along the highway and a hunt was launched for the attackers operating in a very insecure region where many deadly and violent events have recently occurred.
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[Yemen Post] President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Saturday the police is surrounding a house in the capital Sana'a where the suspect involved in sending Friday's terror packages on U.S.-bound flights, which triggered a state of high alert at U.S. and UK airports, is hiding.
At a presser in Sana'a, Saleh said a woman sent the packages through Yemen onboard cargo planes including one that made a stopover in London.
I called British Prime Minister David Cameron and we agreed to form a joint panel to investigate the incident, he told news hounds, at a time when the west's concerns about Al-Qaeda in Yemen are growing.
Yemen will continue the war on terrorism with available national potentials, he said, reiterating Yemen's refusal to any external intervention in the terror operations on the Yemeni soil.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... sources at the Yemen offices of the UPS and FedEx Companies said the Yemeni police confiscated today other suspicious packages and are examining them.
The police are investigating about 26 more packages and have already jugged some workers of the companies in connection with all packages, the sources said.
They, however, did not give names involved in the alleged plots, as they said Yemen's anti-terror efforts are applauded and come within the global terror campaign.
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Arrested the woman and her mother--the brazen hussies apparently went out to the UPS store without accompaniment?!? Also, the packages left Yemen via Qatar Airlines, not a cargo flight.
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Fox just showed video with the Wymyns In Black Sacks holding a protest outside her home with signs in arabic and English saying "there is no proof". They should detain and interrogate these sheep
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[Al Jazeera] Yemen has jugged two women suspected of mailing the explosive parcels from the country to the US that sparked a global security alert, sources say.
A woman was nabbed with her mother, her defence lawyer said, adding that she was a "quiet student" with no known links of religious or political groups.
The arrests took place on Saturday in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, after security forces surrounded a house where the suspect believed to have sent the packages was hiding.
A Yemeni security official said the woman had been traced through a telephone number she left with a cargo company.
Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Yemeni president, confirmed her arrest, saying: "Yemen is determined to fight terror but will not allow anyone to intervene in its affairs."
Security officials have been on high alert since the UK and the United Arab Emirates intercepted two packages containing kaboom that were being shipped by air from Yemen to synagogues in Chicago.
The packages were discovered on Friday at East Midlands Airport, in Nottingham, north of London, and at a courier facility in Dubai.
Earlier on Saturday, Yemeni authorities seized and examined up to 26 suspect parcels. They are also engaged in a heated search for al-Qaeda gunnies in Yemen, where Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born Mohammedan religious leader, is named as being linked to the plot.
Heightened alerts The failed plot has prompted scrutiny of airport security in the UK, where Theresa May, the home secretary, announced a ban on all unaccompanied cargo coming from Yemen into the country.
Security has also increased in the US, where the postal service has temporarily stopped accepting inbound mail originating in Yemen.
Al Jizz's Monica Villamizar, reporting from Washington, DC, said that US authorities now consider Yemen and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) to be "more of a threat to the US and its interests now than even Afghanistan and Pakistain".
She also said that US investigators will now look at previously shipped packages from Yemen to determine if they were used as a "dry run" by al-Qaeda.
Police in Dubai said the package they found bore the hallmarks of al-Qaeda. They also said that the ink cartridge found at the sorting facility was packed with pentaerythritol tetranitrate, or PETN, confirming what Jane Harman, a Democratic congresswoman from Caliphornia who was briefed on the incident, had told the New York Times newspaper earlier.
PETN is the same substance that was packed into the underwear of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man who attempted to ignite a bomb on board an airliner over the US on December 25 last year. The police said the kabooms were wired to a mobile phone SIM card hidden inside the printer.
Intercepted packages The package found in the UK was on board a UPS cargo aircraft, while the other, in Dubai, was found in a FedEx sorting facility.
Al Jizz's Dan Nolan, reporting from Dubai, said that authorities were concerned given the volume of air traffic that passes through the emirate.
Bob Ayers, an independent security analyst, told Al Jizz that cargo is subject to less stringent security screening than passenger luggage.
The screening of cargo has been a point of debate in the US; in 2007, congress directed the Transportation Security Administration to screen all cargo carried on passenger flights beginning this year, according to US media.
"Cargo is in big pallets, it's wrapped, its prepared for shipment," Ayers said. "You can't X-ray the large pallet in many cases. You don't tear it apart because its already been pre-packaged, so cargo has always been less rigorously inspected than baggage going into a passenger aircraft."
Both UPS and FedEx said they had halted all packages being sent from Yemen to the US while the incident is investigated.
In September, a large fire broke out in the cargo hold of a UPS cargo jet shortly after it took off from the Dubai airport. The plane crashed, killing both crew members. Our correspondent said that investigators will probably now check to see if any cargo from Yemen was on board.
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Our correspondent said that investigators will probably now check to see if any cargo from Yemen was on board.
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There has been a couple of fires at UPS facilities, in Memphis, I believe. Sounds like the mobile scatter scanners that can see inside houses need utilized at the shipping companies.
An alleged criminal was killed in a 'shootout' between Rapid Action Battalion and an armed gang at Piarpur in Sadar upazila of Faridpur early yesterday.
Law enforcers said deceased Gulzar Khan alias Kamal, 42, a resident of the district town, was accused in a number of cases including one for murder.
The shootout took place around 3:30am when plain-clothes Rab personnel challenged a group of people beside the bypass road near Piarpur Primary School, said Maj Sabbir of Rab-8, adding that Gulzar and his accomplices were holding a meeting there.
The gang shot up the law enforcers compelling them to strike back. Gulzar came in the line of the fire and keeled over dead, said Maj Sabbir.
Rab recovered a 9mm pistol and five bullets from the spot.
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Now THAT'S how you do a shootout. None of this weaselly "brought in for questioning afterwards" nonsense.
(KUNA) -- The target for an explosives device found on a cargo plane in the UK may have been the aircraft itself, UK Home Secretary Theresa May said Saturday.
A major international terror alert was sparked after security staff found printer cartridges with wires attached in cargo hubs at East Midlands Airport in the UK and Dubai yesterday.
Speaking after a Cobra meeting, the UK Government's emergency planning committee to discuss the security situation, May said: "The target may have been an aircraft and had it detonated the aircraft could have been brought down." May said: "I can confirm that the device was viable and could have went kaboom!.
"The target may have been an aircraft and had it detonated the aircraft could have been brought down. We do not believe that the perpetrators of the attack would have known the location of the device when it was planned to explode.
"Our investigation remains sensitive. We are working closely with international partners to increase our understanding of this case and of course to bring those responsible to justice." She continued: "At this stage there is no information to indicate another attack is imminent." May said the threat level was at "severe", meaning a terrorist attack is "highly likely" and there was no plan to change the level at this stage.
But she said: "We must take further precautionary measures. I have agreed with the Transport Secretary (Philip Hammond) that we will take immediate action to stop the movement of all unaccompanied air freight originating from Yemen into or through the UK.
Direct cargo and passenger flights from the Yemen were suspended in January this year for security reasons following an earlier attempt to bomb an aircraft destined for Detroit, she noted.
She said the police and intelligence agencies were working "tirelessly" on the case.
May said she had been in regular contact with Prime Minister David Cameron and briefed him following the Cobra meeting.
She said: "The Government's key aim is to keep the UK safe. I will be monitoring progress and further statements will be made as necessary." Earlier Dubai Police said the package discovered on a plane in Dubai contained explosives and an electrical circuit linked to a mobile phone SIM card.
The finds have been linked to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), based in Yemen.
Both packages were addressed to synagogues in Chicago, and were on Chicago-bound cargo planes that had set off from Yemen in the Middle East.
The suspicious package in Britain was on a UPS plane that flew in from Yemen's capital Sanaa.
It was discovered in the early hours of yesterday following a tip-off from Saudi intelligence sources, press reports said. Police evacuated the centre and put up a security cordon around the airport.
A spokeswoman for Heathrow said the airport was running as normal today.
She said: "There has been no effect on our operation at all. We take our lead from the Government and we have not been asked to increase security at this time." Concerns about other devices prompted major security alerts across US cities. United Parcel Service (UPS) jets in Philadelphia and Newark, New Jersey, were moved away from terminal buildings and two fighter jets escorted an airliner travelling into New York from Dubai.
The terror alert followed calls this week from airline bosses that existing security procedures such as shoe and laptop checks should be scrapped.
US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who is in contact with May, told Sky News: "The security system has no one silver bullet in it. You have to have multiple layers.
"This layer started with good information from the Saudis. We were then immediately able to work with other countries, particularly the UK, the UAE, to segregate these packages, to begin the analysis about what they were, what they could have done," said Napolitano A Scotland Yard front man said: "Initial forensic examination of items removed from a US-bound cargo plane at East Midlands Airport on Friday 29 October suggests that the package was a viable bomb.
"There are early indications to suggest it had the potential to bring down an aircraft in flight if detonated. Tests are ongoing to establish further details about the nature of the device." He said the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command was liaising with agencies both in the UK and abroad.
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And the ROYAL FAMILY + PARLIAMENT???
["PIRATES" CAPT. JACK SPARROW TRYING TO REMEMBER, SAY THE TERM "PARLEY[-ment]" here].
(KUNA) -- UK Home Secretary Theresa May has confirmed that a device found in a package sent from Yemen and found on a US-bound cargo plane could have went kaboom! on board the jet.
The device, intercepted at East Midlands Airport, England, was viable and could have went kaboom! on board, she said. Dubai police earlier confirmed that a second device, also on a US-bound cargo plane, contained explosives.
Washington suspects the devices were part of an al-Qaeda plot. They were both inside packages addressed to synagogues in the Chicago area. President Barack B.O. Obama described them as "a credible terrorist threat".
The device found in a package in Dubai contained pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) - the same explosive used in a failed plot to bomb a plane flying to Detroit last December. The packages were found on UPS and FedEx cargo planes, triggering alerts in the US, UK and Middle East. Other planes at US airports were checked because they were thought to contain items from Yemen. Yemeni police are reportedly examining 26 other suspect parcels.
Mrs May was speaking after a meeting of the UK's emergency committee, Cobra. The target may have been an aircraft and, had it detonated, the aircraft could have been brought down," she said. "We do not believe that the perpetrators of the attack would have known the location of the device when it was planned to explode," she added.
According to Dubai police, the explosives were inside the toner cartridge of a printer, placed in a cardboard box containing English-language books and souvenirs. Earlier, US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said she suspected al-Qaeda involvement. "I think we would agree with that, that it does contain all the hallmarks of al-Qaeda and in particular al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula,"
The UK's Daily Telegraph reported that an MI6 officer responsible for Yemen had received a tip-off. FedEx and UPS suspended all their shipments out of Yemen, saying they would fully co-operate with investigators. US security services remain on a high level of vigilance in the wake of the attempted Times Square bombing in New York in May and the attempted Christmas Day attack.
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"Mrs May was speaking after a meeting of the UK's emergency committee, Cobra. "
So now we have proof that Mrs May (http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-204_162-10003861-11.html) is actually Cobra Commander (http://www.the-isb.com/images/CobraCommanderCover.jpg)?
[Yemen Post] UK suspended on Saturday all direct flights from Yemen to its land after allegedly suspicious packages had been found onboard a flight that originated in Yemen early Friday.
The safety of UK and its people tops my priorities and we work and will continue to work closely and cooperatively with our international partners to ensure that, Home Secretary Theresa May said.
The decision comes amid a state of high alert at UK and U.S. airports after suspicious packages, allegedly reported to have sent from Yemen, were found on cargo planes that landed at London and U.S. airports on Friday morning.
After investigators said they found a package that contained a manipulated toner cartridge on Chicago-bound cargo plane coming through Yemen, May said the examination of the package is continuing.
We are studying steps that we should take over cargos coming through Yemen, and for security reasons, there will be no direct flights from Yemen to Britain indefinitely, she said.
Earlier today, Yemen said no UPS cargo planes left it in the last days and there are no direct flights from Yemen to either the United Kingdom or the United States.
An unnamed official source said UPS planes never land or take off in Yemen, and that security measures at Yemeni airports are tightened, with the authorities searching passengers and luggage well.
Also, Yemen has recently installed modern checking systems that can detect dangerous or suspicious materials to the safety of passengers and planes, the official said, urging the media not to make hasty judgments about sensitive issues.
Moreover, Yemen is coordinating with the United Arab Emirates, the country which also said it had found suspicious packages at one of its airports on a flight originating in Yemen, the U.S. and UK over the issue, the official said.
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this could negatively affect the shipment of Christmas purchases and consumer goods from Yemen
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Flights to any Islamic country should be one way only.
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Elements of the Mexican Army fought armed suspects in two separate firefights in Nuevo Leon early Saturday morning ending with a toll of three gunmen dead, while later that night in San Nicolas de los Garza, a shooting by armed suspects killed one civilian and wounded two municipal police, say Mexican press accounts.
The attack in San Nicolas took place at roughly an hour after the last of the coordinated grenade attacks on Nuevo Leon police facilities at 2100 hrs near the corner of Mozambique and Nogalar in the Valle del Nogalar district where armed suspects riding in a vehicle fired on a scene where two municipal police patrol cars were parked near an unidentified civilian who was performing minor maintenance on his Ford Windstar van.
The shots hit and killed the civilian, and hit the parked patrol vehicles as well, wounding two officers and causing damage to the vehicles.
San Nicolas de los Garza is a suburb of Monterrey.
Early Saturday morning at around 0400 hrs in Cadereyta a patrol of the Mexican Army encountered several pickup trucks with armed suspects aboard near the corner of the Cadereyta-Allende highway and Libramiento Alfonso Martinez Dominguez.
The army patrol initiated a pursuit after the suspects fired on the patrol. One of the suspect's trucks crashed and then burst into flames. One suspect died on impact while the other died as he was thrown from the vehicle.
The other vehicles in the suspect convoy escaped before the crash.
Cadereyta, which is about 30 kilometers due east of Monterrey, has been the scene of numerous encounters between armed groups and the Mexican Army in recent weeks.
An hour later in in Juarez, Nuevo Leon, a detachment of the Mexican Army encountered an suspect convoy with one Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck and a Chevrolet Suburban SUV. When the drivers were signaled to pull over, armed suspects aboard the vehicles open fired on the patrol and attempted to flee the scene.
The subsequent pursuit through the streets led the army to the Riveras of Santa Maria district where the driver of the Suburban vehicles failed to realize he had turned into a dead end and attempted to flee by driving the vehicle down an embankment by the Santa Catarina River, disabling the SUV. Meanwhile, the occupants of the Silverado managed to escape.
Apparently the suspects continued shooting at the army patrol as the suspects escaped on foot, however, one armed suspect died in the firefight. Despite a search of the area the remaining suspects could not be found.
UPDATED -- Good guys managed to get at least two shot off against their attackers in Montemorelos.
Armed groups with grenades attacked five police stations in five municipalities (counties) in Nuevo Leon leaving a toll of 16 wounded including two women and a child Saturday night, according to Mexican press accounts.
The attacks all occurred within an hour of each other between 1900 hrs and 2000 hrs.
A police central command facility known as Centro de Coordinación Integral, Control, Comando, Comunicaciones y Computo (C5) south of the capital city Monterrey was hit by a grenade detonation leaving two unidentified employees wounded. The explosion also caused unspecified damage to the building.
About 90 kilometers south of Monterrey in Montemorelos, the police station was hit leaving five police officers wounded, and two women and a child as well as an adult male hurt.
Mid Sunday morning an abandoned Ford Escape SUV was found about a mile away with two bullet holes in it, indicating officers did manage to shoot at their attackers. Later reports also say the attack was made with a launched 40mm grenade.
In the municipality of Allende, about 60 kilometers south of Monterrey, a police station was hit leaving a toll of three police seriously wounded.
In the municipality of Santiago in the Monterrey metropolitan area, a police facility was hit with two officers wounded.
So was the police barracks in Guadalupe municipality, neighboring Santiago where no injures were reported. Some damage to the building was reported.
Mexican security forces in the area around Monterrey are said to be currently on high alert following the attacks.
[Al Jazeera] Security has been tightened across France following warnings of possible attacks.
The Eiffel Tower in Gay Paree has been evacuated several times in the last two months and on Thursday, Osama bin Laden released a tape threatening to kill French citizens kidnapped in Niger.
There are more than five million Mohammedans in France, and they already feel targeted by the police.
As Al Jizz's Jacky Rowland reports, allegations that there are bully boyz lurking in their midst could make the community feel more marginalised.
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There are more than five million Muslims in France, and they already feel targeted by the police.
As Al Jazeera's Jacky Rowland reports, allegations that there are terrorists lurking in their midst could make the community feel more marginalized.
Quick cure for that; turn in the SOB's and make it abundantly clear that terrorist are not welcome in their community.
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" Quick cure for that; turn in the SOB's and make it abundantly clear that terrorist are not welcome in their community "They will not do that.
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[Al Jazeera] Swedish authorities are holding two people in jug for allegedly plotting a bomb attack in the country's second city of Gothenburg.
The two remained in detention after a number of those jugged on Saturday in connection with the plot were released, police said.
"Two people jugged Saturday morning and suspected of involvement in the bomb alert in Gothenburg have been placed in jug" following a prosecutor's ruling, a statement from police said.
The duo are being held for preparing a "terrorist crime", the statement said without giving further details.
Bjor Blixter, a police front man, said of those people released: "Investigators judged that there was no longer any reason to keep them in jug."
However, The infamous However... he said that they have not ended their interest in those who have been released, saying: "The suspicion of preparing a terror crime remains."
No further information was given concerning the potential motive behind the alleged plot.
Police said that they had been tipped off about the plot by a "credible source" and that further arrests were possible.
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A suspected suicide bomber wounded 32 people in an attack targeting Turkish police in Istanbul's main square on Sunday.
No organization has claimed responsibility, officials said, though the city has been targeted by Kurdish separatist militants, al-Qaida and other groups in the past.
"It was a suicide bomb and it appears as if the bomber blew himself up. It appears to be a male body," Istanbul police chief Huseyin Capkin told reporters.
A traffic stop led state and local officials to a small arsenal of weapons in a west Phoenix trailer park Friday afternoon.
Based on the type of armored vests discovered in the home, along with a T-shirt emblazoned with the logo of a local law-enforcement agency's special-operations unit, investigators speculate that they could have stumbled upon a home-invasion crew.
Eight men were in custody and being processed at a Department of Public Safety station in central Phoenix following the arrests. Investigators have not determined how many of the men will face state charges. DPS detectives in the gang- and immigration-enforcement unit known as IIMPACT believe all the suspects entered the country from Mexico without proper documentation.
The investigation began to unfold just before noon Friday when a Phoenix police officer made a traffic stop near 67th Avenue and Van Buren Street.
The officer began questioning the driver after noticing hidden compartments in the vehicle. The investigation led police to a trailer park in the 6400 block of West Van Buren Street.
Officers contacted two men outside a trailer home and called out another five from inside the brown single-wide trailer, all of whom cooperated with the investigation without resistance, said DPS Capt. Fred Zumbo, who is assigned to the IIMPACT task force.
When officers went inside the trailer, they found ammunition, a pair of rifles, a shotgun, handguns and two armored vests outfitted with ceramic plates, which can be used to stop shots fired from rifles.
Although the trailer contained telltale signs of a home-invasion crew, Zumbo hesitated to directly link the men to the drug cartels that have plagued Mexico with violence.
Instead, he compared the group to independent contractors.
"They're workers. I liken them to terrorist cells," Zumbo said. "Certainly, they are doing work for the cartels."
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Not to worry, the judge will let them go. We all know the Phoenix PD are racist and this traffic stop was not legal. The only people you can pull over is white guys and moms in SUVs.
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"a T-shirt emblazoned with the logo of a local law-enforcement agency's special-operations unit," If they are invading homes disguised as cops they should throw away the key.
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If that is so, then you can bet whichever one of the cartels fund these guys have a commander in Phoenix collecting the vig these guys generate.
The payments could be (and likely are) made in Mexico. Less scrutiny. Possibly a coordinator, but even then that could be south of the border.
Officers contacted two men outside a trailer home and called out another five from inside the brown single-wide trailer, all of whom cooperated with the investigation without resistance
A indication that the police were dealing with pros.
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Pappy: When Sinaloa Chihuahua,Chihuahua commander Elizabeth Rodriguez Griego was murdered last August, it came out that Griego gave to go ahead for the abduction of current Chihuahua Governor Cesar Duarte's nephew, which ended with the nephew being murdered after resisting the abduction; I was left with the impression that cartel subcommanders like Griego are hands on kind of people. They intervene when there's a fat target, they order their teams to take on a specific target and they generally know what is about to take place within their area of operation.
The murder of Duarte's nephew appeared to be a political crime, a signal, if you will, that the Sinaloa Cartel can own him so he better line up at the payee window.
I suspect that if this group has Sinaloa ties, that a subcommander is probably in the area giving orders, selecting targets, etc.
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The upshot to all the above is that at least when there's a Sinaloa Cartel operation in an area, there's usually a commander on site. Apparently, Shorty doesn't like details too much, but he likes controls, so he delegates authority to site commanders like the late Ms. Griego.
If this was a Sinaloa operation, it's pretty likely there's a site commander nearby.
The question is still whether they were freelancers working for a particular cartel, or any number of cartels, or just organized crime groups. Kidnapping for ransom is big business in Phoenix and has been for a few years.
Most likely we won't see any specific information for months, if ever.
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Pappy - it would seem that free-lance hit teams would be dangerous for internal security, mistakes, uncontrollable, etc. I suspect they are aligned, but not full-time soldiers
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(KUNA) -- Two soldiers were killed and another maimed in a Islamic myrmidon attack on their checkpost in lawless tribal region of Wazoo on Saturday, said officials.
A group of suspected Talibs attacked a security checkpost in Badar area of South Wazoo tribal agency, bordering Afghanistan, with rockets and small arms, security officials told KUNA.
The ambush left two soldiers killed and another maimed, said officials.
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The soldiers were likely Frontier Constabulary rather than regular Pak Army.
As far as "clearing", think of it more as the Paks smacking down renegades. Long as the Talibunnies' aggression is aimed toward A'stan - it's okay.
(KUNA) -- At least one person was killed and more than sixteen others including women were maimed in firing between two rival groups in Islamabads twin city of Rawalpindi on Saturday, said police.
The firing was taking place between two rival groups near Punjab Governor House in Rawalpindi, only two kilometers from Islamabad, police sources told KUNA. They said, so far, one person was been confirmed killed and more than sixteen maimed have been rushed to nearby hospitals.
The cause of firing between the two groups was not immediately available. Police said that it was trying to bring the situation under control. Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... the firing was still continuing till the filing of this report.
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[Dawn] The Balochistan government has decided to take action against a banned religious out-fit involved in assassinations in the province.
Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani, in a high-level meeting on Saturday, said that those involved in assassinations, terrorism and kidnapping for ransom would not be spared.
He directed the law enforcing agencies to take action against criminal element without any discrimination and political pressure.
The meeting also decided to contact the Punjab government for action against the banned organisation.
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[Pak Daily Times] Terrorists attacked a military checkpost on Saturday, killing two soldiers in a restive tribal district on the Afghan border, a security official said. The attack took place in the Border area, 30 kilometres of Wana, the main town in South Wazoo district. "Militants attacked a military checkpost in South Wazoo and killed two soldiers," a security bigshot in the area said on condition of anonymity. Another security official confirmed the attack and casualties. Pakistain launched a major ground and air offensive in South Wazoo last year to clear the area of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), which has been blamed for some of the country's worst violence.
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[Pak Daily Times] The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) on Saturday jugged eight intending hajis for trying to smuggle heroin to Soddy Arabia, officials said.
Six people were taken off-board a Jeddah-bound Pakistain International Airlines flight after presence of heroin-filled capsules in their stomachs.
ANF Commandant Brig Muhammad Ameer Khan told Daily Times that the ANF had reports that a gang was using pilgrims to smuggle drugs to Soddy Arabia. He said two more pilgrims were jugged from the Haji Camp.
The jugged were identified as Muhammad Ishaq and Tanveerul Hassan of Sheikhupura, Muhammad Saeed of Khushab, Muhammad Riaz, Ghulam Muhammad Khan and Khan Mir of Mianwali, Wajid Khan of Mardan and Syed Wali of the Orakzai Agency. ... home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar...
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[Pak Daily Times] The Judge of Special Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Rawalpindi, Malik Akram Awan, on Saturday ordered the release of seven suspects jugged for their alleged involvement in suicide kabooms on FC checkpost and special branch owing to a lack of evidences.
The suicide kaboom was carried out against FC checkpost located at Sector F-7/3, Margalla Road near Jinnah Super market on April 4, 2009. Six personnel of the FC were killed while many others were maimed in the attack.
The second attack was carried out on branch of special police in Aabpara cop shoppe area and as a result, one policeman was killed. Police had presented three accused, including Khurram Shehzad, Muhammad Awais and Khairullah Mehsood, in the court in special branch attack case.
All the accused were found not guilty and were released owing to a lack of evidence and not presenting witnesses in the court.
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A prominent Baghdad church was attacked during mass Sunday evening, and assailants were holding parishioners hostage as Iraqi troops ringed the area.
Before storming the Assyrian Catholic church, the gunmen, armed with grenades, handguns, and a car bomb, got into a gun battle with guards outside a branch of the Baghdad stock exchange. Two guards were killed in that confrontation.
As Iraqi soldiers moved in on the terrorists, they drove off in a vehicle rigged with explosives, parked it at the front entrance of Our Lady of Salvation Church, and detonated a car bomb outside. After the blast, the gunmen ran into the church.
"Their accent was not Iraqi," according to a witness. He said that they were demanding the release of al Qaeda inmates held in Iraq.
Update 3 (17:32 EDT): US military says up to 24 dead
7 Iraqi security troops, 5-7 terrorists, up to 10 hostages killed. 30 injured out of 120 in the church.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: A soldier was killed and three others wounded in an attack by gunmen on a joint security checkpoint in western Baghdad city on Saturday, a security source in Baghdad said.
Unidentified gunmen opened fire today (Oct. 30) on a joint police and army checkpoint in the area of Abu Ghraib, western Baghdad, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The attack left a soldier killed and two soldiers others and one policeman wounded, he added, not giving further information.
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A village leader was gunned down in a drive-by shooting on the in Pattani province on Saturday afternoon, police said.
Arun Thongsai, 48, was on his motorcycle when he was attacked by a gunman riding pillion on another motorcycle. He was shot several tines and pronounced dead soon after arriving at the hospital.
An intelligence source in southern Thailand warned authorities in Yala province about possible terrorist activities from Oct. 31 until Nov. 5, local website Kom Chad Luek said.
According to the story, terror cells insurgent groups in Bannang Sata, Raman and Thanto districts in southern Yala planned shooting and bombing attacks against rangers, patrol police and troops. Local market and Yala-Baetong Road are likely targets.
Yala province has witnessed at least three bombings at rubber plantations, injuring and maiming a number of innocent people.
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[Al Jazeera] Nato-led troops have killed more than 30 Taliban fighters after their base was attacked in 
Armed people fired on two oil trucks on their way from Aden to Taiz on Friday night in the Karish district, Lahj, burning one of them and damaging the second.
[Al Jazeera] Yemen has 
An alleged criminal was killed in a 'shootout' between Rapid Action Battalion and an armed gang at Piarpur in Sadar upazila of Faridpur early yesterday.
[Al Jazeera] Swedish authorities are holding two people 
[Pak Daily Times] The Judge of Special Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Rawalpindi, Malik Akram Awan, on Saturday ordered the release of seven suspects 
A prominent Baghdad church was attacked during mass Sunday evening, and assailants were holding parishioners hostage as Iraqi troops ringed the area.
