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Just thinking out loud here, but what prevents the R-haven trolls from suing individuals who post on sites like this? Right now they are going for the low lying fruit -- the sites themselves. But that won't last. Sites are quickly wising up and will use the DMCA Safe Harbor and similar defensive tactics.
So, what's next? I'm guessing maybe going after the individuals who post. They won't have DMCA protection. So, file a Doe suit, subpoena the IP logs from the site owner and then hit up individuals for Dane Geld. Worked for the RIAA and MPAA. Same economics apply -- pay us $xxxx to settle or fight in court for $xxxxx.
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what prevents the R-haven trolls from suing individuals who post on sites like this?
That's a hornet's nest that even the trolls at R----haven should be afraid to stir up - especially if it appeared that only those on the right were attacked in this way. Most smart commenters also don't post anything but short excerpts from articles, which is "fair use". If R----haven started after individual commenters, it would be time to start a RICO investigation of that vile nest of vipers. If they attacked the left, things could get REALLY nasty.
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If R----haven started after individual commenters...
Then some of those individuals may decide to visit these vermin personally. It is only a matter of time before someone makes an example out of these scumbags. Right or wrong...just sayin'.
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especially if it appeared that only those on the right were attacked in this way
Actually, they've gone after Democratic Underground which is waaay to the left of the Kos Kiddies.
Which, of course, caused lots of legal and, er, 'moral' support to come forth in its defense.
Sheree J. Wilson aka April Stevens in "Dallas" aka Ashley Taylor in "Fraternity Vacation" aka Alex Cahill in "Walker, Texas Ranger" aka Leslie in "Hellbound" (age 52)
From Fred: We're "over the top" by about $75, but there are checks in the mail, one of them for $150 and another for $200. That should cover hosting through March.
When asked about money out of his own pocket for the settlement: Not a bit out of my pocket. I can't tell you how overwhelmed I am.
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I am quoting myself now, so there should be no problems....
WELL DONE, RANTBURGERS!
Fred, you can count on your Rantburgers to come to your aid when you need us to. DO NOT feel uncomfortable if you need to do this. We are quite the community, you know. Not like some...
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I'm kinda new here and I'm glad I found this place.
First time I ever felt the need to contribute to a blog.
Thanks Fred for running this place and keeping it an oasis, in the otherwise wasteland of the internet.
If anything this WrongHaven crisis has pulled our little community closer together.
Karma is a bitch and they will get theirs - soon I hope.
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I wish I could have helped this time. With the rent in CA and paying our mortgage in CO, we are really stretched thin. I'm glad the 'burgers pulled through though. This site is priceless!
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As I recall, you've pitched in before, dear DarthVader, as have so many over the years. Rantburg really is a group project in the very best way. :-) Thank you, Fred, for sharing what started out as a place to keep your notes on the world after 9/11.
Anyone who tells me that this arsehole is not a proxy for the regime and the Mainstream media is living in Delusionia.
This guy is demanding the courts shut down the Drudge Report and turn the domain over to HIM because Drudge HYPERLINKED to the Las Vegas Review Journal from a Denver Post pic on his site. THAT, according to the Legal Arsehole is infringement and it is suing for untold damages citing willful infringement, costs, and an injunction that would allow Righthaven to seize the Drudge Report domain.
If this succeeds - the TOLs Days (and any news discussion forum) are finished and numbered. You can be sued for simply linking TO any mainstream news outlet to reference the news or make your point of discussion.
We knew this was coming.
Copyright troll Righthaven sues for control of Drudge Report domain
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/12/copyright-troll-righthaven-sues-for-control-of-drudge-report-domain.ars
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Someone remind me that is it bad and illegal to execute all these righthaven lawyer fucks, will you?
Thanks TW for the reminder. I mentioned I donated to Rantburg to a liberal family member that was wondering if online news sites could be profitable. She was dumbfounded that a site could break even at least when the MSM sites were going under. I only said they printed news, not gossip and propaganda. To the good fight Fred. I'll send more when I have extra.
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Mikey,
I would be stunned if any court took Wronghaven's side on links (unless a judge has been bought & paid for.) Links are the internet age's equivalent of a citation.
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I'd look at it this way: When lawyers and journalists and politicians fear a malpractice suit as much as doctors do, we'll be getting somewhere.
Somewhere's a long way off...
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Someone remind me that is it bad and illegal to execute all these righthaven lawyer fucks, will you?
The mills of justice may grind slowly, but they will grind exceeding small, DarthVader. Matt Drudge's cofounder, as I recall, was Andrew Breitbart, of whom you may have heard. I think we can trust that Mr. Drudge will not enter the tilting field armed with a lollipop.
[Al Jazeera] At least 47 people have been killed, more than a dozen of them civilians, in violence across Afghanistan ahead of a planned US review of its strategy in the near decade-long conflict.
In one incident on Saturday, a NATO air raid killed at least 25 suspected fighters in eastern Afghanistan.
Officials said a NATO force out on patrol had called in air support after encountering an "imminent threat" from fighters in the Nari district of Kunar province, ... which is right down the road from Binny's house in Chitral... which has been the scene of heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... along the Pak border.
Elsewhere, in southern Afghanistan, a roadside kaboom killed 15 civilians and a car boommaimed five police.
In Kandahar, a jacket wallah driving a police car maimed nine people, when the car went kaboom! near a police headquarters.
The blast blew out the windows of buildings up to a kilometre and a half away, officials said.
Street protest
In the east, seven men died in a disputed incident that sent hundreds pouring onto the streets of Gardez city in a protest that turned violent.
Armed police and protesters fired at each other and burning tyre barricades filled the streets with smoke. Six civilians and two coppers were maimed, said Nader Noori, doctor at the Gardez hospital.
Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... continues in the east even though the main focus of the war is in the south where NATO forces have pushed deeper into Taliban strongholds in Helmand and Kandahar provinces.
The violence comes as Barack B.O. Obama, the US president, prepares to unveil a review of his Afghanistan war strategy next week, although officials have said they do not expect it to result in any major policy shifts.
Obama has pledged to start bringing home US troops from July 2011, but has not yet decided on the pace or scale of that withdrawal.
Any draw down is likely to be more symbolic than substantial, but his 2011 target has drawn criticism from some Republicans who say announcing a date emboldens the Taliban.
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Any draw down is likely to be more symbolic than substantial, but his 2011 target has drawn criticism from some Republicans ... and any six year old who say announcing a date emboldens the Taliban.
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[Iran Press TV] The Taliban claim they have killed 14 members of the Afghan national police at a police checkpoint in the northern part of the country.
Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid told the Afghan Islamic Press that the hard boyz fatally shot 14 coppers on Saturday during an attack on a checkpoint in Baghlan province.
A police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed the incident but rejected the alleged corpse count.
In another incident on the same day, nine coppers were kidnapped after their remote post was overrun by hard boyz in Balkh province.
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December 1979 and Soviet troops withdrew from the country in February 1989, after a little less than nine years and two months of war.
The United States and some of its allies invaded Afghanistan in October 2001. The US-led troops have now been fighting in Afghanistan longer than the Soviet occupation and war.
2010 has been the deadliest year of the nine-year war in Afghanistan, with casualties among civilians and foreign troops at record levels, mainly due to an increase in Taliban attacks.
As casualties have risen in Afghanistan over the past few months, public opinion has begun turning against the war in the United States and other countries.
In addition, hundreds of civilians have bit the dust in US-led operations in various parts of Afghanistan over the past few months, with Afghans becoming more and more outraged over the seemingly endless number of deadly assaults.
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[Emirates 24/7] Sudan's army attacked the only Darfur rebel group to sign a 2006 peace deal, burning houses and forcing up to 250 civilians to flee, international peacekeepers said on Saturday.
The festivities on Friday and Saturday were the latest in a series reported between the government and the Sudan Liberation Movement loyal to Minni Arcua Minnawi, who signed the Darfur Peace Agreement.
Sudan's army declared Minnawi's forces a military target this month, accusing him of breaking a ceasefire and plotting to join other hard boyz still fighting the government.
"There have been two ground attacks, one yesterday morning and another today at around 11 am (0800 GMT)," said Chris Cycmanick, front man for Darfur's joint UN/African Union UNAMID peacekeeping force. "They were attacks by SAF (Sudan Armed Forces) on Minni Minnawi elements."
Both attacks were on the village of Khor Abeche, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of the capital of south Darfur, Nyala, he said.
At least one person was killed and 16 injured in the first clash which forced up to 250 civilians to take shelter at a nearby UNAMID base, Cycmanick said.
At least five people were maimed in Saturday's assault when attackers also set fire to houses, he added.
No one was immediately available for comment from the army.
Minnawi became a presidential assistant after signing the internationally-brokered accord in the Nigerian capital Abuja in May 2006. The deal was boycotted by Darfur's two other main rebels forces and did nothing to end the fighting and banditry in the remote western region.
After elections in April Minnawi was not re-appointed to the presidential post, technically the fourth most senior position in the country. He recently moved to the capital of south Sudan, Juba.
Mostly non-Arab rebels took up arms in Darfur in 2003, accusing the Khartoum government of neglecting the region. Khartoum set out to crush the rebellion with troops and mostly Arab militias, unleashing a wave of violence which Washington and some activists call genocide.
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[Iran Press TV] At least 23 people have been killed and many more have been injured in festivities between fighters from two rival groups in southern Somalia.
The battles between members of al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam forces broke out on Saturday in Burhakaba town, located some 110 kilometers (68 miles) southwest of the Somali capital, the Press TV correspondent in Mogadishu reported.
According to residents, Hizbul Islam fighters attacked the town early Saturday morning, but met with stiff resistance from the al-Shaboobs who rule the town.
On December 1, al-Shaboobs managed to gain control of Burhakaba town following fierce festivities with Hizbul Islam.
Al-Shabaab fighters had previously told Hizbul Islam not to set up more checkpoints in and around Burhakaba town, which is located in the Bay region of southern Somalia.
However, The infamous However... Hizbul Islam forces paid no heed to the warning, according to local residents. Then Al-Shabaab fighters attacked Hizbul Islam positions and took control of the town.
The International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) has reported that hundreds of civilians were maimed in fighting in Somalia in recent months.
The Geneva-based humanitarian institution said that a total of 5,000 patients with war injuries, including 1,900 women and kiddies, were admitted to Mogadishu's Keysaney and Medina hospitals from January through September.
Compared to last year, it is an increase of 25 percent in the total number of war casualties and 72 percent in the number of war-maimedwomen and kiddies admitted to the hospitals.
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Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
Over the past two decades, up to one million people have bit the dust in fighting between rival factions and due to famine and disease.
There are more than 1.4 million internally displaced people (IDPs) in Somalia. Over 300,000 of the IDPs are sheltered in Mogadishu.
The United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society High Commissioner for Refugees reported that most of the displaced live in poor and degrading conditions on makeshift sites in southern and central Somalia.
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We now have a legitimate target for an ARCLIGHT strike. Tell the locals who aren't a part of Al-shaboobs to leave, and bomb the village into dust.
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[Yemen Post] A Yemeni court, specialized in the cases of terrorism and state security in Aden province sentenced to death, Fares Abdullah Saleh, 25, the main suspect behind the bombing of Al-Wahdah Sports Club in Shiekh Othman district, Aden, which killed at least four people, and maimed 14 others on October 11.
Local sources said that the court sentenced the second suspect, Fares's brother, Raed Abdullah Saleh, to five years in jail, while the third, fourth, and fifth were acquitted.
In return, hundreds of people protested in Dhale province denouncing the verdict, rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against the government, and blocked off the main road and burned tires in the town's centre.
Late last week, Yemeni authorities released dozen of southern movement detainees, including Hassan Ba'om, the head of the Supreme Council of the Southern Movement, and his colleagues, who were jugged nearly month ago.
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[Yemen Post] Separatists kidnapped seven coppers including an officer and took them to an unknown place, in a move which local sources in Lahj and Dhale said came after a court sentenced the main suspect in the bombings of an Aden sports club to death.
The gang from the southern separatist movement kidnapped five of the coppers in Radfan and Lahj, while the other two in Dhale, the sources said.
Separatists also closed the highway connecting Dhale with other provinces and they also burned tires in streets.
The verdict sparked a backlash by people in Dhale, the province from where the convicted come. They staged a demonstration in protest against what they said was an unfair verdict and urged to release the two brothers soon.
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[Yemen Post] The Sana'a Specialized Penal Appeal Court which handles terror cases upheld on Saturday the verdict against seven Al-Qaeda members receiving up to 5-10 years in prison. Two of them were sentenced to ten years and two others to seven years in jail.
During the hearing chaired by Judge Muhammad Al-Hakimi, the court reduced the sentences of two convicts: one from ten years to seven years and the other from seven to five years.
The seven were convicted in January 2010 of forming a terrorist group to carry out attacks against tourists and Yemeni and foreign interests.
Three were given ten-year sentences, three others given seven-year terms and the seventh was sentenced to five years in jail.
Hearing the court upholding the verdict, the group shouted Allah is the greatest and vowed to attack the U.S. and Arab presidents.
One of them said:" our message to Obama is that we swear to Allah 'we will not let you and Arab leaders." We will continue Jihad, Hussein Al-Marwala said.
They were jugged in October 2009 while preparing explosives and watching tourist buses to attack them, and their trial opened in October 17.
In recent years, Yemen has launched an unabated war against and a massive hunt for gunnies across the republic. Many suspects were killed, maimed and jugged. It also dismantled many terrorist cells.
Some of the jugged went on trial receiving death and jail sentences.
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[Emirates 24/7] A court in Yemen's Hadramaut province set up for security cases on Saturday sentenced 12 alleged Al-Qaeda members to between four and seven years in jail, a judicial official said.
Eight defendants were sentenced to seven years in jail, four others to five years, and the other two to four years, the official said.
"You do not judge according to Islamic law. You are unjust," one of the defendants told the judge, according to a witness.
The 12 were charged with forming an gang, planning attacks and procuring passports with the aim of using them to join Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia.
They were accused of sheltering Al-Qaeda bully boyz from Egypt, Jordan, Soddy Arabia and Sudan, Yemen's defence ministry's 26sept.net news website said in early October.
The suspects denied the charges, although a number of them acknowledged having travelled to Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a judiciary official.
Also on Saturday, a Sanaa appeals court for terrorism cases ruled on seven alleged Al-Qaeda members jugged in October 2009 on charges of keeping a tourist bus under observation and preparing explosives to carry out an attack.
It upheld 10-year jail terms for two of the convicts, seven years for two others and five for a third, while cutting the sentences of a sixth alleged Al-Qaeda member from 10 years to seven and of another from seven years to five.
Yemen has intensified a military campaign against Al-Qaeda's local franchise, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, since it grabbed credit for a failed bid on December 25, 2009 to blow up a US-bound airliner by a Nigerian allegedly trained in Yemen.
The ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden, Yemen also faces an on-off Shiite rebellion in the north and separatist unrest in the south of the country.
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[Iran Press TV] The Bahraini police have opened fire on Shia Mohammedans at mourning ceremonies ahead of the martyrdom anniversary of the grandson of Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!), Imam Hussein (PTUI!).
On Saturday, in the village of Malkiya, police disrupted mourning ceremonies traditionally held in the lunar month of Muharram, tried to remove black flags put up by the locals, and then opened fire on the Shias.
The attack injured three people, including a 23-year-old who sustained gunshot wounds in the head and neck but was said to be in serious but stable condition, DPA reported.
The other two sustained rubber bullet wounds to the abdomen.
Bahrain is predominantly Shia but the Persian Gulf kingdom is ruled by a Sunni minority.
The Bahraini authorities have increased the pressure on Shia Mohammedans over the past few months, with reports of numerous arrests and torture at detention centers raising concern about the human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... situation in the country.
Hundreds of people, including prominent Shia holy mans and human rights activists, have been jugged since mid-August, and security forces have harshly put down street protests.
Human rights groups have condemned the crackdown, criticizing Manama for silencing dissent by force.
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It's more of Iran meddling in Bahrain with Shia / Hezib.
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Maybe, newc, but on the face of it, this sounds like it might be a typical Gulf Sunni overreaction to Shia religious ritual. Admittedly, that can get pretty hairy, and hard to tell from a Persian provocation when the whips and chains and blood starts flying.
It might be easier to tell if the source wasn't an Iranian propaganda mill, but then, the Arab Sunni channels probably wouldn't even want to mention the event, either way it actually happeend.
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Perhaps that nice Bahraini lad who poked his head in before the elections could return to explain what really happened...
A hat tip to Nota Roja for additional details.
As many as 13 individuals have died in a gang on gang assault in Tecalitlan, Jalisco Friday night, according to Mexican news accounts.
A group of armed suspects parked vehicles near the corner of Ponce de Leon and Avila Camacho near where about 500 people were attending a mariachi music concert celebrating Virgin of Guadalupe and began firing assault rifles into the crowd.
Although initial reports by the Jalisco attorney general said the shooting was an intergang firefight, it was later found none of the victims were armed or returned fire.
A total of eight people were killed in the attack and another 37 were wounded. The assault included assault rifle fire as well as a hand grenade. Among the dead was a two year old male child.
Two more individuals died from gunshot wounds sustained in the attack. One at a Tecalitlan medical clinic and the other at a regional hospital in nearby Ciudad Guzman. A third victim was found dead aboard a stolen Mazda pickup truck on Kilometer 139 of the Tecalitlan-Tuxpan highway.
Investigators at the scene found more than 500 casings for AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles, and for 9mm and Super 38 pistols.
Reports suggest La Familia from the adjacent state of Michoacan drug cartel is responsible for the attack.
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Mexican Federal and state police authorities have located a mass grave with five dead near a town in far western Chihuahua, according to Mexican press accounts. The victims were found near Ascension in three graves on a ranch at a place known as Los Cerritos.
Authorities were led to the location through an anonymous tip.
Reports say exhumation was halted at noon Saturday, but reports also indicate more bodies could be found.
Eighteen individuals were murdered on drug and gang related violence which included five men found shot to death in far western Sonora. For a map, click here
Two unidentified men were shot to death in Juarez Thursday evening, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. One victim was pursued on foot by armed suspects in front of a clinic near the intersection of calles Oscar Flores and Montes de Oca, forced to kneel down and shot. The second victim was found tortured, gagged with duct tape and dumped near the corner of calles Terceria and Camino Viejo.
Two women were shot to death and a third was seriously wounded in an attack in a residence in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, say Mexican news accounts. The attack took place near the intersection of calles 30th and Samaniego in the Dale colony where armed suspects broke in and shot the victims in the living room, killing two instantly.
A brother and a sister were shot to death in Juarez, according to Mexican news reports. Eustacio Aleman Zendejas and Maria de los Angeles were shot at a residence on calle Sembrador by a lone armed suspect. Reports say Zendejas was acquitted in 2007 for being an accomplice in the kidnapping and murder of a young child in 2005 because of lack of evidence.
Five unidentified individuals were shot to death in Juarez, according to Mexican news accounts. The shooting took place a a tire repair shop near the junction of calles Aceña and Mezquital in the Mezquital colony where several armed suspects armed with assault rifles walked and started shooting employees and owners of the business. Investigators found more than 50 spent shell casings at the scene.
An unidentified man was shot to death in Juarez Friday, say Mexican news accounts. The victim was shot near the intersection of calles Santos Degollado and Division del Norte in the Vicente Guerrero colony. Reports say armed suspects aboard a Volkswagen Jetta sedan and a Ford Lobo pickup truck drove by the scene where officers had arrived and fired on the officers. The suspects escape following a chase.
Five unidentified en were found shot to death in far western Sonora Saturday afternoon, according to Mexican news reports. The victims were found on Kilometer 36 of the Puerto Peñasco-Sonoyta road all shot once in the head and covered in two colored blankets.
An unidentified man was found buried in a shallow grave on a remote site in Sonora. The victim was found halfway between Cananea and Nacozari on Rancho Santa Rosa Nuevo. Reports do not say how the victim died.
From this video... Eles estao cercados, a policia ira pacificar e acabar com o sofrimentos dos moradores que nao tem liberdado in suas respectivas areas!
In other words in regards to the cartels send in the tanks.
The blasts on Saturday took place after Swedish news agency TT said it received a threatening letter about Sweden's military presence in Afghanistan and a years-old case of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad.
Asked if a man found dead at the site of the second blast went kaboom!" in some way, police front man Kjell Lindgren said: "It is possible."
The incident began when a car burst into flames in the city centre, followed by kabooms from within the car which the police said were caused by gas canisters.
Another kaboom took place, in which the man died, about 300 metres (yards) away. Two people were maimed in that blast.
"Most worrying attempt at terrorist attack in crowded part of central Stockholm. Failed - but could have been truly catastrophic," Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said in a message on Twitter, which was also shown on his blog.
Investigations were underway to see if the two incidents were linked, Lindgren said.
Several hours after the blast, the man's body was still lying on the pavement, covered with a white sheet.
"Just lie there quietly, buddy. We've got more important things to attend to just now."
Police vans had cordoned off several streets around the body and the car had been towed away. Elsewhere, the city centre was calm, with people having a normal Saturday night out.
One man said: "It looked as if the man had carried something that went kaboom! in his stomach".
"He had no injuries to the face or body in general and the shops around were not damaged."
He also had a rucksack full of nails and suspected kaboom, the newspaper said. It also quoted eyewitnesses saying the man was shouting in what was apparently Arabic.
The police declined to comment on that report.
TT said the email it received was also sent to the Security Police, which confirmed it had received such a communication, but declined to reveal its contents.
TT said the email had sound files in Swedish and Arabic.
"Our actions will speak for themselves, as long as you do not end your war against Islam and humiliation of the Prophet and your stupid support for the pig Vilks," TT quoted a man as saying in one of the recordings.
TT said the threat was linked to Sweden's contribution to the U.S.-led NATO force in Afghanistan, where it has 500 soldiers, mainly in the north.
It also referred to caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad by the Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who depicted the Prophet with the body of a dog in a cartoon in 2007.
Most Mohammedans consider any depiction of the founder of Islam as offensive.
"This is the first casualty of my project," said Mr Vilks. "It was an act against the Swedish people to scare them and not to me. The good news was that a terrorist died and not someone else."
Evan Kohlmann, a U.S. terrorism consultant, said a small snuffy Islamic community had been based in Sweden for some time. But she thought that the Saturday incident, if an attack, was one man's work.
"However, The infamous However... given the scale of this attack and the target, I suspect this is a homegrown local cut-thoat who may or may not have connections to any actual terrorist organization."
"We've seen a flurry of attempted attacks across northern Europe by similar lone wolf snuffies who were, in one way or another, enraged by the Cartoon controversy."
Lindgren said it was not clear what caused the car to explode. After the first kaboom, the gas canisters caused smaller blasts, he said.
Gas canisters were also part of the homemade bomb which failed to avoid in Times Square in 2010 and when a jeep was rammed into Glasgow airport in 2007.
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...ah, he'd be buried under the stories on the bratty rioters throwing their temper tantrum. The whole purpose is notoriety. He's making a far bigger 'splash' in Sweden.
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It appears I was wrong yesterday in assuming that this one was a better chemist than Faisal the Fizzle Bomber. Surely both car bomb and suicide vest were intended to create vast destruction and death (as was the Times Square car bomb). Although both car and vest did explode, it was probably due to better materials (the FBI has made the good stuff unavailable to the general public in the U.S.), rather than better assembly.
On the other hand Stockholm's bomber at least had the courage of his convictions, unlike poor Mr. Faisal.
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Tipper, I clicked on your links. Facebook has already taken his page down. "Muslima" has not (so far).
Nice guy - murdering strangers is more important to him than caring for his 2 daughters. Guess they're lucky they're girls; he would have probably taken sons with him on his murder/suicide trip jihad.
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Most Mohammedans consider any depiction of the founder of Islam as offensive justification for mass murder.
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According to the Daily Mail, the gentleman in question took a degree in sports therapy from Bedfordshire University in 2004, is 29 years old, and was born in Iraq. He was looking for a second wife on the Muslima site, claiming his first wife had agreed... quite illegal in both England and Sweden, I should think. The kaboomed car was registered to him, and he worked as a sandwich board man for a nearby fish'n'chips shop. It seems the bomber was not quite dead when he was found.
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"Just a preview of the rest of eternity for him, Barbara, should all that Hell stuff be true."
Cockles. Warm. Heart. :-D
Thanks, tw.
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The thought seemed to merit sharing, Barbara dear. The alternative is that he'll end up in his Muslim Paradise without any abdominal muscles, facing all those demanding houris. I wouldn't venture to say which is truly worse.
[Iran Press TV] Dutch police have discovered and confiscated an arsenal of 300 weapons, including rocket launchers and automatic rifles, in a town bordering Germany.
Police front man Jack Van Kleef said on Thursday that they had found a cache of nearly 300 firearms during a raid on a suburban home in the town of Kerkrade, which borders Germany, AFP reported on Friday.
"There were modern firearms such as assault rifles, a rocket launcher, automatic weapons, as well as older weapons like pistols from the early 20th century," the spokesperson said, adding that the weapons were "all in working order."
He further pointed out that police also discovered knives, axes, drugs, and several thousand euros in forged bills.
The inhabitants of the house, a 39-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman, were also jugged.
It is not yet known why the weapons had been kept in the house or where they had come from.
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With scant information, for some reason I don't think this was jihadi, but somebody else. I'm either thinking ETA or bikers.
[Pak Daily Times] Security forces killed nine hard boyz in separate incidents, a security official said on Saturday. According to details, security forces killed five hard boyz after they shot up a foot patrol in the Swat district. The security officials said that some hard boyz were caught and taken to indicate the location of an absconding terrorist. Shah Faisal, in Swat. Terrorists shot up the security forces when they reached the place. The forces retaliated, as a result of which five hard boyz were killed. Separately, security forces killed four hard boyz in the Mohmand Agency. Security forces killed the hard boyz as they repelled an attack on a checkpost in the Saagi area of the Saafi tehsil. Official sources confirmed that hard boyz had attacked the Saagi checkpost with rocket launchers and automatic weapons, but security forces repelled the attack.
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[Pak Daily Times] Police in northwestern Pakistain on Saturday seized a pick-up truck packed with a tonne of explosives, averting an attack that they said could have caused mass destruction. Dilawar Bangash, a local police chief in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... said the attackers intended to use the truck bomb to target religious processions in the city of Kohat marking the holy month of Muharram. Two suspects were jugged, he said, adding that two boom jackets were also seized in the operation. "Thank God, they failed to carry out the attack. It could have caused massive destruction," Khalid Umarzai, local administration chief told a private TV channel.
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The Pakistani accused of leading a passport forgery gang linked to international terrorist groups operated for ten years in Thailand under the protection of powerful connections, according to the officer who headed the investigation.
Muhammad Ather Butt, 39, known simply as Tony and called the "kingpin", allegedly transferred 20 million baht in and out of the country over the past four years and had $90,000 cash hidden in his car when arrested.
Butt, 39, and his girlfriend Sirikalya Kitbamrung, 25, were detained on Nov 30 by Department of Special Investigation (DSI) as they were about to cross into Laos. Another Pakistani, Zezan Azzan Butt, 27, was arrested on the same day in connection with the forgery racket.
The DSI agent who headed the investigation, codenamed Operation Alpha, gave details to the Bangkok Post of the difficulties involved with the case and how Butt was able to operate with such freedom for a decade.
A memeber of Islamic Jihad detained by the Palestinian Authority was hospitalized due to torture, according to his family.
On Sunday, relatives of Muhammad Jamal Sa'di said he was detained 12 days ago by PA forces in Jenin, and that his interrogators tortured him every day. The 21-year-old had been released from Israeli prison just two months ago, after spending over four years in detention, said Islamic Jihad.
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To quote Will Smith, "You pissing everybody off today, huh?"
Bet he never played nicely on the playground when he was a kid either.
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He's pro'ly wishing he'd been pinched by the Israelis ...
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He's pro'ly wishing he'd been pinched by the Israelis
... and that his interrogators tortured him every day
I am pretty sure that the Israelis don't torture on the Sabbath, so you are probably right. :-)
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After four years in the juice control, they prolly figgered the juice had converted him to spy for them. Gotta be sure he's still 'holy' before putting him back to work!
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[Iran Press TV] Two Paleostinians have been killed by an Israeli tank shell fired into the Gazoo Strip, as the relentless onslaught on civilians of the territory continues unabated.
Reports said the two men died near the border fence, east of the al-Bureij refugee camp, late on Saturday when Israeli tanks shelled the area in the central Gazoo Strip.
Earlier, Israeli troops shot and maimed three Paleostinians, one of them a teenager, in the northern Gazoo Strip.
The Paleostinians were reportedly collecting gravel to use in construction work when they came under fire.
Nine Paleostinians have been killed and 71 have been injured by Israeli soldiers while collecting construction material near the Gazoo border in the year 2010.
In the crippling siege imposed by Israel for over three years, Gazoon'>Gazooks are barred from importing building materials they need for the reconstruction of their homes, offices, and infrastructure devastated during Israel's war against the coastal enclave.
The December 2008-January 2009 war claimed the lives of over 1,400 Paleostinians -- most of them women and kiddies.
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this "Gazans killed while collecting gravel" is apparently a new meme. What macro key should we assign it?
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#1: this "Gazans killed while collecting gravel" is apparently a new meme. What macro key should we assign it? Posted by: Frank G|| 2010-12-12 13:04 |
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Gazans killed while collecting gravel
hmmm
Guess its designed to elicit more sympathy to the cause than the old "wedding-party-in-the-desert-at-3AM" shtick
An terrorist insurgent ambush left one security ranger dead and three wounded in Yala province yesterday.
Seven men of the 47th Ranger Regiment's peace building unit were patrolling a village road when gunmen hiding in the brush at the side of the road fired shots at them. The unit returned fire and a ten minute gunfight began during which one army corporal and three paramilitary rangers were wounded. Shortly after the ambush, police and military forces spread out across the area searching for the suspects.
Security officers believe the attack was the work of the terrorist insurgent group headed by Abdulraumae Mini, a leading member of the Runda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK) separatist movement. They had received information that Mr Abdulraumae's group, active in the area, was preparing an attack.
In Narathiwat province, a powerful bomb exploded on a road just before a security patrol reached the area. An eight-member unit from the 34th Narathiwat Task Force was moving by pick-up truck when the bomb, hidden near a power pole, went off about five meters from their vehicle. Nobody was injured.
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Stuxnet is taking out the centrifuges (some accounts say by half) by causing the control software to alternate between speeding up and slowing down the rate of spin while reporting constant RPMs to the monitoring software. That plays heck with the bearings.
Merry Christmas and happy Festival of Lights.
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TW was one of the first as I recall to mention this little bugger. Here is a interesting site to review current thoughts on it;
I remember India was hit hardest at first then Iran. The hits were across the globe and along the equator. Not Russia, China, North Korea,and Germany to name a few.
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Irans anti-worm effort may have had another setback. In Tehran, men on motorcycles attacked two leading nuclear scientists on their way to work. One scientist was wounded and the other killed. Confirmed reports say that the murdered scientist was in charge of dealing with the Stuxnet virus at the nuclear plants.
Halliburton Mysterious Conspiracy Division? Couldn't be the CIA.
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The STUXNET virus was introduced into the Iranian system more than 2 years ago. I wonder what the authors of the virus have been doing for the past couple of years?
At least two missiles that the Iranians tested last year went completely out of control and hit populated areas. I suspect maybe other worm family members may be breeding their defence system.
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STUXNET was a large software deveopment project, much different than the normal worm developed by some individual. It was well thought out, the software development team that was put together were very good software people and the testing (QA) was done in a test environment that emulated the real environment in Iran.
Now that weapon systems and nuclear systems are computerized, this will be a new way of striking down those systems.
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...and If it was NASA or major new US scientific military agency, it was done during the Bush Administration, which would be a huge military innovative tribute to the Bush Administration that we are only now learning about.
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TW was one of the first as I recall to mention this little bugger.
Surely not, Dale, given all the hot programmers and systems security people that hang around Rantburg, and are on all those fascinating (and incomprehensible to us lesser mortals) listserves.
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Optimally, I suppose, would be to have somebody in Iran, who continues to feed Stuxnet and variants into the system when it is purged. Maybe even unknowingly.
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A group I subscribe to (conspiracy theorists they're not, just a bunch of dull 'BACnet' guys) still has folks that believe the worm may have been burned into any number of the machine controllers' circuit board ROMs at the chip manufacturer(s).
That would indeed be a nasty bit of 'corrective action' for anyone.
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Too bad they could not get it into the engine computers of the Iranian Republican Guard and the regime.
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"in 2009, a year before Stuxnet was discovered, Scott Borg of the United States Cyber-Consequences Unit (US-CCU) had suggested that Israel might prefer to mount a cyber-attack rather than a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.[56] According to Borg this kind of attack could involve disrupting sensitive equipment such as centrifuges using malware introduced via infected memory sticks: "Since the autumn of 2002, I have regularly predicted that this sort of cyber-attack tool would eventually be developed ... Israel certainly has the ability to create Stuxnet and there is little downside to such an attack, because it would be virtually impossible to prove who did it. So a tool like Stuxnet is Israel's obvious weapon of choice."[20"
I especially like the fact they are quoting a Borg.
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I have been unduly gleeful about it, though.
Me, too. Assuming cackling is any measure of gleefulness. And instead of unduly, perhaps vicariously is the word you are looking for, TW?
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And instead of unduly, perhaps vicariously is the word you are looking for, TW?
Perhaps you're right, gorb. But so much of my life is vicarious -- while you-all go out and make waves in the world, I make tea and appreciate the stories that result.
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Not necessarily connected, but...hmmm.
A year or so back, in an aerial parade or whatever they have, an Iranian F5 ran into and destroyed one of their few aerial tankers.
Something odd, or, as a person put it years ago, sometimes there really are coincidences.
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Well structured test engineering is the most underutilized tool in the SDLC. Panda 5039 makes an important point.
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"That plays heck wid the Bearings" > Agreed.
Reminds me of WW2 + the 8th USAF's big raids agz SCHWEINFURT + HAMBURG.
See also the repeats of "BATTLE 360" CGI Show on the HISTORY CHANNEL.
* ION DAILY TIMES.PK > {Israeli DM] IRAN NUCLEAR SHOWDOWN STILL AT DIPLOMACY STAGE [UNO Sanctions may still have effect].
[An Nahar] A grenade attack on the home of a member of an al-Qaeda splinter group rocked the Paleostinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hellhole in southern Leb overnight without causing injuries, a security official said on Saturday.
"No one was injured in the hand grenade attack on the home of a Jund al-Sham member from the Sahmarani family ... just before midnight," a police front man told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Jund al-Sham, the Arabic for "Army of Greater Syria," is a radical Sunni beturbanned goon group believed to be based in Ain al-Hilweh, the largest of Leb's 12 refugee camps.
Ain al-Hilweh, outside the southern coastal city of Sidon, has gained notoriety as a refuge for gunnies and runaways.(
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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.
The Pakistani accused of leading a passport forgery gang linked to international terrorist groups operated for ten years in Thailand under the protection of powerful connections, according to the officer who headed the investigation.
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