[Tolo News] Four faceless myrmidons have been killed in the northern Takhar province yesterday, officials said on Tuesday.
The incident happened as a group of Taliban faceless myrmidons attempted to attack the venue of local authorities meeting in Khwajaghar district of Takhar province on Monday afternoon, Head of the district, Mohammad Omar said.
During a shootout between the Afghan police and the bully boys, four of the Talibs were bumped off.
According to local officials four other forces of Evil have been maimed in the exchange of fire.
The Afghan police have suffered no casulaties in the incident.
The Taliban have not yet made any comments.
Takhar province borders Kunduz province in the north and has often been the scene of bully boy attacks.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Police on Tuesday identified Albert Olando Mulanda, a 35-year-old Tanzanian, as the bus bomber who injured 41 people in a grenade attack on Monday night.
Mulanda, the only person to die in the incident, entered the country through Oloitoktok on October 23, using temporary pass number 0903962, Commissioner of Police Mathew Iteere said on Tuesday.
Police insist that Mulanda acted alone and not as part of a larger group as earlier thought. Witnesses had described the attack as having been carried out by three people, others by as many as seven men.
Mulanda's fingerprints have been sent to the Tanzanian National Registration Bureau for confirmation of his identity. His body is at the City Mortuary.
The explosive device has been positively identified as a Russian-made F1 hand grenade, believed to have originated from a neighbouring country and similar to another which blew up in the Embakasi District Commissioner's Land Rover in Eastleigh Section III on December 3.
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Police are linking the explosion in Nairobi's River Road targeting Kampala Coach to two other grenade explosions in the city earlier in the month and the discovery of 26 detonators on a bus in Uganda later.
Detectives are now trying to trace local and international mobile phone numbers found in a notebook recovered from the suspected bomber's pockets.
"We are in the process of checking the contents of the notebook, but it seems that the grenade was destined for Uganda," Mr Iteere said.
Investigations into the two grenade attacks in Eastleigh and Kasarani have since established that the two suspects who were shot dead by police after killing two traffic police officers at the Roysambu roundabout had entered the country three days earlier in the company of two others.
Information obtained from their seized mobile phones included an SMS message with the registration number of a vehicle.
Kenyan police forwarded the registration number to Ugandan police who intercepted the bus in Uganda and recovered 26 detonators destined for Kampala. Mulanda, booked on seat number F4, is now the only person the police are confirming as having died though on Monday night, they had released information that a woman had been declared dead on arrival at the Nairobi Hospital.
On Tuesday, police commended the Kampala Coach security personnel for thwarting the terror plot.
Mr Iteere expressed concern about the large number of Ethiopian and Somali nationals entering the country illegally and warned that owners of vehicles found sneaking aliens into the country will be paraded and charged in court.
He asked Kenyans to be more vigilant, especially during this festive season and report any suspicious persons to police.
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[Iran Press TV] A bomb kaboom at a bus station in central Nairobi has claimed the lives of at least three people and left more than 30 others injured, security officials say.
Kenya's police say the bomb went off on Monday while people were boarding the bus. Most of the injured are Ugandans, who were traveling home for Christmas.
"The luggage part of the bus was totally damaged. I have seen at least five maimed people, they were evacuated by paramedics," Robert Chesir, one of the witnesses, told Press TV.
Police officers immediately cordoned off the area and launched an investigation into the incident.
No one has grabbed credit for the attack, but some blame al-Shaboobs in Somalia for the blast. The group had threatened to carry out attacks on Uganda and Burundi for their deployment of troops to Mogadishu.
The kaboom comes as Ugandan police allege that it has credible information regarding a planned terror attack in Kampala.
In July, Kampala suffered twin blasts that claimed the lives of over 76 people watching a World cup match. The al-Shabaab group grabbed credit for the attacks.
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Another tombstone for Thugburg Cemetery (& pig farm.)
A senior Saudi al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula propagandist who founded the terror group's media arm has been killed during fighting with Yemeni security forces.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) announced the death of Nayef bin Mohammed bin Said al Kudri Qahtani, who is better known as Abu Hammam Qahtani, in a statement released on jihadist websites. The martyrdom statement, authored by AQAP operative Abu Khalid al Asiri, did not disclose the date and location of Qahtani's death.
[Bangla Daily Star] A regional leader of outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP)
Them again. You'd think a bunch of Maoists would at some point busy themselves with a thousand mile march or something, instead of getting on the wrong side of the Rab.
Janajudhha faction was killed in a 'shootout' between his cohorts and the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at Varara village of Pabna Sadar upazila yesterday.
He was identified as Anisur Rahman alias Anis Master, 45, son of Gafur Amin Biswas of the village.
A two-namer son of a three-namer? The family fortunes are clearly sinking.
Captain SM Nadim Arefin Sumon, assistant director of Pabna Rab camp, said acting on a tip off from the always reliable Mahmoud the Weasel Rab raided Varara Shahi mosque area as two criminal groups were locked in a 'shootout' over supremacy in the area. Rab opened fire to disperse the criminals.
For shame! Brawling like common criminals instead of acting together for the betterment of all mankind. To what depths have the Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) Janajudhha faction fallen.
Criminals then left the place by firing. Later, Rab recovered the body of Anis from the spot.
Rab recovered a rifle, one revolver, an LG, 10 bullets and some sharp weapons from the spot.
Anis' body was sent to Pabna General Hospital morgue for an appointment with Dr. Quincy. He was accused in a number of cases including two for murder.
Wanted on a number of systems for being other than gentlemanly? Tsk, tsk, tsk. A good thing the Rab got involved.
According to Rab, though villagers called him Master Anis as he joined in a local madrasa, he belonged to PBCP Janajudhha and operated living in Pabna town.
From one totalitarian system to another, different excuses for similar goals.
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BRITISH security officials say a large-scale terror attack was aimed at landmarks and public spaces, as more details of the plot emerged and police searched the homes of 12 British suspects being held for questioning.
The men were arrested yesterday in the largest counterterrorism raid in nearly two years. At least five were of Bangladeshi origin.
Lord Carlile, the government's independent reviewer of terror legislation, said overnight the alleged plot appeared significant and involved several UK cities. Police have up to 28 days to either charge the men or release them.
Possible targets included the Houses of Parliament and shopping areas, according to a security official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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Of course not, Joe. They would be a delicious source of publicity and morale building if such an attack were to come off.
Those who do not wish us to wage War on Terror have not yet come to grips with the fact that even if we do not declare such a war on them, the Islamicists are quite determinedly at war with us.
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I have been watching in eyebrow amusement reality catching up with some computer games, C&C Generals with US units for example.
Another game along those lines takes a more serious approach. Address is to a mission intro, it is in French but non-speakers I think will get the point.
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Armed suspects attacked a police station in southern Nuevo Leon, while a Mexican Army unit rescued five kidnapping victims and atrrested 11 suspects in Guadalupe, say Mexican press accounts.
The attack began at about 2230 hrs. Armed suspects assaulted the police station in General teran on Bulevar Plutarco ElÃas Calles using hand grenades and assault rifles. While several police ere present during the attack no one was wounded. Damage was limited to the building, two patrol vehicles and an ambulance caused by small arms fire. The vehicles were set afire.
General Teran is about 105 kilometers south of Monterrey.
In Guadalupe, a suburb of Monterrey, a Mexican Army unit rescued seven kidnapping victims, seized a quantity of contraband and arrested nine criminal suspects.
Five more victims were found in a nearby safe house. No gunfire was reported in the rescue, and no one was reported hurt.
Arrested were Luis Alonso Hernandez Bautista, alias El Guicho, Margarito Marquez Saucedo, alias Blade, Osiel Garcia Torres, alias El Sheriff, Jesús Manuel Hernandez Juarez, alias El Meme, Coral Gutierrez Zamora, 25, Jorge Alberto Salinas Cepeda, alias El Porto, Margarito Alejandre Mendoza, alias El Tolano, Jose Angel Favela Cruz, alias El Chuqui, 16 years old, and Marlene Anahi Martinez Juarez, 15. Two minor children belonging to Coral Gutierrez Zamora were found at the scene.
The military also seized four rifles, ammunition, a bulletproof vest, police uniforms, two radios and about 10 kilograms of marijuana.
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A Mexican Army unit has freed 11 hostages held in Canatlan municipality, Durango, according to Mexican news reports.
A detachment of the Mexican 10th Military Zone was dispatched to the village of Cuatillos, which is roughly 40 kilometers north of Durango, Durango Sunday after an anonymous phone call alerted authorities to the location of the victims.
One unidentified man was arrested reports said was an element of organized crime.
Seized the the rescue was four AK-47 assault rifles, one M-1 .30 caliber carbine, one .30 caliber pistol, one fragmentary hand grenade, 27 magazines, 777 cartridges and one stolen Ford Lobo pickup truck.
[Iran Press TV] Former Mexican presidential candidate Diego Fernandez de Cevallos has been sprung by his kidnappers and is safe at home, seven months after being kidnapped.
"First I have to tell you that I thank God and the Virgin for the help they gave me minute by minute during the past seven months," he said in his house in Mexico City on Monday, AP reported. "I'm strong and my life will continue the same."
The 68-year-old Mexican political power broker was kidnapped on May 14 near his ranch in Mexico's central state of Queretaro.
Five days later, his captors released photos of a blindfolded, grim-faced, bare-chested man who greatly resembled Fernandez. The move was apparently meant to put pressure on the politician's family to pay a ransom for his release.
Local news media reported in October that the family paid more than $20 million in ransom, though the family never confirmed the report.
His car was found with some of his belongings inside and blood on a pair of scissors thrown on the ground nearby.
Fernandez, a member of President Felipe Calderon's National Action Party (PAN), is known as "El Jefe Diego" or "Diego the Boss." He emerged from relative obscurity during the 1994 presidential election, which he lost to Ernesto Zedillo.
He has been one of the most influential players in his party and Mexican politics over the past two decades.
Kidnapping of executives, public officials, and ordinary citizens for ransom is rife in Mexico. The abductions often end in the deaths of victims.
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A total of 19 individuals were murdered in northern Mexican states in ongoing drug and gang related violence which included four youths shot execution style Tuesday in Juarez.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Monday morning, say Mexican news accounts. The victim was found wrapped in a blanket on calle Rio Amazonas in the Riberas de Sacramento colony with several gunshot wounds to the head.
An unidentified man was shot to death in Juarez Monday afternoon, according to Mexican news reports. The victim was attacked by armed suspects using assault rifles in front of the Chili's restaurant on Avenida Manuel Gomez Morin while driving his Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck. The victim crashed the vehicle into another vehicle as he was shot.
An unidentified man was shot to death in Juarez Monday afternoon, say Mexican press accounts. The victim was driving his Hinda Civic near the corner of calles Puerto Obladia and Salado in the Heroes de Mexico colony when he was shot.
A police officer was shot to death in Juarez Monday evening say Mexican press reports. The victim was driving his Chevrolet Silverado with an unidentified adult female and a child aboard when he was shot. Reports say the officer was the intended victim of an earlier shooting in the same area, and that the earlier shooting was likely a mistake. The passengers were unharmed in the assault.
A shootout between police agents and armed suspects has left four unidentified individuals dead total Tuesday, according to Mexican news accounts. The attack took place at the Gorditas Tony gorditas restaurant near the intersection of calles Juan Escutia and Francisco Zarco in the Melchor Ocampo colony where two police agents were dining. An armed suspect fired on the officers prompting return fire killing one the agents, and three other civilians. The other police agent was wounded in the gunfight.
Four young men were shot to death in Juarez Tuesday afternoon, say Mexican news accounts. The victims were executed near the intersection of calles Rivera Ixtapalapa and Rivera Peñasco in the Etapa VII colony when armed suspects forced the victims to their knees and then shot them. Two of the victims were children and silbings, and reports say two were Chinese
A man shot in the chest late Monday night died of his wounds, say Mexican press reports. Juan Carlos Ordoñez Ordoñez, 21, was shot near the junction of Bulevar Independencia and Calle Independencia in the Tierra Nueva ciolony just before 2300 hrs Monday night.
A man was shot and wounded in Tijuana, Baja California Monday night, say Mexican press reports. Fernando Montoya Gomez was involved in a brawl on Avenida Diego Ãlvarez in the Los Naranjos colony when he was shot. Several youths approached the victim and opened fire hitting him in the jaw.
Two extortionists were shot to death by police intervening in a payment drop Saturday night in Torreon Coahuila. Officers came to Bulevar Revolucion and Calle Muzquiz to participate in an extortion payment drop when one of the victims open fire on the police. Return fire killed Luis Roberto Gonzalez Gutierrez, 17, and Miguel Angel Holguin Hernandez, 16. A stolen Chevrolet Corsica sedan was recovered at the scene which was the subject of the extortion.
A man was found shot to death late Sunday night, according to Mexican news reports. The victim was found near the intersection of Bulevar Torreon 2000 and Prolongacion Allende on the Loma Real Dos colony shot in the head and chest.
An unidentified man was found shot to death Sunday night in Torreon, Coahuila, say Mexican press accounts. The victim was found aboard a Nissan sedan near the corner of Periferico Raul Lopez Sanchez and Sección 35 in the Sindicato de Maestros colony with a single gunshot wound to the head.
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Two blankets with "narcomessages" have announced the services of the Sinaloa drug cartel in bringing the killers of a personal justice advocate to justice, say Mexican news accounts. Marisela Escobedo was shot to death Friday night by an unidentified assailant in Chihuahua,a shooting which has enraged officials, citizens and local press in Chihuahua.
Escobedo was involved in a personal crusade to bring her daughter's alleged killer to justice after he was released last May from time served in the murder of her daughter two years ago. The accused killer, Rafael Barraza Sergio Bocanegra, has ties to Los Zetas criminal gang in the Mexican state of Zacatecas. Los Zetas are a bitter nationwide rival of the Sinaloa drug cartel, and have ties to the Juarez drug cartel as well. The Sinaloa cartel is the Juarez cartel's main rival in Chihuahua state. The blankets were quickly removed by police.
A summary of the murder of Marisela Escobedo can be found here.
[Chosun Ilbo] North Korea has had extra surface-to-ship and surface-to-air missiles ready near the western coast since early this week in response to a South Korean artillery drill on Yeonpyeong Island, which took place on Monday.
"The North has deployed more SA-2 surface-to-air missiles and Silkworm surface-to-ship missiles at Cape Deungsan on the western coast," in addition to multiple rocket launchers and coastal artillery, a South Korean government source said Tuesday. "It seemed ready to launch some of the surface-to-ship missiles, so our naval ships moved out of range."
The surface-to-ship missiles have a range of 83-95 km, while the Soviet-made SA-2 surface-to-air missile has a range of 30-40 km, which could pose a threat to South Korean fighter jets in operations over areas near the Northern Limit Line, the de-facto maritime border.
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Last time, Kim & son showed up for a tour, then more guns arrived, and then they attacked. Given their amazing lack of novelty, I wonder if they are planning to wait for some SKor or US ships in disputed ocean, then to light the place up. The SKor seem to think so.
A good test would be to rig up a drone "aluminum foil" ship, that would give off a huge radar image, as well as a handful of decoy UAVs, just to see if any of those antique SA-2s are giving off somewhat more complex electronic signals than they should be.
Of course, if several Nork submarines suddenly submerged, to never reemerge, right then, that would be icing.
[AFP] -- A homemade parcel bomb was found hidden inside a shoe box on an empty train carriage in Rome's metro system on Tuesday, officials said. The device was composed of two short metal tubes stuffed with gunpowder that were connected by wires and had an antenna, but the detonator was missing. It was found by a metro transport worker at around 10:00 am (0900 GMT) in a service area near Rebibbia station on the northeast outskirts of the city.
Prosecutors have opened an inquiry on possible charges of possession and handling of explosive material and police officers were analysing CCTV footage to try and see how the bomb was brought onto the train.
The train started out from Laurentina station in southwest Rome, passing through the city centre and ending up at Rebibbia in northeast Rome.
Alemanno said security officers have now checked all the stations on Rome's metro system and found no other type of suspect packages.
KGUN news has been told the sheriff is about to go on the offensive with a massive show of force to stop smugglers and bandits.
"We're sending out three different teams of eight to 15 deputies in each [sic] that are heavily armed even with sniper teams out to the desert at all hours of the day and night," Sheriff Babeu said.
"We're going to wait until these cartel members come on through and we're going to announce ourselves in Spanish in this known drug smuggling corridor. That this is the sheriff drop your weapons, you're under arrest," Babeu said.
The sheriff admits the chances of having a gun fight are extremely high.
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Arizona Sheriffs have a long reputation as individuals that should not be riled. Such as Sheriff Commodore Perry Owens:
Commodore Owens was the "Law of the West."
When outlaws defied him, they went to their rest.
He carried a forty-four by each side.
When he went after outlaws, they surrendered or died.
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I'm honestly surprised there hasn't been a call for the general militia.
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Sounds like the locals are getting fed up with it all. The Feds sticking their noses in to muck things up will only make the locals even more pissed. You don't want a bunch of pissed off locals, DC. Trust me.
1) The correlation of forces - any of the cartels can field a lot more trigger pullers than the county has deputies and
2) the tendency has been toward more and more outrageous actions by the cartels.
Some of these mokes may just decide to jump the shark and set up a retaliation in force.
Mentioning a third thing will probably call down the wrath of R'burg on me, but the truth is the cartelistas have been fighting gun battles for years. I doubt the deputies have the same small-unit experience even with the likely leavening of ex-military.
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Mercato, it sounds as if they are planning on playing defense. Setting up sniper teams along infiltration corridors rather than sweeping the desert. This allows the Sheriff's to engage or not and choose the battlefield. I like the sound of it so far.
First battle will be announcement that they are Sheriff's followed by bad guys firing their weapons followed in turn by snipers taking them down. Depending upon how/when this is reported they might be repeated a number of times before the gangs figure out what's going on and change tactics/routes.
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A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time? Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all fuckin' night.
[Bangla Daily Star] Security was stepped up in India's financial capital Mumbai yesterday, after intelligence warnings of a possible Islamic exemplar attack targeting foreigners, the Press Trust of India (PTI) said.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was scheduled to fly to Mumbai on today on the second leg of a two-day India visit.
"Extensive security measures have been put in place and an alert has been sounded in the city in the wake of inputs of a terror threat ahead of Christmas and the New Year," PTI quoted Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjeev Dayal as saying.
"There are conscious efforts by terror organisations to target foreigners during these two festivals here," Dayal said.
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Suspected Islamic terrorists militants gunned down three people, a married couple included, in southern Thailand as officials boost security for New Year celebrations.
The husband, 49, and wife, 47, were shot dead at their stall selling pork at a weekly market in Pattani province on Tuesday evening. Police said the man worked for the local authority.
Also in Pattani, a 43-year-old construction worker at a Thai army base was killed in a drive-by shooting while returning from buying food early Tuesday afternoon.
On Wednesday, the local governor instructed police and soldiers to step up operations, including round-the-clock checkpoints, over heightened fears of attacks over the New Year holiday. "We are focused on risky areas such as roads, markets and security around teachers and high-profile people," he said.
A land official was shot and injured in Pattani province on Wednesday morning.
The deputy chief of Sai Buri police, said a pick-up truck driven by Kanchit Dulayaporn was attacked by men armed with AK47 rifles on a local highway. Mr Kanchit was shot in the left leg and his vehicle, which skidded off the road, was riddled with bullets.
A local official was seriously wounded by a gunman in Yala province on Wednesday afternoon. Aduena Jehtae, 34, was shot in the abdomen.
Eyewitnesses told police they saw a pick-up truck arrive at Mr Aduena's house, 300 metres from a police station. A man went into the house and fired one shot from a handgun before fleeing in the waiting vehicle.
Police blamed the attack on southern terrorists militants.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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A regional leader of outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP)
BRITISH security officials say a large-scale terror attack was aimed at landmarks and public spaces, as more details of the plot emerged and police searched the homes of 12 British suspects being held for questioning.
Suspected Islamic 
