Thanks for the post. I guess my education was sorely lacking. I had heard of Betty Brosner before. Found that she was married to the health bodybuilder/supplement guru Joe Weider.
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Betty is still very much with us, her astonishing figure is still remarkable at age 75, and she has her own website.
Go ye thereto, and pay homage, for it is good.
[Tolo News] In an Afghan and Nato forces' military operation in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Binny's house in Chitral... on Saturday night, three Taliban capos were killed, local officials told TOLOnews.
Three more down. Good.
The incident happened in Manogai district of Kunar province in which the Taliban capos named Hameedullah, Shad Mir and Zabihullah were killed, officials added.
There were no Afghan, Nato forces and civilian casualties in the incident.
What exactly is an incident?
Taliban have not yet made any comments about the operation.
Certainly not, since it was a very targetted incident. Apparently not so much as a broken fingernail for anyone else.
Manogai is an insecure district where beturbanned goons are active and often use Improvised Explosive Devices to target Afghan and foreign troops.
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An "incident" in cases like this is defined as any event after which you can play Scrabble with jihadi body parts.
[Arab News] Millions of jubilant south Sudanese voted Sunday in an independence referendum expected to see the region splitting away from the north to create Africa's newest nation.
People queued for hours in the burning sun outside polling stations in the southern capital Juba, and many were turned away as the first day of voting in the week-long ballot ended around sundown. Southerners view the poll as a new beginning after decades of civil war.
"This is the moment the people of southern Sudan have been waiting for," southern President Salva Kiir said after casting his ballot, urging people to be patient as they waited to vote.
"I am voting for separation," said Nhial Wier, a veteran of the north-south civil war that led up to the vote. "This day marks the end of my struggles. In the army I was fighting for freedom. I was fighting for separation."
Hours after voting started, the celebratory atmosphere was marred by reports of fresh fighting between Arab nomads and tribespeople associated with the south in the contested oil-rich Abyei region that borders north and south.
The referendum was promised in a 2005 peace deal ending a civil war which has raged on and off since 1955, fuelled by oil and ethnicity, between the mostly Mohammedan north and the south, where most people follow Christianity and traditional beliefs. The war left two million dead and displaced four million people.
The deal allowed Juba to create a semi-autonomous government with its own constitution, laws and parliament.
In Juba, actor George Clooney and US Sen. John I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry ... the Senate's current foreign policy expert, filling the empty wingtips of Joe Biden... mingled with dancing and singing crowds. "It is something to see people actually voting for their freedom. That's not something you see often in your life," Clooney said.
The U.S. has been doing it since the Republic was founded, George. National. State. County. Towns. Perhaps you don't notice it because it's not as dramatic and the press isn't there to fawn over you.
Still, it is heartening when yet another people chooses freedom and self-responsibility, even if if Mr. Clooney is mortifyingly ignorant about his own country's history.
In the north, emotions were also running high. "We feel an incredible sadness that a ... very loved part of Sudan will separate from us," said northern opposition Umma Party official Sara Nuqdullah.
"We must now work to reassure the northerners in the south and southerners in the north and the tribes in the border zone that they will not be harmed," she said, breaking down in tears.
The vote's organizing commission said it had defied gloomy forecasts of delays to deliver all voting materials on time for Sunday's deadline.
The logistical achievements have not been matched by political progress. Southerners went to the polls without knowing how the two countries will share assets, debts or disentangle a complicated citizenship issue.
Thousands of Sudan exiles vote in neighboring countries. Ras Lumumba David, dreadlocked and jubilant, danced outside a polling station in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa where south Sudanese exiles were casting votes.
"Today is my birthday, the birthday of south Sudan," the 50-year-old said as the music of Bob Marley blared over speakers outside the station. "I've been away for 35 years. I've felt like a bird that couldn't land on earth."
Thousands of southern Sudanese lined up to vote in Ethiopia, Egypt, Kenya and Uganda, elated by the prospect of an independent south and a long-awaited return home, despite the myriad challenges the new nation is likely to face.
"Today is a new day," a group of southern Sudanese voters sang in Arabic as they danced in the dirt road outside a polling station in a southern Cairo suburb. "I'm not going backward, I'm moving forward, forward to freedom."
John Loding, a 25-year-old refugee in Cairo, said he was eager to go back as soon as the south split from the north.
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The real challenge will be when they separate and in doing so seeing if the SPLM can deliver what was promised.
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Dunno how well this map represents the actual geography but it's interesting that it shows green in the Christian south and desert in the Muslim north.
[Asharq al-Aswat] An Egyptian court sentenced five Mohammedan Brotherhood members to up to five years in jail for money laundering and financing "a group banned by law," state-news agency MENA said on Saturday.
The Supreme State Security Emergency Court sentenced four of the defendants, including a Saudi national, to five years each while a fifth received a three-year jail term, MENA reported.
"The court convicts all men for money laundering and financing a group prohibited by law," MENA said. The court's ruling is final and cannot be appealed.
Egypt's Mohammedan Brotherhood is the country's biggest opposition group with a wide grassroots base. It renounced violence decades ago and has been banned but tolerated by the government.
The group's members can run in elections as independents but scores are periodically jugged in security sweeps, a state tactic they say is meant to curb their political clout.
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[Arab News] Soddy Arabia on Sunday published a list of 47 wanted terror suspects abroad who are believed to be planning attacks in the country. The Kingdom has asked for Interpol's help to track them down. Spokesman for the Interior Ministry Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki said most of the 47 suspects, all Saudi nationals, left the country illegally.
"A number of them pose a big danger as they are involved in Al-Qaeda terrorist operations. We passed a list of them to Interpol last Wednesday," Al-Turki told news hounds.
He said the suspects are aged between 18 and 40. "We have got information that 16 of them are in Yemen, 27 in Afghanistan and Pakistain, and four in Iraq," he added.
This is the fifth list of wanted Orcs and similar vermin issued by the ministry since Al-Qaeda beturbanned goons carried out a series of attacks inside the Kingdom that began in 2003. The first list included 19, the second 26, the third 36 and the fourth 85.
"We have published this list to emphasize the security agencies' resolve to track them down and punish them," Al-Turki said, adding that the ministry would give special consideration to those suspects who surrender to the authorities.
He said security agents are not sure whether the suspects mentioned in the new list belonged to the 19 terror cells uncovered by authorities in November 2010. Police have jugged 149 terror suspects who belong to the cells.
However, The infamous However... he believed up to three persons in the new list have connections with these terror cells. "These suspects have been trying to form cells, recruit young men and help wanted Orcs and similar vermin leave the Kingdom," said Al-Turki.
The front man said the ministry had received information that some of the suspects were playing a leadership role in Al-Qaeda. "We have not listed Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz Al-Jasser, who is No. 1 in the new list, in any previous list because we list people only after receiving enough evidence about their role in the terror network," he added.
He said the ministry has not received an original picture of Ahmed bin Muhammad Al-Suwaid, who is No. 2 on the list. "We have drawn a picture that closely resembles him to present it to Interpol. We have issued arrest orders for all suspects along with evidence for their involvement in various crimes," he said.
Al-Turki said the ministry will issue fresh lists whenever it has information about wanted criminals to protect the country's security and stability. He also commended the Saudi society for its cooperation in the government's fight against terrorism and extremism.
The ministry announced a reward of SR7 million for those who provide information leading to the prevention of a terror attack, SR5 million for information leading to the arrest of a terror cell and SR1 million for information leading to the arrest of a terrorist.
The Justice Ministry announced Saturday that by the end of December, 765 people suspected of having links with Al-Qaeda had been tried and sentenced, adding that the suspects appealed 325 of the 442 verdicts issued against them.
Al-Turki referred to Al-Qaeda's efforts to recruit children including orphans to carry out terrorist operations inside and outside the Kingdom. He disclosed the ministry's plan to present a television program on how Al-Qaeda recruited two orphans.
He also downplayed suggestions that family ties were the main factor in helping Al-Qaeda recruitment.
"There are different reasons such as friendship and use of Internet websites. We don't have any information about family relationship of suspects in the new list and previous lists," he said.
He highlighted the role of the Internet in spreading Al-Qaeda's deviant ideology. "According to one study, the first step for joining Al-Qaeda and subscribing to its ideology is the Internet," he said.
He said the ministry would not announce the name of any terror suspect or those killed among them without informing their families. "We also seek the help of families to encourage beturbanned goons to surrender themselves to Saudi authorities," he said.
He also urged beturbanned goons to surrender at Saudi embassies abroad, adding that five wanted suspects had surrendered to Saudi authorities last year.
The general denied reports that terror suspects were undergoing military training inside the Kingdom. "We could not arrest these suspects because they have left the country. They may undergo training abroad to attack the Kingdom or any other country."
Maj. Gen. Al-Turki said the youth who was jugged along with the wanted Death Eater Al-Storied Baghdadi, who was rubbed out at a checkpoint in Wadi Al-Dawasser, belonged to Al-Qaeda as he tried to cover up Al-Storied Baghdadi and was helping him to escape from the Kingdom. He said Al-Storied Baghdadi was involved in recruiting young men to Al-Qaeda and helping beturbanned goons leave the Kingdom.
Speaking about educational qualification of Death Eaters, he said most of them did not have good education. He sought the assistance of foreign countries to arrest the wanted suspects. Four of the 47 suspects left the Kingdom using travel documents of others while 13 left by crossing borders illegally. "The remaining 30 left legally but we did not know whether they belonged to the deviant group and the Kingdom will not prevent any person from abroad without any evidence against him."
The following are the suspects: 1) Ahmed Abdul Aziz Al-Jasser, 2) Ahmed Muhammad Al-Suwaid, 3) Anas Ali Al-Nashwan, 4) Bassim Salim Al-Sabilah, 5) Bassim Muhammad Al-Johani, 6) Bassam Ibrahim Al-Suleimani, 7) Bandar Mishal Al-Otaibi, 8) Turki Saad Al-Shahrani, 9) Turki Hadi Al-Qahtani, 10) Hussein Saleh Al-Bahri, 11) Hamza Muhammad Arishi, 12) Khaled Ali Al-Qahtani, 13) Khaled Hadal Al-Qahtani, 14) Zaam Saeed Al-Otaibi, 15) Saad Qaed Al-Maqati, 16) Suleiman Ahmed Al-Hamdan, 17) Saleh Abdul Aziz Al-Laheeb, 18) Adel Radi Al-Harbi, 19) Adel Saleh Al-Qumaishi, 20) Abdul Rahman Abdul Aziz Al-Faraj, 21) Abdul Rahman Fayad Al-Otaibi, 22) Abdul Rahman Muhammad Al-Johani, 23) Abdussalam Abdul Aziz Al-Faraj, 24) Abdul Aziz Muhammad Al-Aseeri, 25) Abdullah Humaid Al-Jadaani, 26) Abdullah Suleiman Al-Dhabah, 27) Abdullah Abdul Hadi Al-Johani, 28) Abdullah Ali Al-Suwaid, 29) Abdullah Muhammad Al-Maqati, 30) Abdul Majeed Faris Al-Otaibi, 31) Abdul Majeed Faisal Al-Shahri, 32) Amr Suleiman Al-Ali, 33) Fahd Owaid Al-Maabadi, 34) Fawaz Ayed Al-Otaibi, 35) Fawaz Owaid Al-Maabadi, 36) Faisal Muetad Al-Harbi, 37) Miteb Hamad Al-Jeraiwi, 38) Miteb Saeed Al-Amri, 39) Muhammad Saleem Barikan, 40) Muhammad Farhan Al-Malki, 41) Muhammad Mufreh Al-Zahrani, 42) Maran Farhan Al-Otaibi, 43) Muejib Muhammad Al-Qahtani, 44) Hashim Muhammad Al-Hindi, 45) Walid Jarboue Al-Harbi, 46) Walid Humayed Al-Waladi, and 47) Yasser Dakhil Al-Harbi.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] Soddy Arabia yesterday revealed new information about the progress of terror trials within the kingdom, with a group of 991 defendants accused of having ties to the Al Qaeda organization and attempting to circumvent the security of the state. Riyadh revealed that Islamic Shariaa punishments would be issued against some of those on trial with regards to possession or distribution of drugs. At the same time, it was also revealed that the Soddy Arabian judiciary had cleared 27 defendants, although there is talk about the possibility of the General Prosecution appealing this verdict.
Riyadh has referred 991 individuals accused on charges of having ties to the Al Qaeda organizations and conspiracy to breach national security, to the judiciary. The Soddy Arabian Ministry of Justice announced that the Special Criminal Court has tried 442 different terrorism-related cases involving 765 detainees, which represents around 77 percent of the total group who are on trail for terrorism-related charges.
Ministry of Justice front man Dr. Abdullah al-Sadan confirmed that the Special Criminal Court is continuing to try the remaining terrorist-related cases. During a presser held yesterday, al-Sadan revealed that the Special Criminal Court had issued preliminary rulings in 442 cases, 325 of which had been appealed.
The Court of Appeals overturned 43 rulings issued against those accused of involvement in Al Qaeda activity, whilst it rejected 149 appeals, with the remaining cases still on the docket.
Dr. Abdullah al-Sadan also confirmed that "there are no significant differences of opinion between the Special Criminal Court and the Court of Appeals." He also clarified that the Court of Appeals "is keen to confirm [cases] through incriminating evidence."
Among the cases tried by the Soddy Arabian Special Criminal Court include charges of affiliation to the Al Qaeda organization, as well as smuggling and possession of illegal goods and substances, including arms and drugs.
In answer to a question put to him by Asharq Al-Awsat about the type of banned substances being smuggled, Ministry of Justice front man Dr. al-Sadan confirmed that "this includes [defendants] who smuggled and distributed drugs."
The charges issued against the 991 defendants include: affiliation to the Al Qaeda organization; involvement in terrorist activity; financing terrorism; aiding and abetting known terrorists; forming terrorist cells; inciting violence; communicating and coordinating with third parties to breach national security; arms trafficking; smuggling and possession of illegal substances.
Dr. al-Sadan also revealed that the ages of those being tried by the Special Criminal Court range from 18 to 70, although he clarified that the majority of the defendants are under the age of 30. Dr. al-Sadan also revealed that this list includes non-Saudi nationals, although he denied that any women were being prosecuted.
According to the report issued by the Soddy Arabian Ministry of Justice, the charges being issued by the Special Criminal Court against the 991 defendants include "circumventing the authority of the ruler" and this charge includes "traveling or calling on people to travel to troubled regions under the pretext of fighting or jihad, or financing this" as well as "promoting the takfirist ideology that is against the Koran and the Sunnah." The Ministry of Justice report also cited charges that include "affiliation to [ideologically] deviant groups [Al Qaeda], carrying out operations that serve their objectives, communication with or aiding and abetting members of such groups or harboring them from the authorities", "financing terrorism" which includes "collecting, donating, or transferring funds used for terrorism, as well as laundering money [for this purpose]", and "providing support for external organizations to breach national security, or financing, supporting, or participating in any activity that undermines national security."
In the detailed statement issued by the Ministry of Justice, it revealed that "the trials were conducted according to the criminal procedure system; some parties appealed against the judgment issued against them, and these care were transferred to the Court of Appeals." The statement added "some of the cases were overturned [by the court of appeals] others were sent back for review, whilst other appeals were rejected."
The report added "the court looked at each case according to the charges issued against the defendant...and it issued rulings in light of the evidence presented in this regard and after listening to the defendants' defense."
The Ministry of Justice statement also revealed that "the majority of the defendants decided to defend themselves, whilst some decided to hire lawyers to present their defense. The court provided each defendant with a copy of the list of charges against them, and the evidence being relied upon by the prosecution." The statement also revealed that the defendants were allowed to respond in writing to the charges issued against them, although "some of the defendants pleaded guilty to the charges issued against them and expressed remorse and repentance [for their actions]."
As for the sentences issued against those convicted of terrorism-related charges, the Ministry of Justice statement revealed that these ranged from "prison sentences of different lengths of time, as well as [Islamic Shariaa] punishment for those found guilty of alcohol or drug abuse, and restrictions being placed upon the freedom of some defendants who served their prison sentences such as prevention of foreign travel or house arrest."
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RIYADH Saudi authorities announced Sunday a list of 47 people wanted for suspected links to Al Qaeda who are all abroad, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency SPA.
No list of names in the press release news article, but we can guess...
Authorities have identified 47 wanted Saudis who are abroad and who adopt the deviant ideology, the ministry said, using the kingdoms term for the Al Qaeda terror network.
Many are believed to be active in neighbouring Yemen after the merger of the Saudi and Yemeni Al Qaeda front groups in the two countries under the banner of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, which is based in Yemen.
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[Yemen Post] Yemen extradited four Egyptians to their country after they had been jugged while fighting the Yemeni army in support of the Houthi rebels in Saada, a Kuwaiti newspaper has reported.
The four were 'mercenaries', who worked for Houthi militias during the sixth war, and were nabbed in August 2010, the paper reported, citing Yemeni security sources.
Furthermore, Yemen handed the Egyptian authorities the results of investigations of the four, under security cooperation agreements the two countries had signed in the 1990s.
"During the extradition, the Yemeni security authorities asked Egypt to investigate its citizens over their links to terrorist organizations topped by Al-Qaeda."
The four were identified as: Hamouda Muhammad Salam, 41, Jabir Suleiman Rowdh, 39, and Yousuf Jamal Za'ater, 36.
They arrived in the country through Islamic exemplar Islamic groups whose members decamped to Yemen and other countries after the Egyptian authorities had crushed them during the 1990s, the paper said.
It cited the Yemeni investigations that the four joined Houthi militias in 2008 and operated as leaders and attack architects, helping cause the Yemeni army huge losses.
The Yemeni documents, handed with the Egyptian, revealed that among the foreigners, who joined the Houthi rebels to fight the Yemeni army, were Lebanese, Syrians, Afghans, Africans and Libyans.
All foreigners worked as leaders and trainers within the Houthi Group, it added, citing documents.
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[Yemen Post] The Primary Specialized Penal Court in Hadramout province sentenced 13 Somalis to 12 years in prison each, after convicting them of piracy.
The Somali pirates were convicted of kidnapping two Yemeni boats for the purpose of using them in piracy acts against foreign ships in Yemeni territorial waters and international waters.
The charges included that the Somalis had all necessary matters to commit piracy crimes including the possession of weapons, explosives and ladders.
Their acts harmed Yemen's economic and trade position and exposed maritime navigation and vessels to dangers, the prosecution said.
Yemen's navy said last year that it nabbed the 13 Somali pirates and liberated a fishing boat and its crew four days after they were seized near the island of Socotra in the Gulf of Aden.
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Disregarding an offer for a truce from La Familia drug cartel, Mexican federal troops continued counternarcotics and security operations in southern Michoacan, according to Mexican news accounts.
In Apatzingan Saturday morning, a detachment of Mexican Marines blocked city hall and municipal police offices to conduct a surprise security review, including inspection of patrol and communications logs and a weapons check of municipal police officers.
Meanwhile, both Mexican Army and Marine units conducted several counternarcotics raids in several municipalities near Uruapan.
In the Lazaro Cardenas municipality, an army unit located an abandoned Lincoln Navigator on the Acalpican-La Mira road containing weapons. Found were eleven AR-15 assault rifles, four AK-47 assault rifle magazines, four 9mm pistol magazines, a .380 caliber pistol and 220 rounds of AR-15 ammunition.
In Jacona in the Manantiales de Curutaran colony, an army unit arrested two men and seized a number of weapons and a quantity of drugs. A Toyota Tundra pickup truck was found with 23 kilograms, 53 grams of marijuana, 35 grams of cocaine divided in 16 packages and a Super .38 pistol, with nine rounds. Arrested were Gonzalo Cisneros Romero and Hugo Fernando Lino Romero.
In Aquila on Las Chililleras ranch Mexican Marines seized a marijuana growing operation with 132,256 plants in two separate plots, arrested seven suspects and seized two pistols. Arrested were Hector Javier, Salvador, Martin and Ramiro Alvarez Madrigal, Arturo Diaz Alvarez, Jesus Diaz Valencia and German Medina Alvarez. A .38 Super and .22 caliber pistol were seized as well. The marijuana plants were destroyed at the site.
On the Patzcuaro-Uruapan federal highway a Mexican Army unit stopped a Sukuki Grand Vitara carrying drugs and guns. Arrested was Cesar Gonzalez Jimenez. Inside the SUV soldiers found 30 grams of opium, eight grams of marijuana, a Super .38 pistol, two magazines and 57 rounds of ammunition.
Several shootings involving criminal gangs, and several raids involving Mexican security forces in and around Monterrey, Nuevo Leon have left one dead and at least seven wounded including municipal police officers, according to Mexican press accounts.
Several detachments of the Mexican 4th Military Zone raided several locations in and around Monterrey Saturday.
An unidentified male individual was arrested Saturday morning in Guadalupe, a suburb of Monterrey in the 21st de Enero colony, with a quantity of marijuana, four rifles, one handgun, 34 weapons magazines, 843 rounds of ammunition and a vehicle.
Thirty minutes later Mexican Army personnel on patrol in San Javier, municipality of General Treviño, Nuevo León, seized three rifles, three magazines, 62 rounds of ammunition and 2 vehicles.
In a surprise raid in San Agustin, Los Herreras municipality, an unidentified male was arrested along with a 9mm pistol, two magazines, 31 rounds of 9mm ammunition and one vehicle.
Military personnel recovered five stolen vehicles, three in Sabinas Hidalgo and two in the town of Vallecillos.
In Cadereyta, a small town east of Monterrey several armed suspects aboard several pickup trucks fired on police headquarters using small arms and hand grenades late Saturday night. Two municipal police officers were wounded in the assault, and were escorted by soldiers to the hospital to guard against further attacks. Reports say the assault lasted five minutes.
In General Teran, 20 kilometers south of Cadereyta, the municipal police headquarters was also fired on by armed suspects using small arms and two hand grenades. Five civilians were reported hurt in the attack including two women in the nearby town square, mainly by the hand grenade. The other hand grenade failed to detonate.
A man was shot to death by presumed members of organized crime in the commission of an armed robbery early Sunday morning in Allende, about 30 kilometers due south of Cadereyta. Rodolfo Rodriguez Cantu, 43, was drinking with several others at a business when armed suspects carrying assault rifles stopped by and demanded belongings. Rodriguez Cantu was shot as an intimidation measure by an unidentified member of the gang.
[Jerusalem Post Front Page] Doctors treating maimed US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords provided an optimistic update Sunday about her chances for survival after a shooting rampage that killed six, saying they are "very, very encouraged" by her ability to respond to simple commands along with their success in controlling her bleeding.
Federal prosecutors charged the suspect in the shooting, Jared Loughner, with one count of attempted liquidation of a member of Congress, two counts of killing an employee of the federal government and two counts of attempting to kill a federal employee.
Heather Williams, the first assistant federal public defender in Arizona, says the 22-yearold suspect doesn't yet have a lawyer, but that her office is working to get a lawyer appointed for him.
House Speaker John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner said normal House business this week has been postponed in the aftermath of the shooting.
Surgeons said a bullet went through Giffords's head on the left side of the brain, but she is still able to respond nonverbally to commands such as squeezing a hand or showing two fingers. They offered several reasons for her survival, including good luck and the fact that paramedics got her to surgeons quickly -- in under 40 minutes -- with the help of a helicopter.
"This is about as good as it is going to get," said Dr. Peter Rhee, a trauma surgeon.
"When you get shot in the head and the bullet goes through your brain, the chances of you living is very small and the chances of you waking up and actually following commands is even much smaller than that. Hopefully it will stay that way."
Surgeons worked to reduce pressure from swelling in her head by removing bone fragments, and they also removed a small amount of badly damaged brain. Giffords cannot speak because she is on a ventilator.
Dr. Michael Lemole of the University Medical Center in Tucson would not speculate on her degree of recovery. "We talk about recovery in months to years," he said.
The medical prognosis came as authorities investigated the motivation of a gunman in what could be an attempted liquidation of the three-term Democratic politician, which killed six people, including a federal judge, an aide to Giffords and a nine-year-old girl who was born on September 11, 2001.
Mourners crammed into the tiny sanctuary of the Reform synagogue Giffords attends in Tucson to pray for her quick recovery. Outside the hospital, candles flickered at a makeshift memorial.
Signs read "Peace + love are stronger," "God bless America and "We love you, Gabrielle." People also laid down bouquets of flowers, American flags and pictures of Giffords.
Loughner was described by friends as a pot-smoking loner who was rejected by the army when he tried to enlist in 2008. He dropped out of a local community college after having five contacts with campus police for classroom and library disruptions.
His motivation was not immediately known, but Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik described him as mentally unstable and possibly acting with an accomplice.
Authorities said Giffords, 40, was targeted at a public gathering by a man with a semiautomatic weapon at around 10 a.m. Saturday outside a busy Tucson supermarket. Fourteen people were maimed.
He also fired at her district director and shot indiscriminately at staffers and others standing in line to talk to the congresswoman, said Mark Kimble, a communications staffer for Giffords.
"He was not more than three or four feet from the congresswoman and the district director," Kimble said, describing the scene as "just complete chaos, people screaming, crying."
One of the victims was Christina-Taylor Green, who was a member of the student council at her local school and went to the event because of her interest in government. She was born on 9/11 and featured in a book called Faces of Hope that chronicled one baby from each state born on the day cut-throats killed nearly 3,000 people.
The fact that Christina's life ended in tragedy was especially tragic to those who knew her.
"Tragedy seems to have happened again, in the form of this awful event," said the author of the book, Christine Naman.
Authorities said the dead included US District Judge John M. Roll; Green; Giffords's Jewish director of communications Gabe Zimmerman, 30; Dorothy Morris, 76; Dorwin Stoddard, 76; and Phyllis Scheck, 79. Judge Roll had just stopped by to see his friend Giffords after attending Mass.
FBI Director Robert Mueller, who was sent by Attorney-General Eric Inaction Jackson Holder to Arizona to help coordinate the investigation, said Loughner bought the Glock 9- mm. handgun last year.
In one of several YouTube videos, which featured text against a dark background, Loughner described inventing a new US currency and complained about the illiteracy rate among people living in Giffords's congressional district in Arizona.
"I know who's listening: Government Officials, and the People," Loughner wrote. "Nearly all the people, who don't know this accurate information of a new currency, aren't aware of mind control and brainwash methods. If I have my civil rights, then this message wouldn't have happen [sic]."
In Loughner's middle-class neighborhood -- about a five-minute drive from the scene -- sheriff's deputies had much of the street blocked off. The neighborhood sits just off a bustling Tucson street and is lined with desert landscaping and palm trees. Neighbors said Loughner lived with his parents and kept to himself. He was often seen walking his dog, almost always wearing a hooded sweat shirt and listening to his iPod.
When asked if Loughner had any contact with Giffords in the past, Mueller said the alleged gunman attended a similar event three years ago.
The sheriff said the rampage ended only after two people tackled the gunman. A third person intervened and tried to pull a clip away from Loughner as he attempted to reload, the sheriff said.
"He was definitely on a mission," according to event volunteer Alex Villec, a former Giffords intern.
Giffords is only the third woman ever to represent Arizona in the House. In 2007 she married a US Navy captain, Mark Kelly, who has been an astronaut since 1996. She is the only member of Congress married to an active-duty spouse.
According to the Forward newspaper, Giffords's paternal grandfather was born Akiba Hornstein, son of a Lithuanian rabbi. He changed his name, first to Gifford Hornstein and later to Gifford Giffords, apparently to shield himself from anti-Semitism. Though Giffords's father is Jewish, her mother is not.
In 2001, as an Arizona state senator, Giffords went to Israel on a trip sponsored by the American Jewish Committee -- a trip, she said, that made her committed to living as a Jew.
In an interview with Jewish Woman Magazine on her initial election to Congress, Giffords said her philosophy was shaped in part by Jewish values.
"I think about the values, instilled in me by my Jewish relatives, of tolerance, of understanding, and of a deep desire to assist and to educate others -- particularly after I visited Israel as part of the American Jewish Committee's Project Interchange," Giffords told the magazine. "It was a profound experience [for me] to reconnect with that philosophical approach to life and to humanity, and to look at the big picture and understand our interconnectedness."
Giffords also said in the interview that she was a member of the Reform Congregation Haverim in Tuscon, led by Rabbi Stephanie Aaron, and took adult Jewish education classes there.
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[An Nahar] Arizona's district attorney announced Sunday five charges, including murder and attempted murder, against a man accused of shooting 19 people, including a US congresswoman, in Tucson.
Jared Lee Loughner is "suspected of shooting US Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Chief Judge John Roll, Giffords' staff member Gabriel Zimmerman and approximately 16 others Saturday in Tucson," the prosecutor said.
Naming him officially for the first time, US district attorney for Arizona Dennis K. Burke said Loughner will make an initial appearance in court on Monday in Phoenix.
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To clarify, the US district attorney announced 5 federal charges, and the suspect is in federal custody.
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Loughner is being charged under Section 351(c) of the US Code for shooting U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. The section provides a maximum penalty of life imprisonment for the attempted assassination of Members of Congress, Cabinet Members and other federal officials.
He also faces two counts of federal murder for the shooting of U.S. District Judge John M. Roll and of Gabriel Zimmerman, an aide to Congresswoman Giffords, and two further counts of attempted murder of a federal employee. The murder charges carry a penalty of death or life imprisonment.
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Loughner; a crazy seeking to live (or die) in infamy.
Already, I have heard calls for stronger laws about speech directed towards Congress members and more gun control--coming from the left. How about accepting that the guy was a goofball?
This guy scared his classmates to the extent they wanted to be seated near the exits in case he showed up with a firearm. He had been asked by the professor to leave class but he refused to leave.
It seems to me the laws are sufficient to deal justice. However, no laws are not going to prevent such incidents.
Draconian gun laws don't prevent gun crime. One only has to look at New York City, Chicago, Washington, D.C. as examples of cities where outlawing guns does not prevent outlaws from acquiring and using guns in crime.
One guy who tackled Loughner was packing. Things unfolded so quickly that his firearm was not of much use. I would imagine this citizen also thought, "If I draw my firearm, what's to prevent others from thinking I'm a part of this shooting melee?"
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A press release from Pima Community College was quoted in the Tucson Sentinel yesterday:
College police found something Loughner put up on YouTube disturbing enough that the college administration suspended him 29 Sept 2010 after talking with their lawyers. That evening two (2!) college police hand-delivered the notice to him at his parents' residence. 7 Oct 2010 the college sent him a letter he could not return to the college without a letter from a mental health professional saying he was not a danger to himself or others.
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Pot generally makes you sit around turning into a Dorito-munching vegetable. Left-wing politics...now that's another story, but it sounds like this kid had some other serious issues.
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746 you lose. I mean really, if you're going to troll you have to do better than that. You'll simply end up on the fail list with weak stuff like that.
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It's also been mentioned that he was a drunk and almost died of alcohol poisoning. Obviously drinking alcohol destroys brains and causes idiots to commit mass murder. We don't need any further proof!
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IIRC, pot is a really bad drug for paranoid schizophrenics, which Loughner reportedly displays all the classic signs thereof. It takes all the brakes off, and facilitates the journey between "troubled" and "full-blown homicidal loonytunes".
Not to get too technical... ^_^
People like Loughner, btw, is why gun control is so popular among the drug-using left. They have more exposure to the sort of people who, indeed, ought to be no-where near anything as dangerous as an automobile or a handgun.
I have to wonder why Loughner had to take a taxi to his assassination spree. Too disorganized to pass a driver's test?
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This guy apparently was a bundle of loose ends. Violent madness knows no political bounds, and has no reasons.
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Years ago I had a friend who was a bit of a loose cannon. Nothing too amazing, though.
He tried marijuana once. It made him manic. He was about 6'4" and well over 220# at the time. Not much of it fat. They had quite a time getting him under control.
The docs put him on Li. It worked well. After a while he decided to stop taking it and hasn't had any relapses that I know of. He's a chiropracter today.
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A chiropractor having a manic episode, that must be the most frightning thing i heard in quite a while now. (full disclosure: the wife is a chiropractor)
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Of course looks don't determine a person's sanity.
Looks don't determine sanity, but they are a good window into it. If eyes are the window, his windows are broken out the frame.
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746, you posted two questions just before the rollover last night. I thought you deserved an answer.
#4 um whaddaya call medicare And social security?
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#5 what about food stamps and welfare checks? are these not already socialist?
Medicare and Social Security? I'd call them, "About to go bankrupt." And yes, food stamps and welfare checks are indeed socialist. Fabian socialist rather than Stalinist, but socialist nonetheless. I suspect they'll be cut back significantly, soon. The thing is, as a society we have to choose between some sort of social net, workhouses and orphanages, or bodies of the poor found in stray corners and under bridges during the winter.
But the safety net needn't be set at 150% of the poverty line, giving the working poor no reason to work. And it needn't give money without getting something in return. If it were up to me, I'd require every sane and capable person to do something for the money, if only stuffing envelopes or sweeping streets.
[Pak Daily Times] The Darakshan police has received an application to register a case against the prayer leader of the Sultan Masjid for allegedly issuing a fatwa against Pakistain People's Party leader Sherry Rehman for tabling a bill to amend the blasphemy law. We had that story yesterday...
Political analyst Ali K Chishti filed the application. In the application, he urged the police to register a case against the Sultan Masjid prayer leader Munir Ahmed Shakir and take action against him according to the law, as he had allegedly declared Sherry a non-Mohammedan and demanded the death sentence for her during his Friday sermon.
When contacted, Sultan Masjid Imam Munir Ahmed Shakir denied issuing fatwa against Sherry. "No, no! Certainly not!"
Shakir said he was not a mufti. "So how could I issue a fatwah? I ain't got a license."
"In my opinion, the facts are open about Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer's murder, none should try to hatch conspiracies in this regard." "But whether I got a license or not, the facts are open and shut!"
He said everyone should remain in the limits of law and constitution. However, one who commits blasphemy would be sentenced to death under the country's law. "And calling for the blasphemy laws to be repealed is the same thing as committing blaspehemy! It's in the Koran someplace! You could look it up!"
SHO Rana Amjad confirmed that the police had received an application and said the initial investigation suggested that there was no evidence to prove that Shakir was guilty, as he already denied issuing any fatwa. "We monitor the Sultan Masjid every Friday and we did not hear anything regarding a fatwa... upon the complaint, we again -- through our reliable police and intelligence sources -- tried to investigate the matter, but no one confirmed the issuance of a fatwa by the said prayer leader," the officer said. "We told the applicant to bring evidence and later the case would be registered and the complainant assured us that he would bring evidence within a week," he added.
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[Arab News] At least 12 Maoist rebels were killed in two separate festivities with police in eastern India on Sunday, police said.
Nine rebels were killed in a fierce gunbattle in a densely forested area of Orissa state, said Somendra Priyadarshi, deputy inspector general of police. Police are searching for rebels who decamped after the gunbattle, he said.
Elsewhere, three rebels were killed in a clash with police in Bokaro district of neighboring Jharkhand state, police said.
The rebels, inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, have been fighting the government in eastern India for more than four decades, demanding land and jobs for the poor. Their presence has expanded as they have tapped into anger among the rural poor left out of India's economic gains.
The rebels are now present in 20 of India's 28 states and have an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 fighters, according to the Home Ministry. About 2,000 people -- including police, faceless myrmidons and civilians -- have been killed in violence over the past few years.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has often described the Maoist rebels as India's biggest internal security challenge.
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[Pak Daily Times] He is a self-declared warrior against US and NATO troops in Afghanistan. He allegedly ran terrorist training camps there when the Taliban was in power. He was suspected of involvement in the attempted liquidation of two Pak leaders.
And today, Qari Saifullah Akhtar is free.
Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said he was released from four months of house arrest in early December because authorities finished questioning him in connection with the October 2007 attempted liquidation of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and found no grounds to charge him. Benazir was killed in December the same year. However, The infamous However... one US official said Akhtar had extensive ties to al Qaeda and other terrorist groups and is someone who should not be free to walk around the streets of Pakistain or any other country.
Former US intelligence officials and analysts said Akhtar's release was yet another sign of Pakistain's reluctance or inability to crack down on the most dangerous terrorist organisations.
The leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hafiz Saeed, was freed from custody on more than one occasion and is currently free.
LeT, headquartered in Punjab, is believed to be the criminal mastermind behind the November 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people.
As part of Pakistain's battle with India, the military and intelligence helped train and arm Death Eater groups who fought in the disputed Kashmire region. Many of those groups cut their teeth on guerrilla warfare in the US-backed 1980s bad boy war against Russian soldiers in Afghanistan.
But military and intelligence officials have said their relationship with such groups was severed after the September 11, 2001 attacks, which marked a turning point that moved Pakistain into a closer alliance with the US. However there are lingering concerns that some links with cut-throats remain.
Pak military officials say the military and intelligence services fighting faceless myrmidons in the northwestern tribal regions along the border with Afghanistan are stretched too thin to open another front against cut-throats in the Punjab. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not allowed to talk to the media.
A number of Death Eater groups active within Pakistain are headquartered in Punjab, where 60 percent of the country's 170 million people live.
Military officials said that gathering actionable intelligence in the tribal regions, where some al Qaeda's leaders are believed to be hiding, has been deadly. A senior intelligence official said Pakistain had lost more than 50 spies killed by Death Eaters.
"I think it is clear that Akhtar is going to go back to the front lines of the fight against the US, which complicates our mission in Afghanistan, and threatens the stability and security of the region in general," says Charles Bacon, a US-based intelligence analyst.
Pak and US analysts say Akhtar's release reflects a growing lack of control by the country's security agencies over one-time prodigies who have broken away and turned their weapons on the state.
Muhammed Amir Rana, who runs the Pakistain Institute for Peace Studies, said freeing Akhtar was a desperate attempt by the security agencies to reunite Death Eater groups whose members have splintered into smaller groups and in some cases, turned against Pakistain because of its support for the US-led war in Afghanistan and its attacks on the Taliban at home.
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi army officer in the rank of lieutenant and three others, including a soldier, were wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in eastern Mosul city on Sunday, a local police source said.
An IED went off just as an army patrol was passing by in the al-Maliya neighborhood, eastern Mosul, leaving two patrolmen, including an officer in the rank of lieutenant, and two civilians near the blast scene wounded, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The wounded were rushed to the nearby al-Salam Hospital for treatment, he added, not giving more information about the incident.
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[Arab News] Philippine troops killed two suspected Abu Sayyaf gunnies and captured another during a clash in the country's volatile south Sunday, enforcing a new counterinsurgency plan that rules out any peace talks with the Al-Qaeda-linked bad turbans.
Army troops caught up with an unspecified number of Abu Sayyaf fighters and allied rebels during an assault in the mountainous outskirts of Tipo Tipo town on Basilan Island, sparking a 45-minute gunbattle, army chief Lt. Gen. Arturo Ortiz said.
Two Death Eaters were killed and another was captured by the soldiers. The Death Eaters have been blamed for kidnappings for ransom, beheadings and deadly bomb attacks. The 120,000-strong military, however, will help foster peace talks with communist guerrillas and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, while dealing with their threats.
Washington has blacklisted the Abu Sayyaf as a terrorist organization. Although they have been considerably weakened by battle casualties and surrenders, the Death Eaters still number about 340 and remain a national security threat, according to the military.
The Supreme Court, meanwhile, issued a final ruling upholding the constitutionality of a 2007 anti-terror law that was sought by the government to bolster a US-backed campaign against the Abu Sayyaf but critics feared could restrict civil liberties. The court said it did not see any new argument in appeals made by left-wing activists to overturn its earlier ruling in October declaring the Human Security Act legal.
The law defines terrorism as any of at least 12 violent crimes -- including murder, kidnapping, arson, piracy, coup and rebellion -- that cause widespread and extraordinary panic and force the government to give in to an unlawful demand.
It allows detention of suspected gun-hung tough guys without charge for three days and their rendition to other countries. The law rarely has been used since it took effect because law enforcers fear the heavy punishment it includes for mistaken arrests and abuses.
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[JPOST] - Iranian state television announces arrests related to January 2010 assassination of nuclear scientist Masoud Alimohammadi.
Iran has arrested a "network of spies" linked to the Mossad intelligence service it claimed planned the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist in 2010, Reuters reported.
"The network of spies and terrorists linked to...Mossad was destroyed," Iranian state television reported citing a comment released by the intelligence ministry. "The network was behind the assassination of Masoud Alimohammadi."
Alimohammadi, a university scientist, was killed when a bomb attached to a motorcycle detonated outside his home in Tehran on January 12 last year. According Iranian state-run Press TV, 50-year-old Alimohammadi had just left his house on his way to work when the explosion went off. This was the first of three assassination attempts to occur to Iranian professors working in the nuclear field in 2010.
No doubt eventually we'll learn if the arrestees were members of the Iranian Jewish community, people connected to Iran's nuclear effort, or rebels of one sort or another against the Mullahs.
Update at 1140 CT: Roooters has more here. Remember Iran, every other man named 'Mahmoud' is an evvvvil Zionist spy.
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There seems to be a cold war going on between Russia and Israel right now, because the Russians have been very active in unmasking Israeli espionage ops in other countries.
They bring in high tech electronic surveillance equipment to locate the Israeli spies, then once identified, the local tyrant's secret police can roll up a whole group at once.
Which makes you wonder both what started it, and how the Israelis will pay back the Russians.
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From the JP article, "...Iranian Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi also said Iran has built a plant to make nuclear fuel plates and rods in Isfahan..."
At first I thought that the Mullahs were planning to make nuclear vehicle license plates. If both the front and the back were made of a thick piece of PL 239 and if a car ran into your rear the combined mass would be enough to go critical.
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Phaiger Trotsky4912: A specialist FSB unit provided electronics surveillance information to Hezbollah against the major "Al-Alam spy ring" in Lebanon, with over 70 individuals accused of working for Israel captured.
Add to that the more recent announcement by Egyptian counterintelligence about the arrest of several Israeli agents, that were also probably narked by the FSB.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the Russians were trying to punish Israel for their work against the Iranian nuke plant. But it could be anything under the sun that has put a bee in their bonnet.
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maybe this is just paranoia and they aeren't real Mossad. Could have been Jundallah( isn't that the name of the group against the regime not sure myself). Or maybe someone should put it in their head they are very mad Iranian republican guard.
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maybe this is just paranoia and they aeren't real Mossad. Could have been Jundallah( isn't that the name of the group against the regime not sure myself). Or maybe someone should put it in their head they are very mad Iranian republican guard.
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sorry about repeating , the snow in GA plus beer must be affecting my brain waves plus having too think about all this global warming that i was thinking about
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Yep. Looks like you got them all.
Uh-huh...
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[Arab News] Iranian border guards have released a woman they were holding who, according to some reports, was suspected of being a US spy, state broadcaster IRIB reported on Sunday.
"This 34-year-old woman who intended to enter Iran at the Norduz terminal on Jan. 5 left Iran's borders after her situation became clear and legal procedures were followed," IRIB quoted an unnamed "high ranking security official" as saying.
Conflicting news articles had suggested that the woman was either American or was suspected of working for US intelligence, but the official quoted by IRIB denied reports she had been filming the border area.
Adding to the confusion, IRIB said she had been held at Norduz, on Iran's border with its northern neighbor Armenia, whereas other news agencies said she had tried to enter at Jolfa, some 50 km to the west, on the border with Azerbaijan.
IRIB said the woman was seeking an Iranian visa and never entered Iranian territory. She was denied entry and returned to Armenia on Saturday, it said.
The news comes at a time of high tension between Tehran and Washington, which have been in a long-running dispute over Iran's nuclear program.
The two countries have had no diplomatic relations since Iran's 1979 Islamic theocracy but both will be represented at talks in Istanbul later this month which Western countries hope will address the nuclear stand-off.
Three Americans -- two men and a woman -- were jugged in July 2009 near the Iran-Iraq border on suspicion of spying. The woman, Sarah Shourd, was released on bail a of $500,000 in September and returned to the United States. She has said the three of them strayed across the border while hiking in Iraq. Her companions remain in jail awaiting trial.
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heh - the one with the spying device in her teeth according to the Iranian press...
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You mean the one who had never been in Iran and was staying in Instambul?
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I wonder how they knew she had spying devices in her teeth even though they never were in a position to examine her.
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.
[Tolo News] In an Afghan and Nato forces' military operation in eastern 
[Arab News] Millions of jubilant south Sudanese voted Sunday in an independence referendum expected to see the region splitting away from the north to create Africa's newest nation.
[Arab News] 
Somali pirates
Disregarding an offer for a truce from La Familia drug cartel, Mexican federal troops continued counternarcotics and security operations in southern Michoacan, according to Mexican news accounts.
Several shootings involving criminal gangs, and several raids involving Mexican security forces in and around Monterrey, Nuevo Leon have left one dead and at least seven wounded including municipal police officers, according to Mexican press accounts.
