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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Brenda Joyce aka Maris Hanover in "Little Tokyo, U.S.A." aka Jane in "5 Tarzan Movies including 'Tarzan's Magic Fountain'" (NOTE: I'll leave that title to your imagination.) (Died in 2009 at age 92)



Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 02/25/2011 1:03 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
US withdrawing its forces from Pech Valley, once called vital
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/25/2011 08:16 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In Vietnam we used to call this tactic "Strategic Hamlets". After "Hamburger Hill" Ted Kennedy said we should pull back and only protect the cities.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 02/25/2011 10:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Key points: Afghan units will remain in the valley, a test of their military readiness.

and...

"What we figured out is that people in the Pech really aren’t anti-U.S. or anti-anything; they just want to be left alone," said one American military official familiar with the decision. "Our presence is what’s destabilizing this area."
Posted by: OldSpook || 02/25/2011 10:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Afghanization?
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 02/25/2011 11:24 Comments || Top||

#4  This area is a main focus of Bing West in his new book "The Wrong War". Only four chapters in but it is a good and knowledgable description of what is and was going on.
Posted by: bman || 02/25/2011 11:29 Comments || Top||

#5  In other words: the Obama administration has handled the Taliban a strategic and, more important, propagandistic victory.
Posted by: JFM || 02/25/2011 11:41 Comments || Top||

#6  JFM: No. Not so much the Talib as it is local tribes. And its not as strategically important now as the more populated areas are. Situations change therefore strategic objective and importance changes.

If the military does not change strategy with reality, then you get mismatched strategies that fail - for instance the Ardennes were not strategically important to the French compared to Belgium, so they oriented all their main forces to moving into Belgium to fight the Germans there at the Dyle river. It was a good plan until it met the reality of the German's strategiv value that differed. Guderian slammed his Panzers through there and caused France to collapse in May of 1940.

Strategies and strategic values change.
Posted by: OldSpook || 02/25/2011 12:16 Comments || Top||

#7  If the area has quieted down and foreign troops are causing some disquiet from the locals, it is only good strategic sense to send in local troops and pull out our boys. Just make sure you keep the supply lines for the Taliwackers cut and the local troops supported with intel, bullets and the occasional night strike by the special ops units.

I see it as a strategic win if the locals just want everyone to go away and we can keep the Taliban out by not being there.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/25/2011 12:28 Comments || Top||

#8  The Taliban have read the 'tea leaves' and now appear to be targeting Afghan National Army, Afghan Police, and Border Patrol elements. Leaving ISAF out of the fight gives the Taliban an opportunity to punch lighter, less deadly targets and facilitate rather than disrupt the already timelined ISAF departure. There was a recent "reintegration" ceremony of a significant Taliban element in Kandahar. This event obviously does not fit the time honored Fall reitegration schedule. Added to this event is word of a continuing rift and turmoil in the Taliban senior leadership. All of which could point to a lighter than expected Spring Offensive. What is not visible are the secret negociations between the Taliban and the Obama Administration. This is the real 'wild card.' The next 6-12 months should be very interesting.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/25/2011 12:51 Comments || Top||

#9  One of the unmentioned changes is that the UAVs are now patrolling the passes and are more effective at intervention on the Paki side of things near the Pech, which is something our troops on the ground could not do.
Posted by: OldSpook || 02/25/2011 13:39 Comments || Top||

#10  Hit submit too soon... One other thing: if they are right (good intel?) once our guys pull out, and the ANA goes in and does nothing, the tribes will end up keeping busy by warring against each other over goats and such, as they have done for centuries.
Posted by: OldSpook || 02/25/2011 13:41 Comments || Top||

#11  Old Spook seems most germane here. Also curious that nearby Nuristan was the last Afghan area to fall to the Muslims - IIRC barely a century ago in the 1890s. Be interesting if the Indians could get them to unconvert.
Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division || 02/25/2011 18:25 Comments || Top||

#12  I remember reading somewhere that Afghans had always been at each others throats since time immemorial, and the ONLY thing that ever united them was a shared hatred of the Russians.

If only we could turn them against the Pakistanis, now that would be real progress!
Posted by: Scooter McGruder || 02/25/2011 19:20 Comments || Top||

#13  Take it,
Mine it,
Leave it,
watch while the winds of change blow the leaves in...
Blow it.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/25/2011 23:35 Comments || Top||


Suicide Blast Kills One, Wounds 26 in Afghanistan
[An Nahar] A suicide car kaboom killed an intelligence agent and maimed 26 other people in an Afghan town on the Pakistain border Thursday, officials said, in the latest in a wave of blasts.

The explosives-packed vehicle with two bombers inside blew up in Spin Boldak after intelligence agents acting on a tip-off opened fire in a bid to stop it, Lutfullah Mashal, a front man for Afghanistan's national spy agency, said.

"We had intelligence that it was coming. The car was located, there were two jacket wallahs in it. Our officers shot at it and killed one of the bombers after it did not heed their order to stop," he told Agence La Belle France Presse.

"The second bomber was injured and he detonated his boom jacket, also setting off his friend's vest and the bombs in the vehicle."

Mashal added that one of the agents involved in the hunt in Kandahar province was killed and several other security officials were maimed in the blast.

Kandahar's provincial governor, Toryalai Wesa, confirmed the death and said 26 people including intelligence agents, police and civilians were maimed.

In the last three weeks, more than 100 people including many bystanders have died in six large blasts.

On Saturday, the country witnessed its worst attack since June when 38 people died in a suicide kaboom on a bank in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan.

Southern Afghanistan is seen as the focal point of the war between the Taliban and international and government forces, which has now been running for nearly 10 years.

Kandahar province is the birthplace of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and the militia's spiritual home. It borders Pakistain, where the hard boy Islamists are suspected to have rear bases.

Earlier this month, 19 people including 15 police and an intelligence agent were killed in a string of attacks focused on police headquarters in Kandahar city claimed by the Taliban.

And in January, 17 people including a police officer died in Spin Boldak in a blast at a public bath.

On Wednesday, the outgoing U.N. deputy special representative of the Secretary General for Afghanistan said security in Afghanistan was "at its lowest level" since the Taliban were ousted from power by a U.S.-led invasion in 2001.

Elsewhere in Afghanistan Thursday, a police commander said he had opened an investigation into possible civilian deaths after an air raid killed five gunnies on a mountains northeast of the capital Kabul.

The probe was launched after villagers alleged the men were civilians hunting in the mountains of Alasai district in Kapisa province, provincial police chief Abdul Hamid Arkin told AFP.

"Five people have been killed. They were observed from the air to be carrying weapons on the mountains. They were targeted and killed," he said.

"Now our intelligence agencies are investigating to find out whether they were civilians or armed members of the Taliban."

A front man for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said they were looking into what had happened.

President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai alleged this week that international forces had killed more than 50 civilians in air strikes in Kunar, east Afghanistan. ISAF denies the charges and says it is investigating the claims.

On Tuesday, Afghan officials said the force killed another six civilians in a raid on faceless myrmidons in the neighboring province of Nangarhar. ISAF is investigating that incident too.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
50 dead in clashes across Somalia: witnesses
[Emirates 24/7] Some 50 people, many of them fighters, were killed Wednesday in festivities across Somalia, witnesses and officials said.

The deaths came as Somali government forces backed by African Union troops launched a fresh offensive against Al Qaeda-inspired rebels.

"We have counted at least 20 civilians killed," Ali Muse, head of the Mogadishu ambulance service said.
A normal Somalian Wednesday, then.
Residents spoke of one dead turban in the capital and said Shebab fighters had also displayed five bodies they said were dead soldiers from the African Union force, bringing the toll for the capital to 26.

In the towns of Beledweyn and Bulohawo in central Somalia's Galgadud region, Shebab fighters clashed with pro-government Sufi forces of Evil assisting Somali government soldiers.

Elders in Beledweyn said at least 11 combatants were killed. Thirteen other people, most of them combatants, were also killed in the town of Bulohawo.
Boys will be boys. Especially, it seems, on Wednesdays.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab

#1  There seem to be two battles going on.

One is AU vs Shebab.

The other is the Ahlu Sunna (a largely Sufi militia) vs Shebab.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 02/25/2011 7:53 Comments || Top||


Africa North
SAS in Tripoli to rescue Brits
Posted by: Frozen Al || 02/25/2011 13:48 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  and had been told to make their own way to the capital.

What? Why would they have been told to evacuate through Tripoli, which is a free-fire zone, instead of evacuating through Egypt or Algeria or pretty much anywhere where they aren't pulling each other out of cars and blowing each others' heads off?
Posted by: Mitch H. || 02/25/2011 15:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Mitch - bad as that is, the sweet and sad part of the story may be the HMS Cumberland picking up refugees in Benghazi. Not as risky today as last week, but still a nice use of a warship apparently on its way home for decommissioning. Maybe they could just lease it for a month to the Peoples Provisional Govt. of Libya for a port call in Tripoli.
Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division || 02/25/2011 16:41 Comments || Top||

#3  OTOH the SAS, etal. may have to rescue more than just Brits???

To wit,

* DAILY TIMES,PK > SCARED BANGLADESHI MIGRANTS [feel] "ABANDONED" IN LIBYA, + close to starvation as per their off-based Construx + other Migrant camps.

They seemingly are NOT counting on being rescud via their own BANGLA GOVT, prob due to their Home Country's extant econ circumstances.

* DAILY MAIL.UK > DUNKIRK? NO, ITS MORE LIKE "CARRY ON, FOLLOW THAT CAMEL".

ARTIC = Planned or antipated UK Govt = MoD budget cuts may mean that the soon-to-be-much-reduced British Army + its Sister Services will have to struggle to find $$$ + Equipment, etc. in order to initiate or support any kind of effective Humanitarian Rescue andor Military- led Peacekeeping, Combat Operation.

IIUC, THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THE UK STILL HAS TRIDENT FBM NUC SUBMARINES; THE BAD NEWS IS THAT PRESERVATION,PROTECTION, + EMPOWERMENT OF THE TRADITIONAL BRITISH NANNY-WELFARE STATE MAY BE MORE IMPORTANT TO BRIT POLITICOS THAN UK NATIONAL
SECURITY + ECON IMPROVEMENT VEE TERROR THREATS???

US-BASE-TOO-FAR QATAR + "AMERICAN DUNKIRK" VEE IRAN.

PCORRECTNESS-DENIABILITY > "VICTORY" = merely a "Limited DEFEAT", correct???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/25/2011 21:46 Comments || Top||

#4  More from the DAILY MAIL.UK > [Middle East]ME CHAOS COULD MEAN A NWO NIGHTMARE | AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY: WHY ARAB TURMOIL COULD MEAN AN ORGY OF BLOODLETTING + ROCKETING OIL [+ Other] RATHER THAN UTOPIAN WORLD ORDER.

ARTIC = ALL TOO OFTEN, VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE... ... THE REVOLUTION DEVOURS ITS OWB CHILDREN,; Shifts in International BALANCE OF POWER has now made CHINA THE WORLD'S #2 ECONOMY, while [post-Jasmine?] ARAB-MUSLIM GOVTS MAY LOOK EAST, NOT WEST, FOR GUIDANCE + SUPPORT.

* TELEGRAPH.UK > ITALY FEARS UP TO 1.5MILYUHN NORTH AFRICAN MIGRANTS, up from 300-350K last few days.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/25/2011 21:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Gutsy little op by the Brits, so they got that going for them too. My question is whether or not EU Govs will be willing/able to increase welfare payouts to match the coming price increases - if they do I think it will bugger the govs and if not, what will the reaction be of said welfarers when the monthly check only goes two weeks. That, coupled with predicted influx of immigrants, sounds like interesting times.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/25/2011 22:49 Comments || Top||


Libya Jamming Wireless Communications around Mediterranean
BEIRUT: The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority confirmed Tuesday that Libya has been jamming Lebanese news channels.
Transmission of NBN, Al-Jadeed and Al-Manar were all disrupted over the weekend, when two leading network providers NileSat and Arabsat were hit by what has been described as a “sophisticated” blocking attack. Broadcasting of Qatar-based Al-Jazeera was also scrambled.
"Unfortunately there is deliberate jamming by Libya ... which is illegal," said the CEO of Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Co., based in the UAE, according to Reuters.
High time for a drone zap or a cruise missile strike on the sources of the jamming, which should be pretty easy to find if that kind of strong RF is coming from Libya. The US's gutless leader is more interested in commemorating Motown than doing anything that useful.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/25/2011 07:11 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Gaddafi son: We'll die in Libya
Nelson Mandela's "Brother Leader's"Muammar Gaddafi's son says his family will "live and die in Libya".

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi revealed his family's backup plan to a Turkish journalist: "Plan A is to live and die in Libya, Plan B is to live and die in Libya, Plan C is to live and die in Libya."
Plans A.2, B.2 and C.2 sound reasonable.

So Saif, will you stop the yakking and kindly die already?
Posted by: Grampaw Croluck1474 || 02/25/2011 06:57 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Dear Mr Kadaffy,

That can easily be arranged.

Signed,

The Mossad
Posted by: OldSpook || 02/25/2011 11:26 Comments || Top||

#2  As you wish.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/25/2011 12:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Did anyone check to see if Saif tweeted that from Venezuela?
Posted by: Martini || 02/25/2011 12:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Promises, promises ... always with the promises!
Posted by: Sgt.Mom || 02/25/2011 16:11 Comments || Top||


Egyptian Armed Forces Fire At Christian Monasteries, 19 Injured
Hat tip Gates of Vienna
For the second time in as many days, Egyptian armed force stormed the 5th century old St. Bishoy monastery in Wadi el-Natroun, 110 kilometers from Cairo. Live ammunition was fired, wounding two monks and six Coptic monastery workers. Several sources confirmed the army's use of RPG ammunition. Four people have been arrested including three monks and a Coptic lawyer who was at the monastery investigating yesterday's army attack.
You won't see this in NYT
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/25/2011 02:20 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Uh...were the Egyptian troops possibly Moslem?

just asking.

And resistance was heavy, right? Monks, armed to the teeth at every bunker? It was tough , Sarge....we lost Pvt. El Weenie when they overan his foxhole with a chasuble and a wax candle.
Posted by: Dribble2716 || 02/25/2011 7:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Uh...were the Egyptian troops possibly Moslem?

It's the Egyptian army, Dribble. Of course they're Muslim.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/25/2011 9:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Looks like what we can expect of tolerance and peace. What was I thinking or drinking?
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/25/2011 9:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Consistent lil hobgoblins.

The ROP never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Posted by: Pollyandrew || 02/25/2011 14:19 Comments || Top||


Fear stalks Tripoli, celebrations in Libyas east
[Ennahar] Thousands of Libyans celebrated the liberation of the eastern city of Benghazi from the rule of Muammar Qadaffy, who was reported to have sent a plane to bomb them on Wednesday as he clung to power.

The crew bailed out of the aircraft after it took off from the capital Tripoli. It then came down south-west of Benghazi, Libya's Quryna newspaper cited a military source as saying, averting a fresh bloodshed in almost a week of violence.

Tripoli, along with western Libya, is still under Qadaffy's control and people there said they were too afraid of pro-government militia to go out after Qadaffy threatened violence against protesters in a speech on Tuesday night.

As many as 1,000 people have been killed in since the revolt began around a week ago, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said as world leaders scrambled to evacuate their citizens and disagreed on how to end the turmoil.

Also abandoning Qadaffy's realm have been officials and diplomats previously loyal to the veteran leader. A small Libyan airliner turned away from Malta on Wednesday was carrying a daughter of Qadaffy, Al Jizz said from the European island.

OIL PRESSURE

Oil prices climbed above $110 a barrel amid fears chaos could spread to other oil-producing nations and choke supplies, which could dash hopes of any quick global economic recovery.

Trade sources said at least oil cargoes did make it out of Libyan ports over the 24 hours to mid-Wednesday, however.

An air force officer, Major Rajib Faytouni, said in Benghazi, the cradle of the revolt, that he had witnessed up to 4,000 mercenaries arrive on Libyan transport planes over three days starting from February 14, London's Guardian newspaper said.

"That's why we turned against the government. That and the fact there was an order to use planes to attack the people," he told the newspaper in Benghazi.

Hossam Ibrahim Sherif, director of the Benghazi health center, told Rooters about 320 people had been killed in the city.

With much of the oil-producing east said to be under control of the protesters, an empty jail burned in Benghazi and people let off firecrackers and honked their horns to mark the end of days of bloodshed there.

Britain's Sky News showed footage of anti-aircraft missiles at what it said was an abandoned military base near Tobruk, also in the east.

FOREIGNERS TRAPPED

Countries with strong business ties to Africa's third largest oil producer scrambled to evacuate thousands of citizens and a Turkish worker was rubbed out at a building site near the capital, Turkish officials said.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Gun battles rage as rebels seize Libyan towns
[Arab News] Forces loyal to Muammar Qadaffy launched a fierce counter-attack on Thursday, fighting shootouts with rebels who have threatened the Libyan leader by seizing important towns close to the capital.

The opposition were already in control of major centers in the east, including the regional capital Benghazi, and reports that the towns of Misrata and Zuara in the west had also fallen brought the tide of rebellion closer to Qadaffy's power base.

Gun battles in Zawiyah, an oil terminal 50 km (30 miles) from the capital, left 10 people dead, a Libyan newspaper said.

La Belle France's top human rights
... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you...
official said up to 2,000 people might have died so far in the uprising.

In a rambling appeal for calm, Qadaffy blamed the revolt on Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, and said the protesters were fueled by milk and Nescafe spiked with hallucinogenic drugs,

Qadaffy, who just two days ago vowed in a televised address to crush the revolt and fight to the last, showed none of the fist-thumping rage of that speech.

This time, he spoke to state television by telephone without appearing in person, and his tone seemed more conciliatory.

"Their ages are 17. They give them pills at night, they put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their Nescafe," Qadaffy said.

A Tripoli resident, who did not want to be identified because he feared reprisals for speaking to the foreign media, told Rooters: "It seems like he realized that his speech yesterday with the strong language had no effect on the people. He's realising it's going to be a matter of time before the final chapter: the battle of Tripoli."

Fightback
Forces loyal to the Libyan leader attacked anti-government militias controlling Misrata, Libya's third-biggest city, 125 miles (200 km) east of Tripoli, and several people were killed in fighting near the city's airport.

Soldiers were reported along the roads approaching Tripoli. In Zawiyah, witnesses said pro- and anti-Qadaffy forces were firing at each other in the streets.

"It is chaotic there. There are people with guns and swords," said Mohamed Jaber, who passed through Zawiyah on his way to Tunisia on Thursday.

Al Jizz television broadcast pictures of what it said was a burning cop shoppe in Zawiyah. A witness told Rooters the Libyan army was present in force.

Anti-government militias were in control of Zuara, about 120 km (75 miles) west of Tripoli. There was no sign of police or military and the town was controlled by "popular committees" armed with automatic weapons.

The uprising has virtually halted Libya's oil exports, said the head of Italy's ENI, Libya's biggest foreign oil operator. The unrest has driven world oil prices up to around $120 a barrel, stoking concern about the economic recovery.

Key Libyan oil and product terminals to the east of the capital are in the hands of rebels, according to Benghazi residents in touch with people in region. The oil and product terminals at Ras Lanuf and Marsa El Brega were being protected, they said, amid fears of attacks by pro-Qadaffy forces.

The desert nation pumps nearly 2 percent of the world's oil.

World leaders condemned Qadaffy's bloody crackdown on the week-long revolt, but did little to halt the bloodshed from the latest upheaval reshaping the Arab world.

US President Barack B.O. Obama joined western leaders in condemning the violence in Libya.

"It is imperative that the nations and peoples of the world speak with one voice," Obama said. "The suffering and bloodshed are outrageous."

French Defense Minister Alain Juppe said he hoped Qadaffy was "living his last moments as leader." British Foreign Secretary William Hague urged the world to increase pressure on Qadaffy.

Up to 2,000 dead
La Belle France's top human rights official said up to 2,000 people could have died in the unrest and he feared Qadaffy could unleash "migratory terrorism" on Europe as his regime collapses.

"The question is not if Qadaffy will fall, but when and at what human cost," Francois Zimeray told Rooters. "For now the figures we have ... more than 1,000 have died, possibly 2,000, according to sources."

Benghazi, the eastern regional capital where the rebellion started a week ago, is starting to run itself under "people's committees" as the dust of rebellion settles. In the east of Libya, many soldiers have withdrawn from active service.

A Rooters correspondent in the city was shown about a dozen people being held in a court building who residents said were "mercenaries" backing Qadaffy. Some were said to be African and others from southern Libya.

"They have been interrogated, and they are being kept safe, and they are fed well," said Imam Bugaighis, 50, a university lecturer now helping organize committees to run the city, adding that they would be tried according to the law, but the collapse of institutions of state meant the timing was not clear.

Angry residents destroyed a barracks compound they said had been used by the mercenaries.

In Tripoli, which remains largely closed to foreign media, locals said they were too scared to go outside for fear of being shot by pro-government forces.

"People have started working today. But that does not mean they are not afraid. But until now, people are moving around," a resident told Rooters.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  lots of videos on liveleak.com
Posted by: Water Modem || 02/25/2011 1:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Grr...liveleak used to be unblocked, until all this unrest started.
Posted by: gromky || 02/25/2011 2:50 Comments || Top||

#3  I was "stalked by fear" once after drinking some Nescafe'.
I was afraid I was going to be turned into a Newt. Nevertheless, its nice to hear that the Arabs have gotten their "respect" back. I hear Egyptians are proud to be "free" once more.

Khadaffy Duck is going to wind up hanging on a guthook.
Where is Mao tse-dung buried, by the way? ( how soon we forget the big guys, eh?) Khadaffy should be remembered, and he will be, I am sure.
On a toilet door....

Anybody want to have an Office betting raffle on the date he gets his picture taken dripping on the hook? One more week? Two?
Posted by: Dribble2716 || 02/25/2011 8:19 Comments || Top||

#4  NY Times map of rebel held areas and cities being fought over.
Posted by: Frozen Al || 02/25/2011 12:22 Comments || Top||


Germany sending three warships to Libya
[Ma'an] Germany has sent three warships to Libya to evacuate its stranded citizens, a defence ministry spokesman told AFP, as witnesses spoke of hellish conditions in the violence-hit country.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Be cute if the evacuation is based in Tobruk.
Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division || 02/25/2011 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Is there a U.S. Navy 6th Fleet presence around Egypt and Libya?
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/25/2011 9:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Well Played "Halliburton"!
Posted by: Yosemite Sam || 02/25/2011 11:22 Comments || Top||


Libyans take over major oil terminals
[Iran Press TV] Libyan demonstrators have now taken control of key oil terminals in northern Libya as pro-democracy protests gain momentum across the North African country.

Oil terminals in the northern port cities of Ras Lanuf and Marsa El Brega are now controlled by pro-democracy protesters, Rooters reported on Thursday.

Earlier in the day, ten protesters were killed after government troops attacked the western city of Zuwarah, located 120 kilometers (74 miles) west of the capital Tripoli.

Several eastern cities have now fallen in the hands of demonstrators during 10 days of a revolution that has so far claimed the lives of 1,000 people.

Meanwhile,
...back at the ranch...
protesters have torn down Muammar Qadaffy's "Green Book" monument in the northwestern city of Misrata. The book contained the main tenets of political philosophy developed by the embattled 68-year-old Libyan ruler.

Qadaffy's regime is facing mounting international condemnation over its brutal crackdown on demonstrators as the corpse count from Libya's revolution rises.

The UN Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon has called on embattled Libyan ruler to show restraint and immediately stop the violence against demonstrators.

The UN Security Council has also condemned Libya's deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.

The African Union on Wednesday strongly condemned the indiscriminate and excessive use of force by Qadaffy's security forces against demonstrators.

The African body announced that it would dispatch a mission to Libya to investigate the situation there.
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#1  Guard them pipes.
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Gaddafi daughter denies fleeing
[Al Jazeera] Aisha Qadaffy, the daughter of Muammar Qadaffy, the Libyan leader, has appeared on state television, denying a report she tried to flee to Malta.

There had been reports on Wednesday that a Libyan plane carrying Qadaffy's daughter had been turned back from Malta after it was denied permission to land.

Speaking late on Wednesday, Aisha Qadaffy, said: "I was surprised when my friends told me about this report.

"I would like to sayto the Libyan men and women who I love and love me, that know me well, that I am steadfastly here.

"In fact this demonstrates to the Libyan people the extent of lies and forgery these channels are resorting to in their reporting."

Earlier on Wednesday, Cal Perry, Al Jizz's correspondent in Malta, said: "The [crew] initially said they had 14 people on board. They were circling overhead saying they were running low on fuel.

"At that point the ambassador from Libya who was here in Malta was called in to take part in the negotiations on whether or not they were going to allow this plane to land.

"As he entered the talks it became clear from the pilots that Aisha Gaddhafi, Muammar Gaddhafi's only daughter, was aboard the plane.

"The government said it was an unscheduled flight, it doesn't matter who is on board; they said it cannot land and diverted the plane back to Libya."

Maltese government sources said that they had no information that Gaddadfi's daughter was on the plane or that the Libyan ambassador was involved in any negotiations.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Aisha Gaddafi was part of Saddam's defense team. She was also involved in the defense of the Bush shoe thrower.

Gaddafi tested the conditions of his rehabilitation immediately after Blair's 'breakthrough.'

Unfortunately every signal he received told him that he had absolutely nothing to fear from the West, no matter what he would do.
Posted by: Grampaw Croluck1474 || 02/25/2011 3:15 Comments || Top||

#2  She didn't flee? Does this mean she couldn't find any country that would accept her?
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/25/2011 10:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Went to Malta. They told her to go home.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2011 11:22 Comments || Top||


Gaddafi warns Libyans of chaos if protests continue: TV
(Xinhua) -- Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy warned Libyans that protests will lead to chaos in the country, in a phone-in to state TV Thursday, according to Dubai-based Al- Alabiya TV.
As opposed to what they have now, which is order and tidiness...
"If you want to live in this chaos, it's up to you," he told Libyans, adding that he felt sorry for those who got killed in the festivities.

He called on protesters to lay down their weapons, accusing some of the protesters of acting under the impact of drugs.

He said that the United States and the West must have a hand in the country's unrest.

Qadaffy accused members and agents of Al-Qaeda of standing behind the protests and unrest that swept Libya, calling for its members to be nabbed.

He said Al-Qaeda wants to build "an Islamic emirate" in Libya, adding protests in Libya have links with Osama bin Laden.

Qadaffy said he only has "moral authority" in Libya. "I don't have the power to issue laws. The authority is at the hands of the people," he told the official TV. Qadaffy called on residents in Zawiyah city west of Tripoli to go on streets and fight protesters gathering in the city.

Heavy gunfire was reportedly heard in the town of Zawiyah, about 50 km west of the Libyan capital, which had become one of the country's areas where fierce festivities took place.

The Libyan government has reportedly seen defection of its security forces and resignation of diplomats since the protests broke out on Feb. 16.

The country's state TV said a total of 300 people including 111 soldiers and 189 civilians have been killed in the unrest in the past week.

The security chief of the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi announced his resignation Thursday and joined protests over a heavy-handed security crackdown against protesters in the city.
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#1  Chaos? We dont GOT no stinking Chaos.
Posted by: Dribble2716 || 02/25/2011 8:23 Comments || Top||

#2  There's already chaos. He means more chaos. Probably means he will kill lots of his people before the folks conduct a mass hanging of him, his mercenaries and hired thugs.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/25/2011 10:05 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Yemens Saleh orders protection of demonstrators
[Asharq al-Aswat] Yemeni President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, after serving as a lieutenant colonel in the army. He had been part of the conspiracy that bumped off his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, in the usual tiresome military coup, and he has maintained power by keeping Yemen's many tribes fighting with each other, rather than uniting to string him up. ...
ordered his forces Thursday to offer "full protection" to anti-regime protesters and loyalists alike, after 15 people died in an uprising against his rule.
"How shall we protect the demonstrators, Your Enormity?"
"Well first, you surround them with troops..."

Saleh "instructed all security services to thwart all festivities and prevent direct confrontation between pro- and anti-government protesters," read an official statement.

The statement, published on the Yemeni state news agency SABA, demanded security services grant "full protection" to all demonstrators and urged protesters to "remain vigilant" against infiltrators seeking to ignite violence.

Two anti-government protesters were killed early Wednesday when government supporters opened fire on the Sanaa sit-in, bringing to at least 15 the total number of deaths in a crackdown on a revolt against Saleh since February 16.

Violent festivities between anti-regime protesters and Saleh loyalists have taken place almost daily since the protests began, leaving scores of people hurt.

Hundreds of black-clad Yemeni women on Thursday joined thousands of protesters who have been camping out since Sunday in an impromptu tent city outside Sanaa University.

Members of the university's professors' union also turned out Thursday to support the demonstrators, who have one demand: that Saleh step down.

While the 64-year-old leader has resisted pressure to resign, on February 2 he said he will not seek a new mandate when his term ends in 2013.

He also promised political reforms and shelved a plan for parliamentary elections that the opposition had denounced.

The uprising against Saleh, who has been in power since 1990, was inspired by similar revolts that toppled the seemingly unshakeable presidents of Tunisia and Egypt.

Ten MPs with Saleh's General People's Congress (GPC) have resigned from parliament in protest at the government's crackdown on the widening demonstrations, which have spread to the southern areas of Hadramawt and Aden.

Protests also surfaced in north Yemen this week, where tens of thousands demonstrated in Shiite rebel Huthi stronghold of Saada to demand the president step down.

The Zaidi Shiite rebel movement from 2004 fought six wars with Saleh's government before signing a truce in February 2010.

Rights group Amnesia Amnesty International has urged Saleh's government to end its crackdown on anti-regime protesters.

"This disturbing development indicates that the heavy-handed tactics which we have seen the security forces using with lethal effect against protesters in the south of Yemen are increasingly being employed elsewhere," said Philip Luther, Amnesty's deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa.

The rights group also called for the release Hassan Baoum, an opposition leader who was jugged on February 20th and has since been held incommunicado, Amnesty said.
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Caribbean-Latin America
Mayhem in Nuevo Leon: 7 die
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Seven individuals were killed including two Nuevo Leon state highway patrol police officers in armed confrontaions in Nuevo Leon.

  • Four armed suspects died in two separate gunfights against detachment of the Mexican Army Wednesday. Both battles took place in Cadereyta, a known hot spot for armed confrontations in Nuevo Leon.
    • A Mexican Army patrol was attacked by armed suspects near the rancho La Leona. Army return gunfire killed one suspect. An unreleased number of hostages were released. Soldiers seized three rifles, three vehicles, weapons magazines and ammunition.

    • Three armed suspects were killed in a gunfight with a detachment of the Mexican Army in the ejido El Palmito. Soldiers seized three rifles, a vehicle as well as weapons magazines and ammunition. Two male hostages were rescued, also.

  • Two Mexican highway patrol police officers were shot to death in Lampazos Wedensday. The officers were aboard their official patrol vehicle on the road in the Lampazos municipality (county) leading to Anahuac. The officers were identified as Fidel Arevalo Gaona and Miguel Ruiz Arriaga.

  • A Mexican Amrine unit arrested three individuals and seized a number of weapons and a quantity of drugs in Apodaca, Nuevo Leon. The unit was dispatched from a citizen's complaint about kidnappers operating in the area to the Balcones del Mezquital colony where they placed Juan Antonio Pérez Esquivel, 23, Alfonso Daniel Castillo Torres, 25, and a third unidentified minor under arrest. Marines also seized one rifle, two submachine guns, 26 rounds of ammunition, three weapons magazines, and 32 bundles of marijuana.

  • An unidentified man was shot more than 20 times in Monterrey Wednesday night. The victim was shot near the intersection of calles Independencia and Peral in the Moderna colony. The victim had been pursued for several blocks before he was gunned down. More than 20 AR-15 assault rifle and 9mm spent casings were found at the scene.
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#1  Weather improving.
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More Mexican Mayhem
15 Die in Northern Mexico

A total of 15 individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence including a Chihuahua state police agents sho to death Wednesday.

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  • An unidentified man as shot to death Wednesday. The victim was the owner of a torilleria in front of the Templo San Judas in San Lorenzo colony. Armed suspects aboard a white ford Explorer stopped by the tortilleria and shot the victim.

  • Two teenage females and a an unidentified woman were shot to death in Juarez Wednesday night in two separate incidents, according to the Mexican news daily la Polaka.
    • Two female teenagers were shot to death and another was wounded in a shooting in Juarez. The trio were on calle Pavorreal in the Granjas de Chapultepec colony when they were attacked. Esmeralda Lozoya,12, and Carmen Barraza, 14, died shortly after they arrived to receive medical attention.

    • An unidentified woman was shot to death on calle Inocente Ochoa in the Cuauhtemoc colony.

  • Two unidentified men were found shot to death early Thursday mroning in Juarez. The victims were found in a vacant lot near the intersection of calles Municipio Libre and Panamá in the Melchor Ocampo colony. Their hands and feet were bound using duct take and they were gagged with duct tape as well.

  • One unidentified Chihuahua state police agent was shot to death and a teenager in his company was wounded in Juarez Thursday. Armed suspects aboard a vehicle shot at the police agent and his companion aboard a Nissan Maxima following a brief pursuit. The suspects presumably used assault rifles. The shooting ended at Avenida Zaragoza.

  • Three unidentified armed suspects were shot to death and two bystanders were wounded in an ambush in Juarez Thursday afternoon. The shooting took place near the corner of calles Valle de Sol and Valle de las Peñas in the San Lorenzo Infovanit colony where armed suspects attacked the victims a Chevrolet Venture minivan. Reports say more than 80 AK-47 assault rifle rounds were fired into the van. Stray gunfire wounded two teenaged girls in a residence.

  • Two unidentified men and one teenagers were murdered in Ciudad Obregon, Sonora Wednesday. Reports say while state police agents were conducting an eviction from a mine in Alamos, the victims were shot in two separate shootings. Edwin Guillermo, 16, was shot with an AR-15 assault rifle as he was riding his motorcycle in the La Palmas colony, while Daniel Roberto Valenzuela Ramirez, 24, Andres Enrique Osuna Barron, 19, were both shot aboard a Toyota sedan in the Sostenes Valenzuela colony. Small amounts of drugs including marijuana, cocaine and methamphetimine were found in the car.

  • Two university students were shot to death in Rosario, Baja California Wednesday. Jesus Franco Orlando 25 years and Maria Guadalupe Lopez, 21, were aboard a Ford Focus sedan when they were fied on by armed suspects. The shooting took place on calle Emiliano Zapata in the Leyes de Reforma colony.
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Southern Russian city of Nalchik is under attack
This city is near Chechnya. This information is through a discussion thread. News story in Russian only.
Hat tip, one of our French Rantburgers.
Some sources in English now: Itar-Tass; Reuters.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 02/25/2011 14:24 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Google Translate:

The capital of Kabardino-Balkaria on Friday, February 25, was attacked by several militant groups. As informs RIA Novosti news agency quoted a source in law enforcement, about 20:10 was shelled the building of the republican FSB, located in the center of Nalchik.

According to sources, the building fired four rocket-propelled grenade. Moreover, as the representative told the Republican control IC RF, was damaged by a car.

Around the same time, militants fired two posts STSI: Post Shalushka "at the entrance to the city and Khasanya, located at the exit from the same village. On one of them is fighting.

Interfax reports that the shelling "Shalushki" injured employee DPS.
On the other potential victims are no data.

Source RIA Novosti noted that "several small groups of militants moving the machines." He also said that in Nalchik in the near future will come additional units of interior troops of the Russian Federation. According to him, the city "can be declared a zone of counter-terrorist operation."

In addition, it is reported that on the territory of one of the departmental health centers Nalchik explosion occurred. Source ITAR-TASS news agency in the law enforcement structures SKFO told that we are talking about the sanatorium FSB Leningrad.

Interfax, in turn, reports that the building was abandoned some explosive device - possibly a homemade grenade. Its power has not yet been established.

According to preliminary data, none of the staff and residents resort has not suffered.

KBR President Arsen Kanokov called what happened in Nalchik attempt to "destabilize the situation in the republic." He confirmed that as a result of militant attacks has suffered a law enforcement officer, and said that in the city, "declared the plan" interception. "There is an active search for criminals."

In February 2011 on the territory of Kabardino-Balkaria have been several high-profile attacks: gunmen shot and killed three tourists, and then was blown up by chairlift on Mount Elbrus, and near a hotel in the ski village found a car bomb.
Major attack on Nalchik militants took place in October 2005. Тогда около 200 вооруженных бандитов попытались захватить ряд важных объектов, включая здание УФСБ, антитеррористического центра МВД РФ, несколько отделов милиции и аэропорт. Then, about 200 armed bandits tried to seize a number of important sites, including the building of the FSB, the Interior Ministry anti-terrorist center, several police departments and the airport.

В результате нападения были убиты 35 сотрудников правоохранительных органов и 12 мирных жителей, более 100 человек получили ранения. The attack killed 35 law enforcement officers and 12 civilians, more than 100 people were injured.

Также были убиты 95 нападавших. Were also killed 95 attackers. В настоящее время продолжается суд на предполагаемыми участниками нападения, которых удалось задержать. There is an ongoing lawsuit against the alleged attackers, who were detained. Всего на скамье подсудимых оказались 59 человек. Total in the dock were 59 people.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/25/2011 14:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Surely, Russians haven't been brutal enough. All that's needed are ARCLIGHT strikes or concentration camps and surely Chechnyans will see the light. After all, fifteen years of repression has worked SO well.
Posted by: gromky || 02/25/2011 14:59 Comments || Top||

#3  For 'Russian city' read city colonised by the Russian Tsars. The people of KBR are not Russians and did not ask to be a part of Russia, much like the Ukranians or the Latvians.
Posted by: Gaz || 02/25/2011 19:42 Comments || Top||

#4  See also NEWS KERALA > FEAR OF CHINA + ISLAMIST INSURGENTS FUELS RUSSIA'S $400.0BILYUHN POUND REARMAMENT.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/25/2011 22:50 Comments || Top||


Europe
Italy Arrests 6 For Stirring Hate Against Pope
Italian police on Friday arrested six Moroccan men suspected of inciting hatred against Pope Benedict XVI for converting a Muslim journalist in Italy to Catholicism.

Stefano Fonsi, head of Brescia police's anti-terrorism squad in northern Italy, said the suspects allegedly banded together and met privately with the goal of stirring up religious hatred against non-Muslims, including the pope.
They don't take losing very well, do they?
It's 2011. Mr. Allam converted in 2008. This is not quite as bad as Al Qaeda planning the 9/11 attacks to coincide with the date of the failed Ottoman attack on Vienna in 1683.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/25/2011 11:47 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sharia law allows and even encourages them to kill converts in the name of their false prophet, the pedophile Muhammed (Piss be upon him).
Posted by: OldSpook || 02/25/2011 12:19 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Five security officials killed in attack on Khyber check post
Five security officials were killed in a bad boy attack on a check post in Khyber tribal region's Landi Kotal area on Thursday, DawnNews reported.

Militants attacked the check post with heavy weapons as a result of which two security officials were also maimed, security sources told DawnNews.

The maimed officials were shifted to a hospital for treatment.

Security forces subsequently started a search operation in areas surrounding the check post.

Separately, in Khyber's Bara area, three people were killed in festivities between armed beturbanned goons from two banned organisations.
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Second U.S. drone attack kills 6 in Pakistani tribal area
(Xinhua) -- At least six people were killed Thursday evening in a second U.S. drone attack in the northwestern Pak tribal area of North Wazoo, local sources said.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


US missiles kill six in North Waziristan
Suspected US missiles hit a house and car in a village in northwest Pakistain close to the Afghan border Thursday, killing at least six people, Pak intelligence officials said.

The strikes occurred within minutes of each other in the North Wazoo region, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
because they are not allowed to brief the media.

The officials said three missiles slammed into the house, killing four people. Two people were killed in the strike on the car. They did not identify the victims.

American officials do not publicly acknowledge the program or say who they are targeting.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


Iraq
At least 6 killed in suicide bombing in west Iraq
(Xinhua) -- At least six people were killed and 15 others maimed in a suicide kaboom at a gathering in the city if Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province on Thursday, a provincial police source said.

A jacket wallah blew up his explosive vest shortly before the sunset during a ceremony at the cultural center in central Ramadi, 110 km west of Storied Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

The ceremony was attended by Hikmat Jasim Zaidan, deputy governor of Anbar province, who was among the maimed, the source said.

One of Zaidan's guards was also among the killed by the blast, the source added.

Insurgent attacks continue in the once volatile Sunni Arab area in west of Storied Baghdad that stretches through Anbar province to Iraq's western borders with Syria, Jordan and Soddy Arabia.

The province cities and its vast desert area has been relatively calm for more than three years after Sunni tribes and anti-U.S. bad turban groups turned to cooperate with the U.S. troops and the Iraqi security forces against al-Qaeda network in Iraq.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq

#1  But no American's involved, right? Just Arabs?

I am surprised the American Media even reported that much. It isnt news if you cant blame it on George W.

A deadly "jacket wallah", you say? Sounds like we got the news thru' some Hindu news feed. And the guys name( who was the "blow-ee") was Hikmat?

Obama should send him a get well card. Barak and Hikmat, has a nice ring to it, dont you think?
Posted by: Dribble2716 || 02/25/2011 8:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Ummm... It's not the American media. It's Xin Hoa. That's China.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2011 8:47 Comments || Top||

#3  And the underlines are computer generated deeuphemizations of commonly used journolistic cliches provided here only for the exclusive enjoyment and delectation of Rantburgers.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 02/25/2011 8:59 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Twelve terrorists detained in southern Thailand
Twelve suspected terrorists insurgents were taken into custody following a raid on Friday suspected of involvement in an attack on an army base in Narathiwat province last month.

Briefing the press about the Feb 16-23 operation, Maj Gen Preecha Chanocha said 12 members of the Runda Kumputlan Kecil (RKK) were captured and 38 weapons and medical supply items were seized in a raid in Yala province. All of the suspects subsequently confessed.

The detainees are allegedly linked to six attacks in Narathiwat including an attack at the army base in January. Four soldiers, including an army company commander, were killed and six others were injured.

Gen Preecha also said that in Yala town, security officials plan to increase the number of checkpoints from 20 to 37 after a recent car bombing incident. They asked for help from the local authorities and civilians to install more surveillance cameras.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Leader of Bahraini Opposition Movement Arrested at Beirut Airport
[An Nahar] Lebanese authorities nabbed the leader of the Bahraini opposition Haq movement after arriving at Rafik Hariri international airport on Tuesday, An Nahar daily said.

Hassan Mashaima was nabbed after Lebanese authorities discovered he was wanted by Bahraini Interpol, the newspaper said Thursday.

Mashaima was one of 32 Shiite activists who received a royal pardon from King Hamad on Wednesday. He was being tried in absentia.

He had been expected to return to Manama on Tuesday but did not, said Agence La Belle France Presse.

Bahrain protesters have vowed not to budge from Pearl Square, epicenter of anti-regime demonstrations, despite the release of the leading opposition activists and renewed calls by the king for talks.
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