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Africa Horn
Cartels threaten Kenya anti-drugs team
[The Nation (Nairobi)] Police on Thursday expressed their frustration in the war against drugs, pointing to intimidation, bribery and threats of dismissal from powerful cartels.

Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere said powerful drug barons were retaliating against the ongoing war on narcotics trafficking and wanted detectives off their trail.

He disclosed that the anti-narcotics team he appointed was being "intimidated" by the narco mobs, hoping the officers would yield to pressure and abandon investigations.

"Their ultimate aim is to compromise these diligent officers and force out those who cannot be compromised, including the top echelons of Kenya Police," said the commissioner.

"The beneficiaries of this evil trade have been on the warpath. We are aware that they have vowed to use every means possible to frustrate the current onslaught."

Mr Iteere said the traffickers tried bribery before resorting to intimidation. His comments come after 102 kilogrammes of heroin valued at more than Sh200 million were seized in Shanzu, Mombasa, last week. (READ: Police seize drug haul at Kenya coast)

The sentiments were contained in a statement read to journalists by police front man Eric Kiraithe at the headquarters in Nairobi. He said the traffickers portrayed the officers in bad light to the public.

"We take this opportunity to caution the public. They (traffickers) have now embarked on a campaign to discredit, intimidate and demoralise the officers," said Mr Iteere.

A new anti-narcotics police unit headed by Mr Sebastian Ndaru was formed in January following a presidential directive to hunt and arrest narcos.

It followed a public outcry after United States ambassador Michael Ranneberger said in a report that drug trafficking was rife in Kenya and involved prominent personalities in government. He submitted the report to the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission.

Later, Internal Security minister George Saitoti disclosed in Parliament that former assistant minister John Harun Mwau, MPs Hassan Joho, Gideon Mbuvi and William Kabogo, as well as businessman Ali Pujani were being investigated for drug trafficking. (READ: Six Kenya MPs named in drug baron scandal)

Preliminary police findings did not find evidence linking them to the illegal trade.

A secret intelligence report obtained by the Nation at the time showed 17 prominent Kenyans -- including senior coppers, politicians and business magnates -- were involved in drug trade.

At the same time, lawyers Cliff Ombeta and Kirathe Wandugi, representing six suspects charged in connection with the heroin haul, recorded statements saying they had received death threats.
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Africa North
Libya rebels say hit by coalition air strike
At least 10 rebels were killed by a coalition air strike on Friday, fighters at the scene said on Saturday, in an increasingly chaotic battle with Muammar Gaddafi's forces over the oil town of Brega.

"Some of Gaddafi's forces sneaked in among the rebels and fired anti-aircraft guns in the air," said rebel fighter Mustafa Ali Omar. "After that the NATO forces came and bombed them."

Most rebels blamed a Gaddafi agent for deliberately drawing the friendly fire but some said other rebels had shot into the air by accident. "The rebels shot up in the air and the alliance came and bombed them. We are the ones who made the mistake," said one fighter who did not give his name.
Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 || 04/02/2011 07:57 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We had to kill them in order to save them.
Posted by: Beavis || 04/02/2011 8:47 Comments || Top||

#2  "Sneaked in among the rebels"?

Not sure I'm buyin' that one.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 04/02/2011 9:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Monte, I'll take door #2.
Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 || 04/02/2011 9:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Is it wrong to be convulsed with laughter?
Posted by: AlanC || 04/02/2011 11:15 Comments || Top||

#5  "The rebels shot up in the air and the alliance came and bombed them. We are the ones who made the mistake,"

Taking responsibility for things going wrong is totally atypical for Arabs. Shows how bad are things going for the "rebels".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/02/2011 12:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Either that or Mr. Dziadosz spoke to a returned Libyan expatriate. Thoroughly corrupted by their host culture, y'know.
Posted by: Pappy || 04/02/2011 13:32 Comments || Top||

#7  returned Libyan expatriate. Thoroughly corrupted by their host culture

Know many like this?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/02/2011 14:00 Comments || Top||

#8  Is it wrong to be convulsed with laughter?

Depends. Did you sprain a muscle?
Posted by: gorb || 04/02/2011 14:26 Comments || Top||

#9  "Is it wrong to be convulsed with laughter?

Depends. Did you sprain a muscle?"

If so, gorb, that would make it inconvenient, not wrong. ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 04/02/2011 14:28 Comments || Top||

#10  No sprain, but my tendenitis flared up. That's definitely inconvenient.......the golf course just opened.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/02/2011 14:33 Comments || Top||

#11  Know many like this?

It was partially sarcasm, but yes - I met a few decades ago in college that were quite reluctant to return to Uncle Mo's welcoming arms after graduation. Apparently not as welcoming as my returning to Uncle Sam's...
Posted by: Pappy || 04/02/2011 18:25 Comments || Top||

#12  "That's definitely inconvenient.......the golf course just opened."

I'm sure you'll have plenty of time to heal before Bambi moves on and the peons you can use the golf course again, Alan.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 04/02/2011 19:33 Comments || Top||

#13  Allahn says- No Sprain? Noh GayUn...
Posted by: Bugs Clish1461 || 04/02/2011 22:38 Comments || Top||


Airmen return home from Libyan airstrike
The wheels of two B-1B Lancers hit the Ellsworth Air Force Base runway Wednesday morning bringing home eight airmen from an airstrike mission in Libya. "We, of course, were striking military targets that were designed to protect the Libyan population," said Col. Jeffrey Taliaferro, 28th Bomb Wing Commander. "It was nearly 100 targets, nearly 100 weapons and those weapons did achieve their intended effects."
Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 || 04/02/2011 02:15 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Before and after photo of raid:
RAF and allies destroy Gaddafi ammunition bunkers
Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 || 04/02/2011 22:28 Comments || Top||


More disciplined Libyan opposition force emerging
Something new has appeared at the Libyan front: a semblance of order among rebel forces. Rebels without training — sometimes even without weapons — have rushed in and out of fighting in a free-for-all for weeks, repeatedly getting trounced by Moammar Gadhafi's more heavily armed forces.

But on Friday only former military officers and the lightly trained volunteers serving under them were allowed on the front lines. Some were recent arrivals, hoping to rally against forces loyal to the Libyan leader who have pushed rebels back about 100 miles (160 kilometers) this week.
Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 || 04/02/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But on Friday only former military officers and the lightly trained volunteers serving under them were allowed on the front lines.

Well yesterday was payday.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/02/2011 1:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Gitmo alumnus and 'Afghan Arabs' training Libyan opposition.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/02/2011 4:13 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't know what to make of Michael Totten's post:
Who Are The Libyan Rebels? The journalist interviewed is at least in theatre.
Posted by: Free Radical || 04/02/2011 6:55 Comments || Top||

#4  "and they’re all grateful to the West at the moment"

Muslim gratitude. Good as gold. Stuff you can take to the bank. Yeah, I'm a little cynical. Why do you ask?
Posted by: SteveS || 04/02/2011 10:52 Comments || Top||

#5  I don't know what to make of Michael Totten's post: Who Are The Libyan Rebels?

When you have the following from Ms Tarkowski Tempelhof:

"This is only my personal assessment, of course, and I’ve only been on the ground a short time..."

"They have given me free office space, and I have a lovely assistant, driver, and translator working for free. I haven’t paid for a single meal since I arrived."

She's a “public relations executive”, so maybe objectivity doesn't count. Totten doesn't think accepting non-monetary freebies is an issue to accurate journalism. I'd still say journalistic skepticism would be a tad lacking.
Posted by: Pappy || 04/02/2011 11:11 Comments || Top||

#6  I seem to recall Saddam provided goodies and access to CNN. Apparently, he was a pretty good guy too.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/02/2011 13:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Al Jazeera is reporting that the Islamists are being rearmed by arms coming through Egypt, but may not be sourced in Egypt. The Islamists are also being trained by special forces(read CIA) and the Egyptian special forces. The Muslim League who initially suckered the US into the conflict and then decamped from the battlefield could split if this is seen as a crusader V. moslem thing.
Posted by: tipper || 04/02/2011 18:19 Comments || Top||

#8  Arab League not Muslim League.
Posted by: tipper || 04/02/2011 18:22 Comments || Top||

#9  "Arab League not Muslim League."

There's a difference, tipper?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 04/02/2011 19:21 Comments || Top||

#10  degrees of ineffectualness? Spittle production? Jooo-hating?
Posted by: Frank G || 04/02/2011 19:40 Comments || Top||


Qaddafi aide seeks talks with West to halt airstrikes
[Arab News] A key Libyan official involved in negotiations on the future of Muammar Qadaffy's regime said Friday that Tripoli was attempting to hold talks with the US, Britain and La Belle France to find a mutual end to the crisis.

Abdul-Ati Al-Obeidi, a former Libyan prime minister, said Qadaffy's government was reaching out to those leading the international military campaign in an attempt to halt Arclight airstrikes against regime targets, which began March 19.
Hopefully a few missiles wandered off path to hit Qadaffy's WMD storage sites and the various terror training camps.
The claim follows confirmation that a Libyan government aide has held talks in Britain with UK officials in recent days.

The rebels meanwhile said they would agree to a cease-fire if Qadaffy pulls his military forces out of cities and allows peaceful protests against his regime.

Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, head of the opposition's interim governing council based in Benghazi, spoke during a joint presser with UN envoy Abdelilah Al-Khatib. After meeting government officials on Thursday, Al-Khatib was visiting the rebels' de facto stronghold of Benghazi in hopes of reaching a political solution to the crisis.

Abdul-Jalil said the rebels' condition for a cease-fire is "that the Qadaffy forces withdraw from inside and outside Libyan cities to give freedom to the Libyan people to choose and the world will see that they will choose freedom."

On the warfront, Qadaffy's forces mounted an intense artillery bombardment of rebel-held Misrata on Friday and attacked shops and homes in the city center, residents said.

Misrata is the last big rebel stronghold in western Libya but after weeks of shelling and encirclement, government forces appear to be gradually loosening the rebels' hold on the city.

One resident said an attempt by government forces to take control of the city center had been fought off by rebels but that afterward pro-Qadaffy forces started indiscriminate shelling of Misrata's port and the city center. Al Jizz television station quoted a rebel front man as saying five people had been killed.

On Friday, the opposition showed signs of gaining discipline on what has often been a disorganized battlefield. Fighters said fresh forces were coming in, mostly ex-military, but also volunteers with not quite a month of training. The rebels also appeared to have more communication equipment such as radios and satellite phones, and were working in more organized units, in which military defectors were each leading six or seven volunteers.
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Gaddafi forces storm Misrata
[Asharq al-Aswat] Muammar Qadaffy's forces stormed the western rebel outpost of Misrata with tanks and artillery on Friday, a rebel front man said, while cut-throats marshalled defences in their eastern heartland.

A rebel leader speaking after talks with a U.N. envoy in Benghazi offered a cease-fire on condition Qadaffy left Libya and his forces withdrew from cities now under government control. It was unclear if the offer was part of broader diplomatic moves to end a conflict that appears deadlocked on the military front.

Rebels speaking from Misrata said Qadaffy's forces had brought their superior firepower to bear on the beturbanned goons' last western enclave with an intense bombardment.

"They used tanks, rocket-propelled grenades, mortar rounds and other projectiles to hit the city today. It was random and very intense bombardment," the front man, called Sami, told Rooters by telephone. "We no longer recognise the place. The destruction cannot be described."

"The pro-Qadaffy soldiers who made it inside the city through Tripoli Street are pillaging the place, the shops, even homes, and destroying everything in the process."

"They are targeting everyone, including civilians' homes. I don't know what to say, may Allah help us," he said.

The account from Misrata, Libya's third biggest city 200 km east of Tripoli, could not be verified. Authorities do not allow journalists to report freely from the city.

A doctor in Misrata told Rooters in an email that the 32nd Brigade, one of the best-equipped and trained units, had been sent early on Friday to seize control of the city.

"So the question is where is the international community?" the doctor said.
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Libya spurns opposition ceasefire offer
[Iran Press TV] The Libyan government has rejected a conditional ceasefire offer made by the opposition forces, a government front man has said.

"The rebels never offered peace. They don't offer peace, they are making impossible demands," AFP quoted government front man Mussa Ibrahim as saying on Friday.

Transitional National Council leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil said earlier on Friday that the opposition was ready for a truce provided Muammar Qadaffy's forces end their attacks on opposition-held cities.

Ibrahim called the truce offer a "trick," vowing Libyan government troops would not withdraw from towns they control.

"We will not leave our cities. We are the government, not them," he said, adding that the government, however, was always ready to negotiate and wanted peace.

Latest reports said running battles between revolutionary forces and forces loyal to the Libyan government continue on the outskirts of the key city of Brega.

The revolutionaries earlier lost the oil-rich port of Ras Lanuf and the nearby town of Ben Jawad.

Heavy battles are also ongoing in Misratah, located 200 km (130 miles) east of the capital Tripoli.
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The "BATTLE FOR LIBYUH" is by extension also a new "BATTLE FOR EGYPT" + "SOMALIA/EAST AFRICA", vee security of the Suez Canal + Energy trade flows.

* As per SOMALI PIRATES, DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > SOMALI PIRATES PRESENT A [real] DANGER TO PAKISTAN'S SEAFARERS [+ Egypt, Yemen, Kenya, Nigeria, + Seychelles], repor coming close to de facto disrupting PAkistan's energy supplies several times.

ARTIC > GULF OF ADEN = is a major "CASH COW" for the NOT-JOHNNY-DEPP BAD BOYZ. In addition, IIUC being a FELLOW MUSLIM = NOT A VALID ENOUGH REASON FOR THE PIRATES TO NOT DETAIN, RANSOM, ABUSE, OR EVEN KILL SHIP HOSTAGES.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/02/2011 1:21 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Oman breaks up new protests over wages, jobs; eight hurt
[Arab News] Hundreds of Omani protesters seeking jobs and better wages clashed with security forces in the industrial town of Sohar on Friday, hurling rocks as the military fired in the air to try to disperse them.

The festivities, which witnesses said police brought to a halt with water cannon, came three days after a crackdown on protesters to try to clear a main Sohar roundabout where around 100 people had been camped out for weeks.

Activists told Rooters security forces used tear gas and beat some protesters with batons. Two protesters said at least one person died but hospital sources said no one had been killed. Two of the eight people brought in for injuries were at death's door, they said.

Protests sweeping the region have not spared conservative and usually tranquil Oman, at the southeast end of the Arabian Peninsula. Sultan Qaboos bin Said offered a pay rise to try to coax Omanis off the streets, but protesters and workers have continued to stage sit-ins, including at two oil refineries two weeks ago.

Oman protests have centered on demands for better wages, jobs and an end to corruption in the autocratic state. Many have added to their demands that the government be held accountable for the detention of hundreds of protesters in Sohar.

Oman's public prosecutor last week said that a number of "saboteurs" were tossed in the calaboose in Sohar Sultan Qaboos, in power for 40 years, also vowed in March to cede some legislative powers to the partially elected Oman Council, which currently acts as an advisory body. At present, only the sultan and his cabinet can legislate and a transfer of powers has yet to be announced.

One witness told Rooters that military personnel fired in the air on Friday only when they failed to peacefully disperse the crowd after demonstrators left prayers and went to gather at the roundabout the army had cleared on Tuesday.

"It was all going peacefully with the military keeping a close eye," one witness told Rooters. "But a section of the protesters started to throw stones and other objects at the army. Then they responded by firing in the air. Many bravely ran away but a small crowd remained and continued to protest." Activists from Sohar told Rooters security forces had harrassed protesters from the very beginning of the sit-in and that they began throwing rocks when they heard live fire.
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Saleh supporters, opponents flex muscles
[Arab News] Thousands of supporters of 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. ...
streamed Saturday into the capital's Sabeen Parade Zone, near his heavily fortified palace, to show their support for the beleaguered leader.

The crowds carried banners urging Saleh not to bow to opposition demands for his resignation. Boosted by the huge crowd of supporters, Saleh responded: "I swear to you that I will sacrifice my blood and soul and everything precious for the sake of this great people."

Saleh also told the opposition that he wouldn't respond to their "foul language." "I hope their speeches to be reasonable and that they would avoid using irresponsible language."

The official media claimed that half the country's population (approximately 10 million souls) went to the streets of the republic in support of Saleh's regime. Saleh's supporters dubbed the day the "Friday of Brotherhood."

The president's opponents staged an equally impressive protest when thousands of protesters converged on Change Square, the epicenter of the anti-Saleh protests. They called their protests "Friday of Removal."

The anti-government sit-in has been spared attacks since the defected army Gen. Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmer vowed to protect the protesters. The opposition media put the number of protesters across the country at six million.

Yemen has been rattled by a wave of protests inspired by two successful uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. The president has offered many concessions since the beginning of the turmoil in early February, including a pledge not to stand for another term. His latest offer was to leave office by the end of this year.

Saleh's regime was jolted recently by the defection of senior army generals. Also, some members of his ruling party and many tribal leaders have thrown their lot with the opposition.

Fearing instability, many countries have asked their citizens to take precautions or leave Yemen.

The British Foreign Office has urged all British nationals to leave Yemen, while the US Embassy called on Americans in Sanaa to restrict their movements.
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Bangladesh
5 injured in bomb attack
[Bangla Daily Star] ive including two municipal councillors in Meherpur of the district were maimed in a kaboom last night.

The councillors are Mizanur Rahman Ripon, 40, and Abdullah Bin Hasem, 44.

Mizanur and Hasem were at Rajdhani Store, a cosmetics shop owned by Mizanur, last night and around 9:30pm four people came there on two cycle of violences and hurled two bombs at the store, said witnesses.

Besides the councillors, three employees of the shop-- Nurul Islam, Nayan and Milon-- sustained injuries in the attack.

The injured were taken to Meherpur General Hospital where doctors referred Mizanur and Nayan to Dhaka Medical College Hospital since their condition was critical.

The police rushed to the spot and recovered splinters of the bombs.

Mizanur is also general secretary of municipality unit Jubo League
... the youth wing of the Bangla Awami League...
. The police picked up general secretary of district unit Jubo League Abdullah Al Mamun Bipul soon after the incident.

The police, however, could not ascertain the reason behind the incident.
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Protesters clash with cops, 20 hurt
[Bangla Daily Star] At least 20 people, including 12 police personnel, were maimed when hundreds of activists of 'Hefazate Islami Bangladesh' clashed with police ahead of a demonstration at Anderkilla in the port city yesterday.

The Islamist organisation had announced to hold the demonstration, protesting the government's move to ban fatwa (religious edict), and demanding cancellation of the proposed Education Policy and National Women Development Policy, sources said.

The violence began at about 2:00pm when police obstructed an attempt of the organisation to bring out a procession from Jame Mosjid minutes after Friday prayers, witnesses said.

The agitating activists also vandalised six vehicles and threw brickbats and stones at the law enforcers.

Police charged truncheons and lobbed tear gas canisters to disperse the demonstrators.

Assistant Commissioner of Kotwali Police Station Jedan Al Musa and Patrol Inspector Nazrul Islam suffered injuries during the clash.

Hundreds of people, who went to say their prayers, became trapped in the mosque as the chase and counter-chase between police and protesters lasted for about an hour.

Police jugged five men of the organisation during the clash. Later, they showed two of them incarcerated releasing the others.

Abul Kalam Azad, officer-in-charge of the cop shoppe, said the activists first started throwing stones and bricks from Anderkilla Jame Mosque.

They also beat up a police man and tried to snatch his shotgun, police sources said.

A large number of madrasa students from Hathajari and Rangunia took part in the protest of the Islamist organisation.

Earlier around 12:30pm, police tried to prevent the madrasa students at Amanbazar from going to the rally in three vehicles.

The angry madrasa students put blockade on the Hathazari road for three hours, sources said.

They also vandalised at least three vehicles there at that time.

Patrol Inspector Nazrul said they are going to file a case against the activists.

Mufti Ahmed Safi, director of Hathazari Madrasa; and Mufti Ijharul Islam, chairman of a faction of Islami Oikya Jote
... a political party in Bangladesh. In the 2001 elections the party won 2 out of 300 elected members in an alliance with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. It has a focus on building an islamic state, and has used the madrassas to gain support...
, established 'Hefazate Islami Bangladesh' in January 2010.
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10 Hizbut Tawhid men held in Rajshahi
[Bangla Daily Star] Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) tossed in the slammer 10 activists, two of them women, of Islamist outfit Hizbut Tawhid from Baje Kajla in Rajshahi city last night.
That's something new: women, and a location findable on a map smaller than 1:15. We needn't call in Rantburg's experts for this one.
The elite force members also seized compact disks (CDs), jihadi books and leaflets of the organisation from their possession.
Cell phones and laptops, too, one hopes. Although the Rab haven't been celebrated for their IT branch thus far...
Acting on a tip-off,
Mahmoud the Weasel's youngest son has finally joined the family business.
officials of Rab-4 conducted a drive at Baje Kajla at about 8:30pm
It appears the Rab have had to add an early shift.
where the activists were holding a secret meeting in the dead of night, Maj Anwar Ali, commanding officer of Railway Colony Camp, told The Daily Star.

The arrestees are Mozaffar Hossain Lala, 65, Mizanur Rahman Mithu, 28, Razon Ali, 21, Sharif Hossain, 35, Moniruzzaman Milon, 25, Manik Hossain, 29, Nabizul Islam, 35, Ashraf Ali, 24, Moriam Khatun, 24, and Mina Begum, 25.
Good lord, a begum? What in the world is she doing, slumming with conspirators?!?
Rab officials said all the arrestees confessed to their involvement with the outfit and claimed that their outfit is not banned.
How many of this bunch will turn out to be Parlour Greens, d'you suppose?
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hizb-ut-Tahrir


Caribbean-Latin America
More Mexican Mayhem
24 Die in Northern Mexico

A total of 24 individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence in northern Mexico, including ten unidentified individuals shot to death at a bar in Juarez Thursday night.
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  • Ten unidentified individuals were shot to death at a bar in Juarez late Thursday night. Reports say eight were shot and died inside the Castillo bar near the intersection of calles Ramon Rayon and Benito Juarez.

  • An unidentified man was shot to death and immolated in Juarez Friday morning. The victim was found at 0800 hrs on calle Mamut in the Märmol colony inside a GMC pickup truck, still smouldering from the fire.

  • Three unidentified men and a 10 year old by were shot to death in Juarez Friday morning. The attack took place at a burrito stand near Placita Zaragona on Calle Ramon Rayon. Two of the victims were reportedly local distributors of Tecate beer in Juarez.

  • Two unidentified men were shot to death in two separate incidents in Juarez Friday.
    • A street vendor was shot to death near the corner of Avenida Santiago Troncoso and Bulevar Independencia. The victim attempted to flee the attack on foot before he was shot.

    • An unidentified man was shot to death near Placita de Arriba in the Zaragoza colony. The victim was working at the Morelos bakery when he was shot.

  • An unidentified Juarez municipal police officer was shot and critically wounded in Juarez Friday evening. The officer was on patrol at the Centro Historico in downtown Juarez when he was shot.

  • A private security guard was shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Friday afternoon. Víctor Perez Marquez, 52, was a security guard at a shopping center near the intersection of Avenida Politecnico Nacional and Periferico de la Juventud, where he was shot.

  • An unidentified man was shot to death at his residence in Juarez Friday evening. The victim was at his home near the intersection of calles Tamaulipas and Gallegos in the Pancho Villa colony when he was killed. About 40 AK-47 assault rifle spent cartridges were found at he scene.

  • An unidentified man was shot to death and a woman was shot and wounded in two separate shootings in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Friday evening.
    • A man was shot to death near the intersection of calles 10th and Juliän Carrill.

    • A woman was shot and wounded near the corner of calles Progreso and 10th.

  • An unidentified couple were shot to death in Juarez Friday evening. The victims were walking together near the intersection of
    calles Cervantes and Balderas in the Francisco I Madero colony when they were killed.

  • The police chief of Rosarito, Baja California was shot to death Wednesday. José Carlos Ventura Isida was in the courtyard of the city hall when he was killed.

  • A Torreon Coahuila municipal police officer and a civilian were shot to death and two Torreon municipal police officers were wounded in Torreon Thursday afternoon. Animas Villalpando was on patrol near bulevar Revolución near Cerro del Cruz with two other officers when the vehicle he was driving came under rifle fire. Later a vehicle with one unidentified civilian dead was found in Miguel Hidalgo colony near Puente Negro dead from gunshot wounds. Reports say the victim likely was shot in the same incident that killed officer Villalpando.
Posted by: badanov || 04/02/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Deputy emir of Caucasus Emirate killed in Russian raid
Russian commandos killed the Islamic Caucasus Emirate's second in command during a nighttime raid earlier this week. In addition, a physician known to accompany the terror group's top leader is said to have also been killed during the raid.

The Islamic Caucasus Emirate confirmed that Emir Supyan, the deputy to Doku Umarov, the leader of the al Qaeda-linked terror group, was killed. Supyan's death was confirmed in a martydom statement released at Kavkaz Center, a propaganda outlet for the Caucasus Emirate.

While the announcement of Supyan's death did not explicitly state that he was killed during the Russian raid, the date of his death was listed as March 28, 2011, the same day that Russian commandos stormed a compound in Ingushetia. Seventeen Caucasus Emirate members and three policemen were killed during the clash. Earlier this week, reports speculated that Umarov, Supyan, and Khazmat, the head of the Caucasus Emirate's suicide squads, were killed during the raid.

Supyan was a longtime jihadist who "went to the Jihad on November 26, 1994." Kavkaz Center described him as an "experienced teacher, scout and commander" who "trained hundreds of young Mujahideen in warfare, Islam and Jihad." He led forces against the Russians during both battles for Grozny in the 1990s, in which Russian armored forces and infantry were chewed up in deadly urban fighting.
Posted by: tipper || 04/02/2011 08:51 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No pix of virgins?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/02/2011 12:15 Comments || Top||

#2  I think some of the folds on the second-from-right may be virgin.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/02/2011 14:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Another one bites the dust!
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/02/2011 15:13 Comments || Top||

#4  "I think some of the folds on the second-from-right may be virgin."

Aieeeeeee! My eyes, my eyes!

That picture should be banned.

(And I can certainly see why they're still virgins - nobody can find "it" to change that condition.)
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 04/02/2011 17:33 Comments || Top||

#5  She needs a bookmark just to find her azzh0le
She's got more chins than a Chinese phonebook
Gotta roll her in flour to find the wet spot

(sorry guys - had to)
Posted by: Mikey Hunt || 04/02/2011 18:18 Comments || Top||

#6  The things I learn at Rantburg. Over at the O Club (to which all are welcome for off-topic conversation -- if it were only officers I wouldn't be allowed in) I was exposed to the term cockblocked, which I'm still figuring out. It's been quite an educational day.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/02/2011 18:55 Comments || Top||

#7  cockblocked: see "ugly girl wingman"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/02/2011 19:08 Comments || Top||

#8  "cockblocked: see 'ugly girl wingman'"

Never heard of the term before, Frank, but I thought it meant "kicked in the brains nuts crotch."
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 04/02/2011 19:29 Comments || Top||

#9  it means blocking a seduction effort. Usually, the hot lady has a female wingman that came along for the ride, and generally is a pain-in-the-ass, blocking any plans you might have
Posted by: Frank G || 04/02/2011 19:43 Comments || Top||

#10  What cockblocked means is a man is shmoozing a lady and another man steps in to break things up.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/02/2011 19:48 Comments || Top||

#11  Hello Barbara!; They are a mere sampling of the many delights to be found in the offering of 72 virgins rewards.
Posted by: Dale || 04/02/2011 21:23 Comments || Top||

#12  Be still my heart;

Posted by: Dale || 04/02/2011 22:00 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey kills 7 Kurd fighters crossing from Syria
[Arab News] Turkish security forces killed seven Kurdish Orcs and similar vermin early on Friday after a large group of PKK fighters crossed over the border from Syria, Turkish military officials said.

It was the largest number killed in a firefight with the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers Party, since last summer.

The PKK called off a six-month long cease-fire in February raising fears that violence would pick up before a national election in Turkey on June 12.

Military operations were continuing in the area near the site of the clash by the town of Hassa in Hatay province, said the military officials, speaking on condition of anonymity.
... for fear of being murdered...

Syria and Turkey went to the brink of war in 1998 over Syrian support for the PKK, but political and economic ties between Ankara and Damascus
...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
have flourished since then. Last year, Syrian security forces rounded up 400 suspected PKK.

Turkey is closely monitoring unrest that recently flared in Syria, and has encouraged Syrian President Bashar Assad to make political and economic reforms.

Separately, near Turkey's border with Iraq, witnesses reported seeing troops and equipment mobilized in Hakkari and Sirnak provinces.

Hundreds of troops are moving to the region in convoys amid the spring thaw, when fighting in the mountainous region traditionally picks up.

Helicopter gun ships have pummeled the border area within Turkey for two days, security sources said.

Soldiers also patrolled remote areas further west in Diyarbakir, Tunceli and Bingol provinces in anticipation of festivities with the PKK after the group ended its one-sided truce.
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Failed suicide attack kills child, wounds five in Darra Adam Khel
[Dawn] A jacket wallah killed a child and maimed five other people after he was identified and shot at in a northwestern Pakistain market on Friday, officials said.

A would-be suicide bomber was identified as he tried to enter the crowded market in Darra Adam Khel, a tribal town near Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, they said.

Tribesmen tried to seize him but he went kaboom!" when he was shot at, killing a 12-year-old boy and wounding five people, a senior administrative official said.

"It was a failed suicide kaboom. One child was killed and five people were maimed when he went kaboom!"," Masood Khan Afridi, a police brass hat told AFP.

Shahidullah Khan, a senior administrative official, told AFP that the bomber was on foot and was trying to enter the market.

"The local rustics fired on him after identification but he went kaboom!"," he added.

On Thursday, a suicide bomber targeting a convoy of JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman
Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ...
killed at least 12 people in the northwestern town of Charsadda.

A similar attack on Wednesday killed 10 people in the town of Swabi, also in the northwest.

More than 4,000 people have died in suicide and kabooms throughout Pakistain since 2007.

Taliban and al Qaeda-linked Death Eaters launch almost daily attacks across northwest Pakistain and the tribal belt that Washington has branded the most dangerous place on earth.
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Iraq
At least 50 injured in Iraq's Kurdistan
[Iran Press TV] At least 50 people have been injured in festivities between security forces and demonstrators in Iraq's semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan, a report says.

The incident happened when 4,000 people had gathered in Liberation Square in the center of the town of Sulaymanieh, some 270 kilometers (173 miles) north of Storied Baghdad after Friday prayers.

Clashes erupted after some people hurled stones at the police guarding the area. The police responded with batons, AFP quoting witnesses as saying.

Most of those injured were coppers, medical sources at the Sulaymanieh hospital said.

The injured also included at least one protester and a journalist working for a media outlet linked to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), witnesses and security sources said.

Kurdistan is dominated by just two parties: the PUK and the regional president's Kurdistan Democratic Party.

Sulaymanieh -- Kurdistan's second largest city -- has seen near-daily protests since February 17. Protesters are demanding the ouster of the regional government as well as an end to corruption.
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Jihad leader: Resistance will respond to Israeli aggression
[Ma'an] A senior Islamic Jihad leader said Thursday that the Paleostinian resistance would not fail or retreat and will always respond to any Israeli aggression.

Marking Land Day in the in Al-Shuja'iyah neighborhood of Gazoo City, Khader Habib said that "the resistance will reply against any Israeli aggression and they won't expect our reaction."

"The land is our land and Paleostine is ours," he added noting that Islamic Jihad wanted "true reconciliation that will protect Paleostinian rights and interests, we don't want fake reconciliation."
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic Jihad


Qassam operative killed in tunnel collapse
[Ma'an] A member of the armed wing of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, died Thursday after a tunnel collapsed in the southern Gazoo Strip. He was identified as Hasan Abu Jaser from Jabaliya in southern Gazoo.
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Israeli airstrike kills 3 Palestinians
[Iran Press TV] An Israeli Arclight airstrike has killed at least three Paleostinians in the south of the Gazoo Strip, medical staff and witnesses say.

The attack took place early Saturday, AFP reported.

The witnesses said the target was a car in the area of Khan Yunis town.
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Senior Izzadin Kassam member among 3 killed in air strike
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/02/2011 12:29 Comments || Top||


Jordanians continue anti-govt. protests
[Iran Press TV] Hundreds of Jordanians have turned out for an anti-government protest in the capital, defying heavy government-ordered security measures.

Some 600 youths amassed outside Amman's city hall on Friday, calling for the ouster of the regime, constitutional reforms and trial of the officials suspected of corruption, AFP reported.

"The people want an elected government," the protesters chanted.

"It's up to the regime now to work on reform. We are peaceful, but a government that kills citizens cannot be trusted with reforms and cannot lead the people. We need a national government," said Zaki Bani Rsheid, head of the political office of the Islamic Action Front, a political party in the kingdom.

The rally was offset by a nearly-400-strong security mission and a nearby pro-government demonstration, which was attended by 50 people.

Last week, two people were killed and over 150 others maimed after government loyalists attacked a pro-reform camp near the Interior Ministry's building.

Emboldened by the recent revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, Jordanians have been staging protests since January.

The demonstrations continue as anti-regime rallies are spreading across Bahrain, Oman, Soddy Arabia and Yemen.
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IDF Sez "No" To Gaza Kidnap Krew With Airstrike
Ay-Pee
The IDF says it hit a group of Paleos in Gazaland its says was planning to abduct Joooos.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said late Friday that an "aircraft had fired at a terror squad of the terror group Hamas that was planning to carry out kidnappings."
It was in the dark hours of the morning when the plotters met secretly in the proletarian surroundings of a banana grove. Suddenly their Spider Senses tingled. "Hark!" quoth Mahmud the Weasel's idiot cousin, "I hear..."
At that moment the IDF missile arrived, and no more was said ever again.
She said the group was plotting the attacks for the Jewish festival of Passover later this month, in Israel as well as in the poplar Egyptian resort of Sinai.
I think they meant popular. I don't think poplars are indigenous.
Gaza Health Ministry spokeshole Adham Abu Salmia said three men cowards in kaffiyehs were killed. No militant group has claimed the men as members but Gaza officials say they belonged to the Islamic Jihad group.
"Nope. Wudn't us...unless if they were successful"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/02/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ... and no more was said ever again.

Rumor has it Dr. Quincy was extremely disappointed with the condition of the bodies and is wondering what to do with all those leaking plastic sacks of miscellaneous parts.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/02/2011 10:58 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian artists on 'list of shame'
[Arab News] Syrians have taken a cue from Tunisians and Egyptians by creating a so-called "List of Shame" to list prominent Syrians who have supported the status quo against demonstrators.

The list includes Duraid Lahham, an actor who is famous for performing in films and plays that are critical of dictatorships, television personality Abbas Al-Nouri and Rasheed Assaf, most famous for playing historical roles in serial dramas. The list has been distributed through Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

The list also contained some anti-revolution statements made by a number of artists and actors. For example, Al-Nouri is quoted as having said that, "reforms do not need a revolution to achieve." He has also accused Syrian youths of simply being copycats to the demonstrators in Tunisia and Egypt, adding that demonstrations have been isolated in Syria.

"As a Syrian citizen, I am with the leadership. I will defend and support it. It has adopted great national stances," Rasheed Assaf allegedly told a Kuwaiti newspaper.

Lahham is accused of being a bullhorn for the government.

"His attitudes contradict the reformist and revolutionary roles he had played on stage and cinema," said a statement on the list's Facebook page.

Famous Syrian caricaturist Ali Farazat recently told the media he would compile a list of artists who refused to join demonstrations because they were waiting to see which side would come out ahead before taking sides.
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Protests break out after Friday prayers in Syria
[Asharq al-Aswat] Protests broke out in three Syrian cities against Baath Party rule after prayers Friday, Syrian activists said, two days after hereditary President Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. Also head of Syria's Baath Party, an old-fashioned fascist operation that's seldom described as one in the press...
termed mass protests demanding freedoms a foreign conspiracy.

Hundreds of people erupted into the streets in and around Damascus
...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
, where security forces fired teargas at protesters in the suburb of Douma, and in the coastal cities of Latakia and Banias, they added.

The presence of security forces and Assad loyalists was heavy around mosques where the protests broke out, the activists said.

"The regime is using a new tactic. It is no longer security forces alone confronting the protesters, but they are just as brutal," one of the activists said.
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


More than 10 reported killed as rallies spread across Syria
[Jerusalem Post Front Page] Syrian security forces killed more than ten protesters across the country on Friday during anti-government protests, Army Radio reported.

Syria's state news agency acknowledged for the first time that worshippers in Deraa and Latakia, scene of protests and deadly festivities last week, had gathered after Friday prayers to call for accelerated reforms.

"A number of worshippers left some mosques in the cities of Deraa and Latakia, chanting slogans in honour of the martyr and calling for speeding up measures for reform ... There were no festivities between worshippers and security forces in these gatherings," SANA said.

Witnesses in the Damascus
...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
suburb of Douma said that three of those killed were among at least 2,000 people who chanted "Freedom. Freedom. One, one, one. The Syrian people are one," when police opened fire to disperse them from Municipality Square.

Two weeks of unprecedented unrest in Syria has left more than 60 dead and posed the gravest challenge to almost 50 years of monolithic Baath Party rule.

Protests in several cities
Earlier, civic activists said protest marches had begun in the capital Damascus, Banias and the port city of Latakia against Assad's authoritarian rule after he stopped short of a clear commitment to meet popular demands for more freedoms.

Security forces and Assad loyalists attacked protesters with batons as they left the Rifaii mosque in the Kfar Sousseh district of Damascus after Friday prayers, a witness said.

At least six protesters were tossed in the slammer and dozens were beaten as they made their way out of the mosque, the witness told Rooters by telephone from the mosque complex.

Around 200 worshipers rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud in support of the southern city of Deraa where the unrest kindled by pro-democracy uprisings elsewhere in the Arab world first erupted.

Online democracy activists had called for protests across Syria on "Martyrs' Friday", after a spate of pro-democracy demonstrations challenging Assad's 11 years in power. His father, Hafez al-Assad, had ruled over the previous 30 years.

Activists said security forces and Assad loyalists had earlier gathered in force around the mosques where protests resumed after Friday prayers.

In his first public appearance since the demonstrations began, Assad declined on Wednesday to spell out any reforms, especially the lifting of a 48-year-old emergency law that has been used to stifle opposition and justify arbitrary arrests.
Posted by: Fred || 04/02/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  I hope that the Israelis are working overtime, behind the scenes, to pay back Syria for decades of murderous Syrian mischief. A little critical sabotage, for example, at just the right place and time, could make the regime look very weak.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 04/02/2011 8:57 Comments || Top||


Good Morning!
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#1  imagine if Donald Trump knew Dorothy's hairdresser? The results could've been....spectacular
Posted by: Frank G || 04/02/2011 0:17 Comments || Top||

#2  No doubt The Donald would have jumped Dorothy's ... hair.
Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 || 04/02/2011 0:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Roselyn Sánchez aka Secret Service Agent Isabella Molina in "Rush Hour 2/Rush Hour 3" aka Trina in "Held Up" aka Monique Vasquez in "The Game Plan" aka Maria in "Edison" aka Karen Lopez in "Underclassman" (age 38)



Whoa!
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 04/02/2011 2:38 Comments || Top||

#4 
Aya caramba!
Posted by: Parabellum || 04/02/2011 7:55 Comments || Top||

#5  So I started walking her way
But she belonged to that bad man Jose
And I knew, yes, I knew, I should leave
But heard her say.

Come a little bit closer, you're my kind of man
So big and so strong
Come a little bit closer, I'm all alone
And the night is so long.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/02/2011 10:00 Comments || Top||



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Sat 2011-04-02
  Deputy emir of Caucasus Emirate killed in Russian raid
Fri 2011-04-01
  Two UN staff beheaded and eight others murdered in protest against U.S. pastor who burnt Koran
Thu 2011-03-31
  Obama 'orders covert help for Libya rebels'
Wed 2011-03-30
  Libyan Foreign Minister quits, arrives in UK
Tue 2011-03-29
  Yemeni regime loses grip on four provinces
Mon 2011-03-28
  Rebels push towards Sirte
Sun 2011-03-27
  Libyan rebels say forces reach oil town of Brega
Sat 2011-03-26
  Libyan Rebels Reclaim Ajdabiya
Fri 2011-03-25
  Libya: French aircraft destroyed a dozen armored vehicles in 3 days
Thu 2011-03-24
  15 dead in new clashes in Deraa
Wed 2011-03-23
  Qaddafi attacks rebel towns
Tue 2011-03-22
  Western War Planes Hit Qadaffy Command Post
Mon 2011-03-21
  Gaddafi compound attacked again amid reports son killed
Sun 2011-03-20
  Crisis in Libya: U.S. bombs Qaddafi's airfields
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