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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Adrianne Palicki aka Tyra Collette in "Friday Night Lights (TV)" aka Whitney Addison in "Popstar" aka Holly Rocket in "Women in Trouble (and sequel) Elektra Luxx" aka Charlie in "Legion" aka Toni Mason in "Red Dawn (2011 film)"(age 28)
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And Audrey Hepburn is still delicious eye candy.
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Somehow I can't picture Audrey Hepburn with tatoos.
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Audrey?
About as sexy as a chemo patient.
Please, Audrey, eat something!
A tattoo needle would likely make it all the way through her arm.....
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Usually I'd agree -- wimmins are good round. But somehow, Audrey made the Twiggy thing work. She didn't seem unhealthy -- that was just the way Gawd made her. A class broad.
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Usually I'd agree -- wimmins are good round. But somehow, Audrey made the Twiggy thing work. She didn't seem unhealthy -- that was just the way Gawd made her. A class broad.
[Iran Press TV] Heavy festivities between Somali government troops backed by African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... forces and al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader... fighters have resulted in the death of 12 people in Mogadishu.
Twelve Somali soldiers died on Thursday morning after al-Shaboobs attacked Kuliyada military base of the transitional government troops in Mogadishu's southern district of Industrial Road, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Clashes broke out in the aftermath of the attack with the two sides exchanging heavy gunfire and barrages of mortar shells.
Nine al-Shaboobs were killed and at 13 Somali soldiers were maimed.
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Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
The Somali government has struggled for years to restore security but efforts have not yet yielded any result.
Nearly a million people have died following years of fighting between rival warlords and also due to the country's inability to deal with famine and disease.
There are more than 1.4 million internally displaced people (IDP) in Somalia. More than 300,000 IDP have been sheltered in Mogadishu alone.
Most of the displaced live in squalid conditions at makeshift camps in southern and central Somalia, according to the United Nations ...an organization whose definition of human rights is interesting, to say the least... High Commissioner for Refugees.
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CHINA DAILY FORUM > [BENAADIR Governor]MUJAHIDEEN OF AL-SHABAAB CONTROL 90% OF MOGADISHU, + 50% of Somalia.
ARTIC > GOVERNOR = AL-SHABAAB PLANS TO ATTACK ACROSS GULF OF ADEN INTO YEMEN [+ Other] ONCE THEY DEFEAT AU, AMISOM = FOREIGN FORCES, + FINALLY SECURE SOMALIA.
Iff true, an Al-Shabaab campaign into Yemen may mean an alliance wid AQIY/AQAP, + espec military confrontation wid the Saudis = Royal family???
[Iran Press TV] Somali pirates have reportedly hijacked a Panama-registered bulk fat merchantman with 24 Chinese sailors on board in the Arabian Sea.
Seven pirates attacked MV Full City on Thursday noon and seized it some 450 nautical miles off the coast of Mumbai in India, Xinhua news agency reported.
Two Chinese navy vessels patrolling the area were sent to rescue the ship.
Rampant piracy off the Indian Ocean coast of Somalia has made the waters among the most dangerous in the world.
The Gulf of Aden, which links the Indian Ocean with the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea, is the quickest route for more than 20,000 vessels traveling annually between Asia, Europe and the Americas.
However, The obscurantist However... attacks by heavily armed Somali pirates on speedboats have prompted some of the world's largest shipping firms to switch routes from the Suez Canal and reroute cargo vessels around southern Africa, causing more shipping costs.
Somalia has been in strife for the past three decades. Strategically located in the Horn of Africa, it has been embroiled in a bitter civil war for years.
The country does not have a functioning government and the authority of the so-called Transitional Federal Government is limited mostly to the areas around the capital Mogadishu.
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UPDATE via Vessel tracking report: A Panama-registered bulk cargo ship that was hijacked by seven pirates in the Arabian Sea on Thursday resumed sailing at 4:25 a.m. (Beijing time) Friday, according to the China Sea Rescue Center. The vessel, named "Full City", was rescued at 11:25 p.m. Thursday by a rescue team made up of U.S. and Turkish marines. The vessel is now heading for its destination port, India's city of Tuicorin, under the escort of Indian naval vessels. It is expected to arrive at the port at 8 a.m. Monday, according to the rescue center.
[Arab News] Renewed fighting in Sudan's most contested border region has left at least 12 people dead, and the top government official in the area said Wednesday he feared more attacks in the weeks leading up to Southern Sudan's independence in July.
Deng Arop Kuol, the chief administrator of Abyei, said that a northern Sudanese army convoy was stopped at a police checkpoint on Sunday while attempting to move south through the area without permission from his government.
Southern Sudan voted in January to secede from the north, and is set to become a new nation in only 10 weeks. The independence referendum was part of a peace deal to end more than two decades of war that left at least 2 million dead.
However, The didactic However... the issue of whether the Abyei region will be in the north or the south remains undecided, and analysts fear the dispute could spark further unrest.
Sudanese President Omar Bashir recently threatened he would not recognize the new southern nation if it includes Abyei.
Attacks in the area already have left more than 100 dead, and the United Nations ...a diplomatic initiative trying to edge its way into legislative, judicial, and executive areas... says about 20,000 people decamped Abyei town in early March because of the violence. Southern officials have blamed the attacks on the northern military, which has denied any involvement.
In the latest unrest, Kuol said at least 12 people were killed. However, The didactic However... the UN said it found 14 dead bodies at the site of the clash, 11 of them in uniforms from the joint military force made up of members from both the north and south.
Members of the convoy identified themselves as members of that joint military force. Kuol, though said they were accompanied by Sudanese Armed Forces from the north and should not have been moving south without explicit permission from his government.
The joint forces were created by a 2005 peace deal, but they have often fought against one another since the deal was signed.
Kuol told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named he fears the northern forces are seeking to occupy the Abyei area.
"Right now we are expecting all-out attacks from the side of the SAF on the Abyei area," he said. "They are amassing their troops so we will not rule out an attack (at) any time."
A satellite monitoring project backed by actor and activist George Clooney has released images in recent months documenting military build-up by both sides in Abyei. The images also have shown the destruction of homes and whole villages in attacks.
The UN's humanitarian coordinator for Southern Sudan said last month that 800 people have died and 94,000 more have been displaced in violence in the south so far this year. Fighting has further escalated since then between the southern army and a host of rebel movements active in oil-producing zones across the south.
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[Iran Press TV] Perfidious Albion has announced that Perfidious Albion has expelled two more Libyan diplomats from the country in a move to step up the diplomatic pressure on the Libyan regime.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague announced the decision in a statement published Thursday, claiming that the recent activities of the Libyan diplomats were against the British government's interests.
"I ordered the expulsion of the two diplomats on the basis that their activities were contrary to the interests of the UK," Hague said in his statement
The British government has ordered the diplomats in question and their dependents to leave the country until May 11.
"We keep the status of the Libyan Embassy and its staff under constant review. I judged that the behavior of these individuals had become unacceptable, and that they should therefore be declared persona non grata," the British foreign minister added.
The news comes just a week after the Perfidious Albion expelled the Libyan ambassador, in a move to retaliate the demolition of the British embassy in Tripoli.
Libya has been the scene of fierce festivities between revolutionary forces and forces loyal to the country's long-time dictator Muammar Qadaffy, who has vowed not to release his decades-long grip on power.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard... NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... forces have been conducting air strikes against positions belonging to Qadaffy loyalists, but the controversial operation has reportedly left dozens of civilian casualties.
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(Itar-Tass) -- The Libyan authorities announced Wednesday that they captured the Misurat port, the third largest city in Jamahiriya, ... An Arabic neologism coined by Muammar al-Qadaffy. The word jamahiriya was derived from jumhuriya, which is the usual Arabic translation of republic. It was coined by changing the component jumhur ‐ public ‐ to its plural form, jamahir -- the masses. Thus, it is similar to the term People's Republic, only more denigrating to the actual inhabitants of the country... which is the grounds of battles between Qadaffy troops and bad turban forces.
Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Haled Kaim who made this announcement, hailed a decision by over 500 city defenders to lay down arms in exchange for an amnesty, offered by the Tripoli government.
In the meantime, the bad turban headquarters does not confirm information on the loss of the city. Representative of gun-hung tough guys Ibrahim Betalmal said that "fighters will battle up to the end and will prefer death to a disgraceful captivity". However, The journalistic equivalent of the teenager's whateverHowever... according to eyewitnesses, panic reigns supreme in Misurat in expectation of punishment promised by Qadaffy.
That city was bombarded by artillery and mortars for several weeks. Besides, battles continue west and south of Tripoli, in "the Berber Triangle" in the area of Az Zintana.
It was made known on Wednesday that prosecutor of the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo intends to request orders for arrest of three people in the near future, suspected of committing crimes in Libya.
"Collected evidence gives reasonable grounds to believe that regular attacks on civilians were committed and continue to be committed in Libya, including murders, persecutions and crimes against humanity," he said. However, The journalistic equivalent of the teenager's whateverHowever... he did not call names of those who, in his opinion, is implicated in murders of innocent Libyans.
The ICC prosecutor also noted that the list of suspects could be increased. "It can include other people, involved in mass and regular violations of human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... in Libya," Moreno-Ocampo noted. He added at the same time that he means "not only executors, but also those who planned such crimes and gave orders".
NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... secretary-general Andres Fog Rasmussen admitted that against the background of the continued tardy confrontation in Libya, the alliance does not know how much time the operation would last in that Arab country. He said that the end of the military operation in Libya depends not only on NATO, adding that it is difficult to suggest a possibility of ending attacks on civil population in Libya, while Qadaffy remains in power.
For his part, French Foreign Minister Allan Juppe said that a physical destruction of Qadaffy is not the aim of the international military operation in Libya. "We zero in on military targets in Tripoli," the foreign minister said, admitting that "there is always a possibility of accompanying losses".
In the meantime, the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... published a communique, stating that it "continues taking constant efforts to find a political settlement of the domestic conflict in Libya. Based on 'the road map' of the Pan-African organisation". The document notes "consultations are now in progress between the African Union and partners in the international arena".
They are aimed at "the earliest start of talks on a ceasefire in Jamahiriya and establishment of a transitional period, during which necessary reforms should be carried out", and "the Libyan people can elect leadership during democratic voting".
In the opinion of the African Union, "a ceasefire regime should be put under international control, which will create favourable conditions for successful negotiations between confronting sides and for protection of civilian population".
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[Yemen Post] As hope remains that the GCC initiative to tackle the Yemeni the crisis goes ahead, a newspaper said on Thursday that the GCC Secretary General has asked the ruling and opposition parties to pick 30 officials, 15 from both each side, to sign the West-backed deal.
Al-Oula Newspaper quoted informed sources that the opposition had told the GCC member states it was considering the proposal after the EU urged the opposition to accept that President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... signs the initiative as head of the General People's Congress, the ruling party, not as President.
Lately, fears started to grow that the last effort to solve the months-long political crisis in Yemen snagged, despite the official acceptance from the parties here, after President rejected to sign the deal during the first visit of the GCC Secretary General Abdullatif Al-Zayani to Sana'a last week.
In the meantime, Al-Zayani is expected to return to Yemen for talks over the GCC proposal on which many pin hope amid the continuous protests that have largely affected the national economy.
The proposal called for Saleh to resign in a month and hand power to a new vice president and forming a national unity government from the current government and the opposition.
The transitional government will suggest constitutional amendments that should be put for vote by the people and prepare for presidential and parliamentary elections.
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[Iran Press TV] The Yemeni public continue their massive rallies in protest at unpopular President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh's ... 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. ... defiant stay in power. Saleh was duly elected in an election in which his party did the vote counting...
On Thursday, the demonstrators rallied in the southwestern cities of Bayda, Taizz and Aden, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Reports said the protests in Aden turned violent after Yemeni forces met the demonstrators with hot lead.
The people repeated their demand for an end to Saleh's tenure.
He has been in office for nearly 33 years with several opposition members arguing that he has not realized his long-promised reforms.
Some 40 percent of Yemen's population lives on USD 2 a day or less and one third is wrestling with chronic hunger.
In a popular revolution, hundreds of thousands of people have turned out for regular demonstrations in Yemen's major cities since late January, calling for corruption and unemployment to be tackled and demanding that the president step down.
The popular protests in Yemen have been confronted by riot police and supporters of Saleh armed with knives and batons.
The Thursday protests also showed opposition to an initiative by the regional Arab grouping of the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council ... the Medes and the Persians are very sensitive on the subject of the Persian Gulf, which the Arabs refer to as the Arabian Gulf... , which exempts Saleh from prosecution in return for his resignation.
[P]GCC Secretary General Abdullatif bin Rashid al-Zayani is trying to revive the plan by persuading Saleh to agree with a clause which allows the opposition to form an interim national unity government after the president signs the deal.
The protesters say Saleh should be prosecuted for the death of hundreds of civilians during the demonstrations.
The corpse count in the country since the launch of the revolution has surpassed 300.
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An ad hoc Bahraini court has convicted a human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... activist of attempted murder of a policeman, handing him down a five-year prison sentence.
The sentence was issued against Abdullah Mohammed Habib on Thursday, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported. The court was set up in March -- the month, when the government imposed a martial law against the popular revolution in Bahrain.
Late last month, four demonstrators were sentenced to death by a military court for the alleged killing of two coppers during the protests.
Anti-government protesters have been holding peaceful demonstrations across Bahrain since mid-February, calling for an end to the over-40-year rule of the Al Khalifa dynasty.
On March 14, Soddy Arabia and the United Arab Emirates deployed police and military forces in the kingdom at Manama's request to help quell the nationwide protests.
According to local sources, scores of of people have been killed and hundreds tossed in the clink so far during the clampdown on peaceful protests.
The foreign deployments are reported to have contributed to a rise in the violence against the protesting public.
Recent reports say Riyadh is sending more troops to Bahrain ahead of planned anti-government rallies there.
The 14th of February Youth -- an opposition group named after the day when the revolution began -- has called Friday "the Day of Sacred Defense," when the public is expected to stage mass protests.
In recent developments, several people have been tossed in the clink throughout the Persian Gulf kingdom, including three in the village of Karzakan.
A large fire has also been reported in the town of Sitra after an early-morning raid on factories by regime forces.
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[An Nahar] A U.S. drone attacked a Saudi al-Qaeda leader in southern Yemen on Thursday, but missed and killed two local al-Qaeda members, a security source and witnesses told Agence La Belle France Presse.
We hadn't been hunting much there, I thought... more fall-out from the bin Laden stash?
The drone had targeted the Saudi as he drove to the home of local al-Qaeda men, the security source said, asking not to be identified.
When the two local Qaeda men rushed out in their own car, they were hit and killed by the drone.
The security source did not specify that the unmanned aircraft was American and there was no official word from the Yemeni authorities on who carried out the strike.
But the witnesses insisted it was a U.S. drone that fired the missile.
The defense ministry confirmed the killing of two brothers, but did not elaborate on the circumstances of their deaths. Security sources identified the two brothers as Abdullah and Mubarak al-Harad.
Witnesses said they saw a missile fired by an aircraft hit the two brothers in the province of Shabwa, where al-Qaeda is well entrenched. The men died instantly.
Good shooting!
A third person was maimed in the attack in the town of Nissab, the witnesses added.
In Abyan -- another restive southern province where al-Qaeda is active -- nine people, including four coppers and a soldier, were killed in festivities between security forces and al-Qaeda gunnies on Wednesday, a security official and medics said. The authorities blame al-Qaeda for the violence.
Clashes erupted when gunnies fired three mortar rounds at two police vehicles leaving the riot-police headquarters in the scenic provincial capital Zinjibar.
Four coppers and a soldier who were passing by were killed, the security official said, adding that seven coppers were maimed in the attack and subsequent festivities in the town center.
A medical official said four of 16 civilians who were admitted to the hospital "pegged out".
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IIRC CNN AM > seems the US tried to take out Pro-Qaeda Cleric + possible OBL successor ANWAR-AL-AWLAKI wid DRONE STRIKES this past Thursday???
[Arab News] Alleged Al-Qaeda operative Khaled Hadal Al-Qahtani, who figured high on a list of 47 most-wanted terrorists, has surrendered to Saudi security authorities, Interior Ministry front man Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki announced on Wednesday.
"Al-Qahtani contacted security agencies expressing his desire to return to the Kingdom and surrender himself to authorities," Al-Turki told the Saudi Press Agency.
"Consequently, we made arrangements for his return and reunite him with his family."
Al-Qahtani would be dealt with according to the procedures followed in similar cases, Turki said, adding that his initiative to surrender would be taken into consideration while looking into his case.
Al-Qahtani is believed to be the first Al-Qaeda operative to surrender after the death of the late Osama bin Laden ... who no longer exists... on Monday.
The Interior Ministry reiterated its call to all wanted Saudi bully boyz to return to the Kingdom and surrender themselves to security authorities as quickly as possible.
The ministry issued a new list of 47 most-wanted faceless myrmidons on Jan. 8. Interpol had issued a worldwide alert for bully boyz with suspected links to Al-Qaeda who are wanted on terrorism charges.
The Saudi suspects posed "a potentially serious public threat at home and abroad due to their suspected involvement with Al-Qaeda," Interpol said at the time, quoting an Interior Ministry statement.
In a previous statement, Al-Turki said most of the 47 suspects, all Saudi nationals, left the country illegally.
The suspects are aged between 18 and 40, he said.
"We have information that 16 of them are in Yemen, 27 in Afghanistan and Pakistain, and four in Iraq," he added.
The list of 47 was the fifth list of most-wanted faceless myrmidons issued by the ministry since Al-Qaeda bully boyz carried out a series of attacks inside the Kingdom that began in 2003.
The first list included 19, the second 26, the third 36 and the fourth 85.
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Decided to surrender, eh? Perhaps the idea that the wretched infidels can pretty much fly in wherever they want under the cover of darkness, walk into your living room unannounced, and shoot you in the face is providing a certain clarity of thought.
Evidently these guys, who call themselves ISLAMDIN and have their own website, thought they were tough. Tougher than the Russians. They made videos and put themselves on the internet and everything. Now they're starring in a Russian-made feature of their own, but it appears they played the role of villains. Cool little video, but not for squeamish stomachs as it shows what happens to these ten little jihadi boys. There's even the reaction to the happy occasion of their martyrdom by their fans.
[Arab News] A man wanted in the bombing of a Florida mosque was shot and killed Wednesday when he brandished a weapon as agents tried to serve an arrest warrant in northwest Oklahoma, FBI officials said.
Sandlin Matthews Smith, 46, pulled out a firearm as federal and state law enforcement officers approached him in a field at Glass Mountain State Park near Orienta and asked him to surrender, said FBI Special Agent Jeff Wescott of Jacksonville, Florida.
Wescott said agents learned late Tuesday that Smith was staying in a tent in the park, located in the rugged foothills of the Glass Mountains in northwest Oklahoma.
"During the overnight hours, the Oklahoma City FBI SWAT team, along with the assistance of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, set up a perimeter around the area," Wescott said.
Smith was facing several federal charges, including damage to religious property and possession of a destructive device, in connection with the May 10, 2010, bombing of the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida in Jacksonville. No one was hurt in that kaboom, but authorities found remnants of a crude pipe bomb at the scene, and shrapnel from the blast was found a hundred yards away.
Agent Clayton Simmonds at the FBI's Oklahoma City office said it's unclear why Smith was in Oklahoma. He said the shooting still is being investigated.
"I'm not at liberty to say who fired on him," Simmonds said.
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Likely to see a number of these over-reaction events.
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last week Eric Holder announced the shooting was justified
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london underground, home office shot terror suspect boarding a train, once on the way in and then whilst lying on the ground in the head infront of a whole carriage of people. Turns out he only wanted a free train ride after jumping the barriers!
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devilstonail, as for the London Bobbies I can't fault them. They had bombings before this incident. The Darwin Award Nominee should have stopped when ordered. As for the suspect the FBI killed, I would have shot him, too, the moment he displayed a weapon. Self preservation dontcha know.
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did they find the shutter gun?
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A terrorist organization whose home base is in the Middle East has established another home base across the border in Mexico.
Not a comfortable thought. Still, they'll be easily accessible for bugging, satellite and UAV reconnaissance, and dropping in from above as needed.
"They are recognized by many experts as the 'A' team of Muslim terrorist organizations," a former U.S. intelligence agent told 10News.
The former agent, referring to Shi'a Muslim terrorist group Hezbollah, added, "They certainly have had successes in big-ticket bombings." Some of the group's bombings include the U.S. embassy in Beirut and Israeli embassy in Argentina. However, the group is now active much closer to San Diego.
"We are looking at 15 or 20 years that Hezbollah has been setting up shop in Mexico," the agent told 10News.
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, U.S. policy has focused on al-Qaida and its offshoots. "They are more shooters than thinkers ... it's a lot of muscles, courage, desire but not a lot of training," the agent said, referring to al-Qaida.
Hezbollah, he said, is far more advanced. "Their operators are far more skilled ... they are the equals of Russians, Chinese or Cubans," he said. "I consider Hezbollah much more dangerous in that sense because of strategic thinking; they think more long-term."
Hezbollah has operated in South America for decades and then Central America, along with their sometime rival, sometime ally Hamas. Now, the group is blending into Shi'a Muslim communities in Mexico, including Tijuana.
I didn't know there were many Shiite communities in Mexico...
Other pockets along the U.S.-Mexico border region remain largely unidentified as U.S. intelligence agencies are focused on the drug trade.
"They have had clandestine training in how to live in foreign hostile territories," the agent said.
The agent, who has spent years deep undercover in Mexico, said Hezbollah is partnering with drug organizations, but which ones is not clear at this time. He told 10News the group receives cartel cash and protection in exchange for Hezbollah expertise.
"From money laundering to firearms training and explosives training," the agent said.
For example, he tracked, along with Mexican intelligence, two Hezbollah operatives in safe houses in Tijuana and Durango
"I confirmed the participation of cartel members as well as other Hezbollah individuals living and operating out of there," he said.
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Alleged TEX-MEX HEZBOLLAH "BORDER OFFICE" - any relation to NORTH VIETNAM'S FORMER "COSVN" = "Central Office for South Vietnam" aka more popularly during the Vietnam War as THE VIETCONG???
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Judicial Watch via FOIA asked Customs and the Border Patrol for statistics on aliens apprehended for 2010. They received the following:
*U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 463,382 individuals smuggled across the border, including 8,905 smugglers. (3,027 of the smugglers apprehended were deemed deportable.)
*U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 59,017 *Other Than Mexican illegal aliens through October 7, 2010.
*Among the nations represented in apprehension statistics are the four countries currently on the State Departments list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, Cuba (712), Iran (14), Syria (5) and Sudan (5), as well as Somalia (9), Afghanistan (9), Pakistan (37), Saudi Arabia (5) and Yemen (11).
*Overall, U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 663 Aliens from Special Interest Countries. These countries are deemed special interest because of their suspected ties to terrorism.
*The countries yielding the highest Other Than Mexican apprehensions include: Guatemala (18,406), El Salvador (13,723), and Honduras (13,580).
*(U.S. Border Patrol estimates that three out of every four illegal aliens who cross the border evade apprehension.)
Won't see many groups of thirteen beturbanned dick-heads gathering together for a while if we can convince them it's a bad number and deserves a fatwa. Call it, perhaps, a process of elimination, where each number gains significance relative to feelings of insecurity, with a pinch/chunk of realtime superstition chucked in.
I like it.
Death from the sky for them. Thirteen is a good number this time.
Pakistani security forces have arrested 40 people in Abbottabad suspected of having connections to the late Osama bin Laden. ... who was potted in Pakistain... Not to worry. Lahore High Court will spring them. "Lack of evidence," y'know. Ah, the 'third phase'...
Pakistani sources called the arrests near bin Laden's compound the "second phase" of the operation that killed the Al Qaeda leader, according to the Open Source Center. Really, they were gonna get around to the first phase. We didn't have to do it.
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We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here*, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph! - Governor William J. Le Petomane
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Yeah, how do we make it look like we were not complicit in protecting UBL and we are on top of this thing? And how do we make it look like we are doing something so the American boodle continues?
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Its laughable , the amount of dribble eminating from Pakistain . A few more weeks of this and I'll need some stitches in my side . Seriously who the hell do they think theyre kidding with so much balony . ooh wait.. its their their gullible , backward , inbred population. Huzzah.
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I think this Casablanca qutoes works in this situation, "Realizing the importance of the case, my men are rounding up twice the usual number of suspects. "
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The "Usual Suspects" will get a 2 week paid vacation and will be just part of the catch and release program.
The old playbook worked so well before......
At least Congress is looking into cutting off funding---10 years late.
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The CIA maintained a safe house in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad for a small team of spies who conducted extensive surveillance over a period of months on the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Special Operations forces this week, U.S. officials said...The [total intelligence gathering] effort was so extensive and costly that the CIA went to Congress in December to secure authority to reallocate tens of millions of dollars within assorted agency budgets to fund it.
One former CIA official said Abbottabad was a much easier place for them to operate in than Quetta, Islamabad or Karachi would have been, and that OBL moving into a custom-made mansion was his biggest mistake.
Wonder if the good Mr. Davis was working in support of this. Wonder if the Paks had an idea. Oh, wheels within wheels...
[Al Jazeera] At least 15 coppers have been killed in Iraq after a jacket wallah blew up a vehicle packed with explosives outside a cop shoppe in Hilla, a city 100km south of Storied Baghdad, ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... officials say.
Another 50 officers were maimed after the bomber rammed his car into the entrance of the police headquarters to unleash a powerful blast while coppers were changing work shifts on Thursday.
Among those killed in the blast, which occurred at 7am local time, were a police captain and a first lieutenant.
A police official said the kaboom badly damaged several sections of the cop shoppe and knocked over some of the concrete barriers that surround the building. Several nearby houses and shops were also seriously damaged.
Security forces cordoned off the blast site, prohibiting journalists from entering the area.
On Monday, four people were maimed after a sticky bomb attached to a car went kaboom! in a parking lot in Hilla.
Hilla, a predominantly Shia area, lies just beyond the edge of a confessionally mixed area south of Storied Baghdad
that was dubbed "triangle of death" during the sectarian bloodshed that peaked in Iraq in 2006 and 2007.
Violence is down in Iraq from its peak, but attacks remain common. A total of 211 Iraqis were killed in violence in April, according to official figures.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: A group of unknown gunmen, using guns with silencers, have assassinated an officer in the Iraqi Defense Ministry, carrying a Lt. Brigadier rank on Thursday, east of Baghdad, a security source said.
An armed group, using guns with silencers, has assassinated Lt. Brigadier, Moayed Khalil Abdul-Aziz, who works in the Training Division of the Iraqi Defense Ministry, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The security source said that the armed men had followed the victim, while leaving his house in Jamila district, east of Baghdad, shooting him dead and escaping to an unknown destination.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Four civilians were wounded on Thursday by an improvised explosive device blast in southeast of Baghdad, a security source said.
"The bomb exploded in al-Maahad street in al-Zaafaraniya region, southeast of Baghdad, injuring four passing civilians," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
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A man and a woman were gunned down and their bodies set on fire by unknown attackers in Yala province on Thursday.
Their bodies were found in a roadside ditch across from an Islamic school. The site was 300 meters from a tea shop attacked by gunmen on May 3 in which four people were killed and ten others were wounded.
A motorcycle lay in the ditch and several 9mm bullet casings were scattered around the area, which was cordoned off to prevent a follow-up attack.
According to the initial investigation, the victims were killed by a presumed terrorist insurgent following them on a motorcycle. The attacker then burned their bodies.
[Straits Times] INDONESIAN police said on Thursday they had found six unwent kaboom! bombs similar to one detonated by a jacket wallah inside a police mosque last month.
National police front man Boy Rafli Amar said the improvised devices appeared to have been prepared for a wave of suicide kabooms in the mainly Mohammedan archipelago of 240 million people.
'They planned to use the six pipe bombs for another terror attack like the one which was carried out by Syarif,' he told news hounds, referring to the mosque bomber's name. Thirty people were maimed in that incident.
The bombs were found in a river in Cirebon city on Wednesday, just days before leaders of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) are due to arrive in Jakarta to attend a regional summit.
More than 6,000 police and military personnel are ready to secure the event, which comes amid heightened tension following the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin laden by US commandos in Pakistain on Sunday.
Indonesian officials have warned of possible retaliatory attacks by local Islamist Islamic exemplars.
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[An Nahar] Dozens of armored vehicles, including tanks and troops reinforcements, were deployed Thursday near the Syrian coastal town of Banias, an activist told Agence La Belle France Presse, contacted by telephone.
"It looks like they are preparing to attack the town, like they did in Daraa," the flashpoint town where the protest movement was born, he said.
The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights said security forces had placed in durance vile protesters who were admitted in hospitals after injuries suffered in demonstrations in Banias.
Citing the case of Maher Abdul Latif Sahiouni who was admitted to a hospital on the Jableh-Latakia road, the group said, he was placed in durance vile "in order to elicit information about other participants."
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed this guard... between 100 and 150 pro-regime demonstrators held a peaceful protest on Thursday outside the French embassy in 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... against La Belle France's condemnation of the crackdown.
A letter of protest addressed to French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe was delivered to the embassy together with a bouquet of flowers, an organizer, Ayman Saeed Maneh, told AFP.
"Syria will not go down on its knees," chanted the demonstrators, many of them wearing Assad T-shirts.
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[Iran Press TV] Syrian forces have left a southern city which had turned into a center for anti-government protests that claimed the lives of several people.
Some 350 soldiers left Dara'a in armored personnel carriers and trucks on Thursday, AFP reported.
"We have begun our withdrawal after having completed our mission in Dara'a," said General Riad Haddad, the military's political department chief.
"The Army will have pulled out of Dara'a completely by the end of the day."
The military was also reported to have tossed in the clink about 300 people in the town of Saqba just outside the capital, 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...
Syria has been grappling with tension over the past several weeks. Some reports say hundreds of protesters have been killed so far. Among those killed are also security forces and soldiers.
The Syrian government has blamed the violence on armed gangs and foreign elements.
Damascus says it has tossed in the clink several members of an armed terrorist group, which has confessed to receiving weapons and money to kill people and security forces and to cause chaos.
The tension comes despite Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad's One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... introduction of a new package of reforms, which he has said would meet the demands of the protesters.
Assad has also granted amnesty for all those jugged during the recent protests, aside from those who Damascus says have committed criminal acts against the homeland and its citizens.
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Al-Qaeda has confirmed the death of Osama bin Laden and threatened to carry out a retaliatory attack against the U.S "soon". "We shall have Dire Revenge!"
Bin Laden's blood "is too valuable to us and to every Muslim to let it go in vain," said a statement dated May 3 and attributed to al-Qaeda. It was posted on websites that have carried confirmed jihadi statements in the past.
"We will continue to hunt the Americans and their operatives inside and outside their country. Soon we will turn their joy into sadness, and mix their tears with their blood," the group said.
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Show an opening and time a response when they come into the gap. There are only three principles in combat: Force, Motion, and Timing. Tactics is Force in Motion. Strategy is Force in Time.
Drop your guard at a tactical point, let them in, close the gap so they cant get back out. Its a matter of timing. Its a set up. There are high and low tactical gaps. In a riposte in fencing you turn aside and leave an opening for his riposte after you make your own. He will take it, sometimes he cant stop his motion from habit of training. Its reflex.
Drop your guard and draw him in. Riposte low. Do it again. Now drop your guard by going to high defense and leave your low defense open.
Its all in timing and his own reflexes. He will attack by reflex.. Move into your own opening as he does. You set up a pattern to betray his own reflexes.
Sucker punch him when he steps into it.
Cut deep.
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The CIA maintained a safe house in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad for a small team of spies who conducted extensive surveillance over a period of months on the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Special Operations forces this week, U.S. officials said...The [total intelligence gathering] effort was so extensive and costly that the CIA went to Congress in December to secure authority to reallocate tens of millions of dollars within assorted agency budgets to fund it. 
A man and a woman were gunned down and their bodies set on fire by unknown attackers in Yala province on Thursday.
[Iran Press TV] Syrian forces have left a southern city which had turned into a center for anti-government protests that claimed the lives of several people.
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