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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot 6/18
Jane Frazee aka Rosalind 'Rosie' Warren in "Rosie the Riveter" aka Judy Gray in "Buck Privates" aka Kitty Rand in "Hellzapoppin'" aka Joyce Benton in "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" aka Connie Gray in "Cowboy Canteen" aka Jeanne Hollis in "Ten Cents a Dance" (Died in 1965 at age 67)
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Pier Angeli aka Wilhelmina Lehrt in "The Devil Makes Three" aka Nina Burkhardt in "The Story of Three Loves" aka Deborra in "The Silver Chalice" aka Norma Graziano in "Somebody Up There Likes Me" aka Lucienne in "The Vintage" aka Anna Curtis in "The Angry Silence" (Died in 1971 at age 39)
[Dawn] Insurgents attacked three convoys ferrying fuel and supplies to 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... troops stationed in western and eastern Afghanistan, killing nine Afghan security guards and torching at least 15 fuel tankers, officials said Saturday.
O brave Lions of Islam, attacking parked trucks!
The Taliban recently launched its long-awaited spring offensive
And a good thing it is, too. After all, summer starts in two days, on the equinox, and then it'll be too late.
as the Orcs and similar vermin try to regain territory lost in the fall and winter to the US-led coalition. Unable to match NATO's firepower, the cut-throats instead frequently conduct small-scale strikes -- on convoys or NATO patrols -- as well as brazen suicide kabooms on government targets.
Two of the attacks on the supply convoys took place Saturday in eastern Ghazni province, where a pair of roadside kabooms killed four Afghan security guards escorting the trucks to a nearby base for Polish troops, said provincial police chief Mohammed Hussain.
Insurgents also ambushed a NATO fuel convoy late Friday along the border between Herat and Farah provinces in the west, killing five Afghan guards. Seven other guards were maimed in the attack after Orcs and similar vermin opened fire on the convoy, said Abdul Rashied, a local police chief. Insurgents later set fire to 15 fuel tankers.
The vast majority of the fuel for the roughly 132,000 international troops is ferried in by truck from Pakistain before it is distributed to NATO forces across Afghanistan. It takes roughly 100 truckloads of fuel -- about 1.5 million gallons -- to keep coalitions forces moving for a single day.
Insurgents frequently target NATO fuel tankers in both Afghanistan and Pakistain, though the coalition said in February that fewer than one per cent of all supply convoys face thug attack.
Only 1%? That's pretty good, given the corruption of the culture involved.
Meanwhile, ...back at the scene of the crime, Lieutenant Queeg had an idea: there was a simple way to tell whether Manetti had been the triggerman -- just look at his shoes!... NATO said Saturday its forces killed "several" Orcs and similar vermin in a gunbattle a day earlier in Ghazni, seizing rocket-propelled grenades, AK-47s and body armour.
NATO offered no further details, but Hussain, the Ghazni police chief, identified the dead cut-throats as eight Paks.
In the eastern city of Jalalabad, Orcs and similar vermin kidnapped a provincial council member for Pashtun-infested Logar province and three of his family members. Council member Abdulkhaliq Khairkhowa had been travelling along a main highway near Jalalabad late Friday night to attend a funeral the following day, said Dr. Abduwali Wakil, the chief of Pashtun-infested Logar's provincial council.
One man inside the car hid under the seats and was left behind by the kidnappers, Wakil said. That man later followed the kidnappers to the Torghar Mountains, a range of high peaks controlled by the Taliban, before returning to inform authorities, Wakil said.
Kidnapping of provincial council officials, who make governmental decisions for the province, remains common as Orcs and similar vermin and the Taliban view them as collaborators with Western forces.
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[Tolo News] Kabul shootout that lasted for about two hours on Saturday afternoon took the lives of 9 people, including two coppers while 12 others were maimed in the attack, security officials say.
Afghan security officials confirmed civilian casualties in the incident.
The incident took place after a cop shoppe in the heart of Kabul came under attack by three jacket wallahs wearing military uniforms.
Security officials said the first suicide bomber went kaboom! outside the station and the two others were attempting to get into the city's first security district compound while exchanging fire with forces.
The two remaining suicide bombers were rubbed out by Afghan cops, officials said.
Right after the first suicide kaboom happened, people were panicking out of the Kabul Market known as Mandawi, the biggest wholesale market in Kabul that is full of businessmen and vendors almost at any time of the day.
The situation has gone back to normal, officials said.
The Taliban have grabbed credit for the attack.
Because the dears managed to kill a few people, even if they didn't manage to get inside the police station.
The incident happened hours after Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... news hounds at a presser that the United States is in direct talks with the Taliban to broker a peace settlement.
No doubt we're marking them so they can be followed home, in case they don't mean to surrender after all. We can do so much with our technology...
In a separate incident in southern Ghazni province at least 15 fuel tankers bounded to ship fuel to 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... troops were torched by Islamic fascistion Saturday. Four guards were killed and four others were maimed in the attacks.
The attacks came as the US President Barack B.O. Obama is on the verge announcing the size of the troops that should be pulled out of Afghanistan based on Obama's troop withdrawal strategy that will begin this July.
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[Tolo News] Insurgents have attacked on 26 villages in Ghazni province, looting and torching them, local officials said on Saturday.
Making friends in the inimitable jihadi way. It worked so well in Iraq...
The Maoists use the same playbook...
The snuffies who wore clothes similar to those of Afghan Kochis (nomads), attacked on 26 villages in Nahur district of Ghazni province, provincial council representatives said.
The snuffies clashed with Afghan cops in Nahur district, the representatives added.
The representatives asked the Afghan government to support the Afghan cops in the province.
"The District Police Chief and Afghan National Army have not yet intervened in the festivities. But many villages are being set on fire by armed attackers," Hamida Gulistani, a member of Provincial council told TOLOnews.
"There aren't any reports about whether they are Kochis, but they are Taliban who came from Pakistain," she added.
It comes as four security guards escorting a 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... convoy were killed and four others were maimed by roadside kabooms in Ghazni today, Minister of Interior Affairs said in a statement.
The incident happened when two bombs hit a NATO supply convoy on Saturday morning in Di Khodaidad area highway, added the statement.
The Interior Ministry said two of the guards were members of Compas, a private security company.
Violence has recently increased in the province as forces of Evil have stepped up their activities in most villages.
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A bit of translation here, since the article makes assumptions which aren't necessarily shared by your average Westerner. Nawur district is a Hazāra majority district (Wiki says 100%, which seems highly unlikely, but whatever), which means the people attacked are both Farsi-speaking and probably Shia. The "Kochi" or "Kuchi" are nomadic Pashtuns, who apparently have a nasty case of "what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine but I'll let you use in exchange for tribute consideration".
And given comments elsewhere of five fatalities & the villains responsible being a band of 150 hooligans, I'm thinking that this "26 villages burned" business is actually 26 family compounds or maybe just houses, because the numbers are totally out of whack otherwise.
But this is looking like "bloody borders of Sunni Islam" violence more than typical Taliban warfare.
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NATO expressed regret Saturday after its aircraft mistakenly struck vehicles aligned with the Libyan opposition in the key and hotly contested eastern oil city of al-Brega. Al-Brega is east of Tripoli and west of the rebels' headquarters in Benghazi.
NATO did not provide details as to how many people, if any, died or were injured in Thursday's strike. In its statement, NATO said that "a column of military vehicles, including tanks," were spotted Thursday around al-Brega where Gadhafi forces "had recently been operating." During what it called "a particularly complex and fluid battle scenario," leaders in the military alliance ordered a strike after determining these vehicles posed "a threat to civilians."
"We regret any possible loss of life or injuries caused by this unfortunate incident," NATO said in its statement.
"Whoops! Sorry 'bout that."
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BENGHAZI, Libya Rebels waging a drawn-out war to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have run out of money, their oil chief said on Saturday, and he accused the West of failing to keep its promises of urgent financial aid.
All my fault. Hookers and blow...
His comments came as cracks were appearing in the NATO alliance over its 3-month bombing campaign against Gaddafi, with some allies showing mission fatigue and the United States accusing some European allies of failing to pull their weight.
Yes, a continent with roughly two million people under arms, hundreds of combat aircraft, dozens of naval ships, and an economy larger than the United States can't sustain a three month campaign against a middling north African country. Of course. Anyone can see that.
The rebels have made several gains in the past few weeks, but remain far from seizing their ultimate prize -- Gaddafi's powerbase of Tripoli and its hinterland -- despite air support from the world's most powerful military alliance.
I can understand the failure of the rebels. They are, after all, rebels, and it's not like they were, or have been molded into, a world-class fighting force.
"We are running out of everything. It's a complete failure. Either they (Western nations) don't understand or they don't care. Nothing has materialized yet. And I really mean nothing," rebel oil chief Ali Tarhouni said in an interview with Reuters.
Ali, a hint: try securing some collateral. You know, like the oil wells, pumps and infrastructure in the east where you're in control. You might have to have some of your vaunted rebels stand guard, but pump the oil to Benghazi and ship it to Europe. They'll pay, oh, they'll pay.
Tarhouni's remarks highlight the insurgents' struggle to make ends meet, with war damage to energy infrastructure in their eastern territory having knocked out oil production there.
Western powers have pledged to expand aid by tapping into Libyan assets frozen abroad. But Tarhouni, also the insurgents' finance minister, said they had not followed through. "All of these people we talk to, all of these countries, at all these conferences, with their great grand speeches -- we appreciate (them) ... but in terms of finances they are a complete failure. Our people are dying," he said.
The economy in eastern Libya, where much of the oil that once made Libya a major OPEC exporter came from, is in a shambles. Rebel leaders struggle to pay for military operations and salaries in a society where, thanks to the legacy of Gaddafi's centralized rule, most people rely on state wages.
That's another thing you have to fix.
The European Union has pledged financial infusions and the United States, which took a leading role in securing a U.N.-backed no-fly zone over Libya, has promised more aid.
To borrow a line, "you screwed up, you trusted us!"
The U.S. government said in a press release late on Saturday that it had "delivered a second shipment of non-lethal aid to Benghazi" which was requested by the rebels, including body armor, uniforms and first aid kits, two days ago.
Tarhouni has estimated the rebels were spending up to 100 million Libyan dinars ($86 million) per day. "I don't expect us to produce oil any time soon. The refineries have no crude oil, so they are not working," he said.
That gets us back to securing the oil wells in the eastern half, and the pipelines, and the refineries, and the terminals.
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You're joking, right?
You sit on an Oceaan of oil, and can't find the tap?
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How about pointing the begging bowl towards the Arab League?
Aren't The Lions Of Islam supposed to help their fellow Islamists?
I'm sure it says so in the Quran, somewhere.
[Al Jazeera] Authorities in eastern Libya are struggling to find cash to pay for military operations as well as salaries in a society where, thanks to the legacy of Qadaffy's centralised rule, most people depend on state wages.
Asked why he thought it was taking Western nations so long to produce money, Tarhouni said: "No idea. ... I am tired of asking them."He had earlier estimated the rebels were spending up to $86 million per day.
"I don't expect us to produce oil any time soon. The refineries have no crude oil, so they are not working," he said. "People died for this revolution and are still dying. We will find a way (to raise money). One thing is for sure: We will never give up."
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising... international officials arrived in Cairo for Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... round table talks on possible solutions for the crisis in Libya. The conference is the second to be held in Cairo since the Libyan revolt erupted almost five months ago.
Participants include the secretary-general of the vaporous Arab League, Jerry Lewis doppelgänger Amr Moussa ... who has been head of the Arab League since about the time Jerry and Dean split up ... , high representative of the European Union Catherine Ashton, chairperson of 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... Jean Ping, UN envoy to Libya, Abdellah El-Khatib and Habib Kaabachi, director of political affairs at the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon, ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... the secretary-general of the United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale... , participated via video conference.
The officials met a day after Libyan TV aired an audio speech of Qadaffy during which he vowed that the 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... alliance, which is providing air support for rebels attempting to dislodge him from Tripoli, "will be defeated".
NATO on Friday dismissed an apparent offer of elections by Qadaffy as a cynical public relations ploy and vowed to continue its mission until his forces no longer posed a threat to civilians.
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Asked why he thought it was taking Western nations so long to produce money
[Al Jazeera] Gun battles between forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy ... a proud Arab institution for 42 years ... and rebel fighters in the northwest city of Nalut have left at least eight rebel fighters dead 13 more maimed, according to a fighter.
The fighting in Nalut comes a day after rebels captured a 2km stretch west of Misrata in central Libya.
"The battles started yesterday and are continuing today," Abou Saa told the Rooters news agency on Saturday.
"The revolutionaries destroyed six armoured vehicles and killed more than 45 enemy soldiers. The rebels surrounded Qadaffy's forces, who are holed up in a compound."
Al Jizz's James Bays, reporting from Nalut, described heavy kabooms and plumes of smoke rising from the city.
"We can hear small arms and machine guns as well," he said. "Mortars and missiles are also being used.
"The opposition holds ground from the Tunisian border to a position where some fighters are [barely] 80km away from Tripoli."
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... has accused Qadaffy of using mosques and children's parks as shields for his military operations, saying the long-time ruler who lashed out against alliance air strikes is the one ''brutally attacking the Libyan people''.
Hours later, at least two kabooms shook Tripoli as NATO jets soared above the capital. It was not immediately clear what had been hit or if there were casualties in the late afternoon raid.
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[Al Jazeera] Bahrain's government is preparing to lift a ban on the country's second largest opposition party, ahead of a national dialogue to ease the Gulf island kingdom's political crisis.
Radhi al-Mousawi, a front man for the National Democratic Action Society, or Waad, said on Saturday that the government would lift the ban on its headquarters in the capital, Manama, and later at its office in Muharraq.
The state news agency BNA confirmed the news, citing the justice ministry as saying steps were being taken to lift the ban.
Authorities shut down Waad in April amid a crackdown by security forces on pro-democracy protests.
Welcoming political dialogue
Mousawi said the group had sent a statement to the government welcoming the political dialogue, set by King Hamad ...King of Bahrain (since 14 February 2002), having previously been its emir (from 6 March 1999). He is a Sunni, while the rest of Bahrain is predominantly Shiite... bin Isa al-Khalifa to begin on July 1, and asked for the king to look into the case of Waad's jugged leader.
Ibrahim Sharif is in prison along with several other opposition leaders, including Hassan Mushaimaa, the president of the Shia Islamist party al-Haq.
Both are among 21 people facing trial on charges of plotting a coup with backing from "foreign terrorist groups".
Bahrain's Sunni rulers have accused the protesters, backed mostly by Shia groups but also by the secular Waad party, of being backed by Iran. Opposition groups deny the charges.
Bahraini opposition activists said that Waad had been under pressure to welcome the national dialogue in return for an end to the ban.
Both Waad and Wefaq, the largest Iranian catspaw, have stopped short of saying they will join the talks. Some Wefaq members have said they are wary of taking part because of reports that dozens of groups will be invited.
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[Yemen Post] Senior Yemeni officials from the ruling and opposition parties met last week in a European capital and discussed how to reach a compromise lift their out of the intractable crisis.
Media outlets reported that Yasin Saeed Noman, the rotating president of the Joint Meeting Parties, the opposition coalition, and Abdul Karim Al-Eryani, President-for-Life Saleh's ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... political advisor and the secretary general of the General People's Congress, met in London as the unrest the constitutional vacuum continue in Yemen.
The two officials discussed ways to reach a compromise very soon to end the crisis which entered a fifth month amid conflicting reports about Saleh's condition, who survived a rocket attack on his palace this month, and reports that he will not come back home.
They see that a national reconciliation government will be the suitable solution to take necessary steps to end the crisis.
Locally, the youth-led protesters in the squares of change and freedom in most of the Yemeni cities renewed their call for forming an immediate transitional council to manage the country's affairs.
Demonstrations were also held in some cities to confirm that there is no legitimacy but the revolution legitimacy.
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Only hours before the commencement of an international youth soccer tournament, nine individuals were found murdered near the Pacific port city of Lazaro Cardenas, and 15 vehicles were set afire to block roads near Morelia, Michoacan Friday night.
The nine dead were all tortured and shot to death, and left near the village of La Mira on the Lazaro Cardenas-Arteaga road. Reports say a new group called Los Caballeros Templarios or Knights Templars are responsible for the murders.
Meanwhile in Morelia Friday night and Saturday morning, armed suspects hijacked 15 vehicles and set them afire blocking roads around Morelia, the capital of Michoacan.
Roadblocks were reported in Patzcuaro and on the Morelia-Patzcuaro-Tzurumutaro road.
Mexican security forces including Mexican Army and Mexican Marine units secured or helped clear the roadblocks working through the night.
Los Caballeros Templarios was formed from remnants of La Familia Michoacana which announced its dissolution last December after a series of devastating security forces operations against the group. For an overview of security and counternarcotics operations which had a hand in disbanding La Familia Michoacana, click here.
Morelia is one of seven Mexican venues hosting games for the FIFA Under 17 soccer tournament. Other Mexican cities with games include Monterrey, Nuevo Leon; Torreon, Coahuila; Guadalajara, Jalisco; Pachuca, Hidalgo; Queretaro, Queretaro and Mexico City.
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Judging from comments on news articles online, the Mexican Army and Marines are the two Mexican government institutions at any level seen to be absolutely beyond reproach.
President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa may be ripped on, a local politician may be accused of skulduggery, but the army and marines are held in very high esteem.
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Badanov that is good to hear. There is the solution in my opinion. In your posts it is apparent they are indeed very active. Cut off the supply routes and the monstrous hydra will die. 24-7 road checks.
Anything of value rico it to fund the effort. Except that whatever. Offer a strong tie-in with our people. This could show other countries what can work. They want a strong blood flow between our countries. Then this artery will bring good blood both ways. This has to happen because of the deep water port and big industry locating in Mexico. Look at what is happening here. Cities are merging. Something like a wall but checkpoints will always be a must. That is our world and our future unless we have a mass die off.
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a nice map of the narco-killings. (via instapundit) And by 'nice', I mean in a 'graphic display of information' sort of way. The situation itself - 40,000 people in a year - is appalling. One would think it a newsworthy story, but what do I know?
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It's not 40,000 a year. It is 40,000 cumulatively since December 2006 when President Calderon declared war on the cartels.
And recent exhumations in San Fernando, Tamaulipas and in Durango city in Durango suggest the dead could be much, much higher. Those two sites alone total 440 dead. That's just in two sites Mexican security forces have uncovered so far. And they are still digging in both places.
It should be noted that the overwhelming number of dead in the Mexican war on drugs since 2006 are organized crime murders. I have been following Juarez since May 2010 and my estimate is that 90 percent of the dead were killed by Mexican organized crime members, either against their own members or those with some connection to organized crime; vendors, sellers and informants and the like, or against rival gangs.
In the two mass graves mentioned above, nearly every person who was killed was killed my Mexican organized crime. In Tamaulipas it appears to be a massive terror campaign carried out between September 2010 and March 2011. In Durango the dead are from as far back as 2007.
Pretty graphs showing where the murders take place and the massiveness of the statistics of dead are meaningless if you don't understand that Mexico has an organized crime problem. The war Calderon prosecutes using police and military resources takes a tiny subset of the dead the Mexican organized crime overall takes.
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It's not 40,000 a year. It is 40,000 cumulatively since December 2006 when President Calderon declared war on the cartels.
Thanks. I read that as May 2010 to present.
Pretty graphs showing where the murders take place and the massiveness of the statistics of dead are meaningless if you don't understand that Mexico has an organized crime problem.
Indeed, that is the point - there is a war taking place just across our borders. The fact that it is being conducted by non-state actors does not make it less of one. And it seems to be ignored by our major media outlets who are more concerned with tweets about someone's junk.
As for the pretty pictures, I plead guilty to a graphics fetish. Long live Edward Tufte! And having worked in the GIS industry, I find the spatial component of the data revealing beyond mere stats and tables. Example: this is not some isolated, single big-city gang fight; this is taking place freakin' everywhere in Mexico.
We appreciate your work aggregating this info, badanov. Go, Mexican Marines!
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What we do here at this time is randomly stop vehicles of all types for checks. Sometimes everything is examined. The "mules" then run back roads to avoid detection. The police know these tricks here and catch them. It's a numbers game. Some get caught and some don't. With the violence now in Mexico my 24-7 idea would work. Strangle the drug flow and violence. They all use highway travel to move this stuff. Yes other methods are used but not as easy. Then just be alert to it. Learn, adapt and apply.
For a map click here. For a map of Tamaulipas, click here.
Three armed suspects were killed by a units of the Mexican Army and Marines. and 17 individuals were rescued in Matamoros, Tamaulipas Thursday, according to Mexican and English language sources.
An early news report citing unnamed sources by the US newspaper Brownsville Herald had earlier reported that among the three armed suspects killed, one of them was overall Los Zetas leader Herbierto Lazcano. A subsequent release by the Mexican Army (SEDENA) and by Alejandro Poire, Mexican Secretaria de Seguridad Nacional, said that Lazcano was not killed in the gunfight.
According to the offical SEDENA news release, a unit of the Mexican 8th Military Zone encountered armed suspects in the Pedro Moreno colony and returned fire killing two. Initial reports by Milenio and other Mexican news sources said gunfights erupted in five other colonies as well and near the Puente Internacional Tomates international bridge.
Reports say a total of nine individuals were wounded in the gunfights.
Munitions seized in the aftermath include four rifles, two handguns, 15 weapons magazines, more than one thousand rounds of ammunition and an armored vehicle.
For a map, click here. For a map of Durango, click here. To read the last rantburg report on the Durango city mass graves, click here
Four more bodies were exhumed in Durango, Durango bringing the death toll in Durango city to 247, according to Mexican news reports.
All four were unearthed in Valle de Guardiana colony in the city by an army unit.
Reports say only three individuals have been positively identified out of the 247 dead found so far. Previous reports said 96 victims had been identified, likely with a DNA profile only.
A total of seven gravesites have been found since April when the first of the graves were discovered.
Excavations of Valle de Guardiana colony continue.
U.S. officials say Pakistan has apparently tipped off militants at two more bomb-building factories in its tribal areas, giving the terror suspects time to flee, after U.S. intelligence shared the locations with the Pakistani government.
Those officials believe Pakistan's insistence on seeking local tribal elders' permission before raiding the areas may have most directly contributed to the militants' flight, though they also suspect low-level security officials may have tipped the militants off.
U.S. officials have pushed for Pakistan to keep the location of such targets secret prior to the operations, but the Pakistanis say their troops cannot enter the lawless regions without giving the locals notice.
All officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss matters of intelligence.
The latest incidents bring to a total of four bomb-making sites that the U.S. has shared with Pakistan only to have the terrorist suspects flee before the Pakistani military arrived much later. The report does not bode well for attempts by both sides to mend relations and rebuild trust after the U.S. raid on May 2 that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, a Pakistani army town only 35 miles from the capital Islamabad.
The Pakistanis believe the Americans violated their sovereignty by keeping them in the dark about the raid. American officials believe bin Laden's location proves some elements of the Pakistani army or intelligence service helped hide the al-Qaida mastermind, bolstering their argument that the raid had to be done solo.
The U.S. officials explained Saturday how they first offered the location of the third, and then the fourth site, in order to give Pakistan another chance to prove it could be trusted to go after the militants.
In the tradition of `trust but verify,' the Americans carefully monitored the area with satellite and unmanned drones, to see what would happen, after sharing the information a third and fourth time, the officials said.
In each case, they watched the militants depart within 24 hours, taking any weapons or bomb-making materials with them, just as militants had done the first two times. Only then, did they watch the Pakistani military visit each site, when the terror suspects and their wares were long gone, the officials said.
Pakistan's army on Friday disputed reports that its security forces had tipped off insurgents at bomb-making factories after getting intelligence about the sites from the United States. The army called the assertions of collusion with militants "totally false and malicious."
[Dawn] Security forces killed six Islamic fascistiafter hard boyz attacked a military checkpost in the South Wazoo tribal region on the Afghan border, killing two soldiers, DawnNews reported.
The attack occurred in the tribal region's Ladha area.
South Waziristan was the main sanctuary for the Pak Taliban before the military launched a large ground offensive in October 2009. But attacks against security forces have continued in the area.
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[Dawn] Four gunnies were killed and five others injured when jet fighters bombed suspected hideouts near the Pak-Afghan border in Baizai tehsil of Mohmand ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Bloody Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... Agency on Friday.
Officials said that the security forces continued their operation against gunnies and fighter planes targeted hideouts in Wali Dad Meena, Metai and Shonkrai areas of Baizai tehsil. Independent sources did not confirm the report.
In Bara area of Khyber Agency, suspected gunnies slit the throat of a telephone lineman while a couple was murdered for alleged illicit relations in two separate incidents.
Sources said that unidentified gunnies kidnapped telephone lineman Gul Zamin and later slit his throat in front of some children playing cricket in Bara-Sheikhan area.
The reason behind the gruesome killing of the lineman could not be ascertained. Nobody has so far claimed the credit for the said incident.
In Meel Waat area of Akakhel, suspected Death Eater killed a woman and her alleged paramour on charges of illicit relations.
Reports from Tirah said that three women had been killed and two children sustained injuries when a mortar shell fired by a Death Eater group hit their house.
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Trying to standardize things is actually pretty bad from a security standpoint. You want different groups to use different policies and you want them to have different equipment, too. An attack that works against Cisco, might not work against Brocade or Force 10, or Extreme. Same with the operating systems of the servers involved. You want a mix of different operating systems so that they don't all share the same fate when they find themselves under attack.
Consolidation sounds like a great idea to a control freak who wants to make sure everything is just so, but the best security is for things to be quite separate little security domains using different policies and different equipment. An attack that works against one "box" then might not work at all against the rest of the network.
If you have a consolidated policy, a successful attack in one location works just as well through the entire network and you find the entire network compromised.
Heck, it is currently possible to set up a communications channel completely undetected by firewalls using various options and extension headers of IPv6.
There is no such thing as a "secure" network that is connected to the Internet or that is connected to anything that is connected to the Internet. Air gap is the only real security. Anything else is just wishful thinking.
BEIRUT: Lebanons army clamped down on two sectarian districts of a northern city on Saturday after a rally in support of anti-government protesters in Syria triggered deadly clashes between rival gunmen.
Troops manned checkpoints and searched cars and houses in Tripolis Bab Al-Tebbaneh neighborhood, a Sunni Muslim stronghold, and Jabal Mohsen neighborhood, whose residents hail from the same Alawite sect as Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.
The communities long-running feud erupted into violence on Friday after dozens of people took to Tripolis Nour Square to show support for a three-month-old Syrian revolt that has drawn bloody crackdowns by Assads government.
Security sources said between four and seven people, among them a boy and a soldier, were killed as street fighters attacked each other with assault rifles and grenades. At least 48 people were wounded.
In a statement, the army said it had returned the situation to normal and was enforcing a ban on residents carrying guns.
Since last month, northern Lebanon has seen an influx of Syrians fleeing an assault by Assads forces on the border village of Tel Kelakh.
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[Dawn] Syrian troops backed by tanks and firing heavy machine guns swept into a village near the Turkish border Saturday, cutting food supplies for nearly 2,000 refugees who have so far refused to leave their country.
Many of those men, women and kiddies will have no choice but to flee across the frontier if troops descend on them.
The Local Coordination Committees, a group that documents anti-government protests, said troops backed by six tanks and several armored personnel carriers, entered Bdama in the morning. The village, about 12 miles from the Turkish border, had a bakery that was the sole source of bread to the refugees crowded near the Turkish border.
The town was also supplying medicine and other foodstuffs to the 2,000 Syrians who had hoped not to have to flee to the Turkish tent-city sanctuary.
"We still have some potatoes, rice and powder milk but they will run out soon," said Jamil Saeb, one of the Syrians who had so far decided to stay in Syria. "This is our first day without bread."
Saeb said there are children who are sick and there is no medicine. Others are picking apples for lack of other food.
"we are living in catastrophic conditions," he said. Some women and kiddies were already crossing into Turkey Saturday afternoon.
"We are besieged by the border fence from one side and the Syrian army from the other," Saeb said by telephone. "We are expecting a humanitarian crisis within hours if Turkey does not send aid to us."
The British Foreign office, meanwhile, urged Britons in Syria to leave the country "immediately." In a statement posted on the website of the British Embassy in Syria, the Foreign Office said Britons should leave "now by commercial means while these are still operating."
The statement said those who stay should understand it would be unlikely the British 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... could provide a normal consular service if there was a "further breakdown in law and order."
Britannia, La Belle France, Germany and Portugal will be sponsoring a draft resolution at the UN Security Council to condemn Syria.
The attack on Bdama occurred a day after Syrian forces swept into Maaret al-Numan, a town on the highway linking Damascus, the capital, with Syria's largest city, Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... . Saturday's assault on Bdama was about 25 miles (40 kilometers) to the west.
Also Saturday, the committees raised the corpse count in Friday's anti-government protests to 19.
The three-month uprising has proved stunningly resilient despite a relentless crackdown by the military, pervasive security forces and pro-regime gunnies. Human rights activists say more than 1,400 Syrians have been killed and 10,000 jugged as President-for-Life 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... tries to maintain his grip on power.
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Tip for refugee Syrians: once you clear the border, KEEP GOING.
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[An Nahar] Britannia urged its nationals on Saturday to leave Syria "now" by commercial means, warning that its 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... would unlikely be able to help them if the situation deteriorates further.
"British nationals should leave now by commercial means whilst these are still operating," the Foreign Office said in updated travel advice.
"Those who choose to remain in Syria, or to visit against our advice, should be aware that it is highly unlikely that the British embassy in Damascus would be able to provide a normal consular service in the event of a further breakdown in law and order and increased violent civil disorder.
"Evacuation options would be limited because of likely communication and travel restrictions," it said.
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"Evacuation options would be limited because of likely communication and travel restrictions," it said.
[Al Jazeera] Syrian troops and gunnies loyal to President-for-Life 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... are reported to have stormed the town of Bdama near the Turkish border.
The alleged assault on Saturday followed another Friday of protests, which have grown in size despite Assad's wide-ranging military campaign to crush a three-month old uprising. Security forces rubbed out 19 protesters on Friday, activists said.
"They came at 7am to Bdama. I counted nine tanks, 10 armoured carriers, 20 jeeps and 10 buses. I saw shabbiha (pro-Assad gunnies) setting fire to two houses," said Saria Hammouda, a lawyer living in the border town, in the Jisr al-Shughur region.
Saturday's violence centred around Bdama, about 2km from the Turkish border, which is one of the epicentres providing food and supplies for the thousands of people who have decamped their homes and have taken shelter near the Turkish border.
"Bdama's residents don't dare take bread to the refugees and the refugees are fearful of arrests if they go into Bdama for food," Rami Abdulrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told the Rooters news agency.
Bdama is in the same region as Jisr al-Shughur, the focus of military operations a week ago.
Mohamed Fezu, a Syrian political activist, spoke to Al Jizz from Jisr al-Shughur on Saturday afternoon and said: "We're surrounded by the military from all over the area."
Amid reports of Syrian troops moving into Turkish border towns, the British Foreign Commonwealth office issued a statement urging Britons to leave Syria "immediately" and advising against travel to Syria.
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What did their apology say, UP? "We're sorry we got caught"?
(I didn't go to the url)
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They are only sorry 'cause they caught... they had to work to get those three words out of there... either some good film editing, or lots of practice with folks who are use to certain words in certain places..
My dad worked hard to provide for us.
Taught me to fish and shoot a gun and paddle a canoe and how hard it was to build a new concrete patio.
Had a temper that sometimes exploded, but that was outshone by his humor and self-deprecation.
Encouraged me to set high goals, even when he also hoped I'd teach high school and stay close to home.
Let me know that he loved me deeply and always would and that I could come home again if ever I needed to.
To all you dads - you matter. A lot. I hope your day today is rich with knowing that.
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Amen to that! My Dad provided for 7 of us kids and set a great example for us: worked every day of his life, meted out discipline when it was called for (honestly, in that big a family, it was called for quite a lot), and has stayed married to Mom for 63 years and counting. What better legacy could we kids have?
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Yes, I think about my late father on Father's Day. One of only a few regrets is that I could not fly him around Alaska in my plane before he died.
Happy Father's Day to all the Rantburg Dads out there. M'Lady got me an Irish bodhran for Father's Day. Total surprise. It is a good day.
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It was my post, trailing wife. Enjoy the bodhran, AP!
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My daughter and I were racking our brains, coming up to this weekend, trying to remember if we had sent a Father's Day card to my Dad last year. We are pretty sure we did. Dad taught my brother and I about snakes when we were pre-school age, saw me off to the Air Force in 1977, designed and built his and Mom's retirement house almost from the ground up, was a caring father-sub for my daughter, gave the best nature-walks ever! bought me a somewhat newer car when he got worried about me, driving around in a 25 year old Volvo. He died very suddenly of a health issue that wasn't even diagnosed until the last week of his life, on the day after Christmas, 2010. I miss him enormously. Christmas and Father's Day is wrecked for me, for about the next decade.
Yes, we did send a card.
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yes Happy Father's Day Rantburgers, I hope you're having a wonderful day. I miss my dad terribly, he was so awesome, very strict but loving at the same time. Taught me to fish, use a bow and arrow well, and ride horses. Bought an army barracks and used the wood to build our home years ago,(Growing up in the depression not wanting to spend alot of money)Oh how I wish people of this generation would be more mindful of expenditures.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Insurgents attacked three convoys ferrying fuel and supplies to 
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