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Henry Shrapnel (3 June 1761 - 13 March 1842) was a British Army officer and inventor, most famously, of the "shrapnel shell".
In 1784, while a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, he perfected, with his own resources, an invention of what he called "spherical case" ammunition: a hollow cannon ball filled with shot which burst in mid-air.
This device was for use as an anti-personnel weapon. When it was finally adopted by the British Army in 1803, it immediately acquired the inventor's name: the shrapnel shell. (It has lent the term "shrapnel" to fragmentation from artillery shells and fragmentation in general ever since, long after it was replaced by high explosive rounds.)
Shrapnel served in Flanders where he was wounded in 1793 and was promoted to major on 1 November 1803 after eight years as a captain.
After his invention's success in battle on 30 April 1804, Shrapnel was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 20 July 1804, less than nine weeks later.
In recognition of Shrapnel's contribution, the British Government in 1814 awarded him £1200 (about $128,000 USD in today's money) a year for life. He was appointed to the office of Colonel-Commandant, Royal Artillery, on 6 March 1827. He rose to the rank of lieutenant-general on 10 January 1837.
Until the end of World War I the shells were still being manufactured according to his original principles.
The Star-Spangled Banner refers to Shrapnel shells (attached to rockets produced by William Congreve).
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While I appreciate the ...Lively nature of the commentary, perhaps our Soldiers could have better chosen their words when posting a video? Excitement over killing Taliban and calling the Fags isn't the best PR.
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screw pc...let'em say what they want...what do you think charles we will be liked if we are nice with the words...screw'em..
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Isn't there some joke about how the birds have to fly upside down in afghanistan?
[Tolo News] At least 18 Talibs were killed in a joint Afghan and foreign forces operation in Balkh and Faryab provinces on Saturday night, local officials said.
The operation was launched in Pashtun Koot district of Faryab, Chemtal and Char Bolak districts of Balkh province last night in which 18 beturbanned goons including a Taliban Shadow deputy in Chemtal were killed in the operation, Media Office of Pamir 303 Zone in the north told TOLOnews.
Woo hoo -- a Talib Shadow! Soon enough they're going to have trouble replacing those Number Threes.
Afghan and foreign forces have seized many weapons during the operations, the Media office added.
There was no Afghan, foreign forces and civilian casualties in the operations, Media Office of Pamir 303 Zone said.
The Taliban have not yet commented about the operations.
Of course not. It doesn't reflect well on the Lions of Islam that they lost so many with no casualties to anyone else. Better to pretend it never happened.
Militants have increased their activities in the northern Afghanistan as Afghan forces will take security lead in seven areas in July this year.
I foresee more militant casualties to match their increased activities. Some say I'm psychic about such things, so wise militants will heed this infidel housewife.
Balkh is one the seven areas that foreign forces will hand over to Afghan forces.
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[Tolo News] A jacket wallah detonated his explosives in northern Kunduz province killing three civilians and wounding eleven others on Sunday, local officials said.
The incident happened at 09:30 am local time in Kunduz city when foreign forces were passing by and a suicide bomber on a cycle of violencewent kaboom!" killing three civilians, wounding eleven others, Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, head of Media Office for 303 Pamir Zone in the north told TOLOnews.
Foreign forces suffered no casualties in the attack, he added.
No groups including the Taliban have grabbed credit for the attack.
Of course not. The objective was not attained, and the relatives of the local victims are no doubt distinctly displeased. I wouldn't admit to this great triumph of jihadi diplomacy, either.
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[Emirates 24/7] A Somali court has placed in durance vile six foreigners including three Britons and an American for illegally carrying millions of dollars into the country to pay ransoms for the release of vessels held by pirates.
Authorities in the Horn of Africa country, where a lack of effective central government has allowed piracy to boom off its shores, seized two aircraft carrying $3.6 million in the capital Mogadishu late last month.
"We sentenced the two pilots, who are American and British nationals, to fifteen years imprisonment and a $15,000 fine each," the Mogadishu court's judge Hashi Elmi told Rooters late on Saturday.
The charges were illegally bringing money into the country, carrying cash intended to pay ransoms and landing in Mogadishu without the correct papers.
The four others, among them two Kenyans, were handed ten years jail terms and fines of $10,000 each, Elmi said. The cash and two aircraft were now the property of Somalia's government, he added.
A clever way to benefit from piracy without turning pirate themselves. Is this new, or have they been doing it for a while without being noticed?
Maritime piracy costs the global economy up to $12 billion annually and has spawned numerous private security businesses offering armed protection for vessels and conducting ransom drops.
Cash ransoms are usually dropped onto captured vessels from light aircraft.
It was the first time Westerners have been sentenced for involvement in ransom payments. Elmi said the six might be able to buy their freedom. "The men can appeal and if they ask to pay more instead of (remaining in) prison then we shall see and take our decision," Elmi said.
A tradition that goes back at least to the Crusades. Remember the ransom of Richard the Lionhearted, which led to the Magna Carta?
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The cash and two aircraft were now the property of Somalia's government
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Americans and Europeans should not be paying ransom to jihadi Somali pirates in the first place. It inflates the ransom market and increases the odds of Western traders and travellers to be abducted.
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We should never pay up. They all want to be pirates out there because it pays 10* better then doing a normal job (and seems to have few if any risks)
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The charges were illegally bringing money into the country, carrying cash intended to pay ransoms and landing in Mogadishu without the correct papers cash for the judge.
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Americans and Europeans should not be paying ransom to jihadi Somali pirates in the first place.
Maybe I didn't read between the lines, or maybe because I read the whole thing, but the "Americans and Europeans" mentioned in the article are pilots. That does not necessarily mean that they are the ones providing the ransom.
And yes, it does sound like there was a failure to pay baksheesh beforehand.
[An Nahar] Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed on Sunday announced he was resigning following an agreement ending the troubled country's transitional administration.
"Considering the interest of the society and in compliance with the Kampala accord, I decided to quit to compromise for the national interest", Abdullahi Mohamed told news hounds in Mogadishu, thanking those who supported him.
Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and parliament leader Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden signed a deal in the Ugandan capital on June 9 extending their terms for a year, pushing back polls due in August.
The accord stipulates that the prime minister's mandate ends within 30 days and for his successor to be named by the president and approved by parliament in 14 days.
Elections for president and speaker of parliament will have to take place prior to August 20, 2012.
Somalia's transitional government, which was set up in 2004 in Kenya and owes its survival to the international community, has been weakened by infighting between its leaders which has worsened as the end of the mandates approached.
Abdullahi Mohamed who was not one of the signatories rejected the deal on Tuesday.
"I will respect the wish of the Somali people who want me to stay in office, rather than implementing the Kampala accord," he had told a presser in Mogadishu.
The president had previously called for the extension, saying Somalia was too unstable for elections as it battles al-Qaeda-inspired Islamist turbans.
The president and the parliament speaker had two reasons for wanting to oust the prime minister.
Abdullahi Mohamed is an ethnic Ogadeni and they are under pressure from the Puntland region to replace him with an ethnic Darod. Moreover he has gained a degree of popularity and this has riled them.
On June 12, members of the government demanded unanimously that the agreement had to be ratified by parliament, a provision that did not figure in the agreement.
The mandate of the fragile transitional institutions theoretically ends August 20, having already been prolonged for two years.
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[Iran Press TV] Latest reports say at least nine people have been killed after forces loyal to embattled Libyan ruler Muammar Qadaffy shelled the troubled city of Misratah.
The Sunday causalities came as revolutionaries and Qadaffy forces were engaged in heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... over control of the city.
Opposition sources say that the dead include both revolutionary fighters and civilians.
The corpse count is expected to rise as some of the 51 maimed are said to be at death's door.
Earlier, 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... Arclight airstrike hit a residential area in the Libyan capital Tripoli. Libyan officials say at least nine civilians, including toddlers, were killed and 18 others were maimed.
Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim said NATO's attack on civilian houses was intentional. NATO says it is investigating the attack.
Libya has been the scene of fierce fighting between pro-Qadaffy troops and anti-regime forces since mid-February.
Revolutionary forces want an end to Qadaffy's decades-long rule.
The US and NATO have unleashed a punishing, UN-mandated offensive against the Libyan ruler to pressure him into relinquishing power.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... NATO Arclight airstrikes have killed scores of civilians as well as revolutionaries.
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I always, kinda, liked Muammar---he's so different from your typical Arab dictator(must be Berber blood, or something). I'm beginning to like him a lot.
[Dawn] Libyan officials showed news hounds five bodies, two of them of toddlers, they said were among nine civilians killed in a "barbaric" 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... air raid Sunday, as pressure mounted on the alliance to allow a political solution.
Were they still cold from the freezers? It is said Saddam Hussein collected dead babies for years, to have them on hand when attacked by those with gullible news media.
Government front man Mussa Ibrahim accused the Western alliance of "deliberately targeting civilians," insisting there were no military targets anywhere near the residential neighbourhood of the capital that was hit.
To be fair, didn't we kill a chemical weapons factory disguised as a baby milk company, last time we were in the neighborhood?
NATO said it was looking into the Libyan claim.
Ibrahim demanded that the alliance end its "aggression" to pave the way for dialogue, speaking just hours after organizations including the the 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... the European Union and the United Nations ...what started out as a a diplomatic initiative, now trying to edge its way into legislative, judicial, and executive areas... highlighted the importance of "accelerating the launch of a political process" to end the conflict.
Journalists were taken to the al-Arada district of Tripoli before 1 am to see rescue teams helped by bystanders desperately searching for survivors among the wreckage of a two-storey block of flats.
An AFP correspondent saw two bodies pulled from the rubble.
Journalists were then taken to a Tripoli hospital where they were shown the bodies of a woman and two toddlers that officials said were members of the same family and had died in the raid.
Ibrahim said that four passers-by were also killed, bringing the corpse count to nine, and that 18 people were maimed.
A NATO official in Brussels confirmed that the alliance had planes in the air over Tripoli over the past 24 hours.
"We're aware of the claim made by the Libyan regime and we're looking into it," a second NATO official told AFP.
If confirmed, the civilian deaths would be an embarrassment for the alliance which has been leading the bombing campaign under a UN mandate to protect civilians
.*sigh* In the olden days it was understood that standing near a target increased one's probability of being hit. But now everyone plays video games...
"It is another night of massacre, terror and horror at the hands of NATO," the Libyan government front man charged.
War is heck, it is said.
Western leaders "are morally and legally responsible for these murders," Ibrahim said.
"This is not propaganda. It is not something that we can stage." Libyan officials have been on the defensive over their credibility after they showed journalists a little girl being treated in hospital two weeks ago and said she had been maimed in a NATO air strike. A member of the medical staff said she had been injured in a traffic accident.
Oh dear. That will certainly bring into question any future claims.
Ibrahim called on NATO to halt its "aggression" against Libya to pave the way for dialogue to end a conflict now in its fifth month.
"NATO is very good at attacking and killing people but it is very bad at starting dialogue," he said.
The alliance has acknowledged mis-hits in the past, most of them involving rebel fighters wrongly identified as loyalist troops.
But not one disguised as a baby milk company.
Only Saturday, NATO acknowleged that aircraft under its command had accidentally hit a rebel column near the oil refinery town of Brega on the frontline between the rebel-held east and the mainly government-held west on Thursday.
"NATO can now confirm that the vehicles hit were part of an opposition patrol," it said in a statement.
"This incident occurred in an area of conflict between Qadaffy forces and opposition forces.
"We regret any possible loss of life or injuries caused by this unfortunate incident," NATO said.
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"We regret any possible loss of life or injuries caused by this unfortunate incident," NATO said.
[Ennahar] Twelve suspected members of Al Qaeda and two soldiers were killed in fighting in the city of Zinjibar in southern Yemen, said Sunday an army officer.
One has to feel for the troops, putting their lives on the line to maintain such a weak facsimile of civilization, which nonetheless is significantly better than the available alternatives. Even if things were different when they took the king's shilling, still they are there now.
They could be trying to defend Mogadishu, after all...
"Twelve members of the Supporters of Sharia (group linked to Al Qaeda) were killed and three were maimed in shelling last night with the artillery of the 119 Brigade," said the officer.
He added that the bombing was directed against "cut-throats who were trying to plant explosive charges on a main road" of the city, he said.
After two hours of shelling, the "armed cut-throats launched an attack against a military barracks" where two soldiers were killed by a rocket and three were maimed and transported to a hospital in Aden, he added.
May 29, hundreds of members of Al Qaeda, officials said, took control of Zinjibar, a town east of Aden, where fighting with the army killed over 150 people, including about 80 soldiers.
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[Arab News] More than 100 influential religious holy mans and tribal leaders called for the Yemeni president's ouster and elections to choose a new leader, adding their weight to the opposition movement seeking to end nearly 33 years of autocratic rule by President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower....
The president, who has clung to power despite four months of protests, is undergoing treatment in neighboring Soddy Arabia for serious burns and other injuries from a June 3 attack on his palace in the capital, Sanaa. His allies insist he will return to the country within days and resume his duties.
The holy mans' petition, obtained Saturday, demands elections within 60 days and says Saleh is unfit to return to his post.
"President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... is unable to carry out his responsibilities. He must step down," the statement said.
Among the petitioners is Sheik Abdul-Majid Al-Zindani, the spiritual leader of the country's fundamentalist Islamic opposition party, Islah, and Yemen's most influential holy man. He has backed the anti-Saleh protesters since early on in the unrest.
Others who have abandoned the Yemeni leader include top military commanders, powerful tribal chiefs and members of Saleh's ruling party. Many defected to the opposition in outrage at the killing of protesters.
Yemen's crisis began when demonstrators inspired by successful uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia erupted into the streets in early February. The largely peaceful movement gave way to heavy street fighting when tribal militias took up arms in late May.
Emboldened Islamic beturbanned goons have also seized on the expanding disorder to take control of towns in southern Yemen, adding to fears that the Al-Qaeda offshoot in the country could end up with even more room to operate freely.
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[Iran Press TV] Yemeni Deputy Minister of Religious Endowments and Guidance Mohammed Yahya Al-Fusil has died in a Soddy Arabian hospital, a report says.
And there was much rejoicing...
Al-Fusil, who was badly maimed along with Yemen's President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... in a missile attack on the Presidential Palace on June 3, died on Saturday, Xinhua reported.
The attack on the presidential palace had come shortly after forces loyal to Saleh shelled the home of Sheikh Hamid al-Ahmar, a brother of the head of powerful Hashid tribal federation whose members have been fighting a deadly battle with the regime in Sana'a over the past weeks.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) is finally going to start next month the trial of juggedBangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami ... a Pakistani catspaw remaining active in Bangla politix, loosely affiliated with the Pak religious party of the same name and closely affiliated with most of the terror organizations in Bangla. A member of the BNP's four party governing coalition.... leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee and BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury who are facing charges of crimes against humanity, sources said.
The trial of four other jugged Jamaat leaders will begin in phases from August on charges of committing similar crimes during the Liberation War in 1971, Law Minister Shafique Ahmed told journalists yesterday.
The mills of Justice (the blindfolded goddess, not the rude little Saudi schoolboy who is going to find adulthood a terrible shock someday, if someone actually doesn't pound in the bung) grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small, as it is said.
The four are Jamaat Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, ...During the liberation war of 1971, Nizami formed the Al-Badr Force and acted as its supreme commander. The Al-Badr militia took active part in rape, extortion, looting and killing of Bangladeshis who supported the liberation, including a pre-planned massacre on December 14, 1971, when the Al-Badr militia along with Pakistan Army rounded up hundreds of doctors, professors, writers, and other Bengali intellectuals, and executed them... Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, two assistant secretary generals of the party Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Kader Molla.
Former minister and BNP politician Abdul Alim, now on bail, will also be tried with them.
"It will be possible to start next month the trial of two of those charged with war crimes," the law minister said quoting Sherlocks and prosecutors of the tribunal.
Shafique was talking to journalists after a meeting of the steering committee on the trial of war criminals held at the secretariat.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith, who chaired the meeting, echoed what the law minister said.
Shafique, however, declined to give the names of the two to be put on trial next month.
Muhith said Sherlocks and prosecutors are prepared to place some cases before the tribunal for trail. "They have also worked out the way the trial will be held," he added.
A number of other ministers including Syed Ashraful Islam, AK Khandker and Sahara Khatun also attended the steering committee meeting.
Seeking anonymity, meeting sources told The Daily Star the trial of Sayedee and SQ Chowdhury will begin next month.
"We have submitted the probe report on Jamaat leader Sayedee to the prosecution team of International Crimes Tribunal, and we will submit our full probe report on Salauddin Quader by August 1," a member of the investigation agency said.
"So, it is certain that the trial of Sayedee and Salauddin is going to start in July," he said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea... the ICT yesterday ordered the investigation agency to submit to it the report on war crimes charges against Salauddin by August 1.
If they fail to submit a full-fledged probe report by this time, the Sherlocks have to submit a progress report on investigation, said the ICT headed by Justice Nizamul Huq in its order.
On the eve of the anniversary of the start of genocide by Pakistain occupation forces in 1971, the government on March 25 last year announced formation of the tribunal, investigation agency and prosecution team for trying war criminals.
The three-member tribunal, seven-member investigation agency and 12-member prosecution team was formed for holding the trial under the law of the land -- the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act 1973.
On May 31, the investigation agency handed over to the prosecution team a 15-part final report and other documents on the allegations against Sayedee.
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A total of 14 individuals were executed and dumped in various spots around the Mexican states of Michoacan and Jalisco Sunday according to Mexican news accounts.
As with the eight found murdered early Saturday morning the 14 dead were all shot in the head and left with a message warning against supporting Los Zetas and was signed by Los Caballeros Templarios or Knights Templars, an offshoot of La Familia Michoacana which was reportedly disbanded earlier this year.
Reports earlier this month suggested that remnants of La Familia Michoacana had joined with the Gulf Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel in an alliance dubbed Carteles Unidos or United Cartels. The alliance was formed earlier this year. That alliance may well include Los Caballeros Templarios.
The areas between Jalisco and Michoacan were the focus of sustained counternarcotics operations by Mexican security forces last late month, mostly in Jalsico, which drove some criminal groups into Michoacan. To read a comprehensive story about Carteles Unidos and its most recent activities, click here.
Four of the victims were identified as Hugo Castañeda Ruiz, 32, Refugio Lopez Valdovinos, 18, ââMario Macias Gabriel Gallardo, 19, and Luis Miguel Miranda Avalos, 23. Miranda Avalos was released from prison only a few days ago.
Most of the dead were shot with a .38 Super weapon, a common weapon in Mexico
Bodies were found in the villages of Sahuayo, Cojumatlän de Regules, Jiquilpan, Villamar, Briseñas and Tanhuato.
Yet another convert to Islam misunderstands his peaceful new religion. "Austrian National Arrested For Planning Bundestag Attack."
An Austrian national was arrested in Vienna and charged with terrorism. Detectives believe he was planning to crash a plane into the Bundestag, German parliament headquarters in Berlin.
The suspect, 25-year-old Thomas al-J., is a young man who has converted to Islam. He was arrested Wednesday in his apartment in the Austrian capital and has also been accused of recruiting terrorists in order to send them to jihad training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and of funding terrorist organizations.....
PAKISTANI police say they have detained a nine-year-old school girl allegedly strapped with a bomb and told to blow up a police checkpoint in the country's troubled northwest.
Although her intentions could not be confirmed independently, it was the first time such a young girl has been reported carrying explosives in Pakistan and could signal a disturbing new tactic for the Taliban and other militants.
She was arrested about 50 metres from the Islam Darra police checkpoint on the outskirts of Taimargara, the main town in the district of Lower Dir, where Pakistan in 2009 fought to put down a Taliban insurgency.
Police said the girl claimed to have been abducted several days ago in the main northwestern city of Peshawar and to have been taken to Lower Dir near the Afghan border.
"She was wearing eight kilograms of explosives which was quite heavy for her age. Her body language was suspicious," Qazi Jamil-ur-Rehman, the regional police chief said.
"She is an innocent school girl and was scared. She is with us and we are trying to reach her family," Rehman added.
The girl appeared on national television wearing her blue and white school uniform.
"They kept me in a house and they told me to push the button when I reach near policemen," she told reporters during a press conference.
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At some point one hopes there will be enough of these atrocities to turn the majority of Pakistanis away from the siren call of their pet jihadis. In the meantime, may all those involved in this, and all who support such people, whether this particular bunch or others, soon find themselves burning forever in the deepest level of Hell.
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At some point one hopes there will be enough of these atrocities to turn the majority of Pakistanis away from the siren call of their pet jihadis. In the meantime, may all those involved in this, and all who support such people, whether this particular bunch or others, soon find themselves burning forever in the deepest level of Hell.
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I don't think the majority of Pakistanis are at that point just yet.
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Disposable female child? Check. Killing infidels (meaning Christians, Jews, Crusaders or Muslims of the wrong flavor)? Check. Morally reprehensible? Check.
To paraphrase some old Juice lady, we will have peace when the Muslims care more about their children than committing mass murder. Until then, I have no problem with SEALS whacking people in their living rooms in the middle of the night or the RAB committing 'crossfires' at oh-dark-hundred in some upazilla.
US DRONES fired a number of missiles, killing six Afghan fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network in Pakistan's tribal district of Kurram, security officials said.
A first strike targeted a vehicle traveling through the Kharh Dhand area of Kurram, which borders Afghanistan's eastern province of Paktia.
Minutes later, two missiles slammed into a nearby compound, the Pakistani officials said.
"The second missile strike targeted a Taliban compound and killed three militants. They were Haqqani's men," a senior Pakistani security official said on condition of anonymity.
Three other militants were reported dead in the first strike.
"All those killed in both strikes were Afghan fighters and were Haqqani's men," the security official said.
US drone strikes routinely target Taliban and al Qaeda militants holed up in Pakistan's tribal belt, but the operations are normally concentrated on insurgent strongholds in Waziristan rather than Kurram, which lies 190 miles (306 kilometers) away.
[Dawn] Gunmen torched an oil tanker carrying fuel for 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 in Afghanistan after killing its driver in the southwestern province of Balochistan on Sunday, police said.
Four people riding on two cycle of violences rubbed out the driver and then set fire to the vehicle in Mian Ghundai suburb of the bustling provincial capital Quetta, local police officer Fareed Waraich told AFP.
The driver's helper jumped out of the vehicle which was totally gutted, he said adding that the body of the driver was charred beyond recognition.
"The driver apparently received fatal injuries and could not escape," the official said adding that the attackers decamped on their cycle of violences.
No group has grabbed credit for the blast but the Taliban has in the past said it carried out similar attacks to disrupt supplies to the more than 130,000 US-led international troops fighting in Afghanistan.
Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked cut-throats frequently launch attacks on NATO supply vehicles in the northwest and southwest Pakistain bordering landlocked Afghanistan.
Most supplies and equipment required by foreign forces in Afghanistan are shipped through Pakistain, although US troops increasingly use alternative routes through Central Asia.
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[Dawn] Pak war planes pounded a myrmidon stronghold in a tribal district on the Afghan border in an operation that left 25 snuffies dead, the military said Sunday.
Pakistain army, paramilitary troops and the air force launched a joint operation "to evict terrorists' stronghold of Walidad" in the northwest district 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... on Saturday, it said.
"Ground operation was preceded with precise strikes by Pakistain Air Force aircraft on terrorists' bunkers and positions," it said.
"After an intensive fight, troops were able to secure Walidad Top and surrounding areas of the mountain and managed to kill 25 terrorists, while remaining decamped across the border," it said.
Four soldiers were killed and eight maimed.
Local officials earlier said three soldiers were killed and at least 13 maimed when dozens of Taliban stormed a check post in the region near the Afghan border.
The pre-dawn attack was mounted in Baizai village of Mohmand facing the eastern Afghan province of Kunar, local administration chief Maqsood Hussain told AFP.
"The myrmidons, believed to be more than 50 and armed with light and heavy weapons, launched an attack on Walidad Kor post, triggering a shootout that lasted about an hour," he said.
Three soldiers of the paramilitary Frontier Corps were killed and at least 13 maimed, he said adding that four gunnies were killed and an unspecified number maimed.
The military statement said "troops are consolidating their positions in the area and search operation for remnants is in progress."
Mohmand is one of seven districts in Pakistain's semi-autonomous tribal belt where Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked gunnies frequently launch attacks targeting police, government and security officials.
Washington has called the tribal zone the most dangerous place on Earth and the global headquarters of al-Qaeda, where Taliban and other al-Qaeda-linked networks have carved out strongholds.
Since US Navy SEALs killed the late Osama bin Laden ... who now dances with worms... in Pakistain last month, American officials have been increasing pressure on Islamabad to launch an offensive in the North Wazoo district to destroy myrmidon sanctuaries.
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Wicked comic. 10 cents is an oldie. Never did see that sort of thing. Batman, Westerns, and Sgt. Rock those I have seen. I'll have to check this one out.
A traffic policeman was killed in an attack by two gunmen on a highway in Pattan province on Monday.
Pol Sr Sgt-Maj Arwut Kongkhiew, 54, a traffic police officer from the Khok Pho police station, was followed by two men on a motorcycle after he left the police station on his motorcycle. The two men overtook the him on the road and the pillion rider shot him in the head twice at a close range, killing him instantly.
The assailants stole the victim's 9 mm pistol before fleeing.
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines: A Filipino road engineer is now free two weeks after being kidnapped by Abu Sayyafterrorists extremists in the southern Philippines.
Philippine officials gave differing accounts of Virgilio Fernandez's return to freedom. Abu Sayyaf terrorists militants seized Fernandez June 3 in Basilan's Lamitan city, where he was overseeing a road project.
Roads lead to independent thinking, everybody knows that. Abu Sayyaf's bully boys had no choice in the matter.
Police Chief Inspector Edwin Placio says government militiamen stumbled onto Fernandez near a remote village on Basilan Island's Al Barka township and turned him over to police. The army, however, says its troops rescued Fernandez from his terrorist captors in a daring mission that did not spark any gunbattle.
Placio says the victim is fine and has been turned over to his family.
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[An Nahar] A rocket-propelled grenade hit the main street in the al-Baqqar neighborhood in the northern city of Tripoli on Sunday, two days after festivities over an anti-Syria rally killed seven people, state-run National News Agency reported, without elaborating.
But MTV said the grenade caused no casualties when it struck the neighborhood.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase... the Lebanese branch of the pan-Islamic party Hizb ut-Tahrir denied "any direct or indirect link" to the deadly festivities that erupted in Tripoli on Friday, stressing that its members did not take part in the Bab al-Tabbaneh or the al-Nour Square anti-Syria demos.
The party has recently organized several demos in Leb against the Syrian regime and in support of the Syrian people.
Tensions have been running high in Tripoli, since deadly festivities on Friday between gunnies positioned in the rival neighborhoods of Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh.
Security officials said 79 people were maimed in the festivities, which erupted after a rally demanding Syrian 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... step down. Among the seven killed were a Lebanese army soldier, the military official of the Arab Democratic Party Ali Fares and a 14-year-old boy.
Troops have since deployed in force in the two Tripoli neighborhoods.
Earlier Sunday head of the Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... parliamentary bloc, former premier Fouad Saniora, called on the new government to ban weapons in Tripoli.
Saniora also warned that "unrest is dormant" in the northern port city.
"Tripoli must become a city that is free of all arms, and that must be implemented immediately," Saniora told news hounds.
Saniora said he and his allies would support the new prime minister, Najib Miqati, in making sure the streets of Tripoli were free of arms.
"We will stand by the government ... should they work for that end," he said.
"The army and security forces must deal with all attempts to incite unrest firmly."
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[An Nahar] Syrian 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... is due to make a speech on Monday on developments in his country which has been gripped by four months of anti-regime protests, the official SANA news agency reported.
"President Bashir al-Assad will deliver a speech at noon tomorrow concerning developments in Syria," SANA said in a terse dispatch late on Sunday. It gave no further details.
Monday's address will be the third time Assad has made a major speech since protests demanding greater freedoms and democracy erupted in mid-March.
On March 30 -- two weeks after the start of the demonstrations -- he addressed parliament and described the deadly unrest as a "conspiracy" against Syria fomented by its enemies.
And in a televised address on April 16, Assad announced that the emergency law in force in Syria for nearly 50 years would be abolished, expressed his sadness at the deaths of protesters and called for a national dialogue.
Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. It smelled phony... Syrian opposition activists set up a "National Council" to struggle against Assad's regime, a group of dissidents, including their front man Jamil Saib, announced Sunday.
"We announce the creation of a National Council to lead the Syrian revolution, comprising all communities and representatives of national political forces inside and outside Syria," they said in a statement made near the Turkish-Syrian border.
The activists urged opposition forces "to cooperate in all cities and provinces of Syria to achieve the legitimate goal of overthrowing the regime and bringing it to justice."
Saib said council members included notably Abdullah Trad al-Moulahim, one of the organizers of a Syrian opposition gathering in Turkey this month, Haitham al-Maleh, Suhair al-Atassi and Aref Dalila, all three based in Syria, as well as Sheikh Khaled al-Khalaf and Mamoun al-Homsi.
"The purpose of this council is to bring together opposition forces to support the revolution" and ensure that they are heard by the international community, Saib told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The council was created "in the name of Syria's free revolutionary youth in view of the crimes the regime perpetrated against the oppressed civilian population, which was holding peaceful protests, and in the face of the silence of the Arab world and the international community," the group said.
Saib voiced frustration that nations around the world swiftly called for Libyan leader Moammar Qadaffy to go after his regime launched a brutal crackdown on its own people calling for democratic reform, but has not reacted similarly in Syria.
"In Libya, after the death of two hundred people, Qadaffy no longer had legitimacy," Saib said.
"Here in Syria, while all human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... groups say that there are 1,500 killed and thousands of injured or people incarcerated, the international community and the Arab world are silent."
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... the Syrian army cut off a key border village supplying people fleeing to Turkey, closing its only bakery and burning surrounding forests, residents who managed to escape said Sunday.
The security operation in Bdama triggered a new exodus to the frontier, several kilometers away, where thousands had already massed, braving a squalid life in the open air but still undecided to cross to Turkey.
Ankara announced it was taking urgent food aid across the border for the displaced Syrians after sheltering more than 10,500 refugees in tent cities on its own territory.
Speaking near the frontier, witnesses said Syrian security forces had set up checkpoints on roads leading to Bdama, which was now largely deserted.
On Saturday, a line of at least six tanks and 15 troop transporters entered Bdama as part of a major crackdown in the northwestern province of Idlib, according to a Syrian activist.
The crackdown has already resulted in bloodshed in the flashpoint town of Jisr al-Shughour, from where most of the refugees taking shelter in Turkey had come.
Raka El-Abdu, a 23-year-old Syrian, told Agence La Belle France Presse that his 14-strong family decamped Bdama on Saturday but he was forced to go back Sunday morning to get bread, using mountain routes that only locals would know. He found the village virtually empty.
"They closed the only bakery there. We cannot get bread any more. ... I saw soldiers shooting the owner of the bakery. They hit him in the chest and the leg," the outraged man exclaimed.
"The army is controlling all the entrances to the village and checking identities to arrest protesters," he added.
Hamid, 26, said he also beat feet from Bdama on Saturday with his family after the security forces opened random fire on the settlement.
"I was outside my house ... They opened fire from far away. We ran into the mountains. I then saw my cycle of violence burning," he said.
"Yesterday morning, they poured gasoline and set the mountains ablaze to prevent people from fleeing," he added.
His friend Samir said residents had begun to flee Bdama several days ago after Orcs and similar vermin and intelligence officers arrived and fired shots in the air.
"Only 1,000 people had remained and they left yesterday," he said. "The people who stay behind are the ones who work for the regime."
Samir has been on the run for about a month: he sought refuge in Bdama, his hometown, after fear of persecution forced him to flee the coastal city of Latakia, where he had took part in anti-regime protests.
Bdama was the lifeline for thousands of Syrians who had flocked to the Turkish border but hesitated to cross, gripped by uncertainty over their future on foreign land and wary to leave behind properties.
They have braved a rough life in the open air or in makeshift shelters of branches and plastic sheets, surviving on scarce food and water from wells.
"Distribution of humanitarian aid has begun to meet the urgent food needs of Syrian citizens waiting on the Syrian side of our border," Turkey's emergency situations agency said in a statement on Sunday.
It was the first time Turkey had launched a cross-border aid mission.
Abu Muhammad, a white-bearded 47-year-old who has been camping in the border zone for 10 days after fleeing Jisr al-Shughour, said Turkish aid would be crucial for their survival.
"The army is doing that (in Bdama) to strangle us here so that people go back home either to get killed or incarcerated," he grumbled.
"We are waiting for help from Turkey. Otherwise, we go back and die or stay and die here," he said.
Samir said people were terrified that the Syrian security forces might soon come to clamp down on their makeshift camps.
"There are rumors that the militia will come at night and kill us," he said. "Everybody may cross into Turkey any minute."
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This will be where the focus is as Turkey is getting restless with all these Syrians streaming over that 400 miles of border. And Syrian forces advance.
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What is it about the medical schools in the ME that lead to guys like this going from medicine to mayhem.
With that in mind I certainly shutter at what a trauma center looks like in Cairo.
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Afterward, some citizens took to the street in protest, according to the Jerusalem Post:
Demonstrators in Damascus chant "No to dialogue with murderers," after Syrian president says country being exploited by "saboteurs, microbes" in 3rd address since uprising began.
"People were still hoping he would say something meaningful that would result in tanks and troops leaving the streets. They were disappointed and started going out as soon as Assad finished talking," one activist in Latakia said.
In the city of Hama, scene of a 1982 attack to crush an uprising led by the Muslim Brotherhood that killed thousands of civilians during the rule of Assad's father, Hafez Assad, protesters chanted "damn your soul, Hafez."
Demonstrations also took place in the eastern city of Albu Kamal on the border with Iraq, the southern city of Deraa and other towns in the Hauran Plain, cradle of the uprising, now in its fourth month, and at the campus of Aleppo University, activists said.
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And according to Ha'aretz, there are 10,000 Syrian refugees already in camps in Turkey, with another 10,000 waiting on the Syrian side of the border.
[Dawn] Syrian opposition activists have set up a "National Council" to struggle against the Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... regime, a group of dissidents, including their front man Jamil Saib, announced Sunday.
"We announce the creation of a National Council to lead the Syrian revolution, comprising all communities and representatives of national political forces inside and outside Syria," they told news hounds near the Turkish-Syrian border.
Saib said council members included notably Abdallah Trad el Moulahim, one of the organisers of a Syrian opposition gathering in Turkey this month, Haitham el-Maleh, Souhair al-Atassi and Aref Dalila, all three based in Syria, as well as Sheikh Khaled al-Khalaf and Mamoun el-Homsi.
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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Gail Patrick aka Lucy Stowell in "Wives Under Suspicion" aka Bianca Bates in "My Favorite Wife" aka Margot Bracken in "Women in Bondage" aka Isobel Kimble Grayson in "Love Crazy" aka Margaret Van Case in "Dangerous to Know" aka Cornelia Bullock in "My Man Godfrey" (Died in 1980 at age 69)
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"Lotta Crabtree would go on to become one of the wealthiest and most beloved American entertainers of the late 19th century. From her beginnings as a 6-year-old until her retirement at the age of 45, she entertained and was named "The Nation's Darling"".
Died at the tender age of 77. Just think how much longer she would have lived without them evil smokes. Died a wealth hermit and never married.
Famous also for her cigars.
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Sorry about that. The smoking thing is a sore subject for me. So complicated. The mouth has 700 bacteria and 12 viruses approximately. You disrupt the colony building when you brush or floss but they are back at it in 72 hours. The upper mouth is the death triangle. The lower mouth infection once past the cell barriers can destroy the heart. The pain in teeth can drive people to suicide and did in the old days(no relief). The ear can be just as painful but when the eardrum bursts the pain is gone. I am not a Doctor just proactive in health.
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