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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Tawny Kitaen aka Gwendoline in "The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak" aka Debbie Thompson in "Bachelor Party" aka Virginia in "Instant Justice" aka Deianeira in "Hercules (TV Movies)" aka Vanessa in "White Hot" aka Sara Burgess in "Playback" (age 50)
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Is the sekret translation and codification device busted?
I spotted a Palestinian and a Gunman down thread.
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HOT (help off topic) 8^)
I've just installed Chrome and am having a problem with Rantburg's display. The entire thing is squashed into the middle of the screen and the photos look elongated.
This doesn't happen with my other blogs (Insty, Tim Blair, etc.) Is there something about the 'burg that I need to handle?
Thanks.
BP, thanks for you comment on my virus infection. Unfortunately the 2nd Dell techie tried that (after having to hand roll the registry) to no avail. This was a really nasty beast.
[Dawn] A car boom killed an intelligence official from Afghanistan's northern Kunduz city on Thursday morning, two days after suicide kaboomers killed four security guards at a guesthouse in the city used by foreigners, a police front man said.
Three children were also maimed by the blast from the bomb planted in the car of Payenda Khan, head of a National Directorate of Security district in Kunduz city, said Sayed Sarwar Husaini, front man for the provincial policeman.
Husaini had earlier said Khan was head of the National Directorate of Security in Kunduz province, but later said he was given incorrect information by officials at the bomb site.
The killing comes after three jacket wallahs on Tuesday attacked a guesthouse in Kunduz, killing four Afghan security guards employed by a German company.
The once peaceful north of the country has seen a series of high profile attacks and liquidations in recent years, as cut-throats seek to demonstrate their reach beyond their traditional southern heartland around Kandahar city.
Violence is at its worst in Afghanistan since US-backed Afghan forces toppled the Taliban government in late 2001, with high levels of foreign troop deaths, and record civilian casualties.
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ANTI-AFGHAN INTEL
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* TOPIX > AFGHAN MILITARY/ARMY CHIEF: DURAND AGREEMENT [establishing Durand Line] OBSOLETE, AGHANISTAN HAS RIGHT TO CLAIM SOVEREIGNTY UP TO INDUS RIVER IN PAKISTAN.
Why yes, Virgina, the AFPAK diplomatic row has started.
On Friday, Libyan rebels said a NATO air attack had killed Moammar Gadhafi's son Khamis, who is the commander of one of the Libyan leader's most loyal and best-equipped military units.
A spokesman for the rebels said the air strike had killed 32 people in Zlitan, where Khamis Gadhafi's 32nd Brigade is believed to have been at the vanguard of Tripoli's defenses. NATO has not confirmed the report of his death, and Tripoli's government was not immediately available to comment. NATO did say on Thursday that it hit a command-and-control target in the area.
Khamis' death would be a severe blow for his father's campaign to resist a six-month-old uprising and remain in power. The brigade under Khamis' command is seen as one of the best units in Libya and a central part of the government's security apparatus.
HMS Liverpool, a Royal Navy warship, came under heavy rocket fire from a shore battery as it patrolled off the Libyan coast, the Ministry of Defence said.
A missile launcher is said to have sent a number of rockets towards Liverpool that has been stationed off Libya for several weeks.
The Type 42 destroyer returned heavy naval gunfire answering Col Gaddafi's forces with its 4.5in main gun sending several shells arching into the night during the early hours of Wednesday.
The attack came after Liverpool fired a barrage of illumination rounds in support of an air attack on the regime stronghold of Zlitan. No casualties were suffered by the ships compliment during the exchange and the MoD were unable to confirm if the battery was destroyed during the duel.
The attack came after the helicopter carrier Ocean launched her Apache attack helicopters against a hotel in Zlitan that was being used as a military base. The Apache's fired Hellfire missiles then coordinated with RAF Tornados which guided several Paveway bombs onto the targets.
NICOSIA: Libyan ruler Muammar Qaddafi was trying his best Thursday to take advantage of a rift in the opposition ranks over the assassination of a top rebel commander last week.
Qaddafi's son Seif Al-Islam told The New York Times that his family had forged an alliance with an Islamic group among the insurgents and that they would issue a joint statement soon on their alliance to isolate or wipe out liberals within days.
"The liberals will escape or be killed," said Saif Al-Islam, once seen as a reformist and potential successor to his father. "We will do it together."
But a top Islamist leader in Benghazi denied they have have forged an alliance with Qaddafi's family.
"Seif Al-Islam's statement is baseless. It's a lie that seeks to create a crack in the national accord," Ali Sallabi said by telephone.
Sallabi acknowledged talking with Seif Al-Islam. "Our dialogue with them is always based on three points: Qaddafi and his sons must leave Libya, the capital (Tripoli) must be protected from destruction and the blood of Libyans must be spared. There is no doubt about these constants," he said. "We support pluralism and justice. Libyans have the right to build a democratic state and political parties."
Sallabi said relations between the Islamists and the liberals are "strong."
"We fight with them in the same trenches and Qaddafi and his sons cannot change that," he added.
Sallabi's protestations notwithstanding, there were serious differences within opposition ranks with a key group demanding Thursday that senior opposition ministers and military brass be fired.
The February 17 Coalition whose members kick-started the revolt against Qaddafi said the ministers of defense and international affairs must be sacked following last week's murder of Gen. Abdel Fattah Younis.
Abdulsalam El-Musmari, a judge who heads the coalition, criticized the events leading up to Younis' murder and the handling of its aftermath by the governing Transitional National Council (TNC).
"We have two main demands," Musmari said. "The resignations of the defense minister (Jallal Al-Digheily) and his deputy and for all the armed groups to fall under the national army or lay down their weapons."
In a separate written statement, the February 17 Coalition also demanded the sacking of Ali Alasawi the TNC's minister for international affairs and a probe into why he approved a warrant for Younis' arrest.
While there has been growing international recognition of the Benghazi-based administration, the opposition is still struggling financially and their fighters are not as well-armed, trained or organized as Qaddafi's.
On Thursday they secured a boost when NATO, which is enforcing an arms embargo on Libya, cleared the Cartagena, a tanker carrying enough fuel to fill nearly a million cars, to dock in Benghazi. The shipment belongs to the Libyan government's shipping arm but it has been blocked at sea for months, caught between NATO's efforts to prevent Qaddafi's forces being resupplied and reports that the captain was a opposition sympathizer.
A NATO spokesman declined to comment on a report in a petroleum industry newsletter, the Petroleum Economist, that the Cartagena was seized Tuesday night by anti-Qaddafi fighters with the help of special forces from a European state.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] South Korean police said Thursday they had busted a criminal gang which used elite North Korean computer hackers to break into online game sites and steal prize points worth millions of dollars.
The North has been accused of several cyber-attacks on the South in recent years, but this was the first reported case of hacking for profit.
Police said some of the proceeds apparently went to the regime in Pyongyang.
They said 17 South Koreans had stolen 6.4 billion won ($6.02 million) since June 2009 through the scam after hiring 30 North Korean hackers based in northeast China.
After a joint probe with intelligence authorities, police tossed in the slammer five of the South Koreans on charges of creating and distributing illegal computer programmes to clients in China and South Korea.
The police International Crime Investigation Unit (ICIU) said it was investigating but not detaining another 10 members while two gang members were still on the lam.
The North Korean hackers -- graduates of top universities in Pyongyang -- created "auto programes" that could breach Korean online game servers and collect points exchangable for cash rewards, it said.
They were paid more than three billion won along with accommodation and living costs by the South Koreans.
"We've acquired testimony and evidence that some of the payments have been sent to North Korean authorities, including a state trading company," an ICIU investigator told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The company called "Rungrado" is known to have earned money for the communist regime, he said.
"This case proves North Korean hackers have been involved in various online criminal activities," the investigator said, adding other North Korean groups are also believed to have been involved in the games market.
South Korea, the world's most wired nation with more than 90 percent of homes connected to the Internet, has previously expressed concern about cyber attacks by Chinese and North Korean hackers.
Seoul accused Pyongyang of staging cyber attacks on websites of major South Korean government agencies and financial institutions in March this year and in July 2009.
In May South Korea said a North Korean cyber attack paralysed operations at one of its largest banks. North Korea reportedly maintains elite hacker units.
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The US Army will shorten the length of tours of duty for personnel deployed in combat zones from a year to nine months, as it pursues its withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Friday.
"This policy will not affect personnel or units currently deployed or deploying prior to Jan. 1, 2012," the secretary of the army, John McHugh, said in a statement, adding the move would be fully in effect by April 2012.
The US Army is looking to allow soldiers to spend two years in the United States for each year they are deployed, but the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have resulted in consecutive deployments for many personnel. Those back-to-back war tours have prompted concerns about the health of the soldiers, with an increase seen in reported psychological problems and the number of suicides.
"The reduced deployment length will improve soldier and family quality of life while continuing to meet operational requirements and is an important step in sustaining the all-volunteer-force," McHugh said.
[Dawn] Indian troops have rubbed out four suspected cut-throats in Kashmire, two of them when they tried to enter the divided region from the Pak side, police said Thursday.
Good. More, faster, please,
Two of the suspected cut-throats were killed early Thursday in northern Kupwara district when they tried to cross the Line of Control -- the demarcation that splits Kashmire between India and Pakistain, a police front man said.
He said two more suspected cut-throats were killed in two separate gunbattles on Thursday in Kupwara and Kishtiwar districts.
Last week, infiltrating cut-throats rubbed out four Indian soldiers in the same district of Kupwara.
Duty. Honor. Country.
India says it regularly intercepts cut-throats sneaking into Indian-administered Kashmire to fight New Delhi's rule in the scenic Himalayan territory. Pakistain denies Indian allegations it helps the Death Eaters cross into Indian-administered Kashmire.
But Pakistan lies with great regularity -- pretty much whenever their lips move.
India and Pakistain have fought two of their three wars over Mohammedan-majority Kashmire, which each country holds in part but claims in full.
The insurgency against New Delhi's rule has left more than 47,000 people dead since 1989, according to an official count.
And how many of those deaths could be directly attributed to Pakistani interference, pray tell?
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Pakistani jihadis now have an average life expectancy measured in weeks. The COIN units of the Indian army and the Kashmiri police SOG units have an effective COIN grid in place that neutralizes the ISI trained jihadis.
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[Dawn] One person was killed and two others received injuries when faceless myrmidons fired 25 mortar shells from the border of Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... at Darra Adamkhel on Wednesday, officials said.
They said that faceless myrmidons fired barrage of mortar shells at villages in Darra Adamkhel from Tora Chinna and Khartang areas, situated along the border of Orakzai Agency. The mortar shells landed in different places. Lal Faqir was killed while Shah Said and Dr Sajjad were maimed in the attack, officials said. They said that the injured were shifted to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar. The security forces retaliated with artillery firing and targeted the mountains from where the mortar shells were fired.
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[An Nahar] Saboteurs on Thursday threw two Molotov cocktails at 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... headquarters in central Cairo, with no reports of casualties or serious damage, an Arab League source told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"At dawn this morning, there were two Molotov cocktails thrown into the vaporous Arab League building. There were no casualties, and only minor damage was caused to one of the air conditioning units," the source said.
Another source close to the Arab League said the 22-member body had received several threats by telephone from members of the Libyan and Syrian communities.
He said there had been "several phone calls" expressing anger at the league's response to the conflicts in both countries, but refused to provide further details.
The Arab League headquarters are located in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the epicenter of protests that toppled Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... in February.
Protest movements have rocked the Arab world in recent months, with two uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt ousting their long time leaders.
In Libya, thousands have died as rebels, supported by a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... campaign, have fought to overthrow leader Moammar Qadaffy ...whose instability has been an inspiration to dictators everywhere... , while Syrian protesters have faced a deadly crackdown by the regime of 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... and hundreds been killed.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Security sources said here today that a gunman was killed, one officer and a soldier were wounded in clashes between the Iraqi army and gunmen west of the capital, Baghdad.
The source told Aswat al-Iraq that the clashes took place in Ghazali street, west Baghdad, which resulted in killing a gunman and wounding two military personnel.
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RAMALLAH: The Israeli Prison Service (IPS) on Thursday released 770 Palestinian prisoners including a Hamas lawmaker. The Israels Radio said that the 570 criminal and 200 security prisoners were released through several checkpoints between Israel and the West Bank.
Security prisoners is a term Israel uses to refer to prisoners who were convicted of resisting the Israeli occupation.
The Palestinian Minister of Detainees and Ex-detainees said that the 770 prisoners, from West Bank, Gaza Strip and Arab cities inside Israel, were released from the Israeli prisons of Ketziot and Nafha (Rimon) after serving their terms.
No word on Shalit...
The ministry said that the prisoners were not released according to an Israeli law which allows the directors of Israeli prisons to reduce the sentence by one or two months in accordance with the prisoners humanitarian condition. The law was suspended after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to take away Palestinian prisoners privileges in order to pressure Hamas into releasing kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
The rightist Israeli channel 7 television said that the prisoners were released according to a new regulation enacted several days ago by the IPS after much pressure from the Israeli Knesset Interior and Environment Committee. The new regulation states that the maximum number of prisoners in Israeli penal institutions cannot exceed 17,700. It added that each prisoner must be given at least 3 square meters of living area, and dividing that area with the amount of space in all of the countrys prisons yields a figure of 17,700. After Thursdays release, the prisoner population is now in balance, the report said.
The ministry said that Hamas lawmaker Sheikh Hassan Yousef was released after serving a six-year sentence in several Israeli jails. It added that Mahmoud Hamid Al-Sharif was released after serving a 17-year sentence.
Keep an eye on the sky, boys...
Yousef is a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and considered by many to be the most prominent Hamas figure in the West Bank and a representative of the more moderate wing of the movement.
To the extent that anyone in Hamas could be labeled, 'moderate'...
Israeli authorities arrested more than 41 Hamas lawmakers and ministers after the kidnapping of Shalit by Gaza-based military groups in June 2006. Scores of others, including municipal mayors, academicians, and ministers were also rounded up.
Hamas said that the Yousef was one of the key bargaining chips it hoped to use as leverage in the efforts to secure the release of Shalit.
The movement added that Israel is still holding 15 Hamas lawmakers.
Since December 2009, the German mediator and Egypt had failed to finalize the prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel due to the two sides differences.
Hamas wants Israel to free up to 1,000 Palestinians in Israeli prisons in exchange for the release of Shalit, and the Palestinian movement has reportedly presented a list of 450 names in Israeli prisons.
Israel also objects to freeing Israeli Arab prisoners as well as several Hamas military wing leaders. Another issue yet to be settled is Israels demand to deport almost 100 of the 450 heavy prisoners set to be released in the deal.
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Suspected Muslim terrorists militants armed with rifles and riding a motorcycle gunned down three Buddhists in southern Thailand on Friday.
Two attackers armed with M-16 and AK-47 assault rifles opened fire on four men in Pattani province before fleeing. The lone survivor identified the assailants, who are wanted by police for the May 7 bombing of a soccer match in Pattani between villagers and police, in which four officers were killed and seven others wounded.
The shootings come after the slaughter of four Muslims in Pattani and Yala on Thursday, believed to be revenge attacks for the murder of a Buddhist teacher a day earlier. No suspects have yet been identified in those killings.
Perhaps this is why Turkey picked up the smuggled arms -- response to the insult when PM Erdogan's personal friend President al Assad didn't back off as instructed...
Perhaps this is why Turkey picked up the smuggled arms -- response to the insult when PM Erdogan's personal friend President al Assad didn't back off as instructed...
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Perhaps this is why Turkey picked up the smuggled arms -- response to the insult when PM Erdogan's personal friend President al Assad didn't back off as instructed...
Given that Assad is fighting for his life, and the survival of the Syrian Alawite community, I suspect he's not too concerned about prostrating himself before a Turk who's an Ottoman Caliph in his own mind.
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Sure, and it's not like we can know what's going on in Erdogan's mind and what nefarious motives he might have in all this. But it is modestly encouraging all the same to see the Turks call out the Syrians -- that's more than Obama is doing right now.
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But it is modestly encouraging all the same to see the Turks call out the Syrians -- that's more than Obama is doing right now.
Given the Armenian genocides (~2m dead), which dwarfs anything both Assads have done by two orders of magnitude, I'm not sure the Turks have a leg to stand on. And the Turks weren't exactly fighting for their survival as a traditionally persecuted minority group.
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while most of the Turkish actions against the PKK have been justified, the Turks have committed a few atrocities of their own in that conflict (and the PKK has committed a lot of atrocities)
About 40000 have died in that conflict (which is now about 20+ years old) of which about 10-20% are civilians.
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"Turkish Deputy PM: friendship with Syria cannot continue with Hama 'atrocity'"
Why not? It did before.
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BEIRUT Syrian authorities kept the restive city of Hama under a blackout on Thursday, cutting phone lines, Internet and electricity as part of a brutal, five-day-old crackdown on anti-government dissent. Gunmen in plainclothes are randomly shooting people in the streets of the besieged Syrian city of Hama and families are burying their loved ones in gardens at home for fear of being killed themselves if they venture out to cemeteries, a resident said.
People are being slaughtered like sheep while walking in the street, said the resident, who spoke by phone on condition of anonymity. I saw with my own eyes one young boy on a motorcycle who was carrying vegetables being run over by a tank. He said he left Hama briefly through side roads to smuggle in food supplies.
The resident said around 250 people have been killed since Sunday. Hozan Ibrahim, of the Local Coordination Committees which tracks the crackdown on protesters, said up to 30 people may have been killed in Hama on Wednesday only based on reports from fleeing residents. But neither of those numbers could be immediately verified.
Phones and Internet in Hama have been cut or severely hampered for at least two days. Electricity has been out or sporadic since Sunday.
Rami Abdul Rahman, who heads the London-based Observatory for Human Rights, said that some 1,000 families have fled Hama in the past two days, most of them to the village of Mashtal Hilu west of Hama and Al Salamieh to the east. On Thursday, President Bashar Assad issued two legislative decrees that will allow the formation of political parties alongside the Baath Party and enable newly formed parties to run for parliament and local councils. Both draft bills were endorsed by the cabinet last month, and were key demands of the opposition movement. But opposition figures now dismiss the moves as manoeuvring tactics and insist they want regime change.
Abdul Karim Rihawi, Damascus-based chief of the Syrian Human Rights League, said there was no information coming out from Hama on Thursday. A high number of casualties is expected from such a massive military operation, he said.
Ibrahim said there is concern about a deterioration in the humanitarian situation in Hama because medical supplies and bread were in short supply even before the latest crackdown and those shortages were growing more dire.
Rihawi said that elsewhere in Syria, seven people were killed by security forces on Wednesday night. Two protesters were shot dead in the Damascus central neighbourhood of Midan, three in the southern village of Nawa and one in the ancient city of Palmyra. An 11-year-old boy was also killed when security forces opened fire on a protest in Talbiseh, near Homs, he said.
He said more than 60 Syrian children have died since the start of the protests in March. The Local Coordination Committees confirmed the deaths.
Abdul Rahman said military operations were also under way in the central city of Homs, where heavy machine guns and automatic gunfire was heard throughout the night in the Bab Sbaa and Qalaa districts. At least 27 people have been arrested in security raids, he said.
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Against all local doubters, young Pencil-Neck is growing into the job.
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Relative to his father, Assad Jr is being remarkably restrained in his suppression of the insurrection. It's becoming clear that his control of the security apparatus is nowhere near as secure as that of his father.
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The sequesterization of Hama means that Syria may use some Hezbollah and Iran republican guard types as part of its ops and still minimize the chance that this would be reported.
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They want them out in the streets, the better to kill more of them.
[Dawn] At least 30 people were killed in the Syrian city of Hama on Wednesday as security forces stormed the flashpoint protest centre, a witness told AFP in Nicosia on the phone.
A Hama resident who managed to escape the city said Thursday that "the bodies of 30 people who were killed during shelling by the army have been buried in several public parks."
The witness, who declined to be identified for security reasons, said scores of people were being treated in hospitals for injuries and that fires broke out in several buildings.
"Tanks are deployed throughout the city, particularly in Assi Square and citadel and outside the citadel," he said about landmarks in the city centre of Hama.
The source charged that "yesterday (Wednesday) the Syrian army used bombs that break up into fragments when they explode," in a likely reference to cluster bombs.
The city echoed with the intermittent sound of machine gun fire on Thursday morning, after intense shelling the previous day, the witness said, adding "snipers were positioned on the roofs of private hospitals." Conditions are very difficult in the city.
Communications, electricity and water are cut and there are food shortages," he added.
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[An Nahar] Turkish authorities have seized an Iranian arms shipment heading to Syria and was meant for Hizbullah, a German newspaper reported Thursday.
How confusing -- I thought Turkey and Iran are BFFs, and Turkey doesn't much like that Jewish entity. What changed?
The Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung quoted diplomatic sources as saying that Turkish security forces stopped a convoy of trucks carrying a large quantity of weapons and ammunition in the south-central city of Kilis, which is adjacent to the Syrian border.
Ankara refused to either confirm or deny the report.
This was not the first time Turkey has been able to foil an Iranian arms shipment to Syria. In March, Ankara informed the U.N. Security Council that it had seized an Iranian cargo plane headed to Syria and that included a cache of weapons.
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Inflation, you can't avoid it.
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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
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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.
On Friday, Libyan rebels said a NATO air attack had killed Moammar Gadhafi's son Khamis, who is the commander of one of the Libyan leader's most loyal and best-equipped military units.
North Korea
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