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Kelly Rutherford aka Lily van der Woodsen in "Gossip Girl (TV Series 2007– )" aka Christine Hamilton in "Scream 3" aka Megan Lewis Mancini in "Melrose Place (TV Series 1992–1999)" aka Kate Porter in "Angels Don't Sleep Here" aka Sandra Bird in "Swimming Upstream" aka Marian Pronkridge in "The Disturbance at Dinner" aka Randy in "Cyclops, Baby" aka Kim in "I Love Trouble" (age 43)
A suicide bomber has killed at least six people at a mosque in Afghanistan's Baghlan province. The bomb went off as worshippers were exiting the mosque in Old Baghlan City after prayers marking the start of Eid al-Adha. At least 12 people were wounded in the blast and a police officer was among those killed.
Baghlan police chief Asadullah Shirzad said the explosion had hit at 9:30 a.m. local time as people were leaving prayers. He said the attacker had arrived on foot.
Siddiq Siddiqui, a spokesman for the interior ministry, said initial investigations indicated the attack was the work of the Taliban. A second attacker was arrested before he could detonate his bomb, he said.
The northern province of Baghlan had been a peaceful province of Afghanistan, but levels of violence have increased since 2010.
[An Nahar] Five Al- Qaeda suspects were killed in artillery shelling by Yemen's army in the country's restive southern city of Zinjibar, officials said on Saturday.
"The army's 25th Mechanized Brigade fired artillery shells late Friday at an area in Zinjibar's east killing five Al- Qaeda beturbanned goons," an army official told AFP.
A local official in the nearby town of Jaar, an Al- Qaeda stronghold, confirmed the bodies of "five Al- Qaeda beturbanned goons" were brought to the town from Zinjibar.
Tribesmen and the Yemen's army have been battling forces of Evil from the "Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law)" who are believed to be close to Al- Qaeda in the country's southern and eastern regions.
Yemen has been gripped by violence as the government in Sanaa has become weakened by anti-regime protests that have rocked the country since January.
The international community has expressed fears the power vacuum in the impoverished country could play into the hands of Al- Qaeda.
Hundreds have died in battles between security forces and protesters, and security forces and Al- Qaeda gunnies, amid growing fears the Islamic fascistiwill exploit the fragile political situation to seize Yemen's restive regions.
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[An Nahar] President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... made a fresh appeal Saturday for dialogue "for a peaceful transition according to the constitution", while accusing the opposition of blocking attempts to end the crisis that has shaken Yemen for the past 10 months
In a message marking the Moslem feast of Eid al-Adha, Saleh invited the opposition to "sit at the negotiating table to resolve disputed questions related to the implementation" of a transition plan drafted by Gulf monarchies.
The opposition has been calling since January for the ouster of Saleh, who they accuse of nepotism and corruption, but the strongman has refused to step down despite pressure from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the U.N. Security Council.
Saleh has repeatedly said he is committed to the GCC plan, under which he must quit power 30 days after signing the deal in exchange for immunity from prosecution, but he has so far failed to live up to his pledges.
Peaceful protests have degenerated into battles between rival army troops, security forces and protesters, and between security forces and rustics, leaving hundreds of people dead across the impoverished country.
Yemen officials have told Agence La Belle France Presse that Saleh is trying to negotiate a modification of the initiative to ensure he remains president until early elections are called.
In his address on Saturday, Saleh, who has been in power for 33 years, accused the opposition of blocking a resolution of the crisis "which has been provoked by some parties who want to take power through illegitimate means."
"The change cannot come through chaos, violence and the culture of hatred or seditious plots," Saleh said, appealing to the Gulf monarchies to "support the security and stability of Yemen."
On October 21, the Security Council passed a resolution calling on Saleh to immediately sign the deal and quit.
The resolution, unanimously agreed by the 15 members, "strongly condemns" deadly government attacks on demonstrators and backs the GCC peace plan.
Saleh's refusal to hand over power since his return from medical treatment in Soddy Arabia for wounds received in a June kaboom and fears about the growing influence of al-Qaeda have heightened international concern about Yemen.
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[An Nahar] A group of 21 North Koreans including women and kiddies have been found adrift off the South's western coast, military authorities said Saturday.
A five-ton wooden boat with the group on board was spotted by sailors on a South Korean Navy vessel in the Yellow Sea on Sunday, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a press statement. Earlier reports said they were found Tuesday.
The boat was drifting 26 miles west of Daechong Island in the Yellow Sea, 21 miles south of the Northern Limit Line, a disputed sea border between the two Koreas.
The navy asked a nearby coastguard patrol boat to check on the craft, which had no lights on and was among Chinese fishing vessels.
After being rescued, the North Koreans immediately expressed a desire to defect to the South, a coastguard front man said.
They were taken to the western port of Incheon on board the patrol boat, with their own vessel being towed in, the front man added.
"They have been under interrogation by relevant authorities," the military statement said.
It was not immediately clear why the navy and coastguard withheld the news from the public for six days.
Hundreds of North Koreans flee hunger and repression in their isolated communist homeland each year.
They normally escape on foot to China, hide out and then travel to a third country to seek resettlement in South Korea.
China normally returns runaways from the North even though they could face harsh punishment in their homeland for escaping. The policy is denounced by rights groups, who say they should get refugee status and 5,000 are repatriated each year.
Seoul's policy is to accept all North Koreans who wish to stay in the South, while repatriating those who stray across the sea border by accident.
In February, a boatload of 31 North Koreans arrived in South Korea, sparking weeks of acrimony. That boat drifted across the Yellow Sea border in thick fog, possibly unintentionally.
Seoul returned 27 of the 31 people on board but refused to hand over the other four, saying they had freely chosen to stay in the South.
Saturday's announcement represented the fourth occasion this year that North Korean defectors have reached South Korea by crossing the Yellow Sea frontier.
Nine North Korean refugees, including three children, were picked up by Japan's coastguard in September after leaving the North's east coast. They arrived in South Korea last month.
Two North Koreans were also admitted to the South last month after they were found adrift in a small boat off its east coast.
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Got sick of the tree-bark soup
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Maybe one of the nuclear powers could mount an "Italian Job", to snatch one of their weapons. This would scare the poop out of them, but the weapon could be quietly de-milled and disappeared.
The important thing is to slap them hard with unknowns, then carefully monitor what happens.
Eventually, let evidence surface that one of the more powerful of the Pak terrorist organizations has the bomb, and imply that unless they are exterminated ASAP, they might set it off.
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Remember, we're all in this together as Americans. Those of us on the front lines, those of us working our ass off (even on weekends), and those of us getting drunk and injecting ourselves with crystal meth before going off to vote. One NATION! Fuck yeah! (fist pump!)
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Winky: unfortunately the terrorists will only have a small number of nukes and probably can't be counted on to use it on the nonproductive areas. They'll probably want to hit a concentration of refineries or some shit like that.
I don't think we can go on like this, but as Brer Rabbit always says, we gots to make it, Uncle Remus. And I'm off to work.
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Ya know, if we were REALLY evil bastards and believed a nuclear Al-queada was imminent...
Well, there must be ways to cause Pakistans nukes to go off by accident right? They won't have safety measures and it's not like anybody would be around to contradict that Al-queada didn't actually attack the convoy and they set it off for whatever reason.
Cold-blooded I know, but the alternative seems so much worse for everyone.
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Pakistan has begun moving its nuclear weapons in low-security vans on congested roads to hide them from US spy agencies, making the weapons more vulnerable to theft by Islamist militants
We have still not seen a world where Islam and nuclear weapons have truly intersected (obtaining, saber-rattling, and testing don't count).
Civilized (and not so civilized) countries might have been willing to show a little more forbearance when they could afford it. By now, I think most are feeling as if they've paid enough jizya and taken enough abuse.
I don't think grom is wrong. But in the end, I don't think Islam would win. Not advocating, just prognosticating.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] A Pak anti-terror court Saturday indicted two coppers and five alleged Talibs over the 2007 liquidation of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, a prosecutor said.
Nobody has been convicted or tossed in the slammer for Bhutto's liquidation on December 27, 2007, in Rawalpindi, a garrison city near the capital Islamabad, in a gun and suicide kaboom after she addressed an election rally.
The death of the charismatic, Oxford-educated Bhutto, the first woman to become prime minister of a Moslem nation, threw the country into chaos, sparking violence and months of political turmoil.
Police say that three other suspects in the high-profile case have been killed -- including the chief of the Pak Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud -- and two remain on the lam.
"Seven accused including two coppers have been indicted," public prosecutor Chaudhry Azhar told AFP. The police were incarcerated a year ago while the suspected cut-throats have been in jug for nearly four years.
The coppers were Saud Aziz, who was the Rawalpindi police chief at the time of the killing, and Khurram Shahzad, another senior policeman.
The five suspected cut-throats are Sher Zaman, Hasnain Gul, Rafaqat Hussain, Abdul Rasheed and Aitzaz Shah from the troubled northwest of the country, Azhar said.
All seven accused were indicted at the court in a high-security prison in Rawalpindi.
The five alleged cut-throats are accused of "criminal conspiracy" for bringing the jacket wallah from the tribal belt in the northwest and keeping him at a house in Rawalpindi.
"(All) the accused denied the charges and demanded for trial," Azhar said, adding that the coppers were accused of a security breach and for their "failure" to protect Bhutto.
"One of the accused, Sher Zaman refused to sign the charge sheet," the prosecutor said.
At the time of Bhutto's death, then president Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... blamed Mehsud for the killing.
Musharraf, who lives in self-imposed exile in London and Dubai, is also wanted over Bhutto's death. Prosecutors issued an arrest warrant in February over what they said was his failure to provide her with enough security.
The former president and military ruler is alleged to have been part of a "broad conspiracy" to have his political rival killed before elections. He denies the allegation.
The anti-terror court in August ordered the confiscation of Musharraf's property and the freezing of his bank accounts in Pakistain, the prosecutor said.
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[Dawn] Talibs launched an attack on a military convoy in Pakistain's northwestern tribal belt on Saturday, killing five soldiers and wounding three others, security officials said.
The convoy came under attack near Razmak town, more than 50 kilometres (31 miles) south of Miranshah, the main town in the North Wazoo tribal district along the Afghan border, officials said.
"The convoy was moving from one area to another when Talibs attacked it, killing five soldiers and wounding three others," a security official in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar told AFP.
Another security official in Miranshah confirmed the incident, saying forces of Evil were armed with rockets and automatic weapons.
"They also hurled grenades in the attack," the official said.
Troops retaliated immediately with small and heavy weapons but there was no report of Taliban casualties, he added.
North Waziristan is the main target of US drone strikes and the most notorious bastion of Afghan Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked fighters in Pakistain's semi-autonomous tribal belt.
Washington has called the northwest region the global headquarters of Al-Qaeda and US officials are increasing pressure on Islamabad to launch an all-out military offensive in North Waziristan.
Despite Pakistain coming under huge pressure after the late Osama bin Laden ... who used to be but now ain't... was killed by US troops in a garrison city on May 2, Islamabad insists any operation in North Waziristan would be of Pakistain's choosing.
More than 4,700 people have been killed across Pakistain in attacks blamed on Taliban and other orc networks based in the tribal belt since government troops stormed a radical mosque in Islamabad in 2007.
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Three bomb explosions tore through a busy market in Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least eight people and injuring 26 others. The blasts occurred in Shurja, an important commercial area in central Baghdad, on the first day of Eid al-Adha.
A witness close to Shurja market said, "I can see fire and black smoke mounting and a large number of fire engines, ambulances and police patrols rushing to the market."
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: An official working in the well-fortified Green Zone was assassinated today by weapons equipped with silencers by unknown gunmen east of Baghdad, security sources said here today.
No other details were given, except the area was surrounded for further investigations.
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Wonder what the Iraqis are going to do with the Green Zone after we leave...
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: A civilian was killed and six wounded today in two sticky bomb explosions in Sadr City and Ur Quarter, according to security sources.
The source told Aswat al-Iraq that the first bomb was in a main square in Sadr City, while the second exploded near a restaurant.
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An Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip has killed an Islamic Jihad militant and wounded three others as they were preparing to fire rockets into southern Israel. Allahu Akh.... *smack*
Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Adham Abu Salmia says they were hit by shrapnel in Saturday night's attack.
Islamic Jihad says the men were members of the group, which also fired rockets into Israel a week earlier, killing one civilian and injuring others. That rocket attack also triggered Israeli strikes that killed several militants. "consequences". FYI - there's no Paleo word for that
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(Ma'an) -- Israeli forces fired on a group of people east of Gazoo City on Saturday morning, moderately injuring one man.
Witnesses said they were surprised by the gunfire, which came as farmers were tending their land near Gazoo City's juice factory, towards the Karni crossing into Israel. Muhammad Ibrahim Hamad, 23, was injured in the leg, a Ma'an news hound said.
The group were terrified and ran from the area, witnesses said.
An Israeli army front man said forces "recognized a group suspects coming near the security fence," before firing in the air to move the group away. When one person "refused (to move back) they fired at his lower body mass," he said, adding that the area near Gazoo's border is frequently used to launch attacks against Israelis.
Rights groups say workers tending land and collecting stones and other construction materials along Israel's buffer zone in north and eastern Gazoo have been targeted by Israeli soldiers.
In 2010, Defense for Children International documented 14 cases between March and October of Paleostinian youths under the age of 18 who were shot by Israeli forces while collecting gravel in the border zone. While a few of these teens were shot as close as 50 meters from the border, others were 500, 600, even 800 meters from the border when the shooting occurred, the group said.
HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces jugged two men in the Hebron area at dawn on Saturday, activists said.
Troops raided the house of Yusef Abu Maria, 37, in Beit Ummar and jugged him after an extensive search, a front man for the popular committee against the wall in the town said.
Locals told Ma'an that forces also seized Wisam Ramadan, 16, from the Old City of Hebron in an overnight raid.
An Israeli army front man said he was not familiar with the detentions.
[An Nahar] A member of the krazed killer group Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Mohammedan Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... was killed and three other Paleostinians were maimed in Israeli air strikes on the Gazoo Strip on Saturday, Paleostinian medics and witnesses said.
Security sources said three raids targeted Khan Yunis in southern Gazoo, with the initial two not causing casualties.
Witnesses said Abed Muhana, 20, a member of al-Quds Brigades, armed wing of Islamic Jihad, was killed in the raid. Medics said three other people were maimed but there was no immediate word on their condition.
An Israeli military front man said the aircraft targeted "gun-hung tough guys preparing to fire rockets at Israel."
On Thursday, two Paleostinians were killed in an air strike in the northern Gazoo Strip. Israel said its air force targeted a "terrorist squad" that had opened fire on troops in a border area.
That strike came after several days of calm in and around Gazoo following a spike in violence last weekend when 12 Paleostinian Islamic fascistiand an Israeli civilian were killed.
Militant groups say they are observing an Egyptian-brokered truce agreement but have reserved the right to reply to any Israeli fire, while Israel warns of action against any Islamic fascistipoised to fire rockets across the border.
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[An Nahar] 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... chief Nabil al-Arabi warned on Saturday that the failure of a deal brokered by his organization to end violence in Syria would be "catastrophic" for the country and region.
"The failure of the Arab solution will have catastrophic consequences for the situation in Syria and the region," he said in a statement, while calling for an immediate end to the bloodshed.
The statement was issued after Arabi met Burhan Ghalioun, the Gay Paree-based leader of the dissident Syrian National Council.
It also came after news that seven more people died in festivities on Saturday.
Arabi expressed his "deep regret and extreme concern at the continuation of violence in different regions of Syria, warning of the dangers of not achieving progress in implementing the Arab plan."
He added that the vaporous Arab League wanted to avoid such an outcome.
Arabi "called on the Syrian government to take immediate measures to implement the Arab plan, to which it committed itself," the statement said.
The plan, agreed on Wednesday, calls for an end to violence, the release of those jugged, the withdrawal of the army from urban areas and free movement for observers and the media, as well as talks between the regime and opposition.
On Friday, Syrian troops killed at least 23 people when demonstrators erupted into the streets denouncing "despots and tyrants," with world powers casting doubt on the regime's commitment to the peace deal.
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Well, seeing how it's brokered by the Arab League, I'd say Syria's in for some catastrophes...
[An Nahar] Clashes in the restive Syrian city of Homs killed ten civilians, while four pro-regime bully boyz died in Idlib province on Saturday, a human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... group said.
At least six non-combatants were killed by gunfire in the central city of Homs, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in statements received in Nicosia.
And in the northwestern province of Idlib, near the Turkish border, "four (Shabiha) bully boyz loyal to the regime were killed by suspected deserters in the town of Saraqeb," added the Britannia-based Observatory.
On Friday, Syrian troops killed at least 23 people when demonstrators erupted into the streets denouncing "despots and tyrants," with world powers casting doubt on the regime's commitment to the peace deal agreed with 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 corpse count since Syria agreed to the plan on Wednesday has topped 50, with the United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... estimating that more than 3,000 people have been killed in a brutal crackdown since anti-regime protests erupted in mid-March.
The Arab League plan calls for an end to violence, the release of those jugged, the withdrawal of the army from urban areas and free movement for observers and the media, as well as talks between the regime and opposition.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... the head of the opposition Syrian National Council, Burhan Ghalioun, on Saturday ruled out any dialogue with the regime, in a statement broadcast by al-Jazeera television.
"We will not negotiate over the blood of the victims and the deaders. The regime is only trying to win time," with its declared acceptance of the Arab plan, he charged, calling on security forces to desert.
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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A suicide bomber has killed at least six people at a mosque in Afghanistan's Baghlan province. The bomb went off as worshippers were exiting the mosque in Old Baghlan City after prayers marking the start of Eid al-Adha. At least 12 people were wounded in the blast and a police officer was among those killed.
[An Nahar] Five Al- Qaeda suspects were killed in artillery shelling by Yemen's army in the country's restive southern city of Zinjibar, officials said on Saturday.
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
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