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Sennett Babes would require a heated dance floor.
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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Lilian Bond aka Gladys DuCane Perkins in "The Old Dark House (1932)" aka Lily Langtry in "The Westerner (1940)" aka Jill McAllister in "Her Splendid Folly (1933)" aka Sono in "Pirates of Tripoli (1955)" aka Kate in "The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)" aka Adele Belden in "A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen (1942)" aka Millicent 'Millie' Garland in "Hell Bent for Love (1934)" aka Mrs. Timmons in "China Seas (1935)" aka Roberta Trent in "Blond Cheat (1938)" aka Mrs. Muriel Webster in "Sued for Libel (1939)" (Died in 1991 at age 83)
[TOLOnews] - Afghan local officials on Monday said that a group of twenty snuffies including their commander laid down arms and joined the grinding of the peace processor in Ghazni province.
The snuffies under Mullah Khadimul Furqan have renounced violence and handed over their weapons to Afghan authorities, provincial governor, Musa Akbarzada, told TOLOnews news hound.
He said the security situation has been improving since more and more snuffies have started embracing peace, he said.
Mullah Furqan and his men were active in Dayak district of Ghazni province and fought against Afghan and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... forces, he added.
Recently dozens of snuffies have joined the Afghan grinding of the peace processor as Afghan and NATO forces have increased military operations to clear snuffies in the volatile areas.
[TOLOnews] - A Haqqani leader was captured in a joint Afghan and Coalition forces operation in Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... on Tuesday, Isaf said.
He commanded an bully boy cell in the Nadir Shah Kot district of Khost and planned roadside kabooms throughout the area, Isaf said.
Isaf said that during the operation, the security forces observed a group of snuffies burying a 45-kilogram bomb at the side of a road. The security forces assessed the threat and called in a precision Arclight airstrike, killing two bully boys.
[An Nahar] An unidentified gunman has rubbed out three Chadian nationals in the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu, hard hit by violence blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or Big Louie... , police said Tuesday.
The gunman armed with a rifle stole mobile phones from the Chadian masons and shot them dead on Monday in the Pompomari area of the city, a neighborhood torn in recent weeks by Islamist attacks and a military crackdown.
"A gunman walked up to three Chadian builders sitting outside a house and dispossessed them of their mobile phones and opened fire on them, killing all three on the spot in an unprovoked attack," Yobe state police commissioner Lawan Tanko said.
Damaturu, located in Yobe state, is near the Chadian border.
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[Yemen Post] Yemen's Islamist Islah Party and 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... 's General People Congress traded accusations on Tuesday as to who helped al-Qaeda forces of Evil take full control of a town southeast Yemen.
Islah official website al-Sahwaa quoted a dignitary source in the a new l-Qaeda-held town of Rada, some 260km southeast the capital Sana'a, as saying;" seizing control of Rada has been achieved in coordination with National Security Unit,whose commander is Saleh's nephew Amar Mohammed Abdullah Saleh.
On the other hand, GPC held the ministry of interior led by an opposition figure responsible for what happened in Rada.
Militants believed to belong to Yemen-based al-Qaeda branch have taken full control of Rada on Monday, leaving a soldier killed and another injured.
Yemen for long has been a vital partner for the west in the war against terrorism.
Al-Qaeda has taken advantage of the unrest caused by massive popular protests calling for putting an end to the 33-rule of veteran Ali Abdullah Saleh as it intensified its attacks.
The terrorist group has declared Monday Rada as an islamist emirate akin to what happened in May in the lovely provincial capital of the southern province of Abyan, Zinjubar.
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[An Nahar] Yemen's foreign minister has warned that insecurity resulting from months of mass protests and political unrest could delay presidential elections planned for next month.
"If we don't deal with the security challenges ... it might be difficult to hold elections (as scheduled) on February 21," Abu Bakr al-Qurbi said in an interview with al-Arabiya television Tuesday.
His comments came after news that al-Qaeda gunnies had taken control of a Yemeni town just 130 kilometers southeast of the capital, marking a significant military advancement towards Sanaa by the jihad boy group.
Qurbi, who is accompanying Yemeni Prime Minister Mohammed Basindawa on a tour of Gulf States, said the security situation in the restive country was "worrisome" and that the new unity government could not resolve the problems "without the cooperation of Yemen's political parties," including the former ruling General People's Congress.
A brutal crackdown on mass anti-government protests and streets battles between government forces and the opposition since January of last year have left hundreds dead and weakened the central government's ability to enforce control over much of the country's outlying provinces.
On Sunday, a force of some 1,000 gunnies swept into Rada, and in just a few hours took full control of the town, forcing security forces to retreat from their military positions in and around the city.
Al-Qaeda also controls several other towns and cities in the country's restive south, including Abyan province's capital Zinjibar.
In the north, Shiites and Sunnis have been engaged in fierce battles in recent months, raising sectarian tensions and leaving dozens dead.
Vice President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, who became Yemen's de facto ruler after embattled 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... handed over his power under a Gulf-sponsored transition plan, announced the February election date last November in a decree.
Hadi is expected to be the sole candidate in the poll and will take over as consensus president for a two-year interim period, after which parliamentary and another round of presidential elections are to be held, as stipulated by the Gulf-mediated plan.
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Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being used in southern Turkey to assist the Kurdistan Worker's Party, a Turkish newspaper reported Tuesday. You mess wid da bull...
The party, known by its acronym PKK, has a long history of violence in pursuit of Kurdish- self rule and is considered a terrorist organization by the United States and European Union. Whereas Israel is considered a racist, fascist state that shouldn't exist by European Union and USA elites (who only bow to popular pressure)
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This is Erdogan whipping up anti-Israeli sentiment in Turkey. Stateside, this kind of thing would be laughed out of town. In Turkey? Boob bait for Cengiz.
[Dawn] Gunmen on Tuesday rubbed out a Pak journalist working with the Voice of America's Pashto language radio service as he prayed at a mosque in the northwest of the country, police said.
Mukarram Khan Aatif, a 43-year-old correspondent with Deewa radio, was attacked at a mosque near his home in Shabqadar town, Khyber Pakhtunkhaw province, 30 kilometers north of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar.
"The two attackers came on a cycle of violence, fired bullets at Aatif in the mosque and beat feet. He suffered bullet wounds to the head," local police officer Zahir Shah told AFP.
Another police official confirmed the incident.
"Aatif was hit in the head and rushed to a hospital in Peshawar. The prayer leader was also injured," said district police chief Nisar Khan Marwat.
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[Dawn] At least 10 hard boyz were killed in an armed clash with security forces in the Bahlol area of Kohlu district late on Monday evening.
Official sources said that hard boyz attacked personnel of the Frontier Corps in an area close to Chamalang when they were setting up a check-post.
According to an FC front man, 10 attackers were killed in the clash, but the Frontier Corps suffered no loss of life.
Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... the main pipeline supplying gas to Sindh from Sui was blown up late on Monday night in the Gopang area of Pat Feeder in tehsil Sui of Dera Bugti district.
Official sources said that high explosives were planted under the main 18-inch diameter pipeline, which supplied gas to the SSGC distribution system.
Gas supply was suspended to many parts of Sindh and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... .
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ANBAR / Aswat al-Iraq: Five Iraqi policemen have been killed in an armed attack on a police checkpoint in west Iraq's Anbar Province on Tuesday, an Anbar security source reported.
"A group of unknown armed men have launched an attack on a police checkpoint in Rubta township of west Iraq's Anbar Province on Tuesday, killing 5 of its elements," the security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The city of Ramadi, the center of Anbar Province, on Monday witnessed a booby-trapped car explosion close to Anbar's Investment Commission, wounding 4 civilians, and setting 4 civilian cars ablaze.
In another incident, a group of gunmen attacked Ramadi's Police Directorate, killing 7 policemen; 3 other explosions rocked the city on the same day, causing several casualties.
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The Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah has begun its first combat operations in Syria, the opposition said.
Opposition sources said Hizbullah fighters launched Russian- origin BM-21 Grad rockets toward civilian protesters on Jan. 16. The sources said the Hizbullah rocket attack took place near Damascus amid Iranian threats to increase intervention in Syria.
The attack was coordinated with the forces of President Bashar Assad, the Syrian Revolutionary Coordination Union said.
Other opposition sources also reported Hizbullah rocket fire. No injuries, however, were reported, and later other sources said mortars, rather than rockets, were launched during a military operation.
Hizbullah is said to have a presence of about 2,000 fighters in Syria. The opposition said Assad was using Hizbullah personnel for raids of suspected dissidents and sniper missions.
The reports came as Iran warned of expanding its intervention in Syria to quell the revolt against Assad. An unnamed Iranian source said Teheran would use the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to help the Damascus regime.
We have not yet interfered, the source told the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya news channel on Jan. 16.
Israel and the United States reported a significant increase in Iranian aid to the Assad regime. Officials said commanders of IRGCs Quds Force spent several days in Syria in January amid intensified fighting between security forces and rebels.
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Hizzies Hezzies Huzzies, etc. showing suppor for Iran ally Assad while showing "the Bird" to their pro-sovereignty Lebanese opposition back in Beirut.
[An Nahar] At least 32 people were killed in Syria on Tuesday, including four army deserters, as a blast killed eight civilians in the northwestern province of Idlib, activists and a human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... group said.
"Eight non-combatants were killed by a device that went kaboom! as their minibus passed on the road between Idlib and Aleppo," ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... in the north, said the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, without specifying the identity of the assailants.
In the same province, an activist was killed by a sharp shooter, while at a shop in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, the Observatory said.
And in Homs, a flashpoint of the protest movement against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... 's regime, troops traveling in armored vehicles in Al-Qahira Street "opened fire arbitrarily, killing a civilian and wounding nine others," it added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... the Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground, said security forces killed 28 civilians and four army defectors.
Nineteen people were killed in the central opposition bastion Homs, eight in Idlib province, two in 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... suburbs of Qatana and Madaya, one in the southern province of Daraa and two in the flashpoint central province of Hama.
In Aleppo, Syria's second largest city, they raided the university campus after a rally organized the previous night by students, shattering furniture and arresting some of the protesters.
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[An Nahar] Prominent opposition figure and rights activist Najati Tayyara, jugged last May for having criticized Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's The Scourge of Hama... regime, was released on Tuesday, a rights group said.
"The Syrian authorities have just released him and his lawyer has just spoken to him on the telephone," said the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Assad last week decreed a general amnesty for crimes committed during unrest in Syria over the past 10 months, in the third such move since the unrest broke out, the state SANA news agency said.
The Observatory said in September that Tayyara, 66, had been "severely beaten" in prison in the central city of Homs. He was jugged for criticizing the regime's harsh treatment of demonstrators in media interviews, it said.
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BEIRUT -- Syria "absolutely rejects" any plans to send Arab troops into the country, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday, even as the death toll mounts from the 10-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad.
Assad has insisted there be no foreign intervention in Syria. He agreed under heavy regional pressure to admit some Arab League observers, but their effectiveness has been limited.
The government rejection of armed intervention followed a remark from the leader of Qatar, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who was quoted Sunday as saying Arab troops should be sent to Syria to stop the deadly violence -- the first statements by an Arab leader calling for the deployment of troops inside Syria.
Qatar, which once had close relations with Damascus, has been a harsh critic of the crackdown. Since the wave of Arab uprisings began more than a year ago, Qatar has taken an aggressive role, raising its influence in the region.
And, it hopes, convincing the Qataris to leave their own sheik alone...
"The Syrian people reject any foreign intervention in its affairs, under any title, and would confront any attempt to infringe upon Syria's sovereignty and the integrity of its territories," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
On Tuesday, the Dutch foreign minister called on Assad's opponents to form a "united, representative and inclusive" opposition to the regime, an indication that the fragmentation of the opposition movements is itself an issue. Uri Rosenthal also said he would keep pressing for further European Union sanctions and a U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria. He spoke after meeting Burhan Ghalioun, leader of the Syrian National Council, an umbrella group for the opposition.
Ghalioun's visit came a day after Russia circulated a revised Security Council resolution on the violence in Syria. Western diplomats said the draft fell short of their demand for strong condemnation of Assad's crackdown.
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BEIRUT: A Syrian rebel army chief urged the world on Tuesday to protect civilians in Syria, saying Arab peace monitors had failed to curb President Bashar Assads violent response to a 10-month-old revolt against his rule.
Riad Al-Asaad, Turkish-based commander of the rebel Free Syrian Army, called for international intervention to replace the Arab observer mission, which has just days to run. The Arab League and their monitors failed in their mission and though we respect and appreciate our Arab brothers for their efforts, we think they are incapable of improving conditions in Syria or resisting this regime, he told Reuters by telephone.
For that reason we call on them to turn the issue over to the UN Security Council and we ask that the international community intervene because they are more capable of protecting Syrians at this stage than our Arab brothers, Asaad said.
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"Sorry - we have a 'Free Gaza' benefit dinner to attend."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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handed over their weapons
[TOLOnews] - A Haqqani leader was captured in a joint Afghan and Coalition forces operation in 
... 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...
[An Nahar] Yemen's foreign minister has warned that insecurity resulting from months of mass protests and political unrest could delay presidential elections planned for next month.
... 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...
cycle of violence
Kohlu district late on Monday evening.
ANBAR / Aswat al-Iraq: Five Iraqi policemen have been killed in an armed attack on a police checkpoint in west Iraq's Anbar Province on Tuesday, an Anbar security source reported.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Prominent opposition figure and rights activist Najati Tayyara, 
BEIRUT -- Syria "absolutely rejects" any plans to send Arab troops into the country, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday, even as the death toll mounts from the 10-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad.
