We went down again last night just before changeover. That was about ten minutes after I went to bed. The time turned out to be crucial. I was able (finally) to isolate the problem, which is a Linux kernel bug.
That's the good part. The bad part is that it looks like there are any number of things that might set it off. I'm guessing it's kernel-hardware specific, since other installs of the same release I've got show different bugs.
I've dumped two programs left over from when I was originally setting up the box. I want to back up the whole machine and do an upgrade, but I'll have to work up my nerve to do it. I may wait until it goes down again.
The previous box was ultra-stable. I used to reboot it every 120 days or so normally.
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Came back under budget, so I hit the tip jar to help with resources.
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Got paid today, Fred. Will send a check when I sit down to pay bills this weekend.
That said, A REMINDER TO ALL WHO BUY FROM AMAZON: When you want to buy something from Amazon, come to Rantburg first and click through to Amazon from this site (it's in the right sidebar, a couple-three jumps down from the top). That way, Fred gets a tiny portion of what you spend. If you buy a lot thru Amazon the way I do, I suspect it will help a bit.
Fred, you are a GOD. :-D
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[Tolo News] On Wednesday, one Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier was killed and two civilians were maimed in a magnetic mine blast in Kabul city, local officials said.
The incident took place in Kart-e-Naw area in eastern part of Kabul city, when a magnetic mine that was placed in the back of the ANA vehicle went kaboom! that killed one soldier and injured a women and a child, said Gen. Mohammad Zahir Zahir, the Kabul police chief.
The Taliban have grabbed credit for the attack.
On Tuesday, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said that the Taliban are defeated because they lack war capabilities to confront the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).
The statement was made as the Death Eaters declared the launch of their spring offensive, known as Khaibar, by carrying out attacks in Kunar, Ghazni, Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. and Zabul provinces.
The Taliban had announced taking on new war tactics to target government institutions, the ANSF and foreign forces. Analysts have called on the security institutions to embark on inclusive security measures to prolong the suppression of the enemies.
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[Tolo News] A school girl was killed and six others were maimed as result of a rocket firing in Rodat district of eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
The Ministry of Education Department in Nangarhar said the rocket landed in front of Camp Kabuli School when the students were heading home on Tuesday afternoon.
According to the provincial officials, a total of three rockets were fired on the district on Tuesday.
The officials of the Department of Education in Nangarhar condemned the insurgency attack and further said students should not be targeted anymore.
"The education department of Nangarhar condemns the incident and asks these war involved groups to be more considerate of the lives of the civilians, particularly students," Spokesman of the Education Department of Nangarhar, Mohammad Asef Shinwari, said.
Just a day after the Nangarhar rocket attack, one civilian was killed and two others maimed in a magnetic kaboom in Kabul city on Wednesday.
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BAIDOA, Somalia -- Somali security forces operating in Bay regional capital of Baidoa of southwestern Somalia have arrested terror suspects in a massive security operation on Wednesday, Garowe Online reports. According to officials, intelligence briefings led to the arrest of three terrorists alleged organizers and the closure of garage.
"Definitely, the recent deadly suicide bombing was orchestrated at a garage in the town, we arrested three terrorists persons who have been linked to terror act and closed the garage," said Abdi Adan Hoosow, the Governor of Bay region. "Among the terror suspects are the owner of garage and two technicians".
Continuing, he added that one of the relatives of the splodydope suicide bomber was also seized during the security sweep.
On Monday, a splodydope suicide bomber hit vehicles carrying politician and former governor of Bay region Abdifatah Geesey, killing a dozen including civilians and uniformed soldiers.
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A fleet of Ethiopian peacekeepers under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) withdrew their presence from Baladxawo in Gedo region after intense clashes broke out yesterday. Almost as many as an entire contingent was reported to have fled the town early this morning.
Oh cheez. Send in the mighty Uruguayans!
Witnesses described to Shabelle that several technicals battlewagons of arrived in the town and the Ethiopian troops boarded the vehicles before fleeing. Motives for the sudden withdrawal are unknown, and many residents are questioning whether another battle will break out soon in Baladxawo.
Yesterday, Interim Jubba Administration militia that have been reported to take direct orders from Ahmed Madobe entered the town by force and engaged in a lengthy combat with Ahlusunna Waljamaaca forces and soldiers of the Somali National Army.
So may not be Shaboob related at all but just the ongoing civil festivities...
Senior Ethiopian commanders were unavailable for comment nor have they released a statement explaining the pulling out of their peacekeepers from Baladxawo.
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[Iran Press TV] A court in Egypt has sentenced 79 supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... to jail terms of between five and 10 years.
Citing Egyptian judicial sources, reports said on Wednesday that "11 defendants were given 10 years in jail, 13 were placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! for seven years, 55 were placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! for five years and seven acquitted."
The defendants were accused of involvement in last July's deadly festivities in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria after the army toppled Morsi, the country's first democratically-elected president.
Egypt has been the scene of anti-government protests with continuous festivities between security forces and students since the ouster of Morsi.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Algerian troops on Tuesday (May 13th) killed two hard boyz in corpse-littered Boumerdes, bringing to 14 the number of hard boyz killed this month, the defence ministry said. Soldiers recovered weapons and ammunition.
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[Ynet] Villagers in an area of Nigeria where Boko Haram operates have killed and detained scores of the extremist Islamic militants who were suspected of planning a fresh attack, the residents and a security official said.
Locals in Nigeria's northern states have been forming vigilante groups in various areas to resist the militant group which hold more than 270 schoolgirls captive.
That's no resistance, that's what in the olden days was called a posse. Happy hunting, guys!
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I think the proper term would be "miitia". May they live long and prosper.
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What OS said, doubled.
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Why are they detaining these animals?
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detaining some may mean better intel in the near term but problems in the far term
the detention might be temporary
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[YEMENONLINE.INFO] The Yemeni Army repelled a dawn attack by Al Qaeda gunnies seeking to recapture a restive southern town in intense festivities that killed seven soldiers and 16 gunnies on Wednesday, security officials said.
A nice ratio... Did they get that by counting ears and dividing by two?
The fighting raged for nearly three hours on the fringes of the town of Azan in Shabwa province, the officials said.
Government warplanes came to the aid of the troops as they defended the town, bombing positions of the attacking bully boys, added the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
The Azan clash comes amid an ongoing offensive by the army in Yemen's southern cities and towns, which has led to the killing and capture of dozens of Qaeda bad boyz.
Al Qaeda gunnies have been retreating from areas they held in the face of the offensive, which has focused mostly on Shabwa and the province of Marib, east of the capital, Sanaa.
The Defense Ministry said dozens of suspected gunnies have been killed or captured over the past three weeks, and that Yemeni troops and allied tribal fighters seized a string of Al Qaeda-held areas along a 60-mile stretch of highway snaking through the rugged desert mountains of the south, starting from the Mahfad region.
The US Embassy in Sanaa shut down its premises last week as a precaution against possible retaliatory attacks by bully boys. A later Reuters article puts the corpse count at 30.
The difference possibly due to the fog of war or the number of whole ears found.
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[YEMENONLINE.INFO] The fighting in the Gol al-Rayda and Azan districts of Shabwa province started early Wednesday morning and continued for hours, leaving 10 soldiers and 13 attackers dead. Military losses included General Mohsen Saeed al-Ghazali, an aide to Defense Minister Mohammed Nasser Ahmad, who just days ago survived an ambush while returning from an area in the south which the army has attempted to clear of al Qaeda elements.
Earlier this month, Yemen's army captured key districts in Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... province. After that, many of the fighters, from al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and its affiliate Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libya, Tunisia and Yemen, with the Libyan and Tunisian versions currently most active... , fled to the mountains and turned to hit-and-run tactics against security forces and government facilities across the country.
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Per Fred's post, (see Non-WoT, below), this one was a portable toilet door. Does not, however, account for the other two, unless there was a concert in the general vicinity? ;)
[The Peninsula] Pak troops yesterday foiled an attack on a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... supply terminal in the northwest, killing one attacker and forcing others to flee, officials said.
The attack was mounted in the Jamrud area of the Khyber tribal district that borders Afghanistan, said government official Ali Sher.
"The Death Eaters started firing on the terminal and tried to enter it," Sher said, adding that the attack involved up to 12 people armed with automatic weapons and mortars.
"The Frontier Corps retaliated and forced the Death Eaters to flee, leaving one dead body behind."
An intelligence official in Jamrud confirmed the attack.
Pakistain is a key supply route for the US-led mission in landlocked Afghanistan, particularly as NATO forces prepare to withdraw troops and equipment by the end of this year.
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[DAWN] The outlawed Death Eater group Lahskar-e-Islam (LI) has warned rustics in northwestern Bara district to admit at least one of their sons to "a madrassa of LI school of thought" otherwise the family elder would have to pay Rs0.4 million in compensation.
Such decisions a papa has to make: send the brilliant son, who is most likely to survive the ordeal until they send him off with a bomb attached to his belly, or send the one with the hare lip, club foot, and signs of blossoming schizophrenia with the warning that the imam likes to murder his best boys?
Local rustics and eye witnesses said that the Death Eater outfit had displayed wall posters in streets and bazaars in Nala Malikdin Khel area asking the locals to get at least one of their sons to the madrassa (Islamic seminary).
The posters also warned parents that children should be admitted only to the madrasas of Ishat-o-Tauheed and the admission in other madrassas of Deobandi, Barelvi or other school of thoughts would not be acceptable to them.
The posters, according to sources, had been issued on the directive of LI chief Mangal Bagh ...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency... and have also warned that those who failed to admit their kids before Eid-ul-Fitr would have to pay Rs0.4 million to the Death Eater outfit.
Ayaz, a local rustics from Malikdin Khel confirmed that the pamphlets have been displayed all over in the area.
Another primitive Riaz Afridi said that the LI was again trying to gain ground and these posters show that they were using pressure tactics to get hold of the area.
The political administration officials of Bara said that they had also heard about such pamphlet in the area but had not found one yet, but the administration said it was investigating into the incident.
Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) MPA Nighat Orakzai also took up the issue in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Assembly earlier on Tuesday.
She said that it showed the government's failure to protect the people's lives and they were left at the mercy of the bully boyz who are calling the shots.
"The government must stop the drama of talks and take concrete steps to stop the Death Eaters' onslaught," she added.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: A senior medico-legal officer of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre was killed with his driver in a targeted attack on Tuesday on Chaudhry Khaliq-uz-Zaman Road, near the place where a powerful rickshaw-planted bomb had went kaboom! recently, according to officials.
Dr Manzoor Memon, 45, left the JPMC in a chauffeur-driven car after performing his duty when two gunnies riding two cycle of violences and wearing helmets attacked them near Askari-I apartments at around 4pm, said Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... -South SSP Faisal Bashir Memon.
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[DAWN] An important leader of the Awami National Party (ANP) was bumped off in the city's Kohati area on Tuesday.
The murder of Anwarul Haq, the party's organising secretary for Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. district, sparked protests in the city.
The ANP condemned the murder and termed it continuation of liquidation of leaders and workers of the party.
A large number of ANP workers placed the body of Mr Haq on the Grand Trunk Road and demonstrated against the murder.
Former provincial ministers Syed Aqil Shah, Sardar Hussain Babak and other ANP leaders took part in the demonstration.
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[DAWN] Noor Muhammad alias Baba Ladla, a wanted gangster of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... area, was killed by Iranian border guards on Tuesday.
According to reports reaching here, he was killed along with his two Iranian friends at a border crossing point near Iranian city of Chahbahar when he was crossing the border.
Sources said that Iranian border guards intercepted Baba Ladla and asked him to surrender. When he refused to do so, the guards opened fire, killing him on the spot.
Pak border authorities have received information about the killing of Baba Ladla, according to an official.
Another unconfirmed report said that Baba Ladla had been killed by his rival Amjad Koi in Konark area of Iran.
Our staff news hound from Karachi adds: The police authorities in Karachi were not sure about the killing of Baba Ladla but claimed to have made preparations to deal with any backlash in his Lyari stronghold.
"It's not confirmed yet. We are in touch with the police authorities and other departments in 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... to confirm the report about his killing," said SP City Shiraz Nazeer. "Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, there was only one thought in the mouse's mind: I can do this! I can do this! Then the trap sprung... we have strengthened security in the sensitive area of Lyari.
"Our message is loud and clear: zero tolerance for any violence.
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[DAWN] At least ten suspected forces of Evil were reportedly killed and 14 others were maimed on Wednesday during a US drone strike at the Pak-Afghan border, official sources claimed.
According to sources, some vehicles of the forces of Evil have also been destroyed in the attack.
Sources further said, US drones fired three missiles on a bad boy's compound and on some vehicles of the bad boy group.
Media persons and journalists, having been barred, have no access to the area and the death-toll could not be independently verified.
Government sources could not ascertain the exact location of the attack.
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Bruce Catton in his epic centennial history of the Army of the Potomac notes that the Army of the Potomac had faith in only one General and that General was Lee.
I contend that Bobby Lee from the 7 Days until the very end of the Overland Campaign was absolutely living inside the Union OODA Loop.
Two suspected members of an arson unit of the New Peopleâs Army (NPA) were killed in a clash with soldiers in the province of Misamis Oriental.
Military spokesman Lieutenant General Ricardo Rainier Cruz III said the clash took place late Monday moring in Gingoog City. He said the identities of the slain NPA militants are not known except that they were reported to be members of the NPAâs arson unit.
Cruz said the clash happened as troops were checking the reported presence of the NPA militants in the village of Balason. He said local residents reported that the NPA militants were extorting villagers and trying to get new recruits.
Seems counterintuitive to attempt both at the same time.
Two bomb explosions damaged railway bridges in Narathiwat province early Wednesday, temporarily halting rail services.
After the explosion at a bridge in Cho-airong district, local policemen rushed to the scene. An investigation found that the homemade bomb, built into a gas cylinder, weighed about 20 kilograms. The powerful blast damaged the railway bridge pier. Meanwhile, a bomb explosion in Ra-ngae district destroyed the railway bridge pier and some parts of the bridge. Fragments of a 50 kilogram bomb built into a gas cylinder were found scattered across the site.
Train services, both inbound and outbound to Su-ngai Kolok district, have been suspended for at least few days to make repairs.
[An Nahar] Islamist rebels detonated explosives planted in a tunnel under an army base in northwestern Idlib on Wednesday, killing or injuring dozens, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Britain-based group said the explosives blew up under a checkpoint inside Wadi Deif army base, which opposition fighters have been trying to capture for more than a year.
Video posted online showed a massive blast which hurled debris and soil dozens of meters (yards) into the air.
Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said there was no precise toll in the attack yet, but that "dozens of soldiers have been killed or injured."
The Islamic Front, a coalition of rebel groups, claimed the attack in a statement.
"The heroes of the Islamic Front, in coordination with the Furqan Brigade, blew up the Wadi Deif base... after digging a 860-meter tunnel packed with 60 tonnes of explosives," it said.
Wadi Deif is the one of the regime's last remaining strongholds in Idlib province, along with the nearby Hamadiyeh military base, which is also under rebel attack.
Last week, at least 30 Syrian soldiers were killed in a similar attack involving explosives planted in a tunnel under a checkpoint near Wadi Deif.
A rebel told Agence France Presse at the time that the tunnel had taken 50 days to dig.
Opposition fighters have also used the same tactic against facilities used by regime forces in the northern province of Aleppo.
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very impressive, if true
860 m (~2800') in 50 days, moving 60 tonnes along the tunnel and locating it correctly
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al arabiya has a video purporting to be this event; it is embedded in their report
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Palestinian consultants?
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[An Nahar] The death of a Fatah al-Islam A Syrian-incubated al-Qaeda work-alike that they think can be turned off if no longer needed to keep the Lebanon pot stirred. member in Ein el-Hellhole near the southern city of Sidon on Wednesday evening sparked a heavy exchange of fire in the camp, which lead to the injury of one person.
"An elderly man was maimed in a heavy fire exchange in Ein el-Hellhole's vegetable market," al-Jadeed television reported.
MTV said that a bomb was hurled in the market and was followed by an exchange of gunfire.
"One person was reportedly maimed by gunshots," MTV noted.
The state-run National News Agency explained that after the news about the death of Fatah al-Islam official Alaeddine Ali Hujair broke out, tension prevailed in the camp's al-Fawqani area as shops and companies also closed their doors.
Hujair died of wounds he received in an armed clash between supporters of Fatah al-Islam and others who back Fatah last week.
On Monday, reports said that the Fatah al-Islam official had died, and following this inaccurate announcement, Hujair's supporters erupted into the streets and began firing gunshots into the air.
This soon escalated into the armed festivities which lead to the injury of seven people.
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[The Peninsula] The US government officially designated two officials of rival jihadist groups in Syria as "global terrorists" Wednesday, warning other Syrian rebel groups to stay away from both men.
The US Treasury added Saudi-born Abd Al-Rahman Muhammad Zafir Al-Dubaysi al-Juhni and Iraq native Abd Al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli to its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists.
The two were cited for their ties to, respectively, Al-Qaeda operations in Syria, and Qaeda breakaway group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL).
Al-Juhni is part of a group of senior Qaeda operatives in Syria formed to attack Western targets outside the country and also to mediate tensions between ISIL and the Al-Nusra Front, the local Qaeda affiliate, the Treasury said.
Al-Qaduli is a senior ISIL official who joined Qaeda 10 years ago and previously worked for leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, formerly the Qaeda commander in Iraq, it said.
The designation aims to limit their access to financial and business networks by banning any American or American business from dealings with them and freezing any US assets.
Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David Cohen said the act sends a message to other Syrian rebels to not work with them
"We are very concerned about Al-Qaeda networks moving money and fighters to Death Eater groups in Syria," he said in a statement.
The action "sends a strong warning to the legitimate Syrian opposition and those who wish to support it that they must reject the attempts of Al-Qaeda, ISIL, and Al-Nusra to elicit support for their cause by preying on the sympathies of the international community for the plight of the Syrian people."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Tolo News] On Wednesday, one Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier was killed and two civilians 
[Iran Press TV] A court in Egypt has sentenced 79 supporters of ousted President 
[Ynet] Villagers in an area of Nigeria where Boko Haram operates have killed and detained scores of the extremist Islamic militants who were suspected of planning a fresh attack, the residents and a security official said.
[YEMENONLINE.INFO] The Yemeni Army repelled a dawn attack by Al 
[YEMENONLINE.INFO] The fighting in the Gol al-Rayda and Azan districts of Shabwa province started early Wednesday morning and continued for hours, leaving 10 soldiers and 13 attackers dead. Military losses included General Mohsen Saeed al-Ghazali, an aide to Defense Minister Mohammed Nasser Ahmad, who just days ago survived an ambush while returning from an area in the south which the army has attempted to clear of al Qaeda elements.
[The Peninsula] Pak troops yesterday foiled an attack on a 
[DAWN] KARACHI: A senior medico-legal officer of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre was killed with his driver in a targeted attack on Tuesday on Chaudhry Khaliq-uz-Zaman Road, near the place where a powerful rickshaw-planted bomb had 
[DAWN] An important leader of the Awami National Party (ANP) was 
[DAWN] Noor Muhammad alias Baba Ladla, a wanted gangster of 
[DAWN] At least ten suspected 
Two suspected members of an arson unit of the New Peopleâs Army (NPA) were killed in a clash with soldiers in the province of Misamis Oriental.
