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Boko Haram Denies Ceasefire, Pastes Threat Posters In Borno
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Page 6: Politix
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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336093 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I assume only the Mods (bless their hearts) can see the back cover of the RDS&TP.
Posted by: Shipman || 02/22/2013 0:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Jeri Ryan[Filmography](age 45)



Außerirdisches Design

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 02/22/2013 1:11 Comments || Top||

#3  If it hadn't been for the release of her allegations in her divorce, Obama would be in Springfield, figuring out how to get a new stoplight for Watseeka.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 02/22/2013 8:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Ja daß ist eine sehr attraktive Anzug der jungen Dame hat bis heute an. Sehr ausserirdisches Design - WOW!
Posted by: Glineter Cherong1335 || 02/22/2013 8:25 Comments || Top||

#5  7 of 9?? No way that's less than 11 of 10.
Posted by: Alanc || 02/22/2013 8:29 Comments || Top||

#6  macht ein Bär Scheiße in den Wäldern
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 02/22/2013 9:45 Comments || Top||

#7  Richard, I don't think the release was her doing.
Both she and her husband begged the courts not to release the records.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 02/22/2013 10:35 Comments || Top||

#8  Ja ein Bär macht Scheiße in den Wald, aber er verwendet nicht Toilettenpapier vielleicht Blättern oder anderen natürlichen Materialien die ihm zur Verfügung.
Posted by: Bigfoot Whusomble6191 || 02/22/2013 11:27 Comments || Top||

#9  Okay guys very funny. 40+ years ago Ich konnte Deutsch sprechen, jetzt ich spreche wenig Deutsch.
Posted by: Alanc || 02/22/2013 11:51 Comments || Top||

#10  Hell, forty years ago muh English was more better.
Posted by: Shipman || 02/22/2013 13:51 Comments || Top||

#11  Looking out my winder so very dreary
puts muh mind on better times.
When such weather hailed the return of gawd in fungi form springing about in the shitty storm.
Then when young I dressed myself in khaki loathing the blue jean swarms, a short hair cut had I and glasses thick.
Pulling on a heavy sweater I ventured out into the weather, before the cops and after the thugs
Carrying naught but but a haversack and a reptile catcher perhaps a wire cutter from the army navy store
Into the pastures of the very best I ventured looking for snakes and birds and cow shit
The snakes, the birds, they come they go, but cow shit... after a rain is for evermore.
Often I saw nothing, but rain and cows, but on occasion I saw tits in shit.
And that made all the difference.


That was a long time ago. Things were different then, brain damage wasn't permanent gas was cheap.


Posted by: Shipman || 02/22/2013 13:52 Comments || Top||

#12  Shipman...a shroomer? That explains a lot. ;-)
Posted by: Secret Asian Man || 02/22/2013 14:02 Comments || Top||

#13  Caption this:

"That's right girls, I humped his brains out!"
Posted by: Muggsy Mussolini1226 || 02/22/2013 17:58 Comments || Top||


Africa North
French, Malian forces fight Islamist rebels in Gao
[REUTERS] French and Malian troops fought Islamists on the streets of Gao and a boom-mobile went kaboom! in Kidal on Thursday, as fighting showed little sign of abating weeks before La Belle France plans to start withdrawing some forces.

Rooters news hounds in Gao in the country's desert north said French and Malian forces fired at the mayor's office with heavy machineguns after Islamists were reported to have infiltrated the Niger River town during a night of kabooms and gunfire.

French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told a news conference in Brussels that Gao was back under control after festivities earlier in the day.

"Malian troops supported by French soldiers killed five jihadists and the situation is back to normal," he said.

In Kidal, a remote far north town where the French are hunting Islamists, residents said a boom-mobile killed two. A French defense ministry source reported no French casualties.

French troops dispatched to root out rebels with links to al Qaeda swiftly retook northern towns last month. But they now risk being bogged down in a guerrilla conflict as they try to help Mali's weak army counter bombings and raids.

"There was an infiltration by Islamists overnight and there is shooting all over the place," Sadou Harouna Diallo, Gao's mayor, told Rooters by telephone earlier in the day, saying he was not in his office at the time.

"They are black and two were dressed up like girls disguised as women," a Malian soldier in Gao who gave his name only as Sergeant Assak told Rooters during a pause in heavy gunfire around Independence Square.
"And might I compliment you on the luxuriant growth of your mustache, miss?"
"I'll bet you say that to all the girls!"

Six Malian military pickups were deployed in the square and opened fire on the mayor's office with the heavy machineguns. Two injured soldiers were taken away in an ambulance.

French troops in armored vehicles later joined the battle as it spilled out into the warren of sandy streets, where, two weeks ago, they also fought for hours against Islamists who had infiltrated the town via the nearby river.

Helicopters clattered over the mayor's office, while a nearby local government office and petrol station was on fire.

A Gao resident said he heard an kaboom and then saw a Malian military vehicle on fire in a nearby street.
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336083 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Two Tunisia Police Shot and Wounded in Flashpoint Town
[An Nahar] Two Tunisian police were maimed in an exchange of gunfire with presumed Salafists
...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them...
on Thursday in Sidi Bouzid, the cradle of the country's uprising two years ago, a medical source said.

The shooting took place when police after a chase cornered four gunnies in a mosque in the center of the town, which is a stronghold of the ultra-conservative Mohammedan group blamed for unrest around the country.

An interior ministry front man said only one policeman had been hurt.

An Agence La Belle France Presse correspondent said that earlier, the four men had refused to stop their car at a checkpoint in Sabbala, a town north of Sidi Bouzid. Instead, they forced their way through, exchanging fire with police in an incident that caused no casualties.

He said police and soldiers were on Thursday night surrounding Sidi Bouzid's Rahma Mosque.
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336078 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Jebali Rejects Ennahda Offer to Return as Tunisia PM
[An Nahar] Tunisia was scrambling to find a replacement prime minister on Thursday and pull itself out of a major political crisis two days after Hamadi Jebali quit after failing to form a cabinet of technocrats.

The consultative council of Ennahda was to meet later to choose a successor to Jebali, the ruling Islamist party's number two, who ruled himself out following suggestions that he might be reappointed premier.

Jebali resigned on Tuesday after his plan to form a non-partisan government, announced in the wake of public outrage over the February 6 murder of leftist politician and Islamist critic Chokri Belaid, was rejected by his own party.
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Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336081 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Mali Jihadist Group MUJAO Says Sent Fighters to Gao
[An Nahar] One of the main Islamist gangs in northern Mali said Thursday it had sent fighters back into Gao, a city it controlled for nine months before French and Malian troops recaptured it last month.

"Our fighters entered Gao on Wednesday," Abu Walid Sahraoui, a front man for the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) told Agence La Belle France Presse.

Local military sources and an AFP correspondent reported heavy festivities pitting Malian soldiers against a group of around 40 jihadists in northern Mali's largest city on Thursday.

"Our troops have been ordered to attack. If the enemy is stronger, we'll pull back only to return stronger, until we liberate Gao," the front man said.

He did not specify how many MUJAO forces had entered Gao, a city which French and Malian government forces reconquered on January 26, two weeks after Gay Paree launched an offensive in the north.
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336075 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Malian army seeks out remaining rebels in Gao
[FRANCE24] Malian troops opened fire on the mayor's office in the northern town of Gao with mounted machine guns on Thursday to try to dislodge suspected Islamist gunnies holed up inside, witnesses said.

Gunfire and kabooms rang out in the early hours across the town, where French and Malian troops have been working to secure the area against bombings and guerrilla attacks by Salafist tough guys, witnesses said.

French and Malian military spokesmen were not immediately available to comment on what led to the clash.
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Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336079 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Suspects Held over Murder of Tunisia Opposition Leader
[An Nahar] The Tunisian authorities have incarcerated
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
suspects in this month's liquidation of leading leftist opposition figure Chokri Belaid, the interior minister said.

"The investigation has progressed to the point that suspects have been arrested," Ali Larayedh told news hounds, without specifying the number of people enjugged
You have the right to remain silent...

"The investigation has not led yet to identify the killer, those behind the murder and its motives," said Larayedh, refusing elaborate in line with a secrecy order.

Belaid, 48, was rubbed out at close range by a lone, hooded gunman as he left his home in the capital Tunis on February 6.

His family blamed the ruling Ennahda party for being behind the killing, an accusation the Islamists have vehemently denied.

The liquidation triggered days of unrest as people took to Habib Bourguiba Avenue, epicenter of the 2011 uprising that toppled ex-dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, deepening a long-running political crisis.

On the day of the murder, Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali proposed the formation of a government of technocrats as a way out of the crisis, but the initiative was rejected by his own Ennahda party.
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336075 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Africa Subsaharan
Boko Haram Denies Ceasefire, Pastes Threat Posters In Borno
[LEADERSHIP.NG] Jama'atu Ahlussunah Lidda'awati Wal Jihad popularly called Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
has denied ever announcing a ceasefire.

On Wednesday morning residents of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital woke up to see pasted posters around mosques and in different parts of the city carrying messages from the leader of Boko Haram, Imam Abubakar Shekau which denied ever delegating anybody to discuss with the Borno State government on cease fire.

BBC Hausa service monitored in Abuja reported that some people in Maiduguri said they received some leaflets which were shared on Tuesday evening.

But the Borno State commissioner of information, Inuwa Buwala said that he was not aware of it even as he promised to investigate the incident.

It would be recalled that Borno State government earlier said it had reached a memorandum of understanding of a cease fire with the person that claimed to be Boko Haram front man.

Boko Haram has always passed its messages through posters and media.
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336114 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


Seven Boko Haram Members Arraigned for Bank Robbery
[THISDAYLIVE] Seven persons alleged to have robbed some banks in Bauchi State in 2011 for the purpose of raising funds to support the Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
sect were yesterday arraigned before a Federal High presided by Justice A. R Mohammed on a 13-count charge.

Also, about 20 Boko Haram suspects awaiting trial in Kuje Prison, in a bold move to register their grievances over the poor state of Nigerian Prison, yesterday protested their non-trial by the Prison authorities since last year.
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Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336092 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


Arabia
Two killed in Yemen festivities
Two south Yemen separatists were killed on Thursday during clashes in Aden between police and members of the Southern Movement, a member of the group said.

The police fired on protesters from the movement, thousands of whom had gathered in the southern port city to demand independence on the first anniversary of ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh’s ouster, Fathi Ben Lazraq said.

A rival rally was held in the same spot by members of the Al-Islah (reform) party, in support of unity.
Posted by: Steve White || 02/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336071 views] Top|| File under:


Bangladesh
5 Shibir men held with bomb-making materials
[Bangla Daily Star] Police rounded up five activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir
... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh...
for possession of a huge quantity of bomb-making materials and provocative leaflets in the city's Muradpur on Wednesday.

Acting on information, cops raided a three-storey building at Muradpur intersection around 10:00pm and incarcerated
Please don't kill me!
the five, said Panchlaish police.

The arrestees, all students, are Abu Bakkar, 27, Shamim, 27, Mohammad Apel, 25, Mohammad Rubel, 25, and Liton, 29.

Law enforcers also seized 10,000 copies of leaflets and as many posters with provocative contents, 10 litres of petrol, five machetes and four cartons of bomb-making materials.

Yesterday, two cases were lodged with Panchlaish Police Station in this connection.

In the afternoon, police sent the five to jail through a local court.

Mohammad Shahidullah, additional deputy commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (North), said they have information that thousands of activists of Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
and its student wing Shibir are making preparation to carry out destructive activities across the port city demanding release of several top Jamaat leaders who are facing trial for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.

Police have been conducting drives in the city to avert any untoward occurrence, he added.
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336073 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami


Caribbean-Latin America
Mexican Army continues counternarcotics operations in Durango Sierras

For a map, click here. For a map of Durango state, click here

By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com

Mexican Army units with the 10th Military Zone have been conducting counternarcotics operations in remote mountain Durango municipalities since at least February 1st, according to Mexican news accounts.

According to a news account which appeared on the website of El Siglo de Torreon news daily, Wednesday soldiers detained four unidentified suspects who were observed wearing military uniforms. Reports are unclear where in Durango the detentions took place

Separate operations in San Dimas and Tamazula municipalities seized quantities of weapons. The contraband was seized in the villages of La Lajita in Tamazula and Tayoltita in San Dimas.

Weapons seized included two AK-47 rifles, three 5.7mm pistols, two 9mm pistols, one 40mm grenade launching attachment, one 40mm grenade, 333 rounds of ammunition and 14 weapons magazines.

A vehicle was also seized.

According to a news article which appeared on the website of El Siglo de Durango news daily last week, on February 16th an army unit seized quantities of weapons and cash in an undisclosed location in Durango state, detaining three unidentified suspects.

Among the contraband seized were three rifles, four weapons magazines, 64 rounds of ammunition, one rifle scope and one vehicle. The total amount of cash seized is MX $30,720 (USD$ 2,409.96).

Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
Posted by: badanov || 02/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336072 views] Top|| File under:


5 cops die in La Laguna

For a map, click here. For a map of Coahuila state, click here. For a map of Durango state, click here.
Photos of the aftermath of three of the incidents can be found here.


By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com

A total of five police agents in the La Laguna region of Mexico have been shot to death and another two were wounded Thursday afternoon, according to Mexican new accounts.

A news item posted on the website of Proceso news weekly said that four of the five dead police agents were killed on the Durango side of La Laguna in three separate incidents.

Two unidentified police agents with the Gomez Palacio, Durango transit police were shot to death near the intersection of calles Morelos and Urrea. A second incident took place minutes later on Bulevar Miguel Aleman near the Museo Francisco Sarabia museum against a sole police agent.

The third incident took place near the intersection of Calzada Lazaro Cardenas near the qtechnical school Centro de Estudios Tecnologicos, where a transit police agent was shot to death while directing traffic.

A fourth incident took place on Bulevar Guadalupe Victoria, which ended with an unidentified police agent wounded.

The fifth police agent was killed in Torreon in Coahuila, but no details have appeared in Mexican press regarding that incident.

The five dead police agents were identified in a news brief posted on the website of El Siglo de Durango news daily as Gilberto Rodriguez Gonzalez, Jose Luis Gamboa Aleman, Victo Ivan Guereca Salinas, Florentino Martinez Flores and Jose Miguel Castro Roman.

Two other civilians were killed in La Laguna.
  • A man was found stabbed to death in an incident characterized as an execution Thursday. Francisco Javier Ramirez Aldaba, 23, was found at a residence in Ejido El Vergelito stabbed in the chest and abdomen.

  • An unidentified man in his 40s was found tortured and strangled to death on Avenida Hidalgo in Oscar Flores Tapia colony in Torreon in Coahuila Wednesday night.

Meanwhile in other security news, the Durango state Fiscalia General del Estado (FGE) or attorney general announced Thursday that a total of nine unidentified suspects were detained by security forces. Security forces seized drugs, guns and vehicles.

A number of weapons were found when a Policia Federal (PF) road patrol stopped two men who were travelling aboard a Dodge Neon sedan. Inside the vehicle, PF agents found one 0.30 caliber rifle, one 0.22 caliber rifle, one 9mm pistol, one 9mm Lugar pistol, one Uzi type pistol and one 0.22 caliber pistol. Four weapons magazines were also seized in the traffic stop. The two detainees were identified as Javier Becerra Gallegos and Omar Becerra Gallegos, both 25 and from Ciudad Lerdo, Durango.

Separately, four suspects were detained in La Laguna for alleged car theft. The detainees were identified as Gregorio Contreras Aguirre, Gustavo Carrillo Reyes, Aaron Vega Renteria, and Julio Cesar Vega Renteria.

Three more suspects were detained for alleged attempted robbery. They were identified as José Martin Chavez Hernandez, Juan de Dios Garcia Navarro and Maria Guadalupe Rubio Rodriguez.

All nine suspects were transferred to the Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO) in Durango city.

The La Laguna region began formal security operations named Operativo Laguna only last week, in which Mexican federal security forces including the military and Policia Federal units along with Coahuila and Durango state police units would maintain patrols in the region, especially in the absence of 158 police agents who had been dismissed or who had quit the police corporations in Gomez Palacio.

That reduction in force in La Laguna had left the region with very little local police presence until the Mexican XI Military Region agreed to coordinate police activities in the region.

A separate news story posted on the website of El Siglo de Durango Tuesday said that about 100 naval infantry effectives, the equivalent of a rifle company had been deployed at the Expo Feria, or fairgrounds in Gomez Palacio to assist in security operations. It was reported earlier this month that Mexican marine units had arrived in the region to assist with security, but this latest news is the first of an encampment.

At last report, the Mexican Army was answering 066 telephone calls, Mexico's emergency number. It was also reported by Mexican press in a security incident earlier in the month that army marine and state police units were being combined for the purposes of patrolling the region.

Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
Posted by: badanov || 02/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336074 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The (female) lagoon?

Is that the one with Milla Jovovitch?
Posted by: Muggsy Mussolini1226 || 02/22/2013 16:07 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Five shot dead across Karachi
[Dawn] Five people were bumped off in the city on Wednesday, police said.

They said that a young man was bumped off in Orangi Town.

They added that gunnies riding a cycle of violence targeted Mohammad Aamir, 29, who was also on bike at Nishan-e-Haider Chowk, Sector 11½, within the remit of the Orangi Town cop shoppe.
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Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336078 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq
Turkish Jets Strike Kurd Rebels in Iraq
[An Nahar] Turkey sent jets across its border with Iraq to strike separatists from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a local military source said Thursday.

The jets bombed 12 targets in the Kandil Mountains in the autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq on Wednesday, the source told Agence La Belle France Presse without providing any casualty figures.

Pro-Kurdish Firat News Agency confirmed the raid, saying it targeted two villages and destroyed many farms and orchards.

The raid comes amid nascent peace talks between Ankara and PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving a life sentence in prison.
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336080 views] Top|| File under:


Turkish air force fires on PKK positions in northern Iraq
The Turkish Air Force last night fired on the positions of militants of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, Hurriyet newspaper reported today.

Eight F-16 drones were used. As a result, 12 PKK militants' shelters were fired.
Posted by: Steve White || 02/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336089 views] Top|| File under:


Southeast Asia
Three Thai terrorists turn selves in
Three Thai terrorists militants who claimed they had been hiding in Malaysia and confessed to being involved in the insurgency surrendered to authorities on Thursday, saying they believed promises they would get fair treatment. The three terrorists insurgents were named as Rosalee Masa, Mahadee Durae, and Arwae Leelawae. They are all from Tak Bai district in Narathiwat province.

The terrorists insurgents said they decided to turn themselves in because they were tired of always having to hide from the authorities. They went into hiding in Malaysia five years ago.

Mr Rosalee said he had wanted to surrender for a long time, but had no opportunity to do so. He said, "I'm glad that I'm back home to live with my family again, because it's hell having to live in hiding, and there's no other place where I can live happily and free like in Thailand. I'm sorry for the things that happened in the past but if the authorities will give me a chance, then I'm confident that I'll receive fair treatment."

He said 27 other terrorists insurgents who were living in Malaysia would also probably return to Thailand and surrender soon, but they were not yet completely convinced they would be treated fairly.

The Tak Bai district chief said he would do anything to reassure those who have been misled by the insurgency leaders and encourage them to turn themselves in. He said, "It's time to open up our hearts and offer an opportunity and promise of fair treatment to those who have been misled. If all sides cooperate in developing the southern border provinces, sustainable peace and happiness will return to the region."
Posted by: ryuge || 02/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336077 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria: 'Civilians killed' by Aleppo rockets
Three missiles have crashed into residential areas of Syria's northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 12 civilians, activists say.

Video footage posted online claims to show the aftermath, with people carrying away the wounded and a wide area reduced to rubble.

An activist in Aleppo says there are families buried under the rubble in one neighbourhood.

The UN says some 70,000 have died since the uprising began in March 2011.
Posted by: tipper || 02/22/2013 12:54 || Comments || Link || [336104 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "You're not TRYING, people!"
-- George Carlin
Posted by: Muggsy Mussolini1226 || 02/22/2013 17:55 Comments || Top||


IAEA Says Iran Installing New Nuclear Equipment, U.S. Says Such Step 'Provocative'
[An Nahar] Iran has begun installing next-generation equipment at one of its main nuclear plants, a new U.N. atomic agency report said Thursday, five days before talks with world powers, as the United States described such a step as "provocative."

"On 6 February 2013, the Agency observed that Iran had started the installation of IR-2m centrifuges" at the Natanz plant, the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency report said.

"This is the first time that centrifuges more advanced than the IR-1 have been installed" at the plant in central Iran, it said.
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Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336102 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Possible "Sequestration" USN layups + China back at Gwadar - all Iran is missing is the Russian Navy.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/22/2013 2:09 Comments || Top||

#2  DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > IRAN SEEMS TO ADVANCE IN CONSTRUCTION AT ARAK NUCLEAR PLANT.

Iran's "Heavy Water" alternative in the production of plutonium for "Energy".
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/22/2013 21:10 Comments || Top||


Opposition Denounces Damascus 'Terrorist' Bombing
[An Nahar] Syria's main opposition group, the National Coalition, denounced as "terrorists" those behind a deadly boom-mobileing in Damascus
...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world...
on Thursday, regardless of who carried it out.

In a statement posted on Facebook, the Coalition stressed that "any acts targeting civilians with murder or human rights
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Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336083 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra

#1  Whoever the Boomee was in this one had to be a sturdy one to carry enough explosives to make that big a crater and kill/wound that many.

Of course, I grieve for the innocent maimed and the families of the innocent dead but I don't but wonder how the Islamist can justify killing another Moslem in the midst of all this.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 02/22/2013 2:03 Comments || Top||


Car Bomb in Damascus Kills Dozens, Opposition Says
[NY Times] At least three boom-mobiles roiled Damascus
...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world...
on Thursday, including a powerful blast near the downtown headquarters of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
's ruling party and the Russian Embassy that witnesses said shook the neighborhood like an earthquake. Antigovernment activists described the bombings as some of the worst to hit the Syrian capital in the nearly two-year-old conflict and said at least 72 people had been killed, mostly civilians.
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Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336081 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Syrian TV: Army Shoots Down Israeli Drone Near Border
[Jpost] Syrian state TV reported on Wednesday that government forces shot down an Israeli drone near the Lebanese border.
Drones are cheap, pilots dear.
Mayadeen TV reported Syria had shot down an Israeli craft over Deir al Ashayer, a village near Lebanese border.

Damas Post quoted witnesses as saying they saw burning wreckage fall from the sky over the village of Yanta in eastern Leb.

Earlier on Wednesday, Lebanese news agencies reported Israeli warplanes conducted multiple overflights and "mock raids" over southern Leb.
An important reminder from your friendly neighborhood IAF: We're heeeeeeere! (Don't blink.)
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336094 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Drones are cheap, pilots dear.

Talk is even cheaper.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/22/2013 5:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Wasn't that the one stuffed to the gills with Chem/Bio goodies?
Gosh, sure hope not...
Posted by: Cheting Glomong9412 || 02/22/2013 20:51 Comments || Top||



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