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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336083 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

María Elena Swett (Chilean) aka Carol Valdivieso in "Mirageman (2007)" aka Elisa in "Baño de mujeres (Women's Bathroom)(2005)" aka Pamela in "XS - la peor talla (XS - The Worst Class)(2003)" aka Margarita Bobadilla in "Los Angeles de Estela (Estela's Angels)(TV series 2009)" (age 33)



Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 04/11/2012 10:53 Comments || Top||

#2  That is one hot Chile pepper.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 04/11/2012 11:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Drinking Sangria to cool her off?
Posted by: Dopey Bucket8480 || 04/11/2012 13:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Chile today, hot tamale.
Posted by: mojo || 04/11/2012 16:00 Comments || Top||


#6  Ima still trine to get past "Baño de mujeres".

"Simply BRILLIANT title, JB!"
Posted by: Gabby Cussworth || 04/11/2012 17:44 Comments || Top||

#7  And Margarita Boobadilla ain't a bad name for a movie character.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/11/2012 19:19 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
15 Killed in Two Afghan Suicide Attacks
[An Nahar] At least 15 people were killed and 33 maimed in two suicide kabooms targeting police and government offices in Afghanistan just hours apart on Tuesday, officials said.

Eleven people died and 28 were maimed when two suicide attackers rammed a car boom into a government compound near the western city of Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
, the interior ministry said.

Provincial police chief Sayed Agha Saqeb told news hounds that the bombers were being pursued by police when they detonated the vehicle at the entrance to the Guzara district compound along the road from the airport to the city.

"The car was under our surveillance. It was ordered twice to stop but they didn't stop," said the police chief.

"There were two individuals in the car, one was wearing a burqa. One of the bombers is totally shattered and the other person's body is still there with his (suicide) vest still unwent kaboom!."

The dead included two coppers, an intelligence officer and six civilians, the police chief said.

Just hours later, four coppers died when three jacket wallahs stormed their compound in the southern province of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, a local government front man said.

Two of the bombers set off explosives strapped to their bodies and a third was rubbed out by police guarding the Musa Qala police offices in the troubled province, Daud Ahmedi, the front man for the provincial administration told Agence La Belle France Presse.

"Three suicide attackers entered the police compound in Musa Qala district of Helmand. Two of them detonated their explosives, one was killed by police," Ahmedi told AFP.

Police chief Abdul Wali and four others were maimed in the attack, he said.

In the Herat bombing, most of the victims were civilians visiting the local administration offices on business, an official said.

An AFP news hound, among the first to arrive at the scene, said he saw bodies strewn among rubble and pieces of metal from the bombers' car.

Another witness told AFP that women and kiddies were present when the bombing happened.

"Shortly before it happened, I saw some women and kiddies there. After the bombing I saw up to 10 people lying in blood," the witness told AFP.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for either attack, but suicide kabooms are a hallmark of Taliban Islamic fascisti fighting to topple the Western-backed government of President Hamid karzai.

Herat, a business hub on the Iranian border, is normally relatively peaceful as most Taliban attacks are concentrated in their strongholds in the south of the country, including Helmand.

But the start of the new "fighting season" this spring has also seen a major attack in the northern province of Faryab last week, in which three U.S. soldiers and seven Afghans were killed. That attack was claimed by the Taliban.

Also last week, a Taliban suicide kaboom killed a local councillor and key ally of Karzai's in the eastern province of Kunar.
Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336071 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Seems like the new Tali-tactic is to send unlimited waves of suicide bombers against soft, domestic targets, ignoring the stronger NATO forces, with the goal to create chaos among the population and the belief that the government forces can't protect them. "Resistance is futile, come to the shelter of the mullahs." It'll probably work. And like here, they'll get the government they deserve, at least statistically.
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/11/2012 7:40 Comments || Top||

#2  ..could be. On the other hand the place is far more tribal than national. Could be building a big fat vendetta deficit for when they formally proclaim themselves in charge again cause then they're the ones in the open for targeting. However, the cause->effect concept is alien to their way of thinking.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/11/2012 11:03 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Government Soldiers Exchange Gunfire in Mogadishu
(Sh. M. Network)- Somali government soldiers have exchanged gunfire at Taleh village inMogadishu's Hodon district on Tuesday, killing two people according to witnesses.

Reports say that the fighting came as two government soldiers disagreed illegal money took from transportations and lastly changed confrontation between the military and police forces of the transitional government troops ofSomalia.

The incident caused the death of police officer during the clash and the movement of the traffic and business in the areas was halted for a moment as the clash continued there.

Later, a civilian was killed and other maimed another festivities at Km4 junction, a busy road leads from the airport to the presidential palace, VillaSomalia.

The latest reports in the areas say that the situation returned normal after more government troops had interfered to the warring sides.

It is not the first time that government soldiers disagreed and exchange gunfire inMogadishu.
Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336070 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab

#1  Next time give Auntie her taste, for crissake.

Reports say that the fighting came as two government soldiers disagreed illegal money took from transportations and lastly changed confrontation between the military and police forces of the transitional government troops ofSomalia.

Again, what good is English when this is what you do with it?
Posted by: Gabby Cussworth || 04/11/2012 17:50 Comments || Top||


Sudan to react with 'all means' to latest South Sudan attack
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Sudan vowed late Tuesday to react with "all means" against a three-pronged attack it said South Sudanese forces launched against South Kordofan state.

"The government of Sudan announces after this attack that it will react by all means," a statement on the official SUNA news agency said, warning of "destruction" in the South.

The statement came after Sudan carried out new Arclight airstrikes inside South Sudan and rival armies exchanged artillery fire in their latest round of fighting in contested border regions.

An AFP correspondent in the South Sudanese frontline village of Tashwin heard heavy artillery shelling and multiple Arclight airstrikes lasting for around an hour, with one bomb dropped by aircraft landing less than a kilometre (mile) away.

The statement on SUNA claimed that South Sudanese forces backed by rebel groups launched their main attack in Sudan's key oil-producing region of Heglig.

It did not specify which rebels but the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) has been battling government troops in South Kordofan since June.

Sudan has also previously alleged that Darfuri rebels were operating in the Heglig area.

South Sudan has denied backing opposition groups in the north.
Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336069 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Map of where the oilfields are
Posted by: phil_b || 04/11/2012 0:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Bashir has a problem with Black Christians.
Posted by: newc || 04/11/2012 1:36 Comments || Top||


Airstrikes, artillery shelling on Sudan-S.Sudan border
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Sudan on Tuesday carried out new Arclight airstrikes inside South Sudan, as rival armies exchanged artillery fire in the latest round of fierce fighting in contested border regions.

An AFP correspondent in the South Sudanese frontline village of Tashwin heard heavy artillery shelling and multiple Arclight airstrikes lasting for around an hour, with one bomb dropped by aircraft landing less than a kilometre (mile) away.

Khartoum vowed late Tuesday to react with "all means" against a three-pronged attack it said South Sudanese forces had launched against South Kordofan state, including its key oil-producing region of Heglig.

A statement on the official SUNA news agency warned of "destruction" in South Sudan.

The bombing follows border fighting that erupted two weeks ago between the two neighbours, the most serious unrest since Juba's independence last July, and prompted international fears of a return to full-blown conflict.

Southern Information Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin said that Sudanese airplanes "bombarded Abiemnom, well within the sovereign territory of South Sudan."

"Initial reports confirmed that four civilians have been maimed, including a small child," Benjamin told news hounds in the Southern capital Juba.
Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336072 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


Africa North
Libya Appeals ICC Bid to Extradite Gadhafi Son
[An Nahar] Libya, which wants Muammar Qadaffy's
...whose instability was an inspiration to dictators everywhere, but whose end couldn't possibly happen to them...
son Seif al-Islam tried at home, on Tuesday appealed a ruling by the Hague-based International Criminal Court
... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
(ICC) that he be handed over to the world court.

The ICC, which wants to try Seif on charges of crimes against humanity for his role in battling last year's uprising which toppled his father, issued a ruling on April 4 calling for his immediate transfer from prison in Libya to prison in The Hague.

"The Government of Libya submits that the chamber committed a serious error of law" and wants it to "overturn" its earlier decision, Libya's legal representatives said in the document released by the court Tuesday.

The Libyan government will detail why it considers the ICC incompetent to judge the case in a submission to be made on April 30, its representatives added.

The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Seif in February 2011 when Qadaffy-loyal forces were involved in an attempt to crush the so-called "Arab Spring" rebellion.
Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336071 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  A compromise could be for the ICC to do the trial in Libya. The after that trial the Libyans could trial him.

Posted by: BernardZ || 04/11/2012 11:21 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Interior Ministry: 40 Al-Qaeda-linked militants killed in Abyan
[Yemen Post] At least 40 Al-Qaeda-linked beturbanned goons killed in Lawdar district of Abyan governorate on Tuesday after soldiers of the Brigade 111 in collaborations with residents strongly repelled the beturbanned goons who tried to storm the city, the Interior Ministry said in its website.

According to 26 September website, the beturbanned goons beat feet to mountain surrounding the city, and that the Yemeni army along with newly public committees pursued them after they received painful blows.

Local sources said violent confrontations broke out on Tuesday, pointing out that the military destroyed a tank that was captured by Ansar Al-Shariah.

They confirmed that eight soldiers were killed when beturbanned goons could infiltrate to a building and sniped the soldiers.

Asnar Al-Shariah (Supporters of the Islamic law) had said in a statement that they captured on Monday four tanks, ammunitions and other weapons after festivities with the Yemeni soldiers in Lawdar. Ansar Al-Shairah have been controlling parts of the southern governorate of Abyan.

The United States and Soddy Arabia backed the power transfer in Yemen in an attempt to avoid the collapse of the country and plunge it into turmoil.

The Yemenis news Agency (Saba) stated that the Defense Minister Mohammad Nasser Ahmed praised on Tuesday the Brigade 111 and the public committees, and stressed that al Yemenis refuse fundamental ideologies and terrorism.

Yemen's president Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi faced external pressures to fight Al-Qaeda. He had vowed in his inauguration before Parliament late February that he will defeat Al-Qaeda.

Gunmen opened fire Tuesday on a checkpoint in Maarib province, about 300km east of the capital Sana'a, killing eight soldiers.

Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336085 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia


Eight Troops Killed in al-Qaeda Mareb attack east of Yemen
[Yemen Post] At least eight soldiers were killed and four others injured when al-Qaeda snuffies attacked a military post in Yemen's Marib province early on Tuesday, security officials said.

The officials quoted commander of the post as saying the snuffies were on four pickups when they attacked the soldiers in the al-Shabkar area.

"Tens of snuffies armed with various weapons were onboard the pickups and after the attack they headed to Jawf province," he was quoted as saying.

The commander also said five al-Qaeda snuffies were killed when the forces tried to repel the attack, it added.

"The snuffies took the bodies of their victims and buried them immediately," he continued, according to the source.

The attack comes as the army is intensifying the war on al-Qaeda in Abyan province, where dozens were killed on Monday.

At least 40 snuffies were reported dead when the forces and citizens repelled a fierce attack to occupy the Lawder city.

Meantime, a local official in Abyan denied the locals in Lawder have decamped their homes, saying in a statement the battles with the snuffies took place outside the city and the people are safe in it.

In June, al-Qaeda seized some towns in Abyan and declared them as Islamic emirates, and since then the snuffies have been fighting the army.

Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336066 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia


Caribbean-Latin America
Mexican Federales seize armored vehicles

For a map, click here. For a map of Tamaulipas click here

By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com

A Mexican Policia Federal (PF) road patrol unit stopped a truck convoy carrying what appeared to be several Sand Cat armored vehicles near Ciudad Victoria Tamaulipas, according to Mexican news accounts.

It is unclear in current accounts how many trucks were carrying how many vehicles, but photos taken at the scene show at least four vehicles.

The convoy was apparently moving south along the Matamoros to Ciudad Victoria highway when the PF unit stopped them. The security protocol initiated at the scene also drew a number of other security forces units including Mexican Army units.

Spanish language reports do not say if anyone was detained, but do indicate the convoy was prevented from moving further.

Since late March the Mexican federal government, including Policia Federal have imposed a total news blackout in observance of the federal presidential election. The Mexican Secretaria de Seguridad Publica (SSP), the controlling agency for the Policia Federal does not release information, and only responds to press enquiries about specific incidents.

The Sand Cat is in use by both the Mexican Army and PF units, especially in Tamaulipas state where a number of army and PF units were moved starting last January. The vehicle was originally designed by an Israeli defense firm, but is now marketed by Oshkosh Defense Corporation in several variants. The vehicle itself is based on the Ford F550 truck chassis. Variants include a vehicle being marketed as a replacement for the MRAP armored vehicles, developed during the Iraqi and Afghanistan wars.

The Sand Cats aboard the tractor trailer rigs were painted blue, not green or navy blue used by most Mexican security forces road patrol units.

Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
Posted by: badanov || 04/11/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336069 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How'd Holder managed this?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/11/2012 1:16 Comments || Top||

#2  ...with the money the Cartels saved by buying guns insurance from GEICO DoJ. Heh.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/11/2012 8:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Bing images of Sandcats make them look up dressed up Hummer H2's. Frank G will want one. But not in blue.
Posted by: Steve White || 04/11/2012 11:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Yummmmm
Posted by: Frank G || 04/11/2012 14:31 Comments || Top||


April 10th Mayhem in Monterrey: 11 die -- UPDATED

For a map, click here. For a map of Nuevo Leon state, click here. For a map of Monterrey city, click here Updated with new information from Milenio news daily

By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com

Eight unidentified individuals were shot to death in two separate events in Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon Tuesday, according to Mexican news accounts.

Five of the victims were taxi drivers killed in a a single shooting near the intersection of Avenida Eloy Cavazos and Calle Pajaros Azules in Cuenca Verde colony with one unidentified individual wounded.

The shooters subsequently went to another area and killed three more, wounding two others. At least one of the victims was a child of nine. That shooting took place near the intersection of avendias Eloy Cavazos and San Roque in Lomas de San Roque colony.

The area of the first attack is near Cerro de la Silla, which is a hillock used by drug gang lookouts to report movement of security forces in Monterrey city. It is unclear in concurrent reports or in previous reports which drug gang made use of the area.

News reports say the shootings were against a rival gang's lookouts.

Three other individuals were killed in several incidents in and around Monterrey city Monday and Tuesday.
  • An unidentified man was detained in Escobedo, Nuevo Leon following a pursuit by Apodaca municipal police agents. The man was aboard a Ford sedan on the road leading to Santa Rosa, when he was signalled by police to stop. Instead the detainee initiated a pursuit which ended in Escobedo. One hand gun was seized at the conclusion of the chase.

  • An unidentified man in his 20s was found decapitated in Linares, Nuevo Leon Tuesday. The victim was wrapped in a blanket, which had an undisclosed message, and left near the intersection of calles Morones Prieto and Diaz Miron in San Francisco colony.

  • Two unidentified Agencia Estatal de Investigaciones (AEI) agents exchanged gunfire with two car thieves as the officers were taking lunch at a fast food restaurant in Leones colony in Monterrey Tuesday. One suspect was wounded in the gunfight which began as the thieves attempted to steal a truck. It is unclear if either of the two car thieves were detained following the gunfight.

  • An unidentified man was found shot to death late Tuesday morning in Juarez, Nuevo Leon. The victim was found near the intersection of calles Capitolio and Monte Palatin in Campestre Monte Bello colony. The victim was apparently shot elsewhere then dumped.

  • A taxi cab driver was found shot to death in San Pedro Garza Garcia Monday evening. Rodolfo Davila de la Rosa, 39, was found near the intersection of calles Enrique Herrera and Tamaulipas in Canteras colony, shot numerous times with an AR-15 assault rifle. The victim had been kidnapped Sunday night in Altamira colony in south Monterrey. Eight spent .223 caliber shell casings were found at the scene.

  • Two unidentified armed suspects were detained following a pursuit and shootout in south Monterrey. A patrol of Fuerza Civil attempted to make a traffic stop on Avenida Lazaro Cardenas of two individuals travelling aboard a Honda Civic sedan, which had been reported as stolen. Instead the driver attempted to escape the stop. The driver crashed the vehicle into two other parked vehicles on calle Cerro de la Silla where the chase ended. One unidentified police agents was hit by gunfire incident. One of the detainees was an escaped inmate from the Apodaca Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO) prison.

Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
Posted by: badanov || 04/11/2012 20:50 || Comments || Link || [336086 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: WoT
Grandpa claims he took down Al Qaeda websites
An American hacker, who calls himself "The Raptor" and claims to be a grandfather waging his own war on terror, is taking credit for a series of takedowns of online forums used by Al Qaeda sympathizers, FoxNews.com has learned.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/11/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336082 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Love it. He knows our young people are dieing on a daily basis fighting these bastards in places like Afghanistan. Retired patriot with a lot of time on your hands and an iternet connection. Hell Yeah!... to whats left of the Greatest Generation!

Posted by: Ebbolet and Company4011 || 04/11/2012 10:01 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder if this guy realizes he probably cut off important information gathering on the people/groups that use those forums.

USEFUL information gathering. Information gathering that might have led to dronezaps, among other things.

Clueless amateur.
Posted by: lotp || 04/11/2012 14:58 Comments || Top||

#3  You must still think Obama cares about stuff like that.
Posted by: Zebulon Johnson8948 || 04/11/2012 16:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Oh, and one more thing lotp. Don't expect intelligence gathering against people of Obama's faith to happen, especially when the state department just ordered customs not to inspect what the members of the Muslim Brotherhood are bringing in to this country during their visit to the White House.
Posted by: Zebulon Johnson8948 || 04/11/2012 17:02 Comments || Top||

#5  I dunno, Zeb. They got Binny, didn't they? I don't believe Obama is a muslim because religion of any sort is incompatible with international socialism. Besides, for all we know, our folks might have had a trojan horse on those machines and those orcs would never know. If you wanna hack sombody, go for the PLA.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 04/11/2012 17:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Farting around with these cockroaches for years. Last month they killed a US soldier a day. Gramps was smart enough to realize the so called web site didn't 1) lead anyone to Osama, 2) provides inspiration for the daily killings of our troops, and rightfully concluded that if you see a cock roach kill it.

You don't have a problem with the fact that they probably killed another of our young men today, but you got a problem with us killing them or taling anything AQ down. For that you can rot in Hell, too (speaking oin behalf of another US kia today, very seriously, and don't you forget that either.)
Posted by: George Ebbeamp4828 || 04/11/2012 17:45 Comments || Top||

#7  There's a difference between taking down a cockroach, and taking down senior cockroaches. Comprende?

Oh, and have the ballz to use your regular nym.
Posted by: Pappy || 04/11/2012 18:29 Comments || Top||

#8  11 years and still loosing 1 a day to the little cock roaches, loser.
Posted by: George Ebbeamp4828 || 04/11/2012 18:41 Comments || Top||

#9  That mod you just called 'loser' was badly wounded in combat and continues to work closely with our fighting troops, wr/george.

I have no such history, being a mere military wife who has nonetheless supported this fight since just after 9/11 with my own professional skills. I've stood at graveside when young men and women with whom I was close returned in flag-draped caskets. Today I support this fight in other ways and I have some awareness of things like information collection and use.

Differences of opinion are fine. But take your namecalling elsewhere if you cannot show basic respect for people who are just as active, if not more so, than you in this fight. One (single) warning, since you have an old but remembered track record here.
Posted by: lotp || 04/11/2012 19:04 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Gilgit-Baltistan rivals come face to face
[Dawn] The warring groups in Gilgit-Balitstan came close to clash at D-Chowk here on Monday mainly because of police failure to foresee the outcome of allowing them to stand eyeball to eyeball.

The activists and supporters of Majlis Wahdat-e-Mohammedaneen (MWM) and other parties representing the Shia community have established a protest camp at the Parade Avenue against the killing of innocent civilians in Chilas and other parts of Gilgit-Baltistan.

On the other hand, a protest rally was organised by Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASJ) against the killing of their party workers in the Gilgit city.

The rally starting from Rehmania mosque in Blue Area was originally scheduled to terminate at China Chowk but on the insistence of the participants police allowed them to move up to the traffic signal at D-Chowk, just metres shorts of the MWM camp.

Soon after the rally reached the traffic signal, fiery
...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob...
speeches started from both sides with speakers blaming the other party for committing atrocities against people of their side. But the ground conditions started to go wrong when the speakers from the two sides started using loudspeakers to highlight their cause.

The ASJ rally speakers demanded the authorities to clear the MWM camp from D-Chowk and threatened to hold a massive rally at Jinnah Avenue and also block the Karakoram Highway. They also demanded that Gilgit-Baltistan be made part of Azad Kashmire.

On the other side of the road, the speakers continued to present various accounts of the killings and atrocities against the local population without naming any group or party while police contingent maintained a dividing wall between the two groups.

However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
the situation turned ugly when youth from both the sides started chanting slogans against each other.

But before the supporters could come closer to each other, Allama Amin Shaheedi of MWM and Mufti Tanvir Alam of ASJ directed their sides to turn back.

Later, the MWM leadership rejected the request of the city administration and police to wind up their protest camp and not to go ahead with the already announced Friday prayers at the D-Chowk on April 13. Another meeting between the two is scheduled on Tuesday (today).
Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336068 views] Top|| File under: Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan


10 militants, soldier killed in Kurram
[Dawn] Ten forces of Evil and a security official were killed in fresh clash in Kurram Agency
...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
on Monday.

Sources said a group of forces of Evil attacked two checkposts in Thall area of Hapyanga in Lower Kurram killing a security official.

They said the forces hit back at attackers and killed 10 bad turbans. Sources said two security officials also went missing.
Kidnapped, killed, or complicit?
Meanwhile,
...back at the pound, Zebulon finally found just the friend he'd been looking for...
a government school was blown up by forces of Evil in Khudraze area of Pabbi on Monday. However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
no damage to human life was reported.

Official said that three rooms of the Government Primary School No 1 of Khudraze was destroyed as bomb planted by forces of Evil on the premises went off. Bomb disposal squad said explosives weighing five to six kilogrammes were used in the blast. A schoolteacher said watchman was not present at the time of kaboom.
Again, kidnapped, killed, or complicit?
Nowshera police registered case and began an operation to search the culpable people.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard...
Nowshera police tossed in the clink three Afghan nationals for robbery in cantonment area. Weapons and cash were also recovered from Asif alias Naqeeb, Asif Khan and Samiullah, who later confessed to robbery.

Police said the three were held on their way to Pir Sabaq for a robbery.
Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336071 views] Top|| File under: TTP

#1  The Afghan nationals were probably robbing for jihad, not for private greed..
Posted by: American Delight || 04/11/2012 11:59 Comments || Top||

#2  It's possible, but given that Pakistan doesn't 'take care' of its own people and Afghan refugees are even lower on the scale....
Posted by: Pappy || 04/11/2012 18:33 Comments || Top||


Iraq
11 'Qaida' Members Arrested in Iraq
[An Nahar] Iraqi forces have locked away 11 alleged al-Qaeda members said to be responsible for attacks in the southern province of Basra that killed dozens of people, a top police officer said on Tuesday.

"Eleven criminals from al-Qaeda have been locked away, including a Pak man who was born in Kuwait, who are responsible for recent kabooms in Basra," Major General Faisal al-Ebadi, police chief of Basra, told a news conference.

A video played during the news conference showed alleged confessions of the detainees, in which they said they were responsible for attacks, including one on January 14 against Shiite pilgrims that left 53 people dead.

Ebadi said that the arrests were carried out in coordination with intelligence agents and others security forces.

One of the detainees is a policeman named Issam Abdelal Yassin who gave "information about the locations of coppers to facilitate assassinating them," Ebadi said.

A Pak born in Kuwait named Mahmoud Mohammed Abdullah was also among the detainees.

In the tape, he admitted to involvement in an attack on a Shiite place of worship and two attacks in markets in Basra, and to placing explosives targeting Shiite pilgrims.

He said he came to Iraq in 2003, and was held at the U.S. Camp Bucca military installation from 2004 to 2005, but was later released.
Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336070 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran arrests Israel spies net
Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced on Tuesday that a group of spies who work for Israel have been detained, Mehr News agency reported.

"Months after assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, Iranian intelligence forces could unveil a spying net whose main headquarters place in a regional country and was work for Israel, was detained" the ministry said.

Ahmadi-Roshan, an academic who also worked at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, and his driver were killed during a bomb installed on his car in January 2012.

Iranian Intelligence Ministry didn't give further information about the detained spies.
Posted by: Steve White || 04/11/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336071 views] Top|| File under:


Syria denounced for not adhereing to agreed peace plan
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] World powers denounced Syria on Tuesday for not adhering to an agreed peace plan, as the army pounded protest hubs and killed civilians on the day the regime was to have withdrawn its troops.

Backing a call by envoy Kofi Annan
...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...
, the UN Security Council called on Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
to make a "fundamental change of course" so that a complete ceasefire can take effect by 6:00 am on Thursday.

Annan had earlier called on the council to register "deep concern" at Syria's failure to withdraw troops and guns from cities, saying Assad had failed to send the required "signal of peace."

As even staunch ally Russia admitted Damascus
...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world...
could do more to carry out a UN-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...
deal, the opposition warned it would not allow the regime to use the peace deal as a "license to kill."

Under Annan's plan, President Bashir al-Assad's military was to withdraw forces from urban areas on Tuesday, with a complete ceasefire to take effect on April 12.

But on Tuesday the army kept up the shelling, with some 17 people, at least seven of them civilians, dying across the country.

Annan, on a visit to Syrian refugees in border camps in Turkey, said the Syrian government told him it had withdrawn some troops, but he had also received reports that it had deployed into "areas which have not been previously targetted."

In London, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said there was "no evidence so far that the Assad regime has any intention of adhering to any agreement it makes."

The Syrians had used the withdrawal deadline "as a cover for intensified military efforts to crush Syria's opposition.... They have ruthlessly subjected whole communities to an inhumane campaign of shelling, forced expulsions and executions," he said in a statement.
Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336115 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Syrian Government Says It Has Begun Troop Withdrawal
[Tripoli Post] The Syrian foreign minister Walid al-Moualem says the Assad regime has withdrawn troops from several provinces. The President has until the end of Tuesday to pull out all forces ahead of a planned ceasefire between the conflicting sides.

"We have already withdrawn some military forces from several Syrian provinces," Mr. al-Moualem, is reported saying by RT following a meeting with Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow.

He also demanded a guarantee from UN-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...
envoy Kofi Annan
...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...
that opposition forces would stand down and that a deployment of international monitors would coincide with the ceasefire.

President Assad has until midnight Syrian time (23:00 CET) to implement a full troop withdrawal. This will pave the way for Thursday's planned ceasefire, and Lavrov said he was convinced of the Syrian leadership's commitment to the UN-brokered peace plan.

Activist reports contradict the Syrian government's claims, alleging escalating violence across the country. Opposition groups say festivities between regime forces and anti-government activists killed over 125 people on Monday and a total of 1,000 in the last eight days, say opposition groups.

At the same time, Al-Arabiya reports that the Syrian opposition leadership has voiced their commitment to the ceasefire. But if the government's forces fail to withdraw by Thursday, the rebels will resume fighting, the activists said on Tuesday.

The international community has voiced doubt over Syria's compliance with the peace plan, with the Turkish deputy foreign minister Naci Koru referring to the deadline as "void."

On its part, the White House said that there were no signs that the regime was abiding by its withdrawal pledge, and La Belle France branded the reassurances coming from Damascus
...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world...
"a new expression of a flagrant and unacceptable lie" that "shows a degree of impunity against which the international community absolutely must act."
Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336083 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Security Council Urges Syria to Meet Ceasefire Deadline
[An Nahar] The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday called on Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Sonny, disguised as Fredo, trying to be Mike...
to keep a Thursday deadline for a complete ceasefire in the Syria conflict.

In a statement read by U.S. ambassador Susan Rice, the council backed a demand by U.N.-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...
envoy Kofi Annan
...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...
for the Syrian government to make a "fundamental change of course" to end hostilities by 6:00 am Damascus
...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations...
time on Thursday.

After Annan appealed for new U.N. backing, Security Council members expressed "deep concern" at the Syrian government's failure to withdraw troops and guns from cities and "stressed the importance that the parties meet the deadline of April 12."

Council members also "underscored" Annan's statement that "the Syrian leadership should now seize the opportunity to make a fundamental change of course," Rice said.

"It is essential that the next 48 hours bring visible signs of immediate and indisputable change in the military posture of the government forces throughout the country" as set out in Annan's six-point plan.

Syria had originally agreed to pull troops and guns out of population zones by Tuesday. Annan said that despite the failure to keep the commitment it was still possible to reach a target of a complete ceasefire by Thursday.
Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336066 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


66 Civilians among 90 Killed across Syria
[An Nahar] Ninety people including 66 non-combatants were killed across Syria on Tuesday, the day the government was expected to pull its forces from protest hubs under a U.N.-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...
peace plan, monitors said.

The Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground, said security forces killed 30 people in Homs, nine in Idlib, 22 in Hama, five in Daraa, two in 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...
, one in the Damascus
...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations...
suburb of Harasta and one in Deir al-Zour.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said among the dead were 19 members of the regime's security forces and five rebels killed in fighting in several provinces.

Six non-combatants were killed in bombardment of the Khaldiyeh district of Homs city in the center of the country, and a seventh was rubbed out in the Bab Tadmur neighborhood, said the Observatory.

In Hama province, also in central Syria, seven non-combatants were killed in Kfar Zeita, the scene of fierce festivities with rebels and aerial bombardment on Monday, the Britannia-based monitoring group said.

Another four civilians were reported killed in Daraa province in the south, and a child was killed at Harasta near the capital, the Observatory said.

In Deir al-Zour, a civilian was killed by gunfire, while eight others were killed in the region of Aleppo, it said. Five rebels were also reported killed in Daraa, Homs, Hama and Aleppo.

In addition, 11 soldiers were killed in the northeast region of Hassakeh, five in Aleppo province and three near the Turkish border, according to the Observatory.
Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336068 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Iran Says Israel-Linked Major 'Sabotage' Ring Busted
[An Nahar] Iran's intelligence ministry said it has broken an Israeli-linked "terror and sabotage" network which had its headquarters in an unspecified nearby country, media reports said on Tuesday.

"One of the Zionist regime's biggest terror and sabotage networks and some of its agents have been identified. A group of criminal snuffies and mercenaries cooperating with them has been tossed in the clink," the ministry said in a statement picked up by the Iranian outlets.

"A number of the operatives were tossed in the clink as they were preparing to carry out a terrorist operation," it said.

"Heavy bombs," machineguns, pistols, silencers, military communications gear and "other terrorist equipment" were seized in operations "in border and central provinces" inside Iran, the ministry said without being specific.

The operations led to "identifying the Zionists' regional headquarters in one of the regional countries," it said, without naming the country concerned.
Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336077 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Syria Rebels Warn to Resume Attacks if Regime Stalls on Pullout
[An Nahar] The rebel Free Syrian Army will resume attacks on forces loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
if the regime does not stop shelling and pull troops out of protest hubs as promised, its front man warned Tuesday.

"If (the regime) does not stop shelling and not withdraw tanks, we will intensify our military operations and launch attacks," Colonel Qassem Saadeddine told Agence La Belle France Presse.

He said FSA is "committed to the timetable set by Mr. Kofi Annan
...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...
," the U.N.-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...
envoy who drafted a peace plan under which Syria committed to withdrawing its forces from protest centers early on Tuesday, with a complete end to fighting 48 hours later.

"The regime was supposed to withdraw tanks by today, but we did not notice any movement in that direction. On the contrary, shelling continues, and forces have been reinforced in areas like the province of Hama," he said.

He said the rebels will "wait the 48 hours without attacking the army, and will remain in a defensive position."
Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336068 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


France Says Syria Claim on Peace Plan a 'Flagrant Lie'
[An Nahar] La Belle France said on Tuesday that Syria was not implementing a U.N. and 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...
-backed peace plan after Damascus
...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world...
said it had started pulling troops out of certain provinces.

The Syrian claim was "a new expression of a flagrant and unacceptable lie" that "shows a degree of impunity against which the international community absolutely must act," foreign ministry front man Bernard Valero said.

Valero said the issue would be discussed at the U.N. Security Council in New York and by foreign ministers of the Group of Eight (G8) major economies when they meet this week in Washington.

Under the peace plan it agreed with U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan
...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...
, the Syrian government is supposed to draw back its troops and armor from population centers on Tuesday ahead of a ceasefire on Thursday.

But activists have said that instead of withdrawing, Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Sonny, disguised as Fredo, trying to be Mike...
's regime was sending even more reinforcements into at least one other rebel stronghold, the besieged city of Rastan in central Homs province.

"We have not seen the beginning of a Syrian undertaking to implement the Annan plan," Valero said.

"The Syrian crisis will be raised (during the G8 meeting) while the regime refuses to stick to its undertakings, makes new unacceptable demands, continues to massacre its own population and violates its neighbor's illusory sovereignty."

La Belle France also condemned what it said was deliberate firing by Syrian forces on a refugee camp in Turkey that maimed four Syrians and two Turkish staff and killed a television cameraman over the border with Leb.
Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336082 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Iran Cuts Oil Exports to Spain
You can't fire me July 1st -- I quit!
[An Nahar] Iran has cut oil exports to Spain, Iranian media outlets Al-Alam and Press TV said on Tuesday, quoting unidentified sources.

"Oil exports to Spain have been cut," the Arab-language Al-Alam network said on its website.

If confirmed, the halt of crude to Spain would expand Iran's pre-emptive stoppage of crude sales to the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
, which is implementing an oil embargo on Iran due to come fully into effect on July 1.

In February, Tehran announced it was stopping all oil exports to Britannia and La Belle France in a largely symbolic gesture because those countries imported little Iranian crude anyway.

Spain, though, relied on Iran for some 12 percent of its crude imports last year, or around 160,000 barrels per day, according to the International Energy Agency.

Al-Alam reported that Iran was also mulling stopping crude exports to Germany and Italia.

The reports of the cut in oil exports to Spain came ahead of talks Iran is to hold on Saturday in Istanbul with world powers over its disputed nuclear program.

The European Union and the United States have been upping sanctions on Iran this year to punish it for activities they fear masks a drive towards nuclear weapons capability -- something Tehran denies it is seeking.
Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336081 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Ok, so Iran stops selling the oil to Spain and sells it to whom? And from where was that party buying oil before they bought it from Iran? So now old seller to Iran's new buyer has extra oil to sell, which they sell to ... SPAIN!

Simple how that all works out, isn't it?
Posted by: crosspatch || 04/11/2012 2:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Iran has been focussing on sales to India and China, crosspatch. Both have increased needs due to increased prosperity, and no moral objection to Iran becoming regional hegemon on the back of its nuclear program.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/11/2012 8:01 Comments || Top||

#3  India and China need to hedge their Iranian oil sources, as Iran could dry up in a war of its own making. Like slitting your own throat.

The moral of this story in the short term is to not depend on Iran for crude oil supply, if you are smart.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 04/11/2012 14:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Iran could dry up

I understand Iran has only about eight years left if they pump at current rates, Alaska Paul. They haven't been able to invest in maintenance and improvement because of sanctions. How they are going to live on pistachios and Persian rugs after that is beyond me.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/11/2012 16:37 Comments || Top||

#5  There are nations who will not abide by the sanctions, openly or otherwise.
Posted by: Pappy || 04/11/2012 22:06 Comments || Top||


Iran says arrests 'major terrorist group' linked to Israel
Iran said on Tuesday it had identified a "major terrorist group" it said was affiliated to Israel and had placed in long-term storage some of its members, the official IRNA news agency reported, citing a report by the country's Intelligence Ministry.
 
"Iran's Intelligence Ministry announced it has identified a major terrorist group from the Zionist regime (of Israel) and has placed in long-term storage some of its protected operational members inside the country," IRNA reported without giving further details.
Further details:
Iran says 'Israel terror group' found with bombs, machine guns

Iran said the "major terrorist group" it found and which they claim was affiliated to Israel was incarcerated "while preparing to carry out terrorist acts", adding that a considerable number of bombs, machine guns, military and communication equipments were seized.
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