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Thirty killed in alleged Boko Haram attack on Nigeria boarding school
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Africa North
Israel's reviled strategic wisdom
h/t Gates of Vienna
...The American foreign policy establishment's rush to romanticize as the Arab Spring the political instability that engulfed the Arab world following the self-immolation of a Tunisian peddler in December 2010 was perhaps the greatest demonstration ever given of the members of that establishment's utter cluelessness about the nature of Arab politics and society.

...Given Egypt's dire economic plight, it is impossible to see how any government will be able to deliver on any promises - large or small - that its politicians will make during electoral campaigns.

And so government after government will share the fates of Mubarak and Morsi.

...And this is not the case only in Egypt. It is the case in every Arab state that is now or will soon be suffering from instability that has caused coups, Islamic takeovers, civil wars, mass protests and political insecurity in country after country. Not all of them are broke. But then again, none of them have the same strong sense of national identity that Egyptians share.

...In 2011, the military acted to force Mubarak from power only after Obama called for it to do so. This week, the military overthrew Morsi and began rounding up his supporters in defiance of the White House.

Secretary of State John Kerry was the personification of the incredible shrinkage of America this week as he maintained his obsessive focus on getting Israel to make concessions to the Palestinians.

In a Middle East engulfed by civil war, revolution and chronic instability, Israel is the only country at peace. The image of Kerry extolling his success in "narrowing the gaps" between Israel and the Palestinians before he boarded his airplane at Ben-Gurion Airport, as millions assembled to bring down the government of Egypt, is the image of a small, irrelevant America.

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ElBaradei named interim PM
They're doomed...
CAIRO -- Pro-reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei has been named interim prime minister, an opposition spokesman said on Saturday evening.

Khaled Dawoud of the National Salvation Front, the main opposition grouping, told The Associated Press that interim President Adly Mansour will swear in ElBaradei on Saturday evening.

ElBaradei has led the opposition to autocrat Hosni Mubarak, toppled by a popular uprising in 2011, and later to the Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, forced out by the military earlier this week in a move that has led to a new round of chaos in Egypt.

ElBaradei is a Nobel peace Laureate and a former director of the U.N. nuclear watchdog.
Where he was terrible and allowed Iran to pursue the bomb without fear of consequences. Almost as if it were all planned...
Posted by: Steve White || 07/06/2013 14:37 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336071 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He is a human limpet charge.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/06/2013 14:47 Comments || Top||

#2  LOL, well put AP.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/06/2013 15:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Mr. Magoo couldn't find his ass with both hands and a map as "AE watchdog". Bet Iran calls him immediately with well wishes and reminders of those damn polaroids they have of him and a young boy
Posted by: Frank G || 07/06/2013 17:34 Comments || Top||

#4  those damn polaroids they have of him and a young boy

The 'Goat Gallery' photos they have probably aren't as incriminating.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/06/2013 18:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Nope, he's not the Interim according to newer reports. the Al-Nour Islamist group threatened to walk out if ElBaradei was named PM. It's on hold looks like. Wonder why they objected? Bargaining for more power, or genuinely upset for some asinine reason?
Posted by: Charles || 07/06/2013 21:21 Comments || Top||

#6  the Al-Nour Islamist group threatened to walk out if ElBaradei was named PM.

Perhaps they object to his history as an Iranian tool, Charles. The Sunni radicals in Egypt have been getting upset about the Shiite Persian bogeyman.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2013 21:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Mr. Magoo couldn't find his ass with both hands and a map as "AE watchdog".

A valid point, but I think we should give him some credit for finding Egypt. (although it is likely he had help)
Posted by: SteveS || 07/06/2013 22:10 Comments || Top||


Economy
Jobs Report - Good News/Bad News
The reaction to Friday's jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is the latest example of a nation with lowered economic expectations. On its face, the report offered good news. The economy added 195,000 jobs in June and beat the forecasters' estimates. The private sector added 202,000 jobs, while governments -- state, local and federal -- cut back by just 7,000. The government also revised upward the jobs numbers for the two previous months.
Up, down, all around. Who can remember?
But other numbers from Friday tell a less positive story. The unemployment rate held steady at 7.6 percent, because more people were looking for work than in the previous month. And 332,000 people said they were working part-time because of economic conditions, rather than by choice. At the same time, long-term unemployment remains acute. Of the 11.8 million unemployed workers, more than 4.3 million have been out of work for 27 weeks or more.
Why don't we just extend the unemployment benefits again? Gubbamint can cushion the blow!
The reality is that the economy isn't employing nearly as large a share of the potential workforce as it once did. An analysis from the Economic Policy Institute compared the percentage of the working-age population employed today with the levels before the recession. In early 2007, 63.3 percent of working-age Americans had a job. The latest report pegs that percentage at just 58.7 percent.

A somewhat fairer measure of conditions then and now is the ratio for those of prime working age. The percentage of people between the ages of 25 and 54 who were employed in early 2007 was 80 percent. It dropped to 74.8 percent in late 2009. Although it has risen since then, it is still just 75.9 percent.
So those folks are all unemployed/underemployed.
Obama made the election a referendum on middle-class anxiety and asked voters to choose the candidate they trusted more with their futures.
Not that sleazeball Romney!
He has continued to talk about those themes since his reelection, but they have not been his principal focus.
Talking is his principle focus.
Nah. Golf...
What's been missing is a sense that the middle-class agenda remains at the core of his presidency.

Republicans don't offer much, either. Some have talked about the need to develop new policies designed to help struggling middle-class families, but there is neither a consensus nor a sense of urgency inside the party on this front.
It's hard to lead when you don't have control of the government to make your proposals into law.
Instead, most Republicans have taken every opportunity to claim that the Affordable Care Act is the major cause of economic problems and are doing what they can to make its implementation more difficult.
They sense it's popularity, but maybe they should just let it take effect.
Congress shows little ability to deal with multiple issues at the same time. Immigration now dominates the agenda on Capitol Hill, with the focus shifting this week to the House.
What's the media covering again?
For now, Congress has punted on the budget, having allowed sequestration to take effect rather than find a bipartisan solution. Across-the-board cuts continue to squeeze spending, and although it may not be as draconian in its economic impact as some (such as the president) had predicted, the sequester is no substitute for a real budget or an economic policy.

Economic experts said the recovery would take years, and as a result no one expects miracle cures. But when the unemployment rate ticks down ever so slowly and the broader problem of wage stagnation keeps many families on the edge financially, it's surprising that more effort isn't going into an issue that both the public and the politicians still say is the nation's most acute problem.
It doesn't make Champ look good, so it's not news.
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Government
O-Care Implementation - Never Mind
Opponents' anger was registered emphatically in congressional elections 15 months later, which is one reason why implementation of the act's most onerous provisions was delayed until 2014, after the 2012 presidential election.
I never would have imagined!
The act PPACA remains unpopular, and there are congressional elections in years divisible by two -- not even the Obama administration can ignore that constitutional fact -- so last Tuesday, the administration said this about the act's mandate that in 2014, large employers provide expensive health-care coverage for their workers or pay a substantial penalty: Never mind.

Although the Constitution has no Article VIII, the administration acts as though there is one that reads: "Notwithstanding all that stuff in other articles about how laws are made, if a president finds a law politically inconvenient, he can simply post on the White House Web site a notice saying: Never mind."

Never mind that the law stipulates 2014 as the year when employers with 50 full-time workers are mandated to offer them health-care coverage or pay fines. Instead, 2015 will be the year. Unless Democrats see a presidential election coming.
But after 2016, he won't be able to postpone it anymore. That'd be up to Mooshell.
This lesson in the Obama administration's approach to the rule of law is pertinent to the immigration bill, which at last count had 222 instances of a discretionary "may" and 153 of "waive." Such language means that were the Senate bill to become law, the executive branch would be able to do pretty much as it pleases, even to the point of saying about almost anything: Never mind.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/06/2013 13:05 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336077 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Y'know, if someone were to file a suit to force the law to be implemented...
Posted by: Pappy || 07/06/2013 15:28 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
The Fatal Shame Of Russia
Good article over at www.strategypage.com
Russian prosecutors have finally completed their investigation and prosecution of those responsible for one of the most notorious cases of military corruption in Russian history; the use of obsolete and counterfeit parts in Russian warplanes built by Russian manufacturers.

It all began in 2007 when Algeria told Russia that it was cancelling the recent $1.3 billion purchase of 28 MiG-29 fighters and returning the ones already delivered. Algeria insisted that there were quality issues and that some of the aircraft were assembled from old parts.
When Insh'allah maintenance identifies problems, you've got problems...
Russian aviation officials were alarmed when, upon inspecting 60,000 aircraft parts, they found that nearly a third of them were counterfeits. While most of the substandard fake parts came from neighboring countries, many were made in Russia. China wins first place when it comes to stealing technology and producing counterfeit goods but Russia is solidly in second place, turning out about a third as many counterfeit goods as China.
The Russian's are counterfeiting cheap Russian parts?
Western nations would like to get both Russia and China to crack down on the counterfeiting. That has not been easy. In both countries the counterfeiting is a multi-billion dollar a year industry, run by guys who know how to bribe the right politicians. The counterfeiters have another incentive to keep the prosecutors at bay: counterfeiting kills. Phony medicines and aircraft engine parts have both been linked to deaths in Africa and Asia, where the imitation goods are often sold. If brought to justice, Chinese and Russian counterfeiters would likely be executed.
Posted by: Squinty || 07/06/2013 11:47 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336085 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The problem is how many or those cheap, counterfeit materials (especially in meds.) find their way into the US via the generic drug trade?
Posted by: AlanC || 07/06/2013 15:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Gee, I dunno. I kind of like the idea that - on any given day - any given Russian or Chinese combat aircraft, tank, missile - whatever - is likely to have a spontaneous catastrophic failure, because it was assembled using WWII parts, or Cracker Jack parts, made in someone's garage. 'Must really boost the confidence of the troops, as well.
Posted by: Lone Ranger || 07/06/2013 19:44 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Thirty killed in alleged Boko Haram attack on Nigeria boarding school
Thirty people have been killed in an attack on a northeastern Nigeria boarding school, after gunmen alleged to be affiliated with the extremist Boko Haram group stormed the campus, shooting some children and burning others alive.

"We were sleeping when we heard gunshots," said 15-year-old Musa Hassan to the Associated Press who was shot in his writing hand, losing four fingers. " When I woke up, someone was pointing a gun at me."

Hassan said the gunment used a jerrycan full of fuel to torch a hostel and an administrative building, burning children alive. Many of the bodies are too badly charred to be identified, leaving many parents in doubt as to whether their children managed to escape the attack alive.

The attack took place at the Government Secondary Schoo in Mamudo town in Nigeria's Yobe state, and appears to be the latest in a series of violent attacks on schools instigated by Boko Haram, which is stridently opposed to Western education. "Boko Haram" translates directly to "Western education is sacrilege."
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Good (late) morning
Posted by: Scooter McGruder || 07/06/2013 10:22 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336094 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mary Astor (born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke; May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was an American actress. Most remembered for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941) with Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s.

She eventually made a successful transition to talkies, but almost saw her career destroyed due to public scandal in the mid-1930s. She was sued for support by her parents and was later branded an adulterous wife by her ex-husband during a custody fight over her daughter. Overcoming these stumbling blocks in her private life, Astor went on to even greater success on the screen, eventually winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Sandra Kovak in The Great Lie (1941)

Posted by: Au Auric || 07/06/2013 11:00 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Police chief killed with rifle lost in ATF gun-tracking program
WASHINGTON--A high-powered rifle lost in the ATF's Fast and Furious controversy was used to kill a Mexican police chief in the state of Jalisco earlier this year, according to internal Department of Justice records, suggesting that weapons from the failed gun-tracking operation have now made it into the hands of violent drug cartels deep inside Mexico.

Luis Lucio Rosales Astorga, the police chief in the city of Hostotipaquillo, was shot to death Jan. 29 when gunmen intercepted his patrol car and opened fire. Also killed was one of his bodyguards. His wife and a second bodyguard were wounded.

Local authorities said eight suspects in their 20s and 30s were arrested after police seized them nearby with a cache of weapons -- rifles, grenades, handguns, helmets, bulletproof vests, uniforms and special communications equipment. The area is a hot zone for rival drug gangs, with members of three cartels fighting over turf in the region.

A semi-automatic WASR rifle, the firearm that killed the chief, was traced back to the Lone Wolf Trading Company, a gun store in Glendale, Ariz. The notation on the Department of Justice trace records said the WASR was used in a "HOMICIDE -- WILLFUL -- KILL --PUB OFF --GUN" --ATF code for "Homicide, Willful Killing of a Public Official, Gun."

Hundreds of firearms were lost in the Fast and Furious operation. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives allowed illegal purchasers to buy the firearms at the Lone Wolf store in the Phoenix suburb and other gun shops in hopes of tracing them to Mexican cartel leaders.
See, there's part of the problem: they 'hoped' to trace the guns, instead of having an iron-clad plan to trace them, and instead of asking themselves, "gee, what's gonna happen if we lose track of these guns?"
The WASR used in Jalisco was purchased on Feb. 22, 2010, about three months into the Fast and Furious operation, by 26-year-old Jacob A. Montelongo of Phoenix. He later pleaded guilty to conspiracy, making false statements and smuggling goods from the United States and was sentenced to 41 months in prison.

Court records show Montelongo personally obtained at least 109 firearms during Fast and Furious. How the WASR ended up in the state of Jalisco, which is deep in central Mexico and includes the country's second-largest metropolis, Guadalajara, remained unclear.
Unclear to the LA Times reporter. I think the rest of us get it...
After the shooting in Jalisco, local officials said some of the suspects confessed to two other shootouts in the area, including one that left seven people dead, all part of the continuing feud by rival cartel members.

The ATF declined to discuss the matter; officials said they are still compiling an inventory of all the lost firearms for a complete account of the Fast and Furious operation.
Exactly how long does an inventory take to do? Answer -- as long as it takes for the press and public to lose interest...
Instead of being tracked, almost all the weapons were lost as they flooded across the border into Mexico.
Almost as if it were a plan...
In all, some 211 people were killed or wounded by Fast and Furious weapons in Mexico, according to Mexican authorities. And on this side of the border, a Fast and Furious weapon was found at the Arizona scene where U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was slain in 2010.

Terry's slaying set off a number of investigations in Washington into Fast and Furious. It led to the firing or demotion of many ATF officials, including the agency's acting director, who stepped down. It ultimately prompted the GOP-controlled House to vote Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over a number of Fast and Furious records sought by the House Oversight Committee.
Fat lot of good that did, too...
Posted by: Beavis || 07/06/2013 09:40 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336083 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hundreds of firearms were lost in the Fast and Furious operation.

"Lost" ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2013 10:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, we don't know where they are, so that makes them 'lost.'
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/06/2013 10:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Lost? No, the find them one at a time. The system worked, see?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/06/2013 10:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Yet another USG gun-running scheme gone bad. One does not simply ship 2500 (+ or -) military style weapons into a foreign country without US Embassy and State Dept. knowledge and approval. It just fok'n does not happen! The proof lies in the continued silence and media diversions from State and OGA.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2013 10:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Hillary said [re Benghazi]: "What difference does it make?" Most likely, it won't make much difference. This administration will sweep the scat under the rug and forget about it when people ought to go to jail over F & F as well as other scandals. This administration has no credibility whatsoever.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/06/2013 12:57 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Third Amendment complaint in Henderson, Nevada
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2013 08:08 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336079 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And by Section I of the XIV Amendment, Amendment III applies to Nevada's Henderson Police Department. I say that they have a case.
Posted by: Squinty || 07/06/2013 11:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Throw in Amendment V as well -

nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/06/2013 11:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Is the department a participant in NIMS?

Is it appropriate for a member of the government to reside on your property without permission, or at least due process allowing one to represent themself in a public forum?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/06/2013 12:09 Comments || Top||

#4  The police should be charged with home invasion, kidnapping, making terroristic threats as well as a host of other charges. This will keep up til they invade the wrong house and an entire swat team winds up dead
Posted by: Silentbrick - Schlumberger Squishy Mud Division || 07/06/2013 16:30 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Palestinian Jihadist Group Claims Credit For Arizona Wildfire
[LongWarJournal] A Paleostinian jihadist group, Masada al Mujahideen, recently claimed credit for ongoing wildfires in Arizona in a statement posted to jihadist forums today. The statement, titled "Masada al-Mujahideen Fulfilled its Promise and Attacked America Again After the Expiration of the Period with Fires that Achieved Historic Results," was obtained and translated by the SITE Intelligence Group.

"We had previously announced an unconventional war against the occupation state of Israel, and then we escalated this war to reach its main supporter, America, so that it receives a major share of it, which will destroy their flora and fauna, with permission from Allah and then with our hands," the group said.

According to SITE, in addition to claiming responsibility for fires in the US, the jihadist group has claimed credit for more than a dozen fires in Israel since 2010.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2013 06:44 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336095 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don't believe them. This time. But their claim is not impossible.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/06/2013 10:37 Comments || Top||

#2  "Paleostinians claim to have discovered fire."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/06/2013 10:41 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Nicaragua Offers Edward Snowden Asylum, Venezuela Promptly Follows
Posted by: tipper || 07/06/2013 02:09 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336081 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Getting to the bottom of the barrel in asylum choices, aren't we, Mr. Snowden?
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/06/2013 22:28 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Explosions rock ammunition depots in Latakia
Explosions rocked several army ammunition depots in the western Syrian province of Latakia on Friday, possibly after they were targeted with rockets, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said there were reports of deaths and injuries in the blasts but he had no further details.

"Explosions around dawn today rocked an area... in the east of Latakia apparently as a result of blasts in ammunitions depots near a brigade of regime forces," the Observatory said in an email.

Abdel Rahman said there were indications that the blasts were caused by rocket fire targeting the depots, but that there was uncertainty over who was behind the attack.

Elsewhere in the country, the Syrian air force carried out at least three raids on besieged sectors of the central city of Homs, where troops have been battling to roll back rebel forces.

The Observatory reported heavy shelling on Khaldiyeh district and the Old City of Homs, adding that regime forces backed by the National Defence Force militia and members of Lebanon's Shiite group Hezbollah were fighting rebels on the outskirts of Khaldiyeh.

The group said eight regime forces were killed in fighting on Thursday in the two neighbourhoods of Homs, which have been under siege by the army for more than a year.
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-Land of the Free
This week in Guns: July 6th, 2013


Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition.

Pistol Ammo

.45 caliber, 230 grain:
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt: TulAmmo FMJ Steel cased .42 per round
Cheapest Brass cased, 50 rounds: Ammunition to Go, Sellier & Bellot .46 per round

.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ventura Munitions, Ventura Tactical, .35 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, reloaded, .34 per round

9mm Parabellum, 115 grain
Cheapest, 50 rounds: BangItAmmo.com, Fiocchi, .37 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, reloaded, .30 per round

.357 Magnum, 158 grain
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Widners, Prvi Partizan .48 per round
Cheapest, Bulk 250 rounds: LAX Ammunition, reloaded, .42 per round

Rifle Ammunition

.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition to Go, Tula FMJ, steel case and core, .45 per round
Cheapest brass case, 100 rounds: Ammunition to Go, DRS, .45 per round
Cheapest Bulk 1000 rounds: Bulk Ammo, Tula, steel case and core, .44 per round

.308 NATO 145 grain
Cheapest, 20 rounds: BangitAmmo, Silver Bear, Steel Case FMJ, .70 per round
Cheapest Brass cased, 20 rounds: Ammunition to Go, Prvi Partizan FMJ, .75 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1000 rounds: United Nations Ammo, Prvi Partizan FMJ, .80 per round

7.62x39 AK 123 Grain
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ventura Munitions,Wolf Ammo, steel core and case, .30 per round
Cheapest, Bulk, 1000 rounds: Ventura Munitions, Wolf Ammo, steel core and case, .27 per round
Cheapest, Brass casing: LAX Ammunition, Fiocchi, .56 per round for 1000

.22 LR 40 Grain
Cheapest, 50 rounds: BangitAmmo.com, Eley Sport, .14 per round
Cheapest, Bulk, 1000 rounds: Ammo Supply Warehouse, Amscor Prec., .15 per round

Guns for Private Sale
Rifles

.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic)
California: Palmetto State Armory 5.56mm: $950
Texas DPMS .223: $650
New York: Palmetto State Armory .223: $1,050
Maryland: Daniel Defense .223: $1,000
Florida: Smith & Wesson: $900

.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic)
California: Smith & Wesson: $1,000
Texas: DPMS: $1,000
New York: Smith & Wesson: $1,350
Maryland: Rock River Arms LAR-8: $1,970
Florida: Rock River Arms LAR-8: $1,700

7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic)
California: Saiga Armory: $900
Texas: Century International: $650
New York: Norinco: $775
Maryland: IO Inc: $800
Florida: Century International Arms: $750

7.62x54mm (Dragunov Pattern Semiautomatic)
California: Romak PSL: $1,950
Texas: None
New York: None
Maryland: None
Florida: Romak PSL: $1,200
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Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/06/2013 10:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Good grief.

When I last bought ammo, about 5 years ago, the Russian steel-cased .223 FMJ was going for about $0.18 a round, and Remington Thunderbolt .22LR was $9.99 for a brick of 500.

Once upon a time, I'd look at my stash of ammo and think "self defense." Now, it looks more like "retirement savings."
Posted by: Dave D. || 07/06/2013 10:47 Comments || Top||

#7  Russian Brown Bear 7.62x54r for new production heavy ball (180 grain) is going for what 7.62 NATO is going for now. And I always thought no one shoots Mosin Nagants.
Posted by: badanov || 07/06/2013 11:28 Comments || Top||

#8  Skid..

Ammoseek.com is another good'un
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 07/06/2013 15:12 Comments || Top||

#9  And its raining here AGAIN.

I picked a wet week to vacay. Fortunately the porch is covered, the beer is cold and I stocked up on limes.

Merry belated 4th to y'all.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 07/06/2013 15:18 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Islamists Attack in Sinai
The first major Islamic militant attack came before dawn Friday in the tumultuous Sinai Peninsula, killing at least one soldier. Masked assailants launched a coordinated attack with rockets, rocket-propelled grenades and anti-aircraft guns on the airport in the northern Sinai city of el-Arish, where military aircraft are located, as well as a security forces camp in Rafah on the border with Gaza and five other military and police posts, sparking nearly four hours of clashes.

One of military's top commanders, Gen. Ahmed Wasfi arrived at el-Arish on Friday to lead operations there as the army declared a "war on terrorism" in Sinai. A crowd of Morsi supporters tried to storm the governor's office in the city but were dispersed by security forces.

The night of Morsi's ouster, jihadi groups held a rally in el-Arish attended by hundreds, vowing to fight. "War council, war council," a speaker shouted, according to online video of the rally. "No peacefulness after today."

Islamic militants hold a powerful sway in the lawless and chaotic northern Sinai. They are heavily armed with weapons smuggled from Libya and have links with militants in the neighboring Gaza Strip, run by Hamas. After the attack, Egypt indefinitely closed its border crossing into Gaza, sending 200 Palestinians back into the territory, said Gen. Sami Metwali, director of Rafah passage.

At the Rabia al-Adawiya rally earlier in the day, the crowd filled much of a broad boulevard, vowing to remain in place until Morsi is restored. The protesters railed against what they called the return of the regime of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, ousted in early 2011.
The usual face-making, grimacing, and eye-rolling then ensued...
"The old regime has come back ... worse than before," said Ismail Abdel-Mohsen, an 18-year old student among the crowds outside the Rabia al-Adawiya Mosque. He dismissed the new interim head of state sworn in a day earlier, senior judge Adly Mansour, as "the military puppet."

"After sunset, President Morsi will be back in the palace," they chanted. "The people want God's law. Islamic, Islamic, whether the army likes it or not."

Many held copies of the Quran in the air, and much of the crowd had the long beards of ultraconservative men or encompassing black robes and veils worn by women, leaving only the eyes visible. One protester shouted that the sheik of Al-Azhar - Egypt's top Muslim cleric who backed the military's move - was "an agent of the Christians" - reflecting a sentiment that the Christian minority was behind Morsi's ouster.
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Army spokesman denies imposing curfew in two North Sinai towns
[Al Ahram] Egyptian authorities denied imposing curfew in two North Sinai towns on the border with Israel and the Gaza Strip, state television reported on Friday. Egypt's Sinai Peninsula has been plunged into lawlessness since a 2011 uprising ousted President Hosni Mubarak, and violence has surged there this week since the army pushed aside Mubarak's successor, Muslim Brotherhood member Mohamed Morsi.
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#1  "....but now that you mention it..."
Posted by: AlanC || 07/06/2013 8:54 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iranian commander: defense budget not sufficient
Iran's defense budget is not sufficient given the current foreign threats to the country, Deputy Commander of the Iranian Armed Forces, Coordination Division Brigadier General Mohammad Hossein Dadras said on Friday.
No doubt he's telling the Iranian MPs that Americans are ten feet tall...
"Among 16 countries in the region, Iran ranks 15 in terms of its defense budget, but the country's military capabilities are acceptable, the Mehr News Agency quoted Dadras as saying.

He went on to note that Iran is currently self-sufficient in producing military hardware.
The Fars News Agency reported on May 12 that the Iranian parliament (Majlis) approved the allocation of $5 billion to the national defense budget. The allocated budget is close to last year's defense budget.

Iran's defense budget was increased 127 percent to around $5 billion during the last solar year, which started on March 19, 2012.
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#1  http://csis.org/files/publication/100812_IranGulfThreatBrief-ConvBal.pdf
shows that Iranian conventional forces remain weak, and are aging more quickly than Iran can as yet modernize them in spite of major efforts to create a military-industrial base. It also shows that the military expenditures and arms imports of the Southern Gulf states are vastly larger than those of Iran, and they have much larger forces of modern military equipment. Given the fact that the US brings a far more decisive lead in air, naval, and missile warfare to the table; Iran is anything but the “hegemon of the Gulf.”

http://csis.org/files/publication/100812_IranGulfThreatBrief-Asymm.pdf. It shows that Iran has far greater capability for asymmetric (or irregular) warfare than conventional warfare and has developed a wide mix of land, air, and naval capabilities that can threaten its neighbors, challenge the US, and affect other parts of the Middle East and Asia. These capabilities include IranÂ’s ability to threaten and intimate its Gulf neighbors, and threaten Gulf exports. They also include the capability to use state and non-state actors as proxies or in threatening and manipulating a range of neighboring states, including Afghanistan, Iraq, and Israel. These forces are the key military elements of Iranian strategic competition and are steadily increasing in size and capability.

http://csis.org/files/publication/100813_IranGulfThreatBriefMissile-WMD.pdf. It shows that Iran continues to develop the capability to produce nuclear weapons, has chemical weapons, and may have a biological weapons program. It also shows that Iran has made the development and deployment of long-range missile forces a key priority. At present, these missiles may lack the accuracy and lethality to pose more than a terror threat, but they already give Iran some capability to pressure and intimidate its neighbors and other states in the region, deter attacks on Iran, and deter reprisals for its use of asymmetric forces. There is a significant prospect that Iran will be able to equip some missiles with nuclear warheads in the next three to six years – a development which would be a far more powerful deterrent and way of using military force to support its efforts at strategic competition.
Posted by: Thaing Dingles || 07/06/2013 0:51 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm sure Obama, et. el., will offer them some aid.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2013 0:55 Comments || Top||

#3  I'd rather see their unconventional warfare potential deteriorate.
Posted by: Pappy || 07/06/2013 10:12 Comments || Top||


3 more US Patrol Coastal ships to Gulf of Rumsfeld
The war in Afghanistan is nearing its end and Operation Enduring Freedom may be over next year when US troops complete a scheduled pullout, but the US Navy appears to be increasing its firepower in the strategic Arabian Gulf with the addition of three smaller and swifter Patrol Coastal ships to be permanently based in the region.
On Wednesday, three vessels, the USS Tempest, USS Squall and USS Thunderbolt arrived in Bahrain, taking the number of Patrol Coastal ships to eight. Two more vessels, the USS Hurricane and USS Monsoon, are expected to join the 5th Fleet in 2014.

‘‘Bringing PCs out to the US 5th Fleet area of responsibility has nothing to do with Afghanistan but rather it’s due to a strong demand signal for the capability they bring to maritime security operations in this region,’’ said 5th Fleet spokesperson Lt Marissa Myatt from Bahrain.

‘‘These boats help us conduct operations here in the Arabian Gulf with our partners more effectively and the increase in fleet strength is not targeted at any country. It’s also cost effective,’’ she said. ‘‘What their smaller size brings is the ability to work side by side, literally, with our coalition partners.’

The new patrol coastal boats are not expected to increase tensions with Teheran and is ‘‘rather a testament to the US Navy standing by its coalition partners to help in maritime security operations, maritime infrastructure protection (of oil platforms and distilleries), or patrolling sea lines of communication’’.

Gulf waters are shallow and smaller vessels are a faster alternative to emerging situations.
Isn't this why we're building the LCS?
Meanwhile, the US NavyÂ’s interaction with the Iranian navy has been and continues to be professional and courteous, the navy official said.

“Having additional PCs here in Bahrain will give us incredible flexibility in the 5th Fleet area of operations since they are uniquely capable of operating in this dynamic environment,” said Vice-Admiral John W. Miller, commander, US Naval Forces Central Command, US 5th Fleet, Combined Maritime Forces in a statement.

Patrol coastal ships have a displacement of 380 tonnes, are 179 feet long, 25 feet wide, with a top speed of 35 knots. They can stay at sea for 10 days without replenishing and have a crew of 25-28 sailors. The patrol boats will have permanent crews deployed for a year or two, and families will be allowed to join them.

Commander, Patrol Coastal Squadron ONE and a maintenance and logistics support detachment will also permanently move from Virginia in the US to Bahrain to provide support to the ships.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336070 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cyclone-class patrol ships are replacements for PB Mk III small (65 ft) Vietnam War-era patrol boats used to transport SEAL teams. One guess is that the SEALs want more platforms in the area.
Posted by: Thaing Dingles || 07/06/2013 1:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Isn't this why we're building the LCS?

No, the LCS is all about networking. Serious, serious networking, not your Rotary Club level networking. I'm still trying to figure out why steel, aluminum balsa had to be cut for the networking aspect to work. It would have done just as well as a virtual ship class and be a damn sight safer and more comfortable for its crews and the all important networking would have been maintained. They could have built it in Tampa at the American Shipless Yard.

Posted by: Shipman || 07/06/2013 6:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Its been done before. Even had a base of operations. Didn't have a family quarters though.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/06/2013 12:12 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Terrorist threat stops IDPs' return to Orakzai
[Dawn] The return of thousands of internally displaced persons from Mohammad Khwaja relief camp in Hangu to Chaper Perozkhel area in Orakzai Agency
... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers...
was postponed at the eleventh hour on Tuesday over threats of terrorist attacks.

Fata Disaster Management Authority had made preparations for the return of over 26,000 IDPs to Chaper Perozkhel area from Tuesday (July 2).

The next date for the IDPs' return will be announced later on, according to the relevant officials.

The political administration and FDMA had joined hands for the rehabilitation of IDPs from the Mohammad Khwaja relief camp in Hangu to Chaper Perozkhel area in Orakzai Agency after the return of normality in the region.

Dozens of trucks, pickups and coaches were sent to the camp on Monday evening to take IDPs home.

IDPs had loaded their belongings in vehicles and were all set to leave for their native towns early in the morning when the administration suddenly called off the programme 'for the time being' for security reasons.

Officials said suspected faceless myrmidons had sneaked into Chaper Perozkhel area and therefore, acts of sabotage were imminent.

IDPs had vacated their houses and migrated to the relief camp in Hangu three years ago when the military operation launched there.

IDPs, including Hamid, Aitbar Khan, Khan Mohammad and Dilbar, told news hounds here that the political administration had taken the action due to non-clearance of the area from bad turbans.

The dejected IDPs expressed concern
...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended...
over the situation and said they had been spending miserable life at the camp for three years.

They wanted their early return to native towns, saying they were sick of life in tents.

Political agent of Orakzai Agency Mohammad Aslam said the decision of postponing the return of IDPs to Chaper Perozkhel had been taken for the time being over security grounds.

He said the announcement of the IDPs' return would be made soon.

Mr Aslam said security for IDPs was the responsibility of the political administration and it didn't want to put them in trouble yet again.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Asir in Alleged Audio Message Speaks of Plot to End His Presence in Abra
[An Nahar] Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir, whose fate became uncertain after the army stormed his headquarters on June 24, resurfaced Thursday in an alleged audio message in which he described the deadly Sidon festivities as a plot aimed at ending his presence.

"You will know and everyone must know the normal context of the incident, or rather the massacre, that happened, which is not an isolated incident, as we had raised the voice several times over the attacks of the Party of Satan (Hizbullah), the criminal AMAL Movement and the shabiha (thugs) of the so-called Lebanese army, which is in the service of Hizbullah, AMAL Movement, the criminal Syrian regime and the Iranian regime," Asir says in the audio recording.

"These attacks have not only targeted us, but have also targeted the entire Sunni sect, ever since Syria started its hegemony over Leb ... such us jailing our young men, torturing them, stepping on their beards and necks and interrogating them in a provocative sectarian manner, and lately one of the soldiers pushed another soldier against one of our sisters who wears niqab and he fell over her," Asir added.

He said he was fully aware that "a confrontation was being plotted" against his group because Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan "Nasrallah knew that he would lose a direct confrontation against us after he lost in (Syria's) Qusayr."
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336079 views] Top|| File under: Salafists


Caribbean-Latin America
Bolivia's Leader Threatens to Close U.S. Embassy
[An Nahar] Bolivia's president threatened Thursday to close the U.S. embassy as leftist Latin American leaders joined him in blasting Europe and the United States after his plane was rerouted amid suspicions U.S. runaway Edward Snowden was aboard.

President Evo Morales, who has suggested the United States pressured European nations to deny him their airspace, warned he would "study, if necessary, closing the U.S. embassy in Bolivia."

"We don't need a U.S. embassy in Bolivia," he said. "My hand would not shake to close the U.S. embassy. We have dignity, illusory sovereignty. Without the United States, we are better politically, democratically."
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336070 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hey, no problemo amigo. We'll close the SOB immediante! Save us a lot of dough.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2013 2:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Our reply should be -

"U.S. Leader Threatens to Close Bolivia"
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 07/06/2013 2:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Hope you and your team are safe and doing well Billy.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2013 2:20 Comments || Top||

#4  We're fine. SECSTATE blew through town this week but he's actually very low maintenance when compared to the HildeBeast.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 07/06/2013 8:14 Comments || Top||

#5  I got a third hand SITREP via DSS and SS over beer and ribs one night at Mike's American. Evidently she [the Hildebeast] is indeed a real piece of work for PSD's.

Keep an eye on the Klingons. :-)
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2013 8:38 Comments || Top||

#6  "We don't need a U.S. embassy in Bolivia,"

I never agree with Evo, but this time he might actually have a point..
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/06/2013 10:58 Comments || Top||

#7  Got to give this regime credit, they are making Yankee Imperialism real. No longer a prerogative of Lefty lexicon of the culture or 'other' party, but their own SOP.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/06/2013 10:59 Comments || Top||

#8  P2K: Would a bunch of agent provocateurs do anything differently?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/06/2013 20:12 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Bombings targeting Shias kill 19 in Iraq
[Dawn] A suicide kaboomer and a boom-mobileing killed at least 19 people and maimed 38 in separate attacks Friday targeting Shias north of Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, the latest in an increasing wave of violence across the country.

Iraq has been facing its deadliest outburst of violence since 2008, with more than 2,000 people killed since the start of April.

The bloodshed appears to be largely the work of resurgent Sunni gunnies such as al Qaeda's Iraq branch, feeding off Sunni discontent with the Shia-led government.

The deadliest attack on Friday took place in Storied Baghdad's Kiraiyat neighborhood as worshippers gathered after the evening call to prayers at the Hussienieh Ali Basha mosque.

A jacket wallah walked in during the service and detonated his explosives, killing 15 worshippers and wounding 32, a police officer and a medical official said.

Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorised to talk to the media.

Earlier Friday, an explosives-laden vehicle detonated near a Shia protest camp in the city of Samarra, a police officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
as he was not authorised to release information to the media.

The head of the Salahuddin provincial health directorate, Raed Ibrahim, later confirmed the casualty figures in the attack in Samarra, 95 kilometers north of Storied Baghdad.
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India-Pakistan
Suicide bomber kills six at Pak-Afghan border
[Dawn] CHAMAN: At least six officials, including an Afghan border commander, were killed and 19 others injured Friday when a jacket wallah went kaboom! at the Pakistain-Afghanistan border
...also known as Pashtunistan, home of ignorance, poverty, and automatic weapons...
near Chaman region of 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...
Pak security officials, who did not want to be named, told Dawn.com that the suicide bomber blew up his detonative while targeting the vehicle of Afghan border forces.

"Our forces miraculously survived since the blast happened at Friendship Gate at Pak-Afghan border," the source said.

According to reports, the incident happened on the Afghan side of the border.

An Afghan border force official, who did not want to be named, said six Afghan border coppers were killed and another 19 sustained injuries. He confirmed that Afghan border commander Akhtar Muhammad had also been killed in the kaboom.

Afghan security officials said Akhtar Muhammad was the intended target of the suicide kaboom.

The condition of five of the injured persons was stated to be serious and they were rushed to Quetta's bordering town of Chaman for medical treatment.

Frontier Corps sources, however, said that some Paks were also among the injured.

The Pak-Afghan border at Chaman was immediately closed following the blast.

Later, FC persons were called at the border to control the situation. Moreover, security was tightened on both sides of the border to avert another untoward incident.
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Southeast Asia
318 Thai terrorists have turned selves in this year
... as the violence continues
318 suspected terrorists insurgents turned themselves in to authorities during the past year, according to the latest report about southern Thailand. They were encouraged to surrender under the armed forces' Pha Khon Klap Ban (take people home) campaign.

Defense spokesman Thanathip Sawasaeng said, "Because of our attempts to build their trust in the officers, the suspects, who were believed to have left home to join separatist groups in Muslim-dominated provinces, have decided to report to the government."

Meanwhile, two volunteer rangers from a teacher protection unit were killed yesterday in Pattani province.

In Narathiwat province, five defense volunteers were seriously injured in a bomb blast yesterday morning. The volunteers were attacked as they responded to an earlier blast. No one was hurt by the first bomb but the attackers detonated a second device buried under the road. The five defense volunteers were seriously injured and their vehicle was badly damaged.

In Songkhla province, Samsudee Lateh, said to be former member of the Patani United Liberation Organization was killed in a drive-by shooting yesterday afternoon as he left a mosque.
Posted by: ryuge || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336065 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Africa North
Egypt's Islamist National Alliance to Support Legitimacy proposes its demands
[Al Ahram] The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy released a statement listing the demands of the hundreds of thousands of protesters in Cairo's streets.

Protesters heeded calls by Islamists for a "Friday of Rejection" to protest the removal of Mohamed Morsi from the presidency.

The demands include: the reinstatement of "the legitimate elected president in accordance to the constitution and law," the dismissal of all unconstitutional decisions declared by the armed forces and by which it "usurped power," to continue implementing the constitution voted for by the people and start a dialogue to amend several of its articles, to hold accountable officials responsible for oppressive tactics used in the killing of demonstrators and the arrest of politicians and the closure of satellite channels.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336067 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


The Grand Turk
Femen stages topless protest against Turkey PM
[Al Ahram] A feminist activist from the radical group Femen staged a topless protest at an Istanbul airport Friday to denounce Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's religious conservatism.

Wearing only mini-shorts and high heels, she performed her stunt inside Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen airport, on the Asian side of the bi-continental city. The woman, with the words "Air Dictator" painted in red on her chest, brandished a banner representing a plane ticket that read "Erdogan, from: Istanbul to: Kabul".

Police locked away
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
her after the brief protest.

Femen said in a statement it "urges the people of Turkey, like Egyptians, to overthrow Erdogan's Islamist regime and force Erdogan to relocate to a country close to him in spirit (such as) Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistain."

The group also urged the "lovely Turkish people" to press on with the unprecedented anti-Erdogan protest movement that developed last month on Istanbul's Taksim square.
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
WHO calls emergency talks on Mers virus
The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Friday it had convened emergency talks on the deadly Mers virus, but said the move did not mean it was hiking its global alert level. WHO health security chief Keiji Fukuda said the meeting on the virus, which is striking hardest in Saudi Arabia, would take place on Tuesday in the form of a telephone conference of officials from affected countries and experts around the world.

“We really want the international community to be in a position to be ready for any possibility,” Fukuda told reporters, insisting it was a “proactive move” rather than a sign of rising alarm.

“It means that if in the future we do see some kind of explosion, or some big outbreak, or we think the situation has really changed, we will already have a group of emergency committee experts who are really up to speed, so we don’t have to go through a steep learning curve.”

The first recorded Mers death was in June 2012 in Saudi Arabia. The number of infections has ticked up steadily, with a flurry this April, May and June taking it to 79.

Forty-three Mers patients have died to date, an extremely high rate of 54 per cent, compared to nine per cent of the 8,273 recorded patients with Sars, which was centred on Asia.

Experts are struggling to understand Mers, which stands for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus. Like its cousin Sars (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), it has flu-like symptoms. But it differs in that it causes kidney failure.
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-Land of the Free
Hinkle: Commit any felonies lately?
As Bart Hinkle at the Richmond Times-Dispatch explains, it's easier than you think.

For our recent commenter Lex: try to square that circle when you talk about how much more 'free' we are...
Tale end of a longer article. We were discussing this yesterday. I'll be discussing it until approximately Doomsday.
[TIMESDISPATCH] As The Wall Street Journal has reported, lawmakers in Washington have greatly eroded the notion of mens rea -- the principle that you need criminal intent in order to commit a crime. Thanks to a proliferating number of obscure offenses, Americans now resemble the condemned souls in Jonathan Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" -- spared from perdition only by the temporary forbearance of those who sit in judgment.

"What once might have been considered simply a mistake," The Journal explains, is now "punishable by jail time." And as 20-year-old Elizabeth Daly has now learned, you can go to jail even when the person making the mistake wasn't you.
Posted by: Fred & Steve White || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336065 views] Top|| File under:

#1  lawmakers in Washington have greatly eroded the notion of mens rea -- the principle that you need criminal intent in order to commit a crime.

If more evidence is required, please turn on the tellie and watch the on-going Zimmerman trial.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2013 2:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Not if you are on TV.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/06/2013 11:18 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Asir's Supporters Protest in Sidon, Attack TV Crews
[An Nahar] Hundreds of men and women supporting Salafist holy man Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir marched from Bilal Bin Rabah Mosque after Friday prayers, heading to al-Karameh roundabout in the southern city of Sidon.

The protestors assaulted TV crews in Abra, smashing the windows of their cars and breaking their cameras during the march.

The attack prompted the Lebanese army to ask journalists to leave Sidon and the northern city of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
until the end of the protest in the southern city which allegedly erupted after the mosque's new Imam, Sheikh Mohammed Abu Zeid, did not mention al-Asir when he delivered his sermon to worshippers.

Tripoli has a large presence of Islamists. The city's Ulemas have accused the army of collaborating with Hizbullah to target the Sunni community in line with an Iranian scheme.

Al-Asir, a 45-year-old holy man who is no where to be found since last month's deadly gunbattles between his gunnies and the Lebanese army, resurfaced Thursday in an alleged audio message in which he described the festivities as a plot against him.

The holy man called on the Sunni community to "break the barrier of fear and fear only God," urging them to protest "in a peaceful and civilized manner" after Friday prayers "in coordination with the Mohammedan holy mans."
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Africa Subsaharan
Boko Haram Amnesty Committee Visit Nasarawa Over Ombatse Cult Killings
[CHANNELSTV] The federal government says it will grant amnesty to only members of 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...
who genuinely contribute to ensure that peace returns to the North.

Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution Security Challenges in the North and Minister of Special Duties, Mr Kabiru Turaki, stated this when the committee visited Nasarawa state as part of efforts to check uprising in the state.

The committee noted that, even though no act of terrorism has been recorded in the state, the ugly incident of the Ombatse ethnic militia, deserves federal government's attention in finding lasting solution to the crisis.

The committee sought to know the remote cause of the crisis that led to the killing of security operatives in Alakyo community with the state Governor Tanko Almakura, who revealed that over 1,000 youths had dispossessed 10 security operatives of their weapons while trying to inquire what he called unlawful gathering by the youths in 2011.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio wondered: Where the hell was Chumbaloni? And where was his $600?...
a delegation of four governors from the Northern States Governors' Forum (NSGF), led by its chairman, Babangida Aliyu of Niger state, were also in the state to condole the government and people of Nasarawa state on the killing of security operatives in Alakyo community by the Ombatse militia.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336075 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


China-Japan-Koreas
Two Koreas to Talk About Kaesong Complex
North and South Korea have agreed to discuss the closed Kaesong Industrial Complex on Saturday. According to an agreement on Thursday, mid-ranking officials from both sides will meet in the border truce village of Panmunjom.

The complex has effectively been shut since North Korea on April 3 closed the border to traffic going into the industrial park, citing unspecified insults to its "dignity" in the South Korean press.

The officials plan to discuss maintenance of the idle manufacturing equipment, handling of finished products stored there, and how to resume production.

Seoul was able to persuade Pyongyang that the meeting should take place before any of the manufacturers go to Kaesong for separate talks, which the North proposed a day earlier.

North Korea on Tuesday said it would permit the manufacturers to visit Kaesong to inspect their equipment, which has been idling for months and faces damage from humidity during the rainy season, and take part in "consultations."

In response to Seoul's proposal of government talks first, the North said it will send a three-member delegation led by Pak Chol-su, who heads the North Korean body in charge of the complex. But it wanted the talks to take place at the complex to highlight the problems there and asked the South to send some staff first to clean up.

The government here rejected the North's proposal and instead suggested meeting in Panmunjom or on the cross-border Dorasan immigration office in Paju, Gyeonggi Province.
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#1  Write it off and walk away, SKor, and you will be a better country for it.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/06/2013 22:30 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Liberal nonprofit that pressed Shulman to target conservatives houses his wife's group
[DAILYCALLER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336065 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The bold defiance and arrogance of regime apparatchiks like the IRS's Shulman and Lerner is frightening. There may now simply be far too many of these operatives to effect any sort of long-term course correction.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2013 2:18 Comments || Top||

#2  In the UK a man was setup BY the police and UAF, then the person assaulted by the UAF member WHILE THE POLICE WATCHED was arrested!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/06/2013 9:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Democrat Senators sent a letter to the IRS urging that non-profit, tax-exempt groups be scrutinized. Democrat Senators.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/06/2013 13:12 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Adult Breast Feeding Report Incenses China Web Users
[An Nahar] Human breast milk has become a new luxury for China's rich, with some firms offering wet nurse services, a report said, provoking outrage and disgust among web users Thursday.
Ah, decadence!
Xinxinyu, a domestic staff agency in the booming city of Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, provided wet nurses for newborns, the sick and other adults who pay high prices for the milk's fine nutrition, the Southern Metropolis Daily said.

"Adult (clients) can drink it directly through breastfeeding, or they can always drink it from a breast pump if they feel embarrassed," the report quoted company owner Lin Jun as saying.

Wet nurses serving adults are paid around 16,000 yuan ($2,600) a month -- more than four times the Chinese average -- and those who were "healthy and good looking" could earn even more, the report said.

Traditional beliefs in some parts of China hold that human breast milk has the best and most easily digestible nutrition for people who are ill.

But the report sparked heated debate in the media and on Chinese social media, with most users condemning the service as unethical.

"This adds to China's problem of treating women as consumer goods and the moral degradation of China's rich," said Cao Baoyin, a writer and regular commentator in various Chinese media, on his blog.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336073 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just wait for a custom smoothie at 'The Breast Bar'.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2013 1:00 Comments || Top||

#2  PRC and ethics, seems like the odd couple.
Posted by: Thaing Dingles || 07/06/2013 1:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Au contraire, pseudo-moralistic standards and totalitarian or authoritarian regimes are common place. Upper 'management' just exempts themselves from such expectations. It's in the more egalitarian cultures that the upper management is 'expected' to behave as they demand of others. That's what makes those more entertaining.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/06/2013 8:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Can't quite see what's so bad about this apart from the icky factor.

At least you know the milks not got the usual crap in it and its sterile. Which is probably a double bonus in china.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/06/2013 9:41 Comments || Top||

#5  You mean China actually beat Japan to something kind of weird?
What is the world coming too?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/06/2013 10:27 Comments || Top||

#6  I thought adult Chinese can't digest milk?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/06/2013 14:46 Comments || Top||

#7  Ewwwwwwwwwwww
Posted by: Barbara || 07/06/2013 18:04 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Reports Say Asir Changed His Looks as Clerics Say He's in Syria
[An Nahar] Islamist holy man Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir, on the run since the Abra battle, has likely appeared in an audio and not a video recording due to the fact that he had to change his physical appearance in order to be able to flee the military crackdown, reports said on Friday.

LBCI television said Asir's wife Amal and some of the holy mans relatives and close aides in Sidon have confirmed the authenticity of the audio message.

In a recording uploaded Thursday to YouTube, SoundCloud and gulfup.com, a defiant Asir described the deadly Sidon festivities as a plot aimed at ending his presence in the area, accusing Hizbullah of leading and supervising the fighting in the southern city and its suburbs.

"These people are trying to give the impression that this recording is their first evidence that Asir is still alive, although security officials have doubted that, saying the family had received other proofs," LBCI said.

It quoted sources close to Asir as saying that "he did not appear in a video because the requirements of hiding maybe forced him to change his appearance, such as having to shave his beard, and therefore he won't appear audio-visually before he regains his previous looks."

Quoting "some holy mans who are close to Asir and who tried to mediate during the festivities," LBCI said the runaway holy man had managed to leave Leb and enter Syria.

Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight...
"security authorities continued to analyze the content and technical aspect of Asir's recording to verify if the voice is that of the holy man, although the military judiciary is confident that Asir is still alive and that's why he was mentioned in the lawsuit," LBCI added.

"Security agencies are also trying to determine how the recording was uploaded to some websites in a bid to identify its source or the individuals who published it, but no progress has been made in this regard," the TV network said.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336079 views] Top|| File under: Salafists

#1  Back in 2012, Assir stated "We have a blood score to settle with Hizbullah that can only be settled with blood".
And they say that I have a tin ear for poetry.

Assir was born to a Sunni father and Shia mother.

My father, he was Orange and me mother, she was green.

The Lebanese army is treating the matter as a capture or kill operation on the basis that Assir killed Lebanese soldiers in "cold blood".

What is the third option, catch and release?
Posted by: Squinty "Eagle Eyes" Untervehr4650 || 07/06/2013 11:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Excellent inline with extra points for original typography.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/06/2013 15:41 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Suicide bomber in uniform kills 12 Afghan policemen
[Dawn] KANDAHAR: A suicide bomber wearing an Afghan police uniform detonated an explosive-laden vest in a police dining room on Friday in the country's volatile south, killing 12 police in an apparent insider attack, local officials said.

The bombing took place inside a police reserve unit dining room in Trinkot, in Uruzgan province, on Friday afternoon, when dozens of officers were having lunch ahead of the important Friday prayer session.

"Police were having lunch when a man with police uniform detonated his suicide vest, killing 12 police and wounding five.

Four of those are in critical condition," said Farid Haeel, a spokesman for the provincial police chief.

The Taliban have promised to attack Afghan forces as well as Nato-led forces still in the country, and earlier this year said insider attacks would be a central tactic used over the summer fighting months.

Many insider attacks are so-called green-on-blue, in which uniformed Afghan police or soldiers attack Western troops, around 100,000 of which remain in the country ahead of a combat drawdown winding up next year.

But most of the attacks are green-on-green, in which members of the 350,000-strong Afghan National Security Forces attack their own comrades. Figures for such attacks are, however, difficult to establish.

Two Afghan police shot dead seven officers in May as they slept in their beds.

Haeel said an investigation was underway to find out how the bomber on Friday penetrated past security measures in place to guard against insider attacks.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336097 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


India-Pakistan
Gunmen kill two in Quetta, Nato tanker set ablaze in Mangochar
[Dawn] QUETTA: Armed hard boyz torched a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
tanker and injured its driver in Mangochar area of 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...
whereas gunnies killed two persons on Saeed Ahmed Khan road in Quetta on Friday.

Fayyaz Sumbal, the Deputy Inspector General Police Operations told Dawn.com that two gunnies on a cycle of violence shot up a shop situated on Saeed Ahmed Khan road.

"Two persons inside the shop were killed on the spot", Sumbal said.

The dead bodies were shifted to Civil Hospital Quetta for postmortem.

Police and personnel of law enforcement agencies reached the spot and investigations into the incident went underway.

Another police official who requested not to be named told Dawn.com that incident seemed to be an act of the ongoing murders in the city.

Security in and around Civil Hospital Quetta was tightened as the dead bodies were brought there.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

More over in another incident two armed hard boyz opened fire and injured the tanker's driver before setting it on fire, Levies sources told Dawn.com.

The attackers fled from the scene after the incident whereas the maimed driver was shifted to a nearby hospital.

Huge plumes of thick black smoke rose from the scene which were visible from a long distance whereas fire fighters struggled to tackle the intensive flames.

Levies and police men reached the spot and cordoned off the area as investigations into the attack went underway.

Militants have been targeting NATO supplies in the same area for past few years.
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Iraq
28 killed, 71 wounded in separate attacks in Iraq
At least 28 people were killed and 71 others wounded on Friday in separate attacks across Iraq, police and local media said.

The deadliest attack was in the Qurait area in northern Baghdad, where 14 people were killed and 31 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a Shi'ite mosque during the evening pray, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Earlier in the day, at least 12 people were killed and 21 others wounded in a roadside bomb attack in Samarra, some 120 km north of Baghdad, local National Iraqi News Agency reported. The roadside bomb exploded near the eastern entrance to a protest camp in the Al-Haq Square.

Elsewhere, one soldier was killed and another soldier and one policeman were wounded in an armed attack against a joint military and police checkpoint in Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad.

A car bomb went off in Kut, some 180 km south of Baghdad, killing one and wounding 17 others.

The UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) said on Monday a total of 761 Iraqis were killed and another 1,771 were wounded in acts of terrorism and violence in June.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336078 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Iraq's getting as dangerous as Chicago again.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/06/2013 10:48 Comments || Top||

#2  We have no splodydopes in Chicago. Yet...
Posted by: Steve White || 07/06/2013 10:56 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Brotherhood supreme guide 'at Rabaa Al-Adawiya sit-in'
[Al Ahram] Moslem Brüderbund Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie is at the pro-Morsi sit-in at Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque, the group's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) said on Friday afternoon.

The group's lawyer Mustafa El-Demeiry earlier denied a report
No, no! Certainly not!
by AP that Badie had been incarcerated
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
in Marsa Matrouh near the Libyan border.

El-Demeiry told Ahram Online that Badie had heard there was a warrant out for his arrest and he was ready to give himself up to an appropriate authority.

Three Brotherhood leaders have been sent to Tora Prison -- FJP chairman Saad El-Katatni, former Brotherhood supreme guide Mahdi Akef, and the group's lawyer Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Maqsoud, who was arrested on Friday morning after going to the prison to defend the two leaders.
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India-Pakistan
Rapes cases: Bill calls for making DNA tests mandatory
A good idea. Have they the qualified scientists to do the work?
[Dawn] The provincial assembly of Sindh is expected to take up a bill in its next session seeking DNA tests of the accused as well as victims in rape cases.

If taken, the landmark step would revamp the process of investigation of rape cases and offer great solace to the victims seeking justice against the brutal crime.

"The DNA testing (is) mandatory in Rape cases, in order to infuse certainty in the pursuit of justice by identifying the guilty and exonerating the innocent, and for matters connected therewith, or incidental thereto," the bill moved by MPA Sharmila Faruqui reads.

The bill, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, was submitted in the Sindh Secretariat on Friday and says that it is expedient and necessary to make DNA Testing mandatory for rape victims, as primary evidence, for effective dispensation of justice.

The bill seems to be a rejoinder to a recent argument by holy mans-dominated Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) that DNA tests in rape cases were not in line with Islamic injunctions.

In its last month meeting the CII deliberated whether the DNA tests should be considered as admissible evidence in rape crimes. Though the CII did not make any decision, but some of the arguments of its members were disturbing.

Alama Tahir Ashrafi, a CII member, explained the council never made a formal decision against the DNA tests. He said the council would meet after Eid to take up the matter.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336065 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


China-Japan-Koreas
'Substantial' differences with NKorea over nuclear talks: Russia
[Al Ahram] Russia said Friday it still had "a number of substantial" differences with North Korea concerning efforts to resume stalled interminable six-party negotiations on the Stalinist state's nuclear weapons drive.

Deputy Prime Minister Igor Morgulov's comments after his talks Thursday with Pyongyang's main nuclear negotiator Kim Kye-Gwan suggest that no breakthrough was achieved at the negotiations.

"A number of substantial differences remain," Morgulov told Russian news agencies.

"The positions (of Russia and North Korea) for the moment diverge," he said without giving further details.

Kim held separate talks lasting a reported five hours with Morgulov and First Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Titov.

Morgulov said Friday that the sides "reaffirmed their mutual desire to find a diplomatic solution to the existing Korean peninsula problem and discussed various options for relaunching the six-party talks."

"On the whole, we access this exchange of opinions positively," he added.

Kim has been a key figure in the talks aimed at persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear programme in exchange for aid and security guarantees.

The negotiations began in 2003 but have long been dormant. The six-party process also involves the United States and China as well as South Korea and Japan.

Kim's visit to Moscow came as North Korea reaches out internationally after months of tensions triggered by its third nuclear test in February.

North Korea has said it will never give up its nuclear power but maintains it is open to direct talks with the United States.

Kim last month discussed restarting the six-party talks in Beijing with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336067 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  North Korea has said it will never give up its nuclear power but maintains it is open to direct talks with the United States.

Nope, more timeout in the corner for you.
Posted by: Squinty || 07/06/2013 11:18 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
H1N1 flu outbreak in Chile kills 11
At least 11 people have been killed in an outbreak of H1N1 flu virus in northern Chile, where the rate of infection is more than six times higher than the rest of the country, authorities said Thursday.

“The average across the country is 24 patients per 100,000 residents, but in Tarapaca, in the past week, the rate was 148 patients per 100,000 residents,” Medical Association president Enrique Paris said.

Citing fears of aggravating the outbreak, Paris recommended postponing or cancelling the upcoming Fiesta de la Tirana, a religious celebration planned for July 15-17 where 200,000 people are expected.

Meanwhile, Health Minister Jaime Manalich announced he will travel Friday to the region 1,900 kilometers (1,180 miles) north of Santiago near the border with Bolivia. The minister also said some 115,000 vaccines will be sent to immunize the population, which numbers around 300,000.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336063 views] Top|| File under:


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Holiday violence toll includes boys, 5 and 7: 'It's just senseless'
[reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
Tribune] With the long Fourth of July weekend not even half over, the toll from violence in Chicago stood at 8 dead and at least 37 maimed today, including two little boys, 5 and 7, seriously hurt while at parks with their families.
That does it! Ban gunz in Chicago!
The victims since Wednesday afternoon also include a 14-year-old boy shot on the West Side, a 16-year-old boy maimed on the South Side and a cabbie shot in the stomach by a robber on the South Side.

The youngest victim so far is 5-year-old Jaden Donald, who was shot in the abdomen and right leg while with his family at a party in Cooper Park on the Far South Side shortly after midnight.

His mother, Jasmine Donald, stood outside Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn this morning in a gown, blood on her dress and shoes. She said she hadn't been at the park long when a young man started shooting.

"Not 15 minutes," she said.

Donald lifted her right hand and held it out, then swept it from left to right as she described how a young man shot into the crowd. "Everybody ran. The kids hit the ground. My son tried to run to me."

She noticed he was bleeding and lifted his shirt and saw a gaping wound.

Jaden underwent surgery but "he's not breathing on his own. A machine is breathing for him," she told news hounds outside the hospital about 7:30 a.m. The boy lost three organs, she said.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336062 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Smart street light surveillance could prevent much of this senseless chaos. Urban gang taunts, hate speech, and so-called trash talk oftentimes precede such events. Obviously man-in-the-loop neighborhood watch programs are failing. Multi-lingual street lights could detect changes in social atmosphere and provide verbal early warnings and the "all clear". Technology and data-storage are definitely the future. I'm shocked no one has thought of this before. :-(
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2013 3:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Urban gang taunts, hate speech, and so-called trash talk..

That's at least 50 percent of rap. Anyone who turns up his blaster would get immediate attention.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/06/2013 8:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Let me guess: Chicago is full ob bitter clingers?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/06/2013 9:10 Comments || Top||

#4  5-year-old ... shot ... with his family at a party .. shortly after midnight.

Responsible parenting there too.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/06/2013 9:43 Comments || Top||

#5  To be fair, my daughter was helping light boomers at midnight. However, I am an unenlightened rube who does not live in the Beirut Paris of the Midwest. I no doze da g8 livin thar.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/06/2013 10:34 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Egypt's Salvation Front urges protests to 'protect revolution'
[Al Ahram] Egypt's National Salvation Front, a coalition of liberal and leftist groups, has called for protests on Friday to protect the achievements of 30 June.

"We are now asking people to protect the achievements of the second January 25 Revolution. We stress our determination to regain stability and rebuild the nation," read the statement.

Protesters must remain on the streets "until the procedures of the transitional phase are completed."

The NSF was one of the main political factions that demanded the removal of president Mohamed Morsi.
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AU suspends Egypt after Mursi ouster
The African Union suspended Egypt on Friday after the ouster of president Mohammed Mursi, in line with its strict rules against unconstitutional changes of government. The pan-African bloc’s Peace and Security Council “decided to suspend the participation of Egypt in AU activities until the restitution of constitutional order”, said an official statement.

The AU met Friday at its headquarters in the Ethiopian capital to discuss the political crisis in Egypt, following MursiÂ’s removal by the army on Wednesday.

“The council reiterates the AU’s condemnation and rejection of any illegal seizure of power,” the statement added. “The overthrow of the democratically elected president does not conform to the relevant provisions of Egypt’s constitution, and therefore falls under the definition of an unconstitutional change of government.”

AU Commission chief Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, speaking to reporters after the decision, said Egypt would be suspended “until there is an election, which would obviously be the expression of the will of Egyptian people.”

But she also offered AU support to “the Egyptian people for a better life” and said that “the sooner they can come back, the better for all of us.”

However, Mohamed Edrees, Egyptian ambassador to the AU, said ahead of the decision that “the voice and the call of tens of millions of Egyptians must be heard, understood and respected”.

Speaking Friday before the suspension, Edrees said that Egypt wanted to maintain its role in the AU and “continue to take part in this family”.

“The military role is to support the people, their role is not to instigate a coup,” Edrees added. “Since the start of the Arab spring, it posed a challenge to the instrument of the African Union. The AU, at that time, the council decided that what happened in Egypt was a popular revolution and it dealt with it accordingly.”
Posted by: Steve White || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336067 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Karachi central prison: A tinderbox of expanding militant networks
[Dawn] KARACHI: Even with increased outreach of hard boy networks from within 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 central prison, most search operations carried out inside the jail are done without scanners or metal detectors, the stated reason for which is primarily financial constraints and a "lack of response from the concerned department".

This also explains the planning of the attack on Sindh High Court's Justice Maqbool Baqar from inside Karachi Central Jail and the subsequent recovery of a number of cell phones and other devices in the June 29 search operation led by Sindh Rangers.

The operation established that the attack on Justice Baqar was indeed planned from inside the central prison and further revealed that security checks inside prison cells have largely remained lax.

The central jail houses over 4,800 prisoners and the figure includes 200 key members from hard boy organizations, such as Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain and Jundallah which seem to be expanding their networks inside the prison.

Militant networks mushroom, collaborate

Speaking to Dawn.com regarding locked away
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
members of hard boy organizations, former Special Investigation Unit (SIU) chief, SP Khurram Waris, said the most dangerous among these were the ones associated with LJ and TTP. He said the two groups joined forces and have been operating in collaboration since the past one year in order to target high profile figures from different professions.

Some of these prisoners include Mohammad Ajmal alias Akram Lahori, Mufti Shahid and LJ's ameer in Pakistain, Attaur Rahman Bukhari -- all languishing in jail after being awarded death sentences.

Waris said he had no doubt that the recent attack on Justice Baqar was planned from inside Karachi's central prison.

"These people have a full-fledged network running from inside prisons; right from visitors bringing in 'messages' that can't be discussed on cell phones to finalising finances for attacks through cell phones that are somehow brought in. The foundations of most attacks are laid inside prison cells," Waris told Dawn.com.

Cell phones and 'more'

Such adept planning and organization as was seen in the attack on Justice Baqar does not seem to have been done via cell phones alone. Security officials from within the central prison have said that material seized during the June 29 operation included not only mobile phones but also laptops and internet devices.

However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
IG Prisons Nusrat Mangan continues to maintain his earlier statement that about six cell phones were seized during the "routine search operation" conducted by the paramilitary force.

Neither Mangan nor the Rangers front man therefore confirmed that a number of laptops and internet devices were also seized from the barracks of a few prisoners.

"The media reported a few things out of context which was not the case," Rangers front man Major Sibtain told Dawn.com.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336062 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


Britain
'Cousin Marriage' Doubles Gene Risk for Babies
[An Nahar] First cousins who marry run twice the risk of having a child with genetic abnormalities, according to the findings of a study in the English city of Bradford, published Friday in The Lancet.

The city, which has a high proportion of South Asian immigrants and their descendants among its population, served as a microcosm for examining the risk of blood relative couplings.

About 37 percent of marriages among people of Pak origin in the study involved first cousins, compared to less than one percent of "British unions", said the researchers.

University of Leeds investigator Eamonn Sheridan led a team that pored over data from the "Born in Bradford" study, which tracks the health of 13,500 babies born at the city's main hospital between 2007 and 2011.

Out of 11,396 babies for whom family details were known, 18 percent were the offspring of first-cousin unions, mainly among people of Pak heritage.

A total of 386 babies -- three percent -- were born with anomalies ranging from problems in the nervous, respiratory and digestive systems, to urinary and genital defects and cleft palates.

This Bradford rate was nearly twice the national average, said the study.

Other factors blamed for genetic flaws, such as alcohol consumption, smoking and social deprivation, can be ruled out, it said.

"Thirty-one percent of all anomalies in children of Pak origin could be attributed to consanguinity" or marriage between first cousins, said the study.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336115 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Other factors blamed for genetic flaws, such as alcohol consumption, smoking and social deprivation, can be ruled out, it said.

"Flaws" in West Yorkshire possibly. Evidence of conformity and group attraction in Georgia. :-(

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2013 3:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Same 1st cousins on both sides of the family tree, always makes for tricky Reunions. Trust me.

Altho entertaining as Besoeker points out in his quote.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/06/2013 6:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Cleopatra Ptolemy to the courtesy phone.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/06/2013 8:45 Comments || Top||

#4  according to the findings of a study in the English city of Bradford

Whatever happened to elementary math?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/06/2013 9:08 Comments || Top||

#5  REPEATED first cousin marriage I expect to square or cube that rate.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/06/2013 9:24 Comments || Top||

#6  The increased risk of genetic abnormality should include beneficial ones as well as harmful ones; where are the Pakistani Isaac Newtons or Michael Jordan's?
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/06/2013 9:59 Comments || Top||

#7  when your family tree is a stick, you might have a problem
Posted by: Frank G || 07/06/2013 10:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Or, as my daughter was told by a classmate in HS when they had to hang their family trees on the wall 'That's not a family tree, it's a family vine!'
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/06/2013 10:45 Comments || Top||

#9  I guess it's a pretty subtle concept that marrying your first cousin is like marrying your half-sister.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2013 11:13 Comments || Top||

#10  Short trip around the USA, could answer some lingering question, no ?
Posted by: Au Auric || 07/06/2013 11:27 Comments || Top||

#11  The rest of the world, Legal 1st Cousin marriage in Blue.

Posted by: Au Auric || 07/06/2013 11:43 Comments || Top||

#12  Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaadeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
/Faulkner
Posted by: Shipman || 07/06/2013 12:02 Comments || Top||

#13  Yeah, but some proximity to mates reduces abnormalities, too. If your family is prone to big teeth and your spouse's family tends toward small mouths, your offspring could have dental problems.

Well, I read that somewhere. Prolly the internet.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/06/2013 13:01 Comments || Top||

#14  Gary Busey's autobiography, I think
Posted by: Frank G || 07/06/2013 13:04 Comments || Top||

#15  Is North Carolina county option?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/06/2013 13:35 Comments || Top||

#16  Gary Busey Smile ?

Posted by: Au Auric || 07/06/2013 14:21 Comments || Top||

#17  That's not a family tree---that's a root-bound plant.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/06/2013 14:38 Comments || Top||

#18  First cousin marriage is forbidden in Kentucky, West Virginia and Arkansas? Who'd have guessed?
And OK in California, NY & MA?
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/06/2013 15:16 Comments || Top||

#19  In our new and improved culture I'm suprised approval hasn't gotten to consenting species, cousins or not.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 07/06/2013 15:53 Comments || Top||

#20  I'm terrible at names, but those dogs and pine trees sure look familiar.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2013 16:40 Comments || Top||

#21  Does anyone know why North Carolina has a checkerboard pattern?
Is that where the inter-species issue comes in?

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al || 07/06/2013 18:12 Comments || Top||

#22  Frozen Al (may you thaw soon) answer.

"North Carolina permits first cousins, prohibits double cousins"
Posted by: Ulavimble Omaving1848 || 07/06/2013 18:55 Comments || Top||

#23  Gotta ask....

What is a double cousin? Second Cousin?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/06/2013 19:24 Comments || Top||

#24  Here you go, CrazyFool
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 07/06/2013 21:06 Comments || Top||

#25  My sister married my wife's brother - met him at our wedding rehearsal. Their kids and our kids are double cousins.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/06/2013 22:32 Comments || Top||

#26  Thanks... Learn something every day.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/06/2013 23:54 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Erdogan Blasts Egypt 'Coup' as Enemy of Democracy
[An Nahar] Turkey's prime minister on Friday condemned the military intervention that toppled Egypt's Islamist president Mohamed Morsi as an enemy of democracy, and chastised the West for failing to brand the ouster a coup.

Referring to his country's history of coups, Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that such military uprisings come at a heavy price and must not be tolerated.

"No matter where they are... coups are bad," Erdogan said in televised remarks. "Coups are clearly enemies of democracy.

"Those who rely on the guns in their hands, those who rely on the power of the media cannot build democracy.... Democracy can only be built at ballot box," said Erdogan, who had forged friendly relations with Morsi during the Egyptian's one-year in power.

Erdogan also lashed out at the West for shying away from calling the military intervention a coup, while welcoming the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
's decision to suspend Egypt over the army's actions.

"The West has failed the sincerity test," said Erdogan. "No offense, but democracy does not accept double standards."

World powers have urged Egypt to return to democracy, but the call was offset by a lack of condemnation of the overthrow of the Islamist leader.

Referring to coups in Turkey's recent history, Erdogan said his country served as a "very important reference" to Egypt on why military uprisings must not be tolerated.

Turkey's once omnipotent army, which has long considered itself as the self-appointed guardian of Turkish secularism, has staged four coups in half a century.

"Each military coup, with no exception, has caused Turkey to lose decades," Erdogan said.

"Each military coup has paralyzed Turkish economy. Each military coup has caused the country, nation and young generations to pay heavy prices."
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#1  I have been wondering what the temperature in Ankara is.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/06/2013 17:47 Comments || Top||


New head of Egyptian Intel Service appointed
General Mohammed al-Tahami was appointed the new head of Egypt's General Intelligence Service, RIA Novosti reported with reference to the Egyptian television.

The former head of the General Intelligence Service was appointed the security adviser to the interim president Adly Mansur.
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#1  Clapper, Brennan, Alexander....please take note.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2013 9:29 Comments || Top||


Britain
Man accused of murdering Kieran Crump-Raiswell 'sniggered' after stabbing him
[MANCHESTEREVENINGNEWS.CO.UK] A teenage gap-year student was knifed to death in the street in broad daylight by a "laughing" stranger in Manchester, a jury has heard.
Sudden Jihad Syndrome strikes again. But it has nothing to do with religion. Nothing to do with culture. It has everything to do with... ummm... something else.
Kieran Crump-Raiswell, 18, was heading to look for a job when Imran Hussain, 27, walked up to him and "without warning" stabbed him four times in the chest, Manchester Crown Court was told.
Cartoons! That's it! It has everything to do with all those nasty cartoons about the Profit (PTUI).
Witnesses to the shocking scene in Whalley Range said Hussain appeared to be "sniggering" as he ran to his car and drove off, jurors heard.
And somebody made a movie making fun of Moslems. Oh, insult not to be borne!
The killing was the second of two street assaults committed on total strangers within 12 days in January.
You see, all us Westerners are stereotyping all those Moslems.
Mature student Hussain, from Bracknell, Berkshire, drove from his student flat in Coventry on January 4 and punched a man in the face in Nottingham and ran off.
Stereotyping is, of course, bad, unless you're a member of a persecuted minority group.
On January 16, he travelled up to Manchester from Coventry.
All minorities are by definition persecuted, natch.
Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, said: "It is the prosecution case that on this occasion, fortified by the apparent ease at which a stranger could be attacked, this time he travelled to Manchester armed with a knife and intending to kill someone."
Jamaicans, for instance, are a minority group, despite the fact that they don't kill all that many people outside of Jamaica.
Hussain drove around Whalley Range and Chorlton in the early afternoon for around a hour.
They just sit around wearing those knitted red, green, and black hats to hold all their dreads, smoking weed and giggling and saying "Hey, mon!"
"He was driving around the area, stopping and then carrying on," he said. "We say he was now looking for a suitable victim."
But people persecute them all the time. And for no reason!
Hussain parked his vehicle in Upper Chorlton Road and then got out with a knife as his victim walked along nearby, he continued.
If that movie they made about the Jamaican bobsled team wasn't persecution I don't know what was.
Mr Wright said: "Kieran crossed the road and then entirely without warning he approached him and he stabbed him to the front and back of his chest four times before running off."
Remember how all the Jamaicans took to the streets world-wide when that movie came out, because Jamaicans are stereotyped and their honor and dignity suffer so.
He said the defendant initially denied involvement in either of the incidents when he was jugged
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
days later.
So just because the perp in this particular incident is yet another Hussein, of a long and tedious line of Husseins and Khalids and Dawoods and Mohammads and that sort of folk, it has nothing to do with religion. Nothing. At all.
But he "changed his tune" when the evidence against him began to unravel.
Islam is a religion of peace, isn't it? Our governments keep telling us that.
Hussain went on to claim he had been hearing "threatening and abusive voices" and that he travelled to the two cities to confront them.
It was only four or five hundred years ago that the Brits, after chopping King Charles' head off, enjoyed the Republican blessings of Oliver Cromwell and those kinds of folks, whom you really can't stereotype as religious fanatics, can you.
The jury was told that Hussain pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.
See? He wasn't in his own driver's seat, so it couldn't have been because he comes from a culture that worships death and their brains are rattled from bonking their heads on the floor repeatedly.
Mr Wright said, though, that Hussain's medical defence was "contrived by him as a last resort that only arose once he realised it could be proved he was the culprit".
Since there weren't four male Moslem witnesses it's obvious you got nuttin' on him, coppers!
Hussain, of Tilehurst Lane, denies murder.
"No, no! Certainly not!"
The trial is expected to last a week.
It was the persecution, you see. Nobody could take that sort of thing.
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#1  Kieran Crump-Raiswell, 18, was heading to look for a job when Imran Hussain, 27, walked up to him and "without warning" stabbed him four times in the chest

Used to be, you didn't look Jewish---you were safe.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/06/2013 8:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Used to be, you didn't look Jewish---you were safe.

We're all infidels on this bus.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/06/2013 13:20 Comments || Top||

#3  This is why we have Carry Permits in the (most of) USA.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 07/06/2013 15:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Yes, waiting for Must Carry, likely to be seen first in Taylor County Florida.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/06/2013 15:39 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
One killed, eight injured in firing at Lyari protest rally
[Dawn] KARACHI: Unidentified myrmidons on Friday opened fire on a funeral at Mauripur Road in 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, killing a man and injuring eight other people.

According to rescue sources, faceless myrmidons shot up the protest rally of the Kutchi Rabita Committee (KRC) at Mauripur Road. The KRC was protesting against the murder of a local, Shakil Hungoro, who was allegedly killed by Rangers in an encounter in Agra Taj Colony.

The body and the injured were taken to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and Civil Hospital.

KRC front man, Saleh Kutchi, blamed the banned Peoples Aman Committee, police and Rangers for firing at the funeral. The police and Rangers, however, denied the claim.

SSP South Tariq Dharejo said unidentified myrmidons also shot up his armored vehicle when he was trying to approach the protestors for a dialogue.

The police fired stray bullets and sprayed water from water cannon in order to disperse the protestors. The protestors retaliated and pelted stones at police and Rangers officials.

Later, the police succeeded in clearing the road for traffic.

When contacted, the PPP provincial politician from Lyari, Sania Naz rejected the KRC front man's claim and said that 'a third force' was involved in disrupting peace in the city.

Sit-in outside CM House

Meanwhile,
...back at the pond, Gloria slowly backed away from the eight-foot bull frog. If the creature croaked she would surely be deafened...
members of the KRC staged a sit-in outside the Chief Minister House in Karachi against the alleged extra-judicial killing of Shakil Hungoro by Rangers.

The four-member KRC delegation that includes Mohammad Siddiq Kutchi, Anwar Shah Kutchi and others met provincial Information Minister Sharjil Memon, Senator Saeed Ghani, PPP leader Rashid Hussain Rabbani and DIG South Dr Ameer Sheikh and informed them regarding the current tense situation and killing of innocent people in parts of Lyari.

Speaking to delegation, the information minister said that it is the priority of the government to maintain law and order in the city including Lyari. Miscreants will be eliminated from every part of the city in order to restore peace, he asserted.

The provincial minister assured the KRC delegation that the check-posts of police and Rangers will be established in Lyari from Saturday night and those responsible for creating law and order situation will be tossed in the slammer
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
KRC leaders later called off the sit-in after getting assurances from provincial politicians and officials of taking stern action against myrmidons responsible for violence in the old city area.
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Doctors thrash journalists for exposing their 'negligence'
[Dawn] PESHAWAR, July 5: The doctors at Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) here on Friday allegedly thrashed local journalists and locked them in a room for exposing their negligence in treatment of an injured policeman.

The journalists said that they went to the hospital to cover a news story about attack on a police constable. "We saw the injured police constable lying in precarious conditions on a bed unattended as no doctor was providing him medical treatment," they added.

Samin Jan, a news hound of a private TV channel, who was among the manhandled mediapersons, told his colleagues that the doctors present at the hospital were negotiating with representatives of pharmaceutical companies.

"The doctors got infuriated when we told them to help the dying policeman. They started beating the mediapersons present on the occasion," he added.

Mr Jan alleged that the maimed constable died due to negligence of the doctors.

The local journalists held a demonstration and block roads to protest manhandling of their colleagues by the doctors. They blocked Sher Shah Suri Road outside 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.
Press Club and University Road in front of KTH for several hours.

The protesting journalists were demanding of the hospital administration and government to release their colleagues, made hostages by the doctors.

According to a blurb issued by Peshawar Press Club general secretary Yousaf Ali, the injured police constable died due to negligence of the doctors.

"Some news hounds of private television channels were beaten and their cameras were broken for no reason," said the blurb.

Talking to Dawn, Mr Ali said that the doctors thrashed the journalists and then locked them in a room for six hours.

The office-bearers of Khyber Union of Journalists and Peshawar Press Club reached the hospital to hold talks with the doctors and release their colleagues, but they were also attacked by medics and other staff of the hospital. Several journalists were maimed in the attack.

However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
officials of Town cop shoppe didn't register any FIR in that regard till filing of this report.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pond, Gloria slowly backed away from the eight-foot bull frog. If the creature croaked she would surely be deafened...
PPC president Nasir Hussain called an emergency meeting that was attended by office-bearers of the club and senior journalists. The meeting condemned manhandling of journalists by doctors.

The meeting decided that the protest would be continued on daily basis while a sit-in would be staged in front of Chief Minister's House after three days.

Chief Minister Pervez Khattak took notice of the incident and ordered immediate inquiry into the matter.

According to a handout, the chief minister said that an impartial inquiry would be conducted into the matter. "Action will be taken against the wrongdoers in the light of the inquiry," it said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels...
Provincial Minister for Health Shaukat Yousafzai has constituted a committee of senior doctors to conduct inquiry into the matter and submit report within 48 hours.

Dr Ataur Rehman is head of the committee while deputy medical superintendent of KTH Shahid Afridi and RMO Dr Saeed Mujtaba are its members.

However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
no journalist has been included in the inquiry committee.
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#1  This article makes me dizzy. It seems to take place in some bizzaro dimension. Does it affect anyone else similarly?
Posted by: WhiskeyMike173 || 07/06/2013 5:25 Comments || Top||

#2  It's Pakistan, WhiskyMike173. People thrash other people there with great regularity, very often lawyers.

Congratulations on the addition of a number to your nym! You're clearly moving up in the world. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2013 8:34 Comments || Top||

#3  It's their culture. You can't criticize.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2013 11:15 Comments || Top||

#4  facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...

Figures never lie, but liars always figure.
Posted by: Squinty || 07/06/2013 11:40 Comments || Top||

#5  "It's their culture. You can't criticize."

It's my culture to criticize the barbarity they call a culture,* Fred.

So they can't criticize my criticizing them. ;-p

* And by "culture" I mean, in their case, Ebola-in-a-petri-dish.)
Posted by: Barbara || 07/06/2013 13:51 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Gruesome Murder of Ibadan Traders By Boko Haram; Famine looms in S'West
[Osun Defender] Nigerians, especially those in the South West, should brace up for an imminent shortage of foodstuff or prepare to pay more for the little available ones. That is the message from traders from the South who source for goods in the northern part of the country, believed to be the food basket of the country.

They vowed never to go to the North to buy goods until insecurity in the area is fully brought under control. The threat came in the aftermath of Friday killing of 10 traders from Bodija market, Ibadan, Oyo State capital, allegedly by 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...
snuffies in Borno State.

Already, the specter of violence in the region had provoked an increase in the cost of some foodstuff such as beans, maize, sorghum, millet and rice in markets in Ibadan.

The South depends largely on the North for supplies of foodstuff including beans, sorghum, millet, tomatoes, pepper, yam and cattle, which are cultivated and reared in commercial quantity there. It is therefore an open secret that when the North sneezes, the South catches cold. Following the latest pogrom, Yoruba traders under the auspices of Bodija Market Traders Association had sworn that none of their members would henceforth go to Borno and other hotbeds of Boko Haram until peace and order are restored.

The implication of this is that once the existing stock is exhausted, there would be little or no replenishment, as their Hausa counterparts in the same trade, who might have the opportunity of still bringing foodstuff in could sell at arbitrary prices in line with the economic law of demand and supply.

Secretary of the association, Mr. Sola Faribido, said the latest killing of their colleagues was the last straw that broke the camel's back. "This is the second time they will kill our people this year alone. In May they killed four and last Friday, 10.

We cannot continue to risk our lives and we had put a stop to such business trips until we heard the news that the security agencies had chased them (Boko Haram) out of the place.That was what emboldened those who met their untimely death to go on that trip -now see the result!", the traders' scribe lamented. He confirmed the sudden hike in prices of some foodstuff including a species of beans referred to as ewa oloyin in Yoruba as well as rice and sorghum.

He said with only their Hausa counterparts able to interact with their kinsmen and thus manage to bring few goods from the North, supply would be low and this was bound to affect prices as it could not meet the demand by consumers. He said, "Once they monopolise the trade, they can afford to sell at exorbitant prices."

The market leader urged the Federal Government to intensify efforts at crushing the Boko Haram snuffies and restore normality in the troubled region, so that economic activities could resume in full. A trader in the market, Alhaja Medinat Makinde, told Daily Sun that since the tragic incident, the prices of foodstuff in the market had shot up.

According to her, the price of beans had jumped from N350 to N500. A market survey also revealed that the price of white beans rose from N220 to N240, rice from N340 to N360. A shopper and student of the University of Ibadan, Mr. Julius Eyebiokin, corroborated Daily Sun's findings, saying he was shocked at the price hike when he went for shopping yesterday.
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#1  You want to dry up the Islamists money then soak the south in food aid.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/06/2013 9:39 Comments || Top||

#2  South's where the oil is - cut out the corruption and there should be enough money to buy food on the world market and leave the North with food but no money. Of course, cutting out Nigerian corruption is at least as impossible as making Boko Haram peaceful.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/06/2013 10:29 Comments || Top||


Boko Haram gets Nollywood treatment
[GUARDIAN.CO.UK] It's a tried and tested formula for smash-hit Hollywood cinema: faceless myrmidons plotting mass destruction only to be foiled by a mixture of fate and law enforcement -- with a good love story thrown in to boot.

Now Nollywood, Nigeria's burgeoning film industry, has got in on the action, making the country's Islamic bad turban sect the subject of a new release, 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...
-- the movie.

The film follows the story of a young man who comes to Lagos with a secret mission to detonate a bomb that will kill 2,500 people. But in an unlikely twist he meets a hooker who prompts a rethink.

"It's a film about a terrorist who finds love and has to challenge everything he has been taught," said Pascal Amanfo, who wrote and directed the film. "We wanted to delve into the core of this issue, challenging people's ideals and beliefs.

"I think we are pushing the limits of Nigerian films," Amanfo added. "But ultimately we focused on a love story and trying to provoke some kind of sentiment in your average Nigerian viewer."

The film, released earlier this year in Nigeria and soon to be released in Ghana, is not without controversy. Amanfo said he had to change the name from Boko Haram to Nation Under Siege for the film's domestic release, due to Nigerians' heightened sensitivity on the topic.

"There has been so much controversy surrounding this movie," said Amanfo. "My marketer in America backed down on marketing it -- he said the very sight of the poster provokes too much strong feeling. I could not get cinema showings in Nigeria because of the reaction, and we had to be careful to avoid a backlash from the government. The Nigerian market would not accept the title Boko Haram, people said it would cause a war, so we tried to soften it a little."

In Ghana, where the film is still titled Boko Haram, critics said the poster -- depicting the fair-skinned Ghanaian actor Majid Michel wearing a turban and holding an AK47 -- pandered to stereotypes about terrorism in the region.

"The poster looks like a guy in Arab garb with a gun. What does that have to do with Boko Haram?" said Kobina Graham, a lecturer and cultural critic in Ghana. "My understanding is that Boko Haram doesn't have anything to do with Arab guys with guns. This says a lot more about our stereotypes than anything else."
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#1  Good days fine sirs:
I am at your service Pascal Amanfo Fosse. A famous director in Nollywood and have made plenty movies. I have a new famous property that is just right for your investment which will return a minimum of 92% per annum into the perpetuity. It is about a khat chewing h*t Han Solo who has come to Lagos to make the film. It's working title is "All That Jedi" it would be good for you to send me a (real) cashiers check in the form of 1 million American to get on ground floor.

Major prosperity to us boths.
Kindest regards to your cheese.
Pascal Amanfo Fosse (esq.)
Posted by: Shipman || 07/06/2013 6:01 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas urges faith in Arab Spring despite Morsi ouster
[Al Ahram] Haniya's political adviser Yussef Rizq on Thursday criticised on his Facebook page the ouster of Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president
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Africa North
Major Pushback By Egypt Islamists
CAIRO -- Seething Enraged Islamists pushed back against the toppling of President Mohammed Morsi, as tens of thousands of his supporters marched in Cairo on Friday to demand his reinstatement and attacked his opponents.
'Tens of thousands': sounds rather fewer than the anti-Morsi demonstrations earlier in the week...
Nighttime clashes raged with stone-throwing, firecrackers and gunfire, and military armored vehicles raced across a Nile River bridge in a counterassault on Morsi's supporters.

Mayhem nationwide left at least 10 people dead and 210 wounded as Morsi supporters stormed government buildings, vowing to reverse the military's removal of the country's first freely elected president. Among the dead were four killed when troops opened fire on a mostly peaceful march by Islamists on the Republican Guard headquarters.

Continued on Page 49
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#1  Egyptian army doesn't have machine guns?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/06/2013 8:57 Comments || Top||

#2  They do, grom, but the ammo has gotten SO expensive lately...
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/06/2013 10:25 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Boko Haram And The Killing Of Ibadan Traders
[SPYGHANA] Corpses of the 10 traders murdered in Mugunu, Borno State by suspected 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...
members arrived at the Bodija Market in Ibadan North Local Government of Oyo State on Tuesday.

Their remains were first received by the executive of market union at about 2pm at the toll gate before being taken to the tension-filled market.

The traders were on a business trip to the state when they met their untimely death on Saturday.

On sighting the corpses, hundreds of traders, relatives of the dear departed and sympathisers, who had gathered in the market, started weeping uncontrollably.

One of the survivors of the attack, Taoheed Adewuyi, 32, said, "They ( attackers) stopped us along the way and asked us to come down from our vehicle and lie down. They started shooting us one by one.

"I was shot but I was not badly injured. I fainted but later became conscious. I am lucky to be alive.

"One of them went into their vehicle and slaughtered one of us with a knife. The man that was slaughtered is called Ninalowo.

"He was slaughtered because they discovered that he was still breathing after they shot him. I shivered and almost cried out in shock; but I was lucky that I did not. They were Boko Haram members.

A trader, who identified himself simply as Emiola, said, "We cannot confirm the actual number of those who bit the dust. What we know is that 10 of our people were killed."

The Babaloja of Oyo State, Chief Dauda Oladapo, urged the Federal Government to address the insecurity in the land.
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Africa North
12 dead, 200 injured in clashes between Morsi supporters and opponents in Alexandria
[Al Ahram] At least 12 dead and 200 injured in Alexandria festivities between opponents and supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi, MENA cites head of Alexandria Ambulance Authority.

Fresh violence erupted in Egypt's coastal city of Alexandria Friday night between police forces and thousands of supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi.

Violence extended along the street leading up to the northern military base headquarters, where pro-Morsi protesters had marched on earlier on Friday

Earlier in the day, supporters and opponents of Morsi clashed near the military base headquarters where hundreds of Moslem Brüderbund supporters marched in response to Islamists calls for protest against Morsi's removal.

Violence broke out on Friday afternoon after Morsi supporters were reportedly harassed by anti-Morsi passersby. Police intervened to form a buffer in attempt to disperse the crowds, according to Al-Ahram Arabic news website.

Gunshots were heard during the festivities, with no casualties reported as of 6pm.

Cairo has also seen deadly festivities outside of the recreational club of the officers of the Republican Guard in the district of Heliopolis where at least two Morsi backers have been killed on Friday.

Thousands have taken part in support marches dubbed "Friday of rejection" in Cairo, and in the northern cities of Alexandria, Beheira and the Upper Egyptian city of Minya following Friday prayers.

The National Coalition to Support Legitimacy, Islamist coalition led by the Moslem Brüderbund from which Morsi hails, had called for "peaceful protests on Friday in all of Egypt's provinces to denounce the military coup against legitimacy and in support of the legitimacy of President Morsi."
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#1  Pappy, my hat off.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/06/2013 9:17 Comments || Top||

#2  "President Obama's exuberant incompetence with regard to events in Egypt is a good thing".
- Ralph Peters
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2013 9:22 Comments || Top||

#3  And what the hell you know about President Obama competence you retarded anti Americanism freak
Posted by: repubkiller || 07/06/2013 20:17 Comments || Top||

#4  And what the hell you know about President Obama competence you retarded anti Americanism freak

Educated guess...

What's the deal with all the Obama cheerleaders?

Barky won. Start governing, or resign and let people who will.
Posted by: badanov || 07/06/2013 21:15 Comments || Top||

#5  And what the hell you know about President Obama competence you retarded anti Americanism freak

Gracious, such rudeness, Mr. repubkiller! As Americans, my dear, it is our responsibility to judge the skills and character of those who we hire to work for us. Competence is easy, of course: can the subject execute the responsibilities of the job, and if yes, has he done so? Some of us had questions about Mr. Obama before he hired on, given the thinness of his resume', not to mention his curriculum vitae, but given recent events in Egypt, the American employment picture, various governance scandals, etc. and so forth, it would seem there now is ample evidence to appraise his performance against his own stated goals.

Or would you disagree with Colonel Peters, and claim that President Obama has handled developments in Egypt, all of which occurred on his watch, competently? If so, please lay out specifically what he has done correctly, and why you believe it to be so. Of course you mustn't reveal anything that is supposed to be secret -- we only discuss open source material here. Still, there is plenty of material in the Rantburg archives to work with, should you wish to check what we are aware of.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2013 21:19 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm having trouble taking seriously anybody who calls itself a republican-killer.

Sounds like a DemoncRat wet dream.
Posted by: Barbara || 07/06/2013 21:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Nicely said TW. Repubkiller and our new friend Lex, drinking from the same bottle it would appear.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2013 22:19 Comments || Top||

#8  A fine beatdown! Savage, yet lady-like.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/06/2013 23:45 Comments || Top||

#9  Thank you, Besoeker. Though I wouldn't actually put Mr. repubkiller and Lex on the same planet, let alone in the same category. On the War in Terror, Lex is in the right side of things. You'll note he hasn't said much about Obamacare since it was announced that implementation would be postponed [at least] a year.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2013 23:45 Comments || Top||

#10  *blush* Never have I been called savage, SteveS. ai shall treasure it forever.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2013 23:47 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Report: Hizbullah, FSA Clash in Bekaa Towns
[An Nahar] Fierce festivities erupted between Hizbullah fighters and the Free Syrian Army rebels in several Bekaa towns, media reports said on Friday.

The festivities took place overnight Thursday in the Bekaa towns of Nabi Sheet and Brital and al-Khodr, according to the reports.

However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
sources denied to Voice of Leb (100.5) the reports, saying that gunbattles erupted at night in Syrian territories.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336084 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Africa Subsaharan
3 Boko Haram dressed up like girls disguised as women killed by JTF in Maiduguri
[Osun Defender] Operatives of the Joint Task Force (JTF) yesterday bumped off three suspected 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...
members who disguised as women while 20 others who also dressed like women were tossed in the calaboose
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
while attempting to attack the Ibrahim Taiwo Police Station along Baga road.
"Chief! Chief! A coupla dozen women are trying to attack the cop shoppe!"
"Are you sure they're women?"
"I'm sure they're armed!"
"Okay! I'll send a flying squad! Should it be a girl flying squad or a boy flying squad?"
"Send one of each! That's live ammunition!"

Witnesses said over 20 men, clad in Hijab (flowing cloth and veil, popular among Moslem women) and Abaya (a long rob also popular among women in Borno) were arrested around the Police station.
"If you ladies would be so kind as to drop that weaponry and put yer hands on yer head, we can serve tea!"
"Do we get scones, too?"

A security source said the incident happened around 2pm, adding that all the suspects had AK47 Rifles and Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs) concealed in beneath their cloth.
"See, I got this idea, Mahmoud! We make all the wimmin wear sacks..."
"This is Nigeria, Ahmed. Ain't they gonna roast? It's 98.6 degrees today!"
"They're just a buncha wimmin. What do you care? Anyway, when they're all doin' that, we dress up like girls and surprise the infidels!"
"Ooh! Ooh! Good idea! Can I have one of those push-up bras?"

The source said the attempted attack was repelled because a combined team of soldiers, coppers and SSS were keeping watch at the station which is directly facing the Baga Market.
"It's quiet, chief!"
"Too quiet! Keep a close eye out! And stop lookin' at them wimmin! This ain't no dating service!"

Besides, there was serious fight at Jajeri area of Maiduguri yesterday when suspected Boko Haram members detonated an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in order to scare away dozens of youth of the vigilante groups, popularly known as 'Civilian JTF' who stormed the area in order to rid it of vermin.
[KABOOM!]
"Oh, noze! An IED!"
"Thhhppp! Missed us, didn't you?"

Witnesses said the sound of the blast which rattled the people in nearby settlements as well as the sporadic gunshots by the bully boyz did not deter the surging youth from advancing into the area seen as "safe abode" for suspected Boko Haram members in the last four years.
"Onward, Nigerian youth guyz!
Marching as to war!
"

Sabiu Buba, a technician along Baga road said trouble started around 1.15pm when the youth, carrying daggers, sticks and ropes mobilized themselves and moved into the area.
[Brzzt! Crackle!]
"Advancing into sector 458!"
"Howcome you say 'Brzzt! Crackle!' when you holler?"
"Someday we'll have radios!"
"Hey! Do that thing where you sound like you're on single sidedband, like the rebels in Star Wars!"

"while many traders at the Baga market and shop owners on the highway were scampering for safety, the volunteer youths were not deterred, they only took cover for a while and thereafter stormed the red spot," Buba said.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336088 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram

#1  Howcome you say 'Brzzt! Crackle!' when you holler?"

LOL and any excuse to get the phrase Flying Column into an article.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/06/2013 5:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Abdul's drag outfit did not include a jock strap. The obvious mistake gave way the entire platoon.
Posted by: Hupuque Bucket2093 || 07/06/2013 15:17 Comments || Top||

#3  when Fred gets on a roll.....
Posted by: Frank G || 07/06/2013 17:48 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Masked man kills cop in Peshawar
[Dawn] A policeman was rubbed out by an unidentified masked man in a targeted attack in 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.
on Friday.

Officials said that a constable of the Peshtakhara cop shoppe was performing duty outside a church in Umeedabad area when an unidentified masked man opened firing on him and injured him seriously.

They said that the constable received bullets in his chest. He was taken to Khyber Teaching Hospital where he departed this vale of tears. The dear departed policeman was identified as Shehzad Gul, a resident of Naguman area.

According to police, the incident took place at around 8am. Quoting eyewitnesses, police said that the assailant was alone. He was armed with a pistol and managed to escape after firing at the policeman, they added.

In Khyber Agency, two rustics were killed and three others received injuries when armed persons attacked a passenger vehicle in Bara tehsil on Friday.

Sources said that more than 12 Akkakhel rustics were on their way home in a passenger pick-up when unidentified gunnies ambushed the vehicle near Zawa area.

The firing at the vehicle resulted in killing of Mohammad Khan and Juma Dar, they said, adding that Abdul Matin, Zar Khan and Noor Said were maimed critically in the attack.

Sources said that the area was infested with members of some banned bad turban groups who were carrying out attacks against security forces and volunteers of local pro-government peace committees.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336066 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Home Front: Culture Wars
Video shows men attacking religious protesters at Pridefest
[KOMONEWS] SEATTLE -- A protester holding a sign reading "Repent or Else" was attacked by a group of people following a loud argument during Pridefest Sunday, according to the Seattle Police Department.

Bicycle officers heard a loud debate between two groups of people near Fourth Avenue North and Broad Street but continued on their way.
Must have been the magnetic pull of a donut shop...
According to video shot by a witness, after officers leave the crowd continues to yell at and shove two religious protesters, one of whom is holding a sign that reads "Repent or Else" and "Jesus Saves from Sin."

At one point, the video shows a 36-year-old Marysville man taking off his shirt and threatening the sign-holding protester. The man eventually starts leaving, saying, "Cops are coming; let's roll."

After a group of women try unsuccessfully to steal the protester's sign, a group of men grab onto it and pull him to the ground while the crowd applauds. That's when the video shows the 36-year-old run back toward the fight and punch the sign-holder in the back of the head multiple times.

Officers returned to the scene after the fight was broken up and placed in durance vile
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
the 36-year-old, who was booked into King County Jail. A 22-year-old, also from Marysville, who the video shows grabbing the protester's sign and kicking him while on the ground was arrested and later released. Both men are facing possible misdemeanor assault charges.
Kicking someone is a 'misdemeanor'? And you let him go?
UPDATE: Jason Queree, the man suspected of punching the protester multiple times, has been arrested 29 times since 1995. He has been convicted or otherwise found against for nine felonies, including forgery, stolen property, unlawful firearm possession and theft, and 12 misdemeanors, including driving with a suspended license, vehicle prowl, domestic violence, assault, DUI and criminal trespass.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336069 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "But, but, but, gay marriage is legal, and we're freer, and devout Christians are the only evil on the planet, and don't talk about this cuz it ruins the narrative, Beavis. 'N stuff"

/channeling Lex off
Posted by: no mo uro || 07/06/2013 7:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Why did noone in the crowd try and stop the assault?

To have NOONE try and be sensible invites turnabout...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/06/2013 9:46 Comments || Top||

#3  As planned, our military is now doomed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2013 9:49 Comments || Top||

#4  "This is what
di-vers-ity
looks like!"

BP, unlike the beheaded soldier, this crowd actually agrees with the drunkdozer and were pickets for when the police showed up. Give it another 5 minutes of known unsupervision...

btw, those were not the Gore phelps klan a-holes, just some guys standing in the middle of enemy territory with some flags. I personally came in very neutral and ended up rooting for the flags.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/06/2013 10:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Jason Queree

I have to believe he changed his name to that.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/06/2013 10:53 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Man with guns, armor and Molotov cocktails arrested in Seattle
[LATIMES] A man inside a stolen truck had guns, body armor and Molotov cocktails when police enjugged
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
him in Seattle on Wednesday night, officials said Thursday.

The identity of the 21-year-old Nevada man was not released, and officials said they didn't know why he was at the University of Washington, where he was discovered.

University police first encountered the man sleeping in the truck at the campus in Seattle on Tuesday evening, university police Chief John Vinson said in a Thursday news conference.

Vinson described the contact as a "noncriminal" encounter; police left after questioning the man, who had no outstanding warrants.

The next morning, however, officials got an alert that the truck had been stolen from Montana on Monday, and when police returned to the site where the man had been sleeping, he and the truck were gone.

At 10:30 p.m. that night, university police spotted the truck on campus again. Police took the man into custody on suspicion of stealing the truck. After searching the vehicle, officers discovered a cache of weaponry, Vinson said.

Police found a stolen scoped rifle, a stolen shotgun, body armor and "multiple" Molotov cocktails, Vinson said.

"We don't know why he's in the University of Washington area," Vinson said, adding: "We have no idea what his intentions are. ... We're trying to rule out everything at this point."
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336069 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mebbe he's a Huskies fan.
Posted by: Pappy || 07/06/2013 10:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Well stealing is against the law, and gasoline can only be dispinsed into approved containers, and this happened in Seattle? Impossible, must be a fabricated story led by the peoples' bush tea frequency sharktapus defence popular mafia front dragons ++bad corporation.
/black humor unless that is racist

srzly, how strange to have got caught, released, then returned? It does sound like a target and plan.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/06/2013 10:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Could be he was employed to preserve the status quo marketing system in the face of marijuana legalization?
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/06/2013 10:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Mebbe he's a Huskies fan.
I would suggest that he is a fan of WSU, but getting caught after escaping one visit from the poleece confirmed it; he 'Couged' it.

(For those not familiar w/ that term of endearment; the WSU Cougars have a knack of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, sorta like the Mariners. or the Republicans)
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 07/06/2013 10:58 Comments || Top||

#5  I can't wait to hear his explanation.
Posted by: Squinty || 07/06/2013 11:36 Comments || Top||

#6  Ryan Leaf?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/06/2013 12:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Nice looking young man from Montana
Posted by: bman || 07/06/2013 16:22 Comments || Top||

#8  Should have said was on his way to Egypt.
Posted by: Charles || 07/06/2013 21:22 Comments || Top||


Africa North
UN rights chief alarmed by Egypt arrests
[Al Ahram] UN worried by reported mass arrests against Muslim Brotherhood members in Egypt. "There should be no more violence, no arbitrary detention, no illegal acts of retribution," Navi Pillay sez.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336068 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  Navi Pillay --- an argument for eugenics?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/06/2013 8:58 Comments || Top||

#2  "I'm from the UN. I'm here to help."
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2013 11:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Given the conditions of the world, she must be in a state of constant alarm.
Posted by: Squinty || 07/06/2013 11:33 Comments || Top||

#4  If something like this happened in Venezuela the Omerta would cover it.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/06/2013 11:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Considering all the sources who are against it, I'm starting to find myself a supporter.

Like with Hondoras.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/06/2013 11:55 Comments || Top||



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  Big party in Tahrir Square!
Wed 2013-07-03
  Egypt army dumps Morsi
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  Guards of senior Muslim Brotherhood figure arrested in Egypt
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  Muslim Brotherhood, FJP offices attacked throughout Egypt
Fri 2013-06-28
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Thu 2013-06-27
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