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Off topic, but I didn't get to yesterday's 'Burg until just now: for those interested, the NORAD Santa tracker website can be found here, and their Facebook page is here. This thing has clearly become more elaborate over the years, and now the website offers a choice of languages that includes other alphabets. Enjoy!
[Tolo News] Twenty seven bully boyz were killed and 6 were maimed during a series of coordinated operations over the past 24 hours carried out by the Afghan National Army (ANA), Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of Security (NDS), the Afghan Ministry of Interior said in a statement on Wednesday.
Four other bully boyz were incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... during the operations.
"In the past 24 hours, Afghan National Police conducted several anti-terrorism joint operations with Afghan National Army and NDS to clean some of the areas from snuffies and enemies of peace and stability of Afghanistan," read the statement.
The operations were conducted in Kabul, Laghman, Kandahar, Zabul and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces.
The ANP reportedly confiscated light and heavy rounds of ammunition and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) as well.
"During the same 24 hour period, Afghan National Police discovered and defused seven different types of IEDs placed by enemies of Afghanistan for destructive activities in Kabul, Uruzgan, Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... and Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... provinces," the statement added.
The statement did not report any casualties amongst the Afghan forces or local civilian populations.
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[Tolo News] The US military on Tuesday suspended shipments of equipment out of Afghanistan through Pakistain, citing protests that posed a risk to truck drivers, officials said.
The move came after club-wielding activists in northwest Pakistain forcibly searched trucks for NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... supplies in protest over US drone strikes in the tribal belt.
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now that we're not beholding to them for shipments, drone the f*ck out of tehm
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MOGADISHU -- Armed militia believed to be Shaboobs Al Shabaab members attacked Intelligence base
...a darned near oxymoron in Somalia...
in Mogadishu's Huriwaa district as witnesses reported two landmine explosions in El-Waq town of Gedo region, Garowe Online reports.
The gunmen Tuesday night targeted Intelligence and National Security Agency (NISA) base with anti-aircraft weapons and rocket-propelled grenades according to officials and residents said Somali Government forces engaged in firefight that lasted for nearly 30 Minutes with the attackers.
Huriwaa Commissioner Omar Abdulle Jacfan told the media that armed militia estimated to be 10 attacked the forces.
"Nearly 10 men attacked Abdi-Wayel Cinema which is a base for intelligence officers. The government forces were later reinforced and they killed two assailants and captured two others," Jacfan said.
Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab militants target Somali government officials and important structures, making Mogadishu security situation extremely volatile.
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[Shabelle] News sources from Beledweyne the headquarter town of Hiran region confirm that a heavy fighting occured last night between Alshabab fighters and AMISOM troops based in the region.
the fighting occured when the Alshabab fighters attacked an AMISOM base in the town causing severe casualties on both sides.
Locals told Shabelle radio that the fighting sides used heavy artillaries against each other during the heavy confrontation forcing the Shabaab fighters to withdraw. However residents of the town confirmed to shabelle radio that the situation of the town returned back to normal after last night's fighting.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Twenty-one bodies were found overnight Tuesday in a mass grave near Bamako, believed to be the remains of soldiers close to Mali's ousted president Amadou Toumani Toure, officials said.
"We have found 21 bodies, probably of 'red beret' soldiers, in a mass grave in Diago. The bodies were exhumed," a Malian justice ministry official said.
A security official told AFP that "identity cards found in the mass grave seem to confirm that they were missing 'red beret' soldiers."
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[Libya Herald] An immigration official and a Libyan Navy diver were killed in two separate attacks this morning in Benghazi.
An immigration official working in the city's passport office, Hakim Guma Al-Arabi, was killed instantly when a grenade was thrown into his vehicle, setting it ablaze, according to Libyan news agency LANA. The incident happened in downtown Benghazi near Arabi's place of work.
In a separate incident this morning, a diver in the Libyan Navy, Mohammed AbduSalam Al-Rayani, was also killed instantly when he was shot outside his house, an official source told the Libya Herald.
This is the third such shooting outside victims' homes in the city in four days. A member of the Libyan Air Force, Salah Idrissy was rubbed out in front of his young son on Sunday. The next day a member of the Preventative Security force, Misbah Gbaylli, was killed when he was shot twice in the head.
A spokesperson for Al-Jalaa Hospital in Benghazi confirmed to the Libya Herald that it received the bodies of both Arabi and Rayani.
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At least 20 people were killed in a car bomb and gun battle at Yemen's defense ministry compound in the capital Sanaa.
The defense ministry said the attack targeted the ministrys hospital and most of the gunmen had been killed or injured. In a statement on its website, the Yemeni military said, The attackers have exploited some construction work there to carry out this criminal act ... the situation is under control."
Witnesses said the explosion ripped through the compound in the old district of Sanaa, where the countrys central bank is located. A defense ministry source said, The attack took place shortly after working hours started at the ministry, when a suicide bomber drove a car into the gate.
An employee who works in a nearby building said, The explosion was very violent, the whole place shook because of it and plumes of smoke rose from the building."
Ambulance sirens and gunshots were heard after the explosion as soldiers exchanged fire with the gunmen, said to have been disguised in Yemeni army uniforms, who had stormed the compound. A military source said that at least 20 people, including terrorists militants, were killed in the attack and dozens were injured.
At least two sources inside the defense ministry said the assailants arrived in two vehicles. One was driven by a suicide bomber who attacked the gate of the compound, while armed men entered the compound in the second.
[An Nahar] Clashes between Yemeni troops and aggrieved rustics blocking a convoy of oil tanker trucks killed three soldiers and one protester Wednesday, officials said.
The incident occurred near Okla, northwest of the Shabwa picturesque provincial capital of Ataq, when primitive demanding jobs at the Okla oil well stopped the trucks.
Troops intervened to lift the roadblock, and shooting ensued.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Three passengers were killed and 35 others injured as four coaches and the engine of Padmarag Express veered off the tracks in Gaibandha yesterday after blockaders ripped up fish plates and clips from the rail lines.
Similar acts of sabotage caused the derailment of two trains in Khulna and Chandpur, leaving at least 10 passengers injured and suspending Dhaka-Khulna and Chandpur-Chittagong rail communications.
Wahidur Rahman Babu, a victim of an arson attack on a bus near Shishu Park last Thursday, died at the burn unit of Dhaka medical College Hospital early yesterday, as the opposition's 131-hour blockade entered its fifth day.
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Hartal becomes Civil War
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[Pak Daily Times] KARACHI: An alleged member of the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) among five 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.... gangsters was killed during encounters with law enforcers on Wednesday.
An alleged member of the outlawed of TTP was bumped off during an encounter with the police near Musharraf Mor, Mauripur.
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[DAWN] Militants kidnapped 13 workers of Uch Power Plant from 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... 's Naseerabad district on Wednesday, a security official said.
The official, who requested anonymity, told Dawn.com that armed forces of Evil picked up the workers from Mangoli area of Naseerabad district.
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[Pak Daily Times] Suicide bombers and gunnies attacked a police intelligence headquarters in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding dozens more, a health official said. Security forces and attackers engaged in a two-hour shootout at the complex where kabooms could be heard, police said. Hospitals in the city, 250km north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , counted six people killed and 47 maimed, said Sabah Amir Ahmed, head of the health directorate in Kirkuk. No group immediately grabbed credit for the attack.
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Obama spent Thanksgiving with illegal aliens who are on a hunger strike for amnesty.
Four days later, a blonde woman from Albanian with an American husband and three children was given twenty four hours to vacate the country by the Obama administration.
Cile Precetaj legally entered the United States in 2000 and filed all the proper legal paperwork. She came from a remote village in Albania. She requested asylum on the grounds that Muslim gangs were abducting women from her village to use as sex slaves.
Over the next thirteen years, she married an American citizen and had three children.
Cile says she is defying the deportation order.
The Obama regime wont deport hardcore career criminals from Haiti, or war criminals from Africa. So why is a blond woman from Albania being targeted?
[Pak Daily Times] An Indonesian on trial for a foiled plot to bomb the Myanmar embassy confessed to being the criminal mastermind on Wednesday, saying he was "still at war" with anyone oppressing Moslems.
Sigit Indrajid, 23, testified that he led a group of Islamic bully boyz that networked over Facebook in a plan to attack Myanmar's mission in Jakarta in May.
The group wanted to avenge the harsh treatment of Moslem-minority Rohingya in Myanmar -- an issue that has resonated widely in Indonesia, the world's biggest Moslem-majority nation.
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Abu Sayyaf militants have freed a Jordanian journalist after 18 months in captivity in the jungle of Sulu in the southern Philippines. Officials said Baker Atyani was recovered by police forces in the village of Igasan and has been taken to the hospital for medical examination.
Baker Atyani, who works for the Arabic television news channel, Al Arabiya, has gone inside camps of the terror organization along with his two Filipino assistants to film leaders of the Abu Sayyaf that have been linked to al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiya, but was taken prisoner on June 12, 2012. Atyani's Filipino colleagues were freed in February this year.
Atyani was released after several calls by the Cairo-based al-Azhar, Jerusalem Grand Mufti and the Islamic scholars of Mindanao, the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and after continuous effort by the Middle East Broadcasting Center.
Some reports alleged that Atyani was a conduit for the Abu Sayyaf and that the ransom demand was only a cover to hide the flow of funding to the terror group, including Jemaah Islamiya, accused of a series of attacks and bombings in the Philippines.
Security sources said Atyani arrived in Sulu on June 11 last year and went to the Abu Sayyaf the next day to secretly interview terror leaders and other militant commanders, including Jemaah Islamiya rebels hiding on the island. Authorities said Atyani had deceived local officials when he claimed to be filming government projects in Sulu, one of five provinces under the Muslim autonomous region.
Local officials had repeatedly warned Atyani against interviewing the Abu Sayyaf, but the trio went ahead and secretly met with terrorist leaders, among them Nadzmie Alih. They were first reported missing after failing to return to their hostel, but phoned local officials two days later to say that they were still filming a documentary on the Abu Sayyaf.
Atyani, who had previously interviewed Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan months before the September 11, 2001 attacks, contacted his colleagues to say that they were being held against their will.
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Three policemen were seriously injured by a bomb explosion in Narathiwat province yesterday. The policemen were part of a patrol on its way to Ban Kumong to investigate another bomb blast earlier in the morning. As they approached the village, a bomb hidden at the roadside in front of a school was remotely detonated. The bomb had targeted a 12-man ranger patrol, which escaped unharmed.
[An Nahar] There was "total calm" in 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... on Wednesday after several days of deadly gunbattles, the state-run National News Agency reported, as the Lebanese army tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! four gunnies in its latest sweep on the fighters.
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[An Nahar] Rockets killed at least 18 people on Wednesday in regime-held areas of Syria's main northern city of Aleppo, a focal point of the 33-month conflict pitting loyalists against rebels.
On the political front, a Syrian minister said Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... would remain president and lead any transition agreed upon at Geneva peace talks planned for next month, despite the opposition's demands he be excluded from the process.
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[An Nahar] A new group of Lebanese fighters have been killed in Syria while fighting alongside rebels, according to media reports.
"Lebanese national Ahmed al-Hujairi and 13 gunnies were killed in a Syrian army ambush between the Rima Farms and Nabak" in the Syrian region of Qalamoun, al-Mayadeen television reported.
For its part, MTV said 13 Lebanese men, including one from al-Hujairi family, were killed in Qalamoun's Halboun.
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[An Nahar] An arrest warrant was issued on Wednesday against a Lebanese suspect for his links to bombings in Beirut's southern suburbs, reported the National News Agency.
It said that Military Examining Magistrate Imad al-Zein issued the warrant against Hassan R. on charges of carrying out terrorist attacks in the Bir al-Abed and al-Ruwais areas.
He was also charged with causing the death and injury of a number of people and the destruction of property and vehicles.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
At least 20 people were killed in a car bomb and gun battle at Yemen's defense ministry compound in the capital Sanaa.
[Pak Daily Times] KARACHI: An alleged member of the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) among five 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
