Anita Louise aka Nell McLaughlin in "My Friend Flicka" (50s TV) aka Annette Pasteur in "The Story of Louis Pasteur" aka Queen of the Fairies in "The Castro District A Midsummer Night's Dream" (Died in 1970 at age 55)
Appears the US will be around for a while longer as the ASG specifies the Period of Performance as: ....through 31 Jan 2016. Best of luck to us with the Local National security guard effort.
[Asharq al-Aswat] A rebel group attacked Southern Sudan's military and four rebels were killed, a military front man said Saturday, a day before the region begins voting in an independence referendum that is expected to divide Africa's largest nation in two.
Despite the attack, most officials predict the weeklong vote to go peacefully.
Col. Philip Aguer said forces loyal to rebel leader Gatluak Gai attacked forces in the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Army overnight Friday, possibly early Saturday, in Unity State, an oil-rich area on the north-south Sudan divide. Aguer said the counterattack by SPLA forces killed four and maimed six of Gai's men.
Southern Sudan suffered through decades of internal strife and civil war with the north. It has worked in recent weeks to strike peace deals with dissident commanders, but Gai's rebels have not yet reconciled with the southern government.
Starting Sunday, southern Sudanese will cast simple, illustrated ballots at polling stations under thatched roof shelters in the remote and impoverished countryside and in Juba, a city of simple concrete houses and mud huts that got its first paved roads only in recent years.
If it passes, the referendum will split Africa's biggest country between the mostly Arab and Mohammedan north, and the mostly black and Christian or animist south. Southern Sudan would then be on track to become the world's newest country in July. Outstanding issues like sharing oil wealth, water rights and demarcating the border still have to be agreed to.
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An Egyptian prosecutor has ordered an autopsy on the body of a man who relatives claim was arrested and tortured to death days after the attack on a Coptic church in Alexandria, the prosecutor's lawyer said on Saturday.
Mohamed Sayyid Bilal, 32, was detained on Wednesday after a so-far unnamed bomber killed 23 people on New Year's day at the church. Bilal's body was turned over to his family the next day and it bore marks of torture and burns, his brother Ibrahim said.
The brother said the family then filed a report with the prosecutor's office accusing Egyptian security of torturing Bilal to death during his interrogation and demanding an investigation.
The Interior Ministry has refused to comment. But the public prosecutor said that an investigation into the family's charges was under way and he had ordered an autopsy.
Authorities are searching for a cell of four to five suspects from Egypt and elsewhere, state media reports said on Saturday with no details.
Bilal was one of many Salafists rounded up along with the usual suspects others in the bombing. Authorities have not formally announced any connection between the church blast and the arrests of Salafists, saying just that many subjects citizens were under investigation.
"A day after he was arrested we got a call from a hospital saying he was suffering from low blood pressure. When we arrived we found him dead. His body had torture marks and burns," said Ibrahim Bilal. "We filed a report number 88-2011."
"We are investigating these claims and ordered an autopsy on his body but the forensic report has not come yet. So far no one has proof he was tortured," said Attorney General Yaser Rifai.
An anti-torture page on Facebook called "We are Khaled Said" has denounced the church attack and called for a silent march to commemorate the victims.
[Al Jazeera] Two Frenchieskidnapped in Niger have been found dead following a failed rescue operation.
The two men were found dead following festivities between security forces and the kidnappers, Alain Juppe, the French defence minister, said on Saturday.
"With the operation launched and co-ordinated with French elements in the region, the beturbanned goons were intercepted at the Mali border and several of them were overpowered," Juppe said.
"After the fighting, the two hostages were found dead."
The Rooters news agency reported an unnamed source as saying the the bodies had been flown back to Niamey, Niger's capital.
The two Frenchies were seized on Friday while eating dinner in a restaurant in Niamey. Four gunnies burst into the restaurant and ordered the two men out into a 4x4 vehicle with Benin plates in which other gunnies were waiting, according to witnesses.
One witness said that the gunnies were speaking French and Arabic and were dressed in clothes worn by nomadic tribes in the country's northern desert.
Following initial festivities with Nigerien security forces, in which the national guard chief was reportedly injured, a chase was mounted in an attempt to recover the hostages.
"The Niger national guard immediately gave chase to block them from reaching a zone of refuge, which is a grave threat for our hostages," Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, said earlier in a televised address from the French Caribbean region of Martinique.
"At the minute I speak to you, and I'm careful, the Niger national guard is following the beturbanned goons on their route to Mali," Sarkozy said.
"This operation is in progress."
Sarkozy, who urged Frenchies to avoid the west African region until the security situation improved, said the abductors were heading to a safe zone in Mali which would be "extremely serious" for the hostages.
No group has grabbed credit for the kidnapping, but there are suspicions that it could be linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which operates across West and North Africa's vast Sahara desert.
La Belle France is already working to secure the release of five other kidnapped Frenchies seized in Niger in September along with a Togolese and a Madagascan.
They are believed to be being held in neighbouring Mali by AQIM.
In November, Abdelmalek Droukdel, alias Abou Moussaab Abdelouadoud, AQIM's head, said in a message on A -Jazeera, that Osama bin Laden alone could negotiate the release of the hostages.
But Michele Alliot-Marie, the French foreign minister, has rejected any suggestion that La Belle France would negotiate their freedom with bin Laden.
This article starring:
Abdelmalek Droukdel
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with no hostages to worry about - cut them off and kill every last one of them
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[Yemen Post] Two soldiers were killed and five others injured when separatist bully boyz attacked a military camp in Yemen's southern Lahj province, coinciding with deadly attacks on military convoys in other southern provinces, mainly blamed on AQAP, a security official said on Saturday.
About three armed separatists broke into the military camp in the Milah district and opened heavy fire on soldiers killing and injuring five of them, the official said.
Two of the attackers were maimed when troops returned fire, the official added.
Milah is near the Habilain district where volatile confrontations between the forces and armed separatists continue to erupt.
In the last few weeks, military reinforcements were deployed to some areas in Lahj to control the situation as the separatist movement, Harak, is escalating protest and violence.
Also, today's attack coincided with the withdrawal of military armored cars from some areas in Lahj including Milah district, according to local sources.
In Aden, four people were maimed when festivities erupted between the security forces and protestors who erupted into the streets demanding the release of 10 people in police custody for more than a week.
Protestors seized three cars of water, sanitary and electricity authorities to show their anger over what they called an arbitrary arrest of the detainees, whose arrest, according to local sources, took place when the police dispersed a rally in the city.
When the police tried to disperse the rally and recover the cars, festivities started leading to the casualties, local sources said.
All this comes amid rising violence in the south, where suspected Al-Qaeda attacks and separatist bully boyz are targeting military commanders, coppers and local officials as well as military and security convoys and patrols.
On Friday, more than a dozen troops were killed and several others injured in two ambushes by suspected Al-Qaeda gunnies against the convoy of a military commander and a military supply convoy in the Lowder district, Abyan.
The police also defused today a bomb that was put inside the car of director of Abyan Criminal Investigative Department.
The bomb was found by children who were playing near the car.
In Hadramout, a military commander survived an attack early on Saturday morning after unknown attackers had planted an bomb on a road which went kaboom! when the commander passed there.
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[Yemen Post] At least eight soldiers were maimed Saturday when a military vehicle overturned in the Lowder district, Abyan, where the forces are fighting and hunting suspected Al-Qaeda gunnies following Friday's bushwhackes.
Local sources told the Alsahwa website that the armoured vehicle overturned while escaping from an assault by Islamic fascistiin the Um Sarra area at 10:30 am.
On Friday, two ambushes in the district targeted water tankers and patrols escorting them killing at least 12 soldiers and injuring others.
Later in the day, a military commander was targeted while passing in the area along with other officials.
Suspected Al-Qaeda Islamic fascistiplanted a bomb on the road that went kaboom! when the commander passed there.
One of his guards was killed and three other guards were maimed in the ambush.
Today sources in Hadramout said a military commander survived an attack at dawn while he was on his way to a brigade he commands.
An bomb was planted on a road that went kaboom! when the commander passed on it, they said, adding that none was reported injured, but the commander's car was damaged.
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[Yemen Post] A military commander was injured and one of his guards was killed and three others seriously injured in a suspected Al-Qaeda ambush, the second on Friday targeting military convoys in south Yemen, an official source said.
Commander of Ground Troops Brigade 111 Muhsen Juzailan was hurt on Friday night when his car passed in the Lowder district, Abyan, where a bushwhack killed 12 soldiers and injured others early today, the official said.
A woman and a child got minor injuries in the attack as well.
According to the official, an bomb was planted on the road where the commander passed along with other local officials.
The forces heavily shelled the area after the ambush, local sources said.
Early today, 12 troops of the Brigade were killed and others injured when suspected Al-Qaeda gunnies attacked military water tankers and patrols escorting them while on their way to bring supplies in the district.
Eyewitnesses said after this morning ambush about 15 armed people, believed to be Al-Qaeda members, were seen running away.
The two ambushes took place in one of the southern areas, where the army has been launching large-scale operations and a massive hunt for AQAP, an Al-Qaeda group responsible for almost all deadly attacks across the country and terrorist plots outside the country.
In recent years, military and security convoys, commanders and officers, patrols and military camps and security buildings have been a direct target for attacks by AQAP cut-throats in southern and southeastern regions.
Many have been killed and maimed in attacks, as the government says it is determined to root all Islamic fascistiout.
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[Arab News] A special anti-terror court in Riyadh has so far issued preliminary verdicts on 442 cases involving 765 Al-Qaeda bully boys, the Justice Ministry said Saturday, adding that the terror suspects appealed 325 verdicts.
The ministry's front man, Abdullah Al-Saadan, said the beturbanned goons were facing charges such as association with Al-Qaeda, participation in terrorism, funding terror, and accepting the Al-Qaeda ideology and supporting its crimes.
He said the court had looked into 442 cases until the end of the last Hijrah year 1431 (Dec. 6, 2010).
Al-Saadan said the ministry would announce the results of the terror trials regularly once necessary procedures for journalists to attend court sessions are completed.
He said some of the detainees were accused of keeping contacts with Al-Qaeda leaders, establishing terrorist cells inside the Kingdom, recruiting beturbanned goons and making contact with foreign parties.
Al-Saadan said the preliminary verdicts issued by the court ranged from jail sentences for different terms to capital punishment. "The sentences also include fines, ban on traveling abroad and house arrest in a city of the criminal's choice. Some sentences specify the time for their implementation," he explained.
He said those accused would have the right to defend themselves through lawyers. "The special criminal court informs the beturbanned goons about this before trials begin," he added.
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Police found the bodies of 15 slain men, 14 of them decapitated, on a street outside a shopping centre in the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco.
Police in the southern state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located, said on Saturday that handwritten signs were left with the bodies, a common calling card of Mexico's cartels.
Acapulco has seen bloody turf battles between narco gangs in recent years.
"On the sidewalk of the Plaza Senderos shopping centre were the decapitated bodies of 15 males, between 25 and 30 years of age," said the police report.
"The heads were found in one single place, with the exception of one that was half severed from the body and with an impact of a projectile from a firearm."
It was the largest single group of decapitation victims found in recent years. In 2008, a group of 12 decapitated bodies were piled outside the Yucatan state capital of Merida. The same year, nine headless men were found in the Guerrero state capital of Chilpancingo.
In keeping with a policy designed not to give the cartels publicity, state police did not release the text of the messages found with the bodies.
But Reforma newspaper reported that they referred to the Sinaloa cartel, headed by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
Reforma said they apparently indicated the victims were killed by the Sinaloa cartel for trying to intrude on the gang's turf and extort residents.
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A total of 15 individuals were killed on drug and gang related violence in northern Mexican states, according to Mexican news accounts. For a map, click here
Two unidentified men were shot to death at a convenience store in Juarez Friday. The shooting took place near the intersection of calles Oscar Flores and Sierra Madre del Sur where the victims were stopped at a Bip Bip Rapiditos store. One victim was shot and killed inside his Dodge Neon while the other died attempting to flee the assault.
Two unidentified teenagers were shot to death in Juarez early Saturday morning. The victims were shot by armed suspects near the corner of calles Magneto and Privada Gonzalez on Mexico 68 colony.
Five unidentified individuals were murdered in two separate crimes in Juarez Saturday morning.
Four unidentified men were shot to death and immolated on Kilometer 23 of the Casas Grandes-Juarez highway. The victims were aboard a van when they were executed, each shot at least once in the head. The vehicle was subsequently set afire. A short distance away another victim was found aboard a Saturn sedan also shot in the head and the vehicle set afire.
An unidentified man was found dead in Ejido Zapata.
Two inmates were stabbed to death in a brawl Saturday near Chihuahua, Chihuahua. Armando Perez Torres, 30, and Manuel Orozco Solano, 37, died in their cells during a fight at the Achilles Serdan Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO). Reports say the CERESO director quit Friday for personal reasons.
An unidentified man was shot to death in Juarez Saturday. The victim was at his residence near the junction of calles Emiliano Zapata and Flores Magon in the Pancho Villa colony and shot several times. Several 9mm spent shell casings were found at the scene.
A Baja California state police agent was shot to death while serving an arrest warrant in Tijuana. Jose Miguel Guerra Acuña, who was assigned to a warrant squad, entered a residence on bulevar Casablanca in El PÃpila colony and was shot and killed.
Two unidentified armed suspects were shot to death in a shootout with a special police unit in Tijuana incident to a warrant service operation. The shootout took place on bulevar Casablanca in the El PÃpila colony. The suspects fled warrant service in El Pilupula colony armed with AK-47 assault rifles when they encountered the police and died in the ensuing firefight. Two unidentified municipal police officers were wounded in the firefight.
He said he has been performing duties in the mosque since its establishment. It was being run under the supervision of Saudi military attaché and Defence Minister Sultan bin Abdul Aziz.
After the assassination of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, it has been reported that fatwas are being issued against Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Sherry Rehman, declaring her a non-Muslim and demanding death sentence for her.
Daily Times has learnt that the imam of Sultan Masjid has issued a fatwa and another has been published in a pamphlet and distributed by the Tanzeem-e-Islami (TI).
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[Pak Daily Times] QUETTA: Two bullet-riddled bodies were found from the Bal Ghatar area of Panjgur district, a Levies official said on Saturday.
According to official sources, the bodies were identified as Taj Jan Marri son of Shero Marri and Meer Jan Marri son of Yar Ali. Both were residents of Takhtani, Quetta, and were traders by profession, the sources added.
The bodies were found from a jungle and the locals informed the officials, the sources said. Tehsildar Mohammad Rahim and the Levies Force officials rushed to the spot and shifted the bodies to the District Headquarters Hospital. The doctors told the officials that the dear departed had multiple bullet wounds, and they had been dead for more than a day. A large number of worried relatives of missing persons rushed to the hospital after being informed about the discovered bodies.
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[Pak Daily Times] Additional Inspector General (Special Branch) Nasir Khan Durrani has directed Chief Security Officer Khalid Satti and Ijaz Yousaf not to leave the city, and police security has been deployed at their residences. Durrani heads the team constituted by the Punjab government to investigate the killing of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer while DIGs Mushtaq Sukhera and Shoaib Dastgeer are its members. The committee visited the murder scene in Islamabad and met with bigwigs of the Islamabad police. Sources said no signatures of any official were found on the security plan for the governor. They said the security plan had not been updated for the last two months. Sources said the team was increasing the scope of its investigation to ascertain negligence on the part of Rawalpindi police in providing security to the governor. The team is likely to present the initial report of the governor's murder to Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif in a couple of days. Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... the security agencies have released 10 people jugged in connection with the killing of the governor.
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QUETTA: Quetta police busted a group of religious forces of Evil by rounding up four of its members and recovering a large quantity of weapons from them.
Addressing a presser, Deputy Inspector General (Operations) Hamid Shakil said 14 hand grenades and a kalashnikov with scores of rounds were recovered from the jugged men's possession.
They belonged to a banned religious outfit, which the DIG refused to identify for security reasons. He also withheld the identity of all the four men, saying that they were picked up during a raid at the residence of one Mahboob Bareech in the Satellite Township. He said the group was led by Mulla Obaidullah Bareech, who was serving a prison sentence.
They are being interrogated to unearth the names of other members of the group and have been booked under the Arms Act, Shakil said. He said police had jugged two more suspects involved in kidnapping for ransom cases in a separate raid in Pashtunabad area. Police identified the suspects as Fazalur Rehman, a proclaimed offender, and Umar Shah.
Replying to a question, Shakil said police officials were making efforts to break the chain of culprits involved in kidnapping-for-ransom, and the raids would continue until the criminals were brought to justice. He said police were already taking action against those coppers who were involved in backing the criminals. Two coppers were also suspended recently for allegedly harbouring criminals, he added.
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi army force freed a man taken hostage 48 hours after he was kidnapped in northern Mosul city on Saturday, a military source said.
An Iraqi armys 2nd Division force stationed in Mosul freed today (Jan. 8) a man kidnapped in al-Qahira neighborhood, northern Mosul, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. The freed man is in a good health condition, he said, not giving further details.
Good job, hostage rescue team!
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One Israeli soldier was killed and four soldiers injured in a friendly fire incident Friday evening on the Gaza border after the soldiers persued militants near the border security fence.
The soldier killed on the Gaza border is Sgt. Nadav Rotenberg, 20. A preliminary investigation indicates that Rotenberg and the others were hit when a software malfunction caused a mortar to fire at the IDF troops rather than the Palestinians. The two Islamic Jihadis fled the scene uninjured.
The IDF is now investigating whether a similar accident occurred in the system a few months ago during training. The system has generally been considered reliable.
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.
Additional Inspector General (Special Branch) Nasir Khan Durrani has directed Chief Security Officer Khalid Satti and Ijaz Yousaf not to leave the city, and police security has been deployed at their residences. Durrani heads the team constituted by the Punjab government to investigate the killing of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer while DIGs Mushtaq Sukhera and Shoaib Dastgeer are its members. The committee visited the murder scene in Islamabad and met with 
