WASHINGTON: The United States said on Monday it would suspend some aid to Mali following last week's coup, saying it estimated $60 million to $70 million may be affected but it would continue to give food and humanitarian assistance.
"We have now taken a decision to suspend our assistance to the government of Mali pending a resolution of the situation on the ground," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters. "A little more than half of our $140 million (in aid to Mali) is food assistance, so I am expecting somewhere in the neighborhood of $60-$70 million in assistance will be suspended but we'll have better numbers for you later on."
They'll give it to Egypt instead...
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Time for Mali to take a few dozen US NGO hostages.
TUNIS: The moderate Islamist Ennahda party, which leads Tunisias government, said on Monday it would oppose naming Islamic law, or sharia, in the new constitution, an issue that has threatened to derail the countrys transition to democracy.
For now. Must not feel completely confident of their ruling status...
A constituent assembly, elected in October, is hashing out a new constitution after popular protests ousted Zine Al-Abidine Ben Ali last year, sparking the Arab Spring uprisings.
Religious conservatives, including the third largest party in the constituent assembly, have called in recent weeks for the constitution to include sharia as the key source of legislation. Secularists oppose the move, which they say will open the way for the religious right to impose its values on what had been one of the Arab worlds most secular countries.
Rachid Al-Ghannouchi, Ennahdas co-founder and leader, said the group would instead be satisfied with retaining the existing first clause of the constitution, which identifies Islam as the religion of state but makes no mention of the role of sharia.
The first paragraph being all that they need...
We saw that Tunisians were divided over the issue of sharia. We dont want Tunisian society to be split because the revolution can only succeed with national unity, Ghannouchi told a news conference at the partys headquarters in Tunis.
The Tunisian people are united over Islam and we dont want to include another term that will divide the Tunisian people.
"Until we re-educate them."
Ennahda occupies more than 40 percent of the seats in Tunisias constituent assembly and its position in the sharia debate will have a huge impact on the wording of the document, which could take a year to debate, draft, revise and approve.
The rules specify that each clause of the constitution wins at least 50 percent approval in the assembly and the document as a whole wins two-thirds approval in no more than two readings. If it fails to win a big enough majority, it goes to referendum.
With its secular coalition partners, Ettakatol and the Conference for a Republic, Ennahda could secure close to the necessary majority. It is likely to be joined by the secular opposition parties that have fiercely criticized Ennahda but have little hope of removing any reference to Islam, as some had initially suggested, after faring poorly in the elections.
Ennahdas position is likely, however, to meet enormous opposition from more conservative Salafi Islamists who are not properly represented by any bloc in the assembly but have stepped up street protests demanding an Islamic state.
As they always do when they don't have control of the state, they make faces in the street. When they do have control, they execute the ones who oppose them.
Secularists fear that Ennahda has been too soft on Salafis who have become more assertive since the revolution and have attacked or threatened theaters, cinemas and journalists, and most recently Tunisias tiny Jewish community.
Ghannouchi said on Monday that there were some within Ennahdas ranks who had opposed the decision, taken by ballot at an assembly of the partys most senior committee this weekend. He said 53 senior Ennahda officials voted in favor of the motion to keep sharia out of the constitution, about a dozen opposed the motion and seven or eight abstained.
However, Ghannouchi said that Ennahda was looking for consensus over the constitution and would not seek to impose the view of a small majority of people in such an important document. Nor would it ignore the protests of Tunisias secular elites by going straight to a referendum on the issue.
He said sharia had become associated in the minds of some secular Tunisians with violence and terrorism and had been besmirched by the actions of groups such as Afghanistans Taleban.
Gee, wonder how anyone could think that...
For Ennahda, Islam and sharia were inseparable and the mention of Islam in the constitution was enough.
Again, he's telegraphing his message right there. Sharia is in, whether stated or not.
Constitutions that last are not based on 51 percent... They are based on consensus, or ijmaa in Islamic language, or at least near consensus. Sharia so far does not represent consensus for Tunisians. Islam does represent consensus so we will build our constitution on Islam, he said.
The Tunisian elite is an important section of society that must be reassured by Islam. Today it is reassured and that is good and we dont want to come with new debates that will divide Tunisian society.
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[Yemen Post] Iran Foreign Minister Assistant for Arab and African Affairs Amir Abdu-Alahian denied comments made by Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu-Baker al-Qiribi that Iran is interfering in his country's internal affairs.
In a statement released on Sunday, the Iranian official dismissed Al-Qiribi's comments as baseless and bare of truth, urging the Yemeni government to heed the demands of its people instead of falsely accusing and placing the blame on others.
He clearly noted that Tehran stands by the Yemeni people side and their rightful demands, stressing that the upcoming national dialogue is the only and best solution to exit from the current bad situation in Yemen.
He said that Iran is interested in the stability and peace of the region, showing his confidence that the Yemeni people would not allow any one to hijack their revolution.
The relations between Sana'a and Tehran has been sharply downgraded as of 2007, when the former President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... accused Iran of supporting the Shiite Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates.... insurgency in the north of his country.
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[Yemen Post] Former Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Saleh Basura threatened to join those calling for the separation of South Yemen from the North due to lack of dialogue.
"If we could not discuss the problems of Yemen through understanding, I will call for secession to get rid of the lawlessness you live" Basura said in a seminar held Sunday in Sana'a about the GCC-drawn power transfer deal.
The comments of the minister were faced with dissatisfaction and sharp criticisms among the participators. One southern activist and chairman of a civil society organization, Intisar Al-Hodali, vividly slammed Basura.
She dubbed him dubbing as a traitor of the southern case, pointing out that he sided with Saleh when he was repressing peaceful protests.
A working paper presented by Ahmed Al-Sofi, the media assistant of the former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , was faced with discontent of the participators.
Al-Sofi said that the success of the GCC imitative relies on removing protesters camped for months in change and freedom squares.
Basura described, during the seminar, the GCC deal as a lifeboat for Yemen, calling all sides to commit to it and its scheduled implementations techniques.
He pointed out that some points of the GCC deal were not implemented so far, urging the interim government to fulfill them.
"If you want Yemen to stay unified and stable and that a civil state is created, the GCC deal must be implemented" he added. "If you want the solution of Yemen's impasses, you should head to national dialogue."
Working papers were presented by Yemen's different factions including the General People Congress, the Joint Meeting Parties, the Houtih group and the Southern Movement.
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[Bangla Daily Star] General Asad Durrani, former chief of Pak intelligence agency ISI, has outright denied funding BNP before the 1991 parliamentary polls of Bangladesh.
In an exclusive interview with BBC Bangla Service on Saturday, the former ISI boss termed the allegation totally baseless and fabricated Tut tut! Made up out of whole cloth, I assure you, including the pictures!
Durrani also told the BBC that he never spoke about ISI's providing money to BNP, the main opposition party in Bangladesh, in his statement to the Pakistain Supreme Court.
"To my knowledge there was no reference to Bangladesh during the Supreme Court hearing and whatever I had said before the court is available there," he said.
"I, therefore, can say that nobody in the court spoke on providing such money [to BNP]."
Some local newspaper reports recently quoted the Dubai-based daily Khaleej Times as saying Asad Durrani in a court statement said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... received 50 million rupees from the Inter-Services Intelligence before the 1991 elections.
The ruling Awami League and BNP have locked horns over the issue since publishing of the reports.
Ruling party leaders, including Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, opened a barrage of attacks against Khaleda Zia for the reported ISI link. The opposition at the very beginning rejected the claim.
Threatening legal action, senior BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday asked Hasina to apologise to the people for bringing "false" accusation against BNP of receiving money from the ISI.
Asked over the phone whether ISI had funded any other leaders of BNP other than Khaleda Zia, Durrani said "I don't remember. I believe none has done that."
The former spy boss of Pakistain also said the ISI does not maintain any links with any Bangladeshi political party. "There is also no approach from their part [Bangladesh] to communicate with us."
Durrani termed the media reports on the issue false, saying those were against the ethics of journalism.
He, however, refused to comment as to what motivated the newspapers to publish such "false news".
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[Dawn] President Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... said on Monday that influential Qatar-based Sunni Moslemholy man Yusuf al-Qaradawi ...crackpot Egyptian Islamist theologian. He is best known for his program Shariah and Life on Al Jizz, with an estimated audience of 60 million kindred souls worldwide. He is also well-known for IslamOnline, which occasionally advocates things like slavery and thumping the old lady with a rod no thicker than an inch, and has published more than 120 books, including Islam: The Future Civilization. Joe has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Moslem Brüderbund. Some of his views have been controversial in the West, though less so among the rubes of the Mysterious East, and he was refused entry to the United Kingdom in 2008. In 2004, 2,500 Moslem academics from Soddy Arabia, Iraq and from the Palestinian territories condemned Qaradawi, and accused him of giving Islam a bad name.... was not welcome in La Belle France.
Egyptian-born Qaradawi, 86, has been invited to visit next month by the Union of Islamic Organisations in La Belle France.
"I told the emir of Qatar himself that this gentleman was not welcome in the territory of the French Republic," Sarkozy told La Belle France Info radio.
Qaradawi, who hosts a popular show on Al-Jazeera satellite television, backed Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, and has launched a fund-raising effort for the Syrian opposition.
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The Islamist gunman whose murder spree shocked La Belle France will be buried in his ancestral homeland Algeria, his father told AFP Monday, adding that he planned to sue La Belle France over his son's death.
"[God willing], I have decided to bury my son in Algeria," Mohamed Benalel Merah said, referring to his son Mohamed Merah, 23, who was rubbed out by French police on Thursday in Toulouse at the end of a stand-off after his shooting attacks that killed seven.
"Mohamed has an Algerian passport and has been listed with the [Algerian] consulate in Toulouse since his birth," the elder Merah said.
He also hit out against La Belle France for having shot his son instead of taking him alive at the end of a 32-hour siege at his apartment in Toulouse.
"La Belle France is a big country that had the means to take my son alive. They could have knocked him out with gas and taken him in," he said. "They preferred to kill him."
"I will hire the biggest named lawyers and work for the rest of my life to pay (their) costs. I will sue La Belle France for having killing my son."
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Unbelievable. Apparently, the POS Mohamed didn't fall far from the tree. The type of people that kill in the name of "honor" seem to have very little of it to lose.
"Most troubling were responses to the question -- 'My senior leaders maintain high standards of honesty and integrity.'"
Just 44 percent of ATF employees said that their leaders maintained such standards last year, according to the Partnership for Public Service, the non-profit that administers the annual survey to government employees.
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Wonder what its like over at DoD? Would you expect politically appointed generals are more interested in their careers than the lives of your line buddies?
#4
Every agency, institution and even the military is infected at the highest levels with Leftist scum.
Our entire society and its governing mechanisms are corrupted and infected with these vermin. There is no way back to Constitutional governance and some reasonable expectation of ethics and honesty without a full purge.
It will need to be 'necessarily' bloody, and repeated often.
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There is no way back to Constitutional governance and some reasonable expectation of ethics and honesty without a full purge. It will need to be 'necessarily' bloody, and repeated often.
You may be right about the bloody purge, but where do you get your 'reasonable expectation of ethics & honesty'? There is no historical relation between the two, unless you consider cemeteries as prime examples of ethics & honesty. Dead bodies are at least honest. How they became dead is an ethical question.
[Dawn] Chief of his own faction of Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... has warned that hasty decision will have serious consequences for the government if supply of goods to NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... forces in Afghanistan is restored without a consensus resolution of the parliament.
"We will block all routes if government permits resumption of NATO supplies," he told a rally of party workers here on Sunday.
He said that unseen forces had settled all important issues with America when Parliamentary Committee on National Security was in session.
"Major issues with America have already been decided. Now they have been passing the buck to parliament," he said. He added that parliament had already passed two joint resolutions and All Parties Conference also approved some recommendations.
Unfortunately the resolutions and recommendations had been put into cold storage, Mr Rehman said, adding his party would not accept a resolution if it was passed from the parliament with majority.
The rally titled "Islam Zindabad Conference" was held near Beautiful Downtown Peshawar-Islamabad Motorway. A portion of the Ring Road was closed to traffic owing to security reasons.
Around 5,000 baton wielding volunteers of the party and anti-terrorism squad of police were deployed on the venue while roads were blocked with barbed wire. The organisers had claimed that over one million people would attend the rally.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... despite extensive campaign and arrangements the show was not impressive although JUI has considerable street power in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... and tribal areas. The workers and seminary students affiliated with JUI were brought from all 25 districts of the province and Fata.
Mr Rehman said that some powers were trying to sabotage reconciliation process in Afghanistan by sending fresh consignments of weapons to the war-torn country.
"Afghan government is ready for talks with Taliban. US President Barack Obama This is a teachable moment... has stated that Taliban are not forces of Evil and started peace talks with them in Qatar. Then why containers loaded with weapons are transported to Afghanistan via Pakistain," he questioned.
The JUI chief said that head of Afghanistan's High Peace Council Sibghatullah Mujadidi ... the only ex-president of Afghanistan who has not yet been assassinated...
had told him that Afghan government had declared Taliban as opposition and they were not terrorists.
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* BREAKING NEWS > FUKUSHIMA DIARY: JAPANESE PUSHED TO THE CORNER OF REVOLT.
Ordinary Japanese are tired of the Nation's 20-year-n-counting recession, + Okinawa is the alleged "last haven" of anti-Radiation, safety in all Japan???
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DAILY TIMES.PK > PAKISTAN REJECTS US OFFER OF CONCESSIONS ON DRONE STRIKES. Pak Military repor wants return to 1980's "Reagan Rules".
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* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > PAKISTAN'S NUCLEAR ARSENAL IS THE MOST VULNERABLE IN THE WORLD | [Rediff] WHY THE WORLD MUST WORRY ABOUT PAKISTAN'S NUCLEAR ARSENAL.
'Tis notsomuch the "Bang" but the How-n-Why of its development + utility, e.g. "PAK'S NUKES BELONGS TO ALL ISLAM = MUSLIMS/UMMAH, NOT PAKISTAN"???
[Dawn] President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... on Monday stressed Pakistain's commitment to Afghan peace, development and prosperity, calling for trans-border cooperation, which he said would not only transform the region's economic landscape, but would also be an effective bulwark against extremism and militancy.
"We believe that the crusade against poverty and deprivation must be waged in tandem with the war against terrorism. Pakistain's consistent position is that more than military might, it is a battle for hearts and minds," said the president.
The president was addressing the inaugural session of the two-day fifth Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan (RECCA-V) being hosted by Tajikistan and attended by delegations from around 70 countries and international organizations.
Zardari also said that Pakistain believed that an economically strong and politically stable Afghanistan would be a catalyst for peace and prosperity in the region, adding, on the other hand, regional cooperation that optimizes Afghanistan's strategic location would be a vital ingredient for the country's development.
The President said, "When I support development for Afghanistan, I am in essence supporting development for Pakistain."
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[An Nahar] A U.S. delegation walked out of a regional conference in Tajikistan Monday after Iran's diminutive PresidentMahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad lambasted U.S. policy on Afghanistan as the source of all the country's troubles.
Ahmadinejad launched his new tirade against Washington at a conference in the Tajik capital Dushanbe attended by leaders of Afghanistan's neighbors as well as a U.S. delegation led by Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake.
"The cause of all the ills in Afghanistan is the presence on Afghan soil of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... forces and above all those of the United States," the Iranian president told the Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan (RECCA).
As the firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... Iranian president was giving his speech, Blake pointedly led the U.S. delegation out of the conference hall.
Encounters -- even at multinational regional conferences -- between the United States and Iran are extremely rare.
The two countries cut diplomatic relations in the wake of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and ties have remained severed ever since. Tensions are rising again over Iran's nuclear program and Washington has never ruled out military action.
Ahmadinejad, whose country shares a huge border with Afghanistan, said that U.S. forces had gone into the country with the aim of encircling the whole strategic region.
"They went into Afghanistan using the pretext of the fight against terror and now under the same slogan they are surrounding Russia, India and China," Ahmadinejad said.
"We want foreign troops to leave Afghanistan in the shortest time," he added.
The conference -- which is also being attended by Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... and Pak counterpart Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... -- is the fifth such meeting since 2005 and aims to boost cooperation in rebuilding Afghanistan.
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Iran would help until they did not. They built the IED's. Feed Iran to China again. Besides, Pakistan will take it on anyways.
[An Nahar] Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Wally Jumblat ... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... praised on Monday the Syrian Moslem Brüderbund's statement on the developments in their country, saying that it reflected the Sunni population's openness to regional changes.
He said: "The Moslem Brüderbund demonstrated moderation, diversity, and equality."
He made his remarks in Turkey where he took part in the Socialist International conference in Istanbul.
"This same openness has been demonstrated in the Moslem Brüderbund in Tunisia and Egypt, so why are there growing fears of Islamist movements?" wondered Jumblat.
Addressing Russia's position on the Syrian crisis, he wondered: "Shouldn't pleasing the Arab world, which has a Sunni majority, reflect positively on the former Soviet states that have a majority of Sunnis?"
"It is time to stop the statements of some Russian strategic analysts who have defended the Syrian regime at any cost," added the PSP leader.
"Are Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's warnings over a civil war in Syria a way of making the Syrians choose between a settlement with the ruling regime or a potential war?" he asked.
"Is this the most Russia can do?" he wondered.
"It is strange how the Arab initiative on Syria, which called for ending the violence, releasing political prisoners, and withdrawing the army from the streets, has developed into demanding a two-hour ceasefire per day," noted the Druze chief.
"Is this the most that the international community can do?" he continued.
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Researchers at Symantec say they possess part of the worm which causes it to load on a computer after it restarts.
Researchers at the US computer security firm Symantec say they have obtained a new version of an Internet worm that has been linked to the Stuxnet virus.
Stuxnet is the name of a computer virus that was detected in 2010, which reportedly caused significant damage to Iran's uranium enrichment program.
It targeted Siemens supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, used by Iran to enrich uranium through spinning centrifuges. Foreign media reports speculated that Israel or the US, or both, were behind the attack.
Five months ago, Symantec detected a computer worm, Duqu, which sends back information on systems that would help attackers prepare a future strike.
Duqu "must either have been created by the same group that authored Stuxnet, or by a group that somehow managed to obtain Stuxnet's source code," Symantec said following the discovery.
Now, Symantec said, part of a new version of Duqu has been found.
Researchers at the firm said they came to possess a part of the worm which causes it to load on a computer after it restarts.
"The compile date on the Duqu component is February 23, 2012, so this new version has not been in the wild for very long," a post on Symantec's blog said. "We can see the authors have changed just enough of the threat to evade some security product detection."
Last year, Symantec concluded that the mysterious authors behind Stuxnet, described as the most sophisticated cyber weapon on the planet, appear to be planning another strike, and have updated their advanced spy program designed to search out weaknesses.
The Duqu worm was believed to have infected systems in countries from Vietnam to La Belle France, including Iran.
In recent days, another cyber security company, Kaspersky Lab, reported that Duqu had been written in "pure C," an old programming language "long since discarded by most programmers in favor of newer versions," ABC News reported.
Quoting Kaspersky researchers, ABC said that the old language was used "to make sure that the worm could infect just about everything it touched."
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Linux is still written in "C". Lots of stuff is. c++ can even be exported as "c" with the proper compiler option. What is this ancient language argument. Fortran, PL1, Cobol, Pascal, BAL, Snobol etch qualify as old. Ancient? Maybe something Ada could have used programming her dad mythical steam difference engines?
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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.
Ali Abdullah Saleh
Khaleda Zia
The Islamist gunman whose murder spree shocked 
Maulana Fazlur Rehman
Asif Ali 
Mahmoud 
Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling...
Researchers at Symantec say they possess part of the worm which causes it to load on a computer after it restarts.
