"I thank heaven that my home is not situated on the edge of a desert crammed with ignorant, childish thugs with no desire for peace, no desire to create and build. And to see all the imbeciles in this country trying to rationalize the Palestinian aggressions toward Israel over the past 50+ years. It breaks my heart. I expect as much from the effete boobs in Europe (Britain excluded), afraid of their own shadows lately, always unwilling to do the right thing (excuse me, do anything) unless forced."
He's no Orianna, but he's making the same point, isn't he?
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Hey Fred,
Thanks for linking to my site, you've got quite a nice one yourself!
I'm not sure who Orianna is, but I'm new to this gig, so I assure you that the analysis and content of my posts will improve!
Sophismata is back from his hiatus and he's having fun with graphs and statistics. In the process he kills the duck that said that the U.S. is The World's Greatest Polluterâ¢.
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Lileks called 'em the House of Sod. The current head of the House of Sod is somewhere around 187 years old and feelin' poorly. When he kicks it, the new head of the House will be the Potentate Formerly Known as Prince. Oh, and if you've ever wondered what all that hen-scratching is on the Soddi flag, Christopher Johnson has very kindly translated it. He's even had tee shirts made...
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My little journal has adopted a different term, first noticed here:
"The Pakistani forces with the help of American soldiers on Friday stormed a religious school at Darpa Khel to search for al-Qaida men," said Maulvi Abdul Hafeez, a prominent cleric in Mir Ali, about 200 miles southwest of Peshawar. "We condemn this Pakistan-U.S. operation." That's because you're on the other side. We can tell that.
The building was empty and no arrests were made, Hafeez said. The school was set up by prominent Taliban leader Jalauddin Haqqani years ago during the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, he added. Oh, the Pak intel guys got word to you in time, did they?
At MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., Commander Frank Merriman, a spokesman at the Central Command headquarters of Gen. Tommy Franks, said "We really can't confirm ongoing operations." He would not comment further. That's military talk for "Butt out. Don't jiggle my elbow while I'm workin'."
Hafeez said the tribal elders and religious leaders were appealing to the Pakistan government to refrain from conducting more operations, as al-Qaida men or Taliban are not hiding there. Only chickens. Nobody there but them chickens.
"In order to prevent these kind of raids in future, we have started consulting other tribal elders and clerics. We will not let American forces operate in our areas," Hafeez told The Associated Press by phone Saturday. Only al-Qaeda. And Taliban. And Lashkar-e-Taiba. And Jaish-e-Mohammad. You got turbans, you can come in. Otherwise, stay the hell out of our Islamic paradise.
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The reliable [sic!] Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) quoted provincial governor Taj Mohammad Wardak as saying his rival Padshah Khan Zadran, ousted as governor of Paktia province in February, had attacked Gardez on Saturday morning raining rockets down on the town and killing 15 people and wounding 75. Okay, that establishes that an attack happened, since there's bullet holes and craters and such...
But Padshah Khan's brother, himself a minister in Afghanistan's interim government, offered a dramatically different view of events, blaming remnants of the Taliban and al Qaeda for attacking his brother. Oh, it was them, was it?
Amanullah Zadran, Minister for Frontiers and Tribal Affairs, told Reuters his brother fought off the attack and captured several tanks and armored personnel carriers. Well, if he captured them, then he has evidence, right?
My off the cuff assumption is that Padshah Zadran dunnit. He seems like a really bad boy.
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Two North Koreans have been accepted for resettlement in a third country after entering a U.S. embassy compound in the Chinese capital, American officials said Saturday. The pair's entry into the American compound on Friday came a day after another North Korean's asylum bid at the German Embassy in Beijing. The U.S. Embassy official, who declined to be identified, would not identify the third country nor say whether the two who entered were male or female. The official did say, however, that the third country was not the United States. "The U.S. Embassy has worked with the Chinese government to resolve this situation. We appreciate the Chinese government's constructive response," said the official. They keep voting with their feet. One of these days they'll have an actual majority.
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Russia's security service, the FSB, claims that Russian troops have succeeded in killing a leading rebel warlord in Chechnya. It said a successful assassination mission against Jordanian-born Omar Ibn al Khattab had been carried out in March. Khattab has been high on Moscow's wanted list in Chechnya since the start of the current Chechen war in 1999. The US also believes Khattab may have links to al-Qaeda. However, Mairbek Vachagayev, spokesmen for the Chechen rebel leader, Aslan Maskhadov, said Khattab was still alive and dismissed the Russian announcement as a propaganda trick. "I think the Federal Security Service is at a loss as to where he may be and is trying to trick him out into the open," Mr Vachagayev told Ekho Moskvy radio. Maskhadov sez he's alive, the FSB sez he's dead... And Khattab says nothing.
Russian state-run television (RTR) showed a video of a dead man that very much-resembled Chechen Commander Amir Khattab. Let us remind that earlier the Chechen side refuted the report about his death. Besides that, this Friday a source from President Maskhdov's circle told a Kavkaz-Center correspondent that some time ago Maskhadov and Khattab have met and held a session. The source was reporting that the meeting took place last week. After the film was shown on the Russian channel, we asked the source to specify when exactly the meeting of President Maskhadov and Amir Khattab took place. The source reported that the meeting was held on April 12-13 in one of the Southern regions of the country on a secret base of the Chechen Armed Forces. Along with that, the dates of March 19-20 were shown on the screen.
Looked like him. Looked pretty dead, too...
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A Central Asian Islamic extremist group with ties to the al-Qaida terror network has suffered heavy losses in the U.S. war in Afghanistan, defense officials said Friday. Members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan fought and died alongside Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan, the officials said, briefing reporters about developments in Central Asia. Ummm... Yeah. We noticed that.
The movement wants to set up an Islamic state based in the Fergana Valley, a relatively lush region amid the Central Asian deserts. About 8 million people live in the valley, which runs through the former Soviet republics of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and was rocked by riots and fighting among warlords as the Soviet Union fell apart a decade ago.
Many fighters of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan trained in al-Qaida's Afghanistan camps. U.S. intelligence officials say others were trained by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The group had little interest in al-Qaida's brand of international terrorism, however, preferring to direct its efforts against the authoritarian governments of Uzbekistan and its neighbors. And to strut around like conquering heroes in and beat up women in Afghanistan. Don't forget that part.
The United States has cast its lot with many of those ex-Soviet countries and has built bases in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld visited U.S. troops Friday in Kyrgyzstan as a part a four-nation Central Asian tour. That's because they're working on becoming something other than dust-covered Islamic paradises.
Many fled Afghanistan with the fall of the Taliban and are thought to be hiding in the remote valleys of Tajikistan, to the north, the officials said. The Russers would probably be willing to help the Tadjiks root them out and kill them.
Its militants were thought to number in the thousands. Whether the survivors will regroup in the spring is unknown, officials said. Probably depends on how many of them are left. If their troop strength is way down, they'll probably spend a year or two or three in rebuilding. If the war against terror goes too dramatically against the Bad Guys they may just quietly slip away and (shudder!) get jobs.
Even if many of its fighters are dead, they said, the poverty and political repression that led to its creation remain. And the mullahs. Don't forget them. When it comes to root causes of violence, poverty and political repression don't hold a candle to mullahs.
The officials would not comment on the fate of Tohir Yuldashev, the Islamic group's military commander. The United States has declared him a terrorist and frozen his U.S. assets. Yuldashev was Juma Namangani's second in command. After Juma was iced, he became supremo.
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan was formed in 1996, and included veterans of the 1992-1997 civil war in Tajikistan.
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They pace like caged animals and stay awake all night under the glare of spotlights. They scream at the world - when they're not staring into space. Months of confinement in crude, chain-link cells at Camp X-ray have left its 300 detainees from the war on terrorism at best a little stir crazy, at worst, suicidal. "A couple have had those thoughts, but none have acted on it," said Navy Lt. Pam Herbig, a psychiatric nurse at Guantanamo. Gosh. That's terrible. Maybe they'd like to go back to Afghanistan and live in shipping containers.
So far, 13 suspected Taliban and al-Qaida fighters have been put on medication for mental disorders ranging from post-traumatic stress disorder to the early stages of schizophrenia, Herbig said. The total has nearly doubled in recent weeks. The patients "have had trouble sleeping," she said. "They're anxious. They have a lot of ruminations. There's sadness." On the other hand, how many of them were nut cases before they got there?
Muslim chaplain Abuhena M. Saiful-Islam - who had frequent contact with the detainees before leaving the base last week - described growing dismay over what detainees consider cruel and inhumane conditions. You mean, it's occurred to them that they're not going to die heroic deaths fighting against the infidel, but are simply caged animals waiting for somebody to decide what to do with them?
U.S. military commanders say detainees flown here since Jan. 11 are well-fed, free to practice their religion and get good medical care. "The standard of care is the same for detainees as we have for our own people," said Navy Capt. Samuel Alford, head of a field hospital for detainees. Yep. They just can't come out of their cages. Tough, ain't it? Think of the boredom. No guns to shoot. No women to beat. No prisoners to execute, except maybe themselves. No hostages to take. No bombs. No planes to hijack. Terrible. Just terrible. These are men who haven't heard an explosion in months. It's a fate worse than death.
But Lt. Col. Bill Kline, commander of Camp X-ray, conceded some "may be depressed. They've been asking, 'When am I going to trial? When am I going to get out of here?'" In a just world, they'd never get out of there. We'd keep them there until they died of old age. And we'd make sure all the other Islamofascists and Islamonutjobs knew it. Kinda takes the glamor out of being jihadi, doesn't it?
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So they need "medication for mental disorders," do they? I prescribe several ounces of lead, topically applied, using that marvel of medical equipment, the .50 cal. M2HB.
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Pakistan's Supreme Court gave military ruler Pervez Musharraf the green light to hold a referendum on extending his presidency for five years. The court, which has already validated Musharraf's 1999 coup, unanimously dismissed several petitions from political and religious opposition parties challenging the referendum as unconstitutional. Tough decision. Somebody's car was gonna explode regardless of which way it went...
In an order issued by Chief Justice Riaz Sheikh after more than three hours of deliberation, the court said the referendum was valid and any challenge was "premature". "The grounds of the challenge ... are purely academic, hypothetical and presumptive in nature and are not capable of being determined at this juncture," he said in his judgement. That's 'cause the army's the one with the artillery. Perv's a dictator, y'see...
He said the court's ruling on the 1999 coup had granted Musharraf sufficient powers to call the referendum, which is scheduled to take place Tuesday. The gist of that ruling was, "If you don't shoot us and burn our houses down, we the court acknowledge that you're in charge. If you so, somebody else will." Boy, Qazi must be hoppin'...
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Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said on Saturday the country will weather the worst religious bloodletting in a decade. Vajpayee, speaking to business leaders exactly two months after a Muslim mob set fire to a train carrying Hindu activists triggering a wave of violent reprisals in Gujarat, said the violence was a blot on the nation, but it would blow over. What makes him think that? If the Muslims don't let it drop, and the VHP/RSS thugs don't let it drop, then they've got it forever.
"The ship of the nation is strong, reliable enough to weather all storms and will soon leave the present turbulence behind," Vajpayee said. The ship of the nation is strong until somebody bores holes in the bottom and you don't bother pumping because the guy that bored the holes controls a bunch of votes that you expect to get.
"India's secularism is too deep to be blown off course by temporary turbulence," said Vajpayee, whose Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party is under fire for failing to control the violence. Rivals accuse the party of a bias against Muslims. "No, no! Not us! The goon squads aren't the party, even if they do get out the vote for us!"
Two more people died in Gujarat on Saturday following overnight clashes between Muslims and Hindus. More than 800 people, mostly Muslims, have died in a wave of revenge killings and clashes since the train killings on February 27. Authorities on Saturday clamped indefinite curfews on large swathes of the industrial town of Baroda after one person was stabbed to death and another died of gunshot wounds in overnight religious clashes and police firing. At least 10 people were wounded in the clashes. If it was all water under the bridge, then Vajpayee would be doing the right thing. But it's not water, it's blood. All those people who were killed and maimed were real, live human beings. Trying to reduce them to the byproducts of a mere difference of opinion is cynical and stupid. Vajpayee deserves every bit of the heat he's taking, and more.
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Yemeni police dispersed about 2,000 anti-American demonstrators who called on their government Friday to break diplomatic ties with the United States. The protesters gathered following noon prayers in the capital, San'a, and began to march on the U.S. Embassy, but police blocked their path. Noon prayers, was it? Golly, I'm sure it wasn't in response to something the mullah said. Musta been spontaneous.
The Yemeni protesters carried signs that read "We ask for the expulsion of American military experts doing anti-terrorism work." "Not that any of us are terrorists, mind you"...
Organizers distributed a statement in the name of "Supporters of Palestine" that condemned Yemen's cooperation with the United States in security matters and the U.S. training of Yemeni military and anti-terrorism units. That fits. "Supporters of Palestine" demand that American cooperation with the Yemenis against al-Qaeda and similar organizations be stopped and the Americans get the boot. Does that have anything to do with Palestine? Is there perhaps some sort of link between the two? Duh, lemme think...
The statement asked for the U.S. Embassy to be closed, its ambassador to be expelled and for the recall of Yemen's ambassador to the United States. Actually, I'd kinda like to see the same things...
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Islamic clerics on Friday ordered Mali's Muslim majority to elect the presidential candidate of a surging new Islamic movement - shocking many in a moderate nation that has become the West's favored West African democracy. The clerics asked voters to choose former Prime Minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in Sunday's first-round elections, despite his reputation for high-living, after he agreed to a list of the imams' demands. "Do you agree with God? Do you agree with the clerics?" imam Bandiougou demanded as Islamic Friday prayers brought campaigning to a standstill.
"God is Great!" worshipers outside the overflowing central mosque answered, slamming fists into the air.
"Then you have to do as the clerics say!" Bandiougou cried. "I may be a crook, but I'm a Muslim."
Tell me, do we as a people really care if they chop each other's heads off and stone their women? Why? I'm reaching the point where I'm not sure I do... Or maybe I do, but none of the reasons I can think of for caring makes any sense.
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Tunisia's president sacked his interior minister on Saturday following a suicide truck attack this month on a synagogue as the death toll from the blast in the south of the country climbed to 18. Diplomats said President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's sacking of Abdallah Kaabi, whom he replaced with former Social Affairs Minister Hedi M'Henni, was a bid to restore his country's image as a secure haven for tourists. The government had initially said the attack on El Ghriba synagogue on the island of Djerba was an accident but acknowledged this week it had been a suicide assault. Tough for him, tough for them. Tunisia's pretty moderate, especially by Arab standards, and tries not to get involved in the terrorism stuff that's so much a part of the culture in the rest of the Arab world. It would have made more sense to just 'fess up and then try and track the Bad Guys responsible down, but maybe that's just a cultural thing...
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Palestinian gunmen infiltrated a Jewish settlement in the West Bank on Saturday and killed five residents, shortly after Israel ended its latest raid on a Palestinian city in search of militants. Israeli police spokesman Rafi Yaffe said one or more attackers slipped through the defenses of the Adora settlement, west of Hebron, killing five people and wounding at least 14. Israel Radio reported that the assailants apparently escaped after firing on several homes in the settlement. The army conducted a house-to-house search, fearing that at least one assailant may be hiding and may be holding hostages, but found no one. "We heard firing. Someone was shouting 'terrorists, terrorists,'" said Adora resident Ruth Bar Yosef. "They got into one of the houses and shot whoever was there," then moved on to other houses, she said in a radio interview. It's so much easier when there aren't any uniforms in the immediate vicinity to interrupt the serious work of killing unarmed civilians.
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A U.N. fact-finding mission that had been expected to arrive Saturday to investigate Palestinian accusations that Israeli forces indiscriminately killed civilians in a refugee camp in the northern West Bank town of Jenin was delayed by a day. The United Nations agreed to the delay, saying the Jewish Sabbath meant Israel's Cabinet could not meet until Sunday morning to formally decide whether to allow the mission, about which it has deep reservations. Diplomats said they were told that Israel's U.N. ambassador, Yehuda Lancry, informed U.N. officials that the Cabinet had "informally agreed" to let the mission proceed. I'd guess that their marching orders don't include investigating the Palestinians actions, which is why the Israelis don't want them.
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Should not that be called a fault finding mission?
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In Bethlehem, the standoff at the Church of the Nativity entered its 25th day with the focus of negotiations to resolve it centering on the fate of six wanted Palestinians holed up inside - whether they will be escorted to the Gaza Strip, as the Palestinians propose, or be sent into exile, as Israel demands. Palestinian negotiator Salah Taameri was to meet Saturday with Arafat to discuss the deal. Nobody else surrendered yet, huh? Guess they still have some ammunition left. Anybody want the rest of this sandwich? I can't eat it all...
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Perhaps the Israeli forces should have a nice barbeque outside the church. With fans behind it --aimed at the church. No pork, of course...
In Ramallah, Israel demands the Palestinians hand over six wanted men inside Yasser Arafat's besieged headquarters. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told Secretary of State Colin Powell by telephone Friday that he was willing to release Arafat from confinement if he agreed to leave for Gaza or anywhere in the West Bank without the wanted men, an Israeli official said on condition of anonymity. It appeared unlikely Arafat would agree since he has said he would not hand over the men - five of whom allegedly were involved in the assassination of an Israeli Cabinet minister and the sixth in arms smuggling. That's a climb-down. They were gonna drive him nutz and ship him to an asylum in Morocco. Then they were gonna toss him to Gaza so he could fight it out with Hamas over whether the town was big enough for both of 'em. Now they're saying he can go somewhere else on the West Bank to do the same thing he did in Ramallah. Bad idea. Very bad idea. Unless his car explodes on the way there. (I shouldn't have said that...)
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Palestinians are bracing for an Israeli military attack on the Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources said the Israeli military had planned an attack on several Gaza cities earlier this month, but the attack was cancelled amid what was apparently U.S. pressure on the Jewish state. That's probably a pretty accurate assessment...
The Palestinian Authority and its aligned militias have been bolstering fortifications of several cities in Gaza. This has included building obstacles in urban areas and mining streets with explosives. "Yeah, Mahmud? Look, when you come over tonight, don't come down Elm Street, okay?... Don't ask..."
Gaza residents have been warned to keep away from the hills of sand that mark city streets. The piles are said to contain hundreds of kilograms of explosives. Palestinian sources said many vehicles parked in Gaza cities have also been booby-trapped with explosives. Bet that's wiped out car thievery. Prob'ly doesn't help insurance rates much...
The sources said the effort is based on the success of Palestinian insurgents in the West Bank in slowing down the offensive by Israeli troops. Guess these guys read Omar the Engineer's interview...
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Syria continues to remove military equipment and troops from Lebanon, including the evacuation of Syria's sole base in the war-torn south. The Syrian military has been relocating assets such as command and control posts and bases from southern and central Lebanon. The equipment is being moved to the heavily-defended Bekaa Valley near the Syrian border. Lebanese sources said Syria has completed the evacuation of a reconnaissance command near Sidon. They said the command in Romayleh, near the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein Hilwe was being transported to Beirut and then to Syria. The reconnaissance post was established in 1988. The base is the only Syrian military position in southern Lebanon. Expecting Hezbollah to take it on the chin? Or just a routine realignment of forces?
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A journalist who has been missing for three months was freed by former Muslim rebels in the southern Philippines early Saturday, officials said. Arlyn de la Cruz, 32, obtained the first interviews of American missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham, who are being held hostage by the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group, late last year, then vanished in late January while apparently seeking access to the captives again.
Col. Romeo Tolentino said de la Cruz was freed around 5:30 a.m. on Jolo island. She was taken to the airport at Zamboanga, then was to be flown by private plane Manila. She was wearing a Muslim headdress that she took off as she arrived at the airport. "By the grace of God, I am finally home," she told reporters before leaving. "This is an answered prayer."
Her friends argue de la Cruz is a hardworking reporter who has won the Abu Sayyaf's trust. Critics call her a self-promoter, questioning whether she cut a deal with the rebels to share the proceeds from interviews with its captives. She also obtained the first interviews with Western tourists snatched by the Abu Sayyaf from a Malaysian resort in 2000 - that were sold to the highest media bidder. Media had questioned whether de la Cruz had been kidnapped or staged her own disappearance because of ethics issues raised in the past over her relationship with the Abu Sayyaf, the target of a U.S.-backed search by the Philippine military on southern Basilan island. They couldn't keep her any longer or she'd have died. The U.S. and Filipino military pressure pressure is so bad, they ran out of hairspray almost a month ago. It was terrible...
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The GIA's new national emir, Rachid Abou Tourab, said in a statement shortly after his appointment that he would pursue the movement's radical policies until Algeria was an Islamic state. There would, he said, be "neither truce, nor dialogue, nor reconciliation, nor security, but blood, blood, destruction, destruction." The GIA says any Algerian not following its position is an infidel and an apostate. The GIA has stepped up its attacks since appointing a new leader late last month following the death at the hands of the security forces on February 8 of longtime leader Antar Zouabri. Next time the Frenchies sniff at Bush's simplisme, think about how many Algerians there are in France. And laugh.
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Two soldiers, two civilians and two Islamic extremists died in a surge of violence which has seen at least 20 others killed in Algeria in the past week, Algerian newspapers reported. The deaths come as the north African country begins gearing for legislative elections on May 30.
Two soldiers were killed and three of their colleagues injured in an ambush by psychopaths in Kabylie, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of Algiers.
A former policeman was killed Thursday at Thenia in southeastern Batna region, while an unidentified man was killed near Meftah just south of the capital on the same day.
Two crazed killers were iced -- one in eastern Algeria and one in the west -- in retaliatory attacks carried out by members of the security forces.
Late Friday, an official said four people were killed and three wounded overnight by an armed group in western Algeria. The utter hatred and the inhuman cruelty of the GAI and the Salafists makes Algeria's on-going festivities incomprehensible. And I think that's the heart of their "tactics." They're assuming people would rather be Wahhabis - Salafist is a synonym - than to see their wives' throats slit.
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Nepal said Saturday soldiers killed 35 Maoist rebels who launched a string of violent attacks across the Himalayan kingdom on the fifth day of their fizzling five-day strike. As shops in the capital Kathmandu opened their shutters and buses and cars returned to the streets, officials said soldiers shot and killed 18 rebels Saturday in Khotang district, 156 miles east of Kathmandu. "The rebels were killed after security forces on a search operation confronted the rebels," Junior Home Minister Devendra Raj Kandel told Reuters, adding no soldier was killed in the crackdown.
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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.
