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Fred, I'd estimate that you and I are the only two people on Rantburg that would know about the Burkina Faso/Upper Volta link! Just another one of those African countries that change names as often as they change leaders...
Dorothy looks like she just heard that Bob can't buy the paper to print Zimbucks on any more.
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Three. Showing my age. To be fair, it's been a long time since the upright guys changed their name.
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You'd be wrong, OP (LGF's redoubtable Shiplord Kirel and my humble self are the same person, a fact already known to certain Rantburgeoisie, but here's proof.)
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Wow, I'm surrounded by other Geography freaks (either that, or you're all stamp collectors, too). Next you guys will be telling me you also collect atlases...
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Upper Volta? That's the 220 outlet, right?
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We don't collect atlasses as such (although we have several), Old Patriot, but we do collect maps of the places we've been to. Will that do?
Frank, dear, there's no question you'll burn in hell. ;-)
'Tis you indeed, dear Atomic Conspiracy. I'd wondered.
Afghanistan said on Monday it would boycott a series of upcoming meetings with Pakistan unless "bilateral trust" was restored after attacks it blamed on its neighbour's intelligence and military.
The cabinet decision was announced soon after President Hamid Karzai issued statement against a Pakistani intelligence agency last week.
"The people of Afghanistan, the world, know very well that Pakistan's intelligence agency and military have turned that country to the biggest exporter of terrorism and extremism to the world, particularly Afghanistan," the cabinet said in a statement.
A cabinet meeting had decided Afghanistan was "compelled" to suspend its involvement in various bilateral and regional meetings due in Dubai, Islamabad and Kabul this month and in August, the statement said.
Move: The reason was the "violence-seeking policies of Pakistan's intelligence and military officials." The suspension would hold unless "an atmosphere of bilateral trust is established," it said. "Every day all over our country, children, women, elders, teachers and Afghanistan's international partners ... get killed at the hands of elements of [a Pakistani intelligence agency]," statement said.
It said Pakistani intelligence was responsible for "terrorist attacks" that included a suicide bombing against the Indian embassy in Kabul last week that killed 60 people and a failed April assassination attempt on Karzai.
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Two alleged gang members were killed early yesterday at Shyampur in the capital as they were caught in 'crossfire' between the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and the gang named 'Rozen Bahini'. "Rozen?"
"Nah, but it is a mite chilly this morning."
According to the Rab, Mosharraf Hossain Sentu, 26, and Rezaul Karim, 23, were members of the infamous Rozen Bahini and they had been dodging arrest for a long time as there are numerous criminal cases including murder cases filed against them on twelve systems.
However, family members claimed that Sentu and Rezaul, who were friends with each other, were innocent and a local criminal might have persuaded Rab to kill them. "Pure as the driven snow, they were! And kind to their mothers."
Rezaul's father Mohammad Ali said there is no case against his son who was a salesman at a Punjabi store at Jatrabari. The place to go if you want to buy a slightly used Punjabi....
Sentu's uncle Sirajul Islam said there was only one case filed against his nephew for extortion and the case was filed by local criminal Aminul with Jatrabari Police Station. His family members said Sentu came home two years ago after spending five years in South Korea and started a clothing store named Dilruba Garments at Kaliganj in Keraniganj.
The Rab in a press release claimed that Sentu and Rezaul were dreaded criminals and locals were so afraid of them that did not dare to file any case against them.
A team of Rab 10 arrested the two, close accomplices of gang leader Rozen, from Jatrabari's Banshpotti area, the Rab press release said adding that Rozen Bahini used to extort money from residents of Demra, Jatrabari and Shyampur areas and the gang members were known for sending shrouds and bullets to those who refused to comply with their demand. "Who was that masked man?"
"I don't know, but he left this shroud and a silver bullet."
"Uh oh."
At around 3:30 in the morning yesterday, the Rab went to Shaheed Moktar Hossain Road of Shyampur along with Sentu and Rezaul after the two had confessed that members of the Rozen Bahini used to gather in the area before committing a crime, the Rab statement said. This would be your standard moonlight drive to the lair of the cadre. It won't end well, at least for our two wayward youths. Trust me.
Soon after the Rab reached the area, they came under heavy fire from criminals hiding around, the statement claimed adding that the crime busters then returned fire, ensuing a 30-minute-long gunfight when Sentu and Rezaul were apparently shot and killed while fleeing their custody. See? Told ya
After the gunfight was over, members of the Rab, police and locals searched the area and found Sentu and Rezaul's dead bodies along with seven bullets and three firearms -- a revolver and two pipe guns. Funny how the rest of the gang always escapes without leaving a trace
Two Rab members -- Sub-inspector Mobarak Ali and Nayek Siddiqur Rahman -- sustained injuries during the operation, the Rab claimed in the press release. "Now listen, you've had that safe lifting briefing a dozen times. Lift the stiff with your legs, not with your back!"
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Two Rab members -- Sub-inspector Mobarak Ali and Nayek Siddiqur Rahman -- sustained injuries during the operation, the Rab claimed in the press release.
The RAB is going to have to do some more training. When you're in one of these "encounters", you DON'T shoot straight up. What goes up must come down, and it can smart if you're between the falling object (bullet) and a hard place (the ground).
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(Xinhua) -- Four rebels of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) were killed in an operation staged by Turkish security forces in southeastern Turkey, a Turkish military statement said on Monday.
The Turkish security forces encountered four PKK militants in a mountainous area near Beytussebap town of Sirnak Province later Sunday and called on them to surrender, Turkey's General Staff said in a statement posted in its website.
The PKK militants opened fired on the security forces, and four PKK members were killed during the clash, adding the death toll of PKK rebels killed in the region over the past four days to eight, said the statement.
The PKK rebels have battled more than two decades for autonomy in southeastern Turkey and they use strongholds in northern Iraq for cross-border raids. About 40,000 people have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict.
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Canada's federal court has rejected a US Army deserter's application for a stay of his deportation order.
Federal Court of Canada Justice Anne Mactavish says in her decision Monday that Robin Long did not provide clear and convincing evidence that he will suffer irreparable harm if he is returned to the United States.
Long, 25, fled to Canada in 2005 to avoid serving in Iraq. He was arrested in Nelson, British Columbia, last October on a Canada-wide warrant.
Long, who could be deported as early as Tuesday, is one of about 200 American deserters believed to have come to Canada to avoid service in Iraq. So far, Canadian immigration officials and the courts have rejected efforts to grant them refugee status.
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Is he sure he hasn't already been discharged like that pinhead from last week?
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Not sure that is the reason, Shusorong White1099. I suspect common sense. Canadian Armed Forces aren't large in numbers and there's no need to set a precedent for deserters.
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It ain't 1968. You aren't a draftee, dildo. You volunteered. With Canada having guys bleeding and dying in this thing they're probably real thrilled they have to deal with your whining chickenshit ass.
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#6 I say refuse him entry. Tell the Canuks that he's their problem now, we don't want him.
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Naaah, let him come back, face a court martial, and get sentenced to five years cleaning latrines at Leavenworth. It's a lousy job, but somebody's got to do it. Might as well be this POS.
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No, don't court martial him -- he'll end up a darling of the Left, and we don't need that right now.
He gets a dishonorable discharge, and then he's ignored for the rest of his pathetic life. And every time he goes for a job interview, applies for a loan, etc., he can explain what happened.
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"No, don't court martial him...He gets a dishonorable discharge,"
He'll prolly git 6/6 and a Baked Chicken Dinner, not a DD. In any case, sentence would be handed out at Court Martial. Otherwise, he could only get a General, Admin type discharge, right?
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Essentially. He can get a general, with an 'other than honorable' condition. It's an administrative discharge and there's still a hearing process, but it's not a judicial process.
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Sort of standard coverage at any other Club Med. People pay good bucks to wear even less in those warm climates. It would be less than nice to do that here however.
Pakistan on Tuesday asked a court not to withdraw restrictions on disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan because he risked implicating the state in nuclear proliferation, a government lawyer said.
Can't have that, now can we ...
Khan, lionised by many Pakistanis as the father of the country's atomic bomb, was pardoned but placed under house arrest by President Pervez Musharraf in 2004 soon after he made a televised confession to selling nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya. The scientist subsequently said he had been persuaded to confess and take the rap alone for the good of Pakistan. Khan says the government broke commitments that he would be rehabilitated and allowed to move freely inside the country.
Khan's wife has filed a case in an Islamabad high court seeking his freedom, but the government on Tuesday called for tightening restrictions on the scientist, saying recent statements he had given to media were damaging to the state.
"He should not meet people freely and only should meet relatives, because statements (that) have been issued (during) these interactions have been legally damaging for Pakistan," government lawyer Ahmer Bilal Sufi told Reuters. "These were against a state institution, particularly the statement he made on July 5 that had legal affects of attributing a specific role to Pakistan which is also untrue."
In a report earlier this month, the Associated Press quoted Khan as saying the army, Musharraf and the country's spy agency had "complete knowledge" of sale of centrifuges to North Korea eight years ago.
In response, the military said Khan was seeking to falsely implicate Musharraf, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the army and the Strategic Planning Division that oversees Pakistan's nuclear weapons.
I'm a little surprised Khan is still alive after blabbing, aren't you?
Sufi said lawyers from both sides would brief the chief justice in camera on Wednesday.
Pakistan's new coalition government, made up of parties that defeated Musharraf's allies in a February election, recently relaxed some restrictions on Khan's detention and he has been able to talk to the media on the telephone. But the government has not said it would release the 72-year-old scientist, who had surgery for prostate cancer in 2006.
The United States and an International Atomic Energy Agency team investigating nuclear proliferation want to question Khan. Pakistan has refused, saying it has shared all the information Khan has given, and now considers its investigation of Khan to be closed.
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NEW DELHI -- Indian forces are collaborating with a vigilante group carrying out brutal attacks that have displaced tens of thousands of people in eastern India in an attempt to crush a communist uprising, a human rights group said Tuesday.
Human Rights Watch called on the Indian federal government and the Chhattisgarh state government to end their support for the Salwa Judum vigilantes and take immediate steps to protect civilians caught in the fighting. "The Chhattisgarh government denies supporting Salwa Judum, but dozens of eyewitnesses have described police participating in violent Salwa Judum raids on villages - killing, looting and burning hamlets," Jo Becket of Human Rights Watch said in a statement.
The New York-based rights group also called on the communist rebels to end their attacks on civilians and stop recruiting child soldiers.
Which group did they complain about more vociferously, the paramilitary group or the commies?
A statement by India's federal Home Ministry in response to the report did not directly address the accusations but said, "India is a thriving democracy and has adequate institutional mechanisms to ensure that human rights of its citizens are protected."
State officials were not immediately available for comment. In the past they have denied supporting the Salwa Judum.
The rebels, known as Naxalites, have been fighting to create a communist state since 1967 and are active in 13 of India's 28 states. But Chhattisgarh, one of India's most underdeveloped states, is the heartland of their struggle. The rebels' rallying cry of land and jobs for the poor resonates deeply with the population, many of them from India's impoverished indigenous peoples and resentful at the authorities that mine the region's rich natural resources with little benefit to the locals.
Since 2005, the Salwa Judum has been fighting the Naxalites and also forcing people from rebel-controlled villages into large camps, saying it is for their protection.
The government says the Salwa Judum is an independent movement that sprang up in reaction to the Naxalites, but Human Rights Watch said the vigilantes have deep connections to the state.
More than 100,000 people have been displaced in the violence, the rights group said. It called on the government to help resettle the people. "Officials should help restore the lives of those who wish to return to their homes," said Becket, one of the researchers for the 182-page report.
The report also slammed the Naxalites, who say they are inspired by Chinese communist revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, accusing them of attacking civilians and using child soldiers as young as 12 years old.
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OK, I'm the Boss now! All my cookies are burned!
Human Rights, Green Peace, Amnesty, etc. etc. etc.(the King and I), are all remnants from the Cold War. They should ignored just like the trolls they are.
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(Xinhua) -- The mighty army of Pakistan bombed suspected positions of local Taliban in the country's northwest a few days after the Taliban killed 17 soldiers, the News Network International (NNI) news agency reported Monday.
There was no report of any casualty in the first shelling by army of the hideout of the Taliban at Hangu area in the NWFP.
The forces started bombing Taliban's hideouts at Zargiri town in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Sunday night and the operation continued till Monday morning, said the report. There was no report of any casualty in the first shelling by army of the hideout of the Taliban at Hangu area in the NWFP. "Butch? Was that artillery I heard?"
"Yeah. Ignore it. Shuddup and deal!"
Local Taliban attacked a convoy of security forces at Zargiri and killed 17 paramilitary soldiers last Saturday. They were heading to a fort along with tribal elders when the Taliban surrounded them. The killing of 17 soldiers by the Taliban has shocked the whole region and 200 armed villagers have announced to launch an operation against the Taliban, according to the NNI.
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Give them thier independence, please. Then let us bomb them, then you can have them back, Pak.
Maulana Sultan Roomi, the head of Jamia Toheedul Isam, was killed and his two daughters critically injured on Monday when several armed men forcibly entered his house in Mansehra. According to details, the assailants opened fire on Roomi as soon as they forced their way into his house. Roomi died instantly while his daughters, Naseeb Jan and Rani Bano, received serious injuries. Police have registered a first information report and are investigating.
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So, not Muslim enough? Too Muslim?
Enquiring minds....
MARDAN: Rockets were fired on Monday morning at the house of Azam Khan, the former PML-Q provincial candidate and former Public Safety Commission chairman. According to sources, the house's upper storey was partially damaged when unidentified militants fired two rockets at the house located in Khan Qila on Swabi Road. No injuries have been reported so far. Sources said police and emergency officials had cordoned off the area and had begun investigations.
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The Taliban have shot dead at least seven Afghan civilians whom they captured on suspicion of working for the government or other organisations, police and the militants said on Monday.
The civilians were taken from cars, buses and taxis that were stopped on the main road between Kabul and the southern city of Kandahar on Sunday, said the Deputy Police Chief for Zabul province Jailani Khan. "They have shot them dead. Their bodies are with the police," he said.
The seven were abducted in Ghazni province, south of Kabul, and killed in neighbouring Zabul, he said. The Police Chief of Ghazni Khan Mohammad Mujahed, said he had reports that
15 people were taken from the road and all been killed. His men were trying to locate the bodies, he said. Mujahed said the men were dragged from cars along the highway over the past several days. A spokesman for the Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahed, also said the militants had killed 15 "spies of the government" who had been captured on the road in recent days.
Prostitutes: The hard-line militia on Sunday shot dead two women whom they said were prostitutes and had worked for the police, a claim rejected by the government. President Hamid Karzai condemned the killing and several other recent militants attacks in his country, his office said in a statement.
The Taliban imposed a harsh version of Shariah law during their 1996-2001 rule of Afghanistan that included executions for various offences. They are now waging an insurgency against the new government and have killed several Afghans who work with the administration as part of a violent intimidation campaign that has also seen a wave of suicide bombings. In June, the Taliban based in Pakistan beheaded Afghans whom they had also accused of spying. Karzai met the families of the men in Kabul on Monday and vowed afterwards that their deaths would be "avenged."
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Local Taliban blew up a Frontier Constabulary (FC) fort in the Zargari area of Hangu on Monday, as security forces opened sporadic fire on suspected militant hideouts.
Taliban had allowed safe passage to the 40 FC personnel posted at the fort. ARY One World reported that the Taliban occupied the fort and snatched weapons from the FC personnel.
He said the Taliban had allowed safe passage to the 40 FC personnel posted at the fort. However, Geo News said only five FC men were at the fort. ARY One World reported that the Taliban occupied the fort and snatched weapons from the FC personnel.
Doaba curfew: The town of Doaba remained under curfew for the fifth consecutive day, paralysing the daily activities of local residents. However, the Hangu-Tall-Parachinar Road was opened to traffic.
Meanwhile, a 15-member jirga left Hangu to initiate dialogue with local Taliban for the restoration of peace. Similarly, MNA Pir Haider Ali Shah and District Nazim Haji Khan Afzal met area elders at the district co-ordination officer's office and initiated contact with the provincial government.
According to a Dawn News report, army troops have already occupied strategic positions in Hangu.
Tribal lashkar: Geo News, meanwhile, reported that hundreds of armed men of the Shinwari and Naryab tribes have announced the formation of a tribal laskhar to fight the Taliban in Hangu. It quoted tribal leaders as saying that the laskhar of 200 armed men was formed after the Taliban killed 17 paramilitary soldiers. According to Geo, the Taliban presence in the area has visibly reduced following the formation of the lashkar.
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The Taliban are meanies. We should send them to their room with no supper.
The NWFP government has released 25 Taliban under a peace pact signed with the Taliban based in Swat. Talking to reporters, Awami National Party (ANP) Senior Minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour said the provincial government was willing to resolve all disputes via dialogue and had released 25 Taliban in accordance with the peace pact. He said the remaining Taliban would also be freed soon, adding, "The peace dialogue will continue and the government will do everything possible to maintain peace in the province."
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The NWFP government are really nice. They should get ice cream for a treat.
India has pulled out of the two-day Indo-Pak bilateral talks of investigating agencies scheduled for Tuesday in Islamabad, sources told Daily Times on Monday.
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director Vijay Shankar was scheduled to lead a delegation for talks with his Pakistani counterparts in the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). The sources here said the CBI director's visit has been cancelled after a cue from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
Anguish: Though no reason has been cited to the cancellation of the visit, the sources said the move was aimed at to convey India's anguish at the suicide attack on Indian embassy in Kabul. India has officially alleged involvement of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence in the attack. Pakistan has, however, rejected such allegations terming them "baseless".
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ION INDIA > ONCE HINDU NEPAL TO GIVE MUSLIMS' RIGHTS.
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Compare wid ALTERNET.org > WITH THE SUDDEN IRAQI DEMAND FOR WITHDRAWAL OF US TROOPS, BUSH HAS LOST THE WAR.
The Islamist priority right now, in the absence of any unilateral US attack and occupation of IRAN, IS TO NUCLEARIZE AND STRATWEAPONIZE AMAP ASAP. AFRICA TO ASIA > HOTBED OF THIRD WORLD INDIGENOUS NUCLEARIZATION DRIVES - even iff the USA should indeed successfully attack and occupy Iran per se, Radical Islam believes they would still stand a potent chance of acquiring NUCTECHS VIA NUCLEARIZING AFRICAN-ASIAN NATIONS, BE THEY ALLIED ENEMY or NEUTRAL vv USA + WOT.
Methinks its more correct to say IRAQ is in a TEMPORARY LULL until such time Radical Islam had rebuilt and is ready to wage new insurgencies and destabilizations again, save this time Nuclearized. NOW IS ALSO THE TIME FOR THE PRO-US IRAQI + AFGHAN-PAKI GOVTS TO STRENGTHEN THEMSELVES FOR THE FUTURE NEW ISLAMIST ONSLAUGHT WHICH THEIR MUSLIM POLS KNOW WILL EVENTUALLY COME.
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It's like the Mexican border for twenty years after the ACW, with 'insurgents' crossing and raiding, all in the face of budget constraints put upon our military by a resurgent and vengeful Donk controlled Congress. Things don't change much, other than the names of the players. Different line up, same game.
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Arm the Uzbeks and Tadjiks and let them fight it out with the Pushtuns. It doesn't matter who wins.
Hear, hear. Muslims will be killing and stealing (on as large a scale as they are allowed) no matter what you [West] do (an inevitable consequence of perceiving life as zero sum game)---might as well limit the damage by redirecting their belligerence inward.
#9
Another Uzbekistan, another Tadjikistan, a Pastunstan, a Talibanstan.
I vote for Glassastan, as in green, glowing and radioactive.
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We should give them another year, if it doesn't work dump the idea of Democracy in Afghanistan and install the toughest mother from the North to keep a lid on the Pashtun and their poppy fields.
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ION WAFF.com [paraph] > CUTTING EDGE NEWS - IRAN [IRGC] SECRETLY ORDERS PRIVATE CIVILIAN COMPANIES TO PLAN FOR [Covert]RESUMPTION OF NUCLEAR CENTRIFUGE PRODUCTION [Advanced P2's]???
Ma'an - Israeli forces raided the town of Kafr Dan, west of the city of Jenin, searching a number of buildings overnight, witnesses reported on Monday. Residents of the town told Ma'an that Israeli forces conducted house-to-house raids from 1am to 5:30am. No one was arrested.
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Ma'an -- The Fatah-affiliated Dalal Al-Mughrabi brigades claimed responsibility for shooting at the Al-Julma military checkpoint, near Jenin early on Monday morning. The brigades said in a statement that a number of their members had managed to approach the Al- Jalama checkpoint and open fire, before withdrawing safely. They added that the attack was a response to Israeli crimes against Palestinians.
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IRNA > UK READY TO PROSCRIBE/OUTLAW HIZBULLAH'S ENTIRE MILITARY WING [But NOt POLITICAL WING]???
ALso, BIGNEWSNETWORK/TOPIX > LEBANON READY/WILLING TO USE MILITARY FORCE TO ENFORCE SOVEREIGNTY OVER SHEBAA [CHEBAA] FARMS, + ISRAEL HELPING SYRIA IMPROVE ITS GLOBAL IMAGE.
TEHRAN (AFP) -- Iran has arrested two prominent student activists, the latest in a string of detentions following the anniversary of student protests nine years ago, the press reported on Monday. Mohammad Hashemi and Bahareh Hedayat were arrested and sent to the notorious Tehran prison of Evin on Sunday, the Etemad newspaper said. The two are members of the central council of the pro-reform student group The Office to Consolidate Unity.
This has raised the number of students arrested throughout the country to around 18 since the anniversary of student protests on July 9, 1999, the Kargozaran newspaper said. The reason for the arrests was not made clear to the families of the pair, the report said.
The other arrests have been made in the northeastern city of Mashhad, the southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province and the province of Tehran.
Groups of students hold small gatherings annually to commemorate July 9, which marks the most significant clash between the authorities and students in the Islamic republic. The riots were sparked when hardline vigilantes stormed student dormitories and the ensuing violence left dozens of students wounded and many arrested.
Apparently there was a substantial march last week, and these guys were among the leaders.
Hashemi, Hedayat and some other members of their group were also arrested in July 2007 for holding a sit-in protest against the imprisonment of three colleagues from Tehran's Amir Kabir university, a hotbed of student activism. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was famously heckled during a 2006 speech at the prestigious university.
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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.
Afghanistan said on Monday it would boycott a series of upcoming meetings with Pakistan unless "bilateral trust" was restored after attacks it blamed on its neighbour's intelligence and military.
Two alleged gang members were killed early yesterday at Shyampur in the capital as they were caught in 'crossfire' between the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and the gang named 'Rozen Bahini'.
(Xinhua) -- Four rebels of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) were killed in an operation staged by Turkish security forces in southeastern Turkey, a Turkish military statement said on Monday. 
Canada's federal court has rejected a US Army deserter's application for a stay of his deportation order. 
Local Taliban blew up a Frontier Constabulary (FC) fort in the Zargari area of Hangu on Monday, as security forces opened sporadic fire on suspected militant hideouts.
The NWFP government has released 25 Taliban under a peace pact signed with the Taliban based in Swat. Talking to reporters, Awami National Party (ANP) Senior Minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour said the provincial government was willing to resolve all disputes via dialogue and had released 25 Taliban in accordance with the peace pact. He said the remaining Taliban would also be freed soon, adding, "The peace dialogue will continue and the government will do everything possible to maintain peace in the province."
India has pulled out of the two-day Indo-Pak bilateral talks of investigating agencies scheduled for Tuesday in Islamabad, sources told Daily Times on Monday. 
