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Badanov took up the baton while Fred is on a contract job, Redneck Jim, with Pappy warming up in the batter's box. Mixed sports metaphors, I realize, but e are a multi talented lot, we Rqntburgers. ;-)
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Thank you, badanov. Baseball is not one of my sports. When we played in sixth grade, that put me fourth in line because my pitching zone (? between shoulders and knees as I held the bat in that bottom-sticking-out crouch) was measured at 12". So I never had to actually try to hit the ball. My physical abilities even then lay elsewhere -- none of the boys could do as many chin-ups or beat me up the rope to the ceiling.
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Glad to see Long War get's it. Earlier in the week I read that General Martin E. Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, was attributing the uptick on Ramadan, fasting, and hunger. Interesting observation. I guess one could then conclude that through extension, they are compelled by thier religious belief to KILL US!
KANDAHAR: A roadside bomb killed six civilians, mostly women and children, travelling in a motorised rickshaw in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, police said.
"Tragically two women, three children and one man were killed in the explosion" in Spin Boldak district near the border with Pakistan, Kandahar provincial police chief Abdul Razeq told AFP.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but similar attacks are usually blamed on orcsterrorists Taliban insurgents fighting to overthrow the Western-backed government of President Hamid Karzai.
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Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... ruled out on Thursday holding peace talks with the government and threatened to strike media houses it said fight the group "with the pen".
The local press and at least two foreign news organizations have reported that talks are going on between the government and the Death Eaters who have been staging an insurgency against it, citing unnamed sources.
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On Thursday, it is jaw jaw. On Sunday it's bomb, bomb. A-holes.
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Welcome to tribal governance. Please show me an example that actually works and does not end in dispair, conflict, or genocide. The current holder of the White House is included.
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Would it be possible to ship the United States Network News Anchors over there and broadcast. It would help the country heal quicker especially MSNBC NBC CBS ABC CNN etc. etc,. etc.
Unknown gunmen attacked an American diplomatic vehicle south of Mexico City, injuring three people, a Mexican military official told CNN Mexico.
The motive behind the attack on the U.S. vehicle, which was on a diplomatic mission, was not immediately known.
Gunmen inside what was described as a Mexican federal police vehicle fired upon a U.S. Embassy vehicle, said the official, who declined to be named for security reasons.
The Mexican official said three Mexican marines were injured in the shooting. However, there were conflicting reports. Some Mexican reports stated that two of the injured were Americans.
The injured passengers were transported to a hospital in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
The Drug Enforcement Administration confirmed that a U.S. diplomatic vehicle was "shot up" in Mexico, but said no DEA officers were involved in the incident.
The U.S. State Department said it was aware of the reports, but had no immediate comment.
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UPDATE: At least 6 six shots penetrated the American SUV which was armored. The vehicle was on a dirt road going to a military installation south of Mexico City. It was fired on by gunmen in a second vehicle - who seemed to know their target. Subsequently, several vehicles showed up from the Mexican Federal Police, then joined in the fire, and apparently also hit the American SUV with their shots. There seems to have been a breakdown in communication amongst Mex police about who the real bad guys were. The actual bad guys left the scene and were not apprehended (suspicious!). One US citizen was shot in the stomach and the hand, a second was shot in the leg. Both taken to hospital.
Like most reports from Mex ... this initial info lacks a lot of details, and may change substantially once investigated. This is just what is known now.
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MORE: Looks like vehicle took about 6 shots thru rear window, but probably took more fire on sides. A lot of armored SUV's can handle 30-cal rifle fire, but the ballistic glass will not handle 7.62 armor piercing rounds. Just a wild guess .. but these assailants seemed to have a good understanding of what it would take to penetrate the protection on this SUV carrying Americans.
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It appears a Policia Federal (PF) patrol spotted the SUV, assumed it was packed with bad guys, and contrary to the ROEs, fired on the vehicle.
It was one US Marine and two DoS personnel who were in the vehicle, and who were wounded.
The members of the PF group which fired on the vehicle are already detained and probably facing prison time.
As I understand it, when Mexican security forces encounter a very nice SUV, their shooters are already locked and loaded, waiting for the order to fire. The rules are if the driver resists orders or signals to stop, security forces will open fire. Those rules are in effect for Army personnel so dunno if PF have applied them as well. As it is, the rules were written last spring to reflect actual practice in the field.
It appeared the driver swerved off the road when he saw a vehicle with armed personnel prompting the PF to fire.
Typically PF shooters are armed with 5.56mm M4 assault rifles. Some patrol have snipers with NATO 7.62mm (.308), and to a lesser extent, the G3, also .308.
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Looks like most hits on the sides of the SUV were ricochets. Biggest penetration is thru rear window. If last post is right ... doesn't seem like the bulletproof glass performed adequately for shots coming from the rear. Tires of the vehicle were sht out - but that's probably part of the standard procedure.
If this is due to a failure in communications with Mex police - this is a big WHOOPS to say the least.
The Marine who was injured was apparently a Mexican marine, and not an American. Seems like his communications were spotty as well.
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Driving a type of car favored by the cartel creates IFF* problems. Anyone remember the Italians in Iraq who dropped the bag money to pick up the 'kidnapped' journalist only to drive high speed to the airport and into a checkpoint looking for terrorists, who employed high speed vehicles to deliver car bombs?
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Yeah - I do remember that disaster where the Italian special forces were killed. Not good. Actually, that's a very good analogy to what happened here. It appears to be a similar mistake of identity.
What's strange here is that the US contingent had a Mexican marine travelling with them as an advisor. Aren't these Mexican forces communicating by radio's ?? That's the part that I don't get. At least our guys weren't killed, and they should recover. Getting shot in the stomach is not a picnic, though.
The son of a late Chechen terror rebel warlord has been killed in Syria by government forces, according to Russian media and websites sympathetic to Islamist terrorists insurgents in the Caucasus region.
Rustam Gelayev was killed during the shelling of a mosque in Aleppo by forces loyal to Assad earlier this month, according to a website. The report, citing unidentified sources in Chechnya, said Gelayev, 24, had joined a unit of Chechen volunteers fighting alongside Syrian insurgents.
Another website sympathetic to the insurgents said he had been killed when his unit "entered into a battle with superior forces of the Alawite regime ... presumably between Aug. 11 and Aug. 13."
Russian newspaper Kommersant, however, said a relative of Gelayev claimed he had been studying in Syria, had decided to leave because of the violence and was headed for Turkey when he was killed.
Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya's Kremlin-backed regional leader, said on Thursday that "no Russian citizens of Chechen nationality are fighting in Syria on any side", but indicated insurgents or Chechens living abroad could be doing so.
Kadyrov told reporters, "Chechens are not fighting in Syria - at least we can very responsibly say that about residents of the Chechen Republic. As for Gelayev ... and others like him, they have no homeland - they lost it long ago."
Ruslan Gelayev, was a prominent warlord who fought Russian federal forces in the two post-Soviet separatist wars in the 1990s and early 2000s in Chechnya. He was killed in a gun battle with Russian border guards on the frontier with Georgia in 2004.
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Three U.S. Marines were injured in a shooting south of Mexico City on Friday morning, a Mexican military official told CNN Mexico.
The motive behind the attack on the American servicemen, who were on a diplomatic mission, was not immediately known.
Unknown gunmen inside what was described as a Mexican federal police vehicle fired upon a U.S. Embassy vehicle that carried the U.S. servicemen, said the official, who declined to be named for security reasons. The injured Marines were transported to a hospital in Cuernavaca, Mexico First report before above:
Unknown gunmen attacked an American diplomatic vehicle south of Mexico City, injuring three people, a Mexican military official told CNN Mexico.
The motive behind the attack on the U.S. vehicle, which was on a diplomatic mission, was not immediately known.
Gunmen inside what was described as a Mexican federal police vehicle fired upon a U.S. Embassy vehicle, said the official, who declined to be named for security reasons.
The Mexican official said three Mexican marines were injured in the shooting. However, there were conflicting reports. Some Mexican reports stated that two of the injured were Americans. The injured passengers were transported to a hospital in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
The Drug Enforcement Administration confirmed that a U.S. diplomatic vehicle was "shot up" in Mexico, but said no DEA officers were involved in the incident.
The U.S. State Department said it was aware of the reports, but had no immediate comment.
The U.S. vehicle was attacked on a highway between Mexico City and Cuernavaca, near the town of Tres Marias.
Mexico's federal police said that its personnel were not involved in the shooting. Their forces appeared at the scene only after the shooting to secure the perimeter, police said.
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Amazing how all the media talks about is a faggot(bundle of wood) shooting another faggot and cops shooting unarmed people in an upscale neighborhood. How is that promise to lie and and mislead the American public coming anyways?
At least eight militants were killed and two of their hideouts destroyed in security forces shelling in different areas of lower Orakzai Agency on Friday.
According to details, security forces conducted search operation and targeted the hideouts of suspected miscreants in Gawak area of Lower Orakzai Agency with heavy artillery fire.
Eight militants were killed in the action while two hideouts were destroyed in the shelling.
Local sources said that death toll may rise as several militants were believed to be buried under the rubble of destroyed hideouts. The security forces are continuing search operation in the area but no arrest has been made.
PESHAWAR: Three policemen were killed in the militancy-hit Hangu district on Thursday in an attack, which the local police chief said was carried out by terrorists. Hangu District Police Officer Dr Mian Saeed Ahmed told reporters that a mobile van of police patrolling the highway linking the district with Orakzai and Kurram tribal regions was ambushed on Hangu-Thal Road.
The driver and two other cops were killed in the attack, which was premeditated, the police officer was quoted as saying. He called the attack a terrorist act. The ambush took place near Kotkai, he added.
A search operation had been launched in the area and police had arrested 10 suspects, the officer said. Police cordoned off the area after the attack. There were no immediate claims of responsibility.
The districts administration had deployed police to patrol the highway to guard against Taliban-led attacks on Shia commuters using the road to travel between Kurram and rest of the country.
Hangu is gateway to Orakzai and Kurram tribal regions where Taliban and sectarian-linked violence has been disturbing peace for years and the district itself continues to suffer from sectarian strife.
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More than 100 members of a breakaway Muslim terrorist rebel group fleeing from a two-week army offensive clashed again with soldiers Thursday killing a villager and injuring three others in the southern Philippines.
About 15 Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement fighters, who were backed by about 100 other gunmen positioned nearby, fired grenades at an army detachment along a highway early Thursday, sparking a battle, Army Lt. Col. Benjamin Hao said.
A soldier and a militiaman were injured. The gunmen also shot a villager in the head, killing him, while he was using his cellular phone in front of his house. The terrorists rebels may have done that because they suspected he was calling authorities for help. A nurse working in a nearby hospital was hit in the leg by stray gunfire.
A terrorist militant was gunned down in an armed clash with a joint police-military unit in Yala province on Friday morning, and soldiers emerged unscathed from a bomb blast.
After receiving a tip from suspicious villagers five armed men hiding in a house in the middle of a rubber plantation in Raman district, the joint security force surrounded the targeted house at 6:25 a.m. They told the men inside to show themselves, who then ran out of the house and fired at the security team with assault rifles. The police and soldiers returned fire.
After a ten minute gun battle, police inspected the scene and found the dead body of Abdulloh Lasi, 30, lying 100 meters from the house. His right hand was still clutched an M16 assault rifle. They also found Duroning Lijiag, who was injured in the fight. He was taken to the hospital. Three other men managed to escape.
Also in Raman district, separatist terrorists militants set off a roadside bomb late Friday morning, but caused no injuries.
Soldiers reported to police that the explosion occurred on the Patae Rayor-Tanoh Puyoh road about 11 a.m. An explosive ordnance disposal unit was rushed to the scene.
Police found a three meter-wide crater in the road and the soldiers parked armoured personnel carrier nearby. The only damage was to the headlights on the vehicle. They also found a blown-up cooking gas cylinder and a 100 meter-long wire linking the bombs remains to a detonating switch in the roadside trees.
Soldiers said that a 12-man unit were in the vehicle going to inspect a suspicious box placed in front of a school. As the soldiers arrived, the home-made bomb was detonated. It went off too soon and failed to cause injuries.
Police attributed the bomb attack to a separatist militant group led by Rusdee Samae and Abdulloh Lituemung, wanted under arrest warrants for inciting violence in southern Thailand.
AMMAN/ALEPPO: Syrian Army shells crashed into southern Damascus yesterday and helicopters fired rockets and machineguns during an assault to shore up
President Bashar Assad's grip on the capital 17 months into a popular uprising, opposition activists said.
The army has used tanks and helicopter gunships this week in an offensive around Damascus that has coincided with the departure of UN military observers after a failed mission to stop the bloodshed and nudge Syria toward a peaceful transition.
Anti-Assad activists said at least 47 people had been killed in Damascus in what they called the heaviest bombardment this month. The whole of Damascus is shaking with the sound of shelling, said a woman in Kfar Souseh, one of several districts hit during the military offensive to root out rebel fighters.
At least 22 people were killed in Kfar Souseh and 25 in the nearby district of Nahr Eisha, activists said. One of the dead was named as Muhammad Saeed Odeh, a journalist employed at a state-run newspaper who was sympathetic to the anti-Assad revolt. Activists said he had been executed in Nahr Eisha.
There are 22 tanks in Kfar Souseh now and behind each one there are at least 30 soldiers. They are raiding houses and executing men, an opposition activist in Kfar Souseh, who gave his name only as Bassam, told Reuters.
More than 250 people, including 171 civilians, were killed across Syria on Tuesday, mostly around Damascus, Aleppo and the southern city of Deraa, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based opposition monitoring group.
Activists in the southwestern Damascus suburb of Mouadamiya said Assad's forces had killed 86 people there since Monday, half of them by execution.
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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.
KANDAHAR: A roadside bomb killed six civilians, mostly women and children, travelling in a motorised rickshaw in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, police said. 
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