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It was called '24 Hours of Reality', but Al Gore's latest climate change campaign appears to have come up against a very inconvenient truth.
The former vice president had said that his day-long online marathon of talks on the environment on Thursday had been watched by as many as 8.6 million people.
But it has now been claimed based on WUWT's calculation which in turn is based on various internet 'viewing' metrics
that the number of people logging on for the highly publicised presentations that were streamed around the world was closer to 17,000 people.
The poor man. Even his failure failed.
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[Dawn] A Taliban capo who was the target of an operation last month in which 30 US troops died in a helicopter crash has been killed in an air strike, the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -led force in Afghanistan said Thursday.
Qari Tahir was killed in an air strike Tuesday in Wardak province, central Afghanistan, six weeks after the helicopter crash caused the biggest single loss of life for foreign forces in ten years of war.
Washington has said it had killed those behind the helicopter's downing, but a senior Afghan government official told AFP that it was Tahir who had lured US forces to the scene by tipping them off about a Taliban meeting.
"Tahir... was the target of a previous combined operation on Aug. 5, 2011, that resulted in the loss of the CH-47 Chinook last month," the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement.
"He led a group of myrmidon fighters throughout the valley and was known to use roadside kabooms and rockets to intimidate the local populace."
The US helicopter was shot down killing 38 people including 30 US troops, 25 of whom were special forces.
Many of the victims belonged to the US Navy's "Team Six", the special forces unit that killed the late Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden is dead.
He took two shots to the head.
That made him frown
and he had to lie down.
Osama bin Laden is dead. in a raid on his Pak hideout in May. Sources said they were not part of the team that killed the 9/11 criminal mastermind.
Days after the crash, General John Allen, the US commander of foreign troops in Afghanistan, said that those who shot the Chinook down had been hunted down and killed in a bombing raid by an F-16 fighter jet.
This claim was denied by the Taliban and a senior Afghan government official told AFP that it was Tahir who was responsible for luring US forces to the scene.
Speaking anonymously, he said Tahir had set a trap for the aircraft to be shot down.
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... responded to the crash, which raised doubts over the international mission in Afghanistan, by vowing to "stay the course".
The fatal operation had been targeting the leadership of an "enemy network" within the remote and hostile Tangi Valley, southwest of the capital Kabul, Allen said.
The Afghan police and army have struggled to counter the Taliban in the Tangi valley, according to officials and local people, with gunnies controlling the area.
There are around 140,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan, about 100,000 of them from the US, fighting a Taliban-led insurgency.
All foreign combat forces are due to leave in staged withdrawals leading up to a deadline at the end of 2014, at which point Afghan cops will assume responsibility for their country.
A string of recent spectacular attacks in the Afghan capital Kabul in recent months has highlighted the strength of the insurgency.
They include Tuesday's liquidation of Burhanuddin Rabbani ... the late legitimate president of Afghanistan... , a former president tasked with leading Afghan government efforts to talk peace with the Taliban, who was killed by a man with explosives hidden in his turban.
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Everyone knew it wasn't just a chance event and lucky shot. With a little help from our.... old friends, these people are becoming very sophisticated users of technology. More will be disclosed I assure you.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards have stolen dozens of sophisticated Russian-made surface-to-air missiles from Libya and smuggled them across the border to neighbouring Sudan, according to Western intelligence reports
The weapons were seized by units attached to the Guards' elite Quds Force, which travelled to Libya from their base in southern Sudan.
There's a base that's just begging for a drone-zap. What would the Iranians do -- complain? They aren't supposed to be there in the first place.
Acting on orders received from Revolutionary Guards commanders in Iran, they took advantage of the chaos that engulfed Libya following the collapse of the regime of former dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to seize "significant quantities" of advanced weaponry, according to military intelligence officers in Libya.
They say the weapons stolen by Iran include sophisticated Russian-made SA-24 missiles that were sold to Libya in 2004. The missile can shoot down aircraft flying at 11,000 feet, and is regarded as the Russian equivalent of the American "stinger" missiles that were used by the US-backed mujahideen to defeat Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s. It is similar to the weapon used by al-Qaeda in the failed attempt to shoot down an Israeli passenger jet taking off from Kenya's Mombasa airport in 2002.
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I met an Iranian yesterday, living in London, who had nothing but contempt for the Iranian leadership, most notably Khamenei.
Now I look Khamenei, what I see is evil personified.
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Given how ineffective Libyan surface-to-air missiles have been in the actual, you know, Libyan civil war, I can't imagine why Quds Force would *want* them, unless it's to sell them on the terror market. They would seem to have been proved militarily negligible against NATO and US military aircraft.
Has anyone successfully managed to take down a civilian airliner with a stinger-type missile?
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Libyan SA-24 Can't Be Used as MANPADS A top official from Russian KBM Machine-building design bureau confirmed it was his company that supplied the Libyan government forces with the truck mounted short-range anti-aircraft Igla-S (SA-24 Grinch) missiles recently spotted by the international media.
He explained that the Libyan Strelets fire Igla-S missiles but they can not be used as man-portable air defense (manpads). To fire Iglas as a man-portable weapon you need a separate trigger mechanisms that were not supplied to Libya, he said.
If true, then the Iranians "liberated some SA-24s for their armed forces. There won't be any Iranian sponsored terrorists using them against airliners. Though that won't preclude "liberated" SA-14/16/18s from doing so.
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"Now I look Khamenei, what I see is evil personified."
What took you so long, Kojack? I've been seeing him that way for over 30 years.
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Yes, in Africa, several airliners have been shot down with MANPADs as old as the SA-7. Just no major 767 shootdowns in the West, or similar events. The Rhodesians lost an airliner during their Brush War to an SA-7.
All sorts of interesting things being uncovered. Sigh.
No confirmation yet on whether this particular stuff is radioactive, but the barrels were marked so.
See? President Obama was right to go to war against Col. Kadaffy. If only there had been similar discoveries to justify the invasion of Iraq.
/sarcasm
Imagine Obama's response if anyone ever found out that the Paks have nukes...
God in heaven -- the horror!
Yeah, but the bright side is that we'd let the French take the lead again, and I think the over/under for the Chicken of the SeaCharles de Gaulle making it to the Arabian Sea is, um, Sicily...
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If it is packed in burlap bags marked "Product of the United States", it is definitely yellowcake. The cornmeal is all in stainless tankers parked at the refineries.
[BBC] Forces loyal to Libya's new government have taken control of the strategic city of Sabha, which controls the main road south to Niger. Fighters have been firing into the air to celebrate its capture, which means anti-Qadaffy ...Megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland... forces now control southern Libya.
The desert town was one of the last strongholds of Col Muammar Qadaffy. It was seen as a possible hiding place for the ousted leader and senior aides, but his whereabouts remain unknown.
Libya's leader for four decades, Col Qadaffy has been in hiding since opposition forces captured the capital Tripoli late last month.
Two other Qadaffy strongholds - Bani Walid south-east of Tripoli and the runaway leader's birthplace Sirte - are still offering strong resistance but are surrounded by troops loyal to the National Transitional Council.
'Totally free'
Sabha, a traditional stronghold of Col Qadaffy's tribe, the Qadhadfa, is the largest Libyan city in the Sahara desert.
The BBC's Damian Grammaticas, inside Sabha, said he could hear the sound of NTC fighters firing into the air in celebration. "Sabha is totally free," Suleiman Khalifa, head of the Sabha local council was quoted as saying by AFP. "Eighteen [NTC] fighters were killed during the final operation."
But our correspondent said there were still a few pockets in the city where pro-Qadaffy snipers reportedly remained, he added.
With roads to Tunisia, Egypt, Chad and Sudan largely controlled by anti-Qadaffy forces, Niger has been used as an exit route by members of the ousted leader's inner circle fleeing the NTC advance - including his son Saadi.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hoedown, Bob finally got to dance with Sally... NTC forces said they had captured all three main towns in the al-Jufra oasis in the south of the country - Hun, Waddan and Sokna.
In the capital Tripoli on Thursday, the US raised its flag over its embassy for the first time since the fall of Col Qadaffy. The move came a day after US Ambassador Gene Cretz arrived back in the country.
Libya's Interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril, who is at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, has said he expected a new government to be announced within 10 days.
The NTC, which has been trying to assert its authority in Tripoli after more than six months of fighting, told UK officials it had found about 28bn dinars ($23bn, £15bn) of funds unspent by Col Qadaffy in Libya's central bank.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed this guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... former Prime Minister al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi was locked away in Tunisia and has been sentenced to six months in prison, officials say.
Mr Mahmoudi was locked away on Wednesday in Tamaghza, in southern Tunisia, close to the border with Algeria. He was tossed in the clink for entering Tunisia illegally.
He served as prime minister until Col Muammar Qadaffy was ousted last month.
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Reports say that Bahraini security forces have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters who are calling for a mass boycott of parliamentary elections planned for Saturday.
"The protesters have tried to take to the streets in a number of villages around the country and they have been immediately met with brutal police repression. Police have been firing tear gas, rubber bullets, shotgun pellets and other types of objects at protesters who are largely unarmed in these villages. Those who are carrying anything are stones and maybe paint to throw at police vehicles," a source in Bahrain told Al Jazeera on Friday.
Protesters on Friday marched to Manama's Pearl Square, the former focal point of Bahrain's uprising that broke out in February. Bahraini authorities have increased pressure on anti-government activists ahead of the elections, threatening those who use the internet to urge acts of dissent with jail.
Sheik Isa Qassim told followers in a mosque in Diraz, an opposition stronghold northwest of the capital Manama, that the vote on Saturday is meaningless.
"There is a class of society under repression and there are obstacles at every turn, blocking their voice. This is fake democracy." he said during Friday's sermon.
Manama's Pearl Square has been heavily guarded since Bahraini security stormed the protesters' encampment there six months ago. On Friday, police checkpoints were erected on the streets leading up to the square. Armored police vehicles were parked nearby and riot police were lined up behind the vehicles.
The opposition's boycott of Saturday's vote will likely increase the power of the kingdom's Sunni rulers, who have so far managed to ride out six months of protests.
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One unidentified municipal police officer and three Nuevo Leon state police agents were wounded in small arms and grenade attacks on four Monterrey police stations early Wednesday morning, according to Mexican news reports.
The Nuevo Leon state police headquarters near the intersection of calles Apolo and Aztlan in San Bernabe colony was attacked with small arms and three presumably 40mm grenades. Three state police agents were wounded in that attack.
Minutes before, a northern Monterrey police substation was fired on using grenades at around 0100 hrs.
Another state police substation was attacked with two presumably 40mm grenades which did not detonate. Armed suspects riding aboard two trucks instead used small arms to attack the building's facade, damaging it.
A Monterrey municipal police substation was attacked with a grenade wounding one police officer in the leg. Armed suspects also used small arms fire to damage the building and a nearby parked van.
Weapons used in the last attack include .223 assault rifles, 5.7mm and 9mm weapons. Reports did not specify if the last two were fired from pistols or from submachine guns.
Reports say the attacks were a response to a recently concluded security force campaign to dismantle gangs in the Barrio Viejo.
has unleashed a reign of terror and kickstarted his own personality cult to make up for his lack of experience and competence over the past year.
I suppose that makes sense in Nork-land...
The obese tubby 20-something was anointed as his father's successor at a party congress last year.
"Kim Jong-un is implementing a reign of terror using military and public security agencies," a source said on Wednesday.
On what? Doughnut shops? All you can eat buffet lines?
"The elite is becoming agitated as he has gone all out to purge senior officials who pose a hurdle to his succession."
...but not that agitated.
Senior officials such as minister of public security Ju Sang-song, vice premier Ri Tae-nam, and deputy director of the State Security Department Ryu Kyong were fired or executed on corruption charges. Kim junior also ordered a merciless crackdown on "anti-socialist" trends, including South Korean pop music and TV series, and got deeply involved in organizational and personnel matters at the State Security Department and the Ministry of Public Security, the source added.
Hey! This is kinda fun, pops!
Yes, I remember when your grandfather let me order the execution of my first thought criminals...you never forget your first time, sonny.
As a result, public executions tripled to about 60 last year compared to 2009, and the regime has been carrying out a massive hunt for potential defectors. A special mobile force armed with riot gear has been established to quell any popular uprisings.
At last year's party congress, Kim senior appointed his son a vice chairman of the party Central Military Commission, the governing body of the North Korean Army, to help him get a grip on the military. Kim senior also placed the entire top military brass under the commission's jurisdiction.
"Under his father's auspices, Kim Jong-un is exercising de-facto command of the military through Ri Yong-ho, the chief of the North Korean Army's general staff, and Kim Jong-gak, the senior deputy director of the North Korean Army's General Political Bureau," the source said. "He has established a support base in the military by replacing old-guard frontline unit commanders with younger commanders in their 30s and 40s who are loyal to him."
Generals over 60 who were dismissed in this process resisted en masse, according to an intelligence report.
Ooooooh, I'll bet that wasn't a smart move...
...they rather lost their heads...
The regime is bent on building a personality cult around Kim junior. An indoctrination handbook has been distributed since the first half of last year with preposterous stories, one of which claims that senior military officers were stunned to see Kim junior fire a handgun when he was only three years old and draw an operational map when he was a schoolboy.
A signboard was set up at each major agency and factory saying "Daejangbok," which means "people enjoy the happiness (bok) of having general (daejang) Kim Jong-un." Agencies Kim Junior visited mounted a signboard saying, "Kim Jong-un gave on-the-spot guidance here."
"Which spot?"
"That spot!"
An oil portrait of Kim junior was presented at the Shanghai International Arts Festival held early this month, and school textbooks exalting him are expected to be published soon.
The source said his half brother Jong-nam, who was edged out in a power struggle, will seek political asylum abroad to stay alive.
That might not save him. But if we had a CIA worth anything at all we'd be working with Jong-nam to start an insurrection movement in the North.
But Kim Jong-un is having trouble winning people's hearts and minds. He masterminded attacks on the Navy corvette Cheonan and Yeonpyeong Island last year to divert attention, the source said.
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Hopefully someone will insert a knife into this bastard before he gives the world another 30 years of chaos and horror.
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He needs to have some of his favorite mushrooms grown on pistachio wood. (its a relative of poison ivy and eating mushrooms grown on it results in a very painful exit from this plane of existence.)
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The relatives of three Chechen men gunned down in Istanbul last Friday have accused a Russian secret service hit squad of executing them on the Kremlin's orders.
The triple murder was carried out by a lone gunman in less than thirty seconds using a 9mm pistol fitted with a silencer. It brought the number of Chechens assassinated in the Turkish city in the last four years to at least six.
The gunman pumped eleven bullets into the three men in a busy Istanbul street before speeding off in a black getaway car.
One of the murdered men, 33-year-old Berg-Haj Musayev, was said to be close to Doku Umarov, an Islamist terrorist leader who is Russia's most wanted man. The other two were said to be his bodyguards.
It was Umarov who claimed responsibility for the January suicide bombing of Moscow's busy Domodedovo airport, an atrocity that left 37 people dead.
Musayev's widow Sehida said she was sure the Russian secret service was behind her husband's murder, a view echoed by Murat Ozer, head of a Chechen diaspora group in Istanbul.
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Actually, it is called flushing the prey. Works pretty good too. Call them and tell them the hit is on the way...GET OUT NOW!!!
Prey panics, flees, hit team(s) is/are waiting, target gets popped. Everybody is happy...well, not everybody.
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What we should all appreciate about this is that it is cost effective and very surgical. However, this should be seen as just part of an effective campaign of three types of action.
First is "plausible deniability". This is "making it look like an accident". This technique is important if there are more than one target, and you don't want to tip them, or the local authorities off.
Second is the "mob hit". Pretty much this case, of walking up behind the target and giving him two in the back of the head, then walking away. The "two (or three) guys on (a) motorcycle(s)" is this kind of hit.
Third is quite rare. I suppose it could be called "extreme prejudice", in which the assassination is meant to send a powerful message to the target's peers and superiors. In this case, death covered with bacon, and missing some parts.
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The Chechens didn't learn that you don't piss off Vlad.
There is not a Chechen activist/thug/terrorist anywhere in the world that is safe from the reach of the OVRA/NKVD/OGPU/OVRA/KGP or whatever they call themselves now. Names don't mean a thing, if you screw with Russia, you will find you.
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Remember all of the hostages being taken in Beirut in the 1980s? Only happened to the Soviets once: they sent back assorted pieces in different boxes to the family of the man that they held responsible, their people were immediately released and no one else bothered the Soviets in that country.
Rooters summarized: The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), a group associated with the terror group the Kurdistan People's Party (the PKK) claims responsibility for that car boom that went off in Ankara in Tuesday, killing three and wounding fifteen. They also claim responsibility for a small bomb that went off on the beach near the city of Antalya, wounding some tourists, and threaten more bombs in more Turkish cities.
[Dawn] The beheaded bodies of three rustics, kidnapped by bully boyz a month ago, were found in Khawezai tehsil of Mohmand ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... Agency on Wednesday.
Sources said that Mian Hazrat, Nazeem, and Habib had been kidnapped by bully boyz about a month ago from Palosai area of Khawezai tehsil. Their beheaded bodies were found in Sam Ghakay area of the tribal region. Sources said that volunteers of local peace committee and officials of political administration brought the bodies of Mian Hazrat and Nazeem to agency headquarters hospital in Ghalanai and later handed them over to their relatives. The body of Habib was still lying there, they added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact...
Really big frogs with opposable thumbs and a bad attitude. *shudder*. Perhaps we should skip straight to a "However," as I can feel a nightmare coming on.
unidentified persons kidnapped a tubewell operator, Hzarat Ali, on Tuesday. Security forces launched a search operation in the area for his recovery.
Sources said that person or persons unknown burnt a tractor of Mohmand Rifles in Khwaja Waskor area of Haleemzai tehsil. Security forces placed in durance vile 20 rustics under the collective responsibility clause of FCR after the incident. In Upper Dir, police claimed to have placed in durance vile a criminal mastermind of the June 5, 2009, suicide kaboom on a mosque in Hayagay Sharqi area of the district.
Officials of Sheringal cop shoppe said that the accused, Sahibzada, was placed in durance vile on Tuesday and was shifted to Qazi's guesthouse an undisclosed location for interrogation.
Sources said that the accused, a resident of Shatkas Doog Darra, was a student of B.A in Peshawar.
In Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central, 25 bully boyz laid down arms and surrendered to security forces on Wednesday.
Sources said that the surrendered bully boyz belonged to different areas of Salarzai tehsil. They said that the Death Eaters, including three commanders, laid down weapons and surrendered to security forces during a tribal jirga.
They told the jirga on oath that they would not keep contacts with bully boyz nor would they provide any kind of support to them in future. They said that Taliban capo deceived them in the name of jihad and Islam.
The tribal elders on the occasion resolved to continue their efforts against faceless myrmidons and criminal elements in Salarazai tehsil till their complete elimination.
They said that situation had been improved in most areas of the tribal region owing to understanding between political administration and tribal people.
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As long as they weren't found in a topless bar....
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[Dawn] The Pak government placed a prominent krazed killer under temporary house detention because of his attempts to stoke conflict between Sunni and Shia Mohammedans since his release from prison two months ago, police said Thursday.
Malik Ishaq, a founder of the banned Sunni hard boy group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... , was accused in dozens of killings, including many of minority Shias, but was released on bail in July after 14 years in prison because the Supreme Court decided there was not enough evidence to keep holding him.
He has been giving public speeches since his release whipping up anger toward Shias, who make up about 15 percent of the population, said a police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
The Punjab provincial government on Wednesday ordered that Ishaq remain at home for 10 days, said Sohail Chatta, the police chief in Rahim Yar Khan district where Ishaq lives.
Ishaq's behavior endangered "sectarian harmony and caused a sudden rise in sectarian temperature in the country," said Chatta.
Most Sunnis and Shias live together peacefully in Pakistain, but the country also has a long history of hard boyz on both sides carrying out attacks against the opposite sect. In recent years, many of these attacks have involved Sunnis targeting Shias.
Suspected Sunni hard boyz opened fire on Shia pilgrims traveling by bus through southwest Pakistain on Tuesday on their way to Iran, killing 26 people, officials and survivors said.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi grabbed credit in a telephone call to a local journalist in Quetta, but that claim could not be verified.
I vote anyone who takes credit for a crime of terror be treated as if he had, with the full weight of punishment. If that doesn't divert actual culprits, it will at least reduce the active population of those who think such behaviour cool and romantic. Do they hang people in Pakistan, still?
In the 1980s and 1990s, Pakistain became the scene of a proxy war between mostly Shia Iran and Sunni Soddy Arabia, with both sides funneling money to sectarian groups that regularly targeted each other.
Ishaq was locked away in 1997, and has been accused of a slew of crimes. In 2009, he was blamed for orchestrating an attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team in the eastern Pak city of Lahore. Six security officers and a driver died in that assault.
His release underscored the difficulty Pak prosecutors have had convicting suspects in a justice system that lacks resources, is plagued by corruption and is rife with tales of witness intimidation.
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Saudi and Iran have too much influence in Pakistan for the wrong reasons.
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As the Arabs in Judea and Samaria threaten to storm Jewish communities, the women at Pnei Kedem in Gush Etzion, in the Judean hills, are learning to shoot firearms.
The extra precaution is due to concerns that Arabs will descend on communities en masse, spreading IDF forces too thin to effectively block them. In such a scenario, the civilians in some communities may have to fend for themselves.
The IDF has been given instructions to fire only at Arab intruders' legs, even if they enter the communities. The women in the pictures don't appear to be aiming at the lower body, though. A point for thought for potential invaders... Pics at the link. Looks like M-16's and 9mm's...
Thai police have identified two suspects in last Friday's bomb attacks in Narathiwat province. Two car bombs and a motorcycle bomb killed three Malaysians and one Thai and injured 50 others.
Police have identified a suspect using footage from surveillance cameras. The man was identified as Suhaidee Kubaru, of Narathiwat's Sungai Padi district. Police sought a warrant for his arrest. Police will soon seek an arrest warrant for another suspect, Muhammadsakri Saising.
Police say Suhaidee drove the car with a bomb planted inside to one of the spots where an explosion occurred, while Muhammadsakri drove another car to secure the parking space for Suhaidee's car.
Meanwhile, a man was gunned down and his body burned along with his motorcycle in Narathiwat province yesterday. Police found AK rifle bullets near his body. The victim was identified as Areeyoh Pohji, from Yala province. Police believed Areeyoh's attackers were terrorists militants.
In Pattani province, a male nurse, Arorfat Rakprat, was gunned down while riding a motorcycle. His attackers shot at him from a pick-up truck. He was pronounced dead at the hospital where he worked.
In Pattani province, a group of attackers hurled four molotov cocktails and fired into a house belonging to Nikhom Kasiphan, 55, chairman of local administration organisation. No one was hurt.
Police found a homemade bomb in a 5 kg metal case, which was connected to a booby trap. Police suspect the shooting was meant to lure officers to the house in the hope they would step on the trap and set off the bomb.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Dawn] A 
[BBC] Forces loyal to Libya's new government have taken control of the strategic city of Sabha, which controls the main road south to Niger. Fighters have been firing into the air to celebrate its capture, which means anti-
Reports say that Bahraini security forces have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters who are calling for a mass boycott of parliamentary elections planned for Saturday.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's son Jong-un 
Rooters summarized: The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), a group associated with the terror group the Kurdistan People's Party (the PKK) claims responsibility for that 
Mohmand
Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central
Punjab
