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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Angela Lansbury aka Jessica Fletcher in "Murder, She Wrote (TV series)" aka Mrs. Eleanor Shaw Iselin in "The Manchurian Candidate" aka Miss Price in "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" aka Annabel Willart in "All Fall Down" aka Countess Herthe von Ornstein in "Something for Everyone" aka Salome Otterbourne in "Death on the Nile" aka Miss Jane Marple in "The Mirror Crack'd" aka Mrs. Nellie Lovett in "Sweeney Todd (Broadway)" aka Mame Dennis in "Mame (Broadway)" aka Mama Rose Hovick in "Gypsy (Broadway)" aka Madame Armfeldt in "A Little Night Music (Broadway)" And many, many more! (age 86)
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I use a variety of computers & browsers, the same thing happens now & then. When it does, I post my comments using a different browser, which is fairly easy to do.
A US drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region has killed three Egyptians linked to the Haqqani network, including one who played a key role in handling the militant group's finances, Pakistani intelligence officials said on Sunday. "Ummm... Al-Masri?"
"What? And don't call me al-Masri, Nadine! Call me Abu Shahadat!"
"Whatever. What's that sound?"
"That? It's the wheel bearing. I've got an appointment at the tire place to have it fixed."
"No. That other sound."
"That one? It always makes that noise. That's the differential."
"No, the other one."
"What other one?"
[KABOOM!]
"Aaaiiieee! That one! [GASP!... twitch... twitch... rattle]
The three men were killed on Friday when a drone fired missiles at a car near Miran Shah, the main town in North Waziristan, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to talk to the media. A fourth person was also killed but has not been identified. "Run a DNA test on that piece over there, wouldja, Sam?"
"Sure, Dr. Quincy! Hey, Al! Bring me a putty knife and a sponge!"
US intelligence believes the Haqqanis are the top threat to security in Afghanistan and that they enjoy the support of the Pakistani army. The alternatives are Hekmatyar's network, Mullah Omar's Taliban, and al-Qaeda. Hekmatyar's too busy plotting and planning against everybody else to actually be effective. For enough cash and weaponry he'd sell himself out.
It wants the army to sever its ties and attack the group, something that Islamabad refuses to do. "What? Give up our strategic depth? Certainly not! Besides, they'd kick the spit out of us!"
The issue is a main cause of tension between the two countries, and Pakistan's reluctance to co-operate has prompted the U.S. to step up missile strikes against the Haqqani network in the group's safe haven in North Waziristan. If I've counted correctly, this one makes a half dozen in a week.
The US does not acknowledge the CIA-run drone program in Pakistan, "Eh? CIA? Drones? In Pakistain? You can't mean us!" "Check with the Ruritanians. They've been active lately."
but officials have said privately that the attacks have killed senior militant commanders from the Haqqani network, the Taliban and al-Qaeda. "No! Reeeeally?" They also doubled as senior commanders in the ISI...
One of the Egyptians killed Friday was a 28-year-old man named Abdullah who helped handle the Haqqani network's finances in Pakistan and Afghanistan, said the intelligence officials. He was known locally as Nadeem. When he put on his burka disguise on date nights he was known locally as Nadine.
[Dawn] Two drivers were killed in a suicide kaboom on a US-run development base in the relatively peaceful north of Afghanistan, a provincial police chief said Saturday.
The top policeman in Panjshir province, Mohammad Qasim Jangalbagh, said four suicide attackers had targeted the US Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) facility in the district of Rokha, leaving two guards also maimed.
He said the four attackers had approached the base, one inside a four-wheel drive vehicle and the others on foot.
"An kaboom targeted the PRT in Panjshir left two drivers dead and two guards of the PRT maimed," said Jangalbagh.
He said the drivers had been bringing fuel supplies to the base when it came under attack.
Isaf front man Christopher Pewitt confirmed the incident but had no record of fatalities.
"We can confirm a suicide attack on the PRT early this morning in Panjshir. There were no casualties to ISAF. Civilians were maimed in the blast," he said, without giving further details.
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The man identified as US citizen Abu Abdulla Almuhajir and speaking with an American accent handed out food, hijabs and Korans to people at a refugee camp near the capital, Mogadishu.
Call the FBI -- we've found another member of the Minneapolis Children's Crusade Jihad.
Troops loyal to Gaddafi have mounted a fierce counterattack in the city of Sirte, forcing fighters from Libya's new regime back under a barrage of rockets and shelling. Fighters from the National Transitional Council - which captured most of Sirte last week - fled to the police headquarters, as cries of "Run, run, run!" rang out.
After taking rocket fire and shells from NTC combatants on Saturday, Gaddafi diehards concentrated in two neighbourhoods - the Dollar and Number Two - and then unleashed their own barrage yesterday. As rockets, shells and machine-gun fire rained down, NTC fighters, taken by surprise, quickly fled their positions on the edge of the two neighborhoods. Thick black smoke covered the two districts as rockets and shells crashed into buildings, setting some on fire.
"Gaddafi fighters are now concentrated in a small place, but we can't enter all at the same time. We need a plan to defeat them," said Omran Allahoyb, commander of a Misratah brigade, before the pro-Gaddafi advance.
"We can take this place in one day, but I will lose 100 men," he declared, adding that the best strategy would be to bomb the 1.5 sq km area into defeat.
NTC commanders earlier had said they decided at to hold off on an all-out assault on the Dollar and Number Two districts in an attempt to capture the top regime figures they believe are holed up there.
Eastern front operations chief Wesam bin Hamaibi said, "The resistance from the two neighbourhoods is high because we believe there are four to five important people inside. We are sure that (Gaddafi's son and his national security chief) Mutassim and (ousted defence minister) Abu Bakr Yunis are inside."
"We also believe that Saif al-Islam (another of Gaddafi's sons) and Gaddafi (himself) are possibly inside. We want to capture them alive to hand them over to the judiciary rather than killing them, which is why we are still not going to have a massive attack."
Turns out that the revolution is not quite complete...
TRIPOLI, Libya: Libyan fighters fanned out in Tripoli neighborhoods Saturday to search for armed supporters of fugitive leader Muammar Qaddafi a day after a major gunbattle rocked the capital for the first time in two months.
Dozens of men combed apartment buildings for suspects and weapons in the Abu Salim neighborhood, which is home to the prison of the same name that became notorious for the abuse and killing of Qaddafi opponents. A day earlier, a gunbattle broke out in the area when a group tried to raise the green flag that symbolizes the ousted regime.
Revealing serious divisions within the revolutionary ranks, Saturdays sweep of Abu Salim was mainly being conducted by a breakaway militia that refuses to answer to the main Tripoli military council. It is one of many factions that have refused to put themselves under the umbrella of official revolutionary authorities, raising fears of vigilante justice as the North African nation faces continued fighting by loyalists of the fugitive leader.
One anti-Qaddafi fighter stomped a green flag as others searched vehicles. Another showed off a box found stuffed with bullets he said was found in a second-floor apartment in one of the residential buildings.
Abdullah Naker, the head of the so-called revolutionary council, called on all anti-Qaddafi forces to join them in the search and warned his men will fight anybody who gets in their way.
All of Tripoli will be searched and we will reorganize our checkpoints and our guards in public and private institutions inside of Tripoli and outside of Tripoli, he told reporters.
He said eight wanted men and 12 other suspects had been arrested. He also alleged that teachers have been telling students that Qaddafi will return and said teams had been sent to stop the practice.
We gave the military council a chance to prove themselves and they failed and we will not leave things to chance, he said.
Fridays gunbattle was the first major violence in Tripoli between Qaddafi supporters and revolutionary forces since the then-rebels swept into the capital in late August and forced the longtime leader into hiding.
The flare-up in Tripoli and fierce resistance on two other fronts have set back the new rulers stated goals of declaring total victory and establishing democracy as Qaddafi, the ruler for nearly 42 years, remains on the run.
The capital has been relatively calm since then-rebels swept into the city two months ago. But Qaddafis loyalists have control of parts of his hometown of Sirte and the desert enclave of Bani Walid and have fought off NATO-backed revolutionary forces besieging them for weeks. Qaddafi has tried to rally his supporters with several audio recordings issued from hiding.
The firefight in Tripoli began after Friday prayers. Witnesses said dozens of loyalists carrying the green flag appeared on a square in the Abu Salim neighborhood, which has long been a pro-Qaddafi stronghold. Residents also reported fighting in several other areas known to still hold loyalists of the former leader.
Interim leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the head of the governing National Transitional Council, had hoped to declare liberation this week after what he expected would be the imminent fall of the holdout city of Sirte, 250 miles (400 kilometers) southeast of Tripoli on the Mediterranean coast. That could allow the council to name a new interim government and set a timeline for holding elections within eight months.
The revolutionary forces control much of Sirte after launching a major push a week ago but still face heavy fighting.
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[Dawn] Yemeni police rubbed out 12 people and injured dozens of others on Saturday as they met the demonstrators with hot lead in Sanaa demanding President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh's ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... resignation, medics said. That oughta learn 'em.
Security forces used live rounds as well as tear gas and water cannon to try to disperse hundreds of thousands of Saleh opponents trying to march on loyalist areas of the city centre from their Change Square stronghold, witnesses said.
The corpse count went up to at least 12 according to several medics as bodies were taken to four different hospitals.
Doctor Mohammed al-Qubati, the coordinator at a field hospital in the square, said two bodies were brought to the facility, and many others maimed, including at least 30 hit by gunfire, while 10 were at death's door.
One of those killed with a bullet to the head was taken earlier to the same field hospital, along with 90 injured demonstrators, medics said, adding that the casualty toll was only preliminary.
A third body was later brought to the same makeshift facility.
The bodies of five more protesters were taken to the privately-run Science and Technology Hospital along with dozens of injured, at least 15 of who had bullet wounds, medics there said.
The bodies of four other protesters were taken to two other hospitals, medics said.
The festivities erupted on Al-Zubeiri Street which marks the dividing line between parts of the capital held by troops loyal to Saleh and those held by dissident units under the command of General Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar, who rallied to the opposition in March.
Activists had called on protesters to march on the front lines on Saturday in a bid to bring to a head 10 months of increasingly bloody demonstrations against Saleh's 33-year rule in Sanaa.
State television claimed that the "unauthorised" protest marched from Sitin Street to the area of Aser, which is under the control of Saleh loyalists, quoting alleged witnesses claiming that protesters shot up civilians.
The veteran president has refused to step down despite increasingly strident calls for his departure from both Western governments and impoverished Yemen's wealthy Arab neighbours in the Gulf.
Demonstrators have rallied in streets surrounding Change Square urging the UN Security Council to take decisive action against Saleh by imposing sanctions that would help force him out of power.
Protesters also called on the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... to put Saleh on trial.
"There will be no immunity... Saleh and his cronies must face trial," chanted the protesters, gathered after weekly Mohammedan prayers as on every Friday since the outbreak of their campaign in late January.
According to a letter from Yemen's youth movement sent to the United Nations earlier this month, at least 861 people have been killed and 25,000 maimed since mass protests erupted across the country.
The government, for its part, has urged the Security Council to avoid a resolution targeting the embattled president, calling on it instead to back a political solution.
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SANAA: At least 22 people were killed Saturday as Yemeni police opened fire on protesters and rival tribes clashed in Sanaa. A suspected US air raid took out nine Al-Qaeda-linked militants, including top Al-Qaeda leaders.
Police shot dead 12 people and injured dozens as they opened fire on demonstrators in Sanaa demanding President Ali Abdullah Saleh's resignation, medics said.
Security forces used live rounds as well as tear gas and water cannon to try to disperse hundreds of thousands of Saleh opponents trying to march on loyalist areas of the city center from their Change Square stronghold, killing 12 people, witnesses and medics said.
"We demand from the Security Council to force Saleh to leave power," read a banner carried by protesters, as others carried a effigy of Saleh being hanged and posters of killed demonstrator.
In northern Sanaa, 10 gunmen from the Hashid tribe which has sided with protesters against Saleh were killed in clashes with tribes loyal to the embattled president, a tribal source said. The followers of tribal chief Sheikh Sadeq Al-Ahmar were killed in shelling of their position near Al-Hassaba area, stronghold of the Ahmar clan, a source in the sheikh's office said.
Al-Ahmar gunmen were locked on Saturday in fierce fighting with partisans of Sheikh Saghir bin Aziz, a tribal leader who has remained loyal to Saleh.
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Bomb government forces in Lybia, bomb protesters in Yemen, send moral support to protesters in Syria. I feel a begginning of a headache.
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Twenty inmates died and 12 more were wounded in a prison brawl in Matamoros, Tamaulipas Saturday morning, according to Mexican news reports. The brawl took place at the Centro de Ejecucion de Sanciones (CEDES) in Matamoros.
Reports say two inmates started a fight which escalated with more inmates joining in. State and federal security forces in the area were called in to quell the revolt. By the time they arrived, 20 were reported dead. The prison is operated by the Tamaulipas state Secretaría de Seguridad Pública del Estado (SSPE).
Tamaulipas state, which shares a long border with Texas, is the most violent state in Mexico due to drug cartel activity.
[An Nahar] Turkish police have jugged six suspects in connection with last month's kaboom that rocked the center of the capital Ankara, killing five people, local security sources said Friday.
Police from southeastern Diyarbakir province launched simultaneous raids on two houses as part of an investigation by an Ankara prosecutor's office, the sources said.
The detainees were taken to Ankara for further interrogation, they added.
The powerful bomb, which went off outside city administration offices on September 20, killed three people on the spot but the corpse count rose to five when two of the at least 15 who were maimed died in hospital.
A radical Kurdish group, the Freedom Falcons of Kurdistan (TAK), grabbed credit for the attack.
Turkish officials say TAK is a front used by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), listed as a terrorist group by Ankara and much of the international community, especially when attacks claim civilian casualties.
The PKK has said TAK is a splinter group outside its control.
Kurdish rebels fighting for autonomy in southeastern Turkey have recently escalated their attacks on Turkish targets.
The Turkish air force has repeatedly bombed PKK targets since August 17.
The PKK took up arms in Kurdish-majority southeastern Turkey in 1984, sparking a conflict that has claimed some 45,000 lives.
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[Dawn] An Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) on Saturday rejected the appeals filed by former police chief of Rawalpindi Saud Aziz and former SP Rawal Town Khurram Shahzad for their effective exoneration from the Benazir Bhutto murder case, DawnNews reported.
Justice Shahid Rafiq heard the proceedings of the case in Adiyala Jail.
Aziz and Khurrum, in their appeals, had pleaded to the court that there were no sufficient proofs against them in the case and therefore they should be exonerated.
During the previous hearing, the court had reserved its verdict after hearing the arguments of the defence and prosecution lawyers with regard to the appeals.
Aziz and Shahzad have been accused of showing negligence in security arrangements for former premier Benazir Bhutto which resulted in her liquidation at Liaquat Bagh.
Benazir Bhutto was killed in a gun and suicide kaboom after an election rally in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007, weeks after she returned to Pakistain after years in self-imposed exile.
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[Dawn] A US missile strike killed at least six suspected forces of Evil in northwestern Pakistain near the Afghan border Saturday, two Pak intelligence officials said, in the third such American missile attack in as many days.
The officials said four missiles slammed into a compound near the border town of Angore Adda in the South Wazoo tribal region. The strike was targeting fighters of Maulvi Nazir, a myrmidon commander who is accused of working with the Taliban and al-Qaeda to direct cross-border attacks, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity. ... for fear of being murdered... Nazir is believed to have an agreement with Pak authorities that they will leave him alone so long as his men refrain from carrying out attacks on Pak soil.
Since 2008, Washington has regularly used drone-fired missiles to target Islamic fascistiand their hideouts in Pak tribal regions where local and Afghan factions like the Haqqanis and al-Qaeda men are hiding. US officials do not acknowledge the CIA-led program publicly, and Pakistain protests the strikes, which are unpopular.
Saturday's strike was the latest in a string of missile attacks targeting the myrmidon-infested border region.
On Friday, US missiles killed four unidentified people in the North Waziristan tribal region. A day earlier, a missile attack in North Waziristan killed Janbaz Zadran. US officials say Zadran was a top commander in the Haqqani network and had helped orchestrate attacks in Kabul and southeastern Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... police said Saturday they had placed in durance vile a Russian and two nationals from Azerbaijan in Lakki Marwat, a town located near North Waziristan.
It was not clear how the men reached the region, which is off limits to foreigners, and authorities said they were still investigating to determine whether the men had any links to myrmidon groups.
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[Dawn] A suspected bully boy was killed in an encounter with police near Manzoor Shaheed police post in Sarband area here on Friday, police said.
Cantonment Circle SP Mian Saeed Ahmed told Dawn that four to five Islamic fascistiarmed with automatic weapons attacked a patrolling party of the Sarband police at around 3:30pm, but the police beat feet.
However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... he said that one bully boy was killed in the ensuing encounter with police and his other accomplices beat feet.
"We have started search for the gunnies in the surrounding areas and we are hopeful to arrest them soon," Mr Ahmed said and added that the site of the encounter was close to the tribal region from where Islamic fascistihad been entering the settled area.
The SP said that the situation was under control and the police had been patrolling in the area to check suspected people and vehicles plying on the roads linking the tribal region with Beautiful Downtown Peshawar.
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[Dawn] Police on Friday foiled a sabotage bid by defusing two homemade bombs on the outskirts of the Lakki city.
DPO Gulzar Ali Khan received information that two suspected ghee tins had been dumped in Sufi town on Lakki Tajazai-road near Lakki city, said an official.
He said acting on the information a contingent headed by SDPO Syed Nawaz Khan reached the area and surrounded the place.
He said police found two tins filled with explosives and called in bomb disposal squad to defuse them. The official said both devices were defused through controlled kabooms.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... two Death Eaters, who had been killed in a drone attack in North Wazoo Agency, were laid to rest in Lakki city and Adamzai localities of the district on Friday.
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[Dawn] Provincial Minister Sardar Sanaullah Zehri beat feet a kaboom near Surab in Kalat district on Friday. "Sardar Zehri is safe and his vehicle was not damaged," a front man said.
A front man for the banned Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) grabbed credit for the attack.
Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Chief Minister Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani condemned the blast and termed it an "attack on tribal system".
He said the government would not bow before cut-throats and those involved in the attack would be locked away.
According to sources, Sardar Zehri, who is provincial convener of Pakistain Mohammedan League-N and chief of Jhalawan, was going to Anjira after addressing public meetings in Surab and Gidar when the kaboom took place.
"The bomb exploded by remote control when the convoy was about 10km from Surab," the sources said.
The minister's security guards opened fire after the kaboom.
"We will deal with the attack according to tribal customs," Sardar Sanaullah said.
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I have to wonder if Iraq is a prime example of "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink". Will it revert to dictatorship without GI's in-country providing coup insurance? It would be amusing if al-Maliki makes himself president-for-life and restarts Iraq's nuclear weapon program. Republicans can blame Obama for not staying the course. Democrats can blame Bush for invading Iraq in the first place. I always thought Colin Powell's "you broke it, you bought it" premise for nation-building silly in the extreme. The whole point of punitive expeditions is "we break it, they fix it" so they understand the consequences of pissing us off.
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..not the the Eurocrats who ignored their own ratification process [keep voting till you get the result we want] aren't on the road to achieving what various strongmen of Europe have attempted for most of modern history. Centralized, imposed, elite vision of one government. So much for that effort [WWII-Cold War] as well.
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Agree wid #3 - even presum that the Bammer Admin wanted to up + leave, IMO many in the USDOD, State, + US Congress won't support leaving Iraq or AFPAK insecure + at the mercy of Radical Islam, irregardless iff the latter are locally legally elected to political power vee "Arab Springs" [Political-Legal Jihad]. Mainstream America is NOT going to stand US Milfors having to come back + fight the MilTerrs again due to defective foresight + planning.
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ION GUAMPDN > [Guam Legislature Senator JUDY] GUTHERTZ PROPOSES GUAM HOST [post-pullout] IRAQI REFUGEES. Ex-IGA, Contractor newly unemployed + those that choose to leave.
Pragmtically, its one way to offset or counter RISING CHINA'S DESIRE FOR MILITARY, TRADE ACCESS TO GUAM-WESTPAC + CENTPAC, espec as per Muslim Iraqi, Kurd Ex-Pats.
D *** NG IT, WHY WAIT FOR PHILIPPINE + EAST ASIA JIHAD, OR ACCEPT/ALLOW ONLY RUSSIANS + CHINESE ON THE PROPOSED VISA TOURIST WAIVER FOR GUAM ???
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: An Interior Ministry officer was assassinated by weapons equipped with silencers west of Baghdad, security sources said today.
The source told Aswat al-Iraq that an armed group killed the officer in Shu'la area, west Baghdad, and fled the crime scene. Security forces began their investigations, but no other details were given.
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A villager was killed on Saturday in the latest attack on civilians by terrorists suspected insurgents in Narathiwat province.
The victim was identified as Kupaso Tuanmong, 48, the wife of an army informant. She was found dead in a house in Rangae district this morning. Initial investigations showed that the victim was riding her motorcycle to a rubber plantation but was attacked by two terrorists suspected insurgents. After she was shot on the first attack, she tried to escape the scene and sought help at a house nearby. The attacker followed and shot her again until she died.
Local authorities believe the shooting was the work of an terrorist insurgent group as the victim's husband and son were army informants. Almost her entire family, including son-in-law and daughter-in-law, have been killed by terrorists insurgents.
[An Nahar] The Lebanese Army Intelligence and a unit from the military's second brigade in Akkar have seized machineguns and Rocket Propelled Grenades from a van in Halba, the National News Agency reported.
NNA said the van is owned by Kh.M., who hails from the border region of Wadi Khaled in the north. The weapons were seized on Friday after the army stopped the van on the Halba-Khraibeh road.
But the driver beat feet, the news agency added.
In another security incident, unknown assailants tossed two grenades outside al-Jazzar hotel in Dinniyeh overnight, causing material damage only.
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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.
A US drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region has killed three Egyptians linked to the Haqqani network, including one who played a key role in handling the militant group's finances, Pakistani intelligence officials said on Sunday. 
[Dawn] Two drivers were killed in a 
Yemeni police 
SANAA: At least 22 people were killed Saturday as Yemeni police opened fire on protesters and rival tribes clashed in Sanaa. A suspected US air raid took out nine Al-Qaeda-linked militants, including top Al-Qaeda leaders.
An Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) on Saturday rejected the appeals filed by former police chief of Rawalpindi Saud Aziz and former SP Rawal Town Khurram Shahzad for their effective exoneration from the Benazir Bhutto murder case, DawnNews reported.
Wazoo
A suspected
Police on Friday foiled a sabotage bid by defusing two homemade bombs on the outskirts of the Lakki city.
