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Inger Stevens aka Rachel Warren in "Hang 'Em High" aka Ruth Manning in "A Guide for the Married Man" aka Katrin "Katy" Holstrum in "The Farmer's Daughter (TV series)" (Died in 1970 at age 35)
Beverly Garland aka Barbara Harper Douglas in "My Three Sons" aka Cookie LaRue in "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" aka Dorothy "Dotty" West in "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" aka High Priestess in "The Angry Beavers"(Died in 2008 at age 82)
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] A written statement issued by the security apparatus of the Transitional Federal Government in Somalia has called on citizens to give information on the whereabouts of the leaders of Al-Shabaab, the most radical Islamist group opposing the government.
The statement issued on Saturday gave instructions to all citizens to report any location where al-Shabaab's brass hats operated or the foreigners who allegedly came to the country to support the local jihad (holy war).
The security apparatus indicated the offer of attractive rewards for any substantial information.
Mogadishu Radio, the state run broadcaster, added that the public was also urged to report on information related with al-Shabaab's training camps, places where explosives are assembled or where vehicles for suicide missions are kept.
The statement, jointly issued by the security agencies of the TFG, requested the citizens to report the movements of Al-Shabaab's leaders and their foreign supporters that are locally known as Migrant Jihadists.
The agencies also offered to pay for information concerning logistics centres of the Islamist movement as well as any planned attacks to be waged against pro-government positions. The agencies did not specify the reward they would offer in return for valuable information. The statement, however, only indicated that the compensation would be a national level award that would please the informers.
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[Iran Press TV] Somali pirates have hijacked a South Korean fishing boat with 43 sailors on board in waters off Kenya, Korea's Foreign Ministry says.
The ministry said on Sunday that two South Koreans, two Chinese and 39 Kenyans were aboard the trawler when it was attacked on October 9 in the Indian Ocean off the Kenyan island of Lamu.
It is still unclear if any negotiations are underway for the release of the hostages.
"We are investigating the exact circumstances surrounding the incident by setting up an emergency team at our embassy in Kenya," the ministry said.
This comes as another South Korean super-tanker with 24 crew members remains in pirate captivity six months after it was seized.
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More than just costly Ransom - is it just me, or is anyone elses' Nose on RB twitching a "CHEONAN II", OR WORSE, IS COMING???
E.g. TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > NORTH KOREA: JOINT NAVAL DRILL A [open]"DECLARATION OF WAR".
Many Chinese, Govt + Mainstream, believe POTUS Bammer is a weak POTUS whom will fail or fold in a truly serious Geopol Crisis - DITTO MANY NOKORS + ASIAN NETTERS.
[Iran Press TV] At least 21 people have been reportedly killed and more than 50 others injured in heavy clashes between al-Shaboobs and a rival group in central Somalia.
The fighting broke out on Friday when heavily armed al-Shaboobs attacked the central town of Dhusamareb, the capital of Galgadud region 500 km north of Mogadishu, to force out pro-government Ahlu Sunnah Wal-Jama snuffys, who controlled the strategic town.
Local residents say that more than 12 people have been killed in the fighting.
Sheikh Abdullahi Abdirahman Abu Yussuf, a front man for Ahlu Sunnah Wal-Jama, confirmed the fighting but insisted that the town is still under their control.
"The town is still under our hands, they (al-Shaboobs) attacked the town early this morning but we have repelled and inflicted heavy casualties," he said.
Independent sources reported that armed al-Shaboobs who were earlier seen patrolling the streets have now vacated.
The two groups have long history of animosity and the latest clashes are feared to ignite more violence in the central regions where they both have large military presence.
In another incident, heavy clashes rocked central town of Adado near the border with Ethiopia, leaving 9 people dead from both sides.
According to residents, forces of Evil loyal to Ahlu Sunnah Wal-Jama attacked the town which was the administrative capital of semi-autonomous region of Himin and Heeb in central Somalia.
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The mobocracy known as the Sudan Government reiterated its nascent whining concerning deployment of easy terrorist targets along the boundaries between south and north Sudan.
In a hotmail email issued yesterday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated that the bride deposit hasn't yet arrived, at any level with Khartoum denouncing resorting to media for circulation of such an issue just like the Ministry of Foriegn Affairs are doing.
The Ministry sobered up to see some better bribed diplomats in the World Organization airing such statements calling for deployment of such a force.
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How about a very large nuke on the center of Khartoum if the Sudanese army steps one foot into the South? I know, I know, I'm dreaming, but one can hope, can't one? It would do so much to put US/Arab relations on the right foot.
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At least 10 people have been killed and about 15 others injured on Sunday after vigrous festivities between what passes for a Somali government forces and religion-challengedcrazies in southern border town of Beled Hawo, in Gedo region along the Somali-Kenya border, according to Radio Garowe Reports.
Witnesses say several warring fighters were killed in the fun adding that many others were wounded as most of Al-Shabaab fighters left the town.
âWe killed some of Al-Shabaab soldiers, we captured military weapons and armored vehicle,â capo Don Mohamed Abdi Kalil told Garowe Online.
Heavy combat erupted in the strategic town, reportedly government soldier in conjunction with religion-challenged clerics of Ahlu Sunna Waljamaâa took control in that town.
[Ennahar] A man described as an accomplice of al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and searched in Mauritania where he is suspected of involvement in an attack against a military garrison in 2005, was jugged in Mali, we learned Sunday from a Malian security source.
"We jugged Sanda Ould Boumama Saturday, an accomplice of al-Qaeda wanted in Mauritania", told AFP a Malian security source without specifying the nationality of the person jugged and place of his arrest.
"He (Sanda Ould Boumama) had been jugged in Mauritania because strongly suspected of involvement in the bombing of Lemgheity (at the north-eastern border with Mali) in 2005. In the meantime, while we waited for his trial He decamped to come and settle in the territory of Mali where he was jugged," the source added.
Fifteen Mauritanian soldiers were killed in this attack against a garrison led by the Mauritanian Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat ... now known as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb... (GSPC).
The GSPC has joined in September 2006 the Al Qaeda of Osama bin Laden and renamed itself as AQIM.
Sahel AQIM operates in a wide desert area shared by Algeria, Niger, Mauritania and Mali.
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[Al Jazeera] Nigerian security forces have arrested the brother of Henry Okah, a former leader of the rebel Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend), over his suspected involvement in deadly bombings in Abuja, the capital, on October 1.
Charles Okah was taken into custody at his home in the southern city of Lagos on Sunday.
He has been accused of helping to fund the twin car bombings that struck during independence anniversary celebrations in Abuja.
Henry Okah is alleged to have masterminded the attack that left 12 people dead and dozens of others injured.
Al Jazeera's Ama Boateng, reporting from the capital, confirmed that Okah had been arrested.
Boateng said: "We can confirm that Charles Okah, Henry Okah's brother, was arrested on Saturday afternoon in Lagos.
"This is in connection with the bombings in Abuja."
A government official said that Charles Okah was mentioned by suspects as a source of funds for the Abuja blasts.
"He is with us in Abuja," the official, who chose to remain anonymous, told reporters.
The arrest comes a day after a warning, signed Jomo Gbomo, the pseudonym used to claim the independence day blasts and years of attacks on oil and gas installations in the Niger Delta, was emailed to media saying that another bombing was planned for Abuja.
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[Pak Daily Times] Yemeni aircraft bombed al Qaeda positions in southern Yemen on Sunday, a government official said, after cut-throats ambushed a tank column, killing four soldiers.
Three suspected members of al Qaeda's regional wing were also killed in the clashes on Sunday in the Mudiyah district in Abyan province on the Arabian Sea coast, where the army has battled cut-throats in recent months, the official told Rooters.
On Saturday, a car bomb maimed a senior intelligence officer and his assistant in Abyan, a security source said, and a government website said two cut-throats died in a botched suicide kaboom with a car on a security patrol in Mudiyah. Mudiyah's police chief was killed in a suspected al Qaeda attack last week and the provincial governor survived an assassination attempt. Yemen is trying to quell a resurgent branch of al Qaeda that has increased attacks on Western and regional targets in the Arabian Peninsula state, next to oil giant Saudi Arabia.
It is also trying to cement a truce with sock puppets of the Medes and the Persians to end a civil war in the north that has raged on and off since 2004, and to end a separatist rebellion in the south. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), an arm of al Qaeda thought to be include Yemenis and Saudis, has stepped up attacks on Yemeni and Western targets since it claimed a failed US airliner bombing in December.
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[Al Arabiya] Yemeni security forces jugged in Sanaa airport al-Qaeda financier Saleh al-Rimi while on his way from Saudi Arabia, where he permanently resides.
Meanwhile two intelligence officers were critically injured when a car owned by one of them exploded in front of the intelligence office in the city of Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan governorate in south-western Yemen. Three soldiers were also killed in an ambush set by al-Qaeda gun-hung tough guys and which targeted a military convoy on the road to the village of Mudiyah
The village of Lawder witnessed sporadic clashes between Yemeni security forces and al-Qaeda gun-hung tough guys which left one soldier killed and one injured while the campaign to track down members of the terrorist group continued in the governorate.
In Mudiyah, security forces jugged another suspect known for his links to al-Qaeda and found bombs, explosives, and wireless communication devices in his possession.
The Yemeni Interior Minister Major General Motahar Rashad al-Masri that the security officer who killed a French company manager in Sanaa has links to al-Qaeda and declared the murder terrorist and not criminal as sources mentioned earlier.
In the same vein, the Yemeni Interior Ministry offered a 20 million riyal ($ 100,000) reward for information on eight snuffies linked to al-Qaeda, state media reported Sunday.
The eight are Amin al-Othmani, Bashir al-Haleesi, Shawki al-Baadani, Abul Ellah al-Mesbahi, Abdul Hamid al-Hubaishi, Mohamed al-Nasheri, Mosleh al-Haleesi, and Yusuf Zayoud.
Yemeni authorities are currently launching expansive campaigns to track down al-Qaeda gun-hung tough guys in the governorates of Abyan, Shabwah, Hadramaut, and Maarib.
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Saudi intelligence services have warned of a new terror threat from al-Qaeda against Europe, particularly in France, Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said yesterday. He said the warning of a potential attack by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was received "in the last few hours, few days."
The warning may be linked to a series of arrests announced in recent days of senior operatives of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
At the beginning of last month, Saudi police say, one of the former Guantánamo inmates, Jabir Jubran al-Fayfi, contacted them to say he wanted to return home. He handed himself in to the Yemeni authorities, and was transferred to Riyadh.
In the last few days, the Yemen state news agency Saba has reported the subsequent arrests at Sana'a airport of Khaled al-Obeidi, a Yemeni accused of kidnapping a Japanese engineer in 2009, and, more significantly, Salah al-Raimi, 33, a Saudi citizen who appears to have been able to coordinate financing for al-Qaeda operations from his home in the kingdom.
[Bangla Daily Star] At least six people sustained severe burn injuries in an kaboom at a tin-shed house in Fatullah of Narayanganj early Monday.
Fatullah Police Station Inspector Shahidur Rahman said the explosives expert from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) did not find any trace of explosives at the two tin-shed rooms of one Abdul Khalek, the scene of occurrence, so they did not confirm whether it was a bomb kaboom.
Earlier in the morning, Narayanganj Superintendent of Police Biswas Afjal Hossain claimed that it was a bomb kaboom that occurred around 3:30am in Masdair Gabtoli Natun Bazar area of Fatullah.
He also suspected that the injured have a link with bad boy outfit as law enforcers found three books on jihad at the rooms.
The roofs of the rooms, which the injured rented, blew off following the kaboom, reports our Narayanganj correspondent.
A tense situation has been prevailing in the area.
The injured were identified as Salauddin Hawladar, 29, Bachchu Mia, 25, Jamal alias Kamal, 25, Hossain, 24, Ibrahim, 20, and Jewel, 20. They were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
The conditions of the injured were stated to be critical.
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A total of nine individuals were killed in three separate shootouts, including one intergang firefight and one firefight against a police rapid reaction force and one pursuit and gunfight against a local police combat group in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, according to Mexican news reports.
In the Azteca district at about 1930 hrs Saturday, six unidentified armed suspects were shot to death in an intergang shootout near the corner of Avenida Ignacio Morones Prieto and Calle Colima.
Police security detachments arrived at the scene to collect evidence and the six corpses, however a group of armed suspects riding aboard four pickup trucks arrived to collect their three dead comrades. The police element withdrew.
Early Saturday morning two unidentified teenaged girls were shot to death and a third unidentified man was wounded in a firefight between a Monterrey police rapid response team in a pursuit with gang suspects near the intersection of avenidas Pino Suärez and Ocampo in the Independencia district.
The pursuit began when a detachment of a Monterrey Base de Operaciones Mixtas (BOM) group attempted to make contact with the occupants of a GMC pickup truck, but which ran away from the patrol. The pursuit went down Avenida Pino Suärez during which shots were exchanged between the armed suspects and police elements.
The truck apparently hit a parked vehicle and then the police group surrounded the truck. Inside the vehicle was one suspect, Marco Antonio Quiroz Rodriguez, 19, hit four times by gunfire, and the two girls, Aracely Esquivel Marquez, 16, and an unidentified companion, who were found dead from gunfire.
Although reports say the two girls were kidnap victims, police say they were companions of Quiroz Rodriguez.
At about 1400 hrs Saturday afternoon in the Altamira district an element of the Grupo de Reacción Inmediata engaged in a shootout with armed suspects near the corner of Calle Rio Nazas River and Arroyo Seco which killed one unidentified individual and wounded another.
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The Internal Affairs division of the Mexican federal police have removed 40 Mexican Federal agents from office Saturday and placed them under arrest, say Mexican news reports.
A team of the Secretaria de Seguridad Publica Federal apparently conducted searches of rooms where the Juarez detachment of the Mexican Federal police are quartered and found a number of contraband including disallowed weapons and drugs, as well as evidence of breach of administrative rules.
The surprise search was initiated because of the number of complaints received about the Federal Police in Juarez.
The Juarez detachment was rotated into Juarez in late August following a mutiny of several agents in the previous detachment. The previous detachment had been subjected to numerous repeated attacks by organized crime over the span of several weeks prior to the mutiny, and was suddenly evacuated by air, and subsequently replaced by the current detachment.
The current detachment is quartered at the Hotel Colonia in the Pronaf district.
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"...contraband including disallowed weapons and drugs, as well as evidence of breach of administrative rules."
Okay, drugs bad. But what about the other stuff? These guys are involved in bare knuckle combat with the gangs, so I can imagine being a little flexible when it comes to their defending themselves.
Fifteen individuals were murdered in northern Mexico in ongoing drug and gang violence which included the shooting of a sectional mayor and his son in Juarez, and three men shot in the commission of an armed robbery. For a map, click here
An unidentified man was found shot to death on a highway in Chihuahua early Saturday morning, say Mexican news accounts. The victim was found on Kilometer 8 of the Juarez-Chihuahua city highway near Cuervas de Pericos bound, gagged and shot several times.Several 9mm spent shell casings were found at the scene.
Three men were shot to death and an unidentified woman was wounded in a shootout Friday evening in Parral, Chihuahua, say Mexican news accounts. The shootout took place on the San Antonio de las Huertas district at about the same time newly inaugurated governor Cesar Duarte was in town at a dedication ceremony. Two of the victims are identified as Juan Amaya, 28, and Joel Alfredo Rodriguez, 40. Several spent shell casings for AK-47 assault rifles and 9mm weapons were found at the scene.
A sectional mayor of Praxedis and his son were both shot to death Sunday morning in Juarez, according to Mexican news accounts. Rito Grado Serrano, 56, and his son, Rito Grado Villa, 35, were both shot more than 60 times at their residence near the intersection of calles Puerto Marsella and Puerto Estrella in the Tierra Nueva 2 district. Serrano was to leave office November 1st.
Two unidentified motorcyclists were shot to death in Juarez Sunday, say Mexican press accounts. The attack took place at a stoplight on the corner of calles Municipio Libre and Carlos Amaya in La Chaveña district where an armed group pulled up to the pair and fired ten shots.
An man was shot to death and his girlfriend was wounded in an armed attack in Juarez Sunday afternoon, say Mexican news accounts. Jesus Silva, 20 was shot aboard his Dodge Intrepid near the intersection of calles Bravo Adams and Maximo Castillo in the Revolucion Mexicana district.
Three men were shot to death in a botched armed robbery attempt near Huatabampo, Sonora early Saturday morning. Six unidentified armed suspects arrived at the ejido Insurgentes at about 1000 hrs intending to seize cash normally distributed in a Mexican Federal poverty program known as Oportunidades. Huatabampo municipal police officer Roberto Arana Cruz was killed along with Jesus Perez Marquez who was apparently the paymaster. An unidentified third man died in the crossfire. The suspects escaped without the cash towards Sinaloa aboard a pickup truck. Huatabampo is 34 kilometers southwest of Navojoa via Sonora State Highway 56.
A Sonoran state police commander was abducted late Friday night in Ciudad Obregon, say Mexican news accounts. Ramiro Camacho Medina was taken near his home in Ciudad Obregon by a group of armed suspects traveling aboard a convoy of two vehicles. Medina was a commander in the Sonora PolicÃa Estatal Investigadora (PEI) in Ciudad Obregon.
A man recently released from prison was shot to death in Torreon, Coahuila Friday afternoon, say Mexican news accounts. Carlos Alberto Molina Salas, 20, was shot by unidentified armed suspects in the Carolinas district. Molina Salas had been released from prison in July for aggravated robbery. A second victim, Raul Gonzalez Reyes, 55 , was also shot in the same incident but apparently did not require hospitalization.
A teenager was shot to death Saturday night in Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon, say Mexican news accounts. Jose Alberto Garcia Ontiveros, 17, was shot near the intersection of calles Jalisco and Laguna de Asensio by an armed suspect.
[Iran Press TV] Tajikistan's security forces have killed three beturbanned goons who were trained in Afghanistan, an Interior Ministry official says.
"The killed forces of Evil are Tajik nationals who trained in terrorist camps and al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan," Interior Ministry front man Makhmadullo Asadulloyev said.
The incident took place about 200 kilometers east of the capital Dushanbe on Sunday, AFP reported.
Last September, at least 23 Tajik soldiers were killed in the eastern region during clashes between the beturbanned goons and the Tajik security forces, and 30 police officers were killed in a bomb attack in the north, the Interior Ministry official added.
Tajikistan, the poorest state to emerge from the collapse of the Soviet Union nearly two decades ago, has been wracked by violence over the past two months.
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I love it, assholes think they're warlike and then reality bites hard.
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they have rules for waging jihad? 1 was don't desecrate corpses but i seem too recall a major incident i iraq when they burnt and hung the four contractors from a bridge. Guess they don't like following anyones rules.
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If I didn't despise jihadism I would actually feel sorry for them. Note the only ones left were the women, and they ended up being some nameless Uzbek's baby momma. It's absolutely pathetic.
In the run-up to the third round of strategic dialogue, Pakistani authorities are getting irritated over the lack of US interest in resolving the countrys long-term regional issues and in providing economic support despite publicly declaring it a key ally in the war on terror and appreciating its sacrifices.
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Can't possibly have anything to do with Wakiland having sold every bit of nuclear tech they DO possess to any crackpot regime with two won or rials to rub together. Nah, that's be too rational.
Osama bin Laden is alive and well and living comfortably in a house in the north-west of Pakistan protected by local people and elements of the country's intelligence services, according to a senior Nato official. "Nobody in al-Qaeda is living in a cave," according to an unnamed Nato official quoted by CNN...
Pakistani officials on Monday repeated their long standing denials that the Saudi-born terrorist mastermind was being given safe haven.
However, the Nato official said bin Laden was thought to have ranged from the mountainous Chitral area near the Chinese border, to the Kurram Valley which borders Afghanistan's Tora Bora, one of the Taliban strongholds during the US invasion in 2001. You heard read it here first.
[Geo TV] At least 33 people lost their lives in the ongoing string of firing incidents continued since yesterday, Geo News reported Sunday.
Unidentified gunnies are on the rampage in various areas of the city. The most affected area is Orangi Town, where polling held after the provincial seat vacated on the killing of MQM MPA Raza Haider.
Innocent people were injured in intermittent rings of gunshots in various areas including Altaf Town, Paposhnagar, Banars and Kati Pahari.
At least five people were killed in firing incident at teashops in Rasheedabad and Abul Isfahani areas. Vehicles were torched in Gulistan-e-Jauhar.
Sindh Interior Minister Zulfiqar Mirza directed the police chief to beef up the security in the affected areas.
Tension still persists in areas of Karachi.
The unrest follows a deadly wave of violence in the metropolis that claimed 85 lives in the wake of the death of politician Raza Haider, who was rubbed out by gunnies in August.
Tensions are high between MQM and the Awami National Party (ANP), which each represent different communities in Karachi, straddling political fault lines in the city.
Karachi is plagued by ethnic and sectarian killings, crime and kidnappings.
A founding member of MQM, Imran Farooq, who was living in exile in Britain, was brutally murdered outside his north London home in September.
MQM is a partner in the ruling coalition led by the Pakistain People's Party in the southern province of Sindh, of which Karachi is the capital.
The government has not released exact figures, but rights groups say more than 260 assassinations were reported in Karachi during the first six months of this year, compared with 156 during the same period in 2009.
Gunmen killed at least 37 people in a weekend of violence in Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city, as voters went to the polls to replace a provincial politician murdered in August.
Police said they were still investigating the motives behind the shootings but the city has been hit by scores of "targeted killings" carried out by political gangs that have fought in the city for more than 20 years.
Cars and buses were torched as violence erupted on Saturday night and continued into Sunday when polls opened.
Fayyza Leghari, the city's police chief, said: "We cannot say whether all the killings were politically motivated or some gangs were involved because the killings took place in different parts of the city and were not confined to the area where the elections were being held." The sprawling megacity home to an estimated 18m people is gripped by a power struggle between two political parties that draw their support from rival ethnic groups.
Each fresh wave of violence paralyses the city, Pakistan's economic heart and a crucial port for Nato supplies on their way to Afghanistan.
The murder of Raza Haider, from the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM), triggered riots that killed at least 100 people in August.
The MQM accused the Awami National Party (ANP), which represents Pashtuns who have migrated from the northwest of the country to the southern port city, of supporting Islamists suspected of being behind the murder.
The ANP boycotted Sunday's by-election, accusing the MQM of trying to rig the vote.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Karachi was regularly convulsed by violence in which hundreds were killed. Altaf Hussain, the MQM leader, fled to London in 1992 as a result of that bloodshed and was granted asylum.
The murder last month of Imran Farooq, another senior member of the party, raised fears the city's violent struggle was being exported to the UK.
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[Pak Daily Times] Two Paleostinians were killed and a third maimed on Sunday in a pre-dawn Israeli air strike north of Gazoo City, Paleostinian medics said.
Adham Abu Selmiya, an official in the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-run health ministry, said one of the men was killed immediately while the other succumbed to his wounds after being brought to a hospital. Both were in their early 20s.
The Israeli military said the air force had struck a "squad of terror operatives who were preparing to fire rockets from the northern Gazoo Strip into Israel."
The number of rockets fired from the Hamas-ruled territory declined sharply in the wake of a massive 22-day Israeli offensive in December 2008 and January 2009 during which some 1,400 Paleostinians and 13 Israelis were killed.
But since the the start of this year more than 165 rockets and mortar rounds have been fired at Israel from Gazoo, according to the military.
The rockets are believed to have been fired by smaller and more extreme factions within the territory, while Hamas itself has taken steps to rein in such attacks.
The makeshift projectiles rarely wound anyone or cause damage.
Prisoner swap: Israel said on Sunday it had resumed talks with the Hamas rulers of Gazoo on swapping about 1,000 Paleostinian prisoners for a captive soldier held for more than four years.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the German mediator who has been working to broker a deal for about a year has returned to the region.
Hamas-linked Orcs and similar vermin captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit in June 2006 in a raid across the Gazoo-Israel border. Secret negotiations over a swap, mediated by Egypt and more recently by Germany, have been deadlocked for several months.
Hamas is not part of US sponsored peace talks that restarted last month in Washington. As opposed Western-backed Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas, who is heading the peace negotiations, Hamas has no official relations with Israel.
Deals proposed in the past have entailed Israel swapping about 1,000 Paleostinian prisoners for Schalit. The most recent talks broke down over Israel's refusal to release a number of prisoners who carried out deadly attacks on civilians because of fears they would return to violence. Hamas insists these prisoners be part of any deal.
Hamas officials said over the weekend that the lead German mediator had returned to the region to resume talks, which Netanyahu confirmed.
But Hamas front man Ayman Taha said the German mediator's visit was "exploratory" and that he had not brought a new offer.
"Netanyahu is misleading Israeli public opinion when he talks about his willingness to make major concessions in order to conclude the deal," Taha said.
Paris meeting: Israeli and Paleostinian officials say plans to bring their leaders together at a meeting in France this week have been postponed.
Recently restarted Israeli-Paleostinian peace talks are on shaky ground over disagreements about Jewish settlement construction.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy had invited the Israeli and Paleostinian leaders to Paris on Thursday. But late on Saturday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced the meeting was delayed. It gave no explanation, but Paleostinian officials say the agenda still hasn't been settled. There was no immediate comment from Paris.
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hope it was painful.
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Both were in their early 20s.
So they weren't 'youths' as I understand it. They were militants.
[Iran Press TV] Iranian border police have jugged seven armed Afghans after crossing the border into the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan.
The Iranians do an awful lot of border crossing. In Iraqi Kurdistan they picked up the three American hikers, in the Gulf they picked up a boatload of British sailors, now some Afghan troops. Back in the days of the famous Persian miniatures, they used to be so much better at colouring inside the lines.
"Border police officers jugged six ranking officers and one soldier, who were armed, after they crossed the Sistan-Baluchestan border," Iranian border police commander Brigadier General Hossein Zolfaqari said on Sunday.
Sorry, y'all don't have much credibility on the subject, Brigadier General.
Zolfaqari said the Afghan servicemen, who crossed the Iranian border in a vehicle with fake license plates, were stopped and jugged by border police.
All those other kidnappings came with claims of border crossings, too. Still no credibility.
"A large amount of ammunition, one rocket-propelled grenade and six rifles were discovered and confiscated from the [detained] individuals," ISNA quoted the Iranian official as saying.
"The detainees claimed they were patrolling the area, looking for Taliban and they also claimed they did not intend to cross into Iran," Zolfaqari said.
And they probably hadn't done so.
The Iranian commander said that their cases are under investigation by the country's judiciary.
Corrupt judiciary is the correct phrase, O Iran PressTV journalist.
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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.
Osama bin Laden is alive and well and living comfortably in a house in the north-west of Pakistan protected by local people and elements of the country's intelligence services, according to a senior Nato official. "Nobody in al-Qaeda is living in a cave," according to an unnamed Nato official quoted by CNN...
