A suicide car bomber and three armed militants wearing explosives vests and dressed as women attacked a United Nations compound Saturday in western Afghanistan, but Afghan security forces killed the attackers and no U.N. employees were harmed.
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These birds went to a lot of trouble. Car bomb, vest bombs, police uniforms covered by burkas. Must of been using the theory that if a little is good, more is better.
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Clearly Afghan men can tell real Afghan women very quickly despite the Moving Blue Blob thingy. I wonder if it was the hip motion or the hairy knuckles that gave them away? It assuredly wasn't the Adam's apple...
(KUNA) -- A district governor and his guard were killed on Friday in an kaboom in eastern Afghanistan, said an official.
The vehicle of Khursheed Khan, the governor of Dur Baba district in Nangarhar province, hit an improvised-bomb when he was driving to his office, a district official Ayub Khan told KUNA by telephone. He said the district chief Khursheed Khan and his one guard were killed on the spot. Another maimed guard has been shifted to Jalalabad Hospital for first aid treatment.
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[Pak Daily Times] Somali soldiers and allied militia killed at least 27 al Shabaab bully boyz in fighting along Somalia's border with Kenya, local residents and a militia commander said on Friday.
Clashes erupted on Thursday in the government-held Somali border town of Balad Hawa as residents headed to evening prayers. Mortar fire reverberated through the dusty streets until after midnight when al Shabaab fighters retreated. A Kenyan security officer at the border said scores of Kenyan troops were deployed along the frontier as a precaution.
Resident Ahmed Osman said he counted 32 corpses in Balad Hawa on Friday morning. Somali forces put the known toll at 27 and said a unidentified number of their own troops were killed. Others said the fighting had triggered an exodus from the town, with hundreds fleeing towards Kenya and nearby Ethiopia.
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None of the usual Juarez newspapers, or even the El Paso Times has this story yet. From El Universal:
I will update this story as details emerge.
La Polaka reports the residence was in the Horizonte Sur district, while several others say it was in El Campanario.
At least thirteen youths were massacred in Juarez over Friday night, according to the Mexican daily El Universal.
Witness reports many ambulances arriving at public hospitals with dead and wounded.
Armed suspects arriving aboard a convoy of two vehicles burst into a party at a residence near the corner of calles Arquitectos and Felix Candela in the Horizonte Sur district at about 2254 hrs and started firing. AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles, and handguns were used in the assault. Reports say the gunmen pursued several victims before shooting them.
The party was reportedly a weekly gathering. More than 30 guests attended last night.
Eleven victims died at the scene. Twenty are said to have survived the shooting so far. One of the survivors are said be nine years old. Two of the wounded were pregnant women. The death toll included six men and seven women.
Reports are so many were shot, Juarez ran out of ambulances to transport the victims forcing authorities to use medical examiner vans as ambulances.
Reports say the killers were likely Artistas Asesinos, an armed group associated with the Sinaloa Drug Cartel. The murders were likely a gang rivalry.
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Hello!;
Main stream media is DOA on this subject. Even Drudge has had very little on these events. Elections are near and they don't want us to be aware of these events. They don't want an informed citizenry.
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A Los Zetas top commander in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon was placed under arrest along with six other suspects by a detachment of the Mexican Army late Thursday night, say Mexican press accounts.
Manuel Bernal Oscar Soriano, AKA The Spider, was arrested after a detachment of the Mexican 7th Military Zone was called to an area in Monterrey about a convoy of vehicles with armed men aboard.
The arrest took place on the corner of avenidas Paseo de los Leones and Pedro Infante in the Santa Clara de Monterrey district in the suburb of Garcia.
The Secretaria de Defensa Nacional reported seized were four rifles, three pistols, 127 rounds of .40 caliber ammunition, 19.5 kilos of marijuana and radio equipment in the arrest.
Oscar Soriano is suspected in the murder of a retired Mexican brigadier general in November who had taken the role of Seguridad Publica of Garcia only a few days before being killed. General Esparza Garcia was murdered in an ambush on November 4th, 2009.
Oscar Soriano is also suspected in the disappearance of three Mexican soldiers abducted from a bus station in Monterrey and of two abducted municipal police officers in another case.
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Mexican Federal police have arrested the man they say detonated the July 16th car bomb in Juarez that killed three including a Mexican Federal agent, according to Mexican press accounts.
Fernando Contreras Meraz, AKA El Dorado, was arrested, along with 13 other suspects, for his involvement in the Juarez car bomb commonly thought to be the first use of a car bomb in the Mexican drug war.
A spokesman for the Policia Federal, Luis Cardenas Palomino, said that Contreras used explosives stolen by elements of La Linea, the armed wing of the Juarez gang. Contreras is a member of La Linea.
Originally, it was reported the US made explosive C4 was used in the blast, but later reports say the commercial dynamite called Tovex was used.
Tovex is in common use with Mexican mining and construction companies including the government owned PEMEX oil giant.
A few days after the blast an armed group was attacked by a Mexican Army detachment in the town of Madero in far western Chihuahua. Forces there seized a large amount of Tovex, as well as other munitions.
Cardenas Palomino said that Contreras placed the call that detonated the July 16th bomb.
In August, Mexican Federal agents arrested Noah Sources Chavira, 29, who they tied to the bombing although his role is unclear in reports.
In the arrest, agents also seized contraband including marijuana and electronics that could be used for bombs.
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These "criminals" are not much above a rabid dog, and I believe are actually more depraved than the jihadis. At least there is a semblance of ideology with the jihadis. The ultimate answer to maybe primeval.
[Iran Press TV] Three kabooms have rocked law enforcement buildings in the city of Kirovohrad in central Ukraine ahead of President Viktor Yanukovych visit.
The blasts took place early on Friday in Kirovohrad where President Yanukovych later arrived on a working visit.
Upon his arrival, President Yanukovych said an investigation had begun, and if the blasts were staged by his opponents to intimidate him, they would be brought to justice.
"If somebody wanted to say something, for example, to me [via these kabooms], I am ready to listen. If they waned to say it in such a manner, they will be brought to account. At present the law enforcement agencies are working. We will search for those who organized this, [and] I hope we will find them," Yanukovych told news hounds in Kirovohrad on Friday.
The cause of the blasts, which occurred outside the prosecutor's office, a police building and a courthouse, were not clear. No injuries were reported and no additional details have been disclosed.
Fragments of an artillery missile, parts of a clock and a cylindrical battery were found at the scene.
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Piss off the prosecutors, police, and judges; that should make them see things your way.~
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[Pak Daily Times] Turkish police have detained five men suspected of providing support to al Qaeda forces of Evil fighting NATO forces in Afghanistan, a security bigshot in Izmir in western Turkey said on Friday.
The five, described as students, were taken to court after being jugged two days earlier in west and southwest Turkey. One is believed to have been designing computer programmes to jam the flight controls of drone aircraft and the others were involved in fundraising for Islamic myrmidons, the official said. The arrests come hard on the heels of a security scare last month in Europe. Intelligence sources said at the time that a German radical interrogated by US troops in Afghanistan had revealed details of a plot to attack European targets.
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Five al Qaeda forces of Evil wannabes? Or are these people actually wired in with an al Qaeda Darth Vader handler?
If the latter, up the food chain we go.
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Cell phones and laptops, oh my! ;-) But with the Turks demonstrating their manhood all over the place these days, will they share the toys?
Adnan Mirza, 33, was sentenced to 15 years without parole for unlawfully possessing firearms and conspiring to provide material support to the Taliban, federal officials announced yesterday. He was also fined $9,000.
He came in 2005 to study at a Houston community college, but is still here. He and some friends acquired firearms which they used on weekend camping sessions to train for jihad. Foreign students may not have firearms while in this country. They also collected money to donate to the Taliban.
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"Mirza was a good student who regularly fed Houston's homeless and worked with Houston police on a local public access channel to explain Muslim ways to police and citizens."
American mores and customs are just plain irrelevant to this guy. Screw Muslim ways! BTW, As a former INS agent in the 70s and 80s, I was sick of seeing ME males over the age of 25 coming into the U.S. as freshman students in community colleges. A bunch of them now have a healthy respect for U.S. laws.
[Geo TV] PESHAWAR: The corpse count from a blast at a mosque in Chatto Laar, Pishtakhara has risen to five as two critical injured pegged out in the evening at hospital, police informed.
Initially three persons had bit the dust when a remote control bomb, planted besides one of the mosque's pillars went kaboom soon after the Juma prayers.
Police present at the hospital informed us that two more persons have shuffled off the mortal coil taking the corpse count to five with 22 others maimed, some at death's door.
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[Dawn] The government will recruit 3,000 extra police in a bid to stem repeated outbreaks of carnage in Bloody Karachi, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Friday.
More than 70 people have been murdered in Bloody Karachi as a result of politically motivated killings since Saturday. In recent months, Bloody Karachi has suffered the worst such carnage in years with 85 people murdered after a politician was rubbed out in August.
"We will recruit 3,000 more coppers in Bloody Karachi," Rehman Malik told news hounds, blaming the carnage on mafiosi.
"Action will be taken against anyone who dares challenge the writ of the state," he added, but declined to reveal any details. Likely he had none.
Malik said that after "drug mafia" and "land-grabbing mafia" the city was now facing "extortion mafia".
Malik said four murders were reported in the city overnight "but no assassinations" and urged political parties to work together for peace.
The interior minister of Sindh province, of which Bloody Karachi is the capital, said police on Friday banged a notorious robber Qadri Chachar who had a bounty of 1.5 million rupees on his head.
Zulifqar Mirza said police also jugged a wanted "target killer" along with up to 15 other suspects in connection with the recent carnage.
Authorities had said previously that more than 80 suspects were rounded up and interrogated over the killings.
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[Pak Daily Times] Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Friday that a secret operation has been launched in order to counter the assassinations in Bloody Karachi. "What's it do?"
"Can't tell you. It's secret."
Addressing a joint presser along with Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Ali Mirza, Malik said, "We shall restore peace in Bloody Karachi and other parts of the country, including Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, aka Terrorism Central... and other northern areas. He said strict action will be taken against those challenging the writ of the state, and the government would not talk with them, adding that the government had broken the back of gunnies by launching a successful operation against them in the northwest.
Malik said, the government had chalked out its strategy during the meeting with all political parties in Bloody Karachi, adding that gunnies had no ideology or affiliation with any political party, but used and took shelter of different political parties to disturb the law and order situation in the country.
Malik said that during the last two days, the assassinations had stopped due to the government's action against the criminals.
He said Bloody Karachi had been besieged by different mafias, with new mafias emerging everyday, including the land mafia, bhatta mafia and the drug mafia.
All of which are viewed as competition by the mafia more commonly known as the "Pakistain aristocracy".
Malik said, Benazir Bhutto along with President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari had visited the Muttahida Qaumi Movement's (MQM) central office and promised them that the friendship between MQM and the Pakistain People's Party (PPP) would continue for decades and the PPP government would continue the strategy of the reconciliation policy set by Benazir.
To a question, the interior minister said the government listened to the complaints of the MQM, adding that the atmosphere of reconciliation had been much stronger now.
Malik further said that 3,000 appointments in the ladies wing of the police force would soon be made in Bloody Karachi's police department.
Speaking on the occasion, Home Minister Zulifqar Mirza said police had jugged a key suspect along with four other snipers involved in the Bloody Karachiassassinations and recovered weapons from their possession. Mirza called upon the critics to refrain from indulging in aggressive debates, which had been causing problems for the government.
He urged all parties to cooperate with the government in ending the menace of assassinations. During the presser, Mirza announced the establishment of a media cell at the central police office. Sindh Inspector General of Police Sultan Salahuddin Babar Khattak, Bloody Karachi Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Fayyaz Laghari and other senior police officials were also present at the occasion.
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Malik said that during the last two days, the assassinations had stopped due to the government's action against the criminals.
What was that action? Knocking off assassins is a good way to stop assassinations.
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Is the "land mafia" distinct from the local arm of the Pakistani aristocracy, aka "landowners"?
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[Dawn] A bomb attack killed six Pak soldiers in the Orakzai Agency ... home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar... on Friday, security officials said.
The device went kaboom! as the convoy was moving through Orakzai's Yakh Kandaw area.
"Frontier Corps troops were on a routine patrol in upper Orakzai when an IED (improvised bomb) blast took place in Yakh Kandaw," the district's political administrator, Abdul Qadir, told AFP.
"Six security officials keeled over dead while three were maimed. A search operation has been launched in the area to trace the hard boys."
A paramilitary official from the Frontier Corps said the dead included a colonel, and said two other troops were maimed.
A security bigshot told AFP the convoy had been en route from the village of Ghaljo in Orakzai to the northwestern town of Kohat.
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[Iran Press TV] A routine Israeli reconnaissance aircraft entered Lebanese airspace and flown over parts of the country as a joke with the punchline being thelaughable UN Security Council resolution.
The Lebanese military cried like a little girl through the National News Agency on Friday, saying an Israeli reconnaissance drone crossed into Lebanese airspace flying over the southern border village of Rmeish at 7:20 p.m. local time (1620 GMT) on Wednesday and patrolled the skies above West Bekaa -- located 73 kilometers (45 miles) from the capital Beirut -- and the towns of Riak, close to the Syrian border, and Baalbek, located 86 kilometers (53 miles) northeast of Beirut.
The aircraft left early on Thursday, after it had totally pissed off Hezbollah.
On Tuesday, twelve Israeli fighter jets vcruised without fear inLeb's airspace and showed off over several areas in southern Leb, including the city of Sidon, a Press TV correspondent in Beirut reported.
Israel has fun with Leb's airspace on an almost daily basis, claiming they serve surveillance purposes. Raising Hezbullies blood pressure is always a good reason to violate airspace. Leb's government, the Hezbullies resistance movement, and the UN Interim Force in Leb, known as UNIFIL, have repeatedly cited Israel's air surveillance flights over Leb as a clear violation of UN Resolution 1701 and the country's illusory sovereignty.
In 2009, Beirut complained to the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society about Israeli aircraft showing off over airspace over the south of the country.
UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which brokered a Vaudeville routine known as the ceasefire in the war of aggression Israel launched against Leb in 2006, calls on Israel to stop laughing at Leb's illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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... after it had conducted several illegal flights.
Not illegal in my jurisdiction. Now about that Iranian proxy army that Lebanon does nothing about ....
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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.
[Dawn] A bomb attack killed six Pak soldiers in the 
