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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Helena Christensen, (Danish) aka Andrea in "Allegro (2005)" aka Karen in "Julefrokosten (Holiday Party)(2009)" aka signature Angel in "Victoria's Secret catalog" aka Star in the music video for Chris Isaak's song "Wicked Game."(age 44)
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Anne Heywood (born 11 December 1932) is a British film actress. Born as Violet Pretty in Handsworth, Birmingham, England, she won the Miss Great Britain title under her real name in 1950
More from a different source than the report posted earlier today.
Israeli fighter jets, helicopters and possibly a submarine were involved in multiple attacks on targets in Sudan last week, according to local news outlets.
The reports say that Israeli jets hit targets in the eastern part of the African country, near its border with Egypt, last Thursday. They allegedly hit six Land Cruiser jeeps and killed four people. An earlier strike took place last Sunday and reportedly involved Israeli helicopters. A truck was targeted. Some reports say an Israeli submarine was also spotted at the same time.
They spotted an Israeli sub? If that's really true then there's one sub captain who's gonna take up turkey farming get replaced real soon now...
However, the Sudanese army spokesman, Col. Al-Sawarmi Haled Sa'ad, said that the military's air defense array gave no indication that the country's airspace had been breached.
And if the Sudanese air defense says it wasn't breached, it wasn't breached...
Arabic news outlet Dar al-Hayyat on Sunday reported "conflicting information" coming out of Sudan regarding alleged Israeli air strikes. It said that the governor of Sudan's Red Sea District recently received notification from several citizens in the region that the IAF had raided smuggler convoys, in Abu Thabaq in the disputed Hala'ib triangle.
Also according to al-Rakoba, on December 15, Israeli Apache helicopters landed on an island east of the Red Sea port of Mohammed Qol.
In early 2009, an Israeli raid on a 23-truck convoy carrying weapons to Hamas terrorists in Gaza was reported.
Israel does not comment on whether reports of overseas actions such as these are accurate.
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However, the Sudanese army spokesman, Col. Al-Sawarmi Haled Sa'ad, said that the military's air defense array gave no indication that the country's airspace had been breached.
Heh, heh. That's what the Syrians said.
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Yeah, but to be fair, the Israelis also used a helicopter in Syria.
Sudanese media reported over the weekend that IAF planes struck a number of targets in the east of the country last week.
According to the reports, the planes attacked a convoy of land cruiser jeeps and a number of people were reportedly killed.
Arabic news outlet Dar al-Hayyat on Sunday reported "conflicting information" coming out of Sudan regarding alleged Israeli air strikes. According to that report, the governor of Sudan's Red Sea State district recently received notification from several citizens in the region that the IAF had raided smuggler convoys, in Abu Thabaq in the disputed Hala'ib triangle, but according to Dar al-Hayyat, the regional government noted it has no official information regarding whether Red Sea State hospitals received any dead or wounded in the alleged attacks.
I don't know enough about fighter jet range - could they have flown there from Israel? Or are they based somewhere else?
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You have to come in pretty low for the targets on the ground to see your subdued markings. Probably, if it happened at all, somebody else, and the powers that be figured there'd be more outrage if they accused the Jooos instead of the air force of Upper Revolta or Lower Slobbovia.
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I think the IDF version of the F15E could have handled this assignment.
It is about 1200 miles from Israel to North Central Sudan (the action appears to be closer to Israel so the distance would be less). The F15E as modified by the IDF and carrying extra tanks probably has a range of 3500 miles.
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I think it's far more likely to be the Egyptians disposing of some misbehaving locals with the connivance of the Sudanese regime. Blaming the all-powerful Zionists is a standard dodge, especially if the targets have Hamas or Hezbollah connections.
Two bombings near churches during Christmas Day services in Nigeria, including one outside the country's capital, have killed at least 28 people. The suspected attacks stoked fear and anger in the country, which has been hit by scores of bombings and shootings attributed to Boko Haram.
The scene of the blast outside Abuja, which killed at least 27, degenerated into chaos after the blast, with angry youths starting fires and threatening to attack a nearby police station. Police fired into the air to disperse them and closed a major highway. Emergency officials sought more ambulances as rescuers tried to evacuate the dead and wounded.
A Vatican spokesman condemned that attack as an act of "blind hatred" meant "to arouse and feed even more hatred and confusion."
An explosion later hit outside an evangelical church hundreds of miles away in the central city of Jos, killing a policeman.
Emergency officials initially thought the blast outside Abuja happened in the church, but later said it happened near it, with the impact felt inside the church, also damaged. Holes were visible in the wall of the St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla and the roof was badly damaged. What looked like blood was splattered on the outside of the wall.
Father Christopher Barde said that the explosion happened as the Christmas morning service was ending. He said, "As I reached the last entrance, some people met me for blessings and suddenly I heard a bomb blast. It was really terrible."
National Emergency Management Agency spokesman Yushau Shuaib called the incident a "suspected bomb blast" and confirmed 12 dead, but adding that the toll would rise.
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How long before the Christians go medieval? Quit turning the other cheek.
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The last time the Christians fought back the rest of the world (except for Sweden) looked the other way while the Moslems starved the Christians into submission.
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Sorry, by "last time," I thought we were talking crusades. Doubtful anything other than a true existential threat will bring on the nukes, probably not even that if haters of existence such as currently infest DC have their way.
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Is there any religion Islam can live with?
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No. By definition, it's the One True Faith. So are all the others. Murdering non believers is not a new idea either. Politically correct sanction for the murders is, historically speaking, very new, however. I say murder eradicate the PC types now...
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Is there any religion Islam can live with?
Any religion the proponents of which are well armed and easily offended.
[An Nahar] A wave of attacks in northern Nigeria attributed to a radical Islamist group may have killed up to 100 people, police and a local rights group said Saturday.
"From reports I have been receiving from Damaturu, up to 100 people could have been killed," a senior police source in the region told Agence La Belle France Presse, while Chidi Odinkalu, head of the Open Society Justice Initiative, gave a figure of 69-100.
The two days of attacks which saw three cities rocked by kabooms and gunfire were carried out by the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or Big Louie... group, according to a purported front man, Abul Qaqa, who spoke to AFP.
"We are responsible for the attacks in Maiduguri, Damaturu and Potiskum. We carried out the attacks to avenge the killings of our brothers by the security forces in 2009," he said.
"We will continue to wage war against the Nigerian state until we abolish the secular system and establish an Islamic state."
Hospital sources said earlier Saturday that 46 people had been killed.
Sporadic firing could still be heard Saturday but the situation was generally calm, local residents and security officials said.
Twenty bodies were in the morgue of the main hospital in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, staff said, with almost as many at Damaturu, in neighboring Yobe state.
"So far, we have 19 bodies at the morgue, including three soldiers, three coppers and 13 civilians. They all have gunshot wounds," said an official at Damaturu hospital.
Reports on Friday had put the corpse count from the attacks at eight, but the official said this included one of the soldiers he had listed.
Yobe police chief Lawan Tanko for his part put the toll at 22, including 15 members of Boko Haram and seven coppers, plus one civilian killed in Potiskum.
He said some firing was still going in the Pompomari district of Damaturu as police mopped up, exchanging shots with the myrmidons.
Yobe state governor Abdullahi Bego said peace had been restored but authorities had declared a 7:00 pm to 7:00 am curfew until further notice.
Police in the region said officers had battled the attackers, while truckloads of soldiers were also drafted in to Damaturu on Friday.
A Damaturu resident said suspected members of Boko Haram had taken to the streets on Thursday shooting and setting off kabooms at random.
Residents in Maiduguri reported six kabooms which sent people fleeing.
Maiduguri has borne the brunt of the violence attributed to Boko Haram, which has grabbed credit for scores of attacks in the north as well as the August suicide kaboom of U.N. headquarters in the capital Abuja that killed at least 24.
A military task force has been deployed in Maiduguri in a bid to stop the sect, but it has in turn been accused of major abuses, including shooting civilians and burning their homes in the wake of kabooms.
Damaturu was hit by coordinated attacks in early November claimed by Boko Haram which left some 150 people dead.
Earlier this week, blasts at a house in Damaturu rented by suspected members of the sect left one dead and several maimed.
Boko Haram launched an uprising in 2009 that was put down by a brutal military assault which left some 800 dead as well as its mosque and headquarters in Maiduguri in ruins.
It lay low for about a year before re-emerging in 2010 with a series of liquidations. Bomb blasts have since become frequent and have grown in sophistication.
There has been intense speculation over whether Boko Haram has formed links with outside myrmidon groups, including al-Qaeda's North African branch.
The group is believed to have a number of factions with varying aims.
Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation with some 160 million people, roughly divided between a mainly Mohammedan north and predominately Christian south.
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[Emirates 24/7] Yemeni troops are defying orders to withdraw from the streets of the capital, signaling trouble with a deal meant to ease the president from power and end months of protests.
Saturday is the deadline for ending the military presence used in the crackdown on protesters. But the powerful Republican Guard force led by President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... 's son and the Central Security forces led by his nephew can still be seen throughout the city.
The deal signed by Saleh and several opposition parties is aimed at bringing an end to the authoritarian ruler's 33 years in power.
Street protesters, however, are refusing to end rallies because they object to part of the deal granting Saleh immunity from prosecution over the killings of demonstrators in the uprising, which began in February.
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[Iran Press TV] Former Yemeni dictator President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... has said he plans to flee to the USA, just hours after festivities in the capital Sana'a left 13 people dead.
"I will go to the United States. Not for treatment, because I'm fine, but to get away from attention, cameras, and allow the unity government to prepare properly for elections. I want to be away for the elections, because whether it fails or succeeds, people may blame the president," Saleh told journalists at a presser in Sana'a on Saturday. If he thinks the USA is a refuge from "cameras" he hasn't seen Jersey Shore or Big Brother. Poor sap!
Earlier in the day, troops from units led by Saleh's son and nephew used tear gas and water cannon and then met the demonstrators with hot lead who approached Saleh's compound in Sana'a after marching for four days from the southern city of Taizz.
Saleh, who had been in power for 33 years, signed a power transition deal brokered by the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council in Riyadh on November 23 in return for immunity from prosecution.
In line with the document, he resigned as president and handed authority over to Vice President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi on December 23, but he will hold the post of honorary president until the presidential election in February 2012.
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I wonder why?
Al Qaeda was more or less kept in check, the USN was able to use port facilities. and the channels between the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean were kept open.
"The Yemeni archipelago of Socotra in the Indian Ocean is located some 80 kilometres off the Horn of Africa and 380 kilometres South of the Yemeni coastline. Socotra is at the crossroads of the strategic naval waterways of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. It is of crucial importance to the US military.
"This strategic waterway links the Mediterranean to South Asia and the Far East, through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. A military base in Socotra can be used to oversee the movement of vessels including war ships in an out of the Gulf of Aden.
"The objective of the US is to police the entire Gulf of Aden seaway from the Yemeni to Somalian coastline. Socotra is some 3000 km from the US naval base of Diego Garcia, which is among America's largest overseas military facilities.
"The [Indian] Ocean is a major sea lane connecting the Middle East, East Asia and Africa with Europe and the Americas. It has four crucial access waterways facilitating international maritime trade, that is the Suez Canal in Egypt, Bab-el-Mandeb (bordering Djibouti and Yemen), Straits of Hormuz (bordering Iran and Oman), and Straits of Malacca (bordering Indonesia and Malaysia). These chokepoints are critical to world oil trade as huge amounts of oil pass through them."
"Whoever attains maritime supremacy in the Indian Ocean would be a prominent player on the international scene." (US Navy Geostrategist Rear Admiral Alfred Thayus Mahan (1840-1914))
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And if you meant for prior to the present period, lots of intelligence on his enemies, favorable conditions for weapons imports, and the ability to be effectively President for Life over the very fractious north and south sections of Yemen. Some people want to be the big frog in the little pond, and we made sure Saleh was that in Yemen.
Christmas 'celebrations' by Mexican drug gangs.
Three U.S. citizens were among those killed when gunmen attacked buses in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, said a U.S. State Department official said on Saturday.
The three were traveling for the holidays when they and several other passengers on the bus were killed by gunmen on Thursday, according to the U.S. official and local media. Why??? These people are psychotic. And OUR drug use empowers them.
The incident was one of several that day in which gunmen attacked busses in the eastern state that has lately become a flashpoint for drug gang violence.
More than 45,000 people have been killed in cartel-related violence since President Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006.
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Those three individuals were three of the four gunned down last Thursday in the bus attacks near Tantoyuca, Veracruz, about 10 kilometers east of the Tempoal-Panuco road. , prolly by Zetas, who have developed a very bad habit of attacking buses.
[Central Asia Online] Militants from South Wazoo set ablaze about 300 cellular phones and a number of computers in Wana because the devices were allegedly used to spread obscene materials, media reported December 19.
The Taliban had earlier issued leaflets in Wana in which they termed cell phones with cameras a main source of promoting obscenity and vulgarity as they allow users to share vulgar videos and photos. The cut-thoats, in their leaflets, banned use of these devices, The News International reported December 19.
[Dawn] Suspected Orcs and similar vermin on Saturday rubbed out an official of the ruling party in Indian-ruled Kashmire, police said, days after rebels made a failed bid on the life of a senior government minister.
Bashir Ahmed was killed the main city of Srinagar, a police officer said, asking not to be named.
"He was shot in the head and died before he could be taken to a hospital," he said, blaming anti-India rebels for the daylight killing.
No rebel group has grabbed credit so far.
The killing came days after suspected rebels killed a policeman in an attack on December 11 on senior minister Ali Mohammed Sagar, who beat feet uninjured.
Like Sagar, Ahmed was also associated with the ruling National Conference.
Militants who oppose Indian rule in Kashmire have in the past killed ministers and pro-India politicians.
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[Dawn] Security forces on Friday imposed ban on riding double in Bara and warned that violators would be shot on sight.
Acknowledging the ban, Bara Assistant Political Agent Rehan Khattak told Dawn that the step was taken to curb attacks against security forces and supporters of the local administration. "The ban applies to the entire Bara tehsil and would be strictly implemented," he made it clear.
Local sources said that announcements were made on loudspeakers in different parts of Bara cautioning the local residents against use of cycle of violences.
"Violators would be shot on sight and the bike would be torched and no leniency would be shown to anyone," said the announcements by the security personnel from loudspeakers fitted atop their vehicles.
Bara has of late witnessed a surge in armed attacks against the security forces, mostly carried out by myrmidons riding cycle of violences. The local administration had on three previous occasions banned riding double in Bara but it could not be effectively implemented.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... a teenaged girl was killed and five persons including children were maimed when stray mortar shells fell on three different houses in Shalobar area of Bara on Friday.
Sources said that the slain girl was Hafiz-i-Koran. One of her girl students was also injured when the shell hit the house while the students were busy in learning Koran.
Two children of Jan Mohammad and two more persons were also injured shells hit two other houses. All the injured were taken to Hayatabad Medical Complex in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar for treatment.In another development, security forces placed in long-term storage four suspect faceless myrmidons during a search operation in Shakas area of Jamrud tehsil on Friday.Officials said that placed in long-term storage men included two young sons of Haji Najeebullah, former local ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... Unidentified faceless myrmidons on Thursday night destroyed a private school for boys in Landi Kotal.
Local residents in Khuga Khel area said that three kabooms took place one after the other which destroyed at least seven rooms and boundary wall of Bacha Khan School. Local authorities took the watchman into their custody and started investigation.
A Kukikhel ...a tribe of primitives inhabiting Khyber Agency. They are a branch of the Afridi tribe. Traditionally they have been migratory, tromping between Jamrud and the Rajgal valley with the seasons. The tribe has had mustache-cursing relationships with several other tribes, including the Zakkakhel and Kambarkhel, and with the Mullagori. They make welcome most anyone with a turban and automatic weapons, but every once in awhile they get together a tribal lashkar to mollify the government... primitive was critically injured when his vehicle was hit by a roadside kaboom in Serhai area of Tirah valley on Friday. Cause of the kaboom could not be immediately ascertained.
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[An Nahar] At least 25 people were killed on Saturday several Syrian cities where the protests against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's Leveler of Latakia... regime erupted in March, a rights group said.
Local Coordination Committees said that Syrian security forces rubbed out 25 civilians in Homs, Daraa, Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... , Reef Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... , and Idlib.
Meanwhile, ...back at the scene of the crime, Lieutenant Queeg had an idea: there was a simple way to tell whether Manetti had been the triggerman -- just look at his shoes!... Thousands of people on Saturday attended prayers in memory of the 44 people killed by jacket wallahs in Syria's capital as charge and counter-charge swirled over who was behind the attacks.
The funeral prayers, at Damascus's central Omayyad Mosque, came as an Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... delegation met Foreign Minister Walid Muallem to discuss the arrival of a team to oversee a deal aimed at ending nine months of bloodshed.
Mourners prayed before flag-draped coffins, while a crowd outside waved portraits of embattled President Bashir al-Assad and banners of the ruling Baath party as police stood watch.
Religious Affairs Minister Abdel Sattar al-Sayyed read a statement from Christian and Mohammedan religious leaders "denouncing the criminal attacks on Friday... and the murder, destruction and sabotage," part of a "dangerous plot against Syria."
"We call upon the Syrian people to be aware that Syria is being targeted, and affirm that we stand with them in the face of this plot. We reject any sort of extremism represented by terrorist organization."
The nature of that "terrorism" was hotly debated on Saturday, amid conflicting claims about who carried out the bombings.
Within minutes of the Friday morning kabooms, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said initial enquiries held al-Qaeda responsible.
Not long afterwards, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Meqdad said "this is the gift we get from the gunnies and al-Qaeda."
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... the government did not release details on how it reached such a conclusion so quickly.
Later on Friday, the opposition accused the government itself of carrying out the attacks.
Syria says more than 2,000 security force personnel have been killed in attacks by rebels since March.
There was no let-up in the bloodshed on Friday with human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... activists reporting at least 21 civilians killed, most of them by security forces.
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[Iran Press TV] Syria has accused US and Israel of involvement in Friday's terrorist attacks in the capital Damascus ...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations... that killed scores of people.
The blasts targeted the main headquarters of the General Intelligence Agency and a branch of the military intelligence.
Thousands of Syrians had on Saturday held a funeral ceremony for the victims of the terror attacks.
While mourning the dead, they also condemned the attacks and rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud in favor of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... .
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[Dawn] The front man for Syria's Moslem Brüderbund, Zuhair Salem, denied Saturday an Internet claim of responsibility by the group for suicide kabooms in Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... , saying it was on a fake website created by the regime.
Salem, speaking from London, said the claim was "completely fabricated under our name on the Internet."
It was "completely orchestrated by the regime, just as the attacks were," he added.
Earlier, a website purporting to be that of the Moslem Brüderbund, claimed that four jacket wallahs had carried out the Friday bombings, in which 44 died and 166 were hurt, and threatened more attacks.
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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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[Emirates 24/7] Yemeni troops are defying orders to withdraw from the streets of the capital, signaling trouble with a deal meant to ease the president from power and end months of protests.
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
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[Iran Press TV] Syria has accused US and Israel of involvement in Friday's terrorist attacks in the capital 
