H.D. Miller at Travelling Shoes addresses the hillbilly gang rape scandal in Pakland. If you only scan Rantburg, pause to take a deeper look at today's entry on the incident. According to the police report, it seems the threat to gang rape the girl was intended to intimidate the family into dropping charges over the boy having being diddled by some of the Mastoi village elders. When they didn't think Paw would do that, they went ahead and had the girl, too. And the ringleader seems to have been — you guessed it — the local imam. Travelling Shoes is on Blogger, so his links are non-existent at the moment. They're working on it, though. I was going to leave a comment, but all of Blogger picked that moment to crash â something I was gonna say? They're working on that, too, I'm sure...
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FYI, Blogspot isn't the same thing as Blogger. Not hosted at the same place, even. Blogger-published blogs on other hosts -- like mine -- don't have this problem.
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I knew that... I'm just too mentally lazy to keep the distinction in mind when complaining.
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Mark Steyn sez something about Yasser that regular Rantburg readers have seen before...
There will be disreputable fellows at the heart of the Palestinian question for some years to come, but never again will the Palestinian peopleâs future be mortgaged to one man for decade after decade after decade...
For Bush, itâs a winâwin situation. If the Palestinians elect the Hamas crowd, he can say, âFine, I respect your choice. Call me back when you decide to put self-government before self-detonation.â If they opt for plausible state and municipal legislators, Bush will have re-established an important principle: that when the Americans sign on to nation-building they do so only to bring into being functioning democratic, civilised states â as they did with postwar Germany and Japan.
Iran has sent hundreds of soldiers to guard its porous borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan, and it plans tough new anti-terrorism laws in response to the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, a top Iranian diplomat said. And here it is only July 11th of the following year...
In a report to a U.N. Security Council committee circulated Wednesday, Mohammed Fadaifard, Iran's deputy U.N. ambassador, said Iran has deployed 15 additional battalions to the Pakistani border and reinforced the Afghan border to prevent illegal border crossings. Fadaifard said new visa requirements for visitors from Arab countries are in place to prevent potential terrorists from using Iran as a transit point to and from Afghanistan. "Iran is intent on stopping the expansion of their control and violence as part of the United Nations effort to help bring back conciliation and normalcy to Afghanistan," Fadaifard said in the report. He also said surveillance has been increased at hotels and residential units in border provinces and the capital, Tehran. Careful with that feather!
The Iranian report was a response to a Security Council resolution adopted in January requiring all 189 U.N. member states to freeze the finances and impose arms embargoes and travel bans on anyone associated with Osama bin Laden, his al-Qaida network and the Taliban. About 160 Afghans and Arabs have been arrested due to increased surveillance and security measures in border areas, Fadaifard said. Most sympathized with or were connected to al-Qaida or the Taliban, he said. More than 20,000 Pakistanis and Afghans have been prevented from entering Iran. Fadaifard said legislation on money laundering and a counterterrorism bill were in the process of being introduced in the Iranian Parliament. These are probably legitimate and honest measures being taken by the Iranian left hand, even as the right hand arms and controls Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.
"I am Iran. I have a split personality!"
"I do not!"
"I do, too!"
"Shuddup!"
"Make me shuddup!..."
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I have a feeling that the "terrorists" they will be arresting will be carrying more CDs and DVDs than Kalashnikovs and C4.
Apparently the mullahs are hiring Paleostininans and Iraqis for a new mercenary police force. Lots like they're on the run.
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Kinda smacks of the Soviets calling in the Fraternal Forces of the Warsaw Pact as the regime was breaking up, doesn't it? And it'll be just about as effective as that would have been.
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The Iranian regime has plunged into its deepest political crisis since the 1979 Islamic revolution here following the shock resignation of a prominent cleric, street protests and anti-clerical attacks. Reports on gatherings Tuesday in Tehran and other cities by thousands of people, families as well as militant young people, who defied a government ban to mark the anniversary of student unrest in July 1999 continued to fill newspapers Thursday. The demonstrations took an anti-government turn, and ended in clashes with the police and the arrest of more than 200 people. "The war has begun and it will not spare anyone, not even the clergy," political analyst Dariush Abdali said Thursday, adding that a "breach" has opened between the regime's main conservative and reformist factions. The old left hand-right hand dichotomy. It'll get worse before it gets better. Matter of fact, it is getting worse â for the ayatollahs. I like that part about the war having begun...
But there were no reports Thursday morning concerning the shock resignation of the prayer leader in the central city of Isfahan, prominent Ayatollah Jalalabad Taheri, who said he was unable to continue because of the "chaotic situation" in the country. His letter raised an outcry among conservatives, who accused Taheri of having written it "under the influence of suspicious elements" in order to distract attention from the "Aghajari affair." Did, huh? What's that?
Secular reformist writer and journalist Hashem Aghajari, a member of the radical Khatami-allied Organization of the Mujahedeen of the Islamic Revolution (OMIR), sparked a storm last month with an anti-clerical speech in the western town of Hamedan. He was charged with offending the clergy and barred from leaving the country after saying Muslims "should not blindly" follow religious leaders and calling for a "religious reformation" of Shiism. Well, of course they should blindly follow holy men. That's what they've been doing or years. That's how they got where they are... um... now. Wherever that is.
The OMIR hit back Thursday with a fierce attack on the circle of conservative clerics in their bastion of Qom, whose Association of Studies runs Iran's Koranic schools. Accusing the association of being "at the service of the conservatives and their mercantile capitalism," OMIR secretary Mohammad Salamati called it a "political rival and not an acceptable religious body." The association had earlier alleged that the OMIR "has nothing Islamic" to it. "We say aloud that we are opposed to any despotism under the veil of religion," the OMIR said. "Mercantile capitalism?" Where'd that come from?
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I've said it before, and Ill say it again, Iran will fall before Iraq.
It will happen soon and it will happen fast.
Good work in the intel here man!
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Four members of the Red Army Faction who hijacked an airliner in 1970, have expressed their wish to return from North Korea to Japan, despite the fact they will be arrested. Gettin' a little hungry up there?
They said the four have filled out applications to return and a representative had presented these to authorities in Tokyo. The four had been saying since 1985 that if Japan would drop charges against them they would return home, but their sudden decision to return regardless is seen by many as them being pressured by the North, which wants to be dropped from the US terrorist support list. On March 31, 1970 nine RAF members hijacked the aircraft with 129 passengers and after a stop over in Gimpo flew to Pyongyang on April 3. Three died in North Korea, and two were arrested in Japan and Cambodia. You know you're pretty daggone far down the food chain of respectability when even North Korea doesn't want you. But it may be that they just can't afford to feed them anymore.
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"Honest! We're not a terror-supporting state! We're just a sneak naval attacking state! That's, like, a different list and everything!"
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Israeli and German intelligence services are tracking two Palestinians who they believe are planning attacks on cruise ships in the Baltic Sea, a German daily said in a report published Thursday. Israel's intelligence service, the Mossad, alerted its German counterpart after intercepting a phone conversation between the two, Die Welt said, without indicating its source. Authorities in the German port city of Hamburg followed the suspects after they went to Frankfurt. The two men later met with two other Palestinians in Hamburg, before travelling by sea to Denmark, where they are currently staying. German intelligence services and Israelâs Mossad plan to continue to track the suspects. It should be mentioned that a few weeks ago, German Interior Minister Otto Schily and federal police issued a warning of possible attacks in the Baltic Sea, probably based on information supplied by the Mossad. Y'see, these guys never read the papers, so they have no way of knowing the intel guys're on to them, tracking their every move... Is there some authority that selects journalists at random and drops them on their heads, then sends them back to the newsroom? I have difficulty believing anyone whose eyes will focus would decide to print that story unless it had already played out to a conclusion or he/she/it was an active and enthusiastic fifth columnist...
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You have to wonder what planet these idiots come from. Like the nitwit who broke the story that the NSA was listening in on Binny's sat phone calls...hope whoever's "scoop" that was spends his days haunted by the blood of three thousand.
Maybe when the results of a poll like this will start to crystallize public opinion and make them think twice:
The Pakistan Rangers (Sindh) inspector Waseem Akhtar, who was allegedly involved in an abortive attempt to blow up the motorcade of President Pervez Musharraf on April 26, was remanded in police custody until July 20. Inspector Waseem and two others, Mohammad Imran and Mohammad Hanif, who were earlier remanded in police custody on July 8 in cases of bomb blasts outside the American Consulate and Sheraton Hotel, were also produced before Justice Shabbir Ahmed of the Sindh High Court, who is also an administrative judge of the anti-terrorism courts in Karachi. The latter two were identified as Amir and Naib Amir of the previously unknown Harkatul Mujahideen Al Alami. Which is apparently not quite the same organization as Harkat ul Mujahideen. I don't think plotting to blow up Perv was a very good idea. Wasim probably doesn't think so at the moment, either.
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The Governor's Inspection Team has confirmed that Mastoi tribesmen had first sodomized the brother of Mukhtaran Mai and had gang-raped her to cover up the crime. How did raping her cover up buggering him? That doesn't make any sense... Oh. We're talking about Pakistan.
The GIT has conducted an inquiry into the incident on the direction of Punjab Governor Khalid Maqbool. According to the team's findings, some Mastoi men had sodomized Abdul Shakoor "comparatively a handsome looking boy." To cover up the crime, they later falsely accused the boy of raping one of their women. Raping her? He was 11 years old!
The report declares that the Mastoi men alleged on June 22 that Abdul Shakoor of Tatla caste, was caught red-handed in an objectionable posture with one of their caste girls, Ms Nasim alias Salma Mai. A so-called Panchayat, with arbitrators from both sides, was held the same day. The arbitrators decided that the sister of Abdul Shakoor - Mukhtaran Mai - should be given in Nikkah to one of the men related to Salma Mai. The Tatlas accepted the decision but the heirs of Salma Mai refused it. After this decision the constitution of the Panchayat was changed and it included members of the Mastoi tribe and their arbitrators. They unilaterally decided that Mukhtaran Mai be raped in revenge "to fulfil the requirement of justice," the report revealed. Punishing the innocent... Yep. Sez right here in the Baluchistan Manual of Justice, Section 578, that the best way to ensure justice is to punish someone who had nothing to do with the crime, and even if there was no crime. Besides, the innocent are easier to catch than the guilty, and they're less likely to be armed and dangerous...
Ramzan Pacher, a Mastoi arbitrator, persuaded Mukhtaran Mai's father to bring her in the Panchayat for a compromise. The father was cheated when he took her to the Panchayat where, in the presence of a group of 150-400 people, she was taken to an adjoining room and was raped by Abdul Khaliq, Allah Ditta, Fayyaz Husain and Ghulam Farid. She was later thrown out all naked, it said. Bet the holy men liked that part best, next to buggering the boy, I mean...
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The law enforcement agencies in an operation in Robbers' Roost Darra Adam Khel bulldozed two houses and hunted down 20 criminals on Wednesday. The office of the assistant political agent confirmed the arrests and said 200 Khyber Rifles supported by Khasadars and armoured personnel carriers were carrying out search operations for the arrest of criminals wanted by the police for murders, dacoities, carjacking and kidnappings. As long as they're cleaning out the al-Qaeda thugs in the area, might as well get rid of some of the murderers and robbers, too.
An official source said: "The operation would be long and targeted and it would continue till the arrest of more than 600 proclaimed offenders hiding in Darra. The territory is connected through difficult terrain with Khyber and Orakzai agencies making it difficult for us to arrest all the POs but we are going to try our best to clean the area once and for all. We will restart the operation after a 12-hour break to gather more information about the hideouts of the criminals and persuade the leaders to accompany us." "Come out with your hands up, Rocky! We got yer grampaw right here with us...!"
Earlier, the assistant political agent held meetings with elders of the area and demanded custody of the wanted people sheltering in Darra. But the elders failed to hand over the criminals, particularly the group which had forcefully stopped work on the Kohat tunnel and blown up the high tension wires of the Water and Power Development Authority's main power supply line passing through the mountainous tribal territory. The houses of Hameed Khan and Chinar Gul were demolished when they refused to surrender to the authorities. Oh. You mean they were in the houses at the time? Bet that hurt!
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A security team from the Scotland Yard Britain arrived in Sanaâa last week to gather information on Egyptian extremists who live in London and suspected to have links with al-Qaeda network. The team asked the Yemeni authorities information on Abu al-Hamza al-Masri, leader of the London-based Supporters of Sharia Group, and Yassir al-Seri who also lives in London. The team also asked for formation on Ayman al-Dhawahiri and other Islamic extremists who lived in Yemen for sometime before moving to other countries like Britain, Canada, Afghanistan, etc. The team met several important officials and visited some institutions whose telephone numbers were found at the house of al-Seri which was searched by police nine moths ago. Washington wants London to extradite al-Seri, suspected to have links to al-Qaeda network. Extradite him to Yemen and save the taxpayers some money. There's already a rope waiting for him there. Or extradite him to Afghanistan â they'd like to talk to him about his involvement in Masood's assassination.
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Elsewhere in the West Bank, a Palestinian man was killed by Israeli army near Qalqilya after having breached the curfew there, the Israeli media reported. He was spotted by Israeli soldiers while trying to enter Israel. They fired at him and killed him.
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Amnesty International condemned Palestinian suicide bombings and other attacks on Israeli civilians Thursday as "crimes against humanity" and unjustified by Palestinian political grievances. Whoa! Knocked me right over with that feather...!
The London-based human rights organization had previously accused Israel of violating Palestinian rights in the Mideast conflict, but the lengthy report focused on the Palestinian violence that amnesty said had killed about 350 Israeli civilians. "The attacks against civilians by Palestinian armed groups are widespread, systematic and in pursuit of an explicit policy to attack civilians,'' the Amnesty report said. "They constitute crimes against humanity ... They may also constitute war crimes.'' Who the hell wrote that? It certainly doesn't sound like Amnesty International.
Palestinian officials dismissed the report as biased and unbalanced. I guess I can get up now. No surprise there...
Palestinian Cabinet secretary Ahmed Abdul Rahman said the Palestinian leadership and prominent Palestinian moderates had condemned suicide bombings. But he added, "all that is happening to Israeli citizens is a normal consequence for their occupation and rejection of Palestinian rights.'' "Happens all the time. Just look at, um... Finland. The Lapps are exploding all over the place. You just never hear about it in the press..." Ismail Abu Shanab, spokesman for the militant Islamic group Hamas, which has carried out the largest number of suicide bombings, dismissed the report as "completely biased.'' Hamas says it will continue to carry out bombings despite the calls to stop by the Palestinian Authority. Since Shanab is one of the members of the Hamas politburo, guess that's about as authoritarian authoritative as you'll get for a statement.
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Abdel-Raheem Al Nubani, a Colonel in Force 17, was apprehended by Israeli troops north of Ramallah. Al Nubani is the highest-ranking member of Force 17, to have been arrested to date. He was seized in the village of Nubani, around 20 kilometres (north of Ramallah, in an operation shortly after 2:00 am (2300 GMT Wednesday), Palestinian officials said. An elite Israeli unit backed by two armoured personnel carriers swooped on the village, they added. When I was in the army I always hated it when we did that. Swooping in APCs makes me carsick. Or maybe APCsick. Force 17, in case you've forgotten, is the Secret SS Yasser Arafat Liebstandart, set apart from the other myriad security forces.
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Israeli troops operating overnight in villages near the West Bank city of Nablus arrested 10 Palestinian activists, including two Palestinians who planned to carry out suicide bombings. It said one of the would-be bombers was detained during a raid on Asira a-Shimaliya village north of Nablus, where troops seized him and seven other members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. One of those was suspected of commanding a suicide operation, and the other six were suspects in shooting attacks against Israelis in the northern West Bank. In another Israeli raid in the Nablus-area, two more Palestinians were taken into custody, one of them planning to carry out a suicide bombing. Nablus seems to be where it's happ'nin' lately. "Preventive Security" musta been busy somewhere else...
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The Israeli army plans to start reducing its presence in West Bank areas determined to be at low risk for staging attacks. The army will leave some cities altogether and thin out its presence in others. Israeli officials have said they are examining ways of relieving conditions in the West Bank, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians live under curfews that are lifted from time to time for a few hours. The governor of Bethlehem, Mohammed Madani, warned that the Israeli reoccupation was hurtling the city towards a humanitarian crisis. The IDF lifted the curfew on Nablus from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm Thursday, but was not allowing people from the surrounding villages into the city, blocking around 1,000 people at checkpoints. They can't keep them bottled up forever, but they have to go back and bottle them up again as soon as the stupidity starts up again. In the case of Nablus, that's yesterday.
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In the West bank town of Nablus, Palestinians say a 19-year-old Palestinian died and two were wounded when Israeli troops fired machine-guns at a group of youths throwing stones at Israeli tanks passing the Askar refugee camp. Israeli officials say they are checking the report.
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An explosive device went off near an Israeli military convoy at the West Bank town of Jenin Wednesday night. There were no reports of casualties. The device went off just as the Israeli troops were preparing to re-impose a curfew on the city, after some hours the curfew had been lifted, the report said. Some Molotov cocktails were also thrown, the radio reported. It's beyond me why they'd want to impose a curfew there. It's such a nice, law-abiding place...
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Palestinian local affairs minister, Saeb Erakat spoke about a "crisis" with West Bank Palestinians seeking to travel to Jordan, after talks he held Wednesday with Jordan's Foreign Minister, Marwan Moasher. Jamil Tarifi, the Palestinian minister of civil affairs, who accompanied Erakat to Jordan, was to discuss the issue later Wednesday with Jordanian Interior Minister Koftan Majali. Jordan imposed travel restrictions on West Bank Palestinians crossing into its territory via the King Hussein (Allenby Bridge) at the end of March, to preempt any attempt by Israel to expel them. "Hey! Don't look at us! We tossed 'em, you took 'em, they're your problem now...!"
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat appointed Mohammed Dahlan to the position of National Security Advisor on Wednesday evening, one month after Dahlan resigned as head of preventive security in the Gaza Strip. Dahlan, who is considered the most powerful figure in the Gaza Strip, enjoys the support of a majority of Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction and has good relations with his Gaza replacement, Rashid abu-Shbiek. Somehow, I don't think Condi Rice is worried in the least...
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Hussam Khader, an opposition deputy in the Palestinian legislative council, has castigated Palestinian Authority chief, Yasser Arafat, accusing him of leading the Palestinian people to extermination. Khader, who is affiliated with Fatah Movement, told the Zionist radio that Arafat was incapable of securing the desired reforms. "What he has made was meaningless because he retained his aides and corrupt elements within the PA", Khader, deputy from Balata refugee camp in Nablus, elaborated. The deputy, a well-known critic of the PA and Arafat, added that the Palestinian "president" could not introduce reforms in the way they should be. "I do not think that he is ready moral-wise to accept such reforms", Khader elaborated. Another crack in the facade. Outsiders always view dictatorships as monolithic. Dissent is stifled with an iron hand and opponents are wiped out ruthlessly. And then one day that stops working, and the whole ediface vanishes like a bubble...
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A high-ranking PLO official has accused "certain Arab regimes" of colluding with the United States to topple the present Palestinian leadership. "I'm sorry to say that certain Arab regimes are conspiring with Washington against the Palestinian Authority," said Abdullah Al Hourani, who is in charge of the refugee portfolio. Hourani, who was speaking during a local radio program in Gaza Wednesday, didn't name the conspiring states. However, it widely believed that he meant Egypt and Jordan and maybe Saudi Arabia as well. Hourani also criticized the PA leadership, saying "there are many defects, shortcoming, mistakes and points of weakness." "Conspiracies! Plots! They're everywhere! They're comin' to get me, Ma!"
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Israel announced Thursday it will prosecute Marwan Barghouti in connection with deadly attacks against Israeli civilians. The trial would be the first involving a senior Palestinian figure in years. Israel hopes to prove the complicity of the highest levels of the Palestinian leadership in terror attacks during the 21-month uprising against Israel. Barghouti, 42, was a fiery speaker at street protests until Israeli troops detained him April 15 outside the West Bank town of Ramallah. He has not been charged. Barghouti is the head of Fatah in the West Bank, and in recent public opinion surveys of Palestinians, he has been second in popularity only to Arafat himself. Israeli Justice Ministry spokesman Yaakov Galanti said Israel planned to try Barghouti together with four other Palestinians in civilian court because of their connection "to several attacks in Israel.'' The spokesman did not specify the attacks. Besides being "a fiery speaker" at street corner rallies, Marwan is also the head of Tanzim.
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Three Lebanese army intelligence agents were shot dead Thursday near a Palestinian refugee camp in the southern port city of Sidon, police announced. Police said the three men were on an unspecified mission in the sector one kilometre (less than one mile) from Ain Helwe camp when they came under fire. The Army cordoned off the area in search of the unidentified assailants.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said Thursday efforts must be stepped up to halt violence that has plagued the region, for the sake of Israel, the Palestinians and the whole region. "We have to stop directly what is going on, for our children and for their children, for the Israelis and for the Palestinians, and for the Arabs and for the whole Middle East area," he told CNN television. Heh heh. Cute, watching him wiggle like that, isn't it?
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Macapagal-Arroyo yesterday ordered the police to neutralize the 21 known kidnapping syndicates using military tactics applied against the Abu Sayyaf in Mindanao. The President gave the order during the âorder of battleâ workshop of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Camp Crame. The workshop named the kidnap-for-ransom gangs and identified their possible hideouts. In her speech earlier, the President announced that she has approved the creation of a new anti-kidnapping force that would be called Police Anti-Crime Emergency Response or PACER. She told the police launch military-type of operations against the kidnappers, just like what the Armed Forces has been doing against the Abu Sayyaf. PACER will replace the National Anti-Kidnapping Task Force and will be a composite group of police officers, soldiers and agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). Amazing, what a few successes can do for the self-confidence...
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It's also amazing what happens when you stop arresting them and start killing them. Get's the attention of the other nogoodniks really fast.
AT least 54 barangays in Metro Manila are âunder threatâ by communist rebels in connection with the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections on Monday, according to Âpolice intelligence reports. A report by the Regional Investigation and Intelligence ÂDivision of the National Capital Region Police Office (RIID-NCRPO) said that based on recent activities, communist rebels were interested in the outcome of the barangay elections in Metro Manila. "We are the Vanguard of the Proletariat®, dammit! Put that embalming fluid away! We're warning you, we have guns...!"
The Commission on Elections also raised Âconcern over the possible bloody spillover of family feuds in Mindanao into areas in the metropolis where there are large Muslim communities. Muslim = Bloody Feud. I love higher mathematics...
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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.
