A mine blast killed seven guards in Afghanistan on Saturday, while two civilians were killed in separate incidents, officials said.
A landmine blew up a vehicle transporting Afghan guards who had been protecting a road construction company in Kunar province, a troubled region on the Pakistani border, governor Fazullah Wahidi told AFP. He could not say who was responsible for the attack but Taliban militants waging a bloody insurgency against the Kabul government have been blamed for a string of similar incidents.
Meanwhile in the western province of Farah, a suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his body blew himself up near a police vehicle. Regional police spokesman Abdul Mutalib Rad said the bomber was the only person killed. Police later arrested four men believed to be Taliban who were seen dropping the bomber off from a vehicle, Rad said.
In other incidents linked to the Taliban insurgency, a civilian truck driver was killed and a truck supplying Western troops was set ablaze in the volatile southern province of Zabul on Saturday, police said.
Kunar governor Wahidi also alleged that US troops patrolling in the mountains on Friday had shot and killed a civilian who was collecting wood and injured two others. The US military, which has soldiers in the area, could not confirm the report.
Casualties of civilians caught in the crossfire between rebels and troops have eroded public support for the campaign against the extremist insurgents.
The deepening violence and higher-than-expected casualties among foreign soldiers has also weakened support in many of the roughly 40 countries with troops in Afghanistan, prompting calls for them to leave.
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A Yemeni court on Saturday began the appeal hearing of 36 Yemenis sentenced to jail last year for planning and carrying out attacks for Al-Qaeda, an AFP correspondent said. The men were sentenced last November to jail terms of between two and 15 years after they were convicted over an abortive twin attack on oil intallations in Marib and Hadramut provinces.
Among those in court on Saturday was Jaber al-Banna, a senior Al-Qaeda figure who was allowed to leave the court at the end of the session despite being sentenced to 10 years in absentia in the original case.
Just walked free, did he?
Banna holds joint US-Yemeni citizenship and is wanted by the US on charges of providing material support to Al-Qaeda. Washington is offering a reward of up to five million dollars for his arrest.
Triple it, and get Mahmoud the Weasel to work.
Yemen and the United States have previously clashed over Jamal al-Badawi, an Al-Qaeda fighter convicted of involvement in the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole off the southern port of Aden which killed 17 American sailors. He was subsequently temporarily released by the Yemeni authorities.
Al-Qaeda also launched an abortive attack in September 2006 on an oil refinery at Marib, 170 kilometres (105 miles) east of the capital Sanaa, and targeted petrol storage tanks at a terminal operated by Canadian firm Nexen in the southeastern Hadramut province at the same time.
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Jamal al-Badawi
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A booby-trapped bomb, thought to have been placed by Basque separatists, exploded at a radio and television transmission station in Spain's Basque country on Saturday as a police robot moved it. The explosion, which came less than two weeks before general elections in March, caused no injuries or damage when it exploded around midday outside the hilltop facility at Arnotegi, near the city of Bilbao, police said.
Authorities received a warning call at 7:50 a.m. British time that ETA guerrillas had planted the bomb and it would go off at 9:00 a.m. British time, police said. The 4-5 kg bomb exploded at 11:00 a.m. British time when the police robot moved the cardboard box containing it. "It was a booby trap bomb against the police with some kind of movement activated device," said a police spokesman.
The explosion appeared to be ETA's second attack in 2008 after a bomb hidden inside a backpack caused considerable damage to a courthouse in Spain's Basque region earlier this month.
Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, fighting to retain office in the March 9 election, faces criticism over failed ETA peace talks and has launched a crackdown on the Basque separatist rebels and their allies.
ETA has killed more than 800 people during its four decade campaign for an independent Basque state. The most recent deaths were in December, when ETA guerrillas shot dead two undercover Spanish policemen in southern France.
A suicide bomber targeting pilgrims heading to one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest festivals killed 40 people, including women and children, south of Baghdad on Sunday. Police and the US military said the bomber struck in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, hours after militants killed three pilgrims and wounded 36 others in an attack in southern Baghdad.
The military said in a statement that the attack took place on a two-lane highway near a residential area where about 42,000 pilgrims had passed through earlier in the day. Tens of thousands of Iraqi security personnel have been deployed for the Arbain festival after suspected Sunni Arab insurgents killed 149 pilgrims on their way to Kerbala for the event last year, in one of the worst spates of violence since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The pilgrims are particularly vulnerable to attack because many prefer to walk to the holy city of Kerbala, 110 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad, in the hope of winning greater spiritual reward. All public transport, including bicycles, has been banned within a 25 km (15.5 mile) radius of the city, and 600 female security staff have been assigned to search women.
Terrorists Militants attacked a group of pilgrims in Baghdad on Sunday as they walked to one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest festivals, killing three people and wounding 36, Iraqi police said. They said the pilgrims were hit by a roadside bomb and then fired on by gunmen in Doura, a southern district of Baghdad, on a road used by hundreds of pilgrims walking on foot to the festival of Arbain in the holy southern Shi'ite city of Kerbala.
Security has been ramped up compared to previous years, Kerbala's police chief Major-General Raad Shakir told Reuters last week, and tanks are being used to protect the city for the first time, in addition to 40,000 police and soldiers.
ZAKHU, Iraq - Kurdish PKK guerrillas said on Saturday they had recovered the bodies of 15 of the 22 Turkish soldiers they say they have killed in clashes since Turkey launched an offensive against them. The rebels had also begun planning reprisal attacks on Turkish soil, a spokesman for the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said.
There are 22 Turkish soldiers that have been killed and our soldiers have the bodies of 15, Ahmed Danees, head of foreign relations for the PKK, told Reuters by telephone, adding they would soon release the names of those killed.
Turkeys military General Staff said in a statement on its Web site that only seven Turkish troops had been killed since the launch of the cross-border offensive into the largely autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq on Thursday.
The Turkish army is using all its weapons including fighter jets, helicopters and artillery, Danees said, adding that clashes continued. We are using guerrilla warfare. We are laying mines and planning ambushes on the Turkish side of the border.
He declined to give the number of PKK casualties. The statement from Turkeys military said its forces had so far killed 79 PKK rebels.
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Better give them back or Turkey will come back to get them.
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Pure false propaganda, PKK terrorists can't even collect their own corpses and wounded leave alone the Turkish troops.
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The PKK's fighting on its home turf. I wouldn't put anything past them at this point. The Turks may regret they ever entered Iraq. The PKK's a bunch of terrorists, but I don't much care for the Turks, either. I think I'll just sit here on the sidelines and egg 'em both on.
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Old Patriot, that's what i have been doing in this one. Hard too determine a good guy /bad guy here. Since the PKK really don't do anything too US personellen and Turkey is not really a good ally unless wanting something.
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PKK is a bunch of bastard commie terrorists. I'm pleased if the Turks wipe 'em all out to a man (and woman). I'd prefer the Peshmerga and Iraqi Kurds not offer them succor, either.
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We would not tolerate the Mexican Army sending 10,000 troops onto our soil to seek out and kill evil, ruthless, murderous drug dealers. Why on earth are we tolerating this invasion into Iraq as if it is no big deal? I just don't get the collective yawn over this invasion.
Turkish forces killed as many as 79 Kurdish militants and lost seven soldiers of their own in the first two days of their largest incursion into Iraq in 11 years, the armed forces said today.
Today's fighting killed 35 Kurdish militants and two Turkish soldiers, Turkey's military in Ankara said on its Web site. Turkey used artillery and helicopter gunships against the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, the Web site said. Ammunition depots, anti-aircraft weapons and gun positions were destroyed, it said. Shelters and caves were made unusable.
The U.S., the United Nations and Germany have called on Turkey to show restraint after troops pushed over the border into northern Iraq late on Feb. 21. Iraq's Kurdish-controlled northern region has remained relatively peaceful since the U.S.-led invasion five years ago. ``The target of the military operation is the PKK terrorist organization,'' Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said in Ankara today in televised comments. ``Turkey is a staunch defender of Iraq's territorial integrity and political unity.''
The Web site didn't say how long the military action would last. ``As of 5 p.m. today, fighting is continuing with groups of terrorists in four separate regions,'' it said.
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(Xinhua) -- Iraqi security forces backed by the U.S. aircraft raided insurgents' hideouts in Salahudin province on Saturday, killing 10 suspected insurgents, including a local leader, and capturing four others, a provincial police officer said.
A joint force from the Iraqi army and police and fighters from local anti-Qaida Awakening Council group carried out a raid at dawn on the open areas near the al-Thirthar Lake, west of Samarra city, 120 km north of Baghdad, Col. Hassan Ahmad told Xinhua. The raid resulted in the killing of 10 insurgents, including six non-Iraqi Arab nationals, and the capturing of four others, Ahmad said.
Among the killed was Abdul Basit al-Nissani, a local leader of the al-Qaeda in Iraq network, who blew himself up after he was surrounded by the security forces while crossing a small river, he said.
There were no casualties among the joint troops who also confiscated a large amount of weapons and ammunition during the raid, Ahmad said. The targeting area was used by the al-Qaida militants to conduct attacks against civilians and Iraqi security forces.
Armed groups, including al-Qaida, which were active in the swath stretching from the city of Samarra to the Thirthar Lake, northwest of Baghdad, has long been out of the control of the Iraqi security forces before the major operation against them in the area.
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al-Qaeda in Iraq
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al-Qaeda in Iraq
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Shanbo Heinemann,
"Shanbo Heiniemann"? That's gotta be an alias.
a pro-Palestinian activist from San Francisco, California, sits on the ground after being shot in the head with a rubber bullet fired by Israeli troops during a violent protest against Israel's security fence in the West Bank village of Bilin, February 22, 2008. Yeeehaw! Oh, sorry. This is a dreadful sight :)
#1
In this pic, the Paleos allegedly administering first aid look more like they're preparing to behead the little cretin. Force of habit and custom, I guess.
#3
This pic again.
One guy appears to be depressing the carotid artery in an attempt to stop the bleeding.
I highly recommend this procedure for injured moonbats.
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If it had been a real bullet, he probably wouldn't have felt a thing.
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Boom! Headshot!
But, I bet this guy is ecstatic at getting his picture in the papers. Now he's a martyr, the sainthood that all moonbats desire. He'll go find Cindy Sheehan, wherever she is these days.
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Careful, folks - his Representative is prolly Queen Nancy! She'll really stir up a storm!
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I'm not sure how hard these rubber bullets are, but they aren't hard enough. He's barely got a scratch, and I doubt that anything inside his cranium is damaged.
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The little nazi scum would never have protested against any other state but Israel. Not agsint Syria (who occupies Lebanon), not against Saudi Arabia (whioa, woman, terror), not against Algeria (opression of Berbers) and not against Sudan (genocide against Blacks). He dreams of a second Holocaust that is why he so keen on Israle and in helping so repugnat people as the Palestinians (Rantburgers will remind that they tried to blmow a maternity). It is a pity they didn't uyse real bullets on this Nazi.
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As he lay there on the ground, bleeding, one thought kept running through his mind: "HeadOn -- apply directly to the forehead. . . . HeadOn -- apply directly to the forehead. . . . HeadOn -- apply directly to the forehead. . . . ."
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Head wounds always bleed more and look worse then they are.
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Navy types might favor their 16 battleship gun for this kind of target.
I figure a plastic slug for this(they aren't really rubber) would weigh about 500 lbs. Unfortunately, Israel has none of those guns and they are a bit hard to move around if you don't have a battleship to put them on.
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Dead center! You've got to admit that whoever shot this guy, he did a great job. It's nice to know some people still take care in what they do, most would have aimed center of mass and be done with it, gee, I wonder what will be on teevee tonight?, but there was one guy, one single guy who took the extra step, the extra effort of perfect headshot. Kudos!
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Rex - that was the first thing I thought of :"headshot! Headhunter!"
steveS: moi??? LOL
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Regarding how hard the rubber bullets are. P.J O'Rourke, no pansy peaceknick described the bullets as shoe-leather wrapped around real bullet. He felt the ones (used in the 80s, they may have changed) were excessive.
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I have no sympathy for the idiot. He's probably some liberal arts professor at some minor private college in the United States, and really believes all the sh$$ about the paleostains. Should have been treated with a tourniquet around the neck. As for the battleship comment, I think the best thing the US could do would be to revive four or twelve of the beasts, remove the turrets and replace them with GMLRS launchers, line 'em up in a Battle Line, and just pound every square inch of "palestine" territory - for about a month. THEN we'll have "peace talks".
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I absolutely love the look of shocked disbelief on his face, nothing like getting hit in the head by reality to knock some sense into his brain.
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RJ, I really doubt it knocked any sense into him. It probably reinforced his belief of how brutal and in sincetive the Israelis are. People like him never learn.
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I'm guessing 'Shanbo Heinemann' is an alias.
Shanbo is the personal name of a character in a famous Chinese folk tale. The Heinemann library at Oxford is famous for its collection of Chinese texts.
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With one simple day of protesting he gets to look like he's been banging his head on the floor of a mosque five times a day every day for his whole life.
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Rubber Bullets, or baton rounds, can be deadly at close range. There were over a dozen people killed in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. My friend had a few of them on his mantle in Belfast. You would not want to be hit with one.
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He'll probably go back to join the protesters in front of the Marine recruitment center.
A real war hero...
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What was he doing with dead people on his mantle ?
The tea shop is abandoned. Rubber plantations stand untended. Soldiers constantly patrol the one-lane road leading into this Muslim village. Rae Poh was once designated a "green zone" village, one of more than 1,600 such islands of peace amid the violence that has torn Thailand's southern tip since a Muslim jihad insurgency erupted four years ago. Then, on Jan. 14, terrorists insurgents ambushed an army patrol about a mile away, killing all eight soldiers and beheading one of them. Now Rae Poh is a "red zone" one of some 320 loosely designated by the authorities as terrorists insurgent hotbeds and under virtual military siege.
Their number is up from 215 at the end of 2004, the first year of the jihad insurgency a dramatic example of the failures of a government hearts-and-minds campaign to quell an uprising that has taken more than 2,900 lives. The jihad insurgency worsened as the government of Thaksin Shinawatra adopted an iron-fist policy. The military regime that overthrew him in 2006 tried a conciliatory approach, apologizing for Thaksin's crackdown. But since December the violence has escalated. Now Thailand again has an elected government, and the jihad insurgency is its big challenge.
The terrorists rebels have never made public their demands, but researchers who have spoken to them say they are seeking an independent Islamic state in the three southernmost provinces that were a Muslim sultanate until annexed by Buddhist-majority Thailand a century ago. "Hello? Transnational Institute for Advanced Terror Studies calling. Please tell us everything you refuse to tell journalists or government officials. We'll be sure to relay the information to the outside world at our convenience."
The new government describes the jihad insurgency as a security problem that the military, with 40,000 troops and police in the south, can handle. But on the ground, 500 miles from the capital, Bangkok, a senior army officer says the military can't resolve the crisis alone. "We have managed to suppress the violence in a number of red zones but I acknowledge we still don't have strong political or communications teams that work to create understanding with villagers after something like this happens," said Lt. Gen. Veerachai Nakwanit, referring to the January ambush. "Soldiers can provide security," said Veerachai, who heads military operations in Rae Poh's Narathiwat province. "But men in uniform can't do much to win the trust of the people, especially when the other side is relying on bloodthirsty troglodytes religious leaders for its political work."
An Associated Press reporter, who had to talk her way past a suspicious army commander to enter Rae Poh one week after the attack, ... "Don't worry. I'm just a researcher."
... found soldiers reluctant to go in and villagers afraid to go out.
The night before the attack, the normally bustling village market and tea shop were unusually quiet. Investigations later showed that terrorists insurgents had been planning the attack for at least three days from a nearby jungle hideout, said Col. Kanart Nikornyanond, whose unit is based in a deserted Buddhist monastery near Rae Poh. Nobody from Rae Poh stepped forward to report the suspicious activity, despite his troops' efforts to cultivate trust, he said. "We thought we had a good relationship with the local Muslims here, but they don't trust us and they are scared of the terrorists insurgents," the colonel said. Pati Mudoloh, whose son Isamael was detained after the ambush, acknowledged that villagers noticed something amiss but said they were too frightened to talk to the soldiers. "What's the point?" she asked. "They already suspect we Muslims are all terrorists insurgents."
After the ambush, troops searched homes and found traces of explosives and gunpowder. At least 17 men were detained, of whom four have been released. One of those held is Mena Jeh-ha's 19-year-old son, Asaman. He is accused of triggering the bomb that flipped the soldiers' vehicle before terrorists insurgents unleashed a barrage of gunfire, leaving no survivors. The soldiers "came into the house, searched thoroughly and asked if I had a son. They took him away when he came back," said Mena, wiping away tears with her veil. "I don't want him to be beaten or tortured. He didn't do anything wrong." Authorities say that an ion scan showed traces of ammonium nitrate, a bomb-making ingredient, on Asaman's body.
Many innocent young men get caught up in the sweeps, experts say. Experts are one level up from researchers.
"They are taking the breadwinners of the family," said Zachary Abuza, an expert on terrorism in Southeast Asia at Simmons College in Boston. "It could be counterproductive in the long run and add fuel to the already tense situation." "If we were to offer the terrorists food stamps, it just might calm the whole situation down. Remember, I am an expert."
Masoh Maeh, a southern Muslim leader sympathetic to the government, said the authorities face a long fight. "The terrorists insurgents have their own agenda and they are not just reacting to one policy or another," he said. "That's what makes it difficult. As long as they still have ammunition, they set the agenda, not the government." The problem, he said, "is deeply rooted in appeasement history and no matter what the government does, they can't change that immediately."
In Rae Poh, villagers watch approaching soldiers with suspicion. Women and children keep their heads down. "Every house is dead quiet by four," said Parida Makeh, a Muslim woman whose house was also searched on the day after the incident. "We don't want to keep the lights or the TV on. It's better not to attract too much attention, so we just say our prayers and go to bed, hoping they won't come back to search the house or take more people away."
The village lives off rubber-tapping, but some villagers said they are too scared to go to the plantation, even under military protection. "We don't want to go out at dawn with the soldiers wielding their guns. They said it's for our protection but, after all, they suspect our kids were involved in the attack just because of a few traces of ammonium nitrate. Who knows what they will do to us?" Parida said. "The terrorists insurgents could be out there too. It's not worth it." We're supposed to believe that most of these people are more scared of the soldiers than the terrorists? I can't even count how many reports of these rubber tappers being shot by terrorists I've posted in the past couple of years. The AP might want to consider balancing the findings of the "researchers" and "experts" with some common sense.
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As per the USA, the Radical Islamist threat to GUAM, i.e. the destabilization + destruction of the Catholic Church and ArchDiocese, or in the altern the conversion of same into a Muslim-Islamist MOSQUE(S), lies "OVER THERE" OTH in the WOT CAMPAIGNS IN THE PHILIPINES AND SOUTH-SE ASIA + PACIFIC, ETC. YEARS 2008-2012 + US POTUS ELEX IS AS IMPORTANT TO GUAM AND ITS TRADITIONAL WAY-OF-LIFE AS IT IS FOR THE USA AND ANY FUTURE OWG-NWO.
A VERY REAL DESTINY/THREAT TO GUAM IS BEING DECIDED IN THIS WOT. Instead of me meeting up wid my anti-Soviet Afghan War comrade-assoc OSAMA BIN LADEN, etc, in the ME, OSAMA + his BURQUA BOYZ MAY ONE DAY END UP COMING TO ME IN GUAM, AND EXCLUSIVE OF ANY MUSLIM INDONESIAN-SUMATRAN EMIGRATIONS-DIASPORAS DUE TO "EARTH CHANGES" IN THAT REGION???
(Xinhua) -- The Sri Lankan military said Saturday eight dead bodies of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels were found after government troops launched an attack on the rebels' strong point in the north.
Officials from the Media Center for National Security said heavy damages were caused to the rebels when the troops launched an attack on an LTTE strong point in the northeastern Welioya are a around 7 a.m. local time (0130 GMT). Eight dead bodies of the rebels were found and would be handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross, the officials said.
Meanwhile, pro-rebel sources said three soldiers were killed in an attack carried out by the rebels when a 3-member-team of a patrol unit entered a no-go zone between the LTTE and the government at Naavatkulam in the Vavuniya district around 10:15 a.m.(0945 GMT).
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3dc: Like the glutton for punishment I am I clicked on your *&#%^$ link thinking it would be Shrillary defiling singing the Star Spangled Banner or something equally fascinating and revolting at the same time. It's been a few minutes now and the pain in my ears is subsiding a bit. I had to rip them off because I couldn't click the 'back' button with my hands instinctively pressed against my ears in an act of self-preservation. You're lucky I'm not a mod or you'd never get back in! :-)
Does anyone know if Ethel was a communist? Here's a vid I found of Ethel singing with Fidel Castro.
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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A mine blast killed seven guards in Afghanistan on Saturday, while two civilians were killed in separate incidents, officials said.
A suicide bomber targeting pilgrims heading to one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest festivals killed 40 people, including women and children, south of Baghdad on Sunday. Police and the US military said the bomber struck in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, hours after militants killed three pilgrims and wounded 36 others in an attack in southern Baghdad. 
ZAKHU, Iraq - Kurdish PKK guerrillas said on Saturday they had recovered the bodies of 15 of the 22 Turkish soldiers they say they have killed in clashes since Turkey launched an offensive against them. The rebels had also begun planning reprisal attacks on Turkish soil, a spokesman for the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said.
Turkish forces killed as many as 79 Kurdish militants and lost seven soldiers of their own in the first two days of their largest incursion into Iraq in 11 years, the armed forces said today. 
(Xinhua) -- Iraqi security forces backed by the U.S. aircraft raided insurgents' hideouts in Salahudin province on Saturday, killing 10 suspected insurgents, including a local leader, and capturing four others, a provincial police officer said. 
The tea shop is abandoned. Rubber plantations stand untended. Soldiers constantly patrol the one-lane road leading into this Muslim village. Rae Poh was once designated a "green zone" village, one of more than 1,600 such islands of peace amid the violence that has torn Thailand's southern tip since a Muslim 
(Xinhua) -- The Sri Lankan military said Saturday eight dead bodies of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels were found after government troops launched an attack on the rebels' strong point in the north. 
