Posted by: Fred ||
07/05/2008 18:10 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
evening, Fred, and thanks for all you do. My economic stimulus check is due in the mail this week, and along with replacing my dead desktop HD, I'll contribute the usual.
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/05/2008 19:18 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Thanks, Frank. I always try to put off blegging for as long as possible...
Posted by: Fred ||
07/05/2008 20:31 Comments ||
Top||
#3
Looks like Fred opened a big can of Bug-B-Gone. Thanks for the hard work.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
07/05/2008 20:51 Comments ||
Top||
#4
ES check went to new dresser/armoire and getting the bedroom painted, but I've got a tickler in my calendar for next payday.
Fred, have I ever mentioned you're a GOD?
And Badanov's a godlet for helping with the server. ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
07/05/2008 21:28 Comments ||
Top||
#1
If they blow themselves up, the media doesn't seem to show any outrage about their activities. If we blow them up, the media prints all the propaganda crap about blowing up milk factories, women and children, mosques, and fluffy bunnies.
#2
Wait a minute! It's impossible to independently verify the report and the report is from AP. So, in real money how much is this info worth? Let's start the bidding at two cents. Do I hear three?
Posted by: Richard of Oregon ||
07/05/2008 12:02 Comments ||
Top||
#3
Can we go backwards? 2 cents sounds a little high...
Posted by: Abu do you love ||
07/05/2008 12:53 Comments ||
Top||
#4
Fred must still be tinkerin' under the hood. At the moment the story doesn't appear.
Afghan officials say a U.S.-led coalition air strike has killed 22 civilians in eastern Afghanistan.
District chief Zia-ul-Rehman told reporters the attack happened Friday on a road in the remote district of Nuristan province, near the Pakistani border. He said the civilians were leaving the area, when their vehicles were bombed.
In a statement Friday, the U.S.-led coalition confirmed the air raid but denied any civilians had been killed. The coalition says the air strike was in response to a militant attack on a base and that militants - not civilians - were killed in the air raid.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called on foreign troops to minimize civilian casualties. The United Nations says close to 700 civilians have been killed so far this year, after being caught in crossfire between Taliban insurgents and foreign forces.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/05/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
#1
I am gonna guess that this is one of those frienemy reports - friend when they want something from us, enemy when we're not looking. In this case, I guess they want to generate propaganda for the Taliban while extorting compensation payments for the Taliban dead.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called on foreign troops to minimize civilian casualties. The United Nations says close to 700 civilians have been killed so far this year, after being caught in crossfire between Taliban insurgents and foreign forces.
May I suggest that the Afghan officials including Afghan President Hamid Karzai wear bunny, kitten, hamster, mickey mouse, and/or puppy outfits for the duration. It might make them think like they act... like amateur non-combatants.
Posted by: Jack is Back! ||
07/05/2008 7:38 Comments ||
Top||
#5
There was an ambush last fall in Nuristan on an American column returning from a village meet-and-greet, one of those thankfully rare cases of a well-planned, well-executed enemy action that caught our people unprepared & trapped in a tight killzone. The context strongly suggested that it was the locals being typically unsociable in that Central Asian Hillbilly tradition of "if you're not married into the tribe, you're maybe fair game, stranger, if I can catch you when nobody's lookin'".
I speculate that this might have been a case of delayed retribution on the non-Taliban malefactors in that previous case.
Posted by: Mitch H. ||
07/05/2008 8:21 Comments ||
Top||
#6
in that Central Asian Hillbilly tradition of 'if you're not married into the tribe, you're maybe fair game, stranger, if I can catch you when nobody's lookin''.
Obviously, if they get our guys, why - that's just cricket, whereas if we nail them - ain't no Taliban here; they're all civilians.
#7
I don't recall the South Vietnam government reporting atrocity propaganda, during the war in Southeast Asia. Karzai can go to hell, after his US citizenship is revoked.
Ethiopia says its forces have killed 71 Islamist fighters and leaders in Somalia in a joint operation with the Somali government.
State media Friday say the joint operation was launched June 29 to stop what it called a "planned terrorist offensive" in the Meteban and Gura'el areas.
The reports say 13 of those killed were leaders of Somalia's Islamic Courts Union or the al-Shabab militant group. They say one of those killed was a Canadian colonel whose name is on a list of international terrorists.
Reuters news agency quotes Sheikh Abdirahim Issa Adow, an Islamist spokesman, as saying only seven fighters were killed and nine others wounded in the clashes. The spokesman also denied the insurgents had a Canadian colonel in their ranks.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/05/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic Courts
(Xinhua) -- Canada's Foreign Affairs Ministry confirmed Friday that a Canadian is missing in Colombia, following reports that he was kidnapped by Colombia's largest left-wing rebel group FARC.
Guess FARC's feeling the need to replenish.
Dumb move unless they're out of cash.
Canadian diplomats in Bogota are in contact with Colombian authorities responsible for the investigation after being advised earlier this week about the missing, a spokesperson told reporters in Ottawa, without giving further information. However, according to Canadian media reports citing information from Colombia, the 46-year-old man with the name of Thomas McLain was actually kidnapped.
Leftist guerrillas called the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) kidnapped McLain and his brother-in-law Jesus Salvador Aristizabal Zuluaga, a 47-year-old rancher, in a rural area in the city of Tulua on June 26, the reports said. A group of strangers intercepted the two men, police said. No ransom has been demanded.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/05/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[3 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Canadian Colonels in Somalia and missing Canadians in Columbia. Can't Canada just stay out of everyone else's business? Signs of imperialism it seems to me.
Posted by: Jack is Back! ||
07/05/2008 7:45 Comments ||
Top||
#2
What makes you think that it's not "one and the same" here? Let's use a little closure, folks.
#3
Some of my best friends are Canadians, including at least one Canadian officer who's already served two tours in Afghanistan. Canada has a problem with some of its muslim inhabitants, just as we and every other non-muslim nation has. Sounds like the Canadian that was kidnapped was visiting in-laws, not participating in anything military- or drug-related. Let's keep the aspersions to a minimum, except where it belongs - Pakistan, Afghanistan, Paleostain, Lebanon, etc.
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
07/05/2008 14:29 Comments ||
Top||
#4
Hopefully Mr. McLain will be in the next batch of rescuees. Jack dear, you forgot to and the /sarcasm tag at the bottom of your comment.
#5
Hope I am wrong, but the possibility is there that FARC, after getting duped last weekend may choose to go on the offensive and start killing hostages; more for the 'look at us, we still be impo'tant' factor than anything else.
Hope there are follow on 'activities' planned for those still held.
South Korean police said on Friday that two Pakistanis were among nine people arrested for trying to smuggle tonnes of chemicals for heroin production to Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents. Police said one Afghan, two Pakistanis, two Indians and four Koreans were detained for trying to use South Korea as a shipping point for several tonnes of acetic anhydride destined for southern Afghanistan. The chemical is heated with morphine, an opium derivative, to make heroin.
In co-operation with the international police organisation Interpol, South Korean police were also hunting three foreigners who had fled abroad, Oh Ki-Duk, an investigator, told AFP.
Police confiscated 12 tonnes of acetic anhydride in a chemical engineering factory in the Seoul suburb of Ansan and arrested two people including a 47-year-old suspected Taliban member, he said.
'The key Afghan suspect admitted he did it at the instigation of the Taliban,' Oh said. 'But he claimed he is not a member of the Taliban.' He said the suspect had tried to smuggle the chemical, disguised as motor oil, into Afghanistan through Iran.
Oh said the Afghan came to South Korea on a forged passport and recruited Pakistani and Indian workers in the country. 'Despite his denial, we have circumstantial evidence that he is a Taliban member,' he said.
In a separate operation led by Pakistanis, police said about 50 tonnes of the chemical had already been shipped to Afghanistan between April last year and March this year. It was labelled as disinfectant.
Wonder if it went through Iran ...
One Pakistani suspect was arrested in a Seoul suburb, and another who had acquired South Korean citizenship was detained in the United Arab Emirates, he said. 'Legal steps are being taken to repatriate the suspect arrested in the United Arab Emirates,' Oh said. The operations were funded by the hawala money transfer network widely used in the Middle East, police said.
The 62 tonnes of acetic anhydride cost about 360 million won (344,800 dollars) but could be used to produce nearly 30 tonnes of heroin, Yonhap news agency quoted investigator Kim Ki-Yong as saying. 'The suspects had money transferred from accounts suspected to be linked to hawala, and they acknowledged they had received orders from the Taliban,' Kim said. The acetic anhydride was imported from Japan through several Korean dealers.
The investigation started in March after Interpol discovered 14 tonnes of the chemical which had been shipped from Korea in the southern Pakistani port of Karachi.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says Afghanistan produced 8,200 tons of opium base last year, 92 percent of the worldwide total. The report also noted that 80 percent of the output came from five southern provinces where Taliban insurgents profit from drug-trafficking.
South Korea is a relatively drug-free nation, with just 7,709 people arrested in 2006 for drug offences. But officials say it is becoming a more popular international transit point for cocaine and 'ice'.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/05/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
#1
Pakistan: The gift that keeps on giving.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
07/05/2008 12:22 Comments ||
Top||
#2
really doesn't seem like it would be that hard to break the chain at the poppy field.
50,000 gallons of roundup would go a long way to defeating the taliban.
Posted by: Abu do you love ||
07/05/2008 13:02 Comments ||
Top||
Federal prosecutors in Miami have indicted two naturalized US citizens with illegally providing US-made military aircraft parts to Iranian buyers.
An 11-count indictment released Thursday charged Hassan Saied Keshari and Traian Bujduveanu with violating arms export laws and circumventing the US embargo against Iran.
Prosecutors said the men bought and sold the parts in the US and then illegally shipped them to Iran through the United Arab Emirates.
"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God."
Oath brakers.
If convicted, revoke the citizenship and deport them.
#8
I took a similar oath when I enlisted. Except of course the part about renouncing allegiance to other countries, and with the addition of obeying orders of the president and officers above me.
Posted by: Rambler in California ||
07/05/2008 18:13 Comments ||
Top||
#9
Don't we all, by implication, when a natural born citizen? We should expect no less, and enforce same (hear me, Lynne Stewart, you hairy-moled sack of shit?) of our citizens
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/05/2008 18:32 Comments ||
Top||
#10
Well, deport them to their original country - exiting at 20,000 ft, bound, no parachute.
A bomb fixed on a motorcycle exploded outside a bank in Quetta on Friday, killing a five-year-old girl and injuring 12 others, including five policemen, police told Daily Times.
The explosive-laden motorbike was parked outside a private bank on Manan Chowk, Jinnah Road. Around two-dozen banks and offices of insurance companies and cellular companies are situated in the area. "The deceased girl was a beggar, she succumbed to her wounds during surgery in the Quetta Civil Hospital," Police chief Muhammad Akbar told Reuters. The girl's father was also injured in the blast, according to staff report. The injured policemen included four traffic constables. Separately, a blast damaged the boundary wall of a school in Kohlu, APP reported. Two electricity towers were destroyed in the Kohlu and Rakhni areas. A gas pipeline was blown up in Dera Bugti. A large section of the pipeline was destroyed, suspending the gas supply to the plant.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/05/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under:
Militants kidnapped two Frontier Corps (FC) drivers on Friday. The drivers were taking food supplies in two mini trucks for FC personnel deployed in North Waziristan. They were en route from Miranshah to Dattakhel and were abducted at Kharkamar at around 2pm. The militants shifted the drivers and their vehicle to an undisclosed location. No group has claimed responsibility for the abductions.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/05/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
Unidentified armed men kidnapped three security personnel from Surkh Pul on Friday. Police constable Sami Ullah and FC personnel Hayat Gul and Shah Rehman were going in a vehicle from Doaba Police Station to Hangu Saddar Police Station when the kidnappers intercepted their vehicle. The Hangu police are making raiding to recover the kidnapped security personnel. District Co-ordination Officer Syed Shahab Ali Shah has confirmed the incident.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/05/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
Taliban have abducted two journalists and a local who entered a militant stronghold in Mohmand Agency. The militants detained freelance reporter Pir Zubair Shah Wazir and photographer Akhtar Soomro in Ziarat village late on Thursday. Taliban spokesman Dr Asad said: "Our council will meet and decide what to do". "If we find there is contradiction in statements of the two men then we will continue investigation for longer time." Agency's chief official Ahmed Jan said a jirga has been formed to secure the release of the journalists.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/05/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
The government on Friday suspended its security operation against suspected militants and criminals in the Khyber Agency for 36 hours to allow Afridi tribesmen to meet Mangal Bagh and conduct peace talks.
"The operation has been suspended until Saturday morning on the request of the tribal jirga and we have relaxed the curfew in Bara to facilitate locals," Khyber Agency Chief Administrator Tariq Hayat Khan told Daily Times. He said that Afridi elders had approached him on Thursday and offered to conduct negotiations with Lashkar-e-Islam chief Mangal Bagh to help restore peace in the area.
Khan said the government had provided the jirga members with a list of demands for Bagh, adding that these included surrender of all weapons along with a guarantee that Bagh would not challenge the state's writ.
"The jirga was not sent by the government. The Afridi tribesmen initiated it on their own as they were worried that the security operation could continue indefinitely until all the set goals had been achieved," he added.
The 18-member Afridi jirga left for Tirah Valley on Thursday to conduct negotiations with Mangal Bagh, tribal sources said. It returned on Friday evening, chief tribal negotiator Haji Amal Gul told Daily Times. "There has been progress (in talks) but we cannot share with media," he added. He said the jirga would brief Khan on the talks with Bagh on Saturday (today).
Operation to resume: "If our goals can be achieved through peaceful means, we will certainly pursue them. But, rest assured, we will continue the operation as long as our demands are not met," Khan said, prior to the jirga's return.
He said security forces had destroyed 16 militant compounds during the past six days of the operation, adding that they had also identified 14 other such compounds. He said the remaining centres would also be destroyed if the jirga failed to convince Bagh to surrender to the government.
Due to relaxation in the operation, Bara Bazaar was open on Friday, and several cars were observed on the roads for the first time since the operation was launched on June 28. Authorities also relaxed the curfew from 8am to 5pm. Local residents used this time to purchase essential commodities, said local trader Daud Khan Afridi.
The government ordered the military operation in Khyber Agency following challenges to Peshawar security from Mangal Bagh's organisation and other criminals.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/05/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Lashkar-e-Islami
SRINAGAR -Five more Indian soldiers, including two officers, have been killed in a gun battle raging in a mountain pass near the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir since Monday. One militant, too, has been killed in the duel. With these killings the toll in what has been termed by the military officials as the biggest clash of the year between the two sides in the restive Himalayan state has risen to 18, including 12 militants.
The gun battle along Nasthachun pass in Karnah area of northwestern Kupwara district started on Monday and was still going on as reports last came in, officials said adding that 11 militants and a junior commissioned officer (JCO) of the army had died during the first three days of the fighting.
Troops from 20 Rashtriya Rifles and 16 JAT who were involved in the operations initially have been joined by reinforcements from these and other formations as the militants who seem to be part of a large group have tactically dotted the nearby woods, reports said. The identity of the slain militants is being ascertained, officials said.
In Srinagar, a police spokesperson said that a Jaish-e-Mohammed militant, Shabir Ahmad alias Arsalan, was killed and his accomplice who could not be identified but is believed to be a non-Kashmiri was injured in an encounter at Barapora in southern Pulwama district yesterday.
Posted by: Steve White ||
07/05/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under:
The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.
The removal of 550 metric tons of "yellowcake" the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions.
What's now left is the final and complicated push to clean up the remaining radioactive debris at the former Tuwaitha nuclear complex about 12 miles south of Baghdad using teams that include Iraqi experts recently trained in the Chernobyl fallout zone in Ukraine.
"Everyone is very happy to have this safely out of Iraq," said a senior U.S. official who outlined the nearly three-month operation to The Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.
While yellowcake alone is not considered potent enough for a so-called "dirty bomb" a conventional explosive that disperses radioactive material it could stir widespread panic if incorporated in a blast. Yellowcake also can be enriched for use in reactors and, at higher levels, nuclear weapons using sophisticated equipment.
The Iraqi government sold the yellowcake to a Canadian uranium producer, Cameco Corp., in a transaction the official described as worth "tens of millions of dollars." A Cameco spokesman, Lyle Krahn, declined to discuss the price, but said the yellowcake will be processed at facilities in Ontario for use in energy-producing reactors.
"We are pleased ... that we have taken (the yellowcake) from a volatile region into a stable area to produce clean electricity," he said.
The deal culminated more than a year of intense diplomatic and military initiatives kept hushed in fear of ambushes or attacks once the convoys were under way: first carrying 3,500 barrels by road to Baghdad, then on 37 military flights to the Indian Ocean atoll of Diego Garcia and finally aboard a U.S.-flagged ship for a 8,500-mile trip to Montreal.
Tuwaitha and an adjacent research facility were well known for decades as the centerpiece of Saddam's nuclear efforts.
Israeli warplanes bombed a reactor project at the site in 1981. Later, U.N. inspectors documented and safeguarded the yellowcake, which had been stored in aging drums and containers since before the 1991 Gulf War. There was no evidence of any yellowcake dating from after 1991, the official said.
U.S. and Iraqi forces have guarded the 23,000-acre site surrounded by huge sand berms following a wave of looting after Saddam's fall that included villagers toting away yellowcake storage barrels for use as drinking water cisterns.
Yellowcake is obtained by using various solutions to leach out uranium from raw ore and can have a corn meal-like color and consistency. It poses no severe risk if stored and sealed properly. But exposure carries well-documented health concerns associated with heavy metals such as damage to internal organs, experts say.
"The big problem comes with any inhalation of any of the yellowcake dust," said Doug Brugge, a professor of public health issues at the Tufts University School of Medicine.
Moving the yellowcake faced numerous hurdles.
Diplomats and military leaders first weighed the idea of shipping the yellowcake overland to Kuwait's port on the Persian Gulf. Such a route, however, would pass through Iraq's Shiite heartland and within easy range of extremist factions, including some that Washington claims are aided by Iran. The ship also would need to clear the narrow Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Gulf, where U.S. and Iranian ships often come in close contact.
Kuwaiti authorities, too, were reluctant to open their borders to the shipment despite top-level lobbying from Washington.
An alternative plan took shape: shipping out the yellowcake on cargo planes.
But the yellowcake still needed a final destination. Iraqi government officials sought buyers on the commercial market, where uranium prices spiked at about $120 per pound last year. It's currently selling for about half that. The Cameco deal was reached earlier this year, the official said.
At that point, U.S.-led crews began removing the yellowcake from the Saddam-era containers some leaking or weakened by corrosion and reloading the material into about 3,500 secure barrels.
In April, truck convoys started moving the yellowcake from Tuwaitha to Baghdad's international airport, the official said. Then, for two weeks in May, it was ferried in 37 flights to Diego Garcia, a speck of British territory in the Indian Ocean where the U.S. military maintains a base.
On June 3, an American ship left the island for Montreal, said the official, who declined to give further details about the operation.
The yellowcake wasn't the only dangerous item removed from Tuwaitha.
Earlier this year, the military withdrew four devices for controlled radiation exposure from the former nuclear complex. The lead-enclosed irradiation units, used to decontaminate food and other items, contain elements of high radioactivity that could potentially be used in a weapon, according to the official. Their Ottawa-based manufacturer, MDS Nordion, took them back for free, the official said.
The yellowcake was the last major stockpile from Saddam's nuclear efforts, but years of final cleanup is ahead for Tuwaitha and other smaller sites.
The U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency plans to offer technical expertise.
Last month, a team of Iraqi nuclear experts completed training in the Ukrainian ghost town of Pripyat, which once housed the Chernobyl workers before the deadly meltdown in 1986, said an IAEA official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decontamination plan has not yet been publicly announced.
But the job ahead is enormous, complicated by digging out radioactive "hot zones" entombed in concrete during Saddam's rule, said the IAEA official. Last year, an IAEA safety expert, Dennis Reisenweaver, predicted the cleanup could take "many years."
Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Friday instructed the IDF to begin the process of issuing demolition orders against the homes of Ala Abu Dhaim of Jebl Mukaber - who killed eight religious seminary students in March - and Husam Taysir Dwayat of Sur Bahir, who killed three Israelis on Wednesday.
"The Arab who smashed Jews with Caterpillar bulldozer had lived with a Jewish woman. He is a family man with two children, no terrorist affiliation, and good reputation in the neighborhood. Just before the murders, the Arab dined quietly with his co-workers. Then something clicked in his mind."
#1
seems that bulldozing a mosque would go further to eliminating this sort of behavior... but i do applaud the dozing of his house. the pressure of a family not to have their house destroyed will prevent at least one nut job from similar actions.
and it is karmic...
Posted by: Abu do you love ||
07/05/2008 13:08 Comments ||
Top||
#2
So are the children and the family that of the Jewish woman he was living with, or had he left those with the mother while he lived with a Jewish woman he wouldn't marry... or did he decide to murder large numbers of those who shared her faith because she would not marry him? Either way, such behaviour is exactly the kind to induce the kaffir to convert to the True Faith.
Seven people have been killed in four separate shooting incidents in Thailand's troubled southern states, police said Saturday.
In a drive-by shooting early Saturday, witnesses said at least five terrorists militants in a pick-up truck opened fire on a tea shop in Yala province's Raman district, killing four villagers and wounding four others. Nearby, in the Bannang Sata district of Yala, a 56-year-old Thai Buddhist man was shot dead and beheaded before his body was set on fire Friday, while his 28-year-old son was seriously wounded.
A 41-year-old Thai Muslim man was shot dead in his pick-up truck in a drive-by shooting in the same area shortly afterwards. In the neighbouring province of Pattani, a 56-year-old retired teacher was shot dead Friday evening in the Meung district after leaving a mosque.
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.
Afghan officials say a U.S.-led coalition air strike has killed 22 civilians in eastern Afghanistan.
Ethiopia says its forces have killed 71 Islamist fighters and leaders in Somalia in a joint operation with the Somali government.
A bomb fixed on a motorcycle exploded outside a bank in Quetta on Friday, killing a five-year-old girl and injuring 12 others, including five policemen, police told Daily Times.
SRINAGAR -Five more Indian soldiers, including two officers, have been killed in a gun battle raging in a mountain pass near the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir since Monday. One militant, too, has been killed in the duel. With these killings the toll in what has been termed by the military officials as the biggest clash of the year between the two sides in the restive Himalayan state has risen to 18, including 12 militants.
The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.
