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Young Frank G. made purdy picture of a truss bridge I expect. I spent two weeks removing the silver magic. THERE'S NOTHING THERE, NOTHING BUT A FEW WIRES AND RODS! I've been blacklisted from the Ohio Arts Website but I do have dis. Spread the word! It ain't magik! It's simple statik and mechaniks!
My son left the front door unlocked last night but was sleeping on the couch "watching" TV. I get woken up at 3:50 this morning by a hot, but obviously drunk, blonde 21 year old named "Amber" in my bedroom looking for "her laptop" (and no, we didn't know her)
And I made her leave
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(SomaliNet) In the latest battle pitting Islamist insurgents against government and peacekeeping troops, mortar attacks in Somalia's capital killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens more on Friday, witnesses said.
According to reports, some 3,000 peacekeepers from Uganda and Burundi are guarding key sites in Mogadishu as part of a planned 8,000 strong African Union (AU) mission known as AMISOM.
Insurgents fired artillery rounds at a Ugandan military base in the city's K4 area from nearby alleys, prompting an exchange of mortar and machinegun fire which lasted for hours, residents in Mogadishu said. "They attacked our defence position at K4 and we chased them...There are no casualties from our side," an AMISOM spokesman told Reuters.
The peacekeepers have been targeted in a string of bombings and ambushes since the Islamists launched their rebellion early last year.
Hussein Aden, a grocer at the main Bakara market, said he saw eight mutilated bodies after three mortars detonated in the market. "The first one landed in front of a shop killing four people and wounding four others who were busy buying vegetables," he said.
He said the second mortar blew up four children when it dropped in front of their house, while the third one went into the ground causing no harm.
Hospital sources said six out of at least 35 civilians who were injured in Thursday's attacks died later.
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Somali pirates released 22 sailors they kidnapped last month after the South Korean ship owner paid a ransom, an official said Friday as India announced it plans to send a warship off the troubled nation's coast. The eight South Koreans and 14 Myanmarese were freed on Thursday. They had been held since their 15,000-ton cargo ship was seized off the coast of the east African nation on September 10.
Koo Ja-Woo, an executive director of J and J Trust, which owns the ship, said his firm paid an unspecified sum to the pirates through a foreign middleman with experience in dealing with the seizure of ships. "As a result, we could secure the early release of the sailors. But I can't disclose the amount," he told Yonhap news agency.
J and J officials and South Korea's Foreign Ministry were not immediately available for comment. The ministry said earlier the South Koreans were expected to return home on October 26.
Meanwhile, India said Friday it was deploying a warship off Somalia to protect its merchant vessels. The move comes after the MT Stolt Valor carrying mainly Indian crew was hijacked on September 17 by Somali pirates in the gulf. "The government has approved the deployment of one warship with immediate effect to patrol the route followed by Indian flagships between Oman and Yemen," a Defense Ministry official said. The number of warships could be boosted later, he added. The "anti-piracy patrol" vessel will have helicopters and marine commandos on board, said a ministry statement late on Thursday.
The deployment follows weeks of protests by shipworkers and families of the detained crew who have been demanding rescue efforts for the MT Stolt Valor's crew of 22. The includes 18 Indians, two Filipinos, a Bangladeshi as well as a Russian. "The presence of the Indian Navy in the area will help to protect our seaborne trade and instill confidence in our seafaring community, as well as function as a deterrent for pirates," the statement said.
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The Turkish military said Friday that up to 35 Kurdish rebels may have died in a military offensive near the Iraqi border earlier this week. General Metin Gurak, the head of the General Staff's press department, said that intercepted wireless communication between Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels during Tuesday's operation in Sirnak province spoke of up to 35 casualties.
"As you can see the organization has suffered heavily. We are still sweeping the area. We do not have an official statement yet" on the PKK's losses, he told a news conference.
The communication was intercepted after Turkish artillery and gunship fire targeted two groups of PKK militants when they were moving toward a military outpost in the mountainous region, he said. The intercepted messages also suggested the rebels might have shot dead fellow militants who were seriously wounded and could not move.
The Turkish military has intensified operations against the PKK since October 3 when the militants crossing from hideouts in neighboring Iraq assaulted a border outpost, killing 17 soldiers. Beside operations inside Turkey, it has also carried out seven air raids against PKK camps in northern Iraq, including one in which senior PKK members were targeted in the mountainous region of Zap, a major rebel stronghold.
Turkey's Parliament last week extended by one year the government's mandate to order cross-border military strikes against the PKK in northern Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region, which has been in effect since October 17, 2007.
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A Pakistani judge ruled on Friday that a young American man of Pakistani descent could be detained for another two days after he was arrested trying to enter a militant-plagued region on the Afghan border.
The man, identified by police as Judi Kenan, was detained on Monday while trying to enter the Mohmand ethnic Pashtun tribal region. Kenan was brought before the judge, Nasrullah Khan, amid tight security in a court near the northwestern town of Charsadda. "The judge remanded him into police custody for two days," a Charsadda police official said.
Kenan, clad in a shalwar kameez, a traditional baggy shirt and trousers, did not speak to the judge, a reporter said. "His face was covered with a cloth," said reporter Ahmed Ali.
Mohmand is one of Pakistan's seven semi-autonomous tribal regions that have long been off limits to foreigners without special permission and which in recent years have become plagued by Islamist militant violence.
Police said Kenan had told them he wanted to visit a friend in Mohmand. He had a valid visa for Pakistan but he did not have permission to enter the region and nor did he have his friend's address, police said.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack confirmed this week that a U.S. citizen had been detained by Pakistani officials and that U.S. diplomats had been given access to him.
This article starring:
Judi Kenan
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I'm waiting for the parodies on Johhny Cash. "A Jihadi Named Judi"
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extends detention? Keep him, we don't want him back
Posted by: Frank G ||
10/18/2008 13:04 Comments ||
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That may be why they "extended his detention", Frank G. The US may have said "he's not one of ours after all, YOU keep him". I'm sure that if we actually DID that a couple of times, it'd slow down the "jihadi flow" a bit.
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10/18/2008 15:35 Comments ||
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Nobody's done a Cary Grant imitation yet?
Posted by: Fred ||
10/18/2008 16:35 Comments ||
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Hopefully he's on the air terrorist watch list now and it will be a long walk/swim back to the U.S.
(APP): A senior official said here Friday that government would track and give severe punishments to the bomb hoax telephone callers, as such acts create panic among the people and cause unrest in the country. He observed that in the wake of alarming security situation in the country, some teenagers felt pleasure in playing with the sentiments of already terrorized masses through hoax telephonic calls.
It has now become a matter of routine that such hoax calls are being received to create confusion and tension among law enforcement agencies in particular and peace loving masses in general.
In a recent incident, Chakwal Police arrested Naeem Abbas son of Ghulam Abbas and Mubashir Hassan for giving a hoax call to the US Embassy in Islamabad.
In another incident, a student of St Mary's Academy, Rawalapindi made a call to Elite Force 1122 office, telling them that Army Public College at Humayun Road, Rawalpindi Cantt was about to explode. Later, the individual was traced and handed over to Civil Lines Police Station, Rawalpindi, the official said.
The law enforcement agencies are on the look out to nab other such individual who are engaged in act of terrorizing the masses, he added.
Latest technology has been put in place for hunting out the hoax callers and to give them severe punishment in accordance with the law of the land, he added. The official said a long list of such youth and other suspicious persons has been compiled and investigations are in progress. More arrests are expected soon, the official added.
There are evidences where teenage callers alerted security agencies's officials and created panic among the people, he said.
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(APP): As many as 26 foreigners including Uzbeks and Afghans held by law enforcing agencies the other day were Friday evening produced before the media here at Spina Thana near restive Darra Adamkhel town in FR Kohat.
The foreigners, who were believed to be involved in sabotage activities were booked by security officials during a successful action at Spina Thana check-post.
The local journalists were taken to the venue by the FC media cell where 14 Uzbeks and 12 Afghans were presented before TV and print media men blind folded.
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A Chinese engineer taken hostage in Pakistan seven weeks ago escaped from his Taliban abductors and found his way to an army post, the military said Friday. The Taliban said one of two Chinese hostages they were holding had gone missing, while the other had been severely injured in the escape bid. "How severely injured?"
"We chopped his head off."
The men had gone missing, along with their local driver and a security guard, on August 29 in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, where officials said they had been checking an installation.
Pakistan has been under severe pressure from the Chinese government, long one of its most imporant allies and strategic counterweight to arch-rival India, over the hostages, with Beijing publicly requesting that Islamabad rescue them. "One Chinese engineer has been recovered," Pakisani Army spokesman Colonel Nadeem Ahmad said, without giving further details.
Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan told AFP the second hostage was injured before he was re-captured. "Last night an incident happened after which one Chinese engineer was hurt and the other went missing," Khan said.
A separate Taliban source said the hostages were being moved from one location to another when they made an escape attempt. He said that the re-captured man had severely injured his leg falling down a steep mountain slope. "They were near the town of Matta in the Swat Valley when they made a run for it," he said.
Pakistani Army officials who declined to be identified by name said the man who escaped had come into contact with local anti-Taliban tribesmen who then guided him to a nearby army post.
The Taliban have demanded that the government release 122 fighters captured in the area during the ongoing military operation.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari completed a four-day state visit to China on Friday, though it was unclear if the fate of the hostages was discussed.
The local driver and security man were released soon after they were kidnapped. Islamic militants have been known in the past to target Chinese workers in Pakistan. China is one of Islamabad's closest allies as well as its largest arms supplier.
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I wonder if the Chinese will slip in a few martial artist "engineers", who are in fact vicious unarmed and armed killers. Though they are rare, even among martial artists, there are some who are walking death machines.
Armed, you need at least a 20 foot gap, if you have an automatic weapon with the safety off, to have a chance. Any closer, and they can close the gap and kill you before you can effectively react.
I hate to think what one would be like if he had a knife.
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In our early defensive handguns training, each of us had a plastic pistol and were attacked by a guy with a rubber knife starting 21 feet away. By the time we got our pistol out and presented, the guy with the knife had us cut in the throat and other places. It is very sobering.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
10/18/2008 13:14 Comments ||
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Personally, I prefer thermonuclear weapons at 500 miles, or a gattling gun for close-in work.
Seriously, if you can get the training, ask your local police department if they'll train you to use either a large flashlight or a baton for self-defense. It isn't any good against a guy with a gun unless you're REALLY, REALLY good, but against someone with a knife you're practically unstopable.
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(APP): The Security Forces backed by gunship helicopters, artillery and jet fighters killed another 10 militants in restive Loisam area in Bajaur Agency on Friday. Official sources in Frontier Corps told APP that nine to 10 miscreants were killed in intense exchange of firing with security forces at Loisam in restive Bajaur Agency bordering Afghanistan.
Militants' positions in the area were engaged with artillery and gunship helicopters, making miscreants to run from the area and left behind large quantity of arms and ammunitions. The sources said that miscreants were in dire straits and they on the run.
According to security officials and sources based in Bajaur said that the security forces have continued gunship helicopters shelling on Chinar, Kohai and Babara Charmang, Banda in tehsil Nowegi and Loyasam areas and destroyed several hideouts of militants.
The troops are advancing towards Loyesam bazaar and Zorbandar area as per planned. Curfew has been imposed in Khar area, the main town of the Bajaur Agency.
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(APP): The Security Forces, backed by gunship helicopters, warplanes and artillery fire killed 60 miscreants at Jargo Banda near Peochar in restive Tehsil Matta of Swat district.
Confirming the report, a spokesman of Information Media Centre Swat told APP on late Friday that the security forces engaged militants training camps and hideouts in the mountains of Jargo Banda, some 10 kilometers north of Peochart that left 60 miscreants dead and scores others injured.
Official sources based in Swat said that the hideouts of militants were engaged with gunship choppers and artillery fire that inflicted heavy casualties to pro-taliban militants. Several dens and hideouts of miscreants were also dismantled.
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Aswat al-Iraq: Policemen in Wassit province found an unidentified body of a woman on a road north of Kut city on Friday, a security source said. "The corpse, which showed signs of having been shot, was found on the Kut-Baghdad highway near the district al-Dabouni, (55 km) north of Kut," the source told Aswat al-Iraq, adding the body was removed to the al-Zahraa Hospital morgue.
The Kut policemen had earlier in the day found another body of a pregnant woman that showed signs of having been shot in al-Ahrar district, western Kut.
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Aswat al-Iraq: A wanted man was killed by unidentified gunmen north of al-Amara city on Friday, a media source within the Missan province police department said. "Unknown gunmen opened their machine-gun fire at a wanted man suspected of having killed three policemen in al-Jidiya village, Kemit district, (25 km) north of Amara, killing him instantly," the source told Aswat al-Iraq. "The killed man was on his way to a hospital for treatment from wounds he had sustained earlier in clashes with Iraqi policemen," the source added, not giving more details.
A Missan police source had told VOI three policemen, including an officer in the lank of lieutenant, and four civilians, including two children, were killed on Thursday in clashes between security forces and gunmen in al-Jidiya.
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Aswat al-Iraq: A civilian man was killed and another wounded when an improvised explosive device went off in northern Mosul on Friday, police said. "The IED exploded near a civilian man's house in al-Rashidiya area, northern Mosul. There was no security target in the area," the source told Aswat al-Iraq.
Earlier, a police source in Ninewa said an IED went off near the house of a Customs Administration employee in northern Mosul but left no casualties. "The explosion caused severe damage to the house but left no casualties," the source said.
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ANKARA, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- Turkish military said that its warplanes hit targets of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in Qandil region in Iraq's north on Friday. The Turkish General Staff said in a statement posted on its website that the warplanes have all safely returned to their bases in Turkey.
This was the seventh time that the Turkish warplanes have bombed PKK targets in several regions in northern Iraq since Oct. 4.
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BAGHDAD - Iraqi forces on Friday discovered a cache of explosives in a mosque south of Baghdad, an army source said.
The find was made when forces raided Adullah al-Gaboury mosque in al-Askanderia district, 60 kilometres south of Baghdad, the source told Deutsche Presse-Agentur, dpa. The explosives were removed and eight suspects were later arrested in the area.
Two brothers aged 14 and 17 were meanwhile found stabbed to death in Diwaniyah province in what appeared to have been an act of clan revenge, a police official told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency.
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(SomaliNet) In the latest battle pitting Islamist insurgents against government and peacekeeping troops, mortar attacks in Somalia's capital killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens more on Friday, witnesses said. 
Somali pirates released 22 sailors they kidnapped last month after the South Korean ship owner paid a ransom, an official said Friday as India announced it plans to send a warship off the troubled nation's coast. The eight South Koreans and 14 Myanmarese were freed on Thursday. They had been held since their 15,000-ton cargo ship was seized off the coast of the east African nation on September 10.
A Chinese engineer taken hostage in Pakistan seven weeks ago escaped from his Taliban abductors and found his way to an army post, the military said Friday. The Taliban said one of two Chinese hostages they were holding had gone missing, while the other had been severely injured in the escape bid.
(APP): The Security Forces backed by gunship helicopters, artillery and jet fighters killed another 10 militants in restive Loisam area in Bajaur Agency on Friday. Official sources in Frontier Corps told APP that nine to 10 miscreants were killed in intense exchange of firing with security forces at Loisam in restive Bajaur Agency bordering Afghanistan. 
(APP): The Security Forces, backed by gunship helicopters, warplanes and artillery fire killed 60 miscreants at Jargo Banda near Peochar in restive Tehsil Matta of Swat district. 
ANKARA, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- Turkish military said that its warplanes hit targets of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in Qandil region in Iraq's north on Friday. The Turkish General Staff said in a statement posted on its website that the warplanes have all safely returned to their bases in Turkey.
