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I tried to read the typing upside down, but I kept falling over. Loretta Young is always a good pick.
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It must be getting cold. For a few days, Fred provided pictures of scantily clad women (as in nekked). The last couple of days we have been treated to attractive women with clothes.
Nah, it's just Fred protecting all of you that log on from work. This is National Inspect the Downloads of your Employees week, and Fred's being proactive.
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This is National Inspect the Downloads of your Employees week, and Fred's being proactive.
Oh Shit! I'm screwed! Reading all those conservative blogs...
Erica Jong, in an interview with an Italian magazine:
My friends Ken Follett and Susan Cheever are extremely worried. Naomi Wolf calls me every day. Yesterday, Jane Fonda sent me an email to tell me that she cried all night and can't cure her ailing back for all the stress that has reduces her to a bundle of nerves. My back is also suffering from spasms, so much so that I had to see an acupuncturist and get prescriptions for Valium. . . .
If Obama loses it will spark the second American Civil War. Blood will run in the streets, believe me. And it's not a coincidence that President Bush recalled soldiers from Iraq for Dick Cheney to lead against American citizens in the streets. Bush has transformed America into a police state, from torture to the imprisonment of reporters, to the Patriot Act.
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I thought this had to be scrappleface or Weekly World News or Pravda. Oh well, have another Valium, Erica. Take it easy and let the grown ups worry.
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It won't last long. Most of Blue America is largely concentrated in a relatively small number of counties not whole states. It never dawns on them what would happen to their little paradise if they got to experience what New Orleans learned after Katrina - where does the clean water, power, gas, food, etc all come from and what happens when its cut off. NIMBY means you are not self sufficient when the day comes.
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No, no, no. It's Palin who's going to lead the troops in the streets, not Cheney. Sarah's a much better shot.
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And let's make it a Faded Ladies of the Eighties hat trick...
Bianca Jagger cant get her rent-stabilized Manhattan apartment back, The Associated Press reports. The New York Court of Appeals ruled that foreigners on tourist visas cannot claim New York as a primary residence. The ex-wife of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger was evicted in December from the Upper East Side apartment she rented for 20 years. Jagger was paying a whopping $4,614 a month in her rent-controlled pad. It has since been leased to another tenant.
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what the 'soldiers of the left dream' don't get is that these people who are getting them riled up don't really care about them, use them as proxies, and are going to be the first out of the country if anything does happen. Being took you damn fools.
Ima think the Good Dr. White means, "Keep Yer Powder Dry Boyz.. Keep Yer Powder Dry!"
~:)
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"Tom Wolfe and John Updike are men of the right and Philip Roth is at this point a hermit who leads a monastic life in Connecticut, far from everything and everybody."
No, no, Erica! You've got it wrong. Roth, Wolfe and Updike are at a secret camp deep in the Alaska wilderness, training an army of Sarah Palin look-alikes to lay waste to Berkeley, Greenwich Village, and other centers of the People's Resistance.
The Moose is loose. Run for your life!
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Yesterday, Jane Fonda sent me an email to tell me that she cried all night and can't cure her ailing back for all the stress that has reduces her to a bundle of nerves.
Yeah. I got a few laughs reading that one!
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10/30/2008 17:48 Comments ||
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"If Obama loses it will spark the second American Civil War."
You'd better hope not, honey. The South (and Midwest and Mountain States) will win this time.
And we'll unfortunately treat y'all yankees a damn sight better than you treated us after the first one.
Of course, with time, hard work and some luck we may actually be able to train you to not be so damn bigoted and race-oriented. Y'all need to get over your prejudices - we did.
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Yesterday, Jane Fonda sent me an email to tell me that she cried all night and can't cure her ailing back for all the stress that has reduces her to a bundle of nerves.
I'm sure its nothing a few minutes in a North Vietmanese anti-aircraft gun wouldn't cure!
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Jane's back is bitching cuz it wants equal time and attention with her Vag*na
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10/30/2008 19:03 Comments ||
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Now, now, Frank. The "Poozle Monologues" is a Great Work of Art, I'm sure. I do wish Hanoi Jane would stay off talk shows, though. Having to explain to my Mom what the 'c-word' meant was a little strange.
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Actually, I've been told similar by a few Guam locals, espec restaurant patrons. Collectively, their belief can be ascribed or labeled as WHITE FEAR OF MINORITIES = NON-WHITE POWER, directly [Pro-White + Anti-Globalist/NWO/Socialist Militants] or indirectly ["Glass Ceilings" = Perennial fear of Minorities]???
ONE SHOULD HOPE THAT THE US-WORLD IN THE 21st CENTURY IS BETTER THAN THAT.
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Lest we fergit, POTUS + State Governor + registered Attorney Bill Clinton admits to committing PERJURY, LYING ABOUT THE STATE OF THE US ECONOMY DURINH HIS ADMIN, + FRAUDULENTLY WINNING TWO POTUS ELECTIONS, and thats not even counting his campaign receiving illegal or dubious contributions from known anti-US Terror-Criminal Organizations. YET HE WAS NOT IMPRISONED.
IFF THERE IS TO BE A CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA - YOU KNOW, THE USSA = USR of Amerika - IT WILL BE BECUZ MAINSTREAM AMERICA WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO GET AWAY WID DOING THE SAME THINGS, "NATIONAL SECURITY" OR NO "NATIONAL SECURITY".
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A second civil war will end much like the first, with a heroic and victorious Republican President ushering in a new birth of freedom from the ashes of the failed rebel culture.
And without Robert E. Lee and with the loyalty of the Federal officer corps, this one should wrap up in fairly short order.
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Polish troops took command of security in the Afghan province of Ghazni on Thursday, a volatile area just two hour's drive southwest of Kabul where Taliban militants are gaining influence.
About 1,600 Polish troops have now taken control of Ghazni, freeing up U.S. forces to take on Taliban militants elsewhere in the eastern sector which includes the porous Pakistani border from where insurgents infiltrate into Afghanistan.
"Poland is taking over responsibility for security and development as well as future prosperity of Ghazni province. We are ready to do it and we are dedicated to do it well for the benefit of out hosts," Polish Defence Minister Bogdan Klich told troops at the change of command ceremony.
The United States has made repeated appeals for its NATO allies to send more troops to Afghanistan and allow those there to engage in combat missions without restrictions that some European nations place on their soldiers.
Poland and France have made the most significant response, with Polish troops agreeing to take responsibility for Ghazni and Paris sending 700 extra French troops to a valley in the east which is a stronghold of Taliban allies. Both France and Poland place no restrictions on their troops in the east.
Some 1,200 troops moved into Ghazni four months ago under U.S. command and have repeatedly come under fire since then.
In the last six months of their tour, which began in another eastern province, Polish troops have been in combat 600 times and have been hit by more than 100 improvised explosive devices. Six Polish soldiers have been killed and 20 wounded, their outgoing commander said.
The Polish troops have brought in a number of helicopter gunships as well as their own transport aircraft, but they have a tough task ahead of them.
Ghazni, the former capital of the 11th century Ghaznavid Empire which stretched from the Caspian Sea to India, is a strategic city astride the main road from the capital, Kabul, to the southern city of Kandahar, and also routes towards Pakistan.
Two years ago, Ghazni was seen as largely secure but since 2006 Taliban militants have moved into the region from the south and east, attacking traffic on the highway, burning schools and kidnapping foreign civilians.
Afghans from Ghazni say it is no longer safe for them to visit villages even close to the provincial capital and local journalists say Taliban fighters can now be seen on the streets of the city after dark.
In a demonstration of their growing influence, the Taliban ordered mobile phone operators to shut their networks during the day in Ghazni last week, extending a night-time ban the insurgents already impose in most of the south and east.
The growth of mobile phone usage is one few business success stories in Afghanistan since U.S.-led and Afghan forces toppled the Taliban after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. There is now no mobile phone coverage in Ghazni, even inside the Polish base.
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I think it is time for me to apologize to the French and Poles. For years, you have been the butt of many derisive comments by me. They seemed totally deserved at the time, but now with you pitching in and helping take care of things they seem totally uncalled for. Thank you for your help and I'm truly sorry that I maligned you in the past.
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At least 23 people in addition to the bombers were killed in five suicide car bomb attacks Wednesday in two northern Somali breakaway states, officials said.
Three suicide car bombs struck the presidential palace, the United Nations Development Program's compound and Ethiopia's diplomatic representation in Hargeysa, the capital of Somaliland. No group immediately claimed responsibility. But suspicion fell on Islamist al-Shabaab insurgents who have often launched attacks further south to coincide with international efforts to end turmoil in the lawless Horn of Africa nation.
The car bombers struck as Somalia's interim government leaders met regional heads of state in Nairobi. The four-year-old administration is under pressure to end the chaos and share some power with moderate opposition figures. "We have counted about 19 people, including the secretary of the palace, who were killed in the attacks," a Somaliland police official told AFP.
A local medical official spoke to at least 28 wounded admitted in hospitals after the blasts.
An Ethiopian foreign ministry spokesman told AFP in Addis Ababa that four Ethiopians were among the victims in the bombings of their representation.
Two other simultaneous suicide car bombs struck two separate buildings housing anti-terrorism centers run by the Puntland Intelligence Service (PIS) in the port city of Bosasso. Puntland security officials said six members of the PIS were wounded in the attacks.
The president of Puntland, Mohamoud Musa Hirsi Adde, had told reporters that the six had died in the blasts but he was later corrected by one of his aides.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Jendayi Frazer told reporters in Nairobi that the deadly coordinated suicide car bomb attacks against key targets in the two Somali breakaway states Wednesday have the markings of al-Qaeda. "Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but they have the markings of al-Qaeda," she said at a press briefing after attending a summit on Somalia in the Kenyan capital.
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A Dhaka court yesterday finally framed charges against detained former BNP lawmaker Abdus Salam Pintu, Harkatul Jihad (Huji) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and 20 others in two cases filed for grenade attacks on an Awami League (AL) rally in August 2004.
Judge Mohammad Masdar Hossain of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 also rejected the discharge petitions of Pintu, Hannan and 12 others in jail custody.
The court fixed November 5 for trial of the cases--one for murder and another for bomb blast--and summoned the complainant to appear before it on that date.
The grenade attacks on the AL rally on Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004 left 24 people including Ivy Rahman, wife of acting AL President Zillur Rahman, killed and 200 others including AL chief Sheikh Hasina injured.
Charges were framed in the cases after hearing had to be adjourned on nine consecutive dates following tie petitions from both the prosecution and defence. Both the cases were earlier shifted to the tribunal for quick disposal following a home ministry order.
In the murder case, charges were framed against all the 22 accused under sections 307 (attempt to murder), 326 (grievous hurt), 324 (causing hurt), 109 (abetment), 34 (criminal liability), 120(B) (criminal conspiracy) and 302 (murder) of the Penal Code. Bomb blast charges were framed against them under sections 3, 4 and 6 of the Explosive Substances Act.
The court charged Pintu also with approving the plan of the grenade attack prepared by Hannan and his accomplices. The former BNP lawmaker was also charged with assisting the Huji men with finances and administrative help and abetting them for killing and injuring the victims.
Pintu, Hannan and 12 others, who are now in jail custody, pleaded not guilty and demanded justice after the charges were read out to them. Eight accused have been absconding.
The 12 accused in jail are Hannan's brother Mohibullah alias Mafizur Rahman alias Ovi, Sharif Shahidul Islam alias Bipul, Maulana Abu Sayeed alias Dr Abu Zafar, Abul Kalam Azad alias Bulbul, Jahangir Alam, Maulana Abu Taher, Shahadatullah Jewel, Hossain Ahmed Tamim, Mufti Moinuddin Sheikh alias Abu Zandal alias Masum Billah, Arif Hasan Sumon, Rafiqul Islam Sabuj and Mohammad Ujjal alias Ratan.
The eight absconding accused are Pintu's brothers Maulana Tajuddin and Maulana Liton, Anisul Mursalin and his brother Mahibul Muttakin, Iqbal, Maulana Abu Bakar alias Selim Howlader, Jahangir Alam Badar and Khalilur Rahman.
Charges were framed against them in absentia and their trial will be continued in their absence.
During the investigation of the cases, Hannan, Bipul, Ovi, Abu Sayeed, Bulbul, Arif Hossain, Jahangir and Sabuj gave statements under section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) confessing their involvement in the grenade attack.
Special Public Prosecutor Firoz Kamrul Hassan and advocates Syed Rezaur Rahman, M Sajwar Hossain and Saharar Khatun appeared for the state during yesterday's hearing.
THE CASE
The police filed the two cases with Motijheel Police Station a day after the grenade attack.
On June 5 last year, Badar Aziz Uddin of Cox's Bazar filed another case with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court, Dhaka, charging former premier Khaleda Zia, her son Tarique Rahman, Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami and 25 others with murder.
However, the investigation officer of the case, Criminal Investigation Department Assistant Superintendent Fazlul Kabir, did not find any links of them to the incident.
On June 11 this year, the investigation officer of the two cases submitted the charge sheets, accusing the 22 persons in each case.
The charge sheets contain 42 pages each while the case dockets have more than 3,000 pages. A total of 408 persons, including Hasina and other top AL leaders, have been made prosecution witnesses in the cases.
Besides, 69 types of evidence including Hasina's sports utility vehicle, the truck used as the makeshift podium at the rally, grenade splinters and blood stained clothes were submitted.
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German police arrested two men near Frankfurt on terrorism charges Friday, alleging they were involved in a cell that had plotted to blow up U.S. targets in Germany a year ago.
Federal prosecutors said the two suspects -- a German citizen and a Turkish national -- had traveled separately to Pakistan during 2007 in an attempt to receive training at camps operated by the Islamic Jihad Union, a terrorist group allied with al-Qaeda.
Authorities said the men had shared bank account information and a debit card with three men arrested in September 2007 on suspicion of planning mass bombing attacks on U.S. targets in Germany.
Prosecutors identified the German citizen as Omid S., a 27-year-old of Afghan descent, and said he had received training at a militant camp along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border during the spring and summer of 2007.
The Turkish man, identified as 27-year-old Hueseyin O., also traveled to the region last year, prosecutors said. Before he could reach the camp, however, he was detained by Pakistani security forces and forced to return to Germany, according to a statement released by the German federal prosecutor's office in Karlsruhe.
German officials said that they believe the pair may have been aware of plans by the Islamic Jihad Union to bomb U.S. targets in Germany but that they did not accuse the pair of playing a direct role. Both men were charged with membership in a terrorist group.
Earlier this month, German prosecutors filed an indictment against the three suspected ringleaders of last year's plot and said they had discussed a number of possible bombing targets, including U.S. military bases in Germany and a dance club in the city of Giessen.
Police arrested the three men Sept. 4, 2007, in the rural village of Oberschledorn as they transferred bombmaking chemicals from a rented house. Police said they had stockpiled more than 1,500 pounds of the chemicals to construct homemade explosives and had smuggled detonators from Turkey.
Two of the men were German natives -- Fritz Martin Gelowicz and Daniel Martin Schneider -- who had converted to Islam. The third suspect, Adem Yilmaz is a Turkish national who grew up in Germany. The three suspects, all in their 20s, had attended training camps in Pakistan run by the Islamic Jihad Union, prosecutors said.
A fourth man in the plot was arrested in Turkey last November and is awaiting extradition to Germany. A trial date has not been set.
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Eleven bomb blasts in quick succession ripped through the main city of India's troubled northeastern Assam state and three other towns on Thursday, killing at least 33 people and wounding 200, police said. No one has claimed responsibility for the bomb blasts. Assam has been a focus of a terrorist jihad separatist insurgency for decades, but it has also recently suffered bomb attacks blamed on Islamic terrorists militants from neighbouring Bangladesh.
Firefighters doused smouldering remains of cars and motorcycles at one of the blast sites in Guwahati. One of the blasts targeted a high security zone with a court as well as offices and homes of senior police officials. Many of the blasts were in crowded markets in the state. Television channels showed some people lying on the streets, their clothes soaked in blood. Some of the walking wounded were helped into ambulances by local people and police. "So far, we have received reports of 33 deaths and 200 people wounded in 11 blasts," a police officer in the main control room told Reuters.
"The impact of the blast was so huge, a packed bus got half burnt and we pulled out lot of injured people and sent them to hospital," Pankaj Goswami, a witness at a blast in Guwahati, said. Local television said a curfew was imposed in Guwahati after crowds angry at the blasts attacked police and set cars on fire. Police fired in the air to disperse an angry mob.
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Muzzies branching out? The Commies are gonna feel left out. Security analysts and military intelligence officials said the Assam blasts, the worst attack in the troubled northeast, bore the hallmarks of strikes by Islamist militants.
"These blasts look like the handiwork of terrorist groups from Bangladesh, as you need sophisticated militant groups to carry out such coordinated attacks," Major General Ashok Mehta, a security analyst, told Reuters in New Delhi. "It is quite possible that separatist groups are not involved at all," Mehta added.
The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), Assam's major separatist group often blamed for attacks, denied involvement.
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GUWAHATI: In the deadliest terror attacks in Assam, 66 people were killed and about 470 injured in 13 near-simultaneous blasts in Guwahati and three other towns on Thursday by suspected Bangladesh-based HuJi militants. ( Watch )
The first of the explosions went off at around 11.30 am near the Ganeshguri flyover near the high-security capital complex housing the assembly building, followed by explosions at Paltan Bazar and Fancy Bazar here--all within five minutes. ( Watch )
Around the same time, bombs also went off in crowded market places of Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon and Barpeta in lower Assam. Official sources put the toll at 66 dead and 470 injured. ( Watch )
Of the six blasts in Guwahati, RDX was used in two of the explosions, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said adding a special task force has been set up to unearth the conspiracy behind the blasts.
Black smoke billowed from the deputy commissioner's office housing the district courts, which bore the brunt of the attacks in Guwahati, as vehicles, including a number of cars, turned into mangled heaps of metal.
Police suspected that the bomb was planted in the court complex on a two-wheeler.
At least 33 people were killed in the blasts in Guwahati where an indefinite curfew was clamped following protests by residents, who accused the police of delayed action, official sources said. ( Watch )
Assam has witnessed massive ethnic violence since early 1980s and ULFA-sponsored insurgency but this is the first time that a terror attack in the form of serial blasts rocked the state in such a magnitude.
Bodies of the many of the dead were charred beyond recognition. The blast sites were stewn with severed limbs and blood of the victims.
A red alert has been sounded across the state and Army has also been put on alert in view of the security situation, he said after Gogoi held a review meeting with his cabinet colleagues and top officials.
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Damn Muslims are up and at 'em again,.... surprise! surprise! with BOMBS this time!
I know.. I know.. I know Ima just prejudiced and biased again those DAMN MUSLIMS!
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Ten people have sustained serious injuries after a bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a security check post in northwestern Pakistan.
The incident occurred late on Wednesday at a security check post located in Bannu District in the North-West Frontier Province, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Bannu Police Chief Muhammad Alam Shinwari confirmed that 4 security personnel and six civilians were injured in the powerful explosion.
Police and law enforcement personnel rushed the scene shortly after the blast to transfer the injured to a nearby hospital and cordon off the area. Some of the victims are reported to be in critical condition.
Meanwhile, Aaj TV, a Pakistani news channel said that at least two security personnel were killed in the attack.
Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt has been the scene of some of the worst fighting between Pakistani forces and pro-Taliban militants in recent months.
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Gunmen killed three Shias in a sectarian attack, police said on Wednesday. Police official Shafiullah Marwat said the three men were attacked when they were standing at a bus station in Dera Ismail Khan. He said the attackers managed to flee, but were being chased.
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Local Taliban in the Mamoond tehsil of Bajaur Agency surrendered to a jirga on Wednesday and assured it they would not provide shelter to foreigners.
The Taliban also announced to halt actions against the government and said anyone found sheltering foreigners would be fined Rs 1 million. The tribal elders decided to torch the houses sheltering foreigners, confiscate properties of those providing shelter, and expel them from the area.
A suspected Taliban was killed and another sustained injuries in firing by Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel in Safi tehsil of Mohmand Agency. Officials said FC personnel stopped a vehicle at Darwazgai checkpost for breaking the curfew and ordered the three men sitting in it to raise their hands.
The security personnel opened fire when they refused to comply. One Taliban managed to escape. Unidentified men abducted five pro-government triabl chiefs in Anbar tehsil of the agency.
Taliban killed: APP reported that FC killed five Taliban in Lakaro tehsil of Mohmand Agency.
The agency also reported 400 volunteers had started patrolling in Aurakzai Agency to prevent Taliban activities.
Refugees: Meanwhile, Geo News reported the number of displaced people from Bajaur Agency at the Kacha Ghari Relief Camp near Peshawar had reached 6,800. It quoted camp administration as saying three blankets had been provided at each tent for the coming winter season. However, the refugees said the blankets were not enough and they would need warm clothes as well.
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Nine soldiers and five civilians were injured when a suicide bomber exploded his explosives-laden Land Cruiser jeep at a military checkpost in the Cantonment area of Bannu district on Wednesday, police and locals said.
District Police Officer (DPO) Muhammad Alam Shinwari told Daily Times over telephone 14 people, including nine soldiers, were wounded in the suicide attack, which occurred at 2:15pm at the checkpost near the Combined Military Hospital.
He said the blast occurred in the Cantonment that houses government offices, residential facilities and military installations.
"We (police) had no information about where the vehicle came from," the Bannu DPO said, adding police and security forces cordoned off the area after the blast. He said forensic experts collected the suicide bomber's remains, and police had started an investigation after registering a case against unknown terrorists. He said the jeep used in the attack was completely destroyed, and only the bomber's hair were collected from the site, which would be sent for a DNA test. Shinwari said eight people had suffered minor injuries while four were in serious condition. He said a woman was also among the injured. Meanwhile, APP reported a powerful blast rocked the main compound wall of a school in the Cantonment area.
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Two suspected bombers were shot dead during a dramatic midmorning gun battle in the capital city Friday when authorities raided an alleged hideout of men who carried out last week's serial bombings that killed 23 people.
One police officer died and several others were badly injured in the 11 a.m. operation, which put an already rattled city back on edge. A third suspect was captured, and two others managed to escape, police said.
One of the dead suspects was identified only as Atif; police said he took a lead role in the Delhi blasts and bombings in three other cities this year. He was allegedly a close associate of Abdul Subhan Qureshi, alias Tauqeer, a computer expert and member of a controversial Islamic students' group.
Authorities said they had received a tip that the house in the Muslim Jamia Naga neighborhood was used as a den for members of the Indian Mujahideen. The group asserted responsibility for the Sept. 13 blasts in New Delhi, as well as serial bombings in the western city of Ahmedabad on July 26, which killed about 50 people, and the May 13 bombing in the northern tourist city of Jaipur, which left up to 80 people dead.
The government has come under increasing pressure during an election year to curb the attacks, which have grown more frequent. This week, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that there were "vast gaps" in intelligence and announced that the government would be recruiting thousands more police officers and establishing a new counterterrorism center.
Singh said that Indians, not foreigners, may have been behind the New Delhi attacks. It was a departure from the blame that authorities usually pin on Pakistan- or Bangladesh-based militant groups.
The Indian Mujahideen was little known before this year's bombings. Some police say it could be a front for the Students' Islamic Movement of India, or SIMI, which was banned in 2001, but most intelligence experts say there is insufficient information to understand the group's role.
Television talk shows celebrated Friday's operation as a big win for police. But many commentators pointed out that previous arrests of radical leaders have not stopped attacks or led to convictions.
"In the 11 major blasts since 2001, the police have not been able to get a single proper conviction," Rajdeep Sardesai, editor in chief of the popular IBN network, wrote in a commentary in the Hindustan Times. "Arrests are made of the usual suspects, months later they are let off because of the shocking lack of any proper evidence."
Witnesses told reporters that policemen armed with automatic rifles and pistols surrounded the suspects' apartment, located next to a mosque, just before Friday prayers. Hundreds of women and children fled when the gun battle began.
Police recovered an AK-47 assault rifle and two pistols along with wooden frames and other components that were similar to materials used in the small bombs that exploded in the capital last week, Delhi Police Chief Y.S. Dadwal said.
The dead policeman was identified as a high-ranking special forces officer, Mohan Chand Sharma, 44.
Some Muslims in the neighborhood chanted anti-government slogans.
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Aswat al-Iraq: Twenty two persons were killed or wounded on Wednesday evening in an explosion that ripped through eastern Baghdad, a police source said. "This evening, an improvised explosive device (IED) targeted a police patrol vehicle in front of a soda store in Falasteen St., eastern Baghdad, killing five persons and wounding 17 others, including three police personnel," the source told Aswat al-Iraq.
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Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi army forces found a cache of arms and ammunition in Baghdad's city of Sadr, the Multi-National Force (MNF) said in a statement on Wednesday.
"In another independent operation in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, the Iraqi Army seized a second large cache of weapons, munitions and improvised explosive device-making material in less than a week Oct. 28," read an MNF statement received by Aswat al-Iraq.
"At approximately 8:30 a.m., IA soldiers from the 44th Brigade, 11th Iraqi Army Division, conducted an operation in the northern area of Sadr City. Based on intelligence gathered from local sources, the IA soldiers discovered the large cache at a suspected IED-making factory," the statement noted.
"The cache included 160 blocks of C4 explosives, 34 complete explosively formed penetrators, 53 copper plates, 40 shaped plates for EFPs, three presses and a punch, all believed to be used for making EFPs, and 14 107 mm rockets," the statement added.
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Have they let folks know where the can come to reclaim their firworks. I remember reading about where in some US city, the police sent free invitations to a fabulous party to criminals they had arrest warrents on. A surprising number showed up and were arrested. Maybe something like this could be used for terrorists, drug dealers and other low lifes that really need a long timeout.
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Aswat al-Iraq: A gunman was wounded and eight others were captured during a security operation in western Mosul city, an official source said on Wednesday.
"A gunman was injured and another was arrested during clashes with joint U.S.-Iraqi forces in Ayn al-Maleh village, al-Biaaj district," a security source from Ninewa Operations Command told Aswat al-Iraq.
"While the joint forces were searching the area, two gunmen driving a vehicle attempted to escape after they had opened fire on a U.S. chopper. One of the gunmen was wounded and the other was arrested. RPG shells, a PKC machine gun and two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were found in their possession," the source added. "Seven others were arrested in the same village over their suspected involvement in the incident. Investigations are currently underway," according to the source.
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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.
My friends Ken Follett and Susan Cheever are extremely worried. Naomi Wolf calls me every day. Yesterday, Jane Fonda sent me an email to tell me that she cried all night and can't cure her ailing back for all the stress that has reduces her to a bundle of nerves. My back is also suffering from spasms, so much so that I had to see an acupuncturist and get prescriptions for Valium. . . .
At least 23 people in addition to the bombers were killed in five suicide car bomb attacks Wednesday in two northern Somali breakaway states, officials said. 
A Dhaka court yesterday finally framed charges against detained former BNP lawmaker Abdus Salam Pintu, Harkatul Jihad (Huji) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and 20 others in two cases filed for grenade attacks on an Awami League (AL) rally in August 2004.
German police arrested two men near Frankfurt on terrorism charges Friday, alleging they were involved in a cell that had plotted to blow up U.S. targets in Germany a year ago. 
Local Taliban in the Mamoond tehsil of Bajaur Agency surrendered to a jirga on Wednesday and assured it they would not provide shelter to foreigners. 
Nine soldiers and five civilians were injured when a suicide bomber exploded his explosives-laden Land Cruiser jeep at a military checkpost in the Cantonment area of Bannu district on Wednesday, police and locals said.
Two suspected bombers were shot dead during a dramatic midmorning gun battle in the capital city Friday when authorities raided an alleged hideout of men who carried out last week's serial bombings that killed 23 people. 
Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi army forces found a cache of arms and ammunition in Baghdad's city of Sadr, the Multi-National Force (MNF) said in a statement on Wednesday.
