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Thanks Fred, Abbe Lane lolling about at water's edge is a delightful start to my day. And her feet are so clean! I really don't have a foot fetish. It's just that I noticed a while back that so many of the pictures have these women in high heels and little else. Personally, if I were going to shuck my clothes those uncomfortable shoes would be the first to go. Have you ever thought of doing a series on belly buttons? That would be nice. My wife's is surgically constructed. It works just as well as a natural one. In fact, if you didn't know it would be dificult to tell the difference.
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Richard, will I need to make an appointment?
;-)
[Iran Press TV Latest] At least 27 Taliban insurgents have reportedly lost their lives in fighting against NATO forces and Afghan troops in the restive southern province of Kandahar.
Kandahar's deputy police chief, Mohammad Shah Khan, said that the clashes occurred in the Zhari district as part of a large-scale operation to mop up militant strongholds in the province, where the Taliban have a strong presence.
"During the operation Monday in Ashobo area, where the air force was also used, 27 armed opposition were killed. It was a Taliban hideout," he stated.
It seems that southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province is slipping back under Taliban control. The slow and quiet fall of Kandahar poses a complex new challenge for the NATO effort to stabilize Afghanistan.
Thousands of US and Canadian troops are deployed throughout the province, which includes a major NATO base. NATO officials say the US troop buildup in Afghanistan will enable them to send more troops to Kandahar.
US President Barack Obama's administration has pledged to send another 4,000 troops to Afghanistan in addition to the 17,000 extra troops dispatched to the war-torn country earlier in the year. There are currently around 100,000 US and NATO troops in Afghanistan.
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The German navy has released four suspected pirates, captured last week in an operation to prevent a suspected piracy attack in the Gulf of Aden, the Bundeswehr said Tuesday.
A fifth suspect had died when the Brandenburg navy frigate attempted to stop a suspicious-looking boat off the coast of Somalia on September 7. This was the first fatality caused by the Bundeswehr mission. The body is to be returned to Somalia in coordination with the International Red Cross, according to a statement published on the Bundeswehr website.
The four men were released after German officials - consulting with the European Union-led Atalanta operation headquarters - decided not to extradite them to Kenya for prosecution. EU experts said they were not sufficiently sure that the men would be convicted in Kenya. The German government did not want to prosecute as no German interests had been damaged.
Consequently, the men were released on Monday afternoon, within sight of the Somali coast.
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Ma'an -- Egyptian authorities reported the arrest of the man responsible for initiating the smuggling tunnel industry and starting the first passage for goods between Gaza and Egypt. The arrest was made Tuesday. The man, detained on Saturday, was held on charges of using a brother's passport to travel back in to the Gaza Strip following a visit to Saudi Arabia for the Umrah pilgrimage. Egyptian security said the man passed easily into Egypt, but on his return guards became suspicious and pulled him aside.
The man was only identified as "Al-Far," and according to Egyptian sources he was one of the most wanted men by Egyptian authorities.
Following a confession under interrogation, Egyptian authorities took Al-Far to the border area where he showed troops where ten previously unknown tunnels were located. In Bangladesh he would have fallen into a tunnel and landed in a "crossfire". Just saying..
Security sources describe Al-Far as one of the most dangerous tunnel smugglers in Gaza. They also said he has caused many problems for the authorities through the tunnels he owns along the borders. They reported his tunnels located in the Gazan neighborhoods of As-Salam, Al-Barazili, and Salah Ad-Din.
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Took me a couple of tries to parse that headline.
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Following a confession under interrogation, Egyptian authorities took Al-Far to the border area where he showed troops where ten previously unknown tunnels were located.
hasn't been paying the tax on all of em, I expect. Hope the "interrogation" was very painful
Posted by: Frank G ||
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In Bangladesh he would have fallen into a tunnel and landed in a "crossfire".
Those in-tunnel crossfires are the worst kind, one suspects.
[Bangla Daily Star] An operative of outlawed Sarbahara Party was killed in a 'shootout' between his cohorts and law enforcers in Batajhor area under Gouronodi upazila of Barisal early yesterday. A "shootout" is when when you haven't arrested the dead guy first and shoved him into a "crossfire".
The dead was identified as Babul Sardar alias Babul, 35,
Seriously unimaginative on Babul's part, to use his given name as an alias. It's like a toddler fondly believing that covering its eyes makes it invisible.
a regional leader of Sarbahara Party (Zia group). Not nearly as fearsome an alias as "Killer" or even "Knuckles". Though admittedly scarier than "Russell"...
According to a statement of Rab, a joint team of Gouronodi police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-8) raided Batajhor area where some Sarbahara Party men were holding a meeting at about 3:35am. Presumably in a dark, witness-free area.
Sensing law enforcers' presence, the underground operatives opened fire, forcing them to retaliate. It's programmed into them, kind of like the macro used to write this news release
At one stage the operatives of the outlawed party managed to flee the scene
In a clown car micro van?
vanished into the night, like they were never there
while the body of Babul was found lying on the ground, the statement said.
"He's dead, Sarge."
The law enforcers recovered two homemade rifles, one shotgun, one revolver and seven bullets from the spot.
That's not very many bullets for random mad firing by both parties, even if you add the two Dr. Quincy found that entered Babul's skull behind his right ear.
Babul was involved in a number of crimes including murder, abduction, extortion and transport robbery, police said. He was also accused in ten cases including four for murder filed with Gouronodi Police Station, the release added.
Truly a badman, Babul was wanted on many systems. Thank goodness the Rab and police caught him before he thought of setting up a school, like Fagin in Charles Dickens' London.
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[Dawn] A suicide bomber blew herself up beside a police car in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya on Wednesday, wounding six people.
Russia has fought two wars against Chechen separatists since the early 1990s. A series of attacks by militants on security forces and local leaders over recent months has shattered several years of relative calm and raised questions about Kremlin control of the north Caucasus region.
Russian news agencies carried conflicting reports on the number of people who suffered in the blast, but local officials said there were no fatalities. 'I officially declare there were no victims in the explosion,' Chechen Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov said at the scene of the blast. 'Two Chechen policemen and four civilians were wounded.'
An eyewitness told Reuters a young woman had approached the police car and blew herself up. Others said there had been three policemen in the car at the moment of the explosion. Interfax news agency said the woman's head had been found. A mangled, burnt-out carcass was all that remained of the police car at an intersection in Grozny's usually bustling centre, a Reuters reporter said. A passenger minibus with shattered windows was seen nearby.
Leaders from across the North Caucasus warned Russian President Dmitry Medvedev last month that they were struggling to contain an insurgency they said had permeated all spheres of society.
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no virgins for you.
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A suspected "al Qaeda" associate who prompted anti-terror raids on three city homes trained with the terror organization in Pakistan with several other Queens residents, The Post has learned.
The suspect, an Afghani identified only as "Najibullah," since returned to the United States and was living in Denver. It was unclear how long he and his cohorts trained with the group or when they were there.
The Monday raids on homes Najibullah visited were aimed at finding bomb making materials and came after he drove cross-country to Queens. Najibullah, an Afghani, has since flown home to Colorado.
The FBI, meanwhile, is furious with the NYPD for bungled intelligence gathering that tipped off Najibullah that he was under surveillance, sources said.
Federal agents working with the Joint Terrorism Task Force asked their NYPD counterparts to discreetly gather intel on Najibullah.
Rather than slyly contact their list of sources and informants the NYPD canvassed the suspects old Flushing neighborhood and flashed around his picture.
Eventually the imam of the Masjid Hazrat Abu Bakr Islamic Center learned of the investigation and contacted the mans family to let them know that he was subject of a law enforcement inquiry.
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The FBI, meanwhile, is furious with the NYPD for bungled intelligence gathering that tipped off Najibullah that he was under surveillance, sources said.
There is so much bad blood and turf-warring going on between the FBI and NYPD-CTD that this statement is less than worthless.
Pakistan said soldiers Wednesday arrested a third man from a list of most-wanted Taliban commanders in the Swat valley that offered hundreds of thousands of dollars in reward money.
Sher Muhammad Qasab was the alleged local Taliban commander in Charbagh, in the heart of the former tourist region where the military launched a major assault this summer to defeat a deadly two-year Islamist insurgency.
Qasab, who with 15 other Taliban commanders in the northwest district had a price on his head of 10 million rupees (around 120,000 dollars), was "seriously injured" and "arrested in a military operation," the army said in a statement.
Military officials in the northwest city of Peshawar confirmed his arrest. "Troops encircled him from days. His three sons were also killed on Monday during the operation," a military official told AFP.
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[Dawn] DERA MURAD JAMALI: One person was killed while four others sustained serious injuries in a hand grenade attack on a shop at Quetta Road on Tuesday.
According to the district police chief, Nazir Ahmed Kurd, three motorbike riders hurled a hand grenade into a welding shop owned by a settler, Mukhtyar Ahmed, and fled.
As a result, one of the workers, Ghulam Hussein, died while four others -- identified as Mukhtyar Ahmed, Muhammad Akbar, Muhammad Azhar and Muhammad Akmal -- sustained serious injuries and were admitted to the hospital for treatment.
Investigation into the incident is underway, said the police.
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[The News (Pak) Top Stories] A militant commander, along with his two sons and other supporters, surrendered to security forces in the Charbagh area of the Swat Valley, while three insurgents were arrested from Matta bazaar on Tuesday.
The Army-run Swat Media Centre said commander Saeed, along with his two sons -- identified as Liaqat and Khursheed -- and supporters Said Umar and Rahman, laid down arms and surrendered to security forces.
In another incident, security forces arrested three militants from Matta bazaar and shifted them to an undisclosed location for interrogation. Meanwhile, the district police officer changed the name of the Green Chowk and named it after slain Sub-Inspector Farooq Khan, the brother of Minister for Environment and Forests Wajid Ali Khan. Farooq was shot dead by militants in Mingora.
In the meantime, life was returning to normal here, as women were seen shopping in the markets after two years of violence. APP adds: Meanwhile, security forces conducted a search operation in Mangaltan and killed three suspected terrorists. The forces also apprehended 12 suspects from Kalagai near Matta, Dambara near Choga and Banda Ghal. Six other suspects were also arrested from Salhand near Shah Dheri.
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ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUMS > PAKISTAN HAS KILLED 4000 TERRORISTS OVER EIGHT YEARS.
However, STARS-N-STRIPES ARTIC > seems the PAK ARMY is being criticized for engaging in WILFUL, SYSTEMATIC MASS KILLINGS where a number of innocent civilians were killed alongside alleged andor known MilTerrs???
[Bangla Daily Star] Fighter jets pounded suspected militant hide-outs yesterday and killed five insurgents in a tribal region where the Pakistani military declared victory over insurgents six months ago following an offensive, an official said. The bombings occurred in the Salarzai area of the northwest Bajur tribal region, local government official Zahid Khan said.
Pakistan's army launched an intense offensive that left more than 1,700 alleged militants dead in Bajur just over a year ago. In February, the military said it had defeated al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters there, but pockets of resistance remain.
Pakistan is in the midst of multiple army operations in against militants in its northwest regions bordering Afghanistan, but security throughout the country has deteriorated.
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An Iraqi man who witnesses said shouted abuse before throwing a shoe at a US army vehicle was shot dead on Wednesday in what the American military said was a suspected grenade attack.
Residents told an AFP reporter in Fallujah that Ahmed Latif, 32, whom they said was mentally disturbed, insulted the soldiers as they patrolled in the centre of the city, and then hurled a shoe at them.
The US military told AFP that a convoy in Fallujah had been attacked with a suspected grenade.
"Positive identification of the attacker was made, and US forces fired in self-defence wounding the attacker," the army said in a statement. "Local Iraqi police secured the scene and transported the wounded attacker to a local hospital for medical care."
Dr Ali Hatam of Fallujah hospital confirmed that Latif died of gunshot wounds.
The incident came a day after Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi was freed after spending nine months in jail for throwing his shoes at former US president George W. Bush during a visit to Baghdad. It sounds like shoe throwing copy cats might have a good reason to rethink their mode of protest.
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When I saw the headline I thought it was about the guy who threw his shoe at Bush.
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shoe throwing copy cats
Shoe-throwing is an arab cultural thing, evident with iraqi beating saddam's statue with their shoes, showing the soles of their shoes to diss people, or throwing shoes (has happened quite a bit before the GWB/Maliki incident, in demos against Us forces and such); not that this was evident to some pundits who assumed western cultural norms instead of arabo-muslim clean/unclean taboos ("he threw his shoes to show that the iraqi people was under the boot heel of the USA", this kind of silliness) or to copycats around the world who did/do/will do that again and again, just because it was shown on teevee and had some impact.
As for this guy, he was killed because he was seen as a genuine threat, not because of the shoe thing, though it won't be interpreted that way, and will only add to that very tiring 'shoe' meme. Strike a blow for freedom, throw a shoe. Please, spare me.
[Asharq al-Aswat] An Iraqi delegation is expected to meet with a Syrian delegation in Turkey later today to put forward evidence linking the recent Baghdad bombings to [Baathist] elements being sheltered by Syria. The Baghdad bombing which took place on 19 August resulted in 95 people being killed, and many more being injured.
This meeting comes in the midst of objections raised by the Iraqi Presidency Council regarding the Iraqi government accusing Syria of harboring elements responsible for the attack, as well as the decision by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri a-Maliki to call for an International Tribunal to investigate this attack.
A diplomatic crisis has broken out between Iraq and Syria in the wake of the Baghdad bombing, and both countries recalled their respective ambassadors. The Iraqi ambassador to Syria had previously said that Baathist elements being sheltered by Damascus were responsible for the bombing, and had called on Syria to surrender them to Iraq.
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Ma'an -- The de facto government in Gaza may go ahead and create a new ministry office, which would deal with issues around Palestinians killed by Israel, or as a result of their siege on the area, de facto Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Tuesday.
The newly proposed Ministry of Martyrs is modeled after the Ministry of Prisoners Affairs, which provides aid and support to the families of those seized and imprisoned by Israeli forces. The Ministry of Martyrs would provide similar support for the families of those killed in confrontations with Israel.
"Thus are the Palestinian people who pay their lives and blood for the service of their country and their religion; they do not serve the enemy," said Haniyeh during a visit to martyrs' families in the eastern part of the Gaza Strip.
Haniyeh praised all the martyrs from the recent Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, in particular Mahmoud Ar-Rify who seized an Israeli soldier before being killed by Israeli rockets.
He said the government is proud of the martyrs, and their families adding that, "We are with you on the path of Jihad and resistance, so as to complete what the martyrs have begun."
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A senior Hamas terrorist, involved in planning the 2002 suicide bombing of the Park Hotel in Netanya, was arrested overnight Monday in the West Bank, security officials announced Tuesday.
Muhammad Harwish, head of Hamas's armed wing in Tulkarm, was apprehended along with his personal aide, Adnan Samara. The two were being interrogated by security forces.
A Duvdevan special forces unit, along with personnel from the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and special Border Police forces, arrested the pair after encountering them during a search for weapons in Tzurif, close to Bethlehem.
Harwish replaced Omar Jabar as the head of Hamas in Tulkarm in 2008 when Jabar was arrested. Prior to his arrest, Harwish was the most wanted terrorist in Tulkarm, and was involved in terrorist attacks, setting up terror cells and purchasing weapons to fight IDF and Palestinian Authority police forces.
According to the Shin Bet, Harouis had been wanted since 2004 for Hamas activity in Tulkarm.
The terrorist was one of the planners of the Passover 2002 hotel bombing that killed 29 people and injured 64 others.
In March 2004, Harouish was wounded by IDF fire and treated in a hospital in Ramallah. From there he continued terror activity against Israel, including a planned suicide attack that was thwarted by Israeli forces.
Later that year, Harouish was arrested in Ramallah by PA security forces and jailed in Jericho. He was released in 2006 and returned to Tulkarm, where he joined Gabbar in developing the Hamas infrastructure there.
Samara, captured alongside Harouish, had been released one year ago from an Israeli prison, where he was held for his involvement in establishing terror cells with Harouish in 2007.
Security officials also announced Tuesday that in July and August, the Shin Bet and IDF had arrested five Fatah-Tanzim operatives in the village of Silwad near Ramallah, including an active member of PA security forces and a Palestinian who lived in the US.
The group were involved in a number of shooting attacks near Route 60, which passes near the village, said the army.
Tanzim is the armed faction of Fatah, the ruling party in the PA government.
At 6 a.m. on July 9, a number of shots were fired at an Israeli car driving toward the Jewish settlement of Psagot. That night, IDF troops arrested two residents of Silwad, Maharan Iad and Salah Hamad, who had been in Israeli prisons in the past for terrorist activity.
During interrogation by the Shin Bet, the two confessed to planning the shooting attack, together with associate Mustafa Hamad, another Fatah member who was arrested later, security officials said.
Iad, who was in Israeli prisons twice before and lived in the US from 2006 until May 2009, confessed to planning the attack together with the other two over several days, during which they searched for a vantage point to shoot from, said the officials.
Rami Hamad, the last of the five to be arrested, was allegedly serving as a member of PA security forces as well as the Tanzim terror group at the time of his arrest. Hamad confessed to involvement in four separate shooting attacks.
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Three members of a teacher protection unit here were wounded in a clash with terrorists presumed insurgents, while in nearby Narathiwat a security squad was ambushed in a booby-trap bombing.
Seven soldiers guarding teachers in Yalas Raman district on Wednesday were caught in a bomb ambush and then fired upon, exchanging gunfire with a group of unidentified assailants. Three soldiers were wounded in the attacked, and all now under medical treatment at Yala hospital. Electric wire thought to be used to trigger the explosive device and several homemade bombs were found at the scene, according to the local special task force and bomb disposal unit. On the way to the scene, the security response team found spikes scattered on the road and a suspicious object which finally was identified as a decoy box containing only clay.
Meanwhile, a village protection unit in Yalas Bannang Sata district was reportedly ambushed by terrorists suspected insurgents, with two volunteers wounded in the attack and later sent to hospital. The two rode a motorcycle as security escort to the students vehicle before being ambushed by unidentified gunmen.
In another incident, a bomb exploded in Narathiwat municipality, while eight special task police officers were on duty to help transport teachers. The bomb misfired, however, and no one was injured. Investigators found pieces of a 20-kilogramme homemade bomb built into a fire extinguisher. Detonated manually by remote control, by an electric wire placed in the roadside forest.
In Pattani, a special task force exchanged fire with a terrorist suspected insurgent. One soldier was wounded. One assailant was shot dead and two escaped. Four members of a team [were] on patrol to provide security at a mosque at Ban Kahong and also to search a suspects house, but the occupants fired on the approaching security team and exchanged fire for 15 minutes. Several weapons and ammunition were seized from the house.
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Ma'an -- Egyptian authorities reported the arrest of the man responsible for initiating the smuggling tunnel industry and starting the first passage for goods between Gaza and Egypt. The arrest was made Tuesday. The man, detained on Saturday, was held on charges of using a brother's passport to travel back in to the Gaza Strip following a visit to Saudi Arabia for the Umrah pilgrimage. Egyptian security said the man passed easily into Egypt, but on his return guards became suspicious and pulled him aside. 
[Bangla Daily Star] An operative of outlawed Sarbahara Party was killed in a 'shootout' between his cohorts and law enforcers in Batajhor area under Gouronodi upazila of Barisal early yesterday.
[Dawn] A suicide bomber blew herself up beside a police car in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya on Wednesday, wounding six people.
Pakistan said soldiers Wednesday arrested a third man from a list of most-wanted Taliban commanders in the Swat valley that offered hundreds of thousands of dollars in reward money.
[Asharq al-Aswat] An Iraqi delegation is expected to meet with a Syrian delegation in Turkey later today to put forward evidence linking the recent Baghdad bombings to [Baathist] elements being sheltered by Syria. The Baghdad bombing which took place on 19 August resulted in 95 people being killed, and many more being injured. 
A senior Hamas terrorist, involved in planning the 2002 suicide bombing of the Park Hotel in Netanya, was arrested overnight Monday in the West Bank, security officials announced Tuesday.
