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Good stuff, and some people do go on about the youth of today. Well here is a perfect example of the youth of today, acting in an exemplary fashion.
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Ross Kemp was mentioned favorably in one of Michael Yon's dispatches. After watching this clip, I can see why. I couldn't see Shep Smith, Anderson Cooper or Campbell Brown doing this kind of reporting. Hard to keep every hair in place when you're dodging RPG's and AK-47 bullets while dressed in flak jackets in 110 degree weather.
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Yeah, the Ross Kemp serie on afghanistan was great, you can feel he really respects the ^people he's with, and that they are not props for his showmanship (on a very different level, this is exactly the same as Mike Rowe & Dirty jobs), never had heard of Kemp before seeing this on discovery, now have seen more of his docs...
Still, at the end of it, one couldn't sensing a real "pointlessness"... for the soldiers, much to do, with too little, against a never-ending stream of gun-totting hobos/hillbillies; for the UK army, much to lose, for what?
But this brings to what the goal is, in this (dusty) paradise on earth.
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PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > THENEWS.PK - UK PM] GORDON BROWN: THREAT FROM AL QAEDA { + Taliban, Islamist Groups] AS STRONG AS EVER/ AL QAEDA continues to possess a dynamic, extensive Network in AFRICA + MIDDLE EAST + WESTERN EUROPE includ inside UK = BRITAIN; + PAKISTANI DEFENCE
FORUM > [Former FM] KASURI: WORLD POWERS PLAYING "GREAT GAME" WITH PAKISTAN [AFPAK Peoples + Region].
versus
* SAME > THENEWS.PK > SOUTH KOREA: NORTH KOREA UNLIKELY TO GIVE UP ITS NUKES.
* WMF > "YONHAP" MEDIA: SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT LEE MYUNG-BAK ASKS SOKOR ARMED FORCES TO DEFEND THE NATION AND WIN ANY WAR/CONFLICT AGZ NORTH KOREA.
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This is the truth of it. You never see the "big picture", you only see through the toilet paper tube view of your platoon and section. You do not know the snipers, the other troops in the battalion and the other crap going on until well after.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Saudi's armed forces arrested a sorcerer attempting to plant magic spells in the conflict zone in support of the Houthis, the Saudi newspaper Okaz reported.
The paper reported that army officers spotted a "strange-looking" man with long dirty nails and thick entangled hair pulled back in disheveled braids wondering the border town of Jabal Dukhan.
The man was initially believed to be a refugee fleeing the conflict but security forces searched him and found amulets, animal remains and scrolls containing symbols.
The detainee admitted he was planning to plant amulets in the conflict zone to help the Houthi rebels sneak across the border and win their war against Saudi Arabia.
When asked why he had long nails, he claimed that he is obeying the order of the jinns, or spirits.
"The jinns will be infuriated and will kill me if I trim or clean my nails," he told his interrogators.
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I personally think we should build a high fence around the entire muddle east (misspell intended) forbid anyone to travel in or out and not let them export any oil for a year. Then we should let them have at it until all of the nutjobs kill each other off.
Seriously, there has to be a pathogen for the mass insanity and hysteria in that region and we need to quarantine them.
Or nuke em, what do you think?
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What, with sorcerer in the headline, we couldn't get a picture of that old truck on a rope bridge?
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Yemeni and Saudi forces have intensified attacks against the Houthi fighters in Yemen's mountainous north, after sending more reinforcements to the beleaguered region.
"Saudi jet fighters resumed their attacks on Saturday night and bombarded" the border area, eyewitnesses quoted by AFP as saying on Sunday.
"There was relative calm on Sunday morning but air operations against the border area are continuing," they added.
Meanwhile, the Saudi military deployed more troops in the Jizan region, according to an AFP correspondent, who said reinforcements were seen on route to Khubah, close to the Houthi positions.
Yemeni forces also pounded Shia positions overnight in Sa'ada province and in Harf Sufyan in Amran province, both north of Sana'a, a Yemeni military official told the news agency.
"Strong clashes erupted in Harf Sufyan between the army and the rebels, supported by tribes," the official said, adding that five tribal members were killed and seven others were wounded.
The clashes came after reinforcements from Sana'a arrived at Harf Sufyan to "help the army gain control of the area," the official said.
This is while sources say that the Yemeni troops are divided over the conflict with some not having a motive to fight the Houthis. According to the sources a large number of soldiers in the Yemeni military are Zaidi Shia, hence sympathetic toward the Houthis.
Last week, Saudi Arabia launched an offensive against Shia fighters, who accuse the kingdom of supporting the Yemeni government in its crackdown.
The government launched Operation Scorched Earth in August in an effort to crush the Houthis, whom it accuses of seeking to restore an imamate that was overthrown in 1962.
The Houthis, however, dismiss the accusations saying they are only seeking to put an end the government's discriminatory policies against them.
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is this all just Iranian propaganda or are the Houthis really this well trained (although it is Yemeni and Saudi forces) ?
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well what i meant it sure does seem like both Yemen and Saudi are having a hard time with these guys
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They're supported by Iran, chris, and have -- for some reason -- a number of Pakistanis among their number. I have to wonder if Hizb'allah will send along some trainers and cannon-fodder from Lebanon, to keep them busy while trying not to draw Israeli attention.
[Bangla Daily Star] Two regional leaders of outlawed parties were killed in separate incidents of 'shootout' and mob beating yesterday in Kushtia and Meherpur districts respectively.
Ilias Hossain Mamun, 38, of Meherpur's Gangni upazila, who was a leader of outlawed Janajuddho, a faction of Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-ML), was killed in a 'shootout' between police and his cohorts at Khalishakundi village under Daulatpur upazila in Kushtia.
Police sources said a team from Detective Branch and Daulatpur police raided the village around 4:00am on information that Mamun was holding a meeting with his accomplices.
Being surrounded by police, the operatives opened fire prompting the law enforcers to retaliate. Mamun died on the spot but his accomplices managed to flee the scene. Police recovered one LG, 2 bullets and four machetes from there.
Police sent the dead body to Kushtia general hospital.
According to police, Mamun was involved in extortion, abduction and robbery and was accused in six cases including four for murders filed with Daulatpur in Kushtia and Gangni in Meherpur police stations.
In a separate incident, Badsha alias Badsha Bhai, 35, regional leader of a PBCP-ML faction Lal Pataka, was beaten to death at Roypur, his native village under Gangni upazila.
According to police, a group of 15 people caught Badsha around 3:00am when he opened a blank fire after being challenged by the night guards while roaming on the street.
Badsha was injured severely as the people beat him up.
On information, police of Gangni police station rushed to the spot and rescued Badsha and took him to Meherpur General Hospital where the doctors declared him dead around 4:30pm.
A shutter gun and one bullet were recovered from his possession. Badsha was accused in six cases including two for murder.
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[Maghrebia] Spanish police in Pamplona arrested an Algerian terror suspect allegedly linked to a larger European terror cell dismantled last week, Algerian and international press reported on Saturday (November 14th). The suspect is accused of making false identity papers that generated some one million euros over the past three years. Some 17 terror suspects were recently arrested in Austria, Italy and Spain; several of the alleged terrorists are accused of stealing the identities of Algerian footballers playing in France.
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Islamabad/ Peshawar: A suicide bomber today rammed his explosives-laden truck into a police station in this northwest Pakistani city, killing at least four persons and injuring 31 in the seventh terror attack here in 10 days. The attacker targeted a police station at Badabher on the outskirts of the provincial capital at 7.45 am, police said.
A mosque thus proving to the clueless, that it wasn't a muslim who did this but it must have been a brit, an american or an Israeli
and a house near the police station were reduced to rubble while 10 shops, a college and several cars were badly damaged by the powerful blast. Footage on television showed the facade of several buildings was devastated by the blast.
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only 7?
Must be running out of Ammonium Nitrate.
Two terrorists were arrested on Sunday as police tightened security in the Capital after the recent wave of terrorist attacks in the country. Shahzad Town police claimed to have arrested a suspected terrorist and recovered a kilogramme of explosives and ammunition from him. A spokesman for Islamabad police told Daily Times that police had arrested Hafiz Umar Farooq (22), a resident of Faisalabad who had allegedly come to the capital to carry out a terrorist attack. Separately, one of the masterminds of the International Islamic University Islamabad bombing, identified only as Zahid, has been arrested from Attock, police say.
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[Dawn] A bomb exploded in the provincial capital here on Sunday evening. However, no loss of life or property was reported in the incident. According to police, unidentified persons had placed a bomb at an area behind the Passport Office which exploded, but no damage to life or property occurred.
Meanwhile, a powerful blast was heard in Quetta city at night between Saturday and Sunday at about 1:35 am. Earlier, police said that a bomb exploded near a shop located near Khojak Road but later, no further information was provided to the media.
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Three militants were killed when they attacked the house of an anti-Taliban councillor in Peshawar's Bazidkhel village on Sunday, police said.
Karim Khan, a senior police official in Peshawar, confirmed the attack and said three militants were killed in the clash with Rehman's militia.
Bazidkhel Union Council Nazim Fahimur Rehman told Daily Times villagers informed him at 7:30am that three armed men, who were wearing burqas, had entered the village.
Rehman said members of a local lashkar asked the men to stop for inspection outside his house, but the gunmen attacked the militiamen. "There were around 50 attackers. Three of them, wearing burqas managed to reach my house. My men stopped them and asked for identification, but they started firing after flinging off the burqas," Rehman told AFP. "It is 100 percent sure that these people came to kill me. They left behind grenades and Kalashnikovs," he said.
He said the attackers' accomplices, who were waiting in a car outside the village, escaped after the gunmen were killed. The nazim said he suspected Bara-based Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) of launching the attack. Rehman asked the people to help the government identify terrorists, adding that terrorisms could not be eliminated without public support. The nazim has been at odds with LI ever since villagers killed seven LI men when they tried to abduct Rehman last year. He has also survived two earlier attempts on his life by the militants. LI, which has loose ties to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) movement, enforces prayers five times a day and punishes people accused of prostitution, gambling and other vices.
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Security forces on Sunday launched a search operation against the Taliban and imposed a curfew for an indefinite period in Khar, officials said. Meanwhile, Taliban terrorist bombed the house of a tribesman in Belot area of Mamoond tehsil. Taliban also fired rockets on security forces' checkposts in Khar, however no casualties were reported.
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Okay-y-y, but won't the CHARDASSIANS get mad???
At least 18 terrorists were killed as fighter jets pounded Taliban hideouts in Orakzai Agency, a private TV channel reported on Sunday. The bombings also destroyed 10 Taliban hideouts in Ghaljo, Dabori and Mamozai areas of upper Orakzai Agency, the channel reported. Shelling by helicopter gunships also destroyed a Taliban ammunition depot in the area.
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[Dawn] The military on Sunday claimed killing at least 17 militants during various clashes in South Waziristan and Swat. Search operations to flush out militants from the restive areas were ongoing.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said security forces also recovered caches of arms and ammunition during operations in South Waziristan.
Troops established a check post in the Shah Wali area which was previously a militant stronghold, the ISPR said.
Meanwhile, in Swat, seven terrorists voluntarily surrendered to security forces at the Charbagh, Roria and Zara Khela areas.
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A Taliban, considered a close aide of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Darra Adam Khel commander Tariq, on Sunday confessed to killing a Polish engineer earlier in the year, a private TV channel reported.
The Taliban in Darra Adam Khel had announced on February 8 that they had beheaded Polish engineer Peter Stanczak.
Attaullah said commander Tariq had assured him that the Pole's murder would earn them money and ensure the release of their colleagues in government custody.
The terrorist also confessed to his involvement in a number of other incidents of terrorism and abductions for ransom.
Attaullah said he, along with Abdul Samad, Umer Farooq, Mufti Abdul Rasheed and Abdul Ghafoor, had killed dozens of people in various terror attacks and abducted several others for ransom.
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A week old but it shows that the Maoists were never really interested in 'peace' or in resolving the political problems in Nepal.
The agitating Unified Maoists Party has declared the Autonomous State of Kirat, Monday November 9, 2009. The Maoists Party politburo member and the coordinator of Kirat State Uprising Committee, Mr. Gopal Kirati amid the presence of hundreds of Maoists cadres had made the declaration in Diktel of Khotang District.
Earlier, the Unified Maoist Party had withdrawn the declaration of autonomous states after being heavily criticized by other political parties that claimed that such a unilateral declaration would make null and void the Comprehensive Peace Treaty and the Interim Constitution of which the Maoists party is a signatory.
Dr. Babu Ram Bhattarai, the Chief of the Unified Maoists Party led United Uprising Committee had declared, November 6, 2009, that the party had formally withdrawn the program of declaring Autonomous States.
However, Mr. Kirati, as per the reports, had talked straight to the Party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal prior to the declaration was made. Prachanda told him to go ahead.
Mr. Kirati also reveals that the doors of the Kirat Autonomous State are always closed for expansionist India, the Feudal elements and the Imperialists. We will soon appoint the representatives of the Kirat State, adds Mr. Kirati.
The Kirat Autonomous States comprises of the Districts of Khotang, Okhaldhnuga, Bhojpur, Solukhumbu, Udaypur and Sankhusabha.
The program was attended by the Maoists CA members representing the districts and the local Maoists leaders.
Likewise, the Unified Maoists Party affiliated Limbuwan Liberation Front is also preparing to make a similar declaration soon. Said Sriprasad Jugube, the chief of the Front, talking to the press in the district of Ilam that the Autonomous Limbuwan State would be declared shortly, however, it will preserve the spirit of the Interim Constitution.
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[The News (Pak) Top Stories] Intelligence agencies have captured a top leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) from a major city of the Punjab after trailing him for a week. The leader who can only be identified by his initials N.A.Z owing to sensitive ongoing interrogations is said to rank amongst the top leaders of the category -3 classification done by the law enforcing agencies. Category-1 includes Osama Bin Laden, Mulla Omar and Aymen al-Zawahiri. Category-2 includes Hakeemullah Mehsud, Maulvi Fazlullah etc, while Category-3 top leaders comprise the cadre that is directly responsible for specific territories, which in this terrorist leader's case was the entire Punjab and the federal capital. He was described by an investigating official as an "information treasure trove".
N.A.Z hails from a Middle Eastern country and was reportedly the chief planner of terrorist activities in Punjab and the federal capital territory, the sources said.
The apprehended terrorist top gun had arrived in Punjab a few days back to put terrorism activities in Punjab and the federal capital in top gear. Weeks earlier, he had come to personally monitor, and even lead a major terrorist attack in Islamabad, possibly in the Red Zone, sources claimed.
The top terrorist arrived in a hamlet near Manaal (the restaurant located high on the Margallah hills) sometime during the last week of October, then moved to Talhaarh located on the North end of the hills and that's where the intelligence agencies got wind of his presence. Once again he moved, unaware of the fact that the intelligence agencies were on his trail, this time to Chak Gah, a small village located in vicinity of Manaal. All along search operations by the intelligence agencies were launched in different hamlets adjacent to Talhaar and Manaal and the law enforcing agencies, equipped with sophisticated technology, combed the area but found nothing, sources told The News.
Meanwhile, the Taliban leader disappeared from the scene and was once again spotted in South Waziristan, the sources maintained. The intelligence agencies kept monitoring his activities and finally trapped him as he reached a major city of the Punjab to execute a major terrorist plan.
The source said that the suspect adopted a circuitous route to reach Islamabad. He reached Mardan to leave for Mansehra on vehicle, the sources disclosed adding that he arrived at Khanpur via Haripur and then Talhaar via Lora, located in the mountain of Margalla but falling in the jurisdiction of NWFP.
A part of Talhaar is located in the jurisdiction of police station Lora in NWFP whereas the major part falls within the jurisdiction of Kohsar police station in Islamabad capital territory (ICT), the sources said.
The TTP leader entered the ICT via Talhaar, Gokina, Manaal and reached Chak Gah. "A mule track leads to Saidpur village (Model village) from Chak Gah and Saidpur village is 5 kilometer down from Manaal," sources said, adding, a drain was a barrier between the mule track and Saidpur village but it can be crossed easily.
The sources claimed that the TTP leader wanted to enter Islamabad through Saidpur village but he postponed his plan as he had suspected surveillance by intelligence agencies. However, the law enforcing agencies have deployed contingents of Rangers, Frontier Constabulary (FC) and police commandos on Margalla hilltops after the attempt of the TTP top leadership to enter Islamabad.
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Islamabad Syed Kaleem Imam told The News that contingents of paramilitary forces have been deployed at different vital points of Margala Hills to prevent possible activities of miscreants. "22 posts of Rangers have been set at Margala Hills," the IGP said.
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At least 12 people have been shot dead by gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms in a pre-dawn attack in a village south-west of Baghdad, officials say.
Police spokesman Gen Qassim Moussawi said officers suspected the attack in Zauba was the result a tribal dispute. Among the dead were a senior figure in the Iraqi Islamic Party and members of a local Awakening Council - a Sunni militia co-operating with the state.
The area around Zauba was once a hotbed of the Sunni insurgency in the country. The violence triggered by the US-led invasion in 2003 has diminished over the past 18 months, but shootings and bombings are common.
A resident of Zauba blamed al-Qaeda in Iraq for Monday's attack.
Mohammed al-Zubaie told AFP news agency that the gunmen had shot dead Attala Ouda al-Shukir, an Awakening Council leader, as well as three of his sons and four cousins.
[Ma'an] Israeli border guards detained and deported 252 Palestinians working without the required permits in Israel during the weekend, it was reported on Sunday.
The Palestinians arrested for residing and working in Israel illegally have been transferred to the West Bank.
Sixteen Israeli employers were also detained and questioned on charges of hiring Palestinian workers without the required permits.
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[Ma'an] PA security forces in Hebron discovered artillery shells left by the Israeli army, in the town of Ithna, southern West Bank.
The media office for the police department said in a report that, "after receiving information from the residents regarding these shells in the area of Wadi Resha, a group of the PA forces moved to the scene where they secured the area, keeping the residents from the shells so as not to be hurt."
The report added that these artillery shells were left behind by the Israeli army, one of which measured 110 centimeters lengthwise and weighed 80 kilogram, another measuring 85 centimeters with a weight of 50 kilograms.
The security forces were able to handle the shells without causing injuries or damages.
The media office urged residents to inform the police department in the event of discovering any artillery shells in the area.
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Artillery shells in Hebron? Oh noes! Next they will be finding bombs in Gilead.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Yemeni and Saudi forces have intensified attacks against the Houthi fighters in Yemen's mountainous north, after sending more reinforcements to the beleaguered region. 
[Bangla Daily Star] Two regional leaders of outlawed parties were killed in separate incidents of 'shootout' and mob beating yesterday in Kushtia and Meherpur districts respectively.
[Maghrebia] Spanish police in Pamplona arrested an Algerian terror suspect allegedly linked to a larger European terror cell dismantled last week, Algerian and international press reported on Saturday (November 14th). The suspect is accused of making false identity papers that generated some one million euros over the past three years. Some 17 terror suspects were recently arrested in Austria, Italy and Spain; several of the alleged terrorists are accused of stealing the identities of Algerian footballers playing in France.
Two terrorists were arrested on Sunday as police tightened security in the Capital after the recent wave of terrorist attacks in the country. Shahzad Town police claimed to have arrested a suspected terrorist and recovered a kilogramme of explosives and ammunition from him. A spokesman for Islamabad police told Daily Times that police had arrested Hafiz Umar Farooq (22), a resident of Faisalabad who had allegedly come to the capital to carry out a terrorist attack. Separately, one of the masterminds of the International Islamic University Islamabad bombing, identified only as Zahid, has been arrested from Attock, police say.
[Dawn] A bomb exploded in the provincial capital here on Sunday evening. However, no loss of life or property was reported in the incident. According to police, unidentified persons had placed a bomb at an area behind the Passport Office which exploded, but no damage to life or property occurred.
At least 18 terrorists were killed as fighter jets pounded Taliban hideouts in Orakzai Agency, a private TV channel reported on Sunday. The bombings also destroyed 10 Taliban hideouts in Ghaljo, Dabori and Mamozai areas of upper Orakzai Agency, the channel reported. Shelling by helicopter gunships also destroyed a Taliban ammunition depot in the area.
[Dawn] The military on Sunday claimed killing at least 17 militants during various clashes in South Waziristan and Swat. Search operations to flush out militants from the restive areas were ongoing.
A Taliban, considered a close aide of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Darra Adam Khel commander Tariq, on Sunday confessed to killing a Polish engineer earlier in the year, a private TV channel reported.
[The News (Pak) Top Stories] Intelligence agencies have captured a top leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) from a major city of the Punjab after trailing him for a week. The leader who can only be identified by his initials N.A.Z owing to sensitive ongoing interrogations is said to rank amongst the top leaders of the category -3 classification done by the law enforcing agencies. Category-1 includes Osama Bin Laden, Mulla Omar and Aymen al-Zawahiri. Category-2 includes Hakeemullah Mehsud, Maulvi Fazlullah etc, while Category-3 top leaders comprise the cadre that is directly responsible for specific territories, which in this terrorist leader's case was the entire Punjab and the federal capital. He was described by an investigating official as an "information treasure trove". 
