Also known as the O Club. Here on the front page in the right margin there is a yellow box in which the O Club is listed. Click on it to walk in the front door.
to the right of the graphic next to the text input box you will see a tiny Christmas tree graphic.
Hover your mouse over the Christmas tree and what will pop up is a list of 42 Christmas songs. The playlist starts automatically and plays randomly. The songs are a eclectic mixture of traditional and contemporary Christmas songs, nothing controversial, no Dennis O'Leary, no "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer." Just a collection of heartfelt songs celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.
All SFW.
The list comes from "Playlist". If you have suggestions for additions to the list kindly post the URL in the O Club and I will add it as soon as I can.
Popups and javascript must be enabled in your browser in order for the playlist to work.
If you want to use the javascript and html code in your own web page you can download the files here. The link contains all the code and instructions you need to make your own play list.
You can thank bossman (Fred) for his kind permission to make this happen.
The link to the music will remain until Jan 4th, 2010.
Enjoy!
Thank you for the lovely gift, badanov. You are a dear man.
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What!!! No "grandma got run over by a reindeer"??? That is one of my very favorite Christmas songs!
Seriously, though, Fred, thanks for that. Too often, "Christmas music" means endless repeats of songs that are really "Winter holiday" songs - celebrating snow, and gift giving and being with the family. Although those are nice, they are not the reason for the season.
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Anyhow, I'll have to make do with XM/Sirius Radio Chanukah, the most appealing production of that service.
I actually submitted a serious Christmas song in the O Club: the Roches' version of "We Three Kings".
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11/25/2009 21:14 Comments ||
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I actually submitted a serious Christmas song in the O Club: the Roches' version of "We Three Kings".
Posted by: Frank G ||
11/25/2009 21:59 Comments ||
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Um, "Playlist" has substituted some random instrumental version for the Roches' version. I guess you'll have to look it up in iTunes or a competitor.
Posted by: Eric Jablow ||
11/25/2009 23:04 Comments ||
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That's the best/only one accessible by playlist.com
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Eric, badanov asked me to propose Chanukkah songs, but I really only know the kid's stuff. Perhaps you would do better -- I'd love to add something more adult to my own repertoire.
[Dawn] A remote-controlled bomb hidden in a water truck exploded in the eastern Afghan province of Khost, killing three people including two children, the Interior Ministry said.
Another two children and one man were wounded in the Tuesday morning attack, the ministry said.
Wazir Pacha, a spokesman for the provincial police chief of Khost, said authorities were investigating what the target might have been.
Taliban violence against US and Nato soldiers and Afghan civilians continues to rise.
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11/25/2009 00:00 ||
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[Asharq al-Aswat] An authoritative Saudi military source has asserted that the infiltrators still have what it described as "bad and hostile" intentions to penetrate the Saudi borders and continue their operations. The source said in a statement issued by the armed forces' command in Saudi Arabia's southern sector yesterday that the forces deployed on the battlefront repelled yesterday an attack by the infiltrators in the Jabal Dokhan, Al-Dawd, and Al-Rumayh areas which resulted in heavy losses on the enemy's side. The statement added: "Our valiant armed forces are continuing to deal firmly and efficiently, praise be to God, and inflicting on them heavy losses." It also pointed out that the Saudi forces were using in their operations air and artillery bombardment to target the infiltrators and repel their attacks.
In other developments, military sources in the operations sector reported that the warplanes succeeded the night before yesterday in destroying six vehicles belonging to the infiltrators that were carrying ammunitions. They said that these vehicles were part of the bounties the infiltration seized during their clashes with the Yemeni army which is fighting an insurgency by the Huthists in Sa'dah. The frontlines yesterday were the scene of skirmishes with the infiltrators on the Jabal Rumayh front, where the Saudi air force continued to bombard them from 0200 until 1000 hours yesterday morning while the artillery continued its shelling of targets. The sources called these attacks "strong" and noted that the armed forces succeeded in repelling the attack and inflicting losses.
The sources also disclosed that the infiltrators' attacks resulted with their death or capture due to the closure of their lines of retreat and their encirclement with the warplanes' fire and the clashes led by the forces deployed at the frontlines. They asserted that massive losses were inflicted on the infiltrators' large attack at dawn on Saturday, adding that hundreds of infiltrators were probably killed and others were taken prisoner on the Jabal Rumayh front. Jabal Rumayh lies to the north of Jabal Dokhan in Al-Harth area and is of strategic importance because the surrounding areas and movements in them can be observed from it.
A number of armed vehicles arrived at the battlefront yesterday, including convoys of "Hummer" vehicles which were seen heading toward the battlefront. These vehicles are capable of crossing geographical obstacles and hills and reach the frontlines. Other sources reported that the participation of the infantry's "Bradley" vehicle was an additional strength because it can carry soldiers to the frontline without being affected by fire in addition to its ability to attack, fire, and move in difficult geographical areas and called the participation of this kind of vehicles "a shaking of the battlefield."
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11/25/2009 00:00 ||
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Another good day at the middle-east branch of Orville Redenbacker.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] A Japanese engineer freed after nine days held hostage by tribesmen near the Yemeni capital Sanaa voiced his relief at his release and said he just wanted to see his wife and take a shower.
Sanaa governor Numan Duid said the release of Takeo Mashimo on Monday followed a pledge by Yemeni authorities that the case of a member of the kidnappers' tribe held without charge would be examined.
As he emerged from a vehicle outside the Sanaa government building, Mashimo told a swarm of reporters he was "fine". When asked what he wanted to do first, he said in images shown on Japanese television: "I want to see my wife."
"I'm relieved that I was freed unharmed. Thank you," the 63-year-old Mashimo told a press conference.
Speaking to someone on a mobile phone, he said: "I'm all right. I want to take a shower as I didn't have one for nine days."
Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama welcomed the release, which came almost a week after a tribal leader in Yemen had mistakenly said Mashimo had been freed. Related article: Japan PM welcomes release of hostage in Yemen
"The Yemen government and the tribesmen did a very good job," Hatoyama told reporters in Tokyo, according to Jiji Press.
Mashimo's wife, 63-year-old Kyoko, told reporters in Tokyo after seeing him on television: "I was relieved as he looked good."
"I want to have him drink alcohol and eat sashimi, his favorite food," she said, according to the Kyodo news agency.
Tribes in Yemen, an impoverished country awash with weapons and gripped by domestic unrest, often kidnap foreigners to put pressure on local authorities.
Kyodo quoted the released hostage as saying by telephone: "At the beginning of the abduction, I felt very frightened as I was surrounded by many people armed with automatic rifles. As the days passed, I kept my cool."
Sheikh Abdul Jalil, a tribal leader in Arhab, the area northeast of the capital where the kidnapping took place on November 15, had mistakenly announced the engineer's release last Tuesday.
Tribal mediators had said the kidnappers were insisting on an exchange in which the detained Islamist member of their tribe would be freed.
A security official said the Islamist was a "dangerous element who has fought in Iraq and Nahr el-Bared", a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, and was "difficult to let free".
Hussein Abdullah Koub, 23, was jailed for a year by the US military in Iraq, before moving to Lebanon where he fought alongside Islamist militants against the Lebanese army in 2007, the official said.
He was later arrested in Syria before being taken into custody upon his return to Yemen.
Mediators said last week that Al-Qaeda militants had seized the hostage from his tribal kidnappers and moved him to an unknown location in the Maarib region of eastern Yemen.
But the Japanese embassy said he had not changed hands or been moved.
Mashimo is employed by a Tokyo-based consultancy working on the construction of an elementary school funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency.
More than 200 foreigners have been seized during the past 15 years, with most being freed unharmed.
But five Germans and a Briton, who were seized in June in the north of the country, are still missing with no word on their fate.
They were among nine people seized in the Saada region, the stronghold of Shiite rebels at war with the Sanaa government. The three others in the group -- two Germans and a South Korean -- were killed.
Two Japanese women were released unharmed in May 2008 after briefly being taken hostage by Yemeni tribesmen.
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It's a pretty ignorant country that needs a Japanese consultant to build something as simple as an elementary school.
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11/25/2009 4:21 Comments ||
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Down Home Sashimi Recipe
Ingredients :
500g Yellow Fin Tuna is good, must be as FRESH as possible( very important) Dont "saw the block of flesh, use a very SHARP knife, cut WITH the grain of the flesh into half finger wide slices.
Very fresh fish such as tuna, salmon or trout. You can get good Trout easily...you might even be able to go catch it yourself. I live in the North Georgia Mountains and making Sashimi right at the campsite is too easy to pass up.
The other ingredients are something you can pack in a small cooler and carry. carrots, no problem...take them from your home garden( you do have a home Garden , dont you? You dont? Why am I talking to such a person? If you dont have a Garden I dont want to be talking to you)
Carrot
Daikon
Japanese soy sauce, to serve
Wasabi, to serve
Method :
* Use a very sharp, flat-bladed knife to remove any skin from the fish. Place the fish in the freezer and chill it until it is just firm enough to be cut thinly and evenly into slices, about 5 mm in width.
* Try to make each cut one motion in one direction, taking care not to saw the fish.
* Use a zester to scrape the carrot and daikon into long fine strips or cut them into fine julienne strips.
* Arrange the sashimi pieces on a platter.
* Garnish with the carrot and daikon and serve with the soy sauce and wasabi.
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You dont like raw fish? You havent trid it yet. Do you own a really good pocket knife? How are you going to clean fish if you dont have a good pocket knife? You dont know how to clean a fish?
Jesus. There isnt much hope for you, is there?
Daikon? Ask for it in the produce section. If you are in sudden need and you dont grow it in the Garden use White Icicle Radish. I use a sauce for my Sashimi to dip the fish slices while I drink a Heinekins..Sesame Vinaigrette
based on a recipe from Martha Stewart's Healthy Quick Cook
1/4 cup rice vinegar
1 tablespoon honey
1/4 cup sesame oil
3 tablespoons canola oil
1 tablespoon water
I also might add a single Oriental Ramen Noodle flavor packet. I am no purest, I am a Georgia redneck who likes Sashimi.
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11/25/2009 8:17 Comments ||
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Goodness, Angleton9, what brought that on? I must admit, it sounds delicious -- I'll have to get a pot to grow radishes in 'cause our lot is oriented just wrong under the trees for a vegetable garden. I already have pots for ginger and watercress, after all.
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Anywhere not next to a fish processing center is going to get frozen fish, which totally destroys the taste and texture of sashimi. I say this as a snob, one of the few things in life I'm a snob about...I never ate it until I left America. Held my nose and tried it in Japan, and only ever had the real deal. Convinced myself I liked it finally (women and beer help with that). Went to China and had it - horrible. No taste, and about as springy as a mud patty. Went back to the States, and it was just as flavorless. I did go to a place in Houston that had the good stuff, but I looked it up specially and we drove for almost an hour each way getting there and back. It was so authentic, the staff snubbed us for being foreigners Americans, wouldn't serve us although they served the other Japanese customers. We got the single incompetent Mexican waitress.
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Got bad news news for you Gromky. That tuna sashimi you have eating was frozen first as is all the other fish that is caught more than a day's boat ride away.
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11/25/2009 9:01 Comments ||
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The freezing was managed by Japaneese trained freezers and was suitably lectured on best afterlife practices before the freezing.
Posted by: Perry Stanford White ||
11/25/2009 10:01 Comments ||
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ed, but it's frozen fast. Friend caught a big tuna out of Venice (LA) and Japanese buyers were bidding on it as he reached the dock ($25 a pound, some years ago, for the whole fish). It would be flash frozen within hours and air-freighted to Japan. He didn't sell. I grilled some - it was yummy.
Yep. And flash frozen tuna is good eating too. I ask the fish monger to get sashimi fish direct from the freezer and thaw it at home. As for the "fresh" sushi fish, very hit and miss where I live, though the shrimp is good.
Posted by: ed ||
11/25/2009 10:09 Comments ||
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angleton where ya live in the North GA mountains? I need a guide too go trout fishing one day but the locals know where the best spots are without getting shot.
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11/25/2009 10:33 Comments ||
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don't know how this thread went this way, but if in San Diego - try Point Loma Seafoods - fresh-caught/not frozen.
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11/25/2009 11:01 Comments ||
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OK, back on topic. It's a pretty ignorant country that needs a Japanese consultant to build something as simple as an elementary school.
Japanese jizya money. Mr Engineer there to supervise the construction, but more importantly, the disbursement of the money. Otherwise it's like spilling water into the sand.
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The Justice Department on Monday announced terrorism charges against eight people for activities involving an al Qaeda-inspired organization in Somalia -- including recruiting, financing and actual fighting.
For the past two years, authorities say, about 20 young men, all but one of whom are of Somali decent, have left their homes in the Minneapolis area to go fight with al-Shabaab, a terrorist group that has pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden. The group is engaged in a civil war against Somalia's government with the goal of imposing a new regime based on Islam's strict Shariah law.
"The recruitment of young people from Minneapolis and other U.S. communities to fight for extremists in Somalia has been the focus of intense investigation for many months," said David Kris, assistant attorney general for national security. "While the charges unsealed today underscore our progress to date, this investigation is ongoing. Those who sign up to fight or recruit for al-Shabaab's terror network should be aware that they may well end up as defendants in the United States or casualties of the Somali conflict."
Only one of the people identified Monday is in custody.
Mahamud Said Omar, who was charged in a five-count indictment in August, was arrested in the Netherlands earlier this month, and the U.S. is seeking his extradition. Mr. Omar, a Somali citizen who was granted permanent U.S. resident status in 1994, is accused of providing money to the young men who went from Minneapolis to Somalia.
Two of the other men charged, who are thought to be overseas, are accused of being in contact with al-Shabaab members in Somalia and of encouraging young men in Minneapolis to go wage jihad there.
One of the men, Cabdulaahi Ahmed Faarax, told young men that jihad in Somalia would be "fun" and that they would get to shoot guns, according to an FBI affidavit.
Mr. Faarax and the other man, Abdiweli Yassin Isse, left the U.S. last month at a Mexican border crossing south of San Diego, according to court records. A state trooper had pulled them over a few days earlier while they were driving in Nevada and contacted the FBI after the two men gave inconsistent answers about how they knew each other and who was getting married at the wedding in San Diego they said was their destination.
The state trooper searched the car and found Mr. Faarax's passport and $4,000 in cash, but they apparently were let go because there was no evidence of criminal wrongdoing, according to court records.
Mr. Faarax and Mr. Isse are charged with conspiring to kill, kidnap, maim or injure persons outside the United States.
The other five - Ahmed Ali Omar, Khalid Abshir, Zakaria Maruf, Mohamed Hassan and Mustafa Salat - were charged last summer with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and foreign terrorist organizations; conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim and injure people outside the United States; possessing and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence; and solicitation to commit a crime of violence.
According to authorities, those five went to Somalia to fight with al-Shabaab. The ages of the five men, who are still thought to be overseas, were not immediately available.
Including the eight cases announced Monday, 14 people have been charged in federal court in Minnesota as part of a months-long investigation into al-Shabaab and young men from Minneapolis. Four of the other six have pleaded guilty and await sentencing.
The investigation received greater public focus after news last October emerged that Somali-American Shirwa Ahmed carried out a suicide bombing in his native country. He is thought to be the first American citizen to have carried out such an attack.
"The revelation last year that a Somali-American became radicalized, traveled to Somalia, and carried out a suicide bombing was a wake-up call that violent Islamist radicalization is happening in our country," said Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Republican and ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut independent and the panel's chairman, said he is "gratified that the FBI is closely tracking the threat of homegrown terrorism, and I look forward to learning how these young Americans were recruited, so that we can protect others from the pernicious spread of violent Islamist extremism."
Ralph S. Boelter, special agent in charge of the FBI's Minneapolis field office, stressed the importance of the Somali community's cooperation in helping to build cases.
"The sole focus of our efforts in this matter has been the criminal conduct of a small number of mainly Somali-American individuals and not the broader Somali-American community itself, which has consistently expressed deep concern about this pattern of recruitment activity in support of al-Shabaab," he said.
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Does anyone have an explanation for the proliferation of Somali's and Hmong in Minnesota - all from tropical or rather warmer than Minnesota climes?
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11/25/2009 4:24 Comments ||
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Minnesota has (had?) an uncommonly liberal (neo and classical) and welcoming people. Maine too.
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I don't know about the Somalis, but Lutheran churches helped settle the Hmong here after Vietnam. Many of the churches were based in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The Hmong, by and large, haven't been welfare cases. The churches sponsored them to help them get started, and then they and their families work very hard. There are a lot of Hmong in our local schools here, and they tend to be high achievers. It'd take me a while to list here what my daughter's Hmong friends and their families have achieved.
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There is a disturbing aspect of news reports that emphasize recruitment. First, it marginalizes the primary perpetrators the Jihadists themselves. If these guys simply want to have fun shooting guns all they have to do is hang out with their fellow Somali gangbangers in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood. Second, it dismisses responsibility of the culture that fosters such actions. Somali culture is one of tribal grudges that grew from decades of famine and civil war. Somali immigrants are amongst the least trusting of authority and most resistant to assimilation. Third, it refuses to confront the true basis for the recruitment the strict Islamic dogma preached at the Twin City mosques. The Imams have been careful not to preach Violent Jihad in earshot of the greater public. However, they make no attempts to hide their beliefs when it comes to the conflicts between Sharia and the laws of their adopted country. Nor do they shy away from their open distaste for US policies towards Ethiopia and beyond. Obviously, its more comfortable for the media to blame a few bad actors but the recruitment networks are just a sliver of the entire story.
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IIUC the Ethiopian immigrants across the midwest (esp in Columbus OH, maybe WI and MN also) have assimilated well and are economically self-sufficient. If so, then the Somali exception prob'y has more to do w you-know-what than any cultural or regional explanation.
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Wait a minute, people. The articles says people from Somalia are recruiting young people of Somali descent in Minneapolis for jihad in Somalia? We should encourage that. We should buy them one-way tickets to jihad. But we should revoke their passports and US citizenship at the same time. IOW, they can leave any time they want but they can never come back. What's the problem with that?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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Pakistan charged seven men on Wednesday in last year's Mumbai terror attacks, its first indictments in a case watched closely by India and the United States to see if Islamabad makes good on promises to punish those responsible.
The indictments before an anti-terrorism court came on the eve of the first anniversary of the attacks on hotels, a train station and other targets in the Indian financial center that terrorized the city for three days and killed 166 people.
The seven suspects pleaded not guilty to charges they helped plan and execute the attacks, defense lawyer Shahbaz Rajput and prosecutor Malik Rab Nawaz said.
The men, allegedly belonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group, could face the death penalty if convicted. Two of the defendants, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and Zarrar Shah, have been accused by India of masterminding the attack.
In the past, Islamabad has failed to punish militants suspected of attacks on targets in its giant eastern neighbor, And they will fail to punish in the future, as soon as the heat is off.
with which it has fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947.
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How many will be on early release once Indian anger simmers?
[Dawn] Pakistani troops killed 18 militants in a fresh offensive on Tuesday against insurgents blamed for a wave of recent bombings in Peshawar.
The paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) said the target of the latest offensive was Lashkar-e-Islam (Army of Islam), a criminal home-grown group with ties to the Taliban that is stirring up trouble in the Khyber tribal district.
'Eighteen militants were killed and six others apprehended during the operation,' said the FC in a statement.
The operation was launched on intelligence information about Lashkar hideouts in Gurguri village, 12 kilometres northwest of Bara, the main town of Khyber which sits on the main Nato supply route into Afghanistan.
The district neighbours the northwestern city of Peshawar, increasingly on the frontline of Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked bomb attacks and where seven suicide bombers have caused carnage in the last two weeks.
Gurguri was 'secured' and security forces recovered arms and ammunition as well as torture equipment, the statement said.
The operation, code named 'Khwakh ba desham' which means I Will See You in Pashto was launched at 6:00 am with paramilitary and army troops.
A local security official said at least three helicopter gunships also took part in the offensive and shelled militant hideouts.
Khyber is on the main land and supply route through Pakistan into Afghanistan, where international forces are battling a Taliban insurgency.
But residents slammed the military operations as 'cruel,' underscoring the challenges facing Pakistan in waging effective counter-insurgency campaigns.
'It is a cruel operation. They are also targeting civilians, which will trigger hatred among the tribesmen,' Bara resident, Raoof Khan Afridi, told AFP by telephone.
'All markets are closed and curfew remains imposed,' he said, accusing FC men of opening fire at anyone who violated the curfew.
The army launched a similar offensive in Khyber last September after a suicide bomber killed 22 policemen at a border post.
Intelligence officials said Lashkar-e-Islam uses the area as a base to train its followers to attack security personnel.
'They have dug caves in the hills of Gurguri, which has been a no-go area for troops,' said an intelligence official in the area.
Further north, authorities imposed a curfew in Khar, the main town of tribal district Bajaur after deadly clashes with the Taliban, officials said.
'The crossfire continued for three hours. Six militants were killed in retaliatory fire,' Adalat Khan, a local government official, told AFP.
'Two civilians were also killed and four, including two women, wounded when a mortar shell landed inside a house,' Khan added.
Armed with rockets and heavy weapons, Taliban militants also attacked the Bajaur headquarters of the local tribal police, he said.
'Some 50 Taliban launched the attack. Troops retaliated, killing six militants,' said a security official based in Khar.
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[Ma'an] Egyptian security forces seized a car loaded with weapons in the city of Rafah which borders the Gaza Strip.
An Egyptian security source said that the weapons, including 20 large plastic bags of explosives, guns and ammunition, in the car were to be smuggled into Gaza via an underground tunnel.
After police found the car, the driver and another passenger managed to escape arrest, the source added.
The weapons were sequestered to what the source described as "a safe location."
"Egypt is eager to prevent any smuggling of weapons to the Gaza Strip in order to protect Egyptian national security," the security official said.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Israeli warplanes attacked an alleged weapons-making factory and two supply tunnels in the Gaza Strip early on Tuesday in what the military said was retaliation for Palestinian rocket fire into southern Israel.
Medics and other witnesses said two of the air raids struck supply tunnels on the border between the blockaded coastal sliver and Egypt, whereas the strike in the eastern part of Gaza City targeted a weapons manufacturing facility. The aerial assaults wounded at least three people.
Gaza continues to suffer from the aftermath of a massive Israeli military offensive from December 2008 to January 2009. Over 1,400 Palestinians were killed during three weeks of Israeli land, sea, and air assaults in Operation Cast Lead. The offensive also inflicted $1.6 billion damage to the Gazan economy.
Most of the damage in Gaza has not been repaired due to an Israeli blockade that has prevented construction materials from entering the territory.
Actually, the blockade is mostly Egyptian. Just as the cause of the Israeli offensive is Gazan behaviour. But since this is a Master Religion issue to Iran, this kind of report is par for the stupidity course.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] A Belgian man pleaded guilty on Monday to charges of conspiring to illegally export F-5 fighter jet engines and parts from the United States to Iran, the Justice Department said.
Jacques Monsieur pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Mobile, Alabama. He was arrested in August and charged in a six-count indictment with conspiracy, money laundering, smuggling and violating the Arms Export Control Act and an embargo on trade with Iran.
"Monsieur, along with his co-conspirator (Dara) Fotouhi, are experienced arms dealers who have been actively working with the Iranian government to procure military items for the Iranian government," the Justice Department said in a statement.
Monsieur faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000.00 fine.
In February, Monsieur contacted an undercover agent seeking engines for the F-5 fighter jet and the C-130 military transport aircraft for export to Iran, the statement said. Under the plan, the parts would be sent to Iran via Colombia and the United Arab Emirates.
The engines and parts are for aircraft the United States sold to Iran before the 1979 revolution, the Justice Department said. The engines and parts cannot be exported to Iran without licenses from the State and Treasury departments.
"The guilty plea ... reflects the government's commitment to ensuring that critical technologies and military-grade weapons not fall into the wrong hands," said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Assistant Secretary John Morton.
Washington and Iran have been at loggerheads in recent years over Tehran's nuclear program, which it says is for civil energy purposes but Western powers fear is a cover for a secret program to develop nuclear weapons.
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Monsieur faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000.00 fine.
Huh? Get a rope.
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Got to be a fake name.
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I feel just awful. I looked at that name, read it as Jacques, Monsieur, and in my head it became Mr. Jack. Mr. Jack, the arms dealer, scourge of the seven puddles and the cow pond. Really, I am ashamed of myself.
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[Dawn] A remote-controlled bomb hidden in a water truck exploded in the eastern Afghan province of Khost, killing three people including two children, the Interior Ministry said.
The Justice Department on Monday announced terrorism charges against eight people for activities involving an al Qaeda-inspired organization in Somalia -- including recruiting, financing and actual fighting.
[Dawn] Pakistani troops killed 18 militants in a fresh offensive on Tuesday against insurgents blamed for a wave of recent bombings in Peshawar.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Israeli warplanes attacked an alleged weapons-making factory and two supply tunnels in the Gaza Strip early on Tuesday in what the military said was retaliation for Palestinian rocket fire into southern Israel. 
