Rolled over from yesterday... We had a hard drive failure overnight on our old server. Its job since retirement has been to backup the Burg's data on a daily basis, so we're presently flying nekkid. I've got a new drive on order, and it should be here in a few days, and I'll switch our development machine to backup duties this evening.
If you've got spare change please don't forget the tip jar. Paypal donations go to monthly operating costs and Amazon goes for the occasional hardware buy. There's usually not that much left over for beer.
Update...
I got the development machine set up last night but I didn't have time to do the backup -- so try not to break the Burg today.
By the way, we just went over 200,000 articles archived -- another Grim Milestone... And we're now headed for a million comments...
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Several months ago I saw a 1 terrabyte remote hard drive at Best Buy, it's 100 bucks and plugs in as an removable storage unit, that what you looking for?
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Wow! Cool! Just gave up my childs monthly allowance to you thru Amazon and on the return to you all the screen colors were revesed. Howja do dat?
Haven't used PayPal since I got phished last year.
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The drive on order from Amazon is a 1-terabyte, at $100 or thereabouts. It's overkill for my storage needs -- the Burg's hard drive is 250GB and if it ever gets that full it'll be because we got hacked.
I saw an Asus "home server" with space for three hot-swappable drives for $365. When the time comes to replace the current Burg hardware that's what's going up.
Our first dedicated server cost me (actually .com, who kicked in for it) $2000. The current server, that replaced it, was under $1000. I do like watching the prices of hardware going down.
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Among his many admirable faults and virtues, dear .com was a very generous man, and one of Nature's gentleman (whether he wanted to be or not).
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Fred, I use a ReadyNAS Duo with a 1 and 1.5 terabyte for my RAID home backup needs. Not only could you back everything up, but you could serve the burg from it if you needed to. Just a thought.
I have about 500gb spare right now, if you want I could make you an FTP account and open a port for you.
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That's a better deal than I got, but what I got's still overkill. My ideal desktop anymore has a solid state drive for operating system, with all the real storage on an a raided external.
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12/22/2009 9:15 Comments ||
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Fred, who supplies your RAID connector? If it's LSI Logic, I can probably get any needed software upgrades. If it's Adaptec, I don't have any connections there any more... Also, if you're using SCSI and have any problems, I do know a bit about the subject, and will gladly share.
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I'm in for my usual Paypal, Fred. Merry Christmas to you, Gloria, Doctor Steve, and all the mods
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I miss .com. .com, if you're out there and still peek in every now and then...Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
That goes for the rest of you 'burgers as well. Old friends and new.
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Just paypal'd a dime over to ya, take care of that hardware and keep it coming.
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I'll have to watch it again - I must have blinked and missed where the wedding party was evacuated. What ammo is that - only fired one short burst once he was on target and had two dead and two dying?
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Amazing video! BP great photos of the VIP flights. That used to be a special duty and highly sought after assignment in the Air Force. You get to fly all over the world!
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FM QURESHI > believes that POTUS BAMMER's = USA's new AFGHAN STRATEGY [incl. DRONE STRIKES] has serious complications = "implications" for PAKLAND, namely inducinga flow of both LEGIT AFGHAN REFUGEES + MILITANTS INTO PAKISTANI TERRITORY.
The Afghan military claimed to have captured a dangerous Taliban commander who orders suicide and roadside bomb attacks in the southwestern province of Nimroz.
Mullah Sher Malang was captured in a raid in the Khashrod district in Nimroz after a major clash with Taliban forces in the region. The initial clash took place after Taliban forces under the command of Mullah Ewaz ambushed an Afghan and Coalition convoy in the district.
Ewaz and an estimated 20 of his fighters were reported killed during the battle, which took place on Dec. 18, Nimroz's governor and police chief told Pajhwok Afghan News.
Afghan forces captured Malang during a follow-up raid that resulted in one Taliban fighter killed and five more wounded.
Malang is known to organize suicide attacks and roadside bombings in the region, and is a close ally to Mullah Abdullah Zakir, the Taliban's chief of military operations in southern Afghanistan.
[Dawn] Taliban destroyed a border base camp of the Afghan National Army near Angoor Adda in South Waziristan on Sunday.
Sources said the Taliban planted explosives all over the base and blew it up, destroying bunkers and installations.
Local tribesman Izzat Gul, who claimed to be an eyewitness, said the Taliban blew up the base camp at around 10:30am when a contingent stationed there moved out of the fortified compound. After the explosions, the Taliban and a group of tribesmen took away all useful items from the camp.
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WORLD NEWS > POLITICAL CRISIS DEEPENS IN PAKISTAN: ARREST WARRANTS ISSUED FOR MALIK; + HEAVY [troops/milfors]FIRING ON INDIA-PAKISTAN BORDER [Jammu & Kashmir], + MAKE-OR-BREAK TUESDAY FOR TELANGANA AND ANDRHA [propos new Indian states].
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After the explosions, the Taliban and a group of tribesmen took away all useful items from the camp.
"Yar! I got me a handful of rubble!"
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Heh. I had the same thought, Frank. "Items" tend to be more useful before you 'splode 'em. Makes sense, though, considering their cognitive disconnect re cause and effect.
[Quqnoos] The Afghan Defense Ministry says 21 militants have been killed in three separate operations in the country.
The ministry said in a statement that attacks by Afghan and NATO forces on Sunday killed eight insurgents in southern Helmand province and six in eastern Ghazni province.
The Ghazni operation was carried out by the Afghan and NATO-led forces a day after Taliban militants gunned down a Polish soldier in the province.
Afghan forces also killed seven militants in northern Kunduz province on Sunday, according to officials.
The north has become more violent in recent months as the Taliban and other militant groups have expanded their targets beyond the turbulent south and east.
The ministry did not report any casualties for Afghan or NATO forces, and did not go into detail about the attacks.
NATO and Afghan forces have launched multiple military operations across the country as the US and its Western allies will deploy an additional 37,000 reinforcement forces to Afghanistan in the next six months.
Currently, more than 100,000 foreign troops are based in Afghanistan with nearly 70,000 of them American and the rest from other allies.
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ION TOPIX > [Canadian] TOP GENERAL: TALIBAN WILL BE MARGINALIZED BY 2011, at least in KANDAHAR???
SAME > BALOCH LEADER [Mir] ASKS INDIA FOR HELP, agz religious intolerance + "enemy forces" oper inside Balochistan; + [India]CHIDABARAM: PARAMILITARY FORCES WILL TAKE ON MAOISTS.
[Quqnoos] Unidentified gunmen stormed a police station in the capital of eastern Paktia province on Monday, officials said The Northern Alliance managed to handle these goobers, once we started some arms and ammunition flowing to them. Maybe it's time to give the power back to them and let them clean house.
The Afghan Interior Ministry said the gunmen wearing suicide vests and carrying arms attacked the provincial police headquarters in Gardiz.
The militants seized a building near police headquarters and began firing at security forces as they surrounded the building, said Interior Ministry spokesman, Zemaray Bashari.
At least two militants were gunned down by the Afghan forces in the clash, Mr Bashari said. He didn't provide any further details and had no information about possible casualties.
The Afghan security forces have cordoned off the area.
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the Dostum Effect is my own personal Arclight. I think arm him and let him handle security
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[Asharq al-Aswat] Military have asserted to Asharq Al-Awsat that the Saudi forces dealt major blows to the Huthi infiltrators yesterday and succeeded in destroying vehicles carrying large numbers of armed infiltrators near the border strip and also destroyed vehicles carrying infiltrators toward the border village of Al-Jabiri in addition to destroying several caves which were used for smuggling qat and sheep before the outbreak of clashes and which the infiltrators used later on as hideouts for themselves and for their weapons and ammunitions.
According to the source, the Saudi forces secured the border village of Jabiri and villages near the border strip against any anticipated infiltration attempts and noted that clashes took place near the villages with a group of armed rebels who intended to penetrate the borders. It added that the Saudi army forces deployed in Jabal Rumayh, Jabal al-Dud, Jabal Dokhan, and the entire border strip demonstrated full readiness to foil any combat operations by the Huthi rebels, either by firing shells or foiling infiltration attempts. Apache and "F-15" aircraft meanwhile continued their intensive raids on the infiltrators' positions while other forces carried constant combing operations in the border villages.
Meanwhile, the Saudi security forces in the Jizan area have increased the field patrols in the area to monitor the infiltrators violating the residence rules in provinces and villages. Major General Ahmad Qazzaz, the Jizan police commander, told Asharq Al-Awsat the intensification of the security patrols in the provinces, villages, and remote areas led to a drop in the number of infiltrators who come to the area to improve their income. He added that the forces acted to prevent infiltrations into Saudi territories before the clashes and were continuing to arrest the infiltrators, noting that infiltration attempts in the area dropped when the security patrols were intensified and said "the more the security patrols are active in the area the less problems there are."
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"Smuggling qat [uppers] and sheep"? These Houthi rebels know how to have a good time...
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DAILY TIMES.PK > Saudi Official-Royal is claiming that 73 Saudis ["martyrs"} have been kiled in the fighting agz the Houthis/Huthi Rebels, while 26 are missing.
[Asharq al-Aswat] Saudi military sources informed Asharq Al-Awsat that Katyusha rockets, mortar shells, rocket propelled grenades, and 7.62mm caliber heavy machine guns, are some of the more prominent weapons being used by the [Huthi] armed infiltrators. It was also revealed that the infiltrators are using specially converted anti-tank rounds, as well as modified pick-up trucks equipped with a fixed machine-gun.
The source added that the Saudi Arabian armed forces present on the frontlines in the border region were able to destroy three Katyusha missiles yesterday, and were subject to five attacks by armed infiltrators. The source described the first attack as being a heavy attack.
As for the theatre of operations, the sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that Saudi forces are in complete control of Jabal Dokhan, Jabal Rameeh, and Jabal al-Dood and the surrounding villages, and are continuing to bombard the remaining infiltrators located in the border region. The source also revealed that Saudi forces were targeted by the infiltrators artillery and that more than 20 artillery shells fired upon them overshot their targets and missed, resulting in zero casualties.
A military source in the Saudi paratroopers confirmed that the Saudi forces are more than a match for the infiltrators, and in fact surpass them at all levels in terms of capabilities and training and martial arts, whether in defending against their attacks, or attacking them and destroying their bases, weapons caches, and personnel. This source said that the Saudi forces were attacking the [Huthi] infiltrators to stop the violation of Saudi territory.
He also said that the military forces would continue to bombard the [Huthi] positions within the Saudi territory, which the infiltrators are continuing to use as a means to infiltrate the [Saudi] military sector. The source added that the [Saudi] army, navy, and air force, are fighting a constant battle using careful plans and tactics. He also revealed the active role being played by artillery in this battle, and that the air force continued its bombardment of several sites being used as sniper posts and weapons caches by the infiltrators yesterday.
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How the hell do you "infiltrate" with something larger than a Microbus?
And what's this "martial arts" business? What're we talking about here, jihadi ninja? Stoned Master kung fu?
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TOPIX > SAUDIS FACE LONG MOUNTAIN WAR AGZ HOUTHIS ON SOUTHERN BORDER [Saudi Special-ELite Forces Operations].
North Korea threatened South Korean ships with possible attack by designating a firing zone along their disputed sea border Monday, raising tensions in an area where a brief but deadly clash erupted last month.
The western maritime boundary has long been considered a flash point between the two Koreas because the North does not recognize a line the United Nations unilaterally drew at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War. Pyongyang claims the actual border is further south.
The dispute led to deadly skirmishes in 1999, 2002 and on Nov. 10. In the latest clash, ships from the two sides exchanged fire in the disputed waters, leaving one North Korean sailor dead and three others wounded, according to the South.
On Monday, North Korea designated what it claimed are its territorial waters in the disputed area a "peacetime naval firing zone of coastal and island artillery units." That apparently means that artillery shells could land in the waters at any time.
Analysts said the move was designed to show the continuing instability on the Korean peninsula, as the U.S. and other nations press the North to resume talks on its nuclear program, and as the North pushes for a formal peace treaty to replace the truce that ended the Korean War.
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Careful, Dorks, that "firing zone" thingy can work both ways.
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Japan seems to sincerely believe that NORK is going to provoke a war by testing it's envelope. NORK senses that a certain power is looking mighty weak right now and it is time to turn it's citizens attention from the unfolding disaster and starvation at hand. It's an easy way to get rid of the population.
You see? North Korea is in a death spiral. What do companies do when they are in a death spiral? Countries do little different.
See if some strange money movement has made it out of the country lately.
Three Bosnian Islamists have been charged with terrorism offences and illegal weapons trafficking, a Bosnian court said on Tuesday. Rijad Rustempasic, Abdulah Handzic and Edis Velic have been charged with criminal offences of terrorism, associating for the purpose of the perpetration of criminal offences and illegal trafficking in weapons, military equipment and products of dual use, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina said in a statement.
The three were arrested in November following an intense investigation which prosecutors said involved interviews with nearly 70 different witnesses and several suspects, as well as the collection of over 1000 pieces of evidence in Bosnia, Germany, Austria, and elsewhere. The men were previously detained by Bosnian authorities in March last year, but were released after three months in detention due to lack of evidence.
As part of the same indictment, the court charged Rustempasics brother Muhamed and another man, Edis Strol, with trafficking in weapons and military equipment and being part of a criminal association. Both men were arrested by police earlier this year and have remained in detention since their capture.
The group, organized by Rijad Rustempasic, purchased and possessed weapons, explosives and various products of dual use suitable for making improvised explosive devices, the court said. All of this was prepared in order to carry out an attack on one of the identified targets with the view to seriously intimidate the citizens and destabilize fundamental political, constitutional, economic and social structures, it added.
Bosnian media previously reported that the indicted men were linked to terrorist groups in Austria and Germany and were planning to attack European Union peacekeepers and Catholic shrines in Bosnia. Their specific targets included soldiers of the EU countries with forces in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as a Franciscan Monastery in Fojnica, Bosnia, local media said.
All five men were reported to be the followers of the strict Saudi interpretation of Islam, known as Wahhabism.
A suicide bomber has killed at least three people outside a club for journalists in the north-west Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say.
A policeman, a Peshawar Press Club worker and a woman passer-by were killed. At least 17 others were wounded, several of them journalists.
Peshawar has borne the brunt of recent attacks, which have left scores dead.
Pakistan has seen a surge in violence ever since the army began an offensive against the Taliban in Waziristan. Ummm... The offensive in Wazoo was in response to a surge in violence. Remember Baitullah Mehsud? Remember kabooming Benazir?...
"It was a suicide attack. The bomber wanted to enter the building. The police official at the gate stopped him and he blew himself up," AFP news agency quoted senior police official Karim Khan as saying.
"The guard room outside the gate was badly damaged. Three motorcycles parked inside the compound and one bus on the other side of the road were damaged."
He said almost all the windows of the Peshawar Press Club had been shattered.
Journalists in Pakistan have been targeted by militants on numerous occasions.
Peshawar, near the Afghan border, has been attacked repeatedly since Pakistan sent its troops to fight the Taliban in the tribal region of South Waziristan.
Security forces on Monday said they had killed at least six terrorists and apprehended three others during the on-going operations in Swat and South Waziristan. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said four terrorists were killed in an encounter during search operations in Totakna area of Swat, while two were killed in an operation at Pungai near Ladha in South Waziristan. The forces also cleared various areas and compounds in continuing clearance operations and repulsed terrorist attacks on security forces' checkposts near Janata.
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[Dawn] Three militants among 23 other suspects have been arrested during a search operation in Hangu district on Monday.
DPO Abdur Rasheed said police and security forces raided a seminary on Sumari road and arrested Maulana Rauf, Maulana Abdur Rasheed and Arshad.
Ten kilograms of highly explosive material, 100 yards of detonator cord and three dynamiter sticks were recovered from their possession.
The weapons recovered from the suspected militants include three Kalashnikovs, two repeaters, five rifles, three shot guns and five pistols.
The three militants were taken to an unknown location by the security forces for interrogation.
Earlier, a shop was partially damaged as a rocket fired from tribal area exploded near the Kohat city police check post; no casualties were reported.
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ION TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > 80,000 INDIAN TROOPS READY TO CRACKDOWN ON MAOISTS. Prioirty though, is not to mil wage war agz the Maoists but to instead prevent the latter from obstructing or interfering in Indian Army-Govt "goodwill/hearts-and-minds" local projects.
[Asharq al-Aswat] A suicide bomber killed a local leader in northern Iraq on Monday, police said, the latest attack in an area where al Qaeda remains a threat.
The bomber detonated an explosive vest as leaders from the town of Tal Afar, about 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad in Nineveh province, were leaving a funeral, police said.
Hussein Akris, an independent politician who heads the Tal Afar governing council, was killed in the attack, according to Abdul Rahim al-Shimmari, head of the security and defense committee in the Nineveh provincial council.
One of Akris' bodyguards was also killed and seven others, local politicians and guards, were wounded, police said.
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[Ma'an] Twenty Israeli military vehicles backed by Apache helicopters invaded the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday night, witnesses reported.
Palestinians said they saw the vehicles operating in the Al-Ghoul area, northwest of Gaza City. Gunfire was also heard in the area.
However, an Israeli military representative said he was "not familiar with any such operations."
Meanwhile witnesses also reported that an Israeli shell fell in the town of Beit Hanoun, also in the northern Gaza Strip.
Muawiyah Hasanein, the head of the ambulance and emergency services in the Gaza Health Ministry said that no injuries were reported in the incidents.
Earlier, on Sunday evening, armed Palestinian men affiliated with the PFLP and DFLP said they traded gunfire With Israeli forces in the northern Gaza Strip. A military spokesman said an Israeli patrol had come under fire near the Nahal Oz crossing.
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WORLD NEWS > THE NEXT WAR WILL BE IN GAZA, ONCE AGAIN [Israel versus AL-QAEDA inspired Gazan-Paleo faction]. ARTIC > could destabilz entire region.
SAME > US FACES GROWING AL-QAEDA THREAT DESPITE SETBACKS; + INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HAS FAILED GAZA| WORLD MUST HELP END ISRAELI BLOCKADE IN GAZA - AID GROUPS.
A 37-year-old man was killed in a ride-by shooting on Tuesday morning while he was returning from taking his daughter to school, Pol Lt-Col Tauntae Juthanant, deputy chief of Yarang police station, said.
Masae Baheh was attacked by two men on a motorcycle at an intra-village road at moo 4 tambon Mohwawee of Pattanis Yarang district. He was shot three times in his body and died at the scene. Police blamed separatist terrorists militants for the attack.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Shots were fired at a bus carrying Syrian workers in northern Lebanon on Monday, killing one of them, security sources said, shortly after Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri patched up his relations with Damascus.
The bus was travelling near an army checkpoint along the main highway between Syria and northern Lebanon when the incident took place.
Thousands of Syrian laborers work in Lebanon, mainly in construction.
Syria denounced the attack while a member of Hariri's bloc said it was aimed at disrupting policies of the Lebanese prime minister, who completed on Sunday a two-day visit to Damascus for talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
These marked an end to nearly five years of animosity between Damascus and a broad political alliance led by Hariri.
"What happened is not just a simple incident ... I think somebody is trying to create strife and disturb Hariri's political direction," Ahmed Fatfat, a member of parliament from Hariri's bloc, told Lebanese TV channel LBC.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem described the shooting as a "criminal act". In a telephone call to his Lebanese counterpart, he asked to be informed "as soon as possible" on the results of investigations into the attack, Syria's state news agency (SANA) reported.
Beirut's ties with Damascus hit rock bottom after Hariri's alliance accused Syria of assassinating Saad's father, Rafiq al-Hariri, in Feb. 2005. They also blamed Damascus for attacking and killing other politicians and journalists.
Syria denies the allegations. A special court has yet to indict anyone for the killing.
Outrage in Lebanon over the assassination and international pressure forced Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon in April 2005, ending three decades of military presence in its smaller neighbor.
Saad al-Hariri's coalition has often clashed in the past with Syria's allies in Lebanon, led by the powerful Iranian-backed group Hezbollah.
The two neighbors established diplomatic ties for the first time last year, with Syria opening an embassy in Beirut, while Lebanon opened its mission in Damascus in March.
The U.S.- and Western-backed Hariri said at the weekend that his unity government, which includes members of the Syria- and Iran-backed Hezbollah coalition, wanted to take measures with Damascus to develop these ties.
"We want privileged, sincere and honest relations ... in the interest of both countries and both peoples," the 39-year-old premier told a news conference in Damascus at the end of the visit.
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The car of Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi was attacked by "plainclothes men" on motorbikes on Monday and one member of his entourage was injured, the reformist Kaleme website reported. Kaleme said the incident happened when Mousavi was on his way back to Tehran after attending the funeral of a leading dissident cleric in Qom. It said the car's back window was smashed in the attack. Kaleme said the group on motorbikes insulted Mousavi and those accompanying him and several times stopped his motorcade and prevented it from resuming its journey. "One of the assailants shattered the back window of the car carrying Mousavi," Kaleme said, adding that one of the attackers was also injured in the incident.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Hard-line vigilantes clashed with mourners at the funeral of Iran's top dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri in the city of Qom on Monday, opposition websites reported.
"The present crowd in the procession has been estimated at hundreds of thousands of people and they were also shouting slogans in his support, and also in support of (opposition leader) Mirhossein Mousavi," Jaras website reported.
The report could not be independently verified as foreign media have been banned from travelling to Qom for the event.
" The present crowd in the procession has been estimated at hundreds of thousands of people and they were also shouting slogans in his support, and also in support of Mirhossein Mousavi "
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Kaleme also reported Mousavi has arrived in the holy city of Qom earlier to take part in the funeral but that Iranian security forces stopped a bus carrying opposition supporters on their way to the funeral.
Mousavi and another opposition leader urged their supporters on Sunday to attend the funeral and announced a day of national mourning for Montazeri, the same reformist website reported earlier.
The official IRNA news agency, in its first report on the funeral procession, said mourners carrying the coffin "calmly" entered Qom's main religious shrine where prayers would be held. It did not give any details on the size of the crowd.
Fars, a semi-official news agency, later said Montazeri had been buried at the shrine.
Hard-line and pro-government "Ansar Hezbollah groups entered the crowd and wanted to derail the slogans and disrupt the ceremony. They went away after clashing with some people," another reformist website said.
The authorities have slowed Internet connections down to a crawl, as has been the case whenever opposition demonstrations are anticipated.
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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.
We had a hard drive failure overnight on our old server. Its job since retirement has been to backup the Burg's data on a daily basis, so we're presently flying nekkid. I've got a new drive on order, and it should be here in a few days, and I'll switch our development machine to backup duties this evening.
[Quqnoos] The Afghan Defense Ministry says 21 militants have been killed in three separate operations in the country.
[Quqnoos] Unidentified gunmen stormed a police station in the capital of eastern Paktia province on Monday, officials said
North Korea threatened South Korean ships with possible attack by designating a firing zone along their disputed sea border Monday, raising tensions in an area where a brief but deadly clash erupted last month.
Three Bosnian Islamists have been charged with terrorism offences and illegal weapons trafficking, a Bosnian court said on Tuesday. Rijad Rustempasic, Abdulah Handzic and Edis Velic have been charged with criminal offences of terrorism, associating for the purpose of the perpetration of criminal offences and illegal trafficking in weapons, military equipment and products of dual use, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina said in a statement.
Security forces on Monday said they had killed at least six terrorists and apprehended three others during the on-going operations in Swat and South Waziristan. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said four terrorists were killed in an encounter during search operations in Totakna area of Swat, while two were killed in an operation at Pungai near Ladha in South Waziristan. The forces also cleared various areas and compounds in continuing clearance operations and repulsed terrorist attacks on security forces' checkposts near Janata.
[Asharq al-Aswat] A suicide bomber killed a local leader in northern Iraq on Monday, police said, the latest attack in an area where al Qaeda remains a threat.
[Ma'an] Twenty Israeli military vehicles backed by Apache helicopters invaded the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday night, witnesses reported.
