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Betty Brosmer (Wieder since 1961) is still very much with us and has her own line of fitness and health products, available at her website.
Even allowing for a certain amount of photo-flattery, she looks phenomenal at age 74.
Horse excrement, but hilarious, and here it is. Link even includes picture of Apache helicopter as proof that Chinook helicopters were shot down.
As many as 55 Americans have been killed and 37 terribly injured with their three Chinook-like helicopters shot down in clashes with Mujahideen in Helmand's Nowzad district through much of Monday, Mujahideen officials said. According to the details, the deadly battle erupted as about hundreds of American soldiers, airdropped by some 20 helicopters into the different areas of Nowzad district, wanting to carry out a large scale operation in the area, came under simultaneous attacks by Mujahideen from every directions that caused a daylong face-to-face fighting which started on Monday afternoon and continued till late night hours, in which the enemy, after suffering deadliest losses and severest damages, fled the areas carrying the engines of the helicopters shot down by Mujahideen during the fighting along with them, while the wreckage of the struck helicopters including their wings and other parts of the helicopters and the mutilated parts of the bodies of the American soldiers still exist at the sites. No Mujahids have, by the virtue of Allah's bounty and His mercy, been harmed, while Mujahideen have taken the abondoned arms and ammo. Jahidic officials say it is the first operation which has been so much perfect and successful since the invasion of US cowardly troops in 2001, and one of the luckiest operations since the operation al-Fath (The Victory) commenced throughout the country. Whatever the case, this is the kind of propaganda that keeps 'em coming. We need to do something about this. Sending them pictures of their charred dead would be a good start.
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Can anyone tell me if they think our side does the same thing?
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I would like too meet the soldier who waas carrying a Chinook engine while fleeing.
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Can anyone tell me if they think our side does the same thing?
Please restate the question, Just asking. What thing do you mean? The Taliban don't have helicopters to be shot down, unless the ISI has given them some. Our press releases don't contain run-on sentences, although I wouldn't mind if our writers employed a more lyrical style... And our side doesn't lie about damage inflicted on the enemy, or cut off heads with rusty swords, although this particular Talib press release didn't mention that activity favoured by their membership.
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plus the article said the troops where scampering away carrying a chinook engine. I'm no expert but I would guess that a chinook engine is pretty damn large. And I stayed at a Holiday Inn last nite
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Don't they still have that Crazy Canadian Jihad Unspun chick over there? Sounds like they gave her a job.
[Dawn] At least 30 schoolgirls in northern Afghanistan were hospitalised after a suspected poisonous gas attack on their school, a health official said, the fifth such incident in under a month.
The head of a hospital in the city of Kunduz said an unidentified airborne substance was released close to the school, and 30 students were admitted to the hospital as a result.
"Others are also coming in. We don't know the exact number of girls affected, it could be many. It's a similar incident to what happened in Kabul and Kunduz last week," said Homayun Khamosh.
Three suspected poison gas attacks on girls' schools have taken place in Kunduz over the past few weeks and last week 22 schoolgirls and three teachers fell ill when their school was struck by suspected poison gas in the capital Kabul.
It was not clear who was responsible. In the past officials have blamed such incidents on the Taliban but last week a spokesman for the Islamist group denied involvement in such attacks and condemned them.
Samples of the substances from last week's incident were sent abroad for testing, officials have said, but they have yet to be identified.
The Taliban banned education for girls when they ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, and in many rural areas where the Taliban hold sway, girls' schools remain closed, teachers have been threatened and some girls have been attacked with acid.
Attacks on girls' schools using suspected poisonous gas have increased since last year. In most cases the girls reported smelling something sweet, then fainting, dizziness and vomiting.
None of the cases was fatal.
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Noone dies , they deny .. Works in their benefit and installs fear in the local population. Works well when used correctly eh ?
bast*rds
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SOme Long Haired Hippy types might ask me why Im here, and who am I fighting against
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It was not clear who was responsible. In the past officials have blamed such incidents on the Taliban but last week a spokesman for the Islamist group denied involvement in such attacks and condemned them.
Oh, well that settles it then. It couln't have been the Taliban. Maybe it was the Tea Party, lets ask NBC and see what they think.
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but last week a spokesman for the Islamist group denied involvement in such attacks and condemned them.
Give that the rubric Taliban covers a number of different groups, both official and ad hoc collections of thugs, the denial doesn't count unless all the spokesmen likewise deny their groups' involvement in each and all of the attacks. Then they must prove that they're telling the truth.
Or it could just be group hysteria. Thank goodness there were no Salem witches involved.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Sudan's justice minister has asked Interpol to arrest the leader of Darfur's most powerful rebel group, state media said on Monday, a step likely to dash hopes of progress in a faltering peace process.
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes during a counter-insurgency campaign in Darfur -- violence Washington has described as genocide. Khartoum rejects both charges.
The United Nations estimates some 300,000 have died in a humanitarian crisis sparked after mostly non-Arab rebels took up arms in early 2003 demanding more rights for the arid region.
The Sudanese Media Center quoted Justice Minister Abdul Basit Sabderat as saying the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leader, Khalil Ibrahim, should stand trial for an unprecedented May 2008 attack on the capital Khartoum, which killed around 200 people.
"The relevant authorities of Interpol have been requested to arrest him wherever he is so that he may face trial ... and be handed over to the Sudanese authorities," SMC quoted Sabderat as saying.
He urged "all concerned states not to shelter him and to extradite him to face trial", SMC added. Sabderat was not immediately available to confirm the report.
Ibrahim has left Qatar-based peace talks and is visiting Cairo, an ally of Khartoum. JEM officials declined to comment.
SMC said Ibrahim was accused of some 14 charges including murder and waging war against the state.
"Peace process over"
Khartoum's move against Ibrahim is likely to end progress in the peace talks, prompted by a rapprochement between Sudan and neighbor Chad, who had hosted Darfur's rebels.
"This means peace process over," said an international source familiar with the Darfur file who declined to be named.
Separately, the state news agency Suna said Sudanese police had arrested two men suspected of killing two Egyptian members of a U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in an ambush on Friday in Darfur.
The attack on the UNAMID peacekeepers marked a further deterioration of security in the west, as JEM reported government shelling of their positions near the Chad border.
Police told Suna they had arrested the two men in the South Darfur area of Edd al-Fursan and were now hunting down the rest of a seven-man bandit gang blamed for Friday's attack.
A total of 24 UNAMID soldiers and police have been killed in ambushes, carjackings and other violent incidents since their under-equipped force moved in at the beginning of 2008.
JEM on Sunday accused Sudan's army of bombing and shelling positions in the remote Jabel Moun area of West Darfur state, saying it was the latest in a series of attacks in the region.
The army said it could not confirm the report of fighting.
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[Maghrebia] An armed group on Sunday (May 9th) kidnapped a 35-year-old farmer in Baghlia, 40 km east of Boumerdes, El Watan reported. The group reportedly kidnapped the farmer as he was preparing to visit his vineyard near Oued Sebaou. A 20-million dinar ransom has reportedly been demanded for the hostage's release.
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13 Die in Chihuahua Including Kidnapped Wedding Party
Thirteen people were killed in Chihuahua including three people of a kidnapped wedding party, according to Mexican press reports.
The dead bodies of three men kidnapped in broad daylight during a wedding ceremony two days ago were found today. Investigators at the scene said the three men were executed.
The discovery was made in a bed of a Toyota truck in the Santa Rita district of Juarez.
The dead were identified by relatives include: Rafael Morales Valencia, the groom, 29; Jaime Morales Valencia, 25, the groom's brother and godfather; Guadalupe Morales Arriola, the groom's uncle and godfather, 51.
Three men were found executed in two separate scenes in the Chihuahua 2000 district of Juarez, according to press reports.
According to two separate accounts, one of the men, Antonio Soto, alias "The Chinese", was found with a 9mm derringer tucked in his waistband. It is not known if he was killed by the same persons who killed the other two.
Two of the victims were found aboard a green Jeep Cherokee on Dostoyevski Avenue between Canutillo and De la Mancha avenues. Found at the scene were two other vehicles damaged in an apparent accident with the victims' vehicle, but were apparently abandoned in the aftermath.
A 56 year old an was found shot dead Monday morning in Guadelupe y Calvo, Chihuahua, according to Mexican press reports.
Jesús Castañeda López was found in an alley shot more than nine times with a 9mm weapon.
Two men were found executed late Monday night in the Läzaro Cärdenas district of Meoqui.
Jesús Manuel Cueto, 30, and Raúl Rogelio Anchondo Mares, 23, were found aboard two different vehicles, said investigators. The men had been shot multiple times.
About 100 spent rifle casings from AK-47 and .223 rifles were found at the scene.
Two men police said were executed late Sunday night were found Monday, according to Mexican press reports.
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The dead bodies of three men kidnapped in broad daylight during a wedding ceremony two days ago were found today. Investigators at the scene said the three men were executed.
Family members of the victims said the men were related and U.S. citizens from La Mesa, New Mexico, according to the El Paso (Texas) Times.
Chihuahua state prosecutors' spokesman Arturo Sandoval said all three victims were born in Mexico, according to birth certificates presented to investigators by their relatives. It wasn't clear if they also held U.S. citizenship.
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The Mexican news article which initially reported the kidnapping mentioned that one family of the marriage were from New Mexico,but the translation failed to indicate which was which.
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More than 22,700 people have been killed in drug violence since the government began its offensive against cartels.
I wonder if the count includes people who are never found; it is just assumed they immigrated to the U.S. I also wonder if the deaths on the U.S. side are included in this count--the murders that occur in our cities where various drug cartels have tentacles (just about every large city).
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Meanwhile, across the border the Tucson, last night: An attempted robbery Tuesday night of a north-side business turned into a shootout that left one suspected robber dead and four others wounded, Tucson police said. While the robbers confronted the employee, the owner pulled a gun, and a shootout ensued. At some point, the employee also pulled a gun and fired at the robbers.
When officers arrived, one man, later determined to be one of the robbers, was found dead.
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Re. Luis Hector Morales: He refused to pay a business "tax" and was kidnapped. His family paid $30,000 US but he was executed anyway. Mexicans, take back your country! It is as bad there as in Iraq! Same kind of barbarians!
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It's interesting that there are no Mexican stories that correspond with the Tucson shoot-out last night. Mexican crooks have all the guns, I guess.
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Welcome to the very near future of the SW US. Welcome to the not so distant future of the rest of the US.
Anyone wonder what these drug cartels will do if (and likely when) the US runs out of money? Law enforcement is always one of the first things cut when state and local gov'ts tighten their belts.
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Law enforcement is always one of the first things cut when state and local gov'ts tighten their belts.
Something about those words of old "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" comes to mind. Notice how potential victims in Tucson seem to behave differently than those in Chihuahua.
[Dawn] A Pakistani man will be charged with violating gun control laws in Chile Tuesday after traces of explosives were detected on his body and belongings during a visit to the US embassy, police said.
The suspicious substance was detected when the man identified as Mohamed Said Uf Rejaman, 28, went through a security checkpoint on Monday, prompting embassy staff to notify police. He was arrested on site.
Police experts found traces of a TNT explosive derivative on the suspect's hands, cell phone, bag and documentation.
The man said he did not know where it had come from and he was only at the embassy to renew his visa.
He arrived in Chile about three months ago on a visa and had been working at a hotel in the capital.
Police have raided his home in downtown Santiago.
The arrest came just a week after Pakistani-born naturalised US citizen Faisal Shahzad was pulled off a plane to Dubai and arrested for allegedly leaving a sport utility vehicle rigged to explode in New York's crowded Times Square.
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he was only at the embassy to renew his visa.
Because it's the US embassy that hands out Chilean visa to Pakistanis. Book him Danno and find his accomplices.
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"I am innocent and I do not know why this is happening. I think it is the fault of the United States, where I wanted to go for a month. That's why I went to the embassy," the man, who police identified as Mauhannas Saif Ur Rehnab Khan, told reporters.
But a senior State Department official said in Washington Tuesday that the embassy had called Rehnab in after revoking his US visa. He would not say why the visa had been revoked.
State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said Rehnab had been called in "to clarify the information that we have on this individual. "And as he came into the embassy, our explosive detectors went off."
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I heard they did it by banging their heads against a rock really, really hard.
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"North Korea claimed Wednesday that its scientists succeeded in creating a nuclear fusion reaction, but experts doubted the isolated communist country actually had made the breakthrough in the elusive clean-energy technology."
Are all journalists idiots? This isn't about "clean energy" this is the hydrogen bomb.
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Dat sound you hear is the CLOCK tick..tick..ticking away towards 2012 + PAN-ISLAMIST NUCLEARIZATION [Iran, MILTERR = Radical Islam, + RISE OF NUKE-WMDS MILITANCY,TERRORISM].
NOT Nations, Govts, or Organized/Regular Armies, but in the hands of EXTREMIST VIOLENT INDIVIDUALS + [disparate]SMALL GROUPS.
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ION WMF > RETURN OF PACIFIC WORLD WAR: JAPAN'S WW2 MILITARY SHORTCOMINGS OR DEFECTS ARE NOW CHINA'S [espec RELIABLE LR SUPPLY-LOGISTICS].
* SAME > CHINA'S PLAN, PLAAF ARRAY THEIR FORCES IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA IN RESPONSE TO VIETNAM'S DEV, LEASE OF TOKYO BAY CARRIER BASE FOR INDIA [start 2016].
* SAME > VIETNAM'S DOMINATION/CONTROL OF SOVEREIGN LAOS, STRONG INFLUENCE IN CAMBODIA, AND PROPOSED CONTRUX OF MIL BASES IN THE NANSHAS IMPROVES OR EXTENDS ITS MIL ABILITY TO DENY CHINA ACCESS INTO THE STRAITS OF SINGAPORE/
MALACCAS AND INDIAN OCEAN.
* SAME > CHINA + OKINAWA/RYUKYUS HAD CLOSE RELATIONS FOR 500 YEARS. JAPAN'S THEFT OF OKINAWA HAS NEVER BEEN RECOGNIZED BY CHINA SINCE THE TIME/REGIME OF MANCHU CHINA, CHIANG KAI-SHEK, MAO ZEDONG AND CHOU EN-LAI.
* SAME > IFF THE US RECOGNIZES THE DAOYUS AS CHINESE TERRITORY, THEN HOW CAN OKINAWA/RYUKYU ISLANDS BE DEEMED AS BELONGING TO JAPAN, NOT CHINA.
* SAME > TIGERS' WAGE WAR ON WATER: TAIWAN, NANSHAS, HAINAN AND OKINAWA ARE ISSUES OF NATURAL SOVEREIGNTY AND CHINA'S ACCESS TO WARM/BLUE-WATER PORTS. FAILURE WILL FORCE CHINA TO RESORT TO WAR AND MIL CONQUEST OF THE FIRST ISLAND CHAIN, JAPAN AND RUSSIA [Russ far East + Sakhalin].
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How's this radicalized romantic (translates into screwed kid) any different from Bill Ayers? I recall a guy named William Morgan who went to Cuba to fight against Batista. He rose to the level of Comandante. Then the honeymoon was over with Castro and Castro had him executed before a firing squad.
[The News (Pak) Top Stories] A close aide to the Swat Taliban chief Maulana Fazlullah was arrested by law-enforcement agencies and the security forces in a joint action on the Peshawar-Islamabad Motorway on Monday, official sources said.
The sources said the militant commander identified as Abdur Rahman alias Rahman had come to Mardan through Buner district and was heading for some hideout of militants when he was arrested.
They said he was the leader of Taliban logistic cell in the Swat valley when the militants were calling the shots in the area. He used to coordinate activities between dreaded Swati militant commander, Ibne Amin and Fazlullah, officials said. He was also accused of providing logistics support to militants carrying out sabotage acts in down country, the sources said. He would identify targets to attackers affiliated with the banned TTP, the official said. Soon after his arrest, he was shifted to an undisclosed location for investigation.
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[Dawn] At least 11 suspected militants were killed in the latest assault as the military operation continued in the Orakzai Agency on Tuesday.
Official sources said that jet fighters targeted suspected militant hideouts in Mishti, Saam and surrounding areas of upper Orakzai and killed at least 11 suspected militants.
Several suspected militants were also injured in the latest air strikes.
Security forces claim to have killed more than 600 militants so far in the Orakzai military operation.
Forces also claim to have taken control of major part of the lower Orakzai Agency, while they are still consolidating their positions in central and upper Orakzai Agency.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] The Pakistani police say an alleged militant wanted for the murder of an official with the Iranian consulate in Peshawar last year has been killed.
Local police chief Liaquat Ali told AFP that on Sunday, acting on a tip-off, police surrounded a house in Peshawar where the man, named Amanullah, had been hiding.
After a gun battle that lasted about half an hour, Amanullah was killed, he said.
Ali stated that two police officers were also wounded in the clash.
"Amanullah, who had close links with militant outfits, was wanted for a number of criminal and terrorist acts, including the murder of an Iranian consulate official, Abu Al-Hasan Jaffry," he said.
"He was also accused of providing vehicles to at least three suicide car bombers," Ali added.
Jaffry, a Pakistani citizen who was director of public relations and protocol at the Iranian consulate in Peshawar, was shot dead at point-blank range in November 2009.
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[Dawn] The Supreme Court of Pakistan adjourned for two weeks the hearing of an appeal filed by Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, a suspect in the Mumbai attacks, seeking termination of the criminal proceedings against him.
Lakhvi's lawyer presented the confessional statement of Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving gunman in the attacks, before the court's three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.
Chief Justice Iftikhar observed that the bench needed time to go through Kasab's 11-page-long confessional statement.
In his confessional statement, Ajmal Kasab named Lakhvi as the ringleader in connection with the Mumbai attacks.
Lakhvi is under trial in Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism Court.
His lawyer Khwaja Sultan argued that Ajmal Kasab's confessional statement had no legal value in Pakistan.
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[Dawn] A Pakistani court on Tuesday threw out a controversial petition seeking to block the government from extraditing an Afghan Taliban commander in detention, a lawyer said.
Pakistan in February arrested Mullah Adbul Ghani Baradar, whom US officials have described as the second in command of the Afghan Taliban. The Afghan government asked Pakistan to extradite Baradar and other Taliban militants they said were also in Pakistani prisons.
But Khalid Khwaja, a former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) officer turned rights activist, filed a petition in court trying to block any extradition.
The court dismissed the case on Tuesday after Khwaja was kidnapped and killed while trying to travel to North Waziristan, a stronghold for a potent mix of Pakistani, Afghan Taliban, al-Qaeda and foreign militants. "The court dismissed the case and observed that if anyone is interested in this case, he can file a fresh petition," Tariq Asad, the lawyer representing Khwaja in the petition, told AFP.
Khwaja went missing with a former military officer and a journalist in March. A previously unknown group calling themselves Asian Tigers claimed to have kidnapped the group and killed Khwaja, who was found dead on April 30. According to Khwaja's petition, Pakistan is also holding another Taliban commander, Mullah Abdul Kabir, and three others in addition to Baradar. Islamabad has yet to confirm Kabir's detention officially.
The Afghan government has said Baradar was one of 42 people, including other Taliban figures, Kabul wants returned from Pakistan.
A US official said last week that Baradar had passed on "useful" information to interrogators. The New York Times said he had shed light on the workings of the Afghan Taliban that could help with a possible negotiated settlement to end the war.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Security forces were on alert Tuesday after a wave of attacks including three car bombs at a factory and another against emergency workers killed at least 100 people in Iraq's bloodiest day this year.
Nearly 350 people were wounded in around two dozen attacks nationwide, a surge in violence that came as Iraq moved closer to forming a government two months after a general election seen as crucial to U.S. combat troops leaving the country by Aug. 31.
The United States led international condemnation of the violence, saying opponents of Iraqi progress were making "one last charge" at fomenting chaos, while France "strongly condemned" the attacks.
The deadliest attack saw two suicide car bombs detonate simultaneously in the car park of a textiles factory in the central city of Hilla, as workers boarded buses to go home, followed minutes later by a third car bomb, police Captain Ali al-Shimmari told AFP.
Successive explosions
About an hour later, according to Shimmari, a fourth explosives-packed vehicle exploded, engulfing the area as emergency service workers treated victims at the scene.
"When I heard the explosions, I rushed outside and saw the massive damage -- there were bodies everywhere, people were crying and screaming," said Haidar Ali, 35, who had by chance stayed in the factory to speak to a colleague.
"It's the fault of the government and the company. They care only about their own personal safety, and they left the workers without any security. They were very easy targets."
Dr. Ihab al-Dhabhawi, a doctor at Hilla's hospital, said the explosions, the first of which struck the State Company for Textile Industries killed 50 people.
A police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said security forces had received intelligence of car bombs targeting the city, 95 kilometers (60 miles) south of Baghdad, and had searched different parts of it before hearing the explosions.
And in the southern port city of Basra, three car bombs at two markets killed 20 people, police said.
The first blast struck in a busy market in the centre of the city, 450 kilometers (280 miles) south of Baghdad, while two other blasts hit another market in central Basra an hour later.
Shootings, bomb attacks
Earlier on Monday, the capital Baghdad was hit by a spate of shootings with automatic weapons against six police or army checkpoints in the east and west of the city, which left seven dead, the interior ministry official said.
Two other policemen died in three bombings in south and west Baghdad, he added.
He noted that nearly all of the wounded were security personnel.
A double bomb attack near the mosque in Suwayrah, 60 kilometers (40 miles) southeast of the capital, meanwhile, killed 11 people and wounded 70, a police lieutenant told AFP.
Twelve other people were killed in separate attacks around the former Sunni insurgent bastion of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, the northern city of Mosul, in Iskandiriyah, south of Baghdad, and near Tarmiyah, north of the Iraqi capital.
Monday's death toll was the highest since Dec. 8, when 127 people were killed in five massive vehicle-borne bombs across the capital.
Although violence has dropped in the past two years, the latest unrest will be seen as evidence that insurgents remain capable of wreaking carnage on a grand scale, two months after elections in which no clear winner emerged.
Electoral officials said on Sunday that results from the March 7 vote were nearly finalized, with totals from all but one province sent for ratification. A recount in the lone exception, Baghdad, is more than half complete.
Monday's violence came after figures showed the number of Iraqis killed in violence in April fell slightly month on month but was almost unchanged from 12 months ago -- 328 people died as a result of attacks last month.
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[Ma'an] Egyptian State Security discovered a third weapons storehouse within 48 hours on Tuesday, security sources said.
Egyptian forces were informed that smugglers were attempting to transfer explosives and weapons to a storehouse in the Sinai peninsula, sources told Ma'an.
Forces raided the area south of the Al-Arish port city and discovered 65 anti-aircraft missiles, 35 anti-tank missiles, as well as large quantities or ammunition, the sources added.
Egyptian security forces said they discovered weapons and explosives on Monday, hidden in the border city of Rafah, prepared for smuggling into Gaza through tunnels.
Security sources told Ma'an that Egyptian forces raided a cemetery in Rafah, 3 kilometers from the Gaza border, and found a weapons cache including anti-tank land mines.
A second weapons store was found in the Al-Ahrash border area, which included machine guns and ammunition, also prepared for smuggling into Gaza, sources said.
Egypt began construction of a subterranean metal wall in January 2010 in an attempt to thwart the transfer of arms into the Gaza Strip through the tunnel complex along the Egypt-Gaza border.
The tunnels are also used to smuggle food, medicine, livestock, and vehicles, in response to Israel's blockade of the coastal enclave following Hamas' takeover in June 2006.
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Three police officers on a pickup truck were injured in a bombing attack in Rangae district of the southern insurgency-torn Narathiwat on Wednesday.
According to an initial investigation, the bomb was put in a gas cylinder and placed in the sidecar of an unlicensed motorcycle. According to Pol Lt Pattanasak Pianngam of Narathiwat province, the terrorists suspected insurgents waiting in ambush triggered the bomb by remote control when the security officials' vehicle was entered the crime scene.
In other attacks in Rangae district, an unknown number of terrorists presumed insurgents late Tuesday night fired two M-79 grenades at a Tanyong Limo security checkpoint on in Tor Lang village. However, the grenades missed the target. No casualties were reported.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Pakistan's ambassador to Tehran was injured and taken to hospital on Tuesday when his car was attacked by an Afghan, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman told state-run television.
"The Pakistan ambassador's car has been attacked by an Afghan. The ambassador has been injured and he is in hospital. The Afghan has been arrested," the spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast was quoted as saying.
He did not give any further details in his comments made on on state-run Arabic language Al-Alam television.
But Tehran police chief said the ambassador, Mohammad Bakhsh Abbasi, was injured in a confrontation.
"The ambassador went to a gym several times a week without his bodyguards. This afternoon while he was on his way he had a clash with a 21-year-old Afghan, he was injured on the head and fell," police chief Hossein Sajedi-Nia told ISNA news agency.
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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.
[Dawn] A Pakistani court on Tuesday threw out a controversial petition seeking to block the government from extraditing an Afghan Taliban commander in detention, a lawyer said.
