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I assume these guys were doing Recon but they look like robocops in that medieval town, no wonder the guy in black rat'd our boys out and caused a chain of events.
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I've read things that indicate General Petraeus will be addressing the rules of engagement. So hopefully the two-hands-and-a-foot tied behind their backs nonsense will end soon.
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I believe the Taliban better think back too how Iraq changed when Petraus was put in charge of that war.
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How does the Taliban feel?
I'm surprised that CNN or MSNBC hasn't sent a team of reporters in to see how these poor, maligned and misunderstood insurgents feeeeeeeeeeeeel. (Note: Lefties' DNA requires they place feelings over facts or truth.) These noble savages could be the Left's new Viet Cong.
Hell, I'd like to see Rachael Madcow or Keith Olberdouche embedded with the Taliban.
A SENIOR Taliban commander disguised in women's clothes was killed by Afghan and international forces when he fired on troops trying to catch him south of Kabul. NATO and Afghan security forces cornered Ghulam Sakhi at a compound in Logar province's Puli Alam district, and called for women and children to leave the building, a coalition statement said.
"As they were exiting, Sakhi came out with the group disguised in women's attire and pulled out a pistol and a grenade and shot at the security force," the statement by NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said. "When Afghan and coalition forces shot him, he dropped the grenade and it detonated, wounding a woman and two children."
Sakhi was known by several aliases and was involved in attacks on Afghan and foreign forces using improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the main Taliban weapon in the war. He had also been involved in the kidnap and killing of a security chief in Logar province.
Afghan and international forces also killed several insurgents in an air strike in the southern province of Zabul, ISAF said.
After the air strike, aimed at groups waging roadside bomb attacks, troops found materials used for making IEDs as well as automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenade launchers at the scene, it said. The statement added that the military took steps to protect civilians before calling in the air strike.
Civilian casualties are an incendiary issue in Afghanistan, even though the United Nations reported early this year that the vast majority of civilian deaths are caused by Taliban attacks.
The former commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, US General Stanley McChrystal, limited air strikes as he made minimizing civilian casualties a major tenet of his counter-insurgency strategy. McChrystal was sacked this week for insubordination and replaced by General David Petraeus, the chief architect of the counter-insurgency strategy.
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Maybe the Taliban has been sitting in those caves watching old Monty Python tapes and discovered the Lumberjack Song.
Taliban Version:
Chorus He's a Taliban, but he ain't gay,
Fights all night and hides by day.
Fighter I beat my wife. I bow five times.
I bugger sheep for fun.
On Wednesdays I bomb schools
And watch those girlies run.
Chorus He beats his wife. He bows five times.
He buggers sheep for fun.
On Wednesdays he bombs schools
And sees those girlies run.
He's a Taliban, but he ain't gay,
He fights all night and hides by day.
Fighter I beat my wife. I kiss my pals.
I wear women's jeans
I hide inside a burkah,
To escape from the Marines.
ADEN - Yemeni police clashed with suspected al Qaeda militants in the southern city of Aden early on Friday, arresting several, as they searched for a group that had attacked an intelligence building, a security official said.
The official told Reuters clashes broke out during a house-to-house search in the Saada district of the southern port city, launched in an attempt to arrest militants behind the attack on the city's intelligence headquarters that killed 11 people last Saturday.
Some suspects were arrested,' said the official, declining to give more details.
Yemen has blamed al Qaeda's wing in the impoverished country for the attack in which militants wearing military uniforms raided the intelligence police building, killing seven security officers, three women and a 7-year-old boy, and freeing several detainees.
Authorities said earlier they arrested the head of the group behind the attack.
A day before Saturday's attack, al Qaeda's Yemen-based regional branch threatened to respond to a state crackdown against it in eastern Yemen, calling on local tribesmen to take up arms against the government.
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Sorry, couldn't find the "Busted" pic, so this is the best I could do. I seem to always be able to find this one.
Ay-Pee . . . Funny how that works. Fixed...
Baja California state police arrested Manuel Garibay on Thursday while he was driving in Mexicali, across from Calexico, California, the state public security department said in a statement.
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Six dead armed suspects and more than five tons of marijuana seized are the toll in counternarcotics operations by Mexican Naval Infantry and the Mexican Army, according to Mexican news reports.
Mexican Marines encountered a group of armed suspects riding in convoy aboard SUVs near Matamoros, near the US border. When the suspects discovered the Marines, they opened fire, then withdrew to Ciudad Victoria when the Marines returned fire.
When the Marines closed towards the group another firefight erupted, this time with six dead suspects, one wounded and two arrested.
Marines seized three SUVs, a 5.56mm M-4 assault rifle, an AK47 assault rifle, eleven magazines and a large number of cartridges.
Reports are the suspects were members of the criminal gang Los Zetas.
Meanwhile, elements of the Mexican Army 8th Military Zone searching near Reynosa, Tamaulipas found a pickup truck hidden in brush with several kilo packages of marijuana aboard. A subsequent search of the area turned up a warehouse where was found more than five tons of marijuana.
Eleven individuals died in northern Mexico in drug and gang related violence which included two Mexican Federal agents killed, and a Juarez municipal police officer wounded in an attack.
An unidentified man was shot to death on a highway near Juarez Thursday afternoon, say Mexican news reports. The victim, known as the owner of an auto repair facility in Villahumada in Juarez, was lured to a remote location for an emergency service call on Km. Marker 275 of the Pan American highway where he was shot. The victim was found outside his Lincoln Towncar. Six spent shell casings were found nearby.
Four unidentified people were shot to death and two more were wounded in a shooting Thursday night in Juarez, according to Mexican press accounts. The victims were found inside a residence near the intersection of calles Centenario and Rancho Mesteñas in the Jardines Residencial district. Investigators at the scene found more than 50 spent cartridge casings from rifles.
Three unidentified men were shot to death Friday night in separate crimes, say Mexican news reports. Two of the victims were Mexican Federal agents who has gotten involved in a fight just after leaving a popular nightspot near the intersection of calles Francisco Marquez and Paseo Triunfo de la Republica.
The other victim was a man in his 30s who was a professional driver,and was found on Calle Camino Real in the Panfilo Natera district shot to death.
Three men in their 20s were found shot to death in a highway near Chihuahua, Chihuahua Friday morning, according to Mexican news reports. Investigators at the scene at Km. Marker 905 on the Camargo to Ojinaga highway found only one AK-47 spent casing though all three victims has been shot numerous times.
An unidentified Juarez municipal police officer was attacked by armed suspects near the Los Arcos Soriana department store, say Mexican news reports. The officer was patrolling the area on Avenida Tecnológico in the Vida Digna district when armed suspects riding aboard a Honda Accord opened fire on him.
The vehicle used in the attack later turned up on calle Arco de Drus abandoned from where police say the suspects fled on foot.
An unidentified 44 year old man was wounded in an attack in Juarez, say Mexican news reports. Armed suspects riding aboard a black Chevrolot Equinox opened fire on the victim near the intersection of calles Blas Cano de los RÃos and Estrada de Bocanegra in the San Felipe district.
Investigators at the scene found at least eight spent cartridge casings from an AK-47 assault rifle. The victim was shot multiple times in the waist.
A brutal reminder that not all terrorists are Muslim ...
(Reuters) - A booby-trapped package exploded next to the office of the Greek minister in charge of the police force Thursday, killing one of his aides, officials said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast, which occurred on the seventh floor of the ministry and caused serious damage to the office of Civil Protection Minister Mihalis Chrysohoidis.
"It was a wrapped package that exploded in the aide's hands after he apparently picked it up and tried to open it," police spokesman Thanassis Kokkalakis told Reuters. "We heard a big bang, there was a lot of smoke and damage."
There was no warning and no reports of other injuries.
Since suffering its worst riots in decades in 2008, Greece has been rocked by a series of bomb attacks for which leftist militants have claimed responsibility. Earlier this year, police arrested six suspected members of the country's most violent militant group, Revolutionary Struggle.
When he took office in 2009, Chrysohoidis promised to crack down on militants. In a previous spell in the job in 2002, he dismantled November 17, Greece's most lethal guerrilla group.
The victim of Thursday's blast, George Vassilakis, was adjutant to the minister and the father to two children.
"I lost a valuable and dear colleague," an emotional Chrysohoidis told reporters outside the ministry. He was in the building at the time of the explosion at 8.15 p.m. (1715 GMT), but escaped injury.
In early May, three people including a pregnant woman were killed when people marching in an anti-austerity protest fire-bombed an Athens bank. In March, a 15-year old boy was killed and his mother and sister injured after a bomb exploded outside a building in the capital.
"In a time when our country and our people wage a daily battle to escape the crisis, cowardly murderers are striking a blow at our democracy," Prime Minister George Papandreou said late Thursday in a statement.
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Gad Zooks!!
Is Papandreou still the PM?
My sweet Lord, he was PM when I was deported from Greece in 1973.
A CARGO ship carrying a "huge quantity" of explosives and other weapons has been detained by the authorities at a harbour in eastern India.
The vessel was heading for the Pakistani port city of Karachi and was detained on Friday on an intelligence tip-off at Diamond Harbour, 50km south of Kolkata, capital of the West Bengal state, police said.
"The Indian Coast Guard and navy personnel have found a huge quantity of explosives, rocket launchers, anti-aircraft guns and some bombs in two large containers," West Bengal police director general Bhupinder Singh said.
"The captain of the ship is being interrogated for further information," he added at a news conference in Kolkata.
Police identified the vessel as the MV Agean Glory.
The St Vincent-registered ship had set sail from the port of Chittagong in neighbouring Bangladesh, West Bengal police inspector general Surojit Karpurokayastha told AFP.
The 153-metre-long ship will be taken to Kolkata and searched thoroughly by intelligence and other officials, Inspector Singh said.
Nuclear rivals India and Pakistan have fought three wars, including two over the Muslim-majority Himalayan region of Kashmir.
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Unmanned US strike aircraft killed two "militants" in an attack on a compound in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan in Pakistan.
A Predator or the more deadly Reaper fired a missile at a Taliban safe house in the Mir Ali area, killing 2 terrorists and wounding three more.
"It was a US drone strike," a local intelligence official in nearby Miramshah told Geo News. "The drone fired one missile on a house and the house was completely destroyed."
The town of Mir Ali is a known stronghold of al Qaeda leader Abu Kasha al Iraqi, an Iraqi national who is also known as Abu Akash. He has close links to the Taliban and the Haqqani Network. The Haqqani Network and Hafiz Gul Bahadar also have influence in the Mir Ali region.
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KHAR: Eight Taliban, including four commanders, surrendered to security forces in Bajaur Agency, army officials said on Friday. The Taliban surrendered in Char Mang valley of the agency's Nawagai tehsil, around 30 kilometres away from agency headquarters Khar.
Talking to reporters, Major Tanveer and Major Zabih said the surrendered Taliban were associated with Afghan warlord Qari Ziaur Rehman, who had been fighting the forces for the last two years.
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SRINAGAR: Two Kashmiri men were killed on Friday and three others injured when Indian paramilitary forces opened fire as anti-India protesters pelted their vehicle with stones in Sopore, some 50 kilometres north of the state capital, police said.
Protesters hurled stones and tried to overturn a paramilitary vehicle prompting the soldiers to open fire that left two dead and three others injured,' a police officer told AFP, requesting anonymity.
The death marked the fifth killing in which Indian armed forces have been implicated during the past two weeks. Earlier three killings all in Srinagar set off a wave of angry protests and strikes against India.
The latest incident came as the Hurriyat Conference called Friday for Internet protests against India. We appeal to people to post Go India, Go Back' on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites on June 27,' senior Kashmiri leader Masarat Alam said.
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The latest incident came as the Hurriyat Conference called Friday for Internet protests against India. �We appeal to people to post �Go India, Go Back� on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites on June 27,� senior Kashmiri leader Masarat Alam said.
Just even accessing sites such as "Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites" is totally unislamic, and anyone who does so, including senior Kashmiri leader Masarat Alam, need to be beheaded immediately.
NEW DELHI: Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has voiced his opposition to the death sentence given to Mohammad Afzal Guru for his involvement in the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament. Talking to a Srinagar-based news agency, Omar said he was considering intervening in the issue to stop the hanging, as it could create new complications in Kashmir, similar to the ones created by the execution of Kashmiri leader Muhammad Maqbool Bhat in 1984 in Delhi's Tihar Jail.
Omar said that he was consulting legal experts on his position in the Afzal Guru case and trying to determine whether his opinion would be sought, as Afzal is a Kashmiri national.
He has also asked the Kashmir advocate general to give his opinion on the technical and legal aspects of Guru's case. Technically Omar's opinion is not required by the Indian president before deciding the clemency petition of Guru, as both the crime and trial took place in New Delhi.
Omar said he would not put his signature on the death warrant if he was required to do so. I am against the death sentence and I want to make it clear that if I am required to sign Guru's death warrant, I will not do it,' he said, adding that problems did not get resolved by hanging people. The hanging of Maqbool Bhat did not solve any issue but created more complications,' he said.
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My absolute favorite tee-shirt: "We should forgive our enemies - right after they are taken out back and shot..."
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And just how many people did ol' Mohammad Afzal Guru kill over his career as a terrorist? I'm sure Omar Abdullah was against those killings, too, wasn't he? Did that help any? Neither is this piece of arrogant posturing. Hang him. Recidivism is virtually zero for hanged murderers, something the US needs to reconsider strongly.
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It isn't "arrogant posturing" in expressing concern that hanging this killer might cause problems in HK like what happened 26 years ago.
That said, IMHO, India should say "noted", hang Guru anyway, while making preparations to deal with the Pak-sponsored blowback.
KARACHI: Five bomb blasts hit railway tracks in lower Sindh late on Friday, while three homemade bombs were also defused. Police was put on high alert across Sindh after the attacks. Rail traffic in Sindh was also suspended following the attacks.
Police says four bomb blasts hit the railway track near Tandi Phatak, Ghotki. Villagers informed the police about the blasts that also significantly damaged the track.
In Karachi, unidentified culprits planted two time bombs near the railway track in Bin Qasim area. One of the bombs exploded, while the other was later defused by personnel of the Bomb Disposal Squad.
In Hyderabad, a police patrol found two bombs that had been planted near the railway track in Sherishnager. Personnel of the Bomb Disposal Squad defused both the bombs.
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KOLKATA - Suspected Maoists have abducted the son of a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader in West Bengal and demanded the release of a jailed guerrilla in order to set him free.
God does indeed have a sense of humor ...
Srimanta Tudu, 21, son of Matilal Tudu, was kidnapped by gunmen from a bus stop Thursday night at Binpur in West Midnapore district, party and police sources said.
Later, the Maoists telephoned the victim's residence and demanded the release of their action squad member' Durga Mandi from police custody in return for the younger Tudu's safe release. Mandi was arrested for alleged involvement in several murder cases.
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CPM leaders? I'd respect them more if they were kidnapping DOS leaders. But then again, they are Maoists, fer gawds sake.
DIALA / Aswat al-Iraq: Unidentified gunmen on Friday kidnapped two employees of the Iraqi oil ministry near a village in the town of Jalawlaa, according to a police source in Diala.
Unidentified gunmen set up a fake checkpoint near the village of Wadi al-Asaj, Jalawlaa, (30 km) southwest of Khanaqin district, and led two oil ministry employees to an unknown place,' the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The two men were on their way to Khanaqin to supervise some oil projects in the area,' the source added.
Khanaqin, 155 km northeast of Baaquba, is one of the areas subject to dispute between the central government in Baghdad and the semi-autonomous Iraq Kurdistan Region.
The gunmen left the employees' vehicle in the incident site,' he said, adding security authorities launched a probe.
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MOSUL- Three suicide bombers killed at least four policemen and wounded nine police and army personnel in two separate attacks in Iraq's restive northern city of Mosul on Thursday, security officials said.
The first attack occurred when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a police checkpoint, killing four policemen and wounding four others, in a western part of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Two other suicide bombers attacked the main gate of an Iraqi army base in eastern Mosul, wounding five soldiers, an army source said.
Iraq is on high alert for insurgent attacks after a March 7 national election produced no clear winner and left the country adrift in political uncertainty.
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GAZA CITY - Israeli warplanes flew three raids against the Gaza Strip overnight wounding one person, witnesses and Palestinian medical officials said on Friday.
A Palestinian man was hurt when the planes attacked the town of Rafah, in the southern part of the territory close to the border with Egypt. Nobody was wounded in the two other raids on the former airport, also in the south, and the town of Beit Hanun in the north.
An Israeli military spokesman confirmed the raids to AFP.
Our planes attacked an armoury in the north of the Gaza Strip and two tunnels used for gun running in the south' from Egypt, she said. The raids are a reaction to the shelling Thursday from the Gaza Strip of the western sector of the Negev desert' in southern Israel, she added.
A dozen mortar rounds were fired from the Gaza Strip on Thursday, with seven of them hitting Israel but none causing any casualties or damage, an Israeli army spokeswoman said earlier.
Around 100 rockets and mortar rounds have hit Israel since the beginning of the year, the army says.
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Or, BP, let him go and post his movements. Evil the only word for him.
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BP - I concur. I'm sure his jailmates will have something to say about his predation. I hope it's VERY painful, but not necessarily deadly - at least, not for the first 50 years or so.
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Mahmoud Ahmadi Bighash told the semiofficial ISNA news agency that instead of sending a ship, an Iranian delegation of lawmakers would travel to Lebanon and sail on one of the aid ships expected to head to Gaza from there.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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ADEN - Yemeni police clashed with suspected al Qaeda militants in the southern city of Aden early on Friday, arresting several, as they searched for a group that had attacked an intelligence building, a security official said.
NEW DELHI: Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has voiced his opposition to the death sentence given to 
KARACHI: Five bomb blasts hit railway tracks in lower Sindh late on Friday, while three homemade bombs were also defused. Police was put on high alert across Sindh after the attacks. Rail traffic in Sindh was also suspended following the attacks.
GAZA CITY - Israeli warplanes flew three raids against the Gaza Strip overnight wounding one person, witnesses and Palestinian medical officials said on Friday.
