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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Peggy Ryan aka Dusty in "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (Died in 2004 at age 80)


Notorious Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Debbie LaFave aka Molester of Teenage Boy (age 30)

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 08/28/2010 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  a spanking good time!!!
Posted by: 49 Pan || 08/28/2010 1:34 Comments || Top||

#3  I must object to the commentary under the headline at the bottom right: "You can bet your next paycheck that the High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay doesn't have any specific measures in mind".

Navi Pillay takes his job quite seriously. He will ask for more resources and funding for the Human Rights Commission.

Posted by: Pstanley || 08/28/2010 11:28 Comments || Top||

#4  I must object to the commentary under the headline at the bottom right

Oh dear, Pstanley -- I certainly wasn't expecting that! But you are absolutely correct. Fortunately, the UN's funds are more limited than usual these days, and so he won't get the answer he dreams about.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/28/2010 14:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Heads up, folks. Navi Pillay is a woman.
Posted by: tu3031 || 08/28/2010 14:42 Comments || Top||

#6  "Heads up, folks. Navi Pillay is a woman."

Does that mean Pstanley is a troll an idiot, Pappy? ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 08/28/2010 20:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Nah, just the typical UN way of excusing inaction.

"How could we when we don't have the resources?"
Posted by: gorb || 08/28/2010 23:12 Comments || Top||

#8  Does that mean Pstanley is a troll an idiot, Pappy? ;-p

Nope. Just means he can't tell a cow from a steer*.

(*it's UN - there are no bulls)
Posted by: Pappy || 08/28/2010 23:21 Comments || Top||

#9  "(*it's UN - there are no bulls)"

True, Pappy, but in spite of that the place is full of bullsh*t. :-(
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 08/28/2010 23:53 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Attackers in US uniforms hit 2 Afghan bases
KABUL - Insurgents disguised as American soldiers attacked two U.S. bases in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday morning and managed to breach the perimeter of one of them before being repelled, according to NATO and Afghan officials. The assault began at about 4 a.m., when dozens of Taliban fighters, some wearing U.S. military uniforms, launched simultaneous attacks on Forward Operating Base Salerno, in Khost province.

They fired mortars or rockets, along with grenades and guns, and two insurgents entered FOB Salerno by cutting a hole in a fence, NATO officials said. No Afghan or U.S. troops died in the assault, but four NATO troops and an Afghan policeman were wounded, and a 12-year-old Afghan boy was killed, according to Gen. Abdul Hakim Ishaqzai, the police chief in Khost.

The response to the attack was swift and deadly. Afghan security forces, along with U.S. troops, killed about 15 insurgents at FOB Salerno and six more at FOB Chapman, while three others, including a Taliban commander, were killed by an airstrike after they were spotted fleeing the scene of the attacks, NATO said. Five were captured, it said.
Captured in US uniforms? That should get you one behind the ear.
So 24 dead, 5 captured? Sounds like a helluva "strategy"...
Posted by: tu3031 || 08/28/2010 12:08 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Captured in US uniforms?

IIRC, according to the Geneva Convention that is grounds for a battlefield execution.
Posted by: gromky || 08/28/2010 12:30 Comments || Top||

#2  G2, FBI and CIA will be all over those fake uniforms to determine their source. No sense of humor about that shiat.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 08/28/2010 12:32 Comments || Top||

#3  More...

Afghan police said about 50 insurgents attacked using rifles, heavy machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and other weapons. After being driven away from the bases, the insurgents approached the nearby offices of the governor and provincial police headquarters but were driven off, said Khost provincial police Chief Abdul Hakim Ishaqzai.“Given the size of the enemy’s force, this could have been a major catastrophe for Khost. Luckily we prevented it,” he said.

Small-arms fire continued through the morning, while NATO helicopters patrolled overhead.

NATO said two insurgents had managed to breach Salerno’s perimeter, but were observed cutting the fence and killed immediately.

Dead insurgents were seen wearing camouflage jackets and pants seemingly identical to those worn by U.S. soldiers.

Police captured a pickup truck laden with ammunition along with a light truck packed with explosives that had become stuck in deep mud, according to Maj. Wazir Pacha of the provincial police headquarters. Bomb specialists later destroyed the truck and its cargo, according to the Interior Ministry.

NATO said the dead insurgents were members of the Haqqani Network, a Taliban-affiliated group with deep ties to al-Qaida that is accused of launching frequent raids across the border from neighboring Pakistan. An airstrike on a truck in which insurgents were fleeing killed Mudasir, a senior Haqqani explosives expert suspected of arranging suicide bomb attacks, along with two other militants, NATO said.
Posted by: tu3031 || 08/28/2010 12:33 Comments || Top||

#4  No doubt Obama would want them tried in a court so that his administration can dismiss the charges.

It's not like he hasn't done it before.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/28/2010 12:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Dead insurgents were seen wearing camouflage jackets and pants seemingly identical to those worn by U.S. soldiers.

Possible sources:

1. Hijacked convoys from Pakistain to Afghanistan.

2. You'd be surprised at what you can get at the bazaars in that part of the world. P.J. O'Rourke was once able to get a box of Cuban cigars within 24 hours at one. This is the more likely source.
Posted by: Pappy || 08/28/2010 13:08 Comments || Top||

#6  3. Iran
4. Red China
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 08/28/2010 13:11 Comments || Top||

#7  From the ISI playbook?
There have been a number of attacks in Kashmir by Pakistani jihadis dressed in Indian army and paramilitary uniforms.

The next step will be an attack on civilians.
Posted by: john frum || 08/28/2010 14:08 Comments || Top||

#8  The precedent of wearing US uniforms in WWII was found to be determental to long term health by Germans. It's treated as operating under false colors qualifying the individuals as spies and not covered by the Geneva Convention. Not that the latter point would deter Justice Kennedy from demanding they get the full Miranda treatment and civil due process if captured. He'll create his own precedent.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/28/2010 14:54 Comments || Top||

#9  One of the new martyrs...

Posted by: tu3031 || 08/28/2010 15:00 Comments || Top||

#10  Skorzeny's boys at the Battle of the Bulge...

The Einheit Stielau commando unit had been assembled from the brigade's best English speakers, but few of them had much if any experience of undercover operations or sabotage. There was little time to train them properly, but they were given short courses in demolition and radio skills, studied the organization of the US Army and its badges of rank and drill, and some were even sent to POW camps at Küstrin and Limburg to refresh their language skills through contact with US POWs.

Dressed in US Army uniforms (the highest US Army rank used was that of Colonel), armed with US weapons and using jeeps, the commandos were to execute three missions:

Demolition squads of 5 or 6 men were to destroy bridges, ammunition dumps, and fuel stores.

Reconnaissance patrols of 3 or 4 men were to reconnoiter on both sides of the Meuse river and also pass on bogus orders to any US units they met, reverse road signs, remove minefield warnings, and cordon off roads with warnings of nonexistent mines.

"Lead" commando units would work closely with the attacking units to disrupt the US chain of command by destroying field telephone wires and radio stations, and issuing false orders.


So great was the confusion caused by Operation Greif that the US Army saw spies and saboteurs everywhere. Perhaps the largest panic was created when a commando team was captured near Aywaille on 17 December. Comprising Unteroffizier Manfred Pernass, Oberfähnrich Günther Billing, and Gefreiter Wilhelm Schmidt, they were captured when they failed to give the correct password. It was Schmidt who gave credence to a rumour that Skorzeny intended to capture General Eisenhower and his staff.[8] A document outlining Operation Greif's elements of deception (though not its objectives) had earlier been captured by the US 106th Infantry Division near Heckhuscheid, and because Skorzeny was already well-known for rescuing Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (Operation Oak or Unternehmen Eiche) and Operation Panzerfaust, the Americans were more than willing to believe this story and Eisenhower was reportedly unamused by having to spend Christmas 1944 isolated for security reasons.

Pernass, Billing, and Schmidt were given a military trial at Henri-Chapelle, sentenced to death, and executed by a firing squad on 23 December. Thirteen other men were tried and shot at either Henri-Chapelle or Huy.


That's SIX whole days, folks. Today, they'd die of old age. Probably at home...
Posted by: tu3031 || 08/28/2010 15:25 Comments || Top||

#11  3. Iran
4. Red China



When I said sources I meant where the uniforms may have come from. Perhaps better terms would have been stolen or counterfeit (both of which the 'bazaars' in that region are quite capable of supplying).

Iran? Possible, It's the wrong part of the country (eastern A'stan), unless the IRGC has moved into the northwestern part of Pakistan. That in itself would be disturbing.

China is possible, both as a sponsor and uniform-source.

Most likely would be ISI or "retired" Pak military. john frum is right on the tactics and uniforms. He can correct me, but the footwear on the deader in the picture looks like the same stuff the J&K fighters wear.

Still, I wouldn't discount Haqqani buying it all on the open market, with donated funds.
Posted by: Pappy || 08/28/2010 16:22 Comments || Top||

#12  but the footwear on the deader in the picture looks like the same stuff the J&K fighters wear.

Now that I look, the footwear looks like knock-off Converse high-top sneakers. (I don't see the circular logo on the ankle.)
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/28/2010 16:37 Comments || Top||

#13  It seems to me that when you are in a firefight, the last thing you look at are the attacker's footwear.

As for the German infiltration effort, Americans used to ask people things that were unique to American culture - baseball questions, "who is Mickey Mouse's girlfriend?" - things that someone who learned English in school would be unlikely to know.

Of course, if Obama and Holder were in charge then, these guys could not even be questioned until they had been read their Miranda rights, and the worst we could do to them would be to speak harshly.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 08/28/2010 17:27 Comments || Top||

#14  We really really should make an example to discourage this type of thing. Like field executions.

All we need is some deaders dressed as U.S. Army committing some monstrosity and the media will be all over it like flies on cowpies. (1) See Haditha.

Which is precisely why OBumble will insist on them being giving full geneva convention protections.

(1) apologies to any sh*t eating flies for the comparison with the LSM.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/28/2010 17:41 Comments || Top||

#15  Looks like the uniforms are easily acquired...

The dead were wearing U.S. Army uniforms, which can be easily purchased in shops in Kabul and other cities, possibly pilfered from military warehouses.
Posted by: tu3031 || 08/28/2010 19:31 Comments || Top||

#16  Add footware inspection to ROE. Good idea.
Posted by: George Casey || 08/28/2010 20:02 Comments || Top||

#17  The picture is not clear enough to be absolutely certain, but the boots look like the 3rd World knockoffs of the old French light tropical boot : canvas uppers and lowers, with a rubber tread heel and sole. At least 7 different countries make them, with notable differences in quality, but they are cheap and available anywhere. The Israeli versions are quite nice and well-built, by the way.
Posted by: Shieldwolf || 08/28/2010 20:53 Comments || Top||


Afghan, NATO force detains 9 suspected insurgents in N. Afghanistan
(Xinhua) -- Afghan and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has detained nine suspected gun-hung tough guys in the country's northern Kunduz province.

A press release issued Friday by the ISAF said while in pursuit of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated gun artiste Thursday, the assault force targeted a series of compounds in Kunduz district of the province.

Afghan forces used a loudspeaker to call for all occupants to exit each of the compounds peacefully, and then secured the areas, said the NATO press release.

After questioning all of the residents at the scene, the security force detained nine suspected gun artistes, it said.

The security force did not fire their weapons during the operation, said the press release.
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Droukdal claims to have executed an Algerian Customs official
[Ennahar] The terrorist organization of Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat
... now known as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb...
An area that once unhappily hosted the newly formed United States Marines.
, allegedly announced yesterday that it has murdered a retired Algerian Customs [official], kidnapped by the organization last June, in the attack on the border forces center between Tinzaouatine and the province of Tamanrasset and which cost the lives of 11 gendarmes and communal guards.

This is actually a communal guard who was found dead a week after his kidnapping. The Tuareg Arabic, in northern Mali, told AFP yesterday that the hostage who was executed Tuesday night to Wednesday was a retired Algerian customs. This would be executed by the group led by Abdelkrim Taleb, an Arab Targui in northern Mali.

In all likelihood, Droukdal attempt to conceal his failures and knows that Algeria is the only country that refuses to negotiate or pay ransoms.

This media war based on lies and claims is intended to put pressure on the forces of the Algerian Customs covering border and who adopt strategies for the fight against smuggling and terrorism, like border guards, security forces and the national gendarmerie.
This article starring:
Abdelkrim Talebal-Qaeda in North Africa
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Arabia
Yemen officials, Houthis reach peace deal in Qatar
At least the Qataris won't have to worry about such nonsense taking place on their soil.
[Pak Daily Times] Yemen's government and northern rebels have agreed to bolster a fragile truce and start political dialogue to end a civil war that has raged on and off since 2004.

The deal was signed in the Gulf Arab state of Qatar, where Yemeni officials and rebels have been in talks since Tuesday, members of both delegations said on Friday.
Oh. The journalist meant the meeting took place on neutral territory. Never mind.
Successful implementation of the deal would be a huge relief to the government, which is struggling to curb a rising southern separatist movement and a resurgent al Qaeda wing that has increasingly targeted the state in recent months. The Qatar-mediated deal, signed late on Thursday, calls for "a final close to the war and the start of political dialogue."

Yemeni delegations hammered out a 22-point agreement that would guide both sides to meeting obligations under a February truce, which had been punctuated with violence from both sides.
In other words, each side considers the truce only binding upon the other. How... quaint.
Qatar, trying to bolster its image as a regional Gulf Arab peacemaker, brokered a north Yemen peace accord in 2008 before the region slipped back into war and last year drew in top oil exporter and regional power Saudi Arabia.
So much for that bolstered image as an ineffective peacemaker. Congratulations, Qatar!
Yemen has faced increasing pressure from Saudi Arabia and Western powers to resolve domestic conflicts in order to focus on al Qaeda, which they fear will use instability in the Arabian Peninsula state to launch attacks regionally and beyond.
Any increasing pressure on the rebels?
Al Qaeda's Yemen-based wing claimed responsibility for a failed bomb attack on a US-bound plane in December and has carried out attacks on Saudi, British, and Yemeni targets.
How many of those were failures, too?
News of the agreement coincided with reports that gunmen had kidnapped Yemen's deputy head of intelligence, Ali al Hosam, in the northern city of Saada.

A local official said authorities were investigating the incident and had no information yet as to who was behind the kidnapping.

Among the main points of the agreement, rebels were required to return stolen Yemeni military weapons to their Qatari mediator, while the government would release rebel prisoners -- a main rebel demand before the talks.
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Okay, but no peace deal between the Houthis & Saudis? That'll hold...
Posted by: American Delight || 08/28/2010 10:04 Comments || Top||

#2  The clincher was the secret accord specifying the provision of Viagra.
Posted by: Thrusomble Munster5106 || 08/28/2010 14:59 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
4 Jamaat men held, books on jihad seized
[Bangla Daily Star] Police jugged four Jamaat men and seized some books on jihad, raiding a Jamaat activist's house in Patgram upazila of the district yesterday.

Acting on a tip off, a team of Patgram police raided the house of Ataur Rahman where the Jamaat men were holding a meeting, said police. Police are interrogating the arrestees and a case was filed in this connection.
Unlike Pakistan, Bangladesh appears highly unamused by the religious enthusiasm of the jihadis.
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami


CID quizzing detained Duke
[Bangla Daily Star] Criminal Investigation Department is quizzing Khaleda Zia's nephew Saiful Islam Duke about his alleged role in arranging escape for perpetrators of the August 21 grenade blasts in 2004.

Duke, who was personal secretary to the then prime minister Khaleda Zia, is being interrogated also about his "involvement in the bid to misdirect the investigation" into the grenade attack, a CID official told The Daily Star yesterday.

Interrogators are questioning him along that line following information gleaned from some former intelligence officials who had earlier been quizzed in the grenade attack case.

"We have information that he helped Moulana Tajuddin and some of the grenade-throwers to flee the country. He also coordinated the efforts to have a false probe to save the real culprits," said the official who would not be identified talking about the matter.

Duke, however, denies the allegations, he added.

Earlier on Thursday, CID arrested him on charges of helping Tajuddin, an operative of Pakistan-based militant organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba.

Tajuddin is alleged to have supplied the grenades used in the August 21 attack, which killed 24 Awami League leaders and workers at a rally on Bangabandhu Avenue.

His brother Abdus Salam Pintu, BNP leader and former deputy minister, is now detained in the August 21 case.
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Taiba


Criminal killed in 'shootout'
[Bangla Daily Star] An alleged criminal was killed in a "shootout" with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Tejgaon Industrial Area in the capital early yesterday.
"Youse'll never take me alive, coppers! [BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!] Aaaaiiiieeee! [Gasp!] [Rattle!] Rosebud!"
The deceased, Shahidul Islam Chanchal, also known as Bhagne Chanchal, 35, was a nephew of Sweden Aslam, a top criminal who is now in jail serving life sentence.
Ja, sure. Dat makes sense. "Martyr of Islam" Chanchal vuz the nephew of Big Swede Aslam.
Chanchal was killed in a gunfight
[BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!]
with Rab in front of BSTI (Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution) office in the area around 1:30am, Md Jahangir, sub-inspector (SI) of Tejgaon Industrial Area Police Station told The Daily Star.
"Ja, sure! I t'ink dat's 7 p.m. Stockholm time, you betcha!"
A top official of Rab-2 said Chanchal used to extort businessmen in Karwan Bazar and Farmgate areas using Sweden Aslam's name.
"Gimme some dough or youse'll be hearin' from Big Swede!"
"But he's in jug!"
"Youse'll hear from him when he gets out!"

Local sources said Chanchal and Sweden Aslam's brother used to control the gang of Sweden Aslam since he landed in jail in 1998.
"Now lissen up, you mugs! I'm takin' over, see?"
Chanchal's family members, however, claimed he was a trader at Purba Tejturi Bazar in Farmgate area. "He is the owner of Janata Builders, and also a first class contractor," Manager of Janata Builders Md Mintu said.
"He built me this house, see?"
"A group of plainclothes men, who introduced themselves as law enforcers, came at his [Chanchal's] Dhanmondi residence at around 12:30am and took him away in a microbus.
"Into the microbus wit' yez!"
"But I didn't..."
"Shuddup."

"In the morning we learned that he is dead," Mintu said.
"He's dead, Jim!"
Rab-2 officials said one of their patrol teams signalled the car Chanchal was riding, but he did not stop and went into the side lane instead.
"You in the microbus! Pull over!"
The team then followed the car and at one stage cordoned it. Chanchal fired twice at the Rab personnel prompting them to fire back. Later they recovered the bullet-hit body of Chanchal, Rab officials said.
"Where was it?"
"Still in the microbus."
"Guess we shoulda looked there earlier."

Rab men also recovered a foreign pistol loaded with four bullets.
"Run this pistol, Sergeant Rafiq!"
"It sez 'Made in Guatamala,' sir!"

Dhaka Medical College morgue sources said they have found eight bullet wounds to Chanchal's body.
"No, wait. Seven. Seven bullet holes. That one's not a bullet hole. Sorry."
Omar Faruk, officer-in-charge of Tejgaon Industrial Area Police Station told The Daily Star that they recovered the car Chanchal was riding with marks of bullets from the spot.
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
Nuevo Leon: Mexican Army Bags Four Bad Guys, Seizes Contraband
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Four unidentified alleged members of the Los Zetas criminal gang were killed in a gunfight with elements of the Mexican Army in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon early Friday morning, say Mexican press reports.

Soldiers were acting on an phoned in tip about gang activity at a residence on Calle París in the Villaluz district when they were fired on by suspects. A brief firefight ensued where four armed suspects were killed and one soldier wounded.

Three unidentified suspects were arrested.

Seized in the aftermath were nine rifles and two handguns inside three vehicles.

In a second operation, a detachment of Mexican soldiers arrested two unidentified suspects on calle Santa Clara in the Santa Fe district.

Soldiers also seized two rifles, three handguns and a hand grenade inside a vehicle.

In other Mexican Army action in Monterrey, a brief car chase took place late Thursday night between a detachment of the Mexican Army and armed suspects in the Linda Vista municipality (county) of Guadalupe in Monterrey.

Soldiers observed a red van carrying armed suspects and, attempting to stop the vehicle, initiated a chase and a shootout.

The chase continued along Avenida Miguel Alemän until it reached Avenida Constituyentes de Nuevo León where the driver lost control and dumped the vehicle over a bridge into traffic on Bulevar Miguel de la Madrid.

It is unclear how many people were in the van when it crashed, but after the military took time to close the streets, one suspect was found and arrested.
Posted by: badanov || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Tamaulipas: 2 Car Bombs Explode in Ciudad Victoria
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A car bomb exploded near a television studio in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, according to Mexican new reports.

The Televisa Ciudad Victoria studio was damaged in the blast which took place a few minutes after midnight Friday. No one was reported hurt in the attack.

The second blast took place near the city Municipal Transit offices following a gun battle with unidentified armed suspects.

Televisa facilites have been attacked in Tamaulipas before, the latest of which was a hand grenade attack in the Televisa Nuevo Laredo studio and a grenade attack in Matamoros early this month which also caused damage but also hurt no one.

Damage in this latest attack was limited to the building's electrical service, which was not restored until 0700 hrs Friday.

Televisa studios in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon suffered a hand grenade attack and in Matamoros, Tamaulipas suffered a grenade attack from a grenade launcher earlier this month as well. A Televisa studio in Tepic, Nayarit was also attacked in May with a hand grenade. A Televisa studio in Torreon, Coahuila was attacked by an armed suspect who shot several times into the facility last June.
Posted by: badanov || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  Anyone wish to wager how long it will take our Lame Stream Media to properly label these events as Vehicular Borne Improvised Explosive Devices or (VBIED)?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2010 5:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Narcos forgot CBS? //sarcasm off
Posted by: borgboy || 08/28/2010 16:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Anyone wish to wager how long it will take our Lame Stream Media to properly label these events as Vehicular Borne Improvised Explosive Devices or (VBIED)?

At the moment Spanish language press is most comfortable with the term coche bomba.
Posted by: badanov || 08/28/2010 20:04 Comments || Top||


More Mexican Mayhem
32 Die in Northern Mexico

A total of at least 32 individuals were slaughtered in ongoing drug and gang related violence which included two Mexican federal agents shot to death in Juarez and eight individuals shot to death and immolated on a remote highway near Chihuahua, Chihuahua.
For a map, click here. Today's compilation include the four who died in the gun battle with the Mexican Army in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon Friday.
  • Three unidentified men in their 20s were shot to death in Juarez Thursday evening, say Mexican news reports. The attack took place at a residence near the intersection of calles Carlos Amaya and Tehuacanos in the Aztec district where the three victims were watching television. Armed suspects shot at the trio through windows and doors of the residence leaving numerous spent cartridge casings on the ground outside.

  • An unidentified man was seriously wounded in a shooting in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, according to Mexican press accounts. The attack took place near the intersection of avenidas 16 de Septiembre and Ignacio Rodríguez in the Tierra y Libertad district where armed suspects aboard vehicle shot at the victim while he was driving his Dodge Ram pickup truck. A female companion riding in the truck was unharmed in the attack.

  • Three young men were found shot to death on a highway north of Chihuahua, Chihuahua Thursday night, say Mexican news reports. The find was made on Km. Marker 3 in the Chihuahua-Juarez highway where the three victims were found gagged, bound by their hands and shot apparently with 9mm weapons. A message left said the trio were carjackers.

  • An unidentified man was found immolated in Juarez, according to Mexican news reports. The find was reported at about 0430 hrs when unidentified suspects aboard a pickup truck dumped a body near the intersection of calles Piña and Candelilla in the Infonavit �ngel Trias district and set it on fire. The victim was gagged and bound by his hands and feet.

  • An unidentified man was found shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, say Mexican news accounts. The victim was found near the intersection of Calle 15th and Peripheral R. Almada in the Villa Ju�rez district with his hands bound and a massage stating the victim was a carjacker.

  • Eight unidentified individuals were found shot to death and immolated in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Friday morning say Mexican press reports. The discovery was made on Km. Marker 23 of the Chihuahua-Juarez highway where two Ford Explorer SUVs were found completely destroyed by fire on the side of the road. Several spent 9mm cartridge casing were found nearby the vehicles.

  • Two unidentified men were shot to death in Juarez Friday morning, according to Mexican news reports. The attack took place at about 1100 hrs near the intersection of calles Guadalquivir and Plan de Guadalupe in the Nogales district where armed suspects shot the victims with rifles as they rode aboard Dodge Caravan.

  • Two Mexican federal agents were shot to death in Juarez Friday morning, according to Mexican press accounts. The attack took place near the intersection of the Juarez-Porvenir highway and Independcia Bypass where one of the agents was inside a Yonke Zaragoza store while the other was in a Nissan Altima. The victims were tentatively identified as Aldo Holguin Crespo and Aurelio Ivan Mosiño.

  • Two unidentified men were found shot to death in central Chihuahua, according to Mexican press accounts. The discovery was made on Km Marker 223 of the Chihuahua-Ojinaga highway where the pair were found dead with tattoos of Santa Muerte on their backs. Six spent 9mm cartridge casings were found at the scene.

  • The owner of a children's ballroom was found shot to death in Juarez Friday, say Mexican news reports. the find was made near the intersection of calle Francisco Madero and Chihuahua in the business named Paraiso. The victim was found next to a kindergarten.

  • A Juarez police officer and two civilians were wounded in a shooting in Juarez, say Mexican news reports. The attack took place as the officer was riding a Chevrolet Astro van with two others. The officer escaped the attack by ducking into the Aldama Police Station near the intersection of Eje Juan Gabriel and Calle Aserraderos.

  • Two unidentified men were found shot to death on a highway in Nuevo Leon, say Mexican press accounts. The discovery was made near a bridge on Km. Marker 81 on the Reynosa-Monterrey highway. The victims were bound by their hands, blindfolded and shot several times.

  • An unidentified man as found shot to death in Apodaca, Nuevo Leon Friday morning, say Mexican news accounts. The victim was found near then intersection of calles Madero and Ju�rez in the Cantu district shot seven times. The victim was bound with duct tape and take been tortured before being shot.

  • A Tamaulipas prosecutor and another unidentified individual were found shot to death on a road near San Fernando, Tamaulipas Thursday evening, say Mexican press accounts. Roberto Javier Su�rez V�zquez was Tamaulipas' lead prosecutor investigating the mass murder of 72 immigrants, which took place late Tuesday night.
Posted by: badanov || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  Badanov, lack of comments on some days does not mean you are not read and appreciated. The war is headed north. Two doors down on my humble street the neighbors held a narcofiesta party: Hummmers, Yukons, Silverados, blinged F-150 filled the street. That was Thursday. On Friday a dozen cop cars surrounded my street and raided the house for illegal weaponry. Today, the occupants are moving out muy pronto. Methinks a nearby competitor mafioso jefe made the call to the police.
Posted by: borgboy || 08/28/2010 16:34 Comments || Top||

#2  amen - for those of us who've grown up on the border - it's too close, too sickening, and too hopeless for answers right now to snark on (which is my Raison d'être). I used to make semi-annual trips to Baja with friends and family at San Felipe. No more. I live miles from the border and haven't crossed in years, nor will I, now
Posted by: Frank G || 08/28/2010 18:31 Comments || Top||

#3  The war is headed north.

Yes.
Posted by: Pappy || 08/28/2010 19:02 Comments || Top||


BP Agent Held at Gunpoint by Mexican Military Early August
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
11 suspected participants of Apr 7 massacre arrested in Kyrgyzstan
(Itar-Tass) - The Kyrgyz Prosecutor General's Office completed the investigation into the criminal case, which was instituted over a massive armed breakup of an opposition rally on the Bishkek central square on April 7, 2010, Kyrgyz Prosecutor General Baitemir Ibrayev said at a meeting held by Kyrgyz caretaker President Roza Otunbayeva with the chief law enforcers here on Friday.

On April 7, the oppositionists were planning to stage a rally in Bishkek at the office of the Kyrgyz Social Democratic Party. However, the police were attempting to break up the protest action and to arrest the instigators. In retaliation the mob started hurling stones at the police and a fight sparked up between the conflicting sides. The looters captured the weapons brought to the clash site for the police task force Alfa. The protesters, who had taken the upper hand in the clashes with police and police task force, were going to the Ala-Too central square, where the Kyrgyz House of Government is situated. The servicemen inside the state administrative compound opened the fire for effect at the mob. Over 150 people were killed or injured in the gunfire. However, the oppositionists captured the House of Government, the former Kyrgyz president Kurmanbek Bakiyev had to flee the republic.

According to Ibrayev, 11 people were arrested on suspicions of a major massacre of people on April 7. Five more people were put on the international wanted list, including brother of the former president Zhanybek Bakiyev, who headed the State Security Service, and his deputy Nurlan Temirbayev. On the list of the defendants are the former president, both his sons -- Marat and Maxim Bakiyevs, the former Defence Minister Baktybek Kalyev, the former Interior Minister Moldomus Kongantiyev, as well as the former prime minister before these tragic events Daniyar Usenov and the former chief of the National Security Service Murat Sutalinov.
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Militants blocked in house in Nalchik center, fighting on
(Itar-Tass) -- Gunfire exchange with militants blocked in a house in the center of Nalchik is over, a representative of the Kabardino-Balkaria department of the Federal Security Service told Itar-Tass.

Security services are working in the apartment where the militants were blocked.

Doctors and rescuers are on standby. The area is cordoned.
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Chechen Republic of Ichkeria


India-Pakistan
KP MPA's father kidnapped from Kurram Agency
[Pak Daily Times] Armed people kidnapped Haji Said Anwar, the father of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) assembly member Mufti Said Janan, on Friday in Sapire Kot area of Kurram Agency. According to a relative, Anwar had gone to Manzaki to attend a funeral, but was kidnapped on his way back home The relative said efforts were being made for his release. Another source claimed Anwar was kidnapped by the Taliban. No terrorist group has claimed responsibility of the kidnapping so far.
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


India police kill Maoist wanted over May train crash
[Bangla Daily Star] Police in India say they have killed a top Maoist guerrilla who was wanted in connection with a train crash in May that left 150 people dead.

The body of Umakanta Mahato was found in a jungle in West Bengal state after security forces clashed with rebels.

Police had announced a cash reward for his arrest. They have described his killing as "a major success".

The train crash, said to be an act of sabotage, was blamed on the Maoists, but the rebels denied being involved.

Police say the PCPA activists, led by Umakanta Mahato and Bapi Mahato, sabotaged the train track that caused the derailment of the Calcutta-Mumbai express near Jhargram on 28 May.

The Maoists say they are fighting for the rights of the poor and the landless.

PM Manmohan Singh has described the Maoist insurgency as India's biggest internal security challenge.

Mahato, a leader of the pro-Maoist militia Peoples' Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA), was found dead in the jungles of Lodhashuli in Jhargram district on Friday.

"This is a major success but it would have been better for the investigations if Umakanta Mahato was captured alive," West Bengal police chief Bhupinder Singh said.

India's federal police - the Central Bureau of Investigation which is investigating the train disaster - has announced cash rewards of 100,000 rupees ($2,135) for the arrest of the top suspects.
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Suicide bomber kills himself in northwest Pakistan
(Xinhua) -- A boomer killed himself Friday in a market in Mansehra, a district in northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, formerly NWFP, aka Terrorism Central province of Pakistain, local sources said.

The attacker detonated the blast near a mini cinema in central Mansehra, injuring several others.

No group claimed the responsibility but Taliban are blamed for such suicide kabooms.
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Pakistan general's son-in-law kidnapped in Lahore
[Gulf News] The civilian son-in-law of a senior Pak general has been kidnapped in the scenic city of Lahore, a senior official said on Friday, heightening concerns about security in a country grappling with floods and thugs.

Rana Sanaullah, law minister of Punjab province of which Lahore is the capital, said the motive was unclear for the kidnapping of the son-in-law of General Tariq Majid, chairman of the powerful army's Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. Majid has a largely ceremonial function in the army.
He is the very model of a modern major general...
But the kidnapping of his son-in-law is likely to add to a sense of deteriorating law and order in the country with an unpopular civilian government, devastating floods and a Taliban insurgency.

Some six to eight men kidnapped Aamir Malik, a leader of a traders' body, on Wednesday night.

"Multiple teams" of police and security agencies were trying to find him, said Sanaullah, who is also responsible for security matters in the province.

"The kidnappers have not yet made any contact," Sanaullah told Rooters.
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


Explosion rips through a hotel in N. Pakistan, suspected militant killed
(KUNA) -- A militant was killed and at least five others were wounded on Friday in an explosion that ripped through a hotel in a northern Pakistani district, said police.

The nature of the explosion was not immediately clear. Police sources told KUNA that an explosion took place in a room of a small hotel in Mansehra district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhawa province.

"It could be that a suspected militant was trying to make some explosive material and it went off accidentally or it could be a bomb explosion", said sources. They said that it would be premature to confirm any thing.

Sources said that the explosion killed the room guest on the spot and wounded at least five others. It also caused damage to the hotel building. Police cordoned off the site and was conducting investigations.
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


Drone strike kills four terrorists in Kurram Agency
[Pak Daily Times] A US drone strike on Saturday killed four faceless myrmidons in the Tribal Areas near the Afghan border, security officials said.

The strike hit Shahidano village in Kurram Agency, home of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, not necessarily in that order, around 100 kilometres southwest of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar. "Four bad turbans have been killed in this dronezap," a security official in Peshawar told AFP by telephone. Another security official in Peshawar said the US drone fired four missiles, hitting two vehicles near a house. "All those killed were bad boyz belonging to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP)," the official said. According to the US, the drone strikes had been counter-productive as a large number of Taliban and al Qaeda-linked faceless myrmidons had been killed in the attacks. On the other hand, Pakistain insists that the US provide Islamabad with the drone technology so that the Pakistain Army could carry out the attacks itself.
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan

#1  Love the commentary Fred. Nice way to start the day.
Posted by: Unique Battle || 08/28/2010 11:15 Comments || Top||


Iraq
3 suspects in al-Muqdadiya bombings detained
[Aswat al-Iraq] Three suspects, believed to be involved in al-Muqdadiya bombings, were arrested on Thursday, according to chief of police.

"Security forces arrested on Thursday (Aug. 26) three al-Qaeda elements in al-Muqdadiya, for their involvement in detonating two cars inside the district on Wednesday (Aug. 25); the first targeted the building of the municipality council, where three people were killed and 13 were wounded, followed by a car bomb explosion at the same place, where eight people were wounded," Colonel Ali al-Tamimi told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq


Al-Qaeda leader nabbed in Anbar
[Aswat al-Iraq] Police forces arrested al-Qaeda leader and one of his aides in central Falluja, chief of Anbar police said on Friday.

"joint forces of police and army personnel raided a house in central Falluja, where they arrested al-Qaeda leader and one of his aides," General Bahaa al-Karkhi told Aswat al-Iraq news agency, noting that they are responsible for the recent armed attacks in the province.

On Wednesday (Aug. 25), three car bombs went off in Ramadi, killing five persons, including two soldiers, and wounding 19.

"The forces found a car bomb inside the house and was defused by the experts," he added.
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq


Basra police arrest Aug. 7 bombers
[Aswat al-Iraq] The culprits of the central Basra bombing attack on Aug. 7 and claimed the lives of 34 persons and wounded 185 others was arrested on Friday, according to the province's police department chief.

"The Basra police arrested all three perpetrators of the central Basra attack that had rocked the street of Abdullah bin Ali in the area of al-Ashar," Maj. General Adil Dahham told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq


IED defused near judge's house in Ninewa
[Aswat al-Iraq] Policemen defused an improvised explosive device (IED) that was emplaced near the house of a judge north of Mosul city on Friday, according to a local police source.

"Police forces dismantled an IED in Talkeef district, northeast of Mosul, that was meant to target the house of Justice Muhammad Nijm, an investigating judge in Talkeef," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

He did not elaborate on details of the site where the charge was found or how it was found.
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Paleostinian youths set cars on fire in renewed Jerusalem violence
[Gulf Times] Paleostinians torched half a dozen vehicles in East Jerusalem yesterday and threw stones and Molotov cocktails at Israeli police after Jewish settlers approached a mosque, local residents and police said.

There were no reported injuries in the incident in the volatile Silwan neighbourhood, where tensions have flared between Paleostinians and a small group of settlers who have moved there in the past two decades.

Local residents said settlers tried to reach a spring, which religious Jews view as a Biblical site, by crossing through a mosque courtyard.
Oh, noze!
Israeli police said Paleostinians then took to the streets in violent demonstrations, throwing rocks and firebombs at police and vehicles, burning six cars.

Meanwhile, an Israeli official lashed out at EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton for questioning the conviction of a Paleostinian activist, calling her comments "highly improper," the Jerusalem Post reported yesterday.

An Israeli military court on Wednesday convicted 39-year-old Abdullah Abu Rahma of organising and attending banned demonstrations against Israel's West Bank separation barrier in the picturesque villageof Bilin. Sentencing is to be delivered at a later date.

A statement issued by Ashton's office after the hearing expressed her concern "that the possible imprisonment of Mr Abu Rahma is intended to prevent him and other Paleostinians from exercising their legitimate right to protest against the existence of the separation barriers in a non-violent manner."

The Post quoted Israeli Foreign Ministry front man Yigal Palmor as saying that Ashton should either honour the court ruling or join Abu Rahma's legal team.

"She should respect the ruling of the Israeli justice system, and refrain from casting aspersions on a legal system that is lauded worldwide by its peers," he said.

"Moreover, interfering with a transparent legal procedure of a democratic country is not just highly improper, but is hardly consistent with promoting European values," he was quoted as saying.

Palmor could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Regular demonstrations by Paleostinian muscle and foreign supporters staged for the past several years in Bilin and nearby Nilin, both close to the quiet little city of Ramallah, are billed as non-violent.

But they frequently turn into clashes between rock-throwing Paleostinian youths and Israeli troops firing tear gas and rubber bullets.

Israel says the barrier - a network of walls, fences and closed military roads - is designed to prevent attacks against the Jewish state and Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.

The Paleostinians view it as an "apartheid wall" that carves off key parts of their promised future state.
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  maybe if they changed the picturesque village's name to Chillin', things would calm down
Posted by: Frank G || 08/28/2010 10:02 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Authorities Arrest Suspects in Borj Abi Haidar Gunbattles, Report
Lebanese army intelligence on Friday arrested a number of suspects involved in Borj Abi Haidar's bloody street battles, NBN television channel reported.

It said the suspects, who turned out to be drug users, were arrested in house raids in Borj Abi Haidar and Basta.

NBN said that according to information it obtained the suspects do not belong to any political party.
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah



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