[Iran Press TV] Talibs claim they have shot down a chopper belonging to the US-led military forces in the eastern Afghan province of Kunar.
Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid said the helicopter went down in Kunar on Sunday. He added that the chopper was hit during an anti-militant offensive in the volatile region. He claimed that several US-led soldiers were killed in the attack.
The US-led alliance has yet to comment on the incident. American soldiers make up the majority of the foreign forces stationed in the east and south of Afghanistan.
This comes after NATO announced eleven US-led foreign soldiers have been killed in southern and eastern Afghanistan over the past 24 hours.
The Taliban claim their Islamic fascistihave shot down several aircraft and NATO choppers in different parts of Afghanistan over the past few months.
On October 12, a cargo plane carrying supplies for the US-led forces in Afghanistan crashed into the mountains near Kabul, with all nine crew members onboard being killed. Nine US soldiers were also killed in a chopper crash in September.
The developments also come as Talibs have been making inroads in different parts of Afghanistan.
At least 641 foreign troops have bit the dust in Afghanistan so far, making 2010 the deadliest year for US-led forces since the 2001 invasion of the country.
The war in Afghanistan has become the longest in US history. With civilian and military casualties at record highs, many question the motives in the ongoing conflict. The rising number of the casualties among the US-led forces has increased opposition to the Afghan war in the countries which have contributed troops to the mission.
US President Barack B.O. Obama's Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistain Richard Holbrooke has said Washington has "no exit strategy" for Afghanistan.
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We also have no exit strategy from Germany, Japan, and Korea.
5,000th comment. Time flies.
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Makes you wonder *how* they shot it down. Based on the US supply of flyswatters to the Muj forces during Russia, it would seem to be a cost effective way for Iran to harass us.
[Iran Press TV] At least three people have been killed and 20 others maimed following separate bomb attacks in eastern and southern Afghanistan.
One person was killed and nine people were maimed when an improvised bomb (IED) went off in a wheelbarrow in the centre of Jalalabad, the capital of the eastern province of Nangarhar.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... in a separate attack in the Spin Boldak district of southern picturesque Kandahar province, a blast form an explosive-wired cycle of violence killed two civilians and maimed 11 others.
Authorities say the bomb was intended to target the country's border police.
Earlier, unidentified gunnies in the eastern Behsud district of Nangarhar province attacked a NATO convoy and set fire to 12 tankers carrying supplies for US-led soldiers.
The attacks come just one day after Talibs attacked a US military base in Jalalabad in eastern Nangarhar.
Violence in war-torn Afghanistan is at its worst level and faceless myrmidons have intensified their attacks on civilian and military targets in the country.
The United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society recently announced that Afghan civilian deaths had soared by over 30 percent in 2010 compared to the same period last year.
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[Al Jazeera] Afghanistan's ambassador-designate to Pakistain, who was kidnapped two years ago before taking up his post, has been sprung, the foreign ministry in Kabul has announced.
The foreign ministry in Kabul said on Sunday in a statement that he was "freed on November 13 (Saturday) after more than two years and returned to his country and family".
Abdul Khaliq Farahi, who was the consul-general in the city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, northwest Pakistain, was snatched at gunpoint there after his vehicle was ambushed in September 2008.
His driver was killed.
Farahi was handed over to the Afghan authorities in the eastern border province of Khost, ...which coincidentally borders North Wazoo and Kurram Agency... said a local Afghan official, who asked not to be named.
A family member, also requesting anonymity, confirmed to the AFP news agency that Farahi was released and that he was in good health.
The Afghan government expressed their thanks for the efforts of the Pak government for the safe release of the diplomat, the statement said.
Farahi was returning to his home in a suburb of Peshawar when he was seized but it is not yet clear who was behind his abduction and if a ransom was paid to secure his release. An Afghan government official said Farahi had met Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai, the Afghan president, on Sunday.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, in an interview published Sunday, called on the United States to scale down its military activity in his country.
'The time has come to reduce military operations,' Karzai said in an interview with the Washington Post newspaper.
The president said the Afghan population was unable to cope with the massive international military presence and wanted to see an end to the 'intrusiveness' of the soldiers in daily life.
Karzai said he was speaking out not to criticize the United States but in the belief that candour could improve what he called a 'grudging' relationship between the countries.
The president said his people were getting impatient with a war that had been going on for nearly a decade. In particular, he wanted to see an end to nighttime raids by foreign troops on Afghan homes.
'The Afghan people don't like these raids, if there is any raid it has to be done by the Afghan government within the Afghan laws,' he said.
The night raids are a key element of the strategy adopted by US and NATO troops in their counterinsurgency tactics.
Karzai has long been publicly critical of civilian casualties at the hands of US and NATO troops and has repeatedly called for curtailing night raids into Afghan homes.
Such raids by US Special Operations troops have increased sharply, to about 200 a month, the newspaper said. In the past three months, the troops have killed or captured 368 insurgent leaders. Either he is envisioning the US bugging out, so is hoping to cover his rear when they do, or he is having his own criminal enterprises shut down, or he is just lying on general principles.
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if he doesn't make it to switzerland with bags of cash and prozac hang him from a tank gun with his balls in his mouth a la najibullah
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Either he is envisioning the US bugging out, so is hoping to cover his rear when they do, or he is having his own criminal enterprises shut down, or he is just lying on general principles.
D) All of the above...
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"'The Afghan people don't like these raids, if there is any raid it has to be done by the Afghan government within the Afghan laws,'
Somehow I feel that people will prefer US raids... after all they are ONLY looking for terrorists...
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Obviously Mr. Karzi hasn't been involved with many raids. He needs to look out for the lives of the soldiers conducting these raids. Nightime raids are more effective for many reasons, but in Afghanistan, our night vision capability is unmatched. Civilians get shit on in every war, and usually, no one feels worse about civilian casualties than the man on the ground who pulls the trigger.
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When your country becomes a base and a training center for world wide terrorism, you can expect angry visitors coming by from time to time to delouse the place.
Karzai is trying to position himself in a post-us Afghanistan. I do not think that the Taliban or Al-Q will have much patience for him.
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Karzai might be handing Obama the keys to the exit if he's not careful. Very few folks want to spend blood and treasure defending the ungrateful or corrupt.
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When your country becomes a base and a training center for world wide terrorism, you can expect angry visitors coming by from time to time to delouse the place.
That bears repeating, especially to those who doubt our purpose in the 'Stan.
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Time to send "Partition" Joe Biden in and split this fractious country up. Perhaps the three or four new Presidents of North, East, West and South Afghanistan would be grateful enough to tell President Karzai of Central Afghanistan, pork-be-upon-him, to put a sock in it before a right thinking non-corrupt American soldier kicks his ass.
In Sudan, the southern army says a northern plane bombed its territory, injuring several people.
The bomb landed in the Northern Bahr Gazal state on Friday, said southern army front man Col Phillip Aguer.
He said the incident took place when the northern armed forces were pursuing Darfuri rebels near the border.
A northern army front man confirmed that troops had engaged the rebels, but said the fighting had taken place 23km (14 miles) north of the border. The front man said he did not believe a bomb had landed in the south.
The United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society confirmed a bombing had occurred and said it was sending a team to assess the situation.
New war fears
Tensions in Sudan have been rising in recent weeks, ahead of a referendum next year on possible independence for the south of the country - a consequence of peace deal in 2005 that ended a long civil war.
Earlier this week, ministers in charge of the armed forces from both the north and the south held a joint presser to stress a new war was not an option.
But many analysts say a return to conflict around the time of the referendum or afterwards is a real possibility.
Southerners are likely to vote for independence, but most of Sudan's oil is in the south and there are real doubts about whether Khartoum will allow the region to split away.
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"Oyster Bay Chowder + Marching Society" > D *** NG IT, does this mean theres NO MINESTRONE - I WAS LED TO BELIEVE THERE WOULD BE MINESTRONE!?
(KUNA) -- A British couple held for more than a year by Somali pirates have been freed after a ransom was paid, reports said Sunday.
Paul and Rachel Chandler, who were seized in October last year while sailing from the Seychelles towards Tanzania, were "tired but happy" after being handed over to local officials in Adado, Somalia, Sky News said.
The couple, from Tunbridge Wells in Kent, near London, are reportedly being flown to Nairobi in Kenya where they will be transferred to the British High Commission.
Chandler's brother, Stephen Collett, said: "We are very pleased at the news.
" Their release was also being reported by some other media organisations.
TV footage on Sky News showed the Chandlers, aged 60 and 57 respectively, walking unaided in Adado.
The mayor of the town, Mohamed Aden, told Sky News that he received the couple and gave them some breakfast.
He said: "They were tired but happy - I am very, very happy. "We gave them a cold shower, we gave them a breakfast. "Then we showed them to the community, and the community showed them they are sorry about what happened.
"They apologised for the treatment they were subjected to in our neighbourhood." A Somali physician who saw them, Dr Mohamed Elmi Hangul, also said: "Aside from the deep emotional and psychological abuse they endured over the past 13 months, they are doing relatively well." Reports suggest that a ransom of up to one million dollars (620,000 pounds) was paid to secure the couple's release.
The money is said to have come from a mixture of private investors and the hapless Somali government.
The British Government's policy is not to pay ransom demands. The Foreign Office has not yet commented on the reports.
The Chandlers' release ends a 388-day ordeal which began on October 23 last year when their 38ft yacht was stormed by gunnies.
The Chandlers themselves made a series of appeals for help during television interviews permitted by the pirates.
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[Iran Press TV] Heavy festivities between Somali government troops backed by African Union forces and al-Shaboobs have left at least 12 people dead and 24 others maimed in Mogadishu.
Seven people -- mostly soldiers -- bit the dust early on Thursday when al-Shaboobs launched an attack against Somali soldiers in Mogadishu's northern district of Boondheere. Scores of troops were also maimed in the battle, Radio Garowe reported on Saturday.
In a separate incident on the same day, three non-combatants were killed and seven others sustained injuries in the Warhdiigley district when festivities broke out between Somali forces and al-Shaboobs.
In addition, two non-combatants were killed and twelve were maimed on Thursday after several mortar shells landed in and around the Bakara market -- the biggest and busiest market in Mogadishu.
Also on Thursday, five civilians suffered grave injuries when two landmines went off in Mogadishu. Somali ambulance workers said they transported the maimed to Mogadishu's Medina Hospital.
In a recent report, the International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) stated that hundreds of civilians have been injured in fighting in Somalia in recent months.
The Geneva-based humanitarian institution said that a total of 5,000 patients with war injuries, including 1,900 women and kiddies, were admitted to Mogadishu's Keysaney and Medina hospitals from January through September.
Compared to last year, it is an increase of 25 percent in the total number of war casualties and 72 percent in the number of war-maimedwomen and kiddies admitted to the hospitals.
Some 4,000 patients with war injuries, among them 1,100 women and kiddies, were taken to Mogadishu's two referral hospitals in 2009.
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Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
Over the past two decades, up to one million people have bit the dust in fighting between rival factions and due to famine and disease.
There are more than 1.4 million internally displaced people (IDPs) in Somalia. Over 300,000 of the IDPs are sheltered in Mogadishu.
Most of the displaced live in poor and degrading conditions on makeshift sites in southern and central Somalia, according to the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society High Commissioner for Refugees.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula denied on Sunday it would stage any action to coincide with the Mohammedan haj pilgrimage to Soddy Arabia after a Saudi minister said such an operation could not be ruled out.
Just over a week ago, AQAP claimed a plot to mail two parcel bombs to the United States that caused a global security alert. The explosives were intercepted in Dubai and Britain before they could be detonated following a tip-off from Soddy Arabia.
"We are against any crimes against pilgrims ... Haj is a pillar of Islam and we are most eager (not to spill) the blood of Mohammedans, wherever they may be. Mecca is more sacred than any other place," AQAP said in a statement posted on an Islamist website often used by Islamic exemplars.
The statement followed remarks last week by the Saudi interior minister in which he suggested al-Qaeda may attack the around two million Mohammedans who are due to start their pilgrimage in Soddy Arabia on Sunday.
Asked whether al-Qaeda might stage an attack on the haj or use the event to try and get fighters from Yemen into the kingdom, Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz said: "We cannot rule out any operation but we are ready to foil it."
Soddy Arabia is worried about infiltration across the 1,500 km- (900-mile) -long border it shares with Yemen and which is known for smuggling. The Yemen-based regional wing of al-Qaeda has said it wants to topple the Saudi ruling family.
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MEMRI > On this subject, AQAP is blaming the US + SHIITES as the true threat to the Haj Pilgrimage, not them.
[Yemen Post] Yemeni planes carried out surprising air strikes on suspected Al-Qaeda hideouts and sites in mountainous areas in capital Sana'a on Sunday.
Independent sources said the army targeted the areas in Bani Dhabyan, 60 km east of Sana'a, where Al-Qaeda members are thought to have holed up to plot and commit further attacks following AQAP's vow to continue the fight against the government and its western allies.
There were no reports of casualties.
Yemen has been waging a brutal war on Al-Qaeda after hard boyz stepped up their attacks against domestic and foreign interests across the country.
In recent months, cleanup and large-scale operations against AQAP have been carried out in southern and southeastern provinces where security buildings, patrols and officers, and army camps, convoys and commanders as well as local officials including governors were main targets by orcs.
Many suspects were killed, maimed and jugged and others gave up as the west continues to pressure Yemen to do more to eliminate terrorism on its soil.
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[Yemen Post] In an unprecedented incident in south Yemen after AQAP-claimed mail plots that triggered a global scare late last month, a teenage girl died and her brother was injured when a parcel sent to their father went off on Sunday.
The package was an explosive electric clock gifted to the father, a headmaster of a school in Juban city, Dhale, by an anonymous sender.
The explosive package was sent through the taxi terminal in Rada'a city, Baidha'a, along with child toys and addressed to Qayed Muhammad Abdullah Al-Amri, informed sources said.
Receiving the package and toys, the father gave the toys to his kids and opened the package normally, they said.
He hung the clock on the wall and waited until the electricity came back, they said, adding that the tragedy happened when his daughter, Aya, connected power to the clock that went kaboom! leaving her dead at once.
Her brother, Adeeb, was injured and the house suffered damage as well. The parents were shocked because the package was unexpected.
The security forces were dispatched to the site to investigate the incident that took place after, according to independent sources, the father received a phone call from an anonymous person days ago who informed him that one of his friends had sent him a gift on the occasion of Eid Al-Adha.
The incident has drawn wide condemnation by locals who are expected to stage a march on Monday to protest the heinous crime rejected by religion and custom.
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heinous crime rejected by religion and custom.
Seems like a pretty normal expression of their religion & custom to me.
[Yemen Post] Police have jugged four self-ruling muscle who took part in a protest against the detention of Hassan Ba-Oum, who heads the supreme council of the Southern Movement, a rights activist who is close to the family told the Yemen Post.
Police accused them of calling for an illegal protest and upsetting public by demanding the release of Hassan Ba-Oum whose movement wanted increased autonomy for the south, according to the same sources.
Ba-Oum's arrest has sparked a wave of protests across southern Yemen, locals told the Yemen Post, adding that thousands of people marched across the region carrying the former flag of the south.
In Al-Dale province, five people were hurt including two soldiers due to the arrest of Ba-Oum.
On Friday, thousands of the southern movement supporters rallied in the streets of Maifah of Sabwa province demanding the release of Hassan Ba-Oum, his son and Hassan Zaid Bin-Yahya.
For his part, the former ex-vice president of Yemen Ali Salem Al-Baidh who leads the southern movement form exile pledged to keep up struggle and vowed the southern movement of self-ruling in Southern Yemen. "Sana'a regime will not stop the southern movement from a nonviolent struggle against the government," he said in statement posted in one of the southern movement websites.
Yemeni analyst who spoke .because of the sensitivity of the case believe the unrest in southern Yemen witnessed a new turning point as exiled leaders broke their 15-year old silence and declared themselves persons in charge of the southern movement which calls for the separation of the south.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The police nabbed 11 people yesterday with links to Saturday's kabooms at the house of ruling party politician Afaz Uddin at Taragunia in Kushtia.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... Ejaz Ahmed Mamun, son of Awami League politician from Kushtia-1, filed two cases -- one for possession of explosives and the other for murder -- against eight people in connection with the bomb attack that left three people dead and two others injured.
"The evidence indicates that it was a suicide kaboom. Both the attackers were killed in the incident," said Inspector Jahid Hossain of Daulatpur Police Station.
Police identified the two attackers as Siddiqur Rahman, son of Bhaddar Ali of Chakdaulatpur village, and his cousin Ahadul Islam, son of Tara Chand of the same village.
"Siddiqur and Ahadul entered the living room of the politician at about 8:15pm and blew themselves up," Jahid said.
Four people, including the politician, his son Arif Ahmed and two schoolteachers, were in the room during the attack, he said.
Siddiqur keeled over dead while Ahadul succumbed to his wounds on the way to Kushtia General Hospital.
Police denied giving the names of the nabbed persons for the "sake of the investigation."
Kushtia Superintendent of Police Ekramul Habib said a probe into the incident was going on. He declined to comment further on the matter.
AL politician Afaz Uddin told The Daily Star at his residence that the bomb attack was undoubtedly targeted at him.
The politician's son, Mamun, who filed the two cases with Daulatpur Police Station, denied giving the names of all eight accused that include the two suspected attackers.
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[Bangla Daily Star] An alleged criminal was killed in a "shootout" between his cohorts and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Shiddhirganj upazila of Narayanganj early yesterday.
The dear departed was identified as Fazal Haq, 42, son of late Ayub Ali of Lamapara under sadar upazila of the district.
Fazal, also known as "cadre Fazlu", was accused in eight cases, including for murder, filed with Shiddhirganj Police Station, Rab sources said.
According to a Rab blurb, a team of Rab-11 challenged a gang when they were holding a secret meeting in the dead of night at Naya Ati Housing area in the upazila at about 2:30am.
At one stage, the gang opened fire on the members of elite force prompting them to fire back.
Fazal received bullet during the shootout. Rab members rushed him to Khanpur 200-bed hospital in the district when doctors declared him dead. A Rab member was also injured.
Fazal's associates, however, decamped the scene. Rab members recovered a pistol from the spot.
ASM Badrul Alam, officer-in-charge of Shiddhirganj Police Station, said they are preparing to file a case in this connection.
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[Al Jazeera] Police and protesters have fought pitched battles across cities in Bangladesh as a nationwide strike called by the main opposition party brought the country to a standstill.
More than 200 have been injured and nearly 300 have been jugged as police fired rubber bullets and used batons on Sunday to disperse muscle of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), who were protesting against the eviction of their leader and two-time prime minister, Begum Khaleda Zia, from her home.
Businesses and schools across the country were closed as a result of the shutdown.
The strike halted almost all transportation in Dhaka, a city of about 12 million people, just as the majority-Mohammedan country begins to celebrate the Eid al-Adha holiday.
A former commerce minister was among a dozen injured in Chittagong, the country's main port city, while a police inspector was hit by a small bomb in northern Mymensingh city, local police told the AFP news agency.
A police van was burnt by a petrol bomb in Dhaka, where security was tight with at least 10,000 heavily armed coppers and 2,000 members of an elite Rapid Action Battalion out in force, police front man Walid Hossain said.
Hossain said police swung into action at several sites in the capital, using rubber bullets, tear gas and batons after opposition muscle became violent.
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BNP supporters have accused the government of harassing Zia following her eviction from the residence she has occupied at army headquarters for around 30 years.
Zia's residence in the sprawling compound was leased to her by the government in 1982, after her husband and ex-president, General Ziaur Rahman, was killed in an abortive coup. They had lived in the house for several years.
The current government of Sheikh Hasina Wajed, the prime minister, who leads the centre-left, secular Awami League party, cancelled Zia's lease last year. They intend to build multi-storey buildings for families of army officers killed in a mutiny in a paramilitary unit headquarters in Dhaka.
Several thousand protesters skirmished with police close to Zia's residence in the garrison area on Friday as the deadline for the expiration of her lease approached.
As Zia was driven from the compound, witnesses and security officials said up to 4,000 protesters armed with sticks and stones set fire to vehicles and attacked officers near the headquarters.
"They broke the front door, cut the grilles and then broke open my bedroom door. They dragged me out and pushed me into a car," Zia said during a live television broadcast, wiping tears from her eyes.
"I was forced out with only one clothing. I was humiliated. They evicted me from my house breaking all rules and regulations. They also hit my family members," she said.
Zia and her centre-right BNP ran the Bangladeshi government from 1991 to 1996 and again from 2001 to 2006. She was the first female prime minister in Bangladesh's history.
After Zia's most recent term expired in 2006, an army-backed caretaker government took countrol under emergency law, which was ended in 2008 with Hasina's election. Hasina had been elected once previously, in 1996.
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Eleven individuals were murdered in drug and gang related vilence in the state of Chihuahua, which included five individuals shot to death in a bar in Juarez early Sunday morning.
An unidentified man and a child were wounded in a crossfire of an intergang firefight in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Saturday, say Mexican news accounts. The shooting took place near the intersection of calles Libertadores and 17 de Junio in the San Patricio colony where two groups of armed suspects were firing at one another from moving vehicles.
Five individuals were shot to death and another eight were wounded in an early Sunday morning attack at a bar in Juarez, say Mexican news accounts. Reports say armed suspects comprising adolescents entered the Desperados bar at 0100 hrs near the intersection of Flores and Cordillera de los Andes in the La Cuesta colony and started shooting. The suspects arrived at the bar aboard two vehicles and when they entered the bar they shot across the dance floor at a table where the victim sat. Desperados has been the site of three prior, similar attacks.
Three individuals were found murdered in Juarez Sunday morning in two separate crimes, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. Two unidentified men were found gagged with tape, tortured and shot near the intersection of Calle Adayacentes and Avenida La Raza in the Electrolux colony. Another individual was found shot to death in the Parajes de San Jose colony.
An man in his 30s was shot to death in a park in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, say Mexican news accounts. Roberto Mendez, 30, was shot on calle Plaza Heligan in the Jardines del Sol colony, brought down after armed suspects aboard a van pursued the victim before shooting him.
(Itar-Tass) - A warlord of an armed gang and the criminal mastermind of a terror act at the military proving ground in Buinaksk on September 5 was killed in a special operation in Dagestan.
"According to preliminary data, coppers identified Sakhratula Nazhmudinov among killed gunnies. He lived in the Tsuntinsky district, had a nickname "Pushtun" and headed armed gangs, operating in the Buinaksk district," Itar-Tass learnt at the Information Centre of the National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC).
"He hatched a terror act in September 2010 with the use of a kamikaze at the Dalny military proving ground of the 136th motorised brigade of the Defence Ministry. As a result, four servicemen died and 32 were maimed."
According to the NAC, Nazhmudinov also had a hand in gunning down civilians, blasts of industrial facilities and attacks on coppers.
During a Saturday operation, carried out by the Dagestan branch of the Federal Security Service ... the successor to the KGB... , Russian interior troops and other law enforcers, three members of the Buinaksk armed gang were blockaded at a private home. They participated in murders of coppers, armed robberies of civilians and extortion of money from businessmen.
When the bandidos refused to conduct talks (including participation of the father of one of gunnies) and tried to break through the encirclement, they were killed.
"There were no casualties among civilians," the NAC reported.
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(KUNA) -- A bomb kaboom took place in Istanbul Saturday but no-one was hurt, security sources said.
The bomb, placed near the mayorship in Sultangazi area in the European side of Istanbul, Turkey's largest city, the CNN-Turk quoted the sources as saying.
The kaboom did not hurt anyone but caused little damage to the mayorship building and nearby houses, they added.
The blast, which is being investigated, took place less than two weeks when a suicide kaboomer blew himself up in Istanbul injuring 32 people.
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A suspected Hizbul Mujahideen militant hailing from Pakistan, wanted in many cases in Jammu and Kashmir, was arrested near IIT campus in south Delhi after a shoot-out, police said on Monday.
Abdullah Inquilabi, a self-styled divisional commander of the outfit in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri, was caught by Delhi Police's Special Cell, the elite anti-terror wing, last night from Deer Park near Indian Institute of Technology soon after he alighted from a bus.
"As soon as he alighted, we tried to catch him. He tried to escape and went inside the park and we chased him. In a bid to escape, he opened fire. Three-four rounds were fired," a senior police official said.
Inquilabi, who was arrested after a brief exchange of fire, has been staying in the country for the past 10 years and had reached the capital five days ago, the official said.
The suspected militant told the investigators that he had come to the capital to find a hide-out as Jammu and Kashmir police was searching for him, the official said, adding there are about ten cases registered against him there.
Inquilabi is suspected to be involved in several Hizbul operations in the country besides collection of funds for the terror outfit.
[Pak Daily Times] Railway authorities recovered 10 kg explosives from a box with a timer from Shah Rukne Alam train and defused them early morning. According to railway authorities, Muhammad Ali, a railway official from the bomb disposal squad was checking Shah Rukne Alam train early in the morning when he found a box in a bogie. He called the railway help centre.
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[Pak Daily Times] A member of the Shakai Peace Committee was killed and eight others injured in a suicide kaboom in South Wazoo on Sunday, security sources said. Security sources told Daily Times that a boomer entered a fruit market and blew himself up when members of the peace committee tried to arrest him. Nazirullah, one of the committee members, was killed while eight others were maimed. Political administration officials said the injured were shifted to the Agency Headquarter Hospital in Wana. Locals said that peace committee chief Tehsil Khan had been the target of the boomer, but the committee members recognised the attacker and tried to arrest him.
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[Pak Daily Times] Security forces have killed six Islamic fascistiduring a bloody shootout in Matta tehsil of Swat on Sunday, official sources said. The security forces conducted search operations on a tip-off about the presence of Islamic fascistiat Shok Darr and Chitral areas of Matta. The bully boys, upon seeing the convoy of security forces, ambushed it, which was strongly retaliated to by security forces. During an exchange of fire, which continued for some time, six attackers, including two key Taliban capos Naseebullah and Ibrahim, were killed. Arms and ammunition were also recovered from their possession. The security forces cordoned off the area and started search operations.
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[Emirates 24/7] Soldiers rubbed out two suspected Orcs and similar vermin on Sunday after they crossed into Indian Kashmire from the Pak-zone of the disputed region, an army front man said.
The two were killed along the Line of Control (LOC) - the de facto border that splits Kashmire between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistain - in the southern Poonch sector, the Indian army front man said.
"The operation in the area is still going on," he said, adding Orcs and similar vermin were desperate to infiltrate into Indian Kashmire before the Himalayan passes get blocked by snow.
The insurgency against Indian rule has left more than 47,000 people dead since it erupted in 1989, according to an official count.
Pakistain denies Indian allegations that it funds and arms rebels in Indian Kashmir.
Violence had eased after India and Pakistain launched a peace processor in 2004 but popular protests against Indian rule since June have left more than 110 protesters and bystanders dead.
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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.
[Iran Press TV] Heavy 
An alleged criminal was killed in a "shootout" between his cohorts and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Shiddhirganj upazila of Narayanganj early yesterday.
(Itar-Tass) - A warlord of an armed gang and the 
[Emirates 24/7] Soldiers 
