[America's] failure in the Kandahar operations was also the main reason behind Obama's supporters, the Democrats, defeat in the mid-term elections. Also due to their failures in the Kandahar operations, Obama's approval ratings in America have sunk to 46%
Hey dirtball - it's now down to 39%. Don't you folks get Zogby out in Kandahar?
while the myth of America's military superiority has been shattered globally.
Not again!
So the mid-term elections were all about the Battle of Kandahar, were they? These Talibunnies are almost as narcissistic as Obama!
[Tolo News] A top Afghan military official said on Thursday that some cut-throats causing violence in the north are provoked by intelligence organisations from outside
Let's see: Pakistan's ISI, Iran, Saudi Arabia, perhaps?
Operations to wipe out the Taliban out of their northern footholds have already started in restive parts of some provinces including Badakhshan, Baghlan and Kunduz, said Gen. Zulmai Weesa, commander of 209 Shaheen Corps.
Around 2,000 soldiers are participating in the operations, he said.
Gen. Weesa said more than twenty cut-throats have been nabbed along with their three local commanders and some weapons during the operations in some insecure parts of Baghlan province.
"Some people are appointed either by outside intelligence organisations or by our internal enemies to carry out activities that lead to violence and it's the responsibility of security forces to target them," he said.
The operations have made around 170 cut-throats drop their weapons and join the Afghan grinding of the peace processor.
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CUTTHROATS = CAMEL-KAZES
versies
* TOPIX/PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > INDIA, RUSSIA SUPPORTING BALUCHISTAN INSURGENCY. The Balochis of Baluchistan forming an Armed, Trained
"Liberation Army" wid lots of Curry, Borsch support.
OTOH, IIRC SAME > WIKILEAKS: PAKISTAN NEEDS NUKES BECAUSE OF ITS WEAK ARMY.
You name it, the PAK ARMY either has it or should, will have it???
D *** NG IT, IFF YOU HAVE THE TIME, THE PAK ARMY DOES NOT HAVE THE BEER!
MOGADISHU, Somalia - A Somali emergency official says clashes between Islamic fighters and government soldiers have killed at least five people in the chaotic capital.
Mogadishu ambulance service chief Ali Muse says 17 others were wounded Thursday as the opposing sides pounded each other with mortars. He says most of the dead and wounded are civilians.
Also on Thursday, residents of the southern town of Burhakaba said fighting between two Islamist groups entered a second day and left 9 dead and 15 wounded.
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[Maghrebia] Algerian soldiers killed seven al-Qaeda faceless myrmidons close to the border with Niger, Tout sur l'Algerie quoted a security source as saying on Tuesday (November 30th). ANP troops intercepted the armed AQIM members on Monday night as they tried to enter Algerian territory aboard three all-terrain vehicles. A gunfire exchange continued for several hours.
In another major clash with faceless myrmidons on Tuesday, Algerian soldiers successfully reopened the bridge on the road between Beni Houa in Chlef and Damous in Tipasa province. The bridge had been blocked by a terror group consisting of some 30 men, sources said. The army used tanks and helicopter gunships in a "long and violent" clash. No casualties among the ANP soldiers were reported.
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[Ennahar] The security services have succeeded Tuesday night to arrest two youths linked to the terrorist organization of Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat. ... now known as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb...
The security services have succeeded Tuesday night to arrest two youths linked to the terrorist organization of Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat; one is a student at the Institute of Islamic Jurisprudence at the University of El Kharouba and the other is unemployed, both residing in La Glacière, in Oued Ouchaieh, in the municipality of El Makria in the capital.
According to sources of Ennahar, the university student, who studies at the same institute where had studied the head of the phalanx "El Feth el-Jadida", B. Nassim, alias Abu Derrar and from the same district, was responsible for recruiting students from the institute and local youth. The latter exploited the poverty and unemployment in which young people live for attracting them to join terrorist groups prevalent in the province of corpse-littered Boumerdes.
The security services have undertaken extensive interviews with those jugged before presenting them to justice for association with armed terrorist groups and illegal activities, support for terrorism and recruitment of young people in the terrorist organization.
The two youths jugged, according to our sources, maintained close relations with the emir of the phalanx, B. Nassim, alias Abu Derrar, 26, who had studied in the same institute. They are aged between 23 and 25.
The security services had previously received information on the new pyramid of the terrorist organization in the capital and in the province of corpse-littered Boumerdes and managed to identify the new emir of El Feth phalanx. The latter, sentenced to death in absentia in 2008 was appointed to replace the terrorist Ben Titraoui Omar, eliminated by the security forces a year and a half ago.
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[Arab News] [Arab News] Uganda dropped charges against 18 people related to suicide kabooms that killed 79 people watching the World Cup final on television, but remanded 17 others in jug to face trial, defense lawyers said.
The twin suicide blasts at a restaurant and a sports club on July 11 were the first attacks on foreign soil by cut-throats of Somalia's Al-Shabaab group, which claims links to Al-Qaeda.
The bombings heightened the security threat in east Africa, a region viewed by the West as a fertile breeding ground for snuffys.
The rebels have threatened to carry out more attacks until Uganda and Burundi withdraw their troops from an African Union force which is trying to help Somalia's besieged government end two decades of chaos.
"Eighteen were cleared and it's not known yet when the 17 remanded will face trial but it will probably not be before March," Ladislaus Rwakafuuzi, a lawyer who represents 7 of those cleared and 8 remanded in jug, said.
The 17 still in jug will face charges of terrorism, murder and attempted murder in the High Court. Three of the cleared men were immediately re-jugged, but lawyers said it was unclear what charges they face.
Rights groups and defense lawyers expressed surprise that prominent Kenyan human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... activist Al-Amin Kimathi was among those remanded to face trial.
Kimathi, who heads the Mohammedan Human Rights Forum in neighboring Kenya, was jugged in Kampala on Sept. 15 after traveling there to witness court hearings of Kenyan suspects extradited to Uganda.
"The decision to persist with the charges against Al-Amin Kimathi raises serious concerns that this prosecution is really an effort to muzzle a well-known critic of government abuses in the fight against terrorism in East Africa," New-York based Human Rights Watch said in a statement.
Kenya's intelligence services have said Kimathi was the "center piece" in Al-Qaeda's regional propaganda wing, leaked reports showed.
"I expected him to be cleared because I have read the summary of evidence against him and most of it... is not related to the bombings in Kampala," said Rwakafuuzi, who represents Kimathi.
Western and regional intelligence agencies fear that Somalia's mostly non-existent borders and lack of a strong central government may make the Horn of Africa nation a safe haven for cut-throats looking to attack the region and beyond.
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[Arab News] Police in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta have charged 65 people with kidnapping, robbery and oil theft, some of them believed to have been behind the abduction of 19 oil and construction workers.
The hostages, including seven expatriates and 12 Nigerians who were freed last month.
The armed forces jugged the gang leader responsible and more than 60 of his followers a few weeks later.
"We charged 65 of them on Monday in Port Harcourt on 15-count charges of kidnapping, armed robbery and bunkering," Rita Inoma-Abbey, a police spokeswoman said.
Bunkering refers to the organized theft of large quantities of crude oil.
"Some of the suspects were responsible for the abduction of the 19 oil workers rescued recently and of prominent citizens including a traditional ruler in the state," she said.
Resurgent unrest in the Niger Delta has risked undermining the credibility of President Goodluck Jonathan in the run-up to elections next April.
He is the first head of state from the oil region and brokered an amnesty with forces of Evil last year, which saw thousands of gunnies lay down their weapons and brought more than a year without significant attacks on the oil industry.
MEND has warned of further strikes on oil installations since the freeing of the oil workers but the military appears to have made significant advances, taking over Islamic myrmidon camps and detaining suspected gang members.
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A shooting between armed elements in two vehicles in Caborca, Sonora ended with one armed suspect wounded and three detained Monday evening, say Mexican news accounts.
Reports say the occupants of a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck and a Chevrolet Trailerblazer fired on one another in the Pagusa colony on Las Calabazas road.
Reports say the shootout lasted about 20 minutes. Stray rounds hit a nearby chicken barbeque restaurant which only opened the same day. None of the operators, employees or customers were reported hurt in the shooting.
Unofficial reports say several armed suspect fled the scene on foot following the shootout.
At the scene was found a Ruger .45 caliber pistol and an AK-47 assault rifle.
The Caborca-Tubutama area has been the center of a Mexican Federal counternarcotics effort which recently included a major operation in late October with a reported 400 Federal agents and soldiers involved.
Although no reports were released since the October 20th operation about the conclusion of that operation, or any subsequent operations, reports indicate a Mexican Federal presence still exists in the area.
On Monday, Caborca mayor Dario Murillo Bolaños complained to local press that the unit known to be in the area, Fuerzas Especiales de Apoyo de la Policia Federal, has been involved in a number of "irregularities" mostly regarding creating traffic problems such as driving at night without lights, on the wrong side of the roads in the area, and improper parking.
Murillo asked the Federal forces to provide a good example.
It is unknown if the public complaint was made prior to or subsequent to the latest shooting.
[Washington Examiner] Federal police say they have captured a regional leader of the Zetas gang who allegedly handled drug-smuggling operations from Panama and the Dominican Republic.
Regional Security Chief Luis Cardenas says Eduardo Ramirez Valencia was nabbed with an accomplice Wednesday in Hidalgo state in an operation that fractured a major route for transporting drugs from those two countries to the United States.
Cardenas said Thursday that Ramirez collaborated closely with Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, the alleged leader of the Zetas whose home state of Hidalgo is a central crossing point for drugs.
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Compare wid CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > {YouTube] HIZBOLLAH IN MEXICO???
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That is terrible. The S.Koreans were betting a ton on the ability of the K-9/K-10 gun system to be able to fire quickly and accurately in a counterbattery role. Of course it didn't help that they were under fire. Also they lost 2 of their K-9 SP Howitzers to the initial attacks - not complete vehicle kills, but unable to return fire due to damage, and one more had a gun malfunction, allegedly a dud shell stuck in the barrel after insufficient propellant charge that didn't fully ignite (dont ask me how they screwed that up). And for the ineffectiveness of the rounds that hit, they didn't have permission to return fire until after the Norks stopped shelling (and were back in the revetments).
This means 2 sets of things need to be fixed: gun & crew function and accuracy (that's training issue as much as anything else), and faster command links.
Looking at it as a whole, you can chalk a lot of it up to simple tactical and strategic surprise.
Tactiaclaly speaking, the gun crews were not ready for a real-world engagement including quickly losing 3 of their guns from the battery - the shock of battle on the defending side can be severe even when you are expecting an attack, but surprise does even harder things to men under fire.
Strategically, the chain of command andthe Command Control and Communication (and Intel) systems were far to slow to respond, whether due to peace-time limitations, complacency or politics; no matter the cause, surprise revealed the C3I to be inadequately prepared for this event.
South Korea has some readiness training to do. A lot of it, and it includes really cranking the C3I systems and the command elements, as well as the gun crews and equipment.
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As obsessive as the ROK used to be over tactical arms, there must be some severe heartburn over this. Were I in charge of their artillery at a command level, those gun crews would be competitively drilling until they could put fire in an orange crate at 20 clicks at sustained rate of fire.
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Better they figure all this out now than when the real shooting war starts ...
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Doc, with the way things are going in the north, thet shooting war may be only a matter of time, possibly measured in months. It all depends on what the Nork oligarchs do when the realize they are near collapse, up against the wall figuratively and are weeks away from being up against a wall, literally.
Five terrorists militants alleged to have been involved in a suicide attack on the ISI headquarters and a nearby police building in Lahore last year were arrested on Friday.
Chief of police Aslam Tareen said the arrested men belonged to Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan and al-Tauheed al-Jihad. They were arrested in Lahore, he added.
The mastermind of the attack which killed 35 people and injured over 200 others, Doctor Moaz
Not a bad archvillian name.
alias Umar Kundi, was killed earlier in a gun battle with police.
"I fought the law and the ..." *POW!*
*thud*
Police representatives said weapons and explosives were taken from the five arrested men.
[Geo News] Just a few days after lifting the 2 year long ban on riding double the Sindh Government again imposed a ban in Bloody Karachi and Hyderabad till 12th Muharram ul Haram citing security reasons ahead of Muharram, Geo News reported Thursday.
On November 23 the ban was lifted that eased the hardships faced by the poor Bloody Karachiites.
The ban on riding double was initially imposed in 2008 to prevent assassinations in Bloody Karachi but the killings continued unabated.
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Pillion riders (aka motorcycle passengers) are definitely one of the most common means of terrorist killings in southern Thailand. "Cycles of violence" indeed.
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi army forces shot down three gunmen, one of them of an Arab nationality, and arrested a Moroccan west of Mosul city on Thursday, according to a source in the Ninewa Operations Command (NOC).
An Iraqi army force opened fire on three gunmen, one of them of an Arab nationality, during a military operation conducted in the village of Mshirfa, west of Mosul, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The force also detained a Moroccan gunman during the operation that was launched upon intelligence tip-offs, he said.
The source did not reveal the nationality of the Arab gunman but said the Moroccan detainee is under investigative custody for further details on how he entered Iraq.
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[Ma'an] Two members of the armed wing of Islamic Jihad were killed by Israeli shelling and aerial bombing east of Jabaliya, in the northern Gazoo Strip on Thursday.
Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the group, also announced that the two were members of the organization. The dear departed were identified as Mahmoud An-Najjr and Jalal Abed Al-Karim, both from Jabaliya.
A front man for the organization told Ma'an two were "planting explosive charges in the eastern area in case Israel carried out any attack."
The Israeli military also said the bodies of two members of Islamic Jihad were found in the area. In a statement the military said on the bodies of the two were "light weapons, uniforms and an bomb."
On Thursday evening Al-Quds Brigades also claimed it launched mortar shells at Israeli vehicles operating near the Eastern Cemetery, in the same area where the two operatives were killed.
Earlier, Paleostinian sources said Israeli tanks stationed along the eastern border let off an barrage of artillery fire toward the cemetery shortly after 3 a.m., a move that was followed by a limited incursion into the area.
According to sources in Gazoo, a total of 15 artillery shells were launched, landing on farmland near the cemetery. Paleostinian medics have not reported injuries.
Shortly after the barrage, the sources said, seven Israeli military vehicles entered the area for what was described as a sweep, then withdrew at 6 a.m.
The Israeli army said soldiers "identified a number of armed Paleostinians near the security fence in the Northern Gazoo Strip. An IAF aircraft, accompanied by an IDF ground force using tank shells, fired towards the beturbanned goons, identifying a hit."
A front man for the army later clarified that the men were within the Gazoo border "approaching the border fence from within the 300 meter buffer zone."
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(Ma'an) -- A man was killed Thursday morning by an electrical shock inside one of the tunnels in the Rafah district of the southern Gaza Strip, medics said. The young man was identified Muhammad Kaware, 25, from the city of Khan Younis.
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[Arab News] Israeli forces jugged seven Paleostinians, including a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,politician, early Wednesday.
Paleostinian sources said Israeli soldiers jugged Nayef Al-Rajoub, a member of the Hamas-dominated Paleostine Legislative Council and the former minister for Wakf and religious affairs, at his house in the West Bank city of Hebron.
Al-Rajoub's family said the Israeli soldiers broke into his house at 1 a.m. and ordered Al-Rajoub to get dressed and accompany them. He is the brother of Jibreel Al-Rajoub, a member of the Fatah Central Committee and a former security commander.
On June 20, Israel released Al-Rajoub after holding him for nearly four years. Al-Rajoub was among tens of West Bank-based Hamas leaders whom Israel jugged after Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was captured by Hamas in Gazoo.
Israel hoped to use the Hamas officials as bargaining chips in its efforts to secure the release of Shalit. Israel is still holding 11 Hamas politicians.
The Hamas parliamentary bloc said in a statement that it fears the latest arrest of the politician was a prelude to another crackdown on Hamas officials.
It added that the arrest is "part of the security coordination between the Israeli occupation, the Ramallah-based Paleostinian Authority and (rival) Fatah movement." The West Bank is administered by the Paleostinian Authority, which is dominated by members of President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party. In June 2007, Hamas routed pro-Abbas forces and took over the Gazoo Strip.
The Israeli forces also jugged six other Paleostinians in Hebron and Nablus. Israeli security sources said the nabbed were handed over to Israeli intelligence for questioning.
Since December 2009, Germany and Egypt have failed to finalize a prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel due to differences over the number and names of those to be freed. Hamas wants Israel to free up to 1,000 Paleostinians in Israeli prisons in exchange for the release of Shalit and the group has reportedly presented a list of 450 names in Israeli prisons. Israel finds the list big.
Israel also objects to freeing Israeli Arab prisoners as well as several Hamas military wing leaders. Another issue yet to be settled is Israel's demand to deport almost 100 of the 450 "heavy" prisoners if they were to be released.
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The most interesting application is a combination of the above that might be described as a human operated lethal wasp swarm attack. The overall concept has been considered in science fiction for several decades, but has only recently become practical with both hardware and software.
Anywhere from a few, to hundreds of Japanese giant hornet sized (2-3" in length) flying bug bots, that navigate with swarm technology, but can also have directions given by a remote human operator.
As an example, five terrorists have taken 30 hostages in a building. Everyone is in a single room. A dozen bug bots are sent in, with a few of them as spotters.
When a terrorist is ID'ed, they are software marked and tracked, with some of the bug bots focusing on just him. When the attack command is given, all the bug bots fly into their targets, detonating advanced high explosives on contact, each one blowing a quarter sized hole in the bad guys.
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Oooooh -- I've wanted to be a fly on various walls for a loooong time. So if anyone feels the need to send me an anonymous package with idiot end-user-proof instructions... ;-)
[Straits Times] TWO Paks and a Thai woman jugged on suspicion of making fake passports for Al-Qaeda linked groups were part of criminal networks tied to 'many terrorist attacks', Thai police said on Thursday.
The arrests in Thailand formed part of an international operation to stamp out a huge cell that has been linked to the 2008 attacks in Mumbai and the Madrid train bombings in 2004.
Paks Muhammad Athar Butt, 39, and Zeeshan Ehsan Butt, 29, and Thai national Sirikanlaya Kijbumrung, 25, were jugged in Thailand on Tuesday as they attempted to flee into Laos.
'They are suspected of being part of a transnational criminal group, linked with terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba and involved with many terrorist attacks in Spain and European Union countries,' a statement by Thai police said.
The Thai raids were coordinated with Spanish police, who jugged six Paks and a Nigerian in raids in and around Barcelona, which has a large Pak community, late on Tuesday.
Thailand's Department of Special Investigation, working alongside authorities in Spain, found criminal networks in South Asia, specifically Pakistain and Bangladesh, had used Thailand as a base for document forgery. 'These are linked with terrorist groups, credit fraud, human trafficking and arms traders, which use those forged passports to enter third countries,' the statement said.
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[Straits Times] THE Philippine government on Thursday suspended classes at 11 primary and secondary schools on a southern island, two weeks after gunnies seized a principal in the strife-torn region.
The suspension was ordered amid fears that more teachers on Basilan island's Lamitan town would be attacked, regional police head Chief Superintendent Bienvenido Latag said.
'Classes in these 11 schools would hopefully resume on Monday,' Supt Latag said, as he vowed to provide more protection for the teachers.
Last week, gunnieskidnapped principal Cecilia Sosas and a teacher from their school in Lamitan, though the teacher was soon released.
In Manila, Education Secretary Armin Luistro said teachers were temporarily pulled out from the 11 schools in Lamitan after threats were received that they would also be kidnapped.
'Teachers should be spared from any form of violence so that they can perform their duty without fearing for their lives,' Mr Luistro told news hounds.
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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.
[Tolo News] A top Afghan military official said on Thursday that some 
MOGADISHU, Somalia - A Somali emergency official says clashes between Islamic fighters and government soldiers have killed at least five people in the chaotic capital.
[Maghrebia] Algerian soldiers killed seven al-Qaeda 
[Arab News] [Arab News] Uganda dropped charges against 18 people related to 
[Arab News] Police in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta have charged 65 people with kidnapping, robbery and oil theft, some of them believed to have been behind the abduction of 19 oil and construction workers.
Five 
[Geo News] Just a few days after lifting the 2 year long ban on 
[Ma'an] Two members of the armed wing of Islamic Jihad were killed by Israeli shelling and aerial bombing east of Jabaliya, in the northern 
(Ma'an) -- A man was killed Thursday morning by an electrical shock inside one of the tunnels in the Rafah district of the southern Gaza Strip, medics said. The young man was identified Muhammad Kaware, 25, from the city of Khan Younis.
[Arab News] Israeli forces 
[Straits Times] TWO Paks and a Thai woman 
[Straits Times] THE Philippine government on Thursday suspended classes at 11 primary and secondary schools on a southern island, two weeks after 
