Barbara Mandrell, singer "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed", "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right", "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool", "One of a Kind, Pair of Fools" (age 62)
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Merry Christmas to all the good people of the Burg!
Wondering if this includes me . . . . :-)
Of course it does, gorb dear. Merry Christmas, ladies and gentleman of Rantburg, and guests. Whether or not you keep the holiday, may today be full of good things.
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Joyeaux Noel to all the Rantburgers as we await the arrival of global climate change here in New England.
Best wishes to all of those in the Military both active and retired, those in the Intelligience services and to those in the Diplomatic Corp and all their families.
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Merry Christmas to all and a dusting of Global Warming arrived hours early in northern Virginia.
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Merry 'White Christmas' to all (about 8-10" of snow on the ground here) and blessings into the New Year!
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Merry Christmas from the not-so-soggy-today Pacific Northwest, to all 'Burgers near and far. Especially those keeping watch in far away places so we may sit safe in our homes. May your Christmas be safe and next year you can spend it with your loved ones.
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"Especially those keeping watch in far away places so we may sit safe in our homes. May your Christmas be safe and next year you can spend it with your loved ones."
Amen, USN,Ret.
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"Especially those keeping watch in far away places so we may sit safe in our homes. May your Christmas be safe and next year you can spend it with your loved ones."
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Merry Christmas and good tidings to all the folks of Rantburg, even the trolls (that should REALLY upset a few of them). May your new year be filled with good friends, good food, and good news.
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Merry Christmas and Fröhliche Weihnachten to all Rantburgers!
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Blessings to all! Ons wil jou 'n Geseënde Kersfees en 'n gelukkige nuwe jaar!
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New game, Raj: how many different languages do Rantburgers have to say "Merry Christmas"?
All my languages are already taken, above, so I'll just add Chag Sameach (Happy Holiday) in Hebrew. Perhaps someone else knows the proper Hebrew greeting specific to Christmas...
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are you saying you don't want a new chew toy for Christmas?
LMAO Barbara. I wouldn't go that far.
I shamelessly stole the line about trolls from Frank G earlier in the thread cuz it made me laugh, but you and Old Patriot have the right attitude toward the trolls. They give us some of the best reasons to rant (and they inspire some of the best rants too).
[Bangla Daily Star] Two Afghan security guards were killed after coalition forces raided an office in Kabul over an alleged plot to attack the United States embassy, officials said yesterday.
The operation, involving international and Afghan forces, targeted the offices of a trading and transport company in the city centre which intelligence reports suggested was harbouring two cars laden with explosives.
Two guards working for a private security company were killed in the shoot-out but no explosives were found at the scene, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.
Another two people were maimed and 15 people nabbed at the offices were later released.
"After receiving a credible threat to attack the US embassy, ISAF coordinated with Afghan cops to move on an area of interest," NATO-led ISAF said in a statement.
"Intelligence reports indicated there were two vehicles parked there that were thought to be loaded with explosives."
As the patrol approached the scene they identified themselves, were fired upon and shot back, killing two people, the statement said. It added that a "large number" of weapons were later found at the scene.
Mohammad Zahir, Kabul police's chief of criminal investigations, told AFP that a probe into what had happened was under way.
"Naturally, these kinds of incidents and catastrophes happen," he said.
The incident took place in district four of Kabul, a mixed business and residential neighbourhood which is seen as being relatively peaceful.
Although ISAF stressed the office was the location identified by intelligence reports ahead of the raid, experts have warned that killings of civilians risk undermining coalition efforts to defeat the Taliban.
On Thursday, ISAF said it was investigating the "inadvertent" deaths of three people in the northern Faryab province which came as a helicopter opened fire in an operation targeting a Taliban leader.
And on Tuesday, five non-combatants were killed in a firefight involving coalition troops.
In August, President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ordered the closure of all private security companies in Afghanistan.
But after months of pressure from Western allies, he backtracked in October, saying he would let dozens of "legal" firms operate, although under tougher regulations.
Zahir said the guards who died in Kabul worked for a firm deemed legal by officials.
There were several other violent incidents across Afghanistan yesterday.
In a separate incident in Kabul, a bomb went kaboom! underneath an Afghan National Army (ANA) vehicle but there were no casualties.
In southeast Afghanistan, one policeman and one civilian were killed by a mine near Khost, close to the border with Pakistain, a senior army officer said.
And in the east of the country, one policeman was killed and another injured when their vehicle struck a roadside kaboom near the main road between Jalalabad and Torkham in Nangarhar province, local police chief Ali Shah Paktyawal told AFP.
ISAF has some 140,000 troops in Afghanistan, two-thirds of which are from the United States, fighting a nine-year insurgency by the Taliban.
This year has seen the highest corpse count yet for international troops, with the total standing at 705 so far.
And even more wounded by an order of magnitude or several. all of their own free will having chosen to stand between us and evil. But how many more of the enemy have they sent to join the ranks of the wounded and the dead?
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I've seen numbers around 10:1 KIA, Taliban vs ISAF, let alone wounded. (I don't think their medical care is as good as ours either.../s)
[Asharq al-Aswat] Darfur's main rebel groups fought alongside each other for the first time in years on Thursday as they clashed with government forces in the western Sudanese region, the rebels said.
"There was fighting today in Dar al-Salam in north Darfur. We defeated government forces, seized weapons, vehicles and captured young soldiers," Abu Bakr Hamid of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel group told AFP.
Other Darfur rebel factions, including the Sudan Liberation Army of Abdelwahid Nur and the Sudan Liberation Army of Minni Minnawi, fought in the battles together with the JEM -- the most gang in Darfur, he said.
"For the first time, JEM troops fought shoulder to shoulder with forces belonging to Minni Minnawi, Abdelwahid Nur and others in line with the newly formed Alliance of Resistance Forces," said JEM military front man Ali al-Wafi.
The four movements bring together all of the Darfur rebel groups which have opposed the central government in Khartoum since 2003, accusing it of neglecting the development of the vast desert region.
The rebellion in Darfur was grouped into two movements cooperating with each other at the beginning of the conflict, but the veneer of that unity gradually cracked.
"We are talking with all sides now, JEM and SLA-Minnawi," said Ibrahim al-Hillu, a bigwig of Nur's SLA branch.
"This is the direction we are going... an alliance to fight or to look for peace."
Hamid said: "Sudanese troops launched air raids and torched houses but we are in control of Dar al-Salam," adding that "people have been killed and others displaced by the fighting."
The claim could not be immediately confirmed by the army.
Aid workers in Darfur also reported fighting in Dar al-Salam, although they could not provide any further details.
"UNAMID has received unconfirmed reports of fighting in Dar al-Salam," Margaret Carey, acting deputy joint special representative of the joint UN-African Union mission, told AFP.
Darfur has been gripped by a civil war since 2003 that has killed 300,000 people and displaced another 2.7 million, according to UN figures. Sudan says 10,000 people have died in the conflict.
The Khartoum government has been trying to secure for months a comprehensive peace agreement with all Darfur rebel groups to no avail.
Minnawi is the only rebel leader to have struck an agreement with Khartoum, but relations between them have soured and the rebels clashed with the army earlier this month.
According to UN officials, the festivities between Minnawi's supporters and troops have forced the displacement of more than 12,000 people in less than a week.
The latest reported fighting comes as south Sudan gears up for a vote on independence that could split Africa's largest nation in two.
The January 9 referendum is the key plank of the 2005 peace deal that put an end to two decades of civil war between north and south.
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May God watch over them, for it's certain no one else will.
[Ma'an] The confessions of an Egyptian accused of spying for Israel have led to three espionage cells being dismantled in Leb and Syria, where an agent was executed in November, Cairo newspapers said Friday.
Tareq Abdul Razzak, the 37-year-old owner of an import-export business, is accused of having spied for Israel together with two wanted Israelis.
Egypt, which has a 1979 peace treaty with Israel, informed Leb and Syria of his activities in recruiting agents after Abdul Razzak's arrest in May, Al-Masri newspaper said, quoting a security source close to the investigation.
The suspect has allegedly confessed that his two Israeli contacts had tasked him with making visits to Damascus with a fake passport and identity under the guise of business trips.
The aim of the missions was to deliver sums of money to a Syrian holding a "sensitive" post with the security services.
Al-Shuruk daily said Abdul Razzak has provided Sherlocks with copies of reports he had passed on to Israeli intelligence from a Syrian chemist working for the security services in connection with a Syrian nuclear programme.
The Syrian expert had been spying for Israel for 13 years, according to the confessions. He was executed in Syria last month, said Al-Shuruk, which did not give sources for its report.
On Sept. 6, 2007, Israel launched an air raid on northern Syria that destroyed an alleged secret nuclear reactor.
The Egyptian trader is to be tried in Egypt's High Security Court on charges of spying for Israel and recruiting agents to report on telecoms secrets in Egypt, Leb and Syria, a judicial source said on Monday.
Arrest warrants have been issued for his two Israeli accomplices, the source said, without giving a trial date.
Abdul Razzak is accused of supplying Mossad between 2007 and 2010 with the names of potential recruits employed in the telecommunications sectors in Egypt, Leb and Syria.
According to a court statement, Abdul Razzak's first contact with Mossad was in 2007, when he received an email while looking for work in China.
The same year he met the Israeli agents in Thailand, where the Egyptian was asked to set up an import-export business back home as a cover for his real work with Mossad.
Abdul Razzak also set up a website that offered telecommunications jobs in Egypt, Syria and Leb, with the aim of looking for more potential recruits, the statement said.
In Leb, more than 100 people have been jugged on suspicion of spying for Israel since April 2009, including telecoms employees, members of the security forces and active duty troops
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[Ennahar] A repentant terrorist was sentenced Thursday to the death penalty and his lover companions to prison for the suicide kaboom on September 6, 2007, which missed its target, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, but killed 26 people and maimed 172 others in eastern Algeria.
The kaboom of a jacket wallah on a passing convoy had missed the motorcade of the head of state in a visit to Batna, a mountainous area east of the country. The shredded bodies of a terrorist in western Algeria had been partially found.
The condemned man, Walid Zeghina, 28, is a repentant who had benefited from the program of national reconciliation in 2006, Freedom and reintegration assistance in exchange for the deposit of arms and renounce of violence.
Considered minor recruiter serving a radical ideology, he was convicted of "premeditated murder", "intentional injuries", "possession and use of explosives in public places" and "participation in terrorist organizations ".
There was no death sentence in Algeria since 1993.
The day before, a retrial in criminal court in Batna, the judge had scrutinized Zeghina for three hours, a man of contradictory statements. "You have benefited from the provisions of national reconciliation and we did not even file you," he told him, quoted by El Watan, as if to underline the confidence he had then been granted.
Zeghina retorted that he had to run under the threat of the real sponsor of the attack, the chief of "Katibet el-Maut" (the phalanx of death) Ali Mehira Ali," said Abu Rawaha.
The latter, a member of the former GSPC which became Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM, in charge of numbers of attacks and kidnappings of foreigners) is actively sought for 16 years.
The second most serious sentence, 15 years in prison, was issued against Mohamed Lamine Dib, an illegal taxi driver who transported the bomber and the principal defendant.
The day before, the public prosecutor had demanded the death penalty against both defendants.
Another network member, Hisham Amara, was also sentenced to 15 years for preparation of the attack.
Two defendants were sentenced to four years imprisonment, four others to three years for covering all information and not denouncing crime.
Emad Khaldi, a minor in 2007, was given five years for the same charges that Zeghina but benefited from mitigating circumstances.
One was acquitted and a minor at the time of the facts, already imprisoned for 18 months, appeared Wednesday as a witness.
Sentences to death in absentia were also made against the runaways.
The case involved a total of 63 people.
Bouteflika was invited to the witness stand but he gave up. The president said he demanded one billion Dinars (10 million euros) in damages to the families of deceased coppers responsible for his safety.
With regard to the civil complaint, the court ordered payment by the first two convicted of the sum of 20 million Dinars (200,000 euros) to the Treasury, without prejudice to the rights of the rest of the victims and their dependents, has reported on his side APS.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Rapid Action Battalion picked up three teenagers from Hazaribagh area of the capital on Thursday night on charge of throwing acid the night before on Jatra actress Parul Akhter Keya and her two siblings.
The arrestees are Nurunnabi, Ramjan Hossain, and Robin Hossain, all of whom are 18 years old.
Quoting the detainees, Shaikat Shahin, assistant superintended of police (ASP) deputed to Rab-2, said a group of five local goons led by Arman threw acid on the victims after Parul turned down Arman's unwelcome amorous advances.
Talking to The Daily Star, Shaikat said Arman had been making unwelcome advances to Parul after he saw her in a Jatra at Companyghat of Hazaribagh.
"The arrestees confessed to the crime, during primary interrogation," Shaikat added.
Parul however claimed that she does not know anybody named Arman, and none stalked her at Companyghat since the shows of the Jatra had begun there.
"I want punishment for those who destroyed our lives," she told The Daily Star.
On Wednesday night, unidentified persons threw acid on Parul, 22, her sister Parveen Begum, 38, and their brother Mohammad Selim, 25.
They were admitted to Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Parul suffered burn injuries on 12 percent of the body, hospital sources said. Her face, neck, chest and right hand were severely burned.
Ten percent of Parveen's body was burned by acid, while their brother's condition is slightly better.
DMCH Burn Unit Project Director Samanta Lal Sen said treatment of the sisters will take a long time, and they might require plastic surgery.
The cost of treatment is coming from a Burn Unit fund for acid attack victims.
Parul sees a bleak future of her career following the attack, as she might not be able to continue as a professional actress with her face burned.
Her mother, sister, and two nephews are financially dependent on her.
Parveen told The Daily Star that Parul might have made some unknown enemies working as an actress.
A case was filed with Hazaribagh Police Station in this connection on Thursday.
Officer-in-charge Enamul Haque of the cop shoppe said they are interrogating the detainees and trying to find out the prime culprit.
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Three soldiers have been charged with killing Joseph Proctor. Two have been charged with planting the assault rifle in his hands and claiming falsely that he fired first, according to a Mexican Defense Department document sent to his mother through the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.
While privately informing Proctor's family about his case, Defense Department officials have publicly refused to discuss it at all. The day after his death, Guerrero state prosecutors announced to reporters that Proctor was killed after attacking a military convoy.
According to the document sent to his mother, the soldiers tried to stop Proctor and inspect his vehicle. They claim he fled, prompting one of the soldiers to shoot at him, hitting his car. The soldiers chased down the car and fired again, "wounding the driver who nonetheless continued to drive away, fleeing, crashing the car three kilometers down that road," the document said.
A superior officer in the patrol told the battalion commander what happened. The battalion commander sent another officer to the scene with the AR-15 rifle "in order to be placed in the vehicle, using the hands of the deceased to try to simulate an attack against military personnel," the document says.
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even 20 yrs ago, I was hesitant about stopping at "checkpoints" in Baja, especially when the occupants were nonuniformed. Good reason not to travel at night in Mexico, or at all, if it can be avoided. Living 20 miles from the border, and growing up 10 miles from it, I've eliminated all travel to Mexico. Sad, but it's not worth it
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Google translate. I can't tell who wrote the original story, since it is sourced from Stratfor and the Woodrow Wilson Center Mexico Institute. I provide a partially rewritten translated excerpt; you'll need to rinse it through a translator to read it all.
The cartel Los Zetas in three years has succeeded in controlling 75% of Guatemalan territory based on violence, its corrupting power and infiltration of institutions and firms according to intelligence reports and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
According to a document from the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies on organized crime in Guatemala, at least 800 Mexican Los Zetas operatives are living in Guatemala.
Team members have infiltrated police forces and sponsored public service, the report said.
The study notes that the cartel took advantage of gaps in power and authority in several regions, which added their reckless practices. Recently a Los Zetas radio message invited all Guatemala Special Forces (Kabiles) to provide security to vehicles transporting merchandise to Mexico. I read a Mexican news report this past fall that Los Zetas are bringing into Mexico Guatemalan special forces people to train them in weapons, security practices and tactics Los Zetas use in transporting drugs to the US border. A little more detailed report on drug cartel practices in Spanish can be found here.
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Guatemala is a strange little country. The northern half is jungle preserve, punctuated with towns. They had an ungodly long civil war, that lasted from 1960-1996.
Half the people look like they came off a Mayan codex, and the other half look like ancient Olmecs.
If the Germans managed the place, it would be heavenly. But the reason it exists, I think, is because the people just could not stand the people of Honduras, Belize or Mexico, nor could those peoples stand the Guatemalans.
Twelve Somali men have been arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of involvement in terrorism.
The men were detained late on Friday in Rotterdam, and were thought to be planning an attack within the Netherlands, Dutch prosecutors said.
In a statement, prosecutors said the 12 were aged between 19 and 48.
A shop and four houses were searched in Rotterdam and two hotel rooms in a southern town, prosecutors said. No weapons or explosives were found.
Six of the men arrested lived in Rotterdam, five had no known address and one was a Danish resident, the prosecutors' statement said.
The arrests were made after a tip-off from Dutch intelligence services that a number of Somalis were preparing to mount an attack in the near future. No weapons or explosives were found.
The men will be brought before a judge within three days to decide whether or not to keep them in custody.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Swedish authorities said Friday the suspect packet that forced the evacuation of a metro station in central Stockholm, less than two weeks after the country's first suicide kaboom, turned out to be a fake bomb.
"It looked like a real bomb. Someone made it to frighten people," said Stockholm police front man Henrik Billestam.
Police described the packet as a object about the size of a milk carton, wrapped with silver adhesive tape with cables connected to a mobile phone.
On Thursday night police completely evacuated the Kungstraedsgaarden metro station and sent in deminers after a train driver alerted authorities to the possible threat.
The metro station is close to the seat of government in the Swedish capital.
Sweden has been on alert since December 11 when a jacket wallah, strongly believed to be Taimour Abdulwahab, first blew up his car and later himself near a crowded pedestrian street in central Stockholm.
He was carrying a cocktail of explosives and police suspect he may have left the crowd of Christmas shoppers due to a problem with the bombs when he mistakenly set off a small charge while standing in an empty side-street.
The bomber was the only person to die in the attack, but two people were slightly injured when his car went kaboom! minutes earlier about 300 metres (328 yards) away.
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A female suicide bomber has killed at least 40 people in an attack on a large crowd receiving aid in north-west Pakistan, officials say.
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Terrorists and criminals are dependent on starvation and desperation to drive people to support them.
After WWII, the US tried to build a hydroelectric dam in Sicily, and the Sicilian mob pulled out all the stops to prevent it. The unions were ordered to strike, and anyone who showed up to work was attacked. And the mob owned politicians put their careers on the line to stop it.
[Geo News] A key member of an Islamic myrmidon network in the Afghan-Pak region has been seized recent days, Pak military intelligence sources told CNN on Friday.
He is Nasiruddin Haqqani, son of Afghan Islamic myrmidon leader Jalaluddin Haqqani, whose notorious group, called the Haqqani Network.
Nasiruddin Haqqani was nabbed in recent days while driving from Beautiful Downtown Peshawar to the tribal region of North Wazoo, the sources said. The United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society says he is believed to be based out of Miram Shah in North Wazoo.
The Pak military intelligence sources asked not to be named because they are not authorized to speak to the media.
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Explaining why he had given the maximum possible sentence to Sen and two others, sessions court judge wrote in his order: "At present, terrorist and Maoist organisations are ruthlessly and mercilessly killing central paramilitary and police forces as well as innocent adivasis, and spreading fear and terror among the society, state and country. Taking this into account, it will not be right to show any generosity towards the accused, or reduce their sentence."
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The Marxist left is really beating the drum for this guy, so I strongly suspect the conviction is not in error.
The case against Dr. Binayak Sen hinges on the arrest of one Narayan Sanyal who also goes by the name Prasad and Bijoy.
Sanyal is a 68-year-old Naxalite leader who was one of the members of the CPI (Maoist) Politburo and was chief of its central-eastern regional bureau monitoring the political affairs in Orissa and Chhattisgarh.
He was the planner of an attack on former Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu at Alipiri in Tirupati in October 2003 and the Jehananabad jail break that resulted in escape of 340 prisoners, including several Maoist fighters in 2005, and as many as 21 serious cases of Maoist-sponsored violence in different eastern States.
The connection between the two men seems to be with Dr. Sen's leadership in the PUCL. It began in 2005, when Dr. Sen put out a press release from PUCL, informing interested parties that Sanyal had probably been arrested while seeking medical attention, though no official announcement had been made. This was seen by the government as giving a warning to the Maoists that the authorities might be preparing additional arrests of Maoist leaders.
Then, in May 2006, Sanyals elder brother, Radhamadhab, who lived in Kolkata, wrote a letter to Binayak Sen, who, as the general secretary of PUCL, forwarded it to international human rights organizations, asking for help in getting Sanyal a lawyer, as well as medical attention.
However, the government case against Dr. Sen is that he was attempting to set up an urban Maoist network. Whether or not this is a case, such a network would be of immense value to the mostly rural Maoists.
Perhaps the most damning thing are those in the international community who support Dr. Sen, such as Noam Chomsky, International ANSWER, Indian Workers Association (Britain) (The IWA(GB) supports the Communist Party of India (Marxist), IBON Foundation (Marxist), etc.
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To get involved with the issue of human rights then became a natural extension of a perspective that saw health work not merely as the provision of health care services but as any effort that counters the suppression of the socio-economic and political rights of the marginalised.
Waging war against the state, and unlawful activities, sections under which Binayak is being held, then get interpreted to mean any activity that opposes the immoral and unjust activities of the government and the capitalists who are under the protection of the benevolent eye of the law.
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Che was a doctor. So was Zawahiri. So was Mengele.
Probably a few more I can't think of right now.
[Asharq al-Aswat] Iraqi officials say a Shiite militia leader, his wife and three children have been killed in a bombing targeting their home south of Storied Baghdad.
Babil province police front man Maj. Muthana Khalid says the kaboom early Friday morning leveled the house in Haswa, some 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of the capital. Four people were also maimed in the blast.
A hospital official confirmed the casualties. A local policeman, Abdul-Salam al-Maamouri, identified the dead man as a Mahdi Army leader.
The Mahdi militia forces are loyal to radical holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010... . They often terrorized Sunni neighborhoods during the height of Iraq's sectarian fighting in 2006 and 2007, and the militia's fighters have been targets of retribution.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] Iraqi police say a man has killed his 19-year-old daughter after discovering al-Qaeda had recruited her as a jacket wallah.
Diyala province police front man Maj. Ghalib al-Karkhi says security forces raided the man's house in the former Sunni-insurgent stronghold of Baqouba north of Storied Baghdad in search of the girl on suspicion she had ties to al-Qaeda. Police did not find her.
Al-Karkhi says the father, Najim al-Anbaky, told police he killed his daughter a month earlier because he found out she intended to blow herself up in a suicide kaboom for al-Qaeda.
Al-Karhki said Friday al-Anbaky showed police what he said was the woman's grave.
Al-Qaeda recruits women for suicide kabooms because they can pass police checkpoints easier than men.
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Iraqi Kills Daughter Recruited as al-Qaeda Bomber
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Little does he know that the US, and probably the Iraqi government, has small, ground penetrating radar, so they don't have to violate any taboo by exhumation. That tool comes in real handy in locating mass graves.
(KUNA) -- A Paleostinian missile landed in an Israeli town near Gazoo Strip without causing casualties or damage, said the Israeli Army on Friday.
Spokesman of the army told Yedioth Ahronoth Israeli paper that Paleostinian Orcs and similar vermin fired the missile from south Gazoo at Ashkelon.
No Paleostinian fraction grabbed credit of the attack.
Israeli officials threatened to launch a new war on Gazoo Strip if the firing of rockets and missile at Israel continues.
The firing of missiles and rockets at Israeli towns and military sites increased in the past few days.
That came as response to Israel's killing of five Paleostinian activists in a raid on central Gazoo on Saturday.
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Has anyone seen a report of why the Israelis haven't bought or rented the Centurion anti-rocket/mortar system (Phalanx) we've been using in Iraq the last 5 years? Too cheap or is it just a "not invented here" problem?
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For every rocket or missile sent into Israel, send one back. Preferably a " daisycutter".
The Palis would get the message real quick.
Thats how I would solve the problem.
But the whiny punkazz liberals would sh!t the bed if Israel dared defend itself that way.
(or any way for that matter)
A improvised explosive device on a church rooftop exploded at a Catholic church on Jolo Island in the Phillipines during Christmas services, injuring 11 people.
"The explosion occurred at around 7:15 in the morning while the mass was going on. Six people were slightly wounded in the explosion," said a military spokesman in the initial report.
The chapel was 15 meters away from the local polices main headquarters. Its a well guarded compound. Its manned and secured by regular police forces, by the Special Action Force and a nearby detachment of the Philippine Marines, thats why I dont know how the chapel could have been bombed and how the bomb was sneaked in. They have to be investigated, Latag told the Philippine Daily Inquirer in a phone interview.
The compound houses the water district office, a military hospital, a lodge known as the Peacekeepers' Inn, and the chapel.
The bomb also caused damage to the chapels altar.
Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo said he has directed the Philippine National Police to arrest the suspects behind the explosion immediately. "We are condemning in the strongest terms the chapel bombing especially as we are celebrating Christmas," he added.
Though no one claimed responsibility for the attack, Bishop Jose Colin Bagaforo said Christians in Jolo had been threatened by Muslims. "There are communities that are being threatened for being Christian. They are receiving threats coming from so-called fundamentalist Muslims," he told AFP.
"They're being intimidated by words. Many times they are being disturbed in their gatherings for worship," he added.
One man was killed and another seriously wounded when gunmen sprayed bullets from M16s and AK47s at a tea shop in Narathiwat province on Friday night.
The two victims were attacked while drinking tea at a tea shop by two men riding on pillions of two motorcycles. He said Surin Sangsuwan, was shot three times in his body and right leg and died there. Arnond Chinseng, was shot in his left leg and was admitted to the hospital.
More police officers are being deployed in southern Thailand to guard against terrorist insurgent attacks during the holidays and the military have heightened measures and mobilised additional troops.
Small high-mobility units are increasing operations until Jan 2, a military spokesman said at a press conference on Friday. He added that action was also being taken against petty criminals, hired guns racketeers and drug dealers.
"There's a new sherrif in town . . . until the second of January."
Non-aggressive measures are also being employed to win over insurgency sympathisers.
"Chill dawgs, or we might get all passive aggressive on yo asses. Dig?"
*turns army cap backwards*
Meanwhile,
back in the real world
the army held funerals for two rangers killed in a driveby shooting. The families of Rangers Preecha Janthanon and Suraphol Phetthae have been compensated for the deaths. A manhunt for the attackers, thought to be RKK commandos, is underway in Narathiwat province.
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The matrix is up, bet on your favorite weapon to see what disables it. Also, will the rocket even make it to space or blow up like a giant firecracker?? The world awaits there acmanstupidad!
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Try it first on the putz. If it doesn't hit, no one will know. If it does, announce it and Kimmie dies of natural causes early.
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BEIRUT (Maan) -- The head of Fatah in Lebanon, Muneer Maqdah, said Saturday that Ghandi Sahmarani, who was found dead this morning, was the leader of what remained of the Islamist Soldiers of Levant group. Ghandi? So much for that "what's in a name" thing...
Maqdah told Radio Lebanon that the motive behind the killing was not clear but that no gunshots were heard recently. Hmmmmmmm. Somebody wanted him dead maybe?
He highlighted that the body was found at the entrance to the farmers market in Ein Al-Hilweh refugee camp. Yo. Farmer Mahmoud. Where wuz youze yesterday?
I ain't gotta talk to you, copper!
Ah, so you're lawyerin up, huh? WHACKWHACKWHACKWHACK...
The man was not used to leaving the area except to settle disputes with other members of his group. He was in At-Tawari (emergency) area and has not entered the camp for years, Maqdah added. He used to be a big shot. Now...not so much.
He said he assumed the man was killed outside and for unknown reasons his body was secretly sent to Ein El-Hilwah. Christmas present for..."somebody"?
The body was found this morning with a gunshot in the mouth and the hands and feet were cuffed with wires. Ah. Suicide, Quince?
You would think so, Sam. But the hands and feet cuffed with wires trouble me...
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Sounds like somebody's settling up all family business...
Makdah said that Sahmarani, a Lebanese, had been "a friend" of Abdel Rahman Awad, the presumed chief of the shadowy Fatah al-Islam, an Islamist group which fought a deadly battle in 2007 against the Lebanese army at Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in the country's north. In August, Lebanese troops killed Awad, a Palestinian, and his aide, "Abu Bakr" Mubarak, in a shootout in the eastern town of Chtaura in the Bekaa Valley.
[Jerusalem Post Front Page] A security official was jugged and three "spy networks" were found in Syria, allegedly gathering intelligence for the Mossad, UK daily Al-Quds al-Arabi reported on Friday, days after four were jugged in Egypt on suspicion of espionage.
Tarek Abdel-Razek, a Kung Fu coach, reportedly bribed a senior Syrian security official "for a huge sum of money" to give him security-related files. Where did he get the money? Follow the money ...
Egypt reportedly shared intelligence with Syria, that led to the arrest.
A Lebanese journalist also claimed that Tarek tried to recruit him to work for the Mossad, offering him $200,000.
On Monday, an Egyptian security official has said that four locals were jugged on suspicion of spying for Israel and plotting to kidnap of tourists to harm Egypt's economy.
The official revealed Sunday that the four suspects allegedly set up offices in Egypt, Britain, Israel, and the Gazoo Strip to record officials' phone conversations and collect information about Japanese and Chinese tourists visiting the Sinai Peninsula.
The official said those nabbed were responsible for supplying Israeli officers with the information necessary to orchestrate the abductions of the tourists.
The suspects are facing charges of espionage and forming a terrorist cell.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press.
This article starring:
Tarek Abdel-Razek
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I don't think so. In past, the Russians gave the Syrians advanced tech so they could spot and eliminate Israeli espionage ops, and they did. Israel owes Russia for that one.
But the Egyptians are Sunnis, and the Syrians are not only Alawite Shiites, but actively working with Iran to stick it to the Sunnis. Not much love there, no matter what the Egyptians think of the Israelis.
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