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It is perfectly understandable that you would be blinded by Ms. Malone's assets. She could make a Yugo look like a Caddie. Please note the Chevy Crest on the right edge, just above the chrome trim in the original picture of Ms. Malone. 1955 Chevy Bel Aire (See picture behind picture below)
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I owned a '55 Chevy (not new but not that old) and the badge on the photo looks like a caddie shield not the chevy marque though it is a bit blurry (or that could be my eyes). Granted I WAS distracted.
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My first car was a '56 Chevy. That's a Chevy. Love those Dagmars!
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Dagmars?
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The '55 was nice to look at but a dog mechanically.
The engine that most of them had installed didn't have an oil filter. You could drain it and refill, but no filter. You don't need to be a mechanic to know what happened to a lot of those '55 Bel Airs.
They worked out a lot of the kinks by '57, which is the real classic.
Anlost none of the '55's around today do not have original motors, but later or rebuilt ones that had a filter added.
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Understand the connotation now?
She's a Red Chevy with chrome bumpers? /snort
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Since the topic is centered around Dorothy and the Dagmars ( sounds like a '50 rock and roll band) a friend took a 44D Dagmar Restraint System, in black, and altered the tween (the itty bitty part that keeps the action pieces of the D.R.S. aligned)so it would fit his 57 Caddie's Dagmars. Drove to school with it; Vice Principal was not amused. All others thought it was a hoot.
[Tolo News] Deputy Governor of Kandahar was killed in a suicide kaboom early Saturday in Deh Khwaja area of Kandahar city, local officials said.
The incident happened at 8:45am local time in Deh Khawja area of Kandahar city when a jacket wallah on a cycle of violence targeted the car carrying Abdul Latif, deputy governor of Kandahar, said Khan Mohammad Mujahid, the police of Kandahar.
"Abdul Latif was killed in the attack and three bodyguards were maimed," he added.
The Taliban have grabbed credit for the attack.
Kandahar is one of the volatile provinces of Afghanistan in the south where insurgency has been at its highest, amid huge military operations conducted by Afghan and foreign forces to clear its insecure districts of Death Eaters.
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[Ma'an] Paleostinian sources say 12 people including Bedouins and Egyptian coppers were killed Saturday in festivities in the Sinai Peninsula, in what appeared to be an attempt by tribes in the region to take control of the swath of land south of the Egypt-Gazoo border.
Gunshots were heard in the Egyptian city of Rafah as Bedouins attempted to occupy the border with Israel and the Gazoo Strip. Rocket-propelled Grenades were fired at Egyptian soldiers, witnesses said, causing the near-total destruction of one home near the border area, and damage to a sector of the Gazoo-Egypt border fence.
Gazoo government police were said to have fixed the breach immediately, while eyewitnesses said police forces deployed across the border area on the Gazoo side, in an apparent attempt to prevent Gazoo residents from entering Egypt.
Armed groups attacked Egyptian police in the cities of Rafah and Sheikh Zweid, set fire to one cop shoppe and were behind the slaying of one officer identified as 36-year-old Jum'a Hamid after he was kidnapped along with two others, security sources said.
Security officials also said Bedouins were behind an earlier attack on an Egyptian security checkpoint, where four officers were killed and four others injured. All were transported to hospital in Al-Arish. Four banks and several state buildings were also reportedly set ablaze and looted.
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[Ennahar] The criminal court of Constantine (east) on Saturday condemned to death six men on trial for an attack claimed by al-Qaeda that killed 18 coppers (gendarmes) in 2009 in eastern Algeria, reported the APS news agency.
The court sentenced four other co-defendants on a total of 25 to two years in prison for "supporting a terrorist group," the source said. The other fifteen were acquitted.
The death penalty in force in Algeria has not been applied since 1993.
The prosecution had demanded the death penalty against fifteen defendants and 10 years in prison for the others.
The trial of a 26th defendant, a runaway, was postponed, the source said.
Defendants who appear since Wednesday were charged with "setting up a terrorist group, premeditated murder and theft of weapons," according to the indictment.
The North African branch of al-Qaeda (AQIM) grabbed credit for the attack that had killed on 17 June 2009 18 gendarmes and a civilian in the region of Bordj Bou Arreridj, 235 km southeast of Algiers, according to an official report.
Two bombs had went kaboom! at the passage of vehicles of the gendarmes, before the assailants opened fire, killing their victims before stealing their weapons and uniforms.
The gendarmes were returning from an escort of Chinese workers in the group CITIC-CRCC responsible for implementing the section of the east-west highway from Algiers to Bordj Bou Arreridj of 220 km.
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[Ennahar] Tens of thousands of demonstrators in Cairo on Saturday called for the departure of geriatric President Hosni Mubarak, on the fifth day of anti-government protests across Egypt.
"The people want the president's departure," they chanted in the sight of the army deployed since Friday night to maintain order.
This unprecedented revolt against President Mubarak, 82, who runs the country for 29 years, has so far made almost 50 deaths.
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[Pak Daily Times] The Arab world's influential holy man Yusuf al Qaradawi on Saturday urged Egyptian geriatric President Hosni Mubarak to step down for the good of the country, as his ouster was the only solution to Egypt's crisis. The widely respected Sunni Mohammedanholy man, who holds Egyptian and Qatari nationalities, also encouraged Egyptians to keep up peaceful protests, in an interview with al Jazeera television. "President Mubarak, I advise you to depart from Egypt. There is no other solution to this problem but for Mubarak to go," Qaradawi said. The holy man, a resident of Qatar who has a popular programme on al Jazeera to advise on Islamic laws, heads the International Union for Mohammedan Scholars. He is considered one of the world's top Sunni preachers.
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[Arab News] Egyptian geriatric President Hosni Mubarak named a vice president Saturday for the first time since coming to power nearly 30 years ago -- a clear step toward setting up a successor in the midst of the biggest anti-government protests of his regime.
After five days of protests, Cairo was engulfed in chaos.
There was rampant looting and lawlessness was spreading fast. Residents of affluent neighborhoods were boarding up their houses against gangs of thugs roaming the streets with knives and sticks and gunfire was heard in some neighborhoods.
Tanks and armored personnel carriers fanned out across the city of 18 million, guarding key government buildings.
Egyptian television reported the army was deploying reinforcements to neighborhoods to try to control the lawlessness.
Thousands of protesters defied the curfew for the second night Saturday, standing their ground in the main Tahrir Square in a resounding rejection of Mubarak's attempt to pacify them with promises of reform and a new government.
"What we want is for Mubarak to leave, not just his government," Mohammed Mahmoud, a demonstrator in Tahrir Square, said Saturday. "We will not stop protesting until he goes."
A few tanks were deployed in the square. But there have been no festivities between protesters and the military at all and many feel the army is with them. Anti-Mubarak graffiti was scrawled on one tank.
In contrast, protesters have attacked police, who are hated for their brutality. On Friday, 17 cop shoppes throughout Cairo were torched, with protesters stealing firearms and ammunition and setting some jugged suspects free. They also burned dozens of police trucks in Cairo, Alexandria and Suez.
On Saturday, protesters besieged a cop shoppe in the Giza neighborhood of Cairo, looted and pulled down Egyptian flags before burning the building to the ground.
One army captain joined the demonstrators in Tahrir, who hoisted him on their shoulders while chanting slogans against the president. The officer ripped a picture of the president.
Violence erupted when thousands of protesters tried to storm the Interior Ministry and police opened fire. At least three protesters were killed and their bodies were carried through the crowd.
The corpse count for five days of protests has risen sharply since Friday to at least 62 with about 2,000 injured on both sides, according to security officials.
Mubarak sacked his Cabinet Saturday and promised reforms to try to quell the protests. He named his intelligence chief of nearly two decades and close confidant Omar Suleiman as vice president, state television reported. ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
Like Mubarak, Suleiman, 74, has a military background. The powerful military has provided Egypt with its four presidents since the monarchy was toppled nearly 60 years ago. He has been in charge of some of Egypt's most sensitive foreign policy issues, including the Paleostinian-Israeli grinding of the peace processor.
Mubarak also named his new prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq, the outgoing civil aviation minister and fellow former air force officer.
Al Arabiya television quoted the speaker of Parliament as saying Egypt has no plans for early elections. The presidential election is due in September.
Leading Egyptian dissident Mohamed El-Baradei said the measures were not enough to end the revolt. In comments to Al Jizz television, he urged Mubarak to leave Egypt as soon as possible for the good of the country.
"I have respect for Suleiman and Shafiq, but replacing individuals is not enough," the former UN nuclear watchdog chief said.
The United States told Mubarak it was not enough to simply "shuffle the deck" with a shake-up of his government and pressed him to make good on his promise of genuine reform.
"The Egyptian government can't reshuffle the deck and then stand pat," State Department front man P.J. Crowley said in a message on Twitter after Mubarak fired his government.
"President Mubarak's words pledging reform must be followed by action," he added, echoing President Barack B.O. Obama's call on Friday for Mubarak to embrace a new political dynamic.
Obama spoke to Mubarak on Friday and said he told him to undertake sweeping reforms, while US officials made clear that $1.5 billion in American aid to Egypt is at stake.
The military extended the hours of the night curfew imposed Friday in the three major cities where the worst violence has been seen -- Cairo, Alexandria and Suez. State television said it would begin at 4 p.m. and last until 8 a.m., longer than the 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. ban Friday night that appeared to not have been enforced.
The military closed the pyramids on the outskirts of Cairo -- Egypt's premiere tourist site. Hundreds of people crowded the capital's main international airport hoping for a flight out on Saturday but Western carriers were canceling, delaying or suspending service after days of violent unrest.
A British airline turned around its Cairo-bound jet in mid-flight.
Between 1,500 and 2,000 people flocked to Cairo Intentional Airport, many without reservations. Officials said that about half were tourists and half Egyptians.
British Midlands International said its flight from London Heathrow to Cairo turned around because a shift in the start of a nighttime curfew had made it impossible to land in time for passengers to make it out of the airport.
The United States, La Belle France and Germany issued warnings to their respective citizens, urging them to cancel nonessential travel to Cairo and to remain indoors and away from flashpoint areas if they were already in the country.
Kuwait said it is bringing citizens and residents home from Egypt. Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Roudhan Al-Roudhan said "Kuwaiti citizens and residents are being brought back home on free flights in light of the current security troubles in Egypt," state news agency KUNA reported.
These orders have been "given to officials in Kuwait Airways, who are to coordinate efforts with Cairo International Airport, in order to allow extra flights to land in the airport."
Internet appeared blocked for a second day to hamper protesters who use social networking sites to organize. And after cell phone service was cut for a day Friday, two of the country's major providers were up and running Saturday.
Wealthy Egyptian businessman Ahmed Ezz, a close confidant of the president's son and one of the targets for protester criticism, has resigned from ruling party, state television reported. ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
Protesters ransacked and burned one of his company's main offices in Mohandiseen. On Saturday, some protesters held up posters with a cross marked over the face of Ezz, who is chairman of Ezz Steel.
In the capital on Friday night, hundreds of young men carted away televisions, fans and stereo equipment looted from the ruling National Democratic Party, near the Egyptian Museum. Others around the city looted banks, smashed cars, tore down street signs and pelted armored riot police vehicles with paving stones torn from roadways.
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rampant looting and lawlessness was spreading fast
Is this random, or part of the plan? A political crisis won't excite nearly as many people as chaos and the threat it poses against them personally. Is a crisis being stimulated so it will be there to 'not waste?'
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All kidding aside, it seems to me that you have many forces at work here: Muslim Brotherhood types, opportunists like el Baradai, jihadists, pro democracy types, and rioters that want free stuff.
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many forces at work here That's what happens when those with nothing to lose, lose it.
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Again, 9-11 + GWOT > Among other, is "WAR FOR ANTI-STATUS QUO" = "STATUS QUO" IS NO LONGER ACCEPTED OR TOLERATED = THINGS M-U-S-T CHANGE, or W-I-L-L CHANGE, be it VOLUNTARILY/CONSENUALLY or else VIOLENTLY [Warfare including Mutual Destruction].
* WAFF > AL-JAZEERA: EGYPTIAN LEADER [Mubarak]TO FLEE TO TEL AVIV {israel]???
[PETER, PAUL, + MARY = "JET PLANE" karaoke here].
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > THE [anti-US] REVOLUTIONARY WAVE. US is not exempt or immune from dynamic forces = changes.
ARTIC = argues that ...
> So-called "American Exceptionalism" is at high risk due to the Global Economic Downturn.
> Egypt is a prime candidiate for the "BOUZAZIN REVOLUTION".
>Possibel consequences or after-eefects includes the POSSIBLE RISE OF [PRO-VIOLENCE]EXTREMISM IN THE USA PROPER.
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DRUDGEREPORT > MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: ARABS WILL TOPPLE LEADERS ALLIED WID THE US [ JORDANIAN BRANCH OF OPPOSITION [MB] ARABS WILL TOPPLE TYRANTS.
* SAME > IRAN SEES RISE OF ISLAMIC HARD-LINERS IN ARAB LANDS.
To paraph AL BUNDY > "WHAT A SHOCK [Not]"!
ARTIC > LARIJANI foresees the RISE OF "PEOPLES GOVTS" = QUASI-THEOCRACIES SIMIL TO THE AFTERMATH OF IRAN's 1979 ISLAMIC REVOLUTION.
Throughout ME + International Arab-Muslim Regions.
* PEOPLES DAILY FORUM > EGYPTS CRACKDOWN ON PROTESTS EVOKES [similar to] IRAN'S HEAVY HAND IN 2009 UNREST.
IOW, 1980's "TIANNENMEN SQUARE" = 2011's "TAHRIR SQUARE" = FALL OF THE AMERICAN WALL, i.e. "Berlin Wall" in reverse.
[Arab News] Witnesses say soldiers in a central Nigerian city opened fire on students protesting continuing violence between Christians and Mohammedans.
Saturday's shooting comes after rioters set fire to gas stations and a farmer's market Friday night in the city of Jos, a city at the epicenter of tensions between Nigeria's two dominant faiths. That fighting began when students attacked Mohammedans attempting to bury a corpse.
A student leader said two students had died, but authorities did not confirm the causalities.
At least 1,000 people died in 2010 and another 200 more have died within the last month in Jos in violence largely fueled by ethnic, economic and political disputes.
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[Yemen Post] An Al-Qaeda suspect beat feet from an Aden hospital, with reports suggesting an unknown group could have infiltrated into the hospital and helped him escape.
His friends brought him curly-toed slippers, without which escape is impossible.
Amin Al-Sayed was jugged along with four other terrorist suspects last week, and was hospitalized at the BaSuhaib military hospital.
Last week, the authorities announced the arrest of almost ten Al-Qaeda suspects in Abyan and Hadramout, amid the continuous hunt for and large-scale operations against AQAP krazed killers, mainly in southern, southeastern and eastern regions.
On the other hand, media outlets reported that AQAP had declared war against the Houthi Group in northern Yemen, with krazed killer commander Saeed Al-Shiri saying in a videotape on a krazed killer website that Jihad against Shiites comes after the Houthi Group attacked and displaced many pro-Al-Qaeda people during the battles with the army in Saada, Jawf and Amran provinces.
In December, AQAP said it had been responsible for car boomings against Houthi convoys in Jawf and Saada that killed and injured many Houthi followers including their spiritual leader Badr Al-Din Al-Houthi.
The group, posing a serious threat concerned by the West, has vowed to step up attacks against the Houthis and the government in the country.
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Didn't some AQ moke do the same thing a few month ago, Killing a guard in the process. Yemen might want to review it's nosocomial adverse outcome prevention.
[Yemen Post] One soldier was killed and four others injured after armed people attacked a security patrol in Yemen's northeastern Marib province on Saturday.
Boys will be boys.
Informed sources told media outlets that the gunnies fired on the patrol from inside a car in Al-Erqain district, with one soldier killed immediately and others rushed to hospital.
The gunniesbravely ran away and a hunt was launched for them, the sources said.
A local official, however, was quoted as saying that the attack, which came six days after the murder of Criminal Evidence Director in Marib by unknown gunnies, bore the hallmarks of AQAP as volatile deadly attacks by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula are being reported in various places in the country.
In recent years, soldiers and coppers have become easy targets by unknown gunnies with scores killed and injured in attacks on patrols, convoys, security buildings and army posts, mostly in southern and southeastern regions.
In most cases AQAP cut-throats emerge to claim responsibility for deadly attacks.
In the meantime, the army is continuing a massive hunt for terrorist suspects across the republic as AQAP has recently drawn the world's attention to the country through planning plots inside and outside the country.
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[Yemen Post] A Yemeni court specialized in the cases of terrorism in Hadramout sentenced four suspected Al-Qaeda forces of Evil between three to five years in prison.
Next Friday for the escape, then?
The first and the second suspects, Faris Al-Katheri and Rami Al-Saeiri were sentenced to five years in jail. While the third, Basam Hassen Salman was sentenced to three years, and the fourth, Hani Sam Ariqon was sentenced to four years.
The four suspects faced charges of forming a gang for committing criminal and terrorist acts, planning attacks and procuring passports with the intention of using them to join Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia. They were also accused of sheltering Al-Qaeda forces of Evil from Egypt, Jordan, Soddy Arabia and Sudan.
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[Pak Daily Times] Hundreds of protesters calling for the ouster of Yemen's President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh clashed on Saturday with the regime's supporters in Sanaa, an AFP journalist reported.
Plainclothes police also attacked the demonstrators who marched to the Egyptian embassy in Sanaa chanting "Ali, leave leave" and "Tunisia left, Egypt after it and Yemen in the coming future."
The chants were referring to the ouster of veteran Tunisian strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali early this month and to continuing demonstrations against geriatric President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, the biggest the country has seen in the three decades of his rule. No casualties have been reported in the Yemen festivities.
A female activist, Tawakel Karman, who has led several protests in Sanaa during the past week, said that a member of the security forces in civilian clothes tried to attack her with a dagger and a shoe but was held by other protestors.
"We will continue until the fall of Ali Abdullah Saleh's regime," said Karman, who was granted parole on Monday after being held over her role in earlier protests calling for political change in Yemen. "We have the Southern Movement in the south, the (Shia) Houthis in the north, and parliamentary opposition," all of which are calling for political change, said Karman.
The ruling party has called for dialogue with the opposition. "We ... call for the halting of media propaganda and urge all political parties to work together to make the dialogue a success and arrange for upcoming elections," a committee of the ruling General People's Congress (GPC) party was quoted as saying on the website of the Saba state news agency. "Furthermore, we urge an end to protests that ignite dissent to avoid dragging the country into conflict or sedition," it said.
Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Arab world, faces a growing Al Qaeda threat, a separatist movement in the south and a sporadic rebellion by Zaidi sock puppets of the Medes and the Persians in the north.
"But what's most important now is The Jasmine Revolution," said Karman, a journalist who is also a senior member of the opposition Islamist Al-Islah (Reform) party and heads a rights group, Women Journalists Without Chains. Karman also called for Thursday, February 3 to be a "Day of Rage" throughout Yemen.
Protests have been taking place on a nearly daily basis in Sanaa since mid-January calling for an end to Saleh's rule which began in 1978.
Saleh was re-elected in September 2006 for a seven-year mandate. A draft amendment of the constitution, under discussion in parliament despite opposition protests, could allow him--if passed--to remain in office for life.
Saleh had urged the opposition which rejected the amendment, to take part in April 27 parliamentary elections to avoid "political suicide." The mandate of the current parliament was extended by two years to April under a February 2009 agreement between the ruling General People's Congress and opposition parties to allow dialogue on political reform.
The reforms on the table included a shift from a presidential regime to a proportional representation parliamentary system and further decentralisation of government--measures that have not been implemented. The dialogue has stalled, and a special committee set up to oversee reform has met only once.
Saleh is also accused of wanting to pass the reins of power in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula state to his eldest son Ahmed, who heads the elite Presidential Guard, an accusation he denies.
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VARIOUS NETTERS = ...
> SAUDI ARABIA is next.
> POTUS OABAM = USA will had all but lost the GWOT once Tunisia's "Jasmine/Jasmin revolution spreads to Turkey + Persian Gulf Regions + PAKISTAN.
* WORLD NEWS > [Khatami]IRAN CLERIC: MIDDLE EAST UNREST RE PLAY OF IRAN'S 1979 ISLMAIC REVOLUTION. New ME to rise based on ISLAMIC RULERSHIP + RELIGION-BASED DEMOCRACY.
* SAME > DAVOS PANEL CAN AGREE ON ONE THING: A MILITARY STRIKE ON IRAN COULD RESULT IN HUGE COUNTER-ATTACK [by Iran vee its Worldwide interests, possibly includ even a Nuclear Counter-strike]. Only fools believe that Iran's NucProgs is for Energy purposes only, as opposed to covert de facto dev of NucWeapons.
* YNETNEWS > IRANIAN LEADERS HOPE FOR ISLAMIC REPUBLIC IN EGYPT.
[Bangla Daily Star] Two alleged criminals were killed in "shootouts" with Rapid Action Battalion in the capital and Barguna early yesterday. ...and who's our unlucky contestants today, Johnny?
They are Nabir Hossain Dabir, 28, from Sakhipur of Shariatpur, and Abdul Khaleq, 50, of Badarkhali union of Barguna. Hmmmph. Some lot of bad guys these are. Not an alias amongst them.
When a man has three names all his own, he needs no false one.
On information, a team of Rab-4 around 4:00am went to the city's Bauliabadh area to catch some criminals, said Iqbal Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC) of Pallabi Police Station. Whaddya say, boys? Wanna go catch some criminals? Catch some criminals? When did the policy change, sarge?
As the criminals saw the Rab men, they started firing on the law enforcers. The Rab team fired back and at one stage Dabir was rubbed out. Still wanna catch them, sarge?
Nah...
BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG...
Dabir's cohorts, however, managed to flee. Damn!!! Almost got 'em this time, sarge.
Oh, well. There'll be a next time. Probably in a coupla hours...
A revolver, a single-shot firearm and two bullets were recovered from the scene, Iqbal said. Hey, anybody call the shop to see what's up with the shutter gun? "Only allowed to check it out when the miscreants have an alias, sarge."
The OC identified Dabir as the second-in-command of Zamil Group, a criminal gang active in the area.
Dabir was a resident of Kalshi in Pallabi and an accused in many cases filed with Pallabi Police Station, the OC said. How many, OC?
Oh...a whole bunch. Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... Abdul Khaleq died in a shootout with Rab at Gaurichanna of Barguna sadar upazila.
It's on the map. The really big one, labelled in really, really small letters. You'll want the 10x jeweller's loupe -- the magnifying glass won't do.
Acting on a tip-off,
Mahmoud the Weasel's grand-nephew has joined the family business, and is pulling his weight already. The Weasel family have something like 24 Rab units to support these days.
a patrol team of Rab-8 challenged a gang of robbers at Gaurichanna around 2:00am, Rab sources said. The gang members opened fire on the Rab personnel prompting them to retaliate. [BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!]
At one stage of the shootout, the criminals decamped the scene. Damn, sarge! They got away again!
Oh, well. Not our night I guess, Mahmoud.
Hey, sarge. Who's the new guy?
Locals at about 6:00am found Khaleq's dead body, said Shariful Islam, deputy assistant director of Rab-8. Yo, RAB guys? This guy belong to you?
Oh, there he is. Thanks, citizen. We'll take it from here...
The body was sent to Barguna General Hospital.
"He's dead, Jim."
"Dr. Quincy, how do you do it?"
"The lack of blood is always a preliminary indicator, Jim, along with the bullet holes behind each ear. And you'll note, if you look closely.. here... that he isn't breathing."
Khaleq was an accused in several cases filed with Barguna Sadar Police Station, police said.
All that, and Mr. Khaleq is only wanted on one system?
Rab sources claimed that Khaleq led the Khaleq Bahini, a gang of robbers, active in the area.
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[Arab News] The jacket wallah who killed 35 people and maimed 180 at Moscow's largest airport was a 20-year-old man from the volatile southern Caucasus region, Russian Sherlocks said Saturday.
Breaking a five-day silence over the probe, federal Sherlocks also said foreigners were deliberately targeted, marking an ominous new tactic in Russia's losing battle with extremism.
beturbanned fascisti from the Caucacus, a group of mountainous Russian provinces that are beset with an entrenched separatist insurgency, have been widely suspected in the attack at Domodedovo Airport.
Saturday's statement from federal Sherlocks confirmed a suicide kaboom involving a bomb containing shrapnel. While authorities say they know the identity of the perpetrator, they suggested they still don't know who criminal masterminded the attacks.
"Despite the fact that we know the name of the terrorist, we won't name him today ... since investigative searches are ongoing to identify and detain the organizers and accomplices of the terrorist act," the statement said.
Investigators also confirmed fears that foreigners had for the first time entered the terrorists' crosshairs; the victims included one person each from Britain, Germany, Austria, Ukraine, Tajikistan. Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
There were 16 Russian among the dead and the remaining 12 had not been identified.
"It was no accident that the terrorist act was carried out in the international arrivals hall. According to the investigation, the terrorist act was aim first and foremost at foreign citizens," the statement said.
Chechen rebels have grabbed credit for a number of deadly attacks over the years, including ones against the Moscow subway and at the same airport.
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I thought Pooty-Poot said they weren't from the Caucasus?
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Yeah, I thought that odd too. I think he was telling someone in Chechnya that they were ok and he had ruled them out. I initially thought this bombing was from Ingushetia. Then they said the guy trained in Pakistan.
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I think he was telling someone in Chechnya that they were ok and he had ruled them out.
Ramzan Kadyrov was nominated for the Chechen presidency by Russian President Vladimir Putin in spring 2007 and approved almost unanimously by the Chechen parliament.
[Arab News] Anti-capitalist protesters threw bottles at riot police on Saturday and officers responded with water cannon as a small demonstration on the final day of the World Economic Forum briefly turned violent.
The clash came after a group of about 100 mainly young, local protesters marched through the chic Swiss ski resort of Davos and gathered near the railway station, some distance from the conference center hosting the Forum.
It was the second episode of violence in Davos this week. Swiss anarchists grabbed credit for a small kaboom that broke windows and shook a hotel on Thursday where executives were meeting. Nobody was hurt in that incident.
Waving banners saying "Down with Capitalism" and "Stop Screwing Us on Salaries," Saturday's demonstrators marched along an approved snow-covered route taking them past the outer perimeter of the WEF's elite meeting.
Organized by local socialists and Greens, the marchers complained that Davos, favored by top bankers, businessmen and politicians, had little to show for its 41 years of meetings.
'Pat each other on the back'
"They come up here to do business, drink, eat and pat each other on the back," said Karin Stiffner, a 39-year-old housewife in the march. "I don't think there's any interest in helping common people. It would just reduce their profits."
As the protesters wound along the snow-bound road past the WEF congress center in bright sunshine, some threw snowballs at police and one dropped his trousers.
Seven trucks full of police in riot gear kept a close eye on the demonstrators but did not intervene until the festivities at the town's railway station at the end of the march.
Topics such as the euro zone debt crisis and reducing social inequality and promoting green development have topped the agenda at this week's exclusive WEF, whose official slogan proclaims that it is "committed to improving the state of the world" and whose delegates can pay thousands of dollars to come.
As WEF delegates relaxed inside the conference center over a lunch of Norwegian lobster, reindeer and fjord trout on Saturday, the protesters said they had lost touch with reality.
"These representatives talk big but nothing happens and we don't benefit," said school student Bettina Leibundgut, 18. "We need to give the signal that something's got to happen."
Davos residents, who can make up to a quarter of their entire annual sales during the Forum, had little sympathy.
"It's best to just ignore them," said Derungs Pirmin, who lives in the village. "They're just young leftists who want attention. The WEF is important for our jobs."
The number of protesters was tiny compared with the thousands who have protested at past G8 summits and small by comparison with the 2,500 delegates attending the Forum.
Protesters said Davos's remote location in the mountains, more than two hours' drive from Zurich, and the police habit of maintaining discreet roadblocks on the routes to it, militated against a large turnout.
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They're not anti-capitalists then, but anti-police. The meeting in Davos was held by social democrats BTW.
[Pak Daily Times] An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Saturday handed down death sentence on 69 counts to Hameedullah Khan who was jugged with a suicide jacket soon after two suicide kabooms outside the Pakistain Ordnance Factories (POF) Wah. The court also imposed Rs 200,000 fine on 69 counts, life term for conspiring to carry out the blasts, 10 years jail on 44 counts for attempting to kill more people with Rs 100,000 fine on 35 counts and 10 more years jail for injuring 70 others.
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[Pak Daily Times] An anti-terrorism court (ATC) Rawalpindi No 2 on Saturday released former MNA Shah Abdul Aziz of charges of the abduction and murder of Polish engineer, Piotr Stanczak. ATC judge Raja Ikhlaq Hussain acquitted the former MNA and another accused, Attaullah, in absence of adequate proof and evidence. Stanczak, on September 28, 2008 had been kidnapped from Attock. The kidnappers had rubbed out Stanczak's security guard, driver and assistant driver on the spot and had took the Polish engineer hostage. Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... the Federal Police claimed to arrest the accused, Attaullah, from a check post of Police Station (PS) Sabzi Mandi and recovered two hand grenades and a magazine of submachine gun from his possession. According to police, Attaullah was also present in the video of the beheading of the engineer. Later, the police, acting on a confession by Attaullah, had jugged Aziz on charges of kidnapping and killing Stanczak. Attaullah had been jugged by the Basal Attock police from Islamabad.
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[Pak Daily Times] A prominent commander of the Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) was kidnapped from his base in Gagrina. LI terrorist commander Ghuncha Gul Zakha Khel was kidnapped from an LI base in Gagrina in the Zakha Khel Bazaar. His bodyguards were also made hostages by an unidentified rival group of terrorists,
Oh dear.
confirmed official sources in Landikotal and Jamrud. Official sources said that Gul had gone to his residence in Gagrina Zakha Khel on Friday, where he was holding a meeting with his group, when Gul along with his bodyguards were kidnapped. He and his guards were taken to Qazi's guesthouse an undisclosed location, the sources added. Intra-factional differences were on the rise between LI's commanders on various issues, which might have led to the abduction of Gul, local sources said. However, The infamous However... sources inside the group were silent on the issue.
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[Pak Daily Times] Security forces on Saturday engaged beturbanned goons' positions near Afghan border in Saafi tehsil of Mohmand Agency and killed nine more Taliban fighters, official said. The security forces launched an air offensive against terrorists' hideouts in Inzary, Sagi, Awrdewazgi areas bordering Afghanistan as 28 cut-throats were killed in the aerial strike in the same region yesterday. Separately the security forces apprehended six suspects from an IDP camp in Nahqi area of Mohmand Agency. Muhammad Jan was killed as a mortar shell hit a house in Dawezai area of the agency.
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[Pak Daily Times] Ten people including four copperswere maimed on Saturday when a car boom targeting the superintendent of police (SP) (Investigations) went kaboom! on Alamdar Road in Quetta, police said. However, The infamous However... SP Shahban remained uninjured in the blast.
Fail.
"Two liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders were used in the blast," a police brass hat said.
The banned terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... grabbed credit for the blast and said SP Shahban was the target.
According to sources, the SP (Investigation) was going to work in an official police vehicle, when the blast occurred near his residence on Alamdar Road. As a result ten people, including four of his security guards and three children were maimed. The police, Frontier Corps and other law enforcement agencies rushed to the spot and took the injured to the Civil Hospital. They cordoned of the area and started collected evidence.
"The target was the SP (Investigations). Four of his security guards were maimed and the vehicle was partially damaged," DIG (Operations) Hamid Shakil said while talking to the media.
Talking to Daily Times, a police brass hat confirmed that kaboom was not used in the blast. "Two LPG cylinders were used to carry out the attack, and they were detonated through a remote controlled device."
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WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: A leading member of the so-called "Islamic State of Iraq" has been detained by the Interior Ministry's Rapid Deployment Force (RDF) in southern Iraq's Wassit Province on Saturday, according to an RDF source in Wassit.
"The Interior Ministry's Rapid Deployment Force in Wassit Province has detained Khalaf al-Duleimy, one of the leaders of the so-called "Islamic State of Iraq," with a quantity of arms and ammunition that were found in his house in Suewira township, 135 kms to the north of Kut," the spokesman said.
He said the detention took place according to intelligence information and the issuance of an arrest order by an Iraqi court, adding that the detainee "is being interrogated and would be sent to an investigation judge later."
Kut, the center of Wassit Province, is 180 kms to the south of Baghdad.
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[Arab News] Islamists, leftists and trade unionists gathered in central Amman on Friday for the latest protest to demand political change and wider freedoms. A crowd of at least 3,000 chanted: "We want change."
Banners and chants showed a wider range of grievances than the high food prices that fueled earlier protests, and included demands for free elections, the dismissal of Prime Minister Samir Rifai's government and a representative parliament.
The protest after Friday prayers was organized by the Islamic Action Front, the political arm of the Mohammedan Brotherhood which is the only effective opposition and biggest party, but included members of leftist parties and trade unions.
Jordan's protests, as in several Arab countries, have been inspired by the uprising that overthrew the Tunisian president. "After Tunisia, Arab nations have found their way toward the path of political freedom and dignity," said Zaki Bani Rusheid, a leading politician. Demonstrations have taken place across Jordan calling for reversal of free-market reforms which many blame for a widening gap between rich and poor.
Jordan is struggling with its worst economic downturn in decades. The government has announced measures to reduce the prices of essentials, create jobs and raise salaries of civil servants. Protesters say the moves do not go far enough.
King Abdallah told politicians on Thursday the government must do more to ease the plight of Jordanians and urged a faster tempo of political reforms. "Openness, frankness and discourse over all issues is the way to strengthen trust between people and government entities," the monarch was quoted as saying in a statement.
"Everything should be put in front of people. There is nothing to be afraid of," said the 49-year-old monarch, who has faced stiff resistance from a conservative establishment to reforms they fear will empower the Islamists.
He urged the 120-member assembly to amend an electoral law criticized as designed to underrepresent cities in favor of sparsely-populated tribal areas to ensure a pliant assembly.
Under the constitution, most powers rest with the king, who appoints the government, approves legislation and can dissolve Parliament.
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This is a much bigger issue to most Americans that it is to most Egyptians. Only about 8% of Egyptians have internet access to begin with. This impacts such a tiny percentage of the population that it really isn't even worth mentioning.
A monk and three soldiers were wounded Saturday when a bomb was deliberately set off as they passed by. All four were hospitalized. The soldiers had been providing an escort for the monk as he made his alms rounds in Pattani province.
Pattani Deputy Gov. Lertkiat Wongpopan said the planting of the bomb was captured by a security camera that showed two men were involved.
On Friday, Maraseng Sa-a, 35, a local security volunteer was shot and killed in Pattani, allegedly by an terrorist insurgent. Two other killings in Pattani were not believed to be political.
Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said the government is reducing violence in the south. But, he said, "It's not like turning off a light.'
A bit more like not being able to find the switch.
[Straits Times] A BOMB attack in Pattani on Friday maimed a monk and three soliders escorting him during morning alms.
The homemade bomb, made of sevenkilo explosives contained in a cooking gas cylinder, was laid near a power pole and covered by a plastic bucket located along a regular route of morning alms by Buddhist monks in Muang Pattani municipality. The maimed monk resides at Wat Lak Mueng.
Footage from security cameras later caught the planting of the bomb by gunnies in progress. Local authorities said gunnies had been damaging security cameras at many locations while repair or installation works were being carried out to make them work again.
Deputy provincial governor Lertkiat Wongphothiphan said temple chiefs had been asked to instruct monks to change their routes or stop going in paths where the risk were high. 'For example. There are only a few homes who give alms to monks on the road where the attack took place,' he added.
The military in the deep south is calling on civilian authorities and owners of private premises to keep their existing security cameras repaired or operational 24 hours a day, saying that the footage would be a key to arresting the attackers or culprits involved in the security crimes.
Police on Friday found the body of a man discarded off a main road in Yala's Muang district. The naked body was macheted in the face and hit in the head. The track found at the scene suggests that the victim was killed elsewhere and dragged to the scene, police said, without ruling that the murder was related to beturbanned goon operations.
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[Arab News] The Dutch foreign minister summoned Iran's ambassador Saturday over reports that a Dutch-Iranian woman nabbed after participating in protests against Iran's disputed presidential election in 2009 was hanged.
The Foreign Ministry was not immediately able to independently confirm reports in Iran that Zahram Bahrami had been executed, Foreign Ministry front man Bengt van Loosdrecht said.
Iranian state television reported. ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
she was hanged Saturday for possessing and selling drugs. The report said that initially Bahrami was jugged for committing "security crimes," but it did not say what became of that case.
Protesters erupted into the streets in 2009 after President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad's re-election, saying the vote was marred by fraud and that opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi was the rightful winner.
Bahrami had been jugged in Iran since December 2009. Dutch diplomats were denied access to her because Iran refused to recognize her Dutch nationality. The Dutch government reportedly hired lawyers to defend her, Bahrami was born in Iran, but gained Dutch citizenship after moving to the Netherlands.
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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] Deputy Governor of Kandahar was killed in a suicide 
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[Arab News] Anti-capitalist protesters threw bottles at riot police on Saturday and officers responded with water cannon as a small demonstration on the final day of the World Economic Forum briefly turned violent.
Security forces on Saturday engaged
