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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Joanne Dru aka Tess Millay in "Red River" aka Anne Stanton in "All the King's Men" aka Olivia Dandridge in "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" aka Mrs. Dizzy Dean in "The Pride of St. Louis" (age 86)
Let's see if the Afghans are as tough as they are made out to be - or if they'll let the Taliban abuse them this way. And what Crayonic interpretation could possibly justify this?
Qari Zia Rahman, a regional commander who leads forces on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistani border, summoned the tribal leaders to a meeting in the district of Marawara eight days ago, then kidnapped them.
"The Taliban first called them for a meeting at a mosque and after a discussion, the Taliban took all the elders away to an unknown place," a local Afghan official in Kunar told AFP.
"The reason behind this act is that some relatives, sons and close family members of these men, work in the Afghan army, Afghan police and some with NATO", Qari Zia text read.
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The Taliban require the support of the people to function, I think they just screwed up badly here.
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Edward I (Longshanks) supposedly did something similar 700 years ago.
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The Taliban have been killing off village elders for years on the Pakistani side of the border. In such a very traditional society, it is the job of the elders to think for everyone, and for the rest to do as they;re told. With the brains of the community removed...
Separately, given that the Taliban are taqfiris, defining anyone who does not do things their way as apostate, the Quranic justification flows.
[Arab News] A medical official says at least three non-combatants were killed after being caught in festivities between bully boyz and the army in Somalia's chaotic capital.
Mogadishu ambulance service chief Ali Muse said Saturday another 12 people were maimed by stray bullets, including four women.
Mogadishu residents live through frequent barrages of mortars and rockets during fighting between bully boyz -- such as fighters from al-Shabaab, the country's most powerful beturbanned goon group -- and government forces.
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[Pak Daily Times] Students clashed with police in north Sudan on Sunday as youths heeded calls to take to the streets for a day of nationwide anti-government protests, despite a heavy security presence on the ground.
The demonstrations, which coincided with the announcement of preliminary results in south Sudan's landmark independence referendum and a sixth day of revolt in neighbouring Egypt, saw dozens of people jugged in the capital and the sacking of Khartoum University's director.
At the Islamic University of Omdurman, Khartoum's twin city, around 1,000 demonstrators were confronted by riot police as they marched, shouting slogans criticising President Omar al Bashir, an AFP news hound saw.
"Ocampo, what you have said is right!" they chanted, referring to the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, who has accused Bashir of genocide and war crimes in Darfur.
Clashes broke out, with protesters hurling rocks at police who retaliated with tear gas and batons. Student members of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) joined the police in some of the festivities, a witness said.
In the northern city of El Obeid, around 600 kilometres (370 miles) west of Khartoum, riot police again used tear gas to disperse a large group of demonstrators. About 600 people protested peacefully in the city centre, shouting against the government and the NCP and calling for change, one witness said. "Riot police used tear gas against them, and dispersed the protest in about 30 minutes," he added.
The opposition Umma party issued a statement listing the names of more than 40 people nabbed in connection with Sunday's protests. Security officials also jugged two journalists, one inside his office, according to a colleague. The police front man could not immediately be reached for comment on the reported arrests.
In central Khartoum, a group of youths gathered near the presidential palace, chanting: "We want change! No to the high price of goods!" before riot police chased the protesters, arresting at least five. Nearby, at the medical faculty of Khartoum University, security officers tried to prevent some 300 student protesters from leaving the campus.
But they eventually forced their way out onto the street, shouting: "Revolution against dictatorship!" Police and security officers attacked them with batons, arresting several and forcing the students back inside the university compound, which was then surrounded by eight police trucks.
The official SUNA news agency later announced in statement that the president had dismissed the university director, Mustafa Idris al Bashir. Security officials prevented some journalists from covering the protests, which took place in response to Internet calls for peaceful anti-government rallies across Sudan. Soldiers nabbed an AFP cameraman for two hours, and around 10 journalists working for local and international media were stopped and ordered not to report on the demonstrations.
"This peaceful procession is organised by the youth of Sudan," Mubarak al-Fadl, an Umma party leader, told AFP. "What we have seen in Egypt has inspired the youth to move, and they have organised themselves through the Internet. "They want to show their anger that the affairs in Sudan have led to the partition of the country and because the future of the north is uncertain due to the policies of the government," he added. Fadl said the demonstrations had the support of "all the opposition parties," and blamed the secession of the south squarely on Bashir "and his minority Islamist group."
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[Ennahar] Nearly 99% of South Sudanese have chosen to vote for secession in the referendum for independence which was held from January 9 to 15, according to preliminary results released by the full Election Commission Sunday.
According to figures published on the website of the Electoral Commission of South Sudan and based on the counting of100% of ballot boxes in North and South, 98.83% of votes are in favor of secession.
These results should be announced officially on Sunday at a ceremony in Juba, the capital of Southern Sudan, in the presence of Salva Kiir, President of the semi autonomous southern Sudan will become an independent state.
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[debkafile] - Egyptian reinforcements reached northern Sinai Monday, Jan. 31 to hunt down Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip battling Egyptian forces for control of the territory. Two were captured. debkafile's military sources report that the gunmen of Hamas's armed wing, Ezz e-Din al Qassam opened a second, Palestinian, front against the Mubarak regime on orders from Hamas' parent organization, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, confirmed by its bosses in Damascus. The Muslim Brotherhood is therefore more aggressively involved in the uprising than it would seem.
Hamas -- moving down the scale from the legitimately elected government of the PA to merely the military arm of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.
debkafile's military sources report that Sunday, Hamas gunmen attacked Egyptian Interior Ministry Special Forces (CFF) stationed in the southern Egyptian-controlled section of the border town of Rafah and the Sinai port of El Arish. Saturday, Bedouin tribesmen and local Palestinians exploited the mayhem in Cairo to clash with Egyptian forces at both northern Sinai key points, ransack their gun stores and free prisoners from the local jail. Officials in Gaza City confirmed Sunday, that Hamas's most notorious smuggling experts, including Muhammad Shaar, had broken out of the El Arish jail and reached Gaza City.
Sunday, Hamas terrorists aimed to start pushing Egyptian forces out of the northern and central regions of the peninsula and so bring Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip under Palestinian control. Hamas would then be able to break out of the Egyptian blockade of the enclave and restore its smuggling routes in full. The reinforcements from Cairo Monday were instructed to drive them back into the Gaza Strip. Early Sunday, they began moving east through the tunnels under the Suez.
Our military sources further report that the Multinational Force & Observers (MFO), most of whose members are Americans and Canadians, are on maximum alert at their northern Sinai base, while they wait for US military transports to evacuate them to US bases in Europe.
At least they're getting out from underfoot, in case the internal situation becomes external in Israel's direction, instead of preventing Israel from responding. Thank you for whatever it was that y'all were doing there -- I suspect it was more than merely moral support.
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Army uses the closest and cheapest that has off duty military driving for them to deliver it (Having proper military ID gets them in the gate quicker).
Something potentially this big probably has more than the Marines involved. Rangers and 82nd can get there faster than the Marines, but without most heavy gear. The Sky Soldiers (173rd Abn Bde) in Vicenza are the closest and fastest major US unit to insert (and have done follow ons with an armored unit backing them up in OIF) if needed unless we put some Marines and Navy into the Eastern Med (which has political consequences even if they don't deploy).
We had exercises in the 80's where we would deploy from Germany to the "Med" - meaning we would actually load out the gear, roll it off on one side of Italy, roll it back on shore in the south, after we flew in on transports, while the Abn secured the entry port and airfield prior to our arrival. Did it a few times on paper too, with deployment to "the eastern Mediterranean desert areas' as a general target.
Check the V Corps web site for the tools in that tool box.
Cairo -- Egypt's military moved more aggressively Sunday to take control over parts of the capital, but the sixth day of unrest ended with increasing questions about how much longer President Hosni Mubarak could withstand calls for his resignation.
Just hours after fighter jets buzzed overhead and a column of tanks tried to enter Cairo's central Tahrir Square, thousands of protesters defied a government-imposed curfew to gather in a peaceful nighttime demonstration that culminated in the dramatic appearance by ElBaradei.
Sunday's show of force by the military was seen as a sign that it could be preparing to crack down on protests to restore calm to Cairo and other cities.
In one brief but tense standoff, hundreds of protesters blocked army tanks from the downtown square, some sitting in front of their path and waving them off angrily. Protesters feared the military was preparing to cordon off an area that has become the heart of mass demonstration. The situation was defused when the tanks changed course and left.
Thousands of protesters continued to occupy the city center until late Sunday, chanting anti-government slogans while army helicopters periodically flew overhead.
In a move applauded by many government critics, the military seized control of the headquarters of the much-reviled Interior Ministry, whose police officers had been recalled from duty since violently clashing with protesters last week. But there were reports late Sunday that the Interior Ministry had begun redeploying police officers in the city.
Earlier in the day, state television showed Mubarak meeting with military leaders and newly appointed Vice President Omar Suleiman to discuss the security situation. Many expect the military to play a critical role in the coming days.
In Washington, top Pentagon officials spoke by telephone with their Egyptian counterparts on the crisis. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates spoke to Egyptian Defense Minister Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, said Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell, who would not provide details of their conversation.
Adm. Michael G. Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also spoke with Lt. Gen. Sami Hafez Enan, the chief of staff of the Egyptian armed forces. In the 10-minute call, "both men reaffirmed their desire to see the partnership between our two militaries continue," said Capt. John Kirby, Mullen's spokesman. Egypt receives more than $1 billion in U.S. aid annually.
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[Maghrebia] A communal guard was killed and three others were maimed when cut-throats attacked their headquarters on Friday (January 28th) in Assi Youcef, Tizi Ouzou province, Tout sur l'Algerie reported.
Also on Friday, a Constantine court sentenced six cut-throats to death for the murder of 18 gendarmes and two civilians in an attack on June 17th, 2009 in the region of El Mansourah, Bordj Bou Arréridj province, El Watan reported. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) grabbed credit for the attack.
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[Maghrebia] Hundreds of women rallied in downtown Tunis on Saturday (January 29th) to defend their rights and reject a possible Islamist resurgence, AFP reported. The march was organised in response to the return of Islamist Ennahda movement leader Rached Ghannouchi from exile on Sunday.
"We want to send an important message to the Islamists, especially those from the Ennahda movement -- that we are not ready to pull back on or abandon our rights," Sabah Mahmoudi, a university lecturer was quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... newly appointed Central Bank governor Mustapha Kamel Nabli, told news hounds at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that the security situation was almost back to normal in Tunisia, urging investors to return to the country. Nabli declared that the country's economy would be strengthened by transparent, democratic rule. The Tunisia delegation to Davos also included just-appointed Transport Minister Yacine Brahim and Communication Minister Sami Zaoui.
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A few days ago Tunisian women told they would demostrate in bikini.
[Arab News] The leader of a long-outlawed Tunisian Islamic party was welcomed at the airport by thousands of cheering supporters on Sunday as he returned to his homeland after more than two decades in exile.
Rachid Ghanouchi and about 70 other exiled members of Nahda, or Renaissance, flew home from Britain two weeks after President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali was forced from power by violent protests. Ghanouchi took up a megaphone to address the crowd outside the airport, but his voice was drowned out by shrill ululating cries and shouts of "Allah-o-Akbar."
During 23 years in power, Ben Ali cracked down on opponents, including proponents of political Islam, jailing them, and sending many into exile. Amid protests over corruption and repression, Ben Ali was forced to flee on Jan. 14. Tunisia has issued an international arrest warrant for him, accusing him of taking money out of the country illegally.
Swiss prosecutors said Sunday they have launched a money laundering investigation into accounts belonging to Ben Ali and his family. The Federal Prosecutors Office said the accounts blocked two weeks ago contain tens of millions of Swiss francs. Prosecutors in Gay Paree are also probing the family's assets in La Belle France.
With Ben Ali gone, Ennahdha has moved quickly to carve out a place in the political scene, taking part in demonstrations and meeting with the prime minister.
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Rachid Ghanouchi
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He must dye that beard, he's grey on top and has a dark beard,(With white roots) it must be some cultural thing signifying Virility or something.
Needs to dye the whole thing or not at all.
People are so vain, I once saw a casino dealer with a dyed scalp (Looked weird) apparently thinning hair.
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[Ennahar] Thousands of prisoners have beat feet from the prison of Wadi Natron, 100 km north of Cairo, said Sunday a source in the security services on the 6th day of a revolt against the regime of geriatric President Hosni Mubarak .
Thousands of prisoners, including a large number of Islamist prisoners nabbed for several years, as well as common law prisoners, beat feet in the night after a riot during which they seized weapons from the prison guards, the source said.
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Stoke chaos, then come back by promising to control it. Whoever takes advantage of this better, either Mubarak or the Muslim Brotherhood, may well take over control of the country.
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Hamas has stated 2 of 8 escaped prisoners have arrived in Gaza via tunnels, with the other six on their way. Follow their trail and take out the entire nest of vermin while yer at it....
[Ma'an] Embassies in Cairo are urging their citizens to avoid travel to Egypt, and the United States urged Americans Sunday to depart the country immediately.
"The US embassy in Cairo informs US citizens in Egypt who wish to depart that the department of state is making arrangements to provide transportation to safehaven locations in Europe," a statement said.
Wide-scale protests have ousted police loyal to Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak throughout the country, but the sudden lack of law enforcement led to looting and some violence.
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Tour groups are delaying cancelling trips that everyone knows will be cancelled so they don't have to refund the 20-40% deposits. Can't say as I can blame them. So so far, the impact on tourism (mid-long term) still looks minor on paper, but a lot of it is tourists and tour companies playing 'chicken' in efforts to minimize deposit losses.
[Ennahar] Egyptian geriatric President Hosni Mubarak, that millions of Egyptians call to leave for nearly a week, seems not to be ready to do so and opts instead for an iron fist, in spite of the great number of casualties.
The Raïs challenges the will of the people by refusing to listen and even appears on television during a visit he made to the operational center of the armed forces to monitor the safety control.
In Cairo, the police, taken to task by the protesters, have disappeared from the streets of the city, and the army was deployed in strategic locations in the capital, especially around the Place of Liberation, where thousands of demonstrators gathered Sunday at mid-day.
What characterized yesterday is the attempt to involve the army for the first time against the demonstrators. Two military planes have flown at low attitude over the Egyptian capital in order to terrorize the demonstrators whose answer was quickly given in chanting even louder the same slogans at the Tahrir Square.
Groups, suspected of being members of the police and security agents, supporters of the regime, engaged in acts of vandalism and theft.
Because the Egyptian youths who harass women passing on the street would never escalate their activities during a time of chaos.
Popular committees were formed yesterday for the protection of public and private property. 78 elements of the police were jugged while preparing to deploy militias composed of convicts in order to cause troubles and loot property.
Despite its intervention a bit later, the army managed to prevent many attempts to escape from prison, of prisoners aided by elements of the police, as was the case in a prison in Cairo Sunday when a riot had taken place in the night after the police charged with guarding have facilitated their escape.
The Egyptians discovered the next morning dozens of bodies lying on the floor.
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[An Nahar] Clashes between Christians and Mohammedans in central Nigeria last week left 35 people dead, police said on Sunday.
"Thirty-five people have been killed in sectarian violence in Tafawa Balewa on Thursday," Bauchi police commissioner Abdulkadir Mohammed Indabawa, told AFP by phone.
Police had last week reported four dead, in riots that also left five mosques and 50 houses burnt.
Clashes between Christians and Mohammedans in central Nigeria last week left 35 people dead, police said on Sunday.
"Thirty-five people have been killed in sectarian violence in Tafawa Balewa on Thursday," Bauchi police commissioner Abdulkadir Mohammed Indabawa, told AFP by phone.
Police had last week reported four dead, in riots that also left five mosques and 50 houses burnt.
Thursday's festivities began after a disagreement over money between a Mohammedan player and the Christian owner of the billiards table, police said.
Although elders in the area mediated a settlement of the dispute, the billiards table itself was later burned in an arson attack.
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[Yemen Post] Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) announced on its website jihad (holy war) against the Houthi northern Shiites.
In an audio message posted on the Internet, Saeed Ali Al-Shihri, deputy leader of the Yemen-based (AQAP), said that Houthis in Sa'ada, Jawf, and Amran will face a strong war against them, calling on Sunni Mohammedans in northern Yemeni provinces to be with (AQAP). He accused Iran's regime of backing Iranian catspaws.
"Jihad against northern Shiites has been declared since the implementation of the AQAP's twin martyred car booming attacks against convoys of Iranian catspaws' in the northern provinces of Jawf and Sa'ada on Nov. 24 and Nov. 26 of the last year," he said.
Last year two bombings occurred in northern Yemen with one targeting a procession on its way to celebrate a religious Zaidi ceremony, Eid Al-Ghadir, in Jawf killing almost 24 and maimed several others. The other targeted Houthi followers traveling in Sa'ada to participate in a funeral, killing two mourners and wounding eight.
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Radicla Islam wants ISRAEL surrounded like CUSTER at his Last Stand.
Speaking of which ...
NOSTRADAMUS QUATRAIN > ... NONE SHALL SEE THE POWERS OF ASIA DESTROYED UNTIL THE SEVEN/SEVENTH HOLDS THE LINE.
[Asharq al-Aswat] Oman has dismantled an Emirati spy ring that was targeting the government and the military in the Gulf sultanate, a security official said on Sunday.
"Security forces (of Oman) were able to discover a spy ring belonging to the state security forces of the United Arab Emirates targeting the regime in Oman and the mechanism of governmental and military work there," said the official, quoted by the official ONA news agency.
The cell was uncovered five months ago, before it was watched and dismantled by Omani security services, an official close to the case told AFP.
The cell "gathered information on the Sultanate's military, security and economy, in return for large sums of money from Emirati security services," the same official added requesting anonymity.
The cell "was interested in the issue of the succession of Sultan Qaboos, in the absence of an heir to the throne," a security official said.
Succession could pose a problem in Oman, as the 70-year-old sultan, who overthrew his father in a bloodless coup in 1970, does not have children.
Lack of children certainly does cause problems that way. Julius Caeser adopted an heir, but clearly that didn't occur to our sultan.
Qaboos was briefly married in 1976 to his cousin Kamila, the daughter of his paternal uncle Tariq bin Taymur.
Not into girls? The legendary poet-king of Afghanistan had the same problem. But his poems about beautiful young boys inspired an entire people to this day.
The basic law of Oman, adopted in 1996, stipulates that the ruling family meets in the case of a vacuum in power to choose a successor to the sultan within three days.
That should be fun. How many of them are there?
If they fail to reach an agreement, the Council of Oman, which consists of the Council of State and Majlis ash-Shura (the Consultative Council), appoints the person named in a will left by the sultan.
"The accused will be presented for trial," the official cited by ONA said.
UAE officials declined to comment.
In a September 2010 decree, the sultan canceled the state security court.
The dismantling of the spy ring could strain relations between the two countries that are members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which also includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Soddy Arabia.
In July 2008, Oman and the UAE completed the delineation of their 1,000-kilometre (625-mile) shared borders, in line with a June 2002 accord.
The two neighbours differ in politics.
Oman has very good relations with Iran, while the UAE is a staunch ally of the United States. The UAE also has a long-lasting dispute with Tehran over three Iran-controlled islands in the Gulf.
Qaboos, known for rarely travelling out of Oman, was the first foreign leader to travel to Iran since its President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad's disputed 2008 re-election.
Oman has always had close relations with Iran and remained neutral during the war between the Islamic Theocratic Republic and Iraq that lasted from 1980 to 1988, unlike most of its Arab neighbours who had supported the regime of the toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
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[Iran Press TV] Clashes erupt between supporters of the Yemeni president and anti-government demonstrators holding a rally near the Egyptian Embassy in the capital city of Sanaa to show support for the Egyptian uprising.
On Saturday, Yemeni anti-government protesters, most of them journalists and rights activists, also called on President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh to end his 33-year rule.
A group of government backers along with security forces attacked and dispersed the crowd.
"The people want the regime to fall," the protesters shouted, urging the Yemeni president to resign.
Confronting the crowd, Pro-government bystanders were shouting, "With our blood and souls we defend you, Ali."
Yemen has been the scene of massive protests following the revolution in Tunisia that led to ouster of the Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The uprising also sent shockwaves across Arab and North African nations including Egypt, Yemen and Jordan.
Yemeni security forces also jugged a prominent human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... activist during the Saturday rally.
"The same people that surrounded us today, they are the same people that surrounded our protest on Wednesday and tried to hit some of the protesters. The only guarantee: they will not terrify us, and they will not scare us," activist, Tawakul Karman, told Rooters.
Saturday's protest came two days after tens of thousands of people erupted into the streets of the capital city Sanaa and several other cities, calling for the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
On Wednesday, at least five people were maimed and dozens of protesters jugged during violent festivities between security forces in Yemen's southern province of Shabwa.
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Twelve individuals were murdered in drug and gang related violence in northern mexico which included the shooting of a Juarez municipal police officer early Sunday morning. For a map, click here
Two unidentified men were kidnapped then shot to death in Juarez Thursday. The victims were dumped near the intersection of Pluton and Jupiter.
Two unidentified men were shot and wounded in Juarez Thursday, The victims were pursued by armed suspects aboard vehicles and shot at until they reached the municipal police station Aldama on Avenida Juan Gabriel.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in Juarez Thrisday. The victim was found near the corner of calles Florida and Nevada in the Alameda colony in a vacant of next to bulevar Juan Pablo II. Several 9mm spent casings were found at the scene.
An unidentified man was shot to death and duped in Juarez Friday afternoon. The vcitim was found near the intersection of calles Olivo and Himno Nacional in the San Felipe Real colony shot once in the head and wrapped in a blanket..
Two unidentified men were shot to death in Juarez Friday afternoon. The victims were at a workshop near the corner of calle Máartires Chicano in the Tierra y Libertad colony when armed suspects arrived, killed them, and then left the scene.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in Juarez Friday. The victim was found in pajamas in an arroyo near the intersection of calles Mesteñas and Rancho El Retiro in the Pradera Dorada colony. Reports say the victim has been kidnapped the day before in the Acequias colony. Reports were the victim was tortured before he was shot.
Two unidentified men were shot to death in Juarez Sunday. The victims were aboard a Lincoln Towncar near the intersection of calle Mandioca and Bulevard Zaragoza. Reports say armed suspects dismounted from a Honda sedan and shot them. At least 18 9mm spent shell casings were found at the scene.
A Juarez municipal police officer was shot to death early Sunday morning in Juarez. Ernesto Herrera Ortega, 32, exited his home near the corner of calles Pinotepa and Altamirano in the Mariano Escobedo colony to investigate vandalism to his personal vehicle when three men shot him. Hector Torres Chavez, 19, Carlos Alberto Ruiz Cerros, 21, and Jesus Torres Suarez, 24 were charged with the murder.
An unidentified man was found shot ot death in Hermosillo, Sonora Saturday night. The victim was found near the intersection of bulevars Progreso and Morelos. The victim had a single gunshot wound to the head.
An unidentified man was found mutilated and tortured to death in Tijuana Friday. The victim was found in the Baja Malibu colony in the Playas de Tijuana delegation. The victim appeared to have been stabbed to death prior to dismemberment.
A source in Hyaesan, Yanggang Province reports on January 20th that "The New Year has seen a dramatic worsening in the area's electricity supplies. Power has been out for twenty days straight. Nationwide the situation is similar, even in Pyongyang, where although there is some supply regular people are getting no more than one or two hours a day." Because of this North Koreans are not merely undergoing the usual daily hardships but are beginning to wonder if the country is on its last legs.
And because of the recent cessation in distribution to the miners of their daily 800 grams of rations, workers have downed tools and left the mine.
"Power stations," the source went on, "have insufficient coal supplies and so electricity production is out of the question. There's an acute energy crisis." In a stymying vicious circle, the lack of electric power necessary to drive the motors which rid the mine of stagnant water means the shaft can't be entered in order to dig the coal necessary to produce the electricity the country needs. And because of the recent cessation in distribution to the miners of their daily 800 grams of rations, workers have downed tools and left the mine.
The general power supply situation is not as problematic in the summer when the heavy rainfall North Korea receives enables it to produce hydroelectric power. In the winter, a reduction in hydroelectric power has usually led to a worsening of the supply situation. But the situation this winter is considerably worse than usual. Amidst this power crisis, an official declared, "The railways are the arteries of North Korea and when they come to a standstill the country's heart stops beating." Factories and economic production has been killed off and all power redirected to the railways, the official added. Most factories and businesses having ceased production, the people have gone to farming villages to help plow and labor in the fields.
Nevertheless, in spite of the redirection of the people's electricity supply to the railways, the system is not running normally. Trains are the sole means of long distance transportation in North Korea and require automotive power. But the lack of available power has caused chaos in the system and people are having to sit up to a week at a time in stations awaiting their departures. Then once they have boarded further problems of supply en route are causing the journey from Hyaesan to Pyongyang, for example, to take up to a week. Ordinarily, it would be completed in three days.
The source also reported that, "The absence of power supply is making it difficult to communicate with outside sources via cell phones." Phones are not being recharged and it is getting harder to receive outside information, rendering the people's isolation complete. Following hard on the recent severe hike in rice prices, the everyday difficulties for North Koreans are now wretched.
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Factories and economic production has been killed off and all power redirected to the railways, the official added. Most factories and businesses having ceased production, the people have gone to farming villages to help plow and labor in the fields.
MORONS, if the factories don't produce, then there's nothing for the Railroads to Haul.
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In the meantime, North Korea has begun making large shipments of coal to China. It looks to me like they are selling their coal instead of burning it themselves.
They keep this up and there will be nobody left to mine it.
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They sent factory workers to plow fields in January? In *North Korea*? That seems designed to kill thousands. Not to mention that if they can't dig or move coal, then what the hell are they heating with?
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Where is their big powerful new superpower?. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to field a fighter force with the help of Tom Cruse. No show but all show.
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Everyone needs to have NORK fail this time and the govt crater, then things can get better when the regime collapses. No bailouts, six party lunches talks, etc. etc.
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CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > US PREDICTS NORTH KOREA IS THE "NEXT EGYPT", UNITE KOREAN ULTRA-NATIONALISTS! | US STUDY: NORTH KOREA DISSENT ON THE RISE.
and
* PEOPLES DAILY FORUM > NORTH KOREA URGES SOUTH KOREA TO HOLD DIALOGUE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE [Any + all former = pre-existing barriers or obstacles to talks no longer exist or matter].
SSSSSSSSSHHHHHHH Artic also read, "...OR ELSE"!
Again, IMO STARVING NORTH KOREA wants to see iff overlord CHINA will accept a STRONG, NON-CHINESE DOMINATED? INTERNATIONAL ECON PRESENCE, ACTIVITIES INSIDE NORTH KOREA, whereas RISING CHINA per se is unlikely to accept same or any formal RE-UNIFICATION WID SOUTH KOREA unless MAJOR CHIN-CENTRIC NATIONAL, GEOPOL SECURITY CONDITIONS ARE MET ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA + NE ASIA REGION, e.g. MAJORITY OR TOTAL US MILFOR PULLOUT FROM SOUTH KOREA + likely JAPAN, + MAJOR CHINESE "BASE RIGHTS" IN SOUTH KOREA + JAPAN [Taiwan?], + NO NUCWEAPONS FOR SOUTH = REUNIFIED KOREA + JAPAN [Taiwan?], + CHIN ROLE IN ANY REGIONAL MISSLE DEFENSE.
NORTH KOREA will wage war in NE Asia for "NORTH KOREA FOR NORTH KOREANS/KOREANS, NOT CHINESE"; CHINA will wage war for CHINESE SECURITY + POST-US MANIFEST DESTINY [Chin-controlled, "First Island Chain" warm-water ports].
To wit,
* PEOPLES DAILY FORUM > NORTH EAST ASIA MILITARY STRUCTURE CHANGES [Regional Balance of Power]:PEACEFUL OR VIOLENT MULTILATERALISM?
PD POSTER = BULK OF ENTIRE NORTHEAST LAND REGION OF CHINA is blocked by RUSSIA + NORTH KOREA [includ Pro-Russia Mongolia, + offshore by Japan + South Korea + Taiwan]; hence is a serious WEAK SPOT" FOR CHINA + PLA SECURITY + POWER PROJECTION. THE LATTER NEED "INDEPENDENT ACCESS" THRU THE SEA OF JAPAN [Kamchatka-Japan-Okinawa-Taiwan.
VERSUS
* GUAM K57/PACIFICNEWSCENTER > WASHINGTON REPORT: [US]FEDERAL BUDGET PICTURE "GRIM" FOR TERRITORIES.
ARTIC > ALA US CBO FIGURES, THE US GOVT = USA IS "BROKE", + BOTH GUAM + OTHER TERRITORIES SHOULD NOT LOOK = COUNT ON WASHINGTON FOR ANY NEW NEW $$$ HELP ANYTIME SOON [time being = near future].
Dearborn, Michigan - A California man, accused of being in possession of explosive materials outside the Islamic Center of America on Ford Road, has been charged with making a terrorist threat. The suspect was charged with stupidity one count of a false report or threat of terrorism and one count of possession of bombs with unlawful intent.
While drinking in a Detroit bar on Monday, the suspect was heard threatening to harm a Detroit mosque. A bar employee followed him outside, wrote down his license number & notified authorities. I originally filed this under Home Front:WOT because the 'Burg doesn't have a Home Front:Bar Wars category.
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TV news said what he had were M-80's an other fireworks, NOT explosives, looks like another MAM screwup accidently-on-purpose calling firecrackers "Explosives".
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he's from Imperial Beach in San Diego County, where, for wildfire protection, fireworks are illegal.
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Last time I tried to buy M-80s in Missouri I was told they are illegal too. Dang, was I disappointed. I had to settle for run of the mill firecrackers.
At least seven people have been killed and 19 injured in twin truck bombings targeting a key road tunnel in north-western Pakistan, officials say. The tunnel connects the main city of Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to the city of Kohat. Security forces later sealed off the tunnel, closing it to traffic.
The first truck was detonated inside the Kohat tunnel on Friday night, destroying a vehicle behind. Shortly afterwards, an oil tanker was rammed into a security checkpoint at the tunnel's other entrance.
The checkpoint was reportedly not manned at the time, and most victims of the attacks were said to be civilians, including women.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the bombings.
The region is close to Pakistan's insurgency heartland tribal regions and the Afghan border. It has seen frequent attacks by the Taliban, including on government installations and security force targets.
[Al Jazeera] At least five people have been killed and 19 others maimed in northwest Pakistain after a car boomwent kaboom! in a tunnel late on Friday.
The kaboom occurred in the Kohat tunnel, a busy thoroughfare that connects the main northwest city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar to southern Khyber Paktunkhwa, Punjab and Sind provinces, Pak police reported.
Many of those maimed in the kaboom were taken to medical facilities in Peshawar, the nearest large city. The blast also damaged the tunnel.
Northwest Pakistain has witnessed numerous bombings over the past years.
No one has as yet grabbed credit for Friday's kaboom.
Most attacks in the region are generally believed to be linked to al-Qaeda and Taliban-led groups.
The two-kilometre long tunnel has been the scene of past fighting between Pak security forces and the Taliban.
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[Iran Press TV] A huge crowd of anti-US protesters erupted into the streets in Bloody Karachi to denounce the murder of two Paks by a US national in the eastern city of Lahore.
The latest statement from US Embassy in Islamabad was undoubtedly different from the one released earlier describing the accused Davis, a staff member of the US Consulate General in Lahore, which though ambiguous, was clearly short of declaring him as a diplomat.
Keeping an illegal gun without any license or permit, Pak media speculate that the consulate official is an agent of the notorious US private security firm, formerly known as Blackwater.
In the meantime, US Ambassador to Pakistain Cameron Munter has also approached Pak officials for the custody of Davis which many fear that the US is trying to get some special treatment for the US national.
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License or permit? In Pakiwakiland? That's a joke, right?
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The Baghdad Operations Command has announced on Sunday that its forces have discovered 63 rockets and dismantled 4 explosive charges in the Iraqi capital over the past 24 hours.
"Our Security Forces have managed to discover an arms and ammunition dump, comprising 16 Katusha rockets, 47 Ck5 rockets, along with dismantling 4 explosive charges in Baghdad's Rathwaniya, Niba'e areas, as well as freeing an abducted woman in west Baghdad's al-Jihad district over the past 24 hours," a Baghdad Operations Command statement said.
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GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories Two out of eight Hamas prisoners who broke out of a Cairo prison as a wave of anti-government protests swept Egypt arrived back in Gaza on Sunday, an official source said.
You'd have to be a Hamas member to want to flee to Gaza...
A senior official in the Hamas government confirmed all eight were on their way back to Gaza, with the report also confirmed by one of the escapees. By Sunday morning, at least two of the prisoners who had been held in Abu Zaabal prison, northeast of Cairo, had made it back to Gaza, entering the strip through the tunnels which run under the border, a Palestinian official said on condition of anonymity.
They made their escape when thousands broke free from jails across Egypt as officials struggled to control the wave of chaos sparked by nationwide riots demanding the end of the regime of President Hosni Mubarak.
Among those who arrived back in Gaza on Sunday was Mohamed al-Shaer, a big tunnel rat name in the cross-border smuggling enterprise, who was arrested in Egypt six months ago after completing the haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. Shaer entered Gaza through the tunnels, witnesses said.
Several hours later, a second prisoner, Hassan Wishah also made his way through the tunnels to El Bourej camp in central Gaza. He had served three years of a 10-year sentence at the Cairo jail for unspecified security offences.
"All the Palestinian prisoners escaped from Abu Zaabal," Wishah told AFP.
The remaining six prisoners were said to have reached the port city of Al Arish and were expected to reach Gaza later on Sunday, official sources said.
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I was waiting for something like this. Misdirection, freeing imprisoned allies, gunfights at jails between armed groups and guards that sounded like raids to me, el Baradei crawling out of the pits of hell back into the light (hope it burns); it is all adding up. To what, specifically, I am still not clear, but seems like Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood (spit) are the most likely beneficiaries.
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It's hard to escape back in, but I did it....
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[Arab News] An Israeli court on Sunday sentenced an Arab-Israeli activist who confessed to spying for Leb's Hezbulliessnuffies to nine years in prison.
Amir Makhoul pleaded guilty in October to contacting a foreign agent, conspiring to aid an enemy in time of war and espionage. The top charge -- of aiding an enemy -- was dropped when Makhoul agreed to the plea bargain of between seven to 10 years. He faced a potentially much longer sentence had his case gone to trial.
Court documents said Makhoul used encryption software to send Hezbullies information about Israeli military facilities and defense capabilities. Hezbullies operatives also asked Makhoul to locate the residence of the head of Israel's internal security service, the Shin Bet, according to the documents.
Shin Bet officials said Makhoul also passed along information about Israelis believed to be vulnerable to recruitment by Hezbullies.
Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbullies are bitter enemies. Hezbullies formed in the early 1980s to fight Israeli troops who invaded and occupied southern Leb from 1982 to 2000. The two foes also fought a monthlong war in 2006.
The case against Makhoul, a prominent pro-Paleostinian activist whose brother served in Israel's Parliament, has strained relations between Israel and its Arab minority.
Arabs make up about 20 percent of Israel's 7.5 million citizens. They enjoy full rights but complain of decades of discrimination. In recent years, many have become radicalized and increasingly critical of Israeli policies against Paleostinians.
"It is a difficult day today for all of us because Amir was one of the key people among the Paleostinians inside the Green Line, with a very strong voice against (Israeli) state violence against Paleostinians," said his attorney, Hussein Abu Hussein.
Abu Hussein said that Makhoul agreed to a plea bargain because when Paleostinians face security-related charges in Israeli courts, the chances for a fair trial are "nonexistent." He said Makhoul was vulnerable to prosecutors after being held in jail without access to counsel, doctors or his family.
Makhoul claimed he fell into a "trap," and that he was being prosecuted as a political reaction to his work exposing human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... violations by Israel.
In recent years, several Israeli Arabs have been jugged for spying for Hezbullies, a fierce enemy of Israel suspected of involvement in bloody attacks against Jews outside the region as well.
In another high-profile case, politician Azmi Bishara decamped the country four years ago to avoid facing similar espionage charges. Living in exile, he has since become a frequent participant in Arabic TV panels, heaping scorn and criticism on Israel and its policies toward Paleostinians.
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An Islamic religious teacher has been arrested on suspecion of involvement in the road bombing in Pattani province that injured one Buddhist monk and four soldiers on Jan 28.
Waesa-udee Waesukaloh, 27, of Ban Sideh in Yarang district of Pattani, was arrested on a warrant, said a local police chief at a press conference this morning.
The suspect confessed that he was the person who placed the IED at a power pole on the road that day, according to the police chief. He also said two other men on another motorcycle were the ones who detonated the bomb. They all fled the scene after the bombing.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Pak Daily Times] Students clashed with police in north Sudan on Sunday as youths heeded calls to take to the streets for a day of nationwide anti-government protests, despite a heavy security presence on the ground.
[Ennahar] Nearly 99% of South Sudanese have chosen to vote for secession in the referendum for independence which was held from January 9 to 15, according to preliminary results released by the full Election Commission Sunday.
[Arab News] The leader of a long-outlawed Tunisian Islamic party was welcomed at the airport by thousands of cheering supporters on Sunday as he returned to his homeland after more than two decades in exile.
[Ennahar] Thousands of prisoners have 
[Ma'an] Embassies in Cairo are urging their citizens to avoid travel to Egypt, and the United States urged Americans Sunday to depart the country immediately. 
[Ennahar] Egyptian 
[Iran Press TV] Clashes erupt between supporters of the Yemeni president and anti-government demonstrators holding a rally near the Egyptian Embassy in the capital city of Sanaa to show support for the Egyptian uprising.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The Baghdad Operations Command has announced on Sunday that its forces have discovered 63 rockets and dismantled 4 explosive charges in the Iraqi capital over the past 24 hours.
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories Two out of eight Hamas prisoners who broke out of a Cairo prison as a wave of anti-government protests swept Egypt arrived back in Gaza on Sunday, an official source said.
