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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Barbara Parkins aka Anne Welles in "Valley of the Dolls" aka B.A. in "The Kremlin Letter" aka Cynthia in "The Deadly Trap" aka Roxanne Delancey in "The Mephisto Waltz" aka Rosa O'Flynn/Oldsmith in "Shout at the Devil" aka Judith Rubin in "Bear Island" (age 69)
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The reports of apocalypse are greatly exaggerated...
Hello? Anyone there?
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Nope.
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Barbara Parkins was Teh Hawt back in the day
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"Ezekiel 38:20 (King James Version)
20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground".
[Tolo News] At least five Talibs were killed and five others were maimed in an exlosion in eastern Nuristan province on Friday, local officials said.
The blast happened at 12:00 am local time when Taliban in Chatras area of Nuristan were teaching a 12-year-old boy how to perform a sucide attack, and the kaboom occurred when they tied a boom jacket on him, Gen. Shams-ur-Rahman Zahid, police chief of Nuristan province told TOLOnews.
Two Arab Death Eaters were also killed in the incident, he added.
Nuristan borders Pakistain and Death Eaters are active in most of its villages.
It comes as more than 400 Taliban fighters attacked on Afghan police checks posts in eastern Nuristan province two weeks ago.
Taliban fighters have previously attacked on some of the districts in the province and captured some of areas for some weeks.
Afghan officials have planned to launch a military operation to wipe our Death Eaters in the province.
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This is disgusting. Good riddance to the grown men who were part of this, but may they rot in hell for including the kid.
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PAK madrassas along the border are breeding grounds for suicide bombers. The ISI trains hundreds of them. The sessions can last for up to two years. Children and the mentally handicapped are the easiest to train.
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I bet that the CIA's "zero delay" detonators were the low bid.
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PAK madrassas along the border are breeding grounds for suicide bombers.
Besoeker, there were something like 5 million madrassah students throughout Pakistan in 2008. No doubt there are more now.
Children and the mentally handicapped are the easiest to train.
Sure. The ones least capable of questioning authority. As for their trainers, some are born psychopaths, some choose to embrace evil. I have no doubt that if there is a hell, the trainers and those who give them their orders will find themselves in the deepest circle of it.
[Iran Press TV] Militants have destroyed yet another state-run school in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, ...on the main road from Lovely Peshawar. The capital is Jalalabad. The population of 1,334,000 consists mostly of Pashtuns with a few Arabs and Pashais... local officials have said.
Unknown gunnies torched the school building in Chaparhar district, south of the picturesque provincial capital, Jalalabad, in the early hours of Saturday, local officials told Press TV.
Two Afghan security personnel guarding the school were maimed in the incident after taking a beating from the assailants.
According to the report, the school's rather modern building was severely damaged in the incident.
No one has been incarcerated in connection with the attack so far.
Reflecting their Saudi-based Wahhabi beliefs, suspected Taliban-linked hard boyz have been trying to ban education, especially for girls, in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistain.
During the last several years alone, the hard boyz have shut down, blown up or torched hundreds of schools across the region.
Due to the ongoing violence, the numbers of girls and boys enrolled in schools in the region have dramatically dropped.
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[Al Jazeera] The armies of North and South Sudan have accused each other of launching attacks in the disputed region of Abyei.
Artillery fire erupted in Sudan's contested Abyei region hours after the north accused the south of ambushing a convoy in the border area, the United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale... said.
"We heard artillery exchanges in Abyei in Todach and Tagalei but we don't know who is fighting whom," said Kouider Zerrouk, spokesperson for the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) on Friday.
The fresh violence came after the north accused the SPLA of attacking a convoy of Sudanese soldiers and UN peacekeepers late on Thursday in Dokura north of Abyei town.
"Abyei is now a war zone," said Sadiq Amer, deputy head of northern intelligence and security forces, adding that at least 22 soldiers had been killed in what he called an "aggression" of southern forces against a convoy of around 10 vehicles.
"The troops were ambushed without any warning," he told news hounds in the capital Khartoum.
"We know that they are mobilising huge numbers of troops, not only in Abyei but along the 1956 border line," he said. "They should know that the Sudanese armed forces are ready."
The SPLA denied responsibility for the attack, which the United Nations said had taken place on a convoy of northern troops escorted by UN peacekeepers under a deal for both sides to withdraw forces from the disputed territory.
Strong condemnations The United States, one of the main backers of Sudan's landmark 2005 peace deal, deplored the attack and urged both sides to stop all unauthorised military actions in Abyei.
"Political leaders on both sides must take responsibility now to ensure that this situation does does not escalate into a wider crisis," State Department front man Mark Toner said.
UN front man Martin Nesirky said secretary-general the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon "strongly condemns" Thursday's attack and was "very concerned over the reports of increased troop movements into Abyei." Ban wants all unauthorised troops to be withdrawn, Nesirky added.
South Sudan voted to become independent in a referendum in January. It agreed to a peace deal with the north in 2005, but tensions have built up in the oil-producing Abyei border region where both sides have built up forces.
The north has said it will not recognise the state unless the south gives up its claim to Abyei.
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[Iran Press TV] The Iranian Navy has thwarted an attempt by pirates to hijack a Maltese-flagged fat merchantman on its way to Iran in the Sea of Oman.
The Iranian Naval forces saved the "Dandle" fat merchantman when it was attacked by four speedboats of pirates, said Deputy Commander of the Iranian Navy Rear Admiral Gholam-Reza Khadem Bigham.
The Iranian Navy commander added that the pirates intended to attack the Dandle with light weapons and RPG's from different sides but given the vigilance of the Iranian fleet, they were forced to flee, a statement by the Iranian Navy said.
Saturday's incident brings to 10 the number of the Iranian Navy's confrontations with Somali pirates since the start of the new Persian Year on March 21.
Rear Admiral Bigham also said that, following the Iranian Navy's successful attempts in fighting piracy, the Navy has increased the number of its forces in the northern Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden.
Earlier, Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari announced that Iran's Navy is ready to provide protection for foreign ships that may be targeted by pirates in international waters.
He stressed that all Iranian and foreign ships that are under the escort of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran's naval fleet will safely pass through the region.
In line with international anti-piracy efforts, Iran's Navy has been conducting patrols in the Gulf of Aden since November 2008.
The Gulf of Aden -- which links the Indian Ocean with the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea -- is an important energy corridor, particularly because Persian Gulf oil is shipped to the West through the Suez Canal.
In May, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) hailed Iran's anti-piracy efforts as "effective."
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Witnesses say helicopters in Yemen have airlifted the ambassadors of the U.S., Britain and Gulf Arab nations who were trapped inside a diplomatic mission surrounded by armed loyalists to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
The loyalists surrounded the United Arab Emirates Embassy in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, on Sunday. They blocked roads and roamed the streets near the mission, where the ambassadors were discussing a Gulf region-brokered deal that would have Saleh transfer power within a month.
Hundreds of thousands of anti-Saleh protesters Sunday poured into Sana'a's central square, which has become the center of opposition protests.
Yemen's president appears to be backing out yet again from signing the deal. Hours before he was scheduled to sign the agreement Sunday, Saleh said he is not interested in signing a deal inked "behind closed doors."
Plans to sign the deal have already stalled twice because of objections by the Yemeni leader.
Yemen's opposition signed the pact Saturday with the understanding that the president would sign the agreement Sunday. The agreement offers Saleh immunity from prosecution if he transfers power to a deputy within 30 days of signing.
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Nothing quite says "failed diplomacy" like a helo extraction of ambassadors from the mission parking lot.
[Iran Press TV] Yemeni government forces have opened fire on anti-regime protesters in a western port city, injuring more than two dozen demonstrators.
The forces maimed at least 35 protesters, taking on the demonstrating public in the university in Hudaydah on Saturday, Rooters reported.
They used live bullets and batons to confront the people. Dozens more were also affected by teargas.
In a popular revolution that began in late January, hundreds of thousands of people have been staging regular demonstrations in Yemen's major cities. The public have been calling for an end to corruption and unemployment and demanding President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh's ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... ouster.
The president has been in office for nearly 33 years with several opposition members arguing that his long-promised political and economic reforms have never materialized.
Some 40 percent of Yemenis live on USD 2 a day or less and one third is wrestling with chronic hunger.
According to local reports, at least 300 protesters have been killed and many others injured during festivities with riot police and armed forces loyal to the embattled Yemeni president since the anti-Saleh demonstrations began.
The ruler has twice turned down a proposal tabled by the regional Arab grouping of the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council ... the Medes and the Persians are very sensitive on the subject of the Persian Gulf, which the Arabs refer to as the Arabian Gulf... ([P]GCC) that offers him immunity in return for his resignation.
The organization's Secretary General Abdullatif al-Zayani was expected in Yemen on Saturday, three days after he was forced to leave the country.
Also on Saturday, Saleh said he welcomes the agreement, but called it 'a mere coup operation and part of foreign pressures and agendas.'
Rival parties are preparing to sign the deal. The opposition says it will sign it on Saturday, while Saleh's ruling party will do so on Sunday.
However, The essential However... protesters have already rejected the deal and insisted on Saleh's immediate departure. They also want Saleh to stand trial for killing hundreds of protesters during anti-government rallies.
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[Yemen Post] President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... said on Friday that Al-Qaeda might capture some and important parts of Yemen if he leaves office, as officials in the ruling party said the GCC Secretary General Abdul Latif Al-Zayani would arrive in Sana'a today to secure a teetering GCC-brokered power transfer deal.
Saleh mentioned provinces such as Hadramout, Shabwa, Abyan, Marib and others where AQAP is active, saying in his address on Unification Day that Al-Qaeda will control the situation here after the regime falls.
" I send a clear message to the West, which are backing the GCC initiative, that Al-Qaeda will succeed and control the situation here, and such countries will then realize that is worse," he said.
Regarding the GCC plan, Saleh said he is dealing with it positively, though he said the plan is a 'mere coup scheme'.
Saleh has backed out from the ouster plan, unveiled in April, twice. On Wednesday he refused to sign at the last minute, triggering fears about the fate of the deal.
Saleh's remarks today triggered skepticism of politicians and observers who argued Saleh has already blown up the Gulf effort.
Meantime, informed sources said President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... and the opposition may conclude the deal later today, amid the refusal of the youth-led protesters who have been conducting month-long street sit-ins to call for an immediate, unconditional ouster of the regime.
On Friday, opposition officials said the signing had been agreed this week, but they suggested that on Saturday, while the government suggested that take place on Sunday.
Saleh called on the same day for early presidential election to prevent bloodshed, as he continued the usual rhetoric and accusations against the opposition, on which the current situation is blamed.
He also criticized Yemen's neighbors and friends, urging them to deal with what is happening in Yemen in a better way, at a time when external pressure is mounting on him to sign the deal and start an orderly power transition immediately.
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[Yemen Post] The Joint Meeting Parties, the opposition bloc in Yemen, signed on Saturday a GCC-brokered power-sharing deal yet to bear the signature of President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... who insisted on concluding that early tomorrow morning. "Sorry. Can't sign now. I'd like to but... ummm... I gotta hangnail. It's really painful."
The GCC Secretary General, Abdul Latif Al-Zayani, arrived in Yemen late today for a fourth visit to push the West-backed deal, which was unveiled in April. "Perhaps Mr. al-Zayani wouldn't mind signing for me?"
Al-Zayani failed on his previous visits to secure the plan as Saleh backed twice from signing at the last minute. "But the agreement sez 'The undersigned agrees to vacate the premises within 30 days!' If I do the signing, then I'm the one that's gotta vacate!"
President Saleh will ink it later tonight or tomorrow morning to resign in a month after 33 years in office. "Okay. Give it here. I'm gonna go get a manicure. We'll see what I feel like tomorrow. Or Monday."
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[Bangla Daily Star] Two pirates were killed in a shootout with a joint team of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and Coast Guard in the Sundarbans at Sharankhola upazila of Bagerhat yesterday.
The identity of the pirates and the group they belonged to could not be known immediately.
The law enforcers recovered 17 firearms including seven shutter guns, a single-barrel gun, nine one shooter guns, four sharp weapons, 42 bullets and 22 cartridges from the spot. SEVEN shutter guns! There's a record that'll be tough to beat. What's the difference between a 'shutter' gun and a 'one-shooter' gun?
A joint team of Rab-8 and Coast Guard conducted a raid at Dimer Char of Sharankhola range of East Sundarbans in the morning, said Lt Bodruddoza, operation officer of Coast Guard (west zone). Tonight's episode:"Raid at Dimer Char of Sharankhola range of East Sundarbans".
Sensing their presence around 11:30am, the pirates fired targeting the law enforcers who retaliated triggering a shootout, told Yakub Ali Khan, Coast Guard's petty officer, also a member of the team, to The Daily Star. Yarrrrr! Let's show these coppers whose boss, mateys!
The shootout left two of pirates dead on the spot. And, as all pirates know, X marks the spot...
At least 150 bullets were traded in the hour-long battle, Yakub added.
Sources said, there are eight to ten pirates' groups who are operating at the Sundarbans. Among them, the Julfikar group, Raju group and Shohagh group are more active in the Bagerhat belt. They are responsible for illegal poaching of tigers, deers and logging in the Sundarbans. They sound like full service pirates.
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[Dawn] A bomb went kaboom! on a shopping street in the centre of Northern Ireland's second city Londonderry on Saturday but no injuries were reported as the area was evacuated after a warning.
The blast happened in a branch of the Spanish-owned Santander Bank one day after Queen Elizabeth ended the first visit by a British monarch to the Republic of Ireland since independence in 1921, a visit opposed by some Irish nationalist groups.
Security forces said they were investigating reports of another device at a nearby branch of mortgage lender Halifax.
"This bomb could clearly have caused death or serious injury," Northern Ireland Justice Minister David Ford said.
An army bomb disposal squad was at the scene but the device went kaboom! before it could be disarmed.
Shoppers and staff were evacuated from stores and businesses over a large area of the city centre.
The city is a centre of activity by so-called dissident republicans, Irish nationalist groups opposed to a 1998 peace deal which ended 30 years of wide-scale armed opposition to British rule.
Security had been intense on both sides of the border against an attack during the queen's visit, which passed with relatively little disruption.
Dissident republicans last month grabbed credit for the murder of a Catholic policeman, who was killed when a bomb went kaboom! under his car.
Mainstream nationalist party Sinn Fein, which is part of a power-sharing government with pro-British rivals, immediately condemned Saturday's attack.
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ICE says a Pak man arrested in Massachusetts during the investigation into last year's failed New York Times Square car bombing has been deported to Pakland. hopefully he got a beating first?
Aftab Ali Khan, illegally living in Watertown, was accompanied by ICE copperes on a flight from Logan International Airport to Islamabad on Sunday. Khan, his uncle, and a man in Maine were arrested on immigration violations nearly two weeks after the failed bombing attempt on May 1, 2010. Ship the whole family back, eh?
Khan pleaded guilty to immigration and illegal money-transfer charges. He did not face terrorism-related charges.
Federal authorities say Ali "unwittingly" supplied $4,900 to Faisal Shahzad, of Bridgeport, Conn., who was convicted in the attempted bombing. what did he say the money was for? Just handing over boodle to "some guy I didn't know"?
Ali came to the U.S. in August 2009 on a 90-day visa to get married. Hope that didn't happen. I'd see how many others his "fiancee" has brought over?
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I, I..., I don't know what to say.
Who was the prosecutor?
Wasn't anything said about attempted murder?
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No doubt they got DNA, fingerprints, and other biometric data, and thoroughly investigated his phone and computer. Most important seems to have become not the people themselves but mapping their contacts to find those maneuvering the pieces behind the scenes. How many drone attacks in Waziristan and nearby will result from this, I wonder...
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If Muslim terrorism is to be brought under control, biometrics will be the key. Even those techniques will be difficult due to their incessant spawning.
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anon1: my standards for terrorism suspects include beatings - if useful. Note that I wasn't picked up in Saturday's Rapture. If that is the tipping point - I'll work with it
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A number of the Pak Navy's P3-C Orion aircraft have been destroyed.
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any cries from Zardari, Nawaz, PML-N, Khan or Gul about the violation of Pak Sovereignty?
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UPDATE: Xinhua has 9 killed
Pakistan practically in civil war as islamofascists attack?
Time for us to just go home and profile muslims. Make alliance with India and if Pak causes any trouble, nuke mekka.
We can't afford it anymore, it's too expensive! We can't set them to rights. They are broken and will remain so - we need to just close our borders to them
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Big explosions were heard as the men stormed parts of the Mehran naval aviation base. They are said to be holding hostages, including foreigners.
hope they're Chinese and not American
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2 or 3 Orions ASW, 1 Breguet Atlantique recon, a number of Z-9EC anti-sub helicopters. Ouch.
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As a WAG, I'd have to say that's a hundred million or two worth of stuff destroyed.
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They'll never be able to find any North Korean mini-subs now...
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On a slightly more serious note, this is a big deal. The Orions, etc were big ticket items and (I'm certain) a point of pride for the Pak Navy. The Taliban/ISI/terrorists/militants are making quite a statement here.
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I was thinking, hopefully that wasn't one of their nuclear weapon storage facilities. Hopefully they didn't get around to making nuclear depth charges or torpedoes.
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Aside from all the amateurish rhetoric, I suspect even the Pak militants now realize that their government provided assistance to the US with the raid on Osama. Much further study needed regarding the actual target(s) of the Karachi raid.
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Aside from all the amateurish rhetoric, I suspect even the Pak militants now realize that their government provided assistance to the US with the raid on Osama.
At least one part of the government; another part likely didn't approve is is letting its displeasure be known. I'd like to know who provided the intel.
Much further study needed regarding the actual target(s) of the Karachi raid.
Judging by the initial reports, it looks like a standard guerrilla attack. High visibility targets, followed by a so-called hostage-taking. It'd be interesting to see the ensuing investigation.
The remaining gunmen have taken several officials, including Chinese military personnel, hostage inside a building. Security officials say commandos are now being sent in to clear this area.
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Much of the equipment would be US military aid. Watch "Mr Ten Per Cent" come running to US with begging bowl, after making out like a slut with the Chinese over the last couple of days.
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Red on red; woop-dee-doop. Either the Pakistanis decide to become modern or they decide to become 12th century throw-backs. Once they decide, Americans will love them or let them kill themselves. But the decision is theirs to make.
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ION DAILY TIMES.PK > TALIBAN STRESS TARGETED STRIKES [selective] in SPRING OFFENSIVE, as opposed to waging mass battle agz regular AF-PAK, US-NATO troops.
* ASIA ONE > TALIBAN WARN KAZAKHISTAN ON ENTERING AFGHAN WAR.
[Dawn] At least 16 people were killed in an oil tanker blaze after a bomb went kaboom! on the Afghanistan-bound NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... oil tanker near Landi Kotal on Saturday, officials said.
The victims were young people who had gathered to collect oil leaking from the tanker near Landi Kotal in the northwestern tribal region of Khyber, local administration official Shafeerullah Wazir said.
Among the dead, at least 10 belonged to the same family, DawnNews reported.
"The oil tanker caught fire after a blast caused by a small bomb before dawn," he said. "Villagers from nearby houses rushed and started collecting oil coming out of the destroyed tanker after the fire had been extinguished," he said.
Earlier, 11 other NATO supply containers and oil tankers were destroyed in nearby Torkham town, another administration official, Iqbal Khattak, said.
"The vehicles caught fire after a blast in one of the tankers around midnight last night," he said, adding that the blast was apparently caused by a remote-controlled device planted under one of the vehicles.
"There were no casualties," Khattak told AFP.
Wazir confirmed the overnight attack, saying that a total of 12 NATO vehicles had been destroyed in the two incidents.
No group has grabbed credit for the blast but the Taliban have claimed such attacks in the past.
The attacks on NATO supply vehicles came after the Taliban bombed a US consulate convoy in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar on Friday, killing one person and wounding 10 others in the first attack on Americans in Pakistain since the late Osama bin Laden's ... who is no more... death.
A US embassy front man said two US government employees were lightly maimed in the rush-hour attack.
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[Dawn] The political authorities in Mohmand ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Bloody Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... Agency have released 91 rustics, who had earlier surrendered to the security forces, on the recommendation of a tribal jirga.
Assistant political agent Roushen Mehsud told Dawn that these people were released on Thursday. The released people belong to Sagi, Dwezai and Masood Safi tribes.
He said that these people had joined snuffies and obtained terrorist training, but did not take part in subversive acts. He said that over 200 snuffies had been placed in durance vile in operations in Mohmand Agency and 91 were released on the guarantee of the jirga.
In tribal areas, the political administration usually releases suspects on the personal guarantee of elders rather than putting them under proper trial.
A jirga met in Ghalanai, the administrative headquarters, on Thursday which was attended by elders of various tribes. Political agent Amjad Ali Khan and senior army officers also attended the jirga.
The jirga decided that peace committees would be established in the area and volunteers would cooperate with the security forces to restore permanent peace.
The political agent told elders that army had cleared 70 per cent area of Safi and Khwaizai Bizai tehsils of jihad boys. He said that snuffies were still hiding in some pockets near the Afghan border. He said that government writ had been restored in Mohmand Agency and added that army would remain in the area till complete restoration of peace.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... snuffies fired four rockets early Friday, which did not cause any damage in Ghalanai. Officials said that rockets hit the nearby hilltops.
Later, the administration placed in durance vile 21 people under the collective responsibility clause of the Frontier Crimes Regulation.
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[Dawn] The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) held talks in Islamabad on Saturday, DawnNews reported.
The agencies discussed possibilities for stopping drone attacks in Pakistain's tribal areas and launching joint operations against Death Eaters.
CIA's Deputy Chief Michael Morrell also held discussions with key ISI officials, including the agency's DG Ahmed Shuja Pasha, over ways to mend ties after the mistrust created in the wake of the Abbottabad operation.
Sources told DawnNews that the agencies would soon sign an agreement over cooperation in the war against terror. Work on modalities of the agreement has been started, sources said.
Moreover, ISI officials told Mr Morrell to apprise the agency of CIA operations and operatives involved in counterterrorism.
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Of course, if we use ISI's targeting information, we will hit fewer real civilians. And a lot fewer jihadis.
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ISI, CIA discuss joint operations, drone attacks
[Dawn] Eight suspected Death Eaters were killed on Saturday when army gunship helicopters attacked their hideouts in Pakistain's northwestern Orakzai Agency. ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... There was no independent confirmation of the attacks as the region is remote and out of bounds for journalists.
Orakzai is one of the most lawless areas in Pakistain's northwest tribal region, which is made up of seven districts near the Afghan border.
Pakistain launched a major operation in Orakzai in March last year after Death Eaters fled a sweeping offensive in the nearby tribal district of South Wazoo.
Late last year military officials said lower Orakzai had been cleared, but the hard boy threat persisted in some pockets of the upper part of the area.
Around 4,000 people have been killed in hard boy attacks in Pakistain since July 2007.
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Lawless. On the plus side, no taxes. On the downside, you have to pay for your own private police force to discourage the other low lifes, no paved roads, no zoning to prevent the next door neighbor from starting a pig[~] farm, and the satellite TV providers can charge whatever they want for HBO.
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The United States expects its allies to go after Al Qaeda leaders if they are located within their territories and if they do not, the Americans will get them, says US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Dean Rusk ... Also on Friday, the US media reported that the B.O. regime had revived its covert drone campaign against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistain's tribal areas after several months of slow activity.
In an interview to CBS News, Secretary Clinton said she agreed with US Defence Secretary Robert Gates that top Pak leaders were unaware of the late Osama bin Laden's ... who is currently taking a long nap in the dirt... urm... water... whereabouts.
"Would you recommend additional unilateral raids if you knew the whereabouts of other key Al Qaeda figures in Pakistain?" she was asked.
"I'm not going to comment on any hypotheticals and I certainly wouldn't go into any operational details. But I think it should be sufficient to say that the United States has made it clear from the very moment we were attacked that we would go after those who had attacked us," she said.
"Bin Laden was our primary target. The President made a gutsy decision. We were very pleased that the operation succeeded. And we've made it clear to people around the world that if we locate someone who has been part of the Al Qaeda leadership, then you get him or we will get him."
What the US would do about its relationship with Pakistain if it determined that Pak leaders knew Bin Laden's was in Abbottabad, she was asked. "I would answer the same way that Secretary Gates said, because he and I see this eye to eye. We believe that it was not proven that anybody at the top of the government in Pakistain knew where Bin Laden was," Secretary Clinton responded.
"But it seems likely that somebody did know. I said that the first time I went to Pakistain. I said, 'It's hard to believe that somebody in your government somewhere -- and it could be some very low-level person -- doesn't know where he is'. And we're having very candid conversations with our Pak partners," she said. Secretary Clinton, however, stressed that the US had had good cooperation with Pakistain on many important strategic interests and had supported Pakistain in the fight against the beturbanned goons who were killing and threatening their people.
"But we expect more. We're having conversations about what more we can do together."
Asked when she was planning to visit Pakistain, the secretary said: "We'll see how the conversations go. Marc Grossman, my special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistain, is there now, following up on some of the areas of concern."
The US State Department said earlier that Secretary Clinton planned to visit Pakistain after Ambassador Grossman returned from the region but the department's front man also explained that the visit would only be finalised if the US envoy
succeeded in laying the groundwork for further talks. Diplomatic sources in Washington say that Mr Grossman went to Islamabad with a road map for a future partnership, which includes conditions that the Americans believe should be acceptable to Pakistain.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hoedown, Bob finally got to dance with Sally... CNN quoted, Bill Roggio, a military affairs analyst and editor of the Long War Journal, as saying that the US had intensified its drone attacks on Fata and the increase was not due to intelligence gained from Bin Laden's compound. "What has happened, since the Bin Laden raid, is that the US has not felt pressured to dial back the attacks due to Pak sensibilities," he said. The United States has carried out six suspected drone strikes in Pakistain in the past 15 days, with an average of one strike every 2.5 days, CNN reported.
The US carried out 117 attacks inside Pakistain in 2010, more than double the number of strikes that occurred in 2009. By late August 2010, the US had exceeded 2009's strike total of 53 with a strike in Kurram. In 2008, the US carried out a total of 36 strikes inside Pakistain.
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I am by no means a Hillary fan. But you have got to give her credit for backing CIA Director Panetta's move against OBL against opposition from Valerie Jarrett.
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Note that the State Department was also given a bigger strategic and tactical say with regards to that region.
The CIA thinks post-Osama, interim = "caretaker" AQ LEADER SAIF AL-ADEL COULD BE HIDING IN NORTH
WAZIRISTAN.
* TIMES OF INDIA > [Saif Al-Adel] ANOTHER 07/7 [planned]IN LONDON SOON.
UK first, USA after.
ARTIC = SAIF has repor ordered his followers to begin planning for MULTIPLE, NEW 9-11 STYLE INTERNATIONAL TERROPS.
* TOPIX/ASIA ONE > [AQ#2 Ayman Zawahiri = 3-Part Message]QAEDA HEIR CALLS FOR ARAB UPRISING TO SPREAD TO SAUDIS [+ Yemen].
AYMAN + SAIF = RADICAL ISLAM DISECTING NATO-EU like Al-Shabaab does as per CENTRAL EAST-WEST AFRICA from NORTHERN, SOUTHERN AFRICA???
* TOPIX > ISLAM + THE US VERSUS EURASIA.
[Hezbollah in Mexico, Iranian Missle Base? in Venezuela here].
D *** NG IT, FEAR NOT AMERICA = AMERIKA, SURRENDER-HAPPY FRANCE + GERMANY WILL COME TO SAVE THE DAY FOR THE UK + NATO-EU ...
Oh wait.
* PERTS > claim GERMANY = twas NOT + NEVER EVAR! PART OF THE "REAL WEST/EUROPE" IN HISTORY, WERE THEY!?
Besides Germany, can't be EASTERN EUROPE because ...
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > VISEGRAD [Group of East Euro Nations] A NEW EUROPEAN MILITARY FORCE. Poland, Czech, Slovakia, + Hungary - others hopefully to join in time. STARTED OUT AS ANTI-RUSSIA IN FAVOR OF NATO + US, WESTERN EUROPE, BUT LATELY HAVE BEEN TURNING TOWARDS RUSSIA AWAY FROM WEST EUROPE.
Guess that leaves just France + FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION, soon to devol into the FRENCH DOMESTIC LEGION for the ALL-EURO + ATLANTIC OCEAN DEFENSE AGZ JIHAD???
A key terrorist militant suspect wanted for several deadly attacks in southern Thailand including the murder of the former police chief of Bannang Sata, Sompien Eksomya, was killed in a gun battle with security forces in Yala yesterday.
Ma-ae Aphibalbae, 34, was among four terrorists militants whose bodies were found after a 15-minute shootout with a joint police-military ranger force at a house in Ban Cha Ro Pae in Than To district.
The security operation began about 6:30 a.m. after police received a report that a number of terrorists militants were at the house. As the joint force approached the house, the terrorists militants opened fire with assault rifles and a handgun.
Ma-ae had been on the police's wanted list for several high-profile killings in Yala since August 2006, when he was identified as a primary suspect in the murder of Col Sutthisak Prasertsi, a Yala special task force commander.
In October 2007, Ma-ae was suspected of being involved in a passenger van shooting in which eight people were killed. He was also wanted in connection with a bomb attack that killed 11 military rangers on a pickup on a local road in May 2007. On March 12 last year, he is thought to have led a bomb attack on a pickup truck in which Pol Col Sompien was killed.
Pol Col Sompien made headlines when he filed a complaint with Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva last year, after his transfer request to leave the southern region after 42 years in service there was ignored because he had no political backing. He was killed a month later.
The other militants killed were identified as Azae Hulu, 31, a key member of the Runda Kumpulan Kecil insurgent group; Mazobri Azu, 31, a close aide of Azae; and Mustopa Naelulae, who had eight outstanding arrest warrants.
Meanwhile, in Narathiwat, a motorcycle bomb and car bomb exploded within moments of each other yesterday morning. The blasts injured 22 people, including a police officer, five of them seriously.
The motorbike bomb exploded first at about 10:20 a.m. and the car bomb, sitting 30 meters away, detonated about nine minutes later. Two suspects have been detained following the blasts.
Retaliation feared in Yala province
Security is being stepped up in Yala province to guard against retaliatory attacks after forces killed four insurgents in a raid on Friday.
Preecha Chan-ocha, commander of the special task force in Yala, said that he had instructed military officers in all of the province's districts to be on high alert and to beef up security for teachers and Buddhist communities across southern Thailand.
Madari Mula, the assistant village leader in Ban Charohpae, where the suspected terrorists' militants' hideout was located, was suspended from duty. He also faced charges of providing shelter to suspected terrorists militants.
Mr Madari is being detained at the Police Operations Centre for the Southern Border Provinces in Yala's Muang district.
Mr Grisada said security officers and administrators in Yala have begun taking proactive action by trying to convince suspected insurgents to surrender to security officers through their family members.
[Al Jazeera] Three mourners have been killed and at least 27 maimed in Homs after security forces opened fire on a massive funeral procession, according to human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... activists.
Those killed on Saturday have been named as Sharif Ihsan al-Sbai, Abdalla al-Dali and Murhaf al-Nemr, a witness told Al Jizz.
But lawyer and human rights activist Lina Mansour told Al Jizz, "Today we've lost about 10 people killed in Homs. Tens of people injured as well."
More than 40,000 people had gathered in Homs for the funerals of protesters killed in the city on Friday and were walking back from the cemetery in Tal al Nasser on the outskirts of the city when they were fired on without warning, a witness said.
The sound of gunfire and cries to help the maimed were audible over the phone as Al Jizz spoke to the eyewitness.
The maimed have been taken to private clinics and homes as people feared the secret police would raid and arrest the injured from the main state hospital, he said, as they had done in previous such attacks.
The AFP news agency said the corpse count was five after the funerals on Saturday.
"Tens of thousands had accompanied the funeral procession from the city's main mosque to Tal al-Nasr cemetery," according to the AFP's local source who was reached by phone.
"The shooting began as people were coming out of the cemetery."
Mansour also said that one of the more difficult aspects to the uprising is that Syrians simply have little, if any information about their friends and family who've been jugged.
"Up to the moment there are hundreds of people who went missing and there are people who were jugged and they were really tortured... People are jugged haphazardly, and we don't know who is alive and who is not."
She also explained the harsh situation for medical treatment and medical workers themselves.
"Hospitals in Syria are not really able to deal with the huge numbers of injured people and killed people. The doctors and the medical staff are not allowed to deal properly with the injured people or even treat them... The security forces attacked the ambulances that are full with injured people."
Al Jizz cannot verify reports from Syria because of restrictions placed on reporting by the Syrian government.
The corpse count in Friday's anti-government protests rose to 47 according to Insan, a Syrian human rights organisation which has gathered the names of those killed.
Earlier in Homs, a witness told Al Jizz that security forces opened fire on mourners and shot into the air to disperse crowds leaving the Grand Mosque, but left the scene, retreating in tanks as the size of the funeral procession overwhelmed them.
He said that the massive procession converged from funerals at various mosques around the city.
"When we gather in large numbers we show our power. As individuals we are strong, but this is a stronger
message," the witness told Al Jizz. "We encouraged people to join us on this funeral march and people of all backgrounds and religions did."
The size of Saturday's crowd could offer a hint as to the level of grassroots support for anti-government protests which have been ongoing since mid-March, and have reportedly seen the deaths of over 850 Syrians at the hands of government security forces.
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[Iran Press TV] Syrian security forces say they have nabbed a terrorist cell near the capital Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... , amid a rise in anti-government protests in the Arab country.
The terror group, which was armed with heavy weapons and explosives, was captured in the city of al-Dumair -- home to a major airbase in the country -- two days ago, Syria's Arab News Agency (SANA) reported.
According to initial confessions of the terrorist cell members, aired on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
on Friday, the group was planning to attack the main military bases as well as economic and government facilities in Syria.
The detainees alleged that they had smuggled ammunition into the country from neighboring Leb and hid them in towns close to the capital.
One of the suspects said the group was recruiting members in rural areas, urging people to protest and vandalize public property.
Damascus says Soddy Arabia and Sa'ad Hariri, Leb's former prime minister and the leader of al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... (Future) Movement, are financing armed gangs in Syria.
Syria has been witnessing violent pro-reform protests since mid-March.
Scores of people, including several security forces and soldiers, have been killed during the turmoil.
While the opposition accuses the security forces of being behind the killings, Syrian authorities blame gangs and foreign elements for the violence, saying security forces have been given clear instructions not to hurt civilians.
Damascus had previously announced the arrest of members of armed terrorist groups, saying that they had also confessed to receiving weapons and money from foreign organizations to kill civilians and security forces in a bid to cause chaos in the country.
Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... has vowed to bring those behind the killings to justice.
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[Iran Press TV] Clashes between Syrian security forces and so-called pro-reform protesters in the west of the country have reportedly claimed at least five lives, leaving many others injured.
Clashes sparked in the city of Homs -- where foreign-backed gangs have been reported inflicting casualties on the security forces, AFP reported.
Since mid-March, Syria has been struggling with tension that has left scores of people dead, including several soldiers and members of the security forces.
Syrian authorities blame gangs and foreign elements for the violence, saying security forces have been given clear instructions not to hurt civilians.
The opposition, however, accuses the forces of being behind the deaths.
Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... has announced arrest of armed terrorist groups, which have been stirring up unease across the country.
Most recently, the security forces said they had jugged a terrorist cell near the capital, Damascus. Armed with potent weapons and explosives, the group was planning to attack the main military bases as well as economic and government facilities in Syria.
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The Iranian intelligence ministry announced that it had uncovered and dismantled a network suspected of spying for the United States and made 30 arrests, state television reported on Saturday.
Due to the massive intelligence and counter-intelligence work by Iranian intelligence agents, a complex espionage and sabotage network linked to Americas spy organisation was uncovered and dismantled, a ministry statement read out on the television said.
Elite agents of the intelligence ministry in their confrontation with the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) elements were able to arrest 30 America-linked spies through numerous intelligence and counter-intelligence operations, it added.
Pssst: every third man named 'Mahmoud' is a US spy. But don't tell no one...
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Tolo News] At least five Talibs were killed and five others were 
The United States, one of the main backers of Sudan's landmark 2005 peace deal, deplored the attack and urged both sides to stop all unauthorised military actions in Abyei.
Somali pirates
Witnesses say helicopters in Yemen have airlifted the ambassadors of the U.S., Britain and Gulf Arab nations who were trapped inside a diplomatic mission surrounded by armed loyalists to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
[Iran Press TV] Yemeni government forces have opened fire on anti-regime protesters in a western port city, injuring more than two dozen demonstrators.
[Yemen Post] President 
[Yemen Post] The Joint Meeting Parties, the opposition bloc in Yemen, signed on Saturday a GCC-brokered power-sharing deal yet to bear the signature of 
Mohmand
Orakzai Agency.
Hillary Clinton.
The Iranian intelligence ministry announced that it had uncovered and dismantled a network suspected of spying for the United States and made 30 arrests, state television reported on Saturday.
