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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 08/08/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Blondell = Good
Blondell + Stanwyck = Extra Good
Blondell + Stanwyck + skeleton = Extra Weird
Posted by: Scooter McGruder || 08/08/2011 1:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Esther Williams aka K.C. Higgins in "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" aka Eve Barrett in "Neptune's Daughter" aka Annette Kellerman in "Million Dollar Mermaid" aka Julie Hallerton in "Easy to Love" aka Katie Higgins in "Dangerous When Wet" aka Maria Morales in "Fiesta" (age 90)


Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 08/08/2011 2:52 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
215 Arrested in London Riots
Moved to Non-WOT. Because while it's terrible, it isn't specifically jihad, as far as I can tell.

tw at 5:19 p.m. ET

Update based in comments below: moved back to WOT because of additional information in comments 4 and 6. Water Modem and phil_b, thank you for explaining,

tw at 19:51 p.m, ET
(yes, my head is spinning, too!)
Posted by: Water Modem || 08/08/2011 16:25 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Only in Euroland can rioters toss Molotov Coctails, and not take a bullet in the head.
Posted by: Phemble Lumplump2370 || 08/08/2011 16:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Operable word is that the riots are "spreading", as the criminal class realize that the police are too afraid of them to do anything.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 08/08/2011 17:07 Comments || Top||

#3  "A whiff of grapeshot" is unfortunately the only thing that will calm this down.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/08/2011 17:27 Comments || Top||

#4  TW - according to an englishman who explained it to me: the rioters were in the main muslim, but the Guardian was trying to play the villains to be Jews explaining that they were videotaped giving the rioters food (not to attack them) so Jews were obviously in league with the rioters....
Posted by: Water Modem || 08/08/2011 19:24 Comments || Top||

#5  The dirty Juice have always been enablers.... of stuff.
Posted by: S || 08/08/2011 19:29 Comments || Top||

#6  While the media is tying itself in knots trying to portray this as not racial, It was initially black rioters and has now become black on Muslim.
Posted by: phil_b || 08/08/2011 19:39 Comments || Top||

#7  As I understand it, the initial riots were 'in response' to British police killing some thug of Caribbean origin - did not get the impression he was Muslim, but since nobody actually reports stuff like that it's kind of hard to tell.
Regardless, that killing would just be an excuse, not a cause. The underlying cause is an intentional attempt at destabilization; whether by Muslims or Marxists or some perverse alliance of the two I do not know.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/08/2011 19:43 Comments || Top||

#8  has now become black on Muslim

If they'd keep it that way it would almost call for popcorn.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/08/2011 19:58 Comments || Top||

#9  Deport and ban all foreign-born rioters. That'll give them some consequences to consider
Posted by: Frank G || 08/08/2011 20:30 Comments || Top||

#10  1/ Not Rioters. Organised Looting.

2/ Mainly Black Gangs.

3/ Some Somali.

4/ Not WOT.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/08/2011 20:34 Comments || Top||

#11  Cops with balls + rioters with fractured skulls = end of riots
Posted by: tu3031 || 08/08/2011 20:49 Comments || Top||

#12  From the Telegraph,

There are reports now of "hundreds" of young turkish men chasing a group of young black men down nearby Kingsland Road, Hackney.

Agang of vandals broke the windows of an Islamic bank in Whitechapel but were chased off by a rival gang of 100 Muslim youths who are standing guard outside the East London Mosque.
Posted by: phil_b || 08/08/2011 20:54 Comments || Top||

#13  As I was saying...
Posted by: tu3031 || 08/08/2011 20:54 Comments || Top||

#14  Where are the London Trained Bands when you need them. Their seed in the New World, still stands.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/08/2011 21:56 Comments || Top||

#15  Told you.
Posted by: Enoch Powell || 08/08/2011 22:05 Comments || Top||

#16 
Posted by: Water Modem || 08/08/2011 22:21 Comments || Top||

#17  Map of Riots
Posted by: Griting Smith6978 || 08/08/2011 22:30 Comments || Top||

#18  A little consulting from the Oakland Police Department would go a long way in handling these dusky hued yobs. They are the industry standard in cracking heads.
Posted by: bigjim-CA || 08/08/2011 22:31 Comments || Top||

#19  was there a hurricane?
Posted by: chris || 08/08/2011 22:35 Comments || Top||

#20  The videos I've seen show a rainbow of thugs. It's like all the thugs in London decided to surge at once.

There's also some internecine fighting, via the Telegraph:

Bethnal Green: Gang of vandals broke the windows of an Islamic bank but were chased off by a rival gang Muslim youths who were standing guard outside the East London Mosque. Local shops attacked


Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/08/2011 22:46 Comments || Top||

#21 
was there a hurricane?


Nah. They followed the Cincinnati model for generating an excuse to riot.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/08/2011 22:54 Comments || Top||

#22  Photos in the various newspapers show white boys and girls as well as darker ones gathering up to gather up the loot -- ybbishness is a native as well as acquired behaviour. The Oakland Police have the right approach, and I suspect would apply it liberally to all deserving.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/08/2011 22:58 Comments || Top||

#23  Yobbisheness. PIMF!
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/08/2011 23:02 Comments || Top||

#24  Sounds like the kind of a situation that calls for a streetsweeper.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/08/2011 23:17 Comments || Top||

#25  Gang of vandals...

OK, you do a little sacking of Rome in 455 and no one lets you forget it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/08/2011 23:37 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Head of Peace Council Says Foreign Intelligence Behind Afghan Assassinations
[Tolo News] Foreign intelligence agencies are behind the liquidation of influential Afghan officials, Chief of High Peace Council said during a visit to Kandahar province on Sunday.

Chief of High Peace Council Burhanuddin Rabbani
... the legitimate president of Afghanistan...
said that the liquidation of high-profile Afghan figures is part of a plot sketched by foreign intelligence organizations to misuse the name of the Taliban and to defame Islam.

Burhanuddin Rabbani said the death of influential leaders is a big loss for Afghanistan.

"This is a big plot against our nation, religion and security," Mr Rabbani said.

Head of the peace council visited the southern Kandahar after two provincial representatives of the council stepped down recently.
Posted by: Fred || 08/08/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  A bit vague on foreign, do you mean us?
Posted by: Griting Smith6978 || 08/08/2011 1:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Has to be - there ain't no intelligence in Afghanistan.
Posted by: Bobby || 08/08/2011 5:57 Comments || Top||

#3  He's referring to the Paks.
Posted by: Fred || 08/08/2011 9:14 Comments || Top||

#4  "Those dastardly Paks! They're ruining the reputation of their willing patsies!"
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 08/08/2011 9:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Simply clearing the field for the eventual arrival of the Obama endorsed, Taliban Shadow government.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/08/2011 11:47 Comments || Top||

#6  He's referring to the Paks.

Or the Iranians.
Posted by: Pappy || 08/08/2011 16:05 Comments || Top||

#7  ...or both.
Posted by: tu3031 || 08/08/2011 18:00 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
One more killed by Ethiopian militia
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Another Kenyan has been killed and animals stolen by bandidos suspected to be from Ethiopia, two days after the militia executed 13 other Kenyans.

The herdsman was rubbed out when suspected Nyang'atom raiders attacked a village at Kibish on the Kenya-Ethiopia border, neighbouring Todonyang' where 13 members of the Turkana community were killed last week by Merille bandidos from Ethiopia while on a fishing expedition on the shores of Lake Turkana.

According to villagers interviewed the raiders also made away with over 300 cattle during the Saturday attack.

Senior security personnel led by Administration Police commandant Kinuthia Mbugua and Rift Valley Police boss Francis Munyambu on Sunday toured Todonyang and Kibish for the second consecutive day following the two attacks.

None of the senior officers could be reached for comment due to poor communication network from Todonyang and Kibish areas.

According to police sources, the 13 Kenyans, who included women and kiddies, were on a fishing expedition when they were attacked by the Merille militias.
Posted by: Fred || 08/08/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Where are the Mau-Mau when you need them?
Posted by: Rhodesiafever || 08/08/2011 11:51 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Gadhafi Forces Report Gains, Launch Western Offensive
[An Nahar] Rebels in the western Libyan town of Zliten were said to be low on ammunition and on the defensive on Sunday, as the regime said its forces had retaken the strategic southwest town of Bir Ghanam.

Abdul Wahab Melitan, a rebel front man in the port city of Misrata near Zliten, said forces loyal to strongman Moammar Qadaffy
...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years...
had launched an assault on rebel positions in Zliten's Souk Telat area, killing three and wounding 15.

"The rebels lack ammunition to advance and we do not want to risk losing any ground," Melitan said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase...
a rebel source at al-Qusbat, around 90 kilometers east of the capital Tripoli, said that town was living through its fourth day under siege.

A group of rebels on Thursday overran Qadaffy forces based in one of the town's schools, but since then the rebels have been battling to hold on to their gains.

Raed Hussein, an envoy from al-Qusbat's military council, said he expected more Qadaffy troops to be sent from nearby al-Khums to bolster the siege.

In Tripoli, Prime Minister Baghdadi Mahmoudi told news hounds that government troops had recaptured the strategic town of Bir Ghanam, southwest of the capital, from orcs.

"Life is back to normal in Bir Ghanam, and today it is under the full control of the regime," Mahmoudi said.

Rebels from the Berber-dominated Nafusa mountain range south of Tripoli claimed the capture of Bir Ghanam just 80 kilometers from the capital on Saturday, as they pushed further east.

An Agence La Belle France Presse correspondent on the scene said rebels began a two-pronged assault from Bir Ayad earlier that day, and by late afternoon, rebel commanders said Bir Ghanam had been seized.

The rebels have been using the Nafusa as a springboard to advance on Tripoli but have encountered strong resistance from fighters loyal to Qadaffy.

Mahmoudi also condemned the intensification of NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
raids on Tripoli and other cities, claiming that the alliance no longer "differentiates between civilian and military sites."

NATO said its warplanes attacked 45 targets across Libya on Saturday, including an ammunition storage facility and a multiple rocket launcher system in the Bir Ghanam area.

Mahmoudi criticized the National Transitional Council (NTC), the rebels' de facto government, and the security situation in the rebel-controlled east, especially after last month's liquidation of General Abdul Fatah Younis, a long-time Qadaffy ally before he defected.

The premier claimed that the "decision-making and the real forces in the field are in the hands of Islamist bad boy groups."

Since the beginning of the revolt, the Qadaffy regime has portrayed the five-month-old uprising as an al-Qaeda plot.

Mahmoudi also claimed that most NTC members had left the country, saying: "I defy the NTC to meet even once during Ramadan," the Mohammedan month of fasting.

On Saturday, hundreds of rebel fighters also forked off towards the sea, advancing within 20 kilometers of Surman on the coast road west of Tripoli before meeting any resistance, an AFP correspondent said.

Their path northward was veiled in black smoke and strewn with burned-out Libyan army vehicles, some with the bodies of soldiers inside, he said.

But forces loyal to the veteran Libyan strongman fought back, laying down fire in a bid to halt the rebels' advance.

Many of the rebels were from the "Tripoli Battalion," a group of volunteers from the capital and other coastal towns eager to "liberate" their homes in the five-month-old revolt.

The battalion is said to have received military training in the Nafusa mountains.
Posted by: Fred || 08/08/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The AFP correspondent reporting from bir al Ghanam would beg to differ. On the other hand, note that in the linked article, the rebels are now "approaching Zliten" again, after having been actually in it for a while, IIRC. It's "Approachng Brega" Syndrome, I suppose.

Most of the rebel successes seem to be occurring on the Berber front these days.
Posted by: Mitch H. || 08/08/2011 10:52 Comments || Top||

#2  It's like WWI in the desert. Lack of many if any permanent tactical gains bordering on a stalemate. The only things missing are numerous pointless human wave charges.
Posted by: Pollyandrew || 08/08/2011 15:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Googlemap of Libya
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/08/2011 15:01 Comments || Top||

#4  the rebels are now "approaching Zliten"

I would make a joke about "asymptotic warfare", but only nerds would laugh.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/08/2011 17:32 Comments || Top||

#5  I would laugh, SteveS, if only it weren't so sad.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/08/2011 17:38 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm just about certain the Minderbinder Clan is running this entire war.
Posted by: S || 08/08/2011 19:25 Comments || Top||

#7  NATO has been bombing for 6 months! How much shit did Ghadafi have stockpiled before this started? O are they just not hitting a damn thing when bombing?
Posted by: chris || 08/08/2011 22:38 Comments || Top||


Libya says key town recaptured from rebels
[] Government troops have recaptured the strategic town of Bir Ghanam, southwest of Tripoli, from rebel forces, Libyan Prime Minister Baghdadi Mahmudi told news hounds on Sunday.

"Life is back to normal in Bir Ghanam, and today it is under the full control of the regime," Mahmudi said a day after rebels said they captured the town which lies just 80 kilometres (50 miles) from the capital.

Libyan rebels from the Berber-dominated Nafusa mountain range south of Tripoli claimed the capture of Bir Ghanam on Saturday as they pushed further east toward the capital.
Posted by: Fred || 08/08/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Arabia
Three Killed in Taiz Clashes 
[Yemen Post] Two soldiers and a civilian were killed and others injured when festivities erupted between the elite republican guard and revolution defenders in Yemen's southern Taiz province on Saturday.

Informed sources said the fierce festivities took place amid sporadic battles in downtown the city.

The army and the security forces are battling armed people defending the popular uprising in several parts of Taiz, they said, adding that more deployments were sent to streets amid major efforts to revive a ceasefire deal.

Meantime, Vice President Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi chaired the meeting of the Supreme Security Committee, Tazi Ceasefire Committee and Taiz field committees and discussed the situation in Taiz.

The meeting stressed the importance of implementing the ceasefire deal, Saba reported.
Posted by: Fred || 08/08/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Yemen Tribes Warns against Military Aggression in Sana'a
[Yemen Post] The Yemeni Tribes' Alliance warned on Sunday against any new military aggression in Al-Hasaba district in downtown the capital Sana'a, saying that the tribes will not stay idly and that response will be a duty upon every primitive through available means.

Aggression against the tribes, the rustics participating in the popular youth-led revolution, the revolution supporters and defenders or their areas will be an aggression against all Yemeni tribes that will require a strong response with souls and funds, the alliance said in a statement.

The statement came days after the army deployed more forces and vehicles to Al-Hasaba, which was the battlefield for deadly festivities between the forces and the tribal fighters loyal to sheikh Sadeq Al-Ahmer of Hashid in June. The deployments raised fears battles could erupt soon, especially after the forces attacked the houses of two of Sadeq Al-Ahmer's brothers.

The attacks on the two houses were Dire Revenge™ on Al Al-Ahmer and the people who are still suffering from the June battles, the statement said.
Furthermore, the statement urged the officers and soldiers of the elite republican guard to ignore the orders of their leader, the son of President-for-Life Saleh
... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence...
, to kill the people and involve them in more crimes against the people.

"We call on the elite republican guard officers and soldiers to leave their positions as they realize that the Saleh family is using them, and to avoid legal accountability for what is happening in the country," the alliance said.

The Yemeni Tribes' Alliance was declared almost a week ago inside Change Square in Sana'a.
At the declaration ceremony, sheikh Sadeq Al-Ahmer vowed that Saleh and his sons will not rule the country as long as he is alive.
Posted by: Fred || 08/08/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Sana'a Airport Cancels Flights Due to Clashes; Yemen on Verge of Chaos
[Yemen Post] Sana'a International Airport cancelled all its flights after hundreds of armed rustics belonging to the notorious Hashed tribe clashed with elite republican guards in the heart of the capital Sana'a forcing thousands to re evacuate Hasaba zone of Sana'a. At least six flights were cancelled Friday night and Saturday morning due to security reasons.

The anti government Arhab tribes are promising to support Hashed and are threatening to takeover the airport and control all flights entering and leaving the country. Hashed has called on its gunnies to prepare for a long war against a regime that is gasping its final breath.

Opposition and government tanks were suddenly stationed in main roads of the capital for the first time in months Saturday morning, eyewitnesses said.

This comes as General Ali Mohsen threatened to bombard the presidential palace if his military brigade is attacked once more by the elite republican guards.

General Mohsen claims that the guards attacked his compound on numerous occasions over the last 24 hours.

Government sent more than 2000 of its forces in zones surrounding Hasaba, where the Hashed tribal chief lives, a security bigshot told Yemen Post.

Eyewitnesses in Hasaba said that at least 2000 of its residents evacuated the zone fearing that festivities will breakout at anytime.
Posted by: Fred || 08/08/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Faster, please.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/08/2011 2:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Patience, g(r)im. Your general neighborhood has to stay busy fighting amongst itself (and thus out of your hair) for a few more generations centuries millenia while longer.

You know, until your neighbors buy a clue with all that oil money or go back to the sand when the oil and money run out.
Posted by: Pollyandrew || 08/08/2011 15:13 Comments || Top||

#3  when was yemen not in chaos, seemed like a nice place too visit
Posted by: chris || 08/08/2011 22:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Rebellious camel jockeys exchanging random fire is much better than an orchestrated attack on Tel Aviv.
Posted by: bigjim-CA || 08/08/2011 23:23 Comments || Top||


Opposition Denies Talks with Regime as Reports Say UN Envoy Gave Deadline to Solve Yemen Crisis 
[Yemen Post] The Joint Meeting Parties, the opposition bloc in Yemen, denied on Saturday any public or secret talks with the General People's Congress, the ruling party, amid reports that the UN envoy who concluded a recent visit to the country had given the Yemeni parties a week-long deadline to solve the Yemeni crisis.

During his visit, the UN envoy Jamal bin Omer suggested a roadmap to tackle the Yemeni crisis, giving the parties a deadline to implement it and warning he will withdraw it if a practical implementation does not happen.

Deputy Secretary General of the Dialogue Preparatory Committee, Sakhr Al-Wajeeh, affirmed that the opposition insists on transferring power before holding any dialogue with the ruling party. "A power transfer first and then dialogue," he was quoted as saying by media.

Meanwhile,
...back at the bake sale, Umberto's Mom's cannoli were a big hit...
civil society and rights organizations have announced that they are documenting all violations and crimes committed by the regime to send them to the international criminal court.
Posted by: Fred || 08/08/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Missiles fired from Afghanistan land inside Pakistan, no casualties
(KUNA) -- At least three missiles fired from Afghanistan landed inside Pak territory on Sunday, causing no human or property damage, said sources.

The missiles were fired from Afghanistan landed near a security checkpost in Upper Dir district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province, security sources told KUNA. They said there was no human loss or property damage reported. However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
the incident triggered panic in the area. Sources said that local Lashkar (force) launched a retaliatory operation but it was not known whether they also fired shells at the Afghan side.
Posted by: Fred || 08/08/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


House of peace body leader attacked
[Dawn] Militants fired three rockets at the residence of deputy head of Adezai Qaumi Lashkar and also blew up three power pylons early on Saturday morning, sources said said.

The lashkar leader, Fazal Malik, told Dawn that he was asleep when the rockets hit his neighbourhood but his house remained safe as the rockets missed the target.

The incident, he said, took place at about 1:30am. He said that his bodyguards saw that the rockets were fired from behind of a nearby mound.

The rocket attack was followed by firing from light weapons. "We also tried to target the area with light and heavy weapons
and as result the attackers decamped away," he said.

Similarly, he said, three blasts occurred at a short distance from his house which resulted into destruction of three power pylons. He said that owing to destruction of power pylons supply of electricity to FR Beautiful Downtown Peshawar remained suspended.

"The hard boyz wanted to blow up the power pylons of our village but they could not recognise the transmission lines and blew up the poles of tribal regions," he added.

Mr Malik said that Islamic fascisti were trying to target volunteers of the peace body but they were also fully alert and kept vigilance on movement of terrorists.
Posted by: Fred || 08/08/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP

#1  Foreign Taliban?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/08/2011 18:34 Comments || Top||


Banker shot dead near train station
[Dawn] A senior banker was bumped off near the City Railway Station in what appeared to be a sectarian attack on Saturday, police said.

They said 57-year-old Syed Muntazir Mehdi Rizvi was targeted in the parking lot of the railway station minutes after he had parked his car there as a matter of daily routine.

"According to a few witnesses, two men on a cycle of violence emerged there as he got off the car and one of them fired shots at him," said Inspector Habib Khattak, the SHO of the Bloody Karachi Cantonment Railway cop shoppe, also taking care of the City Station police as an additional charge.

"Hit by two bullets, the victim was struck down in his prime. It seems that the attackers were waiting there for him to arrive. They sped away after executing the job." The body was later shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.

The victim was a resident of Gulistan-i-Jauhar. He had been associated with a private bank for the past several years. He was also a trustee of the Sharikat-ul-Hussain Imambargah in Gulshan Iqbal.

Though the police Sherlocks remained clueless about the motive and people behind the killing, religious scholars and organizations believed that Mr Mehdi was murdered on sectarian grounds. They condemned the incident and termed it a failure of the city`s security administration.

"The government has failed to end violence and no credible action is seen on the ground against the banned outfits, which are involved in these killings to destroy sectarian harmony and peace," said religious leaders Abbas Kumaili and Maulana Hasan Zafar Naqvi in a joint statement issued by the Majlis-i-Wahdat-i-Mohammedaneen.
Posted by: Fred || 08/08/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan

#1  Now there's a start.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/08/2011 7:28 Comments || Top||

#2  I can't believe executives don't carry guns in Pakistain.
Posted by: bigjim-CA || 08/08/2011 23:00 Comments || Top||


Blast hurts two in FR Kohat: 3 schools, hospital destroyed in Bara
[Dawn] Three schools and a hospital were destroyed in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency while two rustics received injuries when snuffies targeted a passenger vehicle with a remote controlled bomb in Frontier Region of Kohat on Saturday.

Officials said that snuffies blew up three schools and a veterinary hospital
An animal hospital?! What on earth do the Lions of Islam have against the treatment of cows and goats? Even the Prophet Muhammed himself cared for his camels.
in Akkakhel area of Bara. "These are very unfortunate incidents," Assistant Political Agent Rehan Khattak told Dawn.

He said that administration would take action against those, who were responsible for the sabotage acts. "At the moment we are showing maximum restraint as a military operation is going on in the area, but once the situation is improved, we will take action," Mr Khattak said.

He said that administration had served notices on Akkakhel elders to ensure security of government installations in their area but only a week after issuance of the notices destruction of schools and other government buildings restarted in the area.

Local sources said that snuffies planted huge quantity of explosives in school buildings in Deena Jan Kallay, Mohammad Alam Kallay and Juma Khan Kallay in Akkakhel and detonated the same early on Saturday.

A veterinary hospital was also blown up at Pir Mohammad Kallay.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Esquimeau village our hero was receiving a quick lesson in aeronautics:...
authorities in Landi Kotal took into custody five office-bearers of local traders association when they closed their shops to protest against the official permission to 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 cut of the American pants...
oil tankers and containers to pass through the main Landi Kotal bazaar.

Qari Ziyaratullah, a member of the bazaar committee, told Dawn that the local administration had granted permission to NATO vehicles despite the fact that they had requested the officials not to allow heavy vehicle to enter the main bazaar.

He said that NATO vehicle were frequently targeted by snuffies and their entry into bazaar was a security threat. He alleged that khasadars were taking Rs700 from every vehicle to allow it to pass through the main bazaar.

The shopkeeper later ended their strike but refused to allow the vehicles to enter the main bazaar. They demanded of the administration to ensure security of those vehicles on Landi Kotal-Torkham Bypass.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves...
at least two rustics were maimed when snuffies targeted a passenger vehicle with remote controlled bomb on Kohat-Jawaki Road in FR Kohat on Saturday.

The vehicle was carrying passengers from Kohat district to Jawaki in FR Kohat. The snuffies detonated a roadside kaboom when the vehicle entered Shindand area.

The injured rustics identified as Amanullah and Mohibur Rehman were taken to hospital for treatment. The vehicle was partially damaged in the incident.

The political administration started the paperwork but haven't done much else while security forces launched an operation in the area but it remained futile as the snuffies had beat feet into the populated area.

It may be recalled that rustics were leaving the said area in small groups for the last few months after increase in attacks on their houses by myrmidons.

In another incident, a man was rubbed out over a dispute about vacation of a house in Darre Talian area of Jungle Khel on Saturday.

Police said that Sultan Khan and Sardar Khan asked the dear departed, Haji Gul, to vacate their house and killed him after exchanging hot words. The accused managed to escape.

The Jungle Khel police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against the two accused on the complaint of Wazir Gul, the father of the dear departed.
Posted by: Fred || 08/08/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Two LeT commanders killed in Kashmir: Indian police
[Dawn] Indian troops Sunday rubbed out two senior commanders of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) bully boy group in Indian-administered Kashmire during two separate gunbattles, police said.

Fahadullah, a Pak national, was killed during a fierce clash in northern Kupwara district, bordering Pakistain-administered Kashmire.

Fahadullah was serving as LeT's "divisional commander" for north Kashmire and his death is a "big setback" to the group, senior police officer Muneer Khan told news hounds.

Police said government forces also rubbed out another "senior commander" of LeT in southern Poonch district during a clash on Sunday.The slain commander was identified as Abu Usman, police said.
Posted by: Fred || 08/08/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Taiba


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6 killed in an attack in central Iraq
[Emirates 24/7] Officials say six civilians have been killed and 14 others injured by bombs planted near two homes in central Iraq.

A police officer says the motive behind the attack at around 2 am Sunday morning was still unknown. He said four bombs were planted near homes in the town of Iskandariyah
... named after Alexander the Great, today it's a mostly Sunni-inhabited slum ...
and that a woman and two children under 10-years-old were among the dead. A doctor at a nearby hospital confirmed the causality figures.

Iskandariyah is located 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
. The city was once among the most violent during the height of the insurgency against the US-led coalition, but has been fairly stable since mid-2007.
Posted by: Fred || 08/08/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq


Sahwa force member killed in Kirkuk
KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: A member of the pro-government al-Sahwa (Awakening) Force has been killed in an explosive charge blast south of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, according to the Director of Kirkuk Police, Sarhad Qader on Sunday.

“An explosive charge blew up on Sunday morning close to an al-Sahwa checkpoint in Taza village, 15 km to the south of Kirkuk, killing one of its elements,” Lt-Brigadier, Sarhad Qader told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

In another incident, a member of Kirkuk Province’s Council, Turkan Shakour Qassab from the Turkoman list, told Aswat al-Iraq that Kirkuk’s police have managed to dismantle a bomb, stuck under her car at the city center, causing no damage, as the car was outside her home.

Kirkuk is 13,350 km to the northwest of Brisbane, Australia 280 km to the north of the Iraqi Capital of Baghdad.
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Rocket fired from Gaza hits Israel
JERUSALEM Palestinian militants inside the Gaza Strip fired a rocket into southern Israel late on Sunday that hit without causing casualties or damage, a military spokeswoman said.
They hit a desert? Awesome shooting, guys! Once again they demonstrate how fortunate Israel is in her enemies...
"The short-range rocket landed in an inhabited area in the Shaar Negev sector northeast of the Gaza Strip," she said.

The attack came despite Hamas security forces in Gaza on Saturday detaining two members of an Islamist group suspected of firing rockets at the Jewish state.

On Thursday night, a rocket was fired at the southern town of Kiryat Gat without causing any harm, the Israeli military said. In response, an Israeli warplane attacked a group suspected of firing the rocket, a military spokeswoman said.
For which the Israelis were immediately condemned...
Israeli retaliation for attacks from Gaza has focused on targeting bases of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military branch of Hamas.
Perhaps they should also focus on the Ezzedine leadership...
The past month has seen an increase in rockets and other projectiles fired at Israel from Gaza after several months of calm following a flare-up in April when an anti-tank missile hit an Israeli school bus, killing a teenager.

Israel responded to that attack with a series of air strikes that killed at least 19 Palestinians in the deadliest violence since Israel's devastating 22-day "Operation Cast Lead" assault on Gaza in December 2008-January 2009
Posted by: Steve White || 08/08/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I would respond to every rocket attack with a daisycutter.
Put an end to the rocket attacks real quick.
Posted by: Mikey Hunt || 08/08/2011 14:56 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Activists: At Least 57 Killed Today in Syria, Including 38 in Deir Ezzor
[An Nahar] Syrian forces backed by tanks killed at least 57 people on Sunday in the regions of Deir Ezzor, Homs and Idlib, activists said, as 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...
defended what he termed the state's duty to crack down on "outlaws" despite mounting condemnation.

Security forces killed at least 38 civilians in the city of Deir Ezzor alone, activists said, and at least seven more died in Hula, a town in Homs province, in a separate assault with tanks.

"The operations are focused on al-Joura district where the army and security forces opened fire, killing at least 20 and wounding dozens of others," Syrian League for the Defense of Human Rights head Abdul Karim Rihawi told Agence La Belle France Presse.

While the pope joined an international chorus of concern over the bloodshed, Assad defended his security forces' deadly crackdown on anti-regime protests as the "duty of the state" to confront "outlaws."

"Syria is on the path to reforms," he said, quoted by state news agency SANA.

"To deal with outlaws who cut off roads, seal towns and terrorize residents is a duty of the state which must defend security and protect the lives of civilians," he said.

His statement came a day after a personal appeal by U.N. chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
for Assad to halt the bloodshed.

Ban in a telephone call "expressed his strong concern and that of the international community at the mounting violence and corpse count in Syria over the past days," U.N. front man Martin Nesirky said late Saturday.

The secretary general "reflected to the Syrian president the clear message sent by the (U.N.) Security Council and urged the president to stop the use of military force against civilians immediately," Nesirky said.

Ban's call followed a pledge by the U.S., French and German leaders to consider new steps to punish Syria after security forces killed more than 30 people on the first Friday of Ramadan, the holy Mohammedan month of fasting.

In contrast to Assad's reference to outlaws, Pope Benedict XVI called Sunday for an adequate response to the "legitimate aspirations" of the Syrian people.

"I am following with deep concern the dramatic and increasing episodes of violence in Syria that have led to numerous victims and grave suffering," the pontiff said in a weekly address to pilgrims outside Rome.

Hundreds of tanks and armored cars have been deployed in Deir Ezzor, said Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, adding many residents had decamped in fear of the assault on the largest city in east Syria.

Syria's government has sought to crush the democracy movement with brutal force, leaving at least 2,059 people dead, including 391 members of the security forces, according to the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory.

On Saturday, security forces in 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...
set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock prominent opposition figure and former political prisoner Walid al-Bunni and his two sons, said Abdul Rahman.

Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said earlier the same day that "free and transparent" elections to a new parliament would be held by the end of 2011, as he met with ambassadors posted to Damascus.

Muallem stressed "the commitment of the Syrian leadership to the continued reform process and implementation of measures announced by President Assad."

The embattled president issued a decree on Thursday allowing opposition political parties.

In April, he ordered an end to five decades of draconian emergency rule and abolished the feared state security courts, while in June he said talks could lead to a new constitution and end his Baath party's monopoly on power.

But the concessions have been largely dismissed by the opposition as a ploy to stave off world condemnation.

The Syrian protesters have been calling for greater freedoms since mid-March, inspired by Arab uprisings that ousted the autocratic leaders of Tunisia and Egypt at the start of the year.

Assad's regime has become increasingly isolated, with allies like Turkey and Russia calling for an end to the bloody crackdown.

Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is to visit Syria on Tuesday with the message that Ankara "has run out of patience" with the ongoing violence, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.

Assad's adviser Buthaina Shaaban said Davutoglu would himself "receive a firm message" in Damascus.

Turkey had failed to condemn "the brutal murders carried out by armed terrorist groups against civilians and soldiers" in Syria, she said, adding that Damascus had always "opposed interference in internal affairs" of other states.

The foreign ministry, meanwhile, rejected criticism from the Arab monarchies of the Gulf and called for them to instead condemn "the violence of gangs ... to allow time for the reforms" proposed by the authorities.

Posted by: Fred || 08/08/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria



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