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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Shelley Long aka Diane Chambers in "Cheers" aka Carol Brady in "The Brady Bunch Movie" aka Anna Crowley Beissart in "The Money Pit" aka Belinda Keaton in "Night Shift" aka Tala in "Caveman" aka Lauren Ames in "Outrageous Fortune" aka Phyllis Nefler in "Troop Beverly Hills" aka Marla (Mom) in "Honeymoon with Mom" (age 62)
Sylva Koscina aka Countess Francesca De Montefiore in "The Secret War of Harry Frigg" aka Iole, bride of Ercole in "Hercules Unchained" aka Iole, Daugher of Pelias in "Le fatiche di Ercole" aka Giulia Marcocci in "Il ferroviere" aka Sophia Lehar in "Lisa and the Devil" aka Barbara Capuana in "So Sweet, So Dead" aka Vlasta Simoneva in "Agent 8 3/4" aka Kenny, FBI Agent in "That Man in Istanbul" aka Nancy in "The Protagonists" (Died in 1994 at age 61)
It's the feel good story of the day...
The Helmand episode began Sunday evening when two armed insurgents roared up on a motorcycle to a mosque in the village of Trekh Zaber, where Yaar Muhammad, a local farmer, and his two sons were waiting to celebrate Iftar, the evening breaking of the daily fast during the holy month of Ramadan.
The men ordered Mr. Muhammad to come to them, and as he did, they fired their weapons, killing him instantly, said Hajji Hayatullah, a district council member. As Mr. Muhammad fell, his sons jumped the two gunmen and pulled them off their motorcycle. Other villagers joined in, officials said, beating the men to death with stones.
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This would only really matter if after killing them, they broke with tradition and erected their dead bodies as scarecrows, or at a minimum, left them out to be eaten by animals.
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"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier."
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Since obviously, increasing amounts of this crapola are being not just sponsored and encouraged by the ISI and others in the government in Pakistan, but directed and led as well, it is past time for SOCOM to start conducting counter-terrorism operations against them, in Pakistan.
This amounts to a Phoenix program, but on hostile turf. Identify and exterminate complicit Pakistani leaders.
[Tolo News] At least 16 Islamic fascistiwere killed in joint Afghan and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... forces operations, Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs said on Monday.
The operations were launched in the past 24 hours in Kabul, Parwan, Balkh, Badakhshan, Kandahar, Helmand, ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... Zabul, Maidan Wardak, Paktia and Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... provinces to clear the insecure areas of beturbanned goons, the Ministry said in a statement.
Afghan Ministry of Interior said that 31 other Islamic fascistiwere captured during the operations.
Afghan and NATO forces have seized a lot of weapons during the operations, it said.
The operations were launched as Afghan forces have taken over security responsibility of seven areas from foreign forces in the first phase of transition as planned. The process will be completed by the end of 2014.
Afghan government has recently said that Afghan forces are ready for the second phase of security transition.
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[Emirates 24/7] A chemical oil tanker foiled a hijack attempt by pirates near the Omani port of Salalah on Sunday, a day after a tanker and crew were snatched from inside the port in front of the coasties.
Anyone at the Omani Coast Guard paying attention?
"Pirates in a skiff chased and fired upon a chemical tanker," according to the International Maritime Bureau's anti-crime arm. "The pirates made several attempts to board the tanker and finally aborted the attack due to the evasive manoeuvres made by the tanker."
On Saturday, pirates successfully seized the empty MV Fairchem Bogey chemical oil tanker from its anchorage at the port in the mouth of the Gulf of Aden, taking 21 Indian crew members hostage and heading south to Somalia, Mumbai-based Anglo Eastern Ship Management said.
"We can now confirm that the Fairchem Bogey is now in Somali waters," the tanker manager said in a statement. "The Master has been in contact with us, reconfirming safety of the crew. We are still waiting to make first contact with the hijackers."
Anglo-Eastern said the Omani Coast Guard approached the vessel shortly after it was seized from its anchorage in the port but backed off when the pirates warned that the captured crew might be harmed.
The Bogey, which had armed guards on board when it sailed through the Gulf of Aden on its way to unload at the Saudi port of Al Jubail on Aug. 18, was unprotected when it was taken on Aug. 21 after dropping the security team off in the Omani capital Muscat on Aug. 10, the company said.
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[An Nahar] Rebel fighters captured Moammar Qadaffy's ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... heavily defended Bab al-Aziziya compound and house in Tripoli on Tuesday after a day of heavy fighting, ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... an Agence La Belle France Presse correspondent witnessed.
The defenders had decamped, and there was no immediate word on Qadaffy's whereabouts after the rebels breached the defenses as part of a massive assault that began in the morning.
"Rebels breached the surrounding cement walls and entered inside. They have taken Bab al-Aziziya. Completely. It is finished," the correspondent said.
"It is an incredible sight."
Only minutes earlier, rebel front man Colonel Ahmed Omar Bani said from Benghazi: "Our forces are surrounding Bab al-Aziziya. There is a fierce battle going on there. We are now controlling one of the gates, the western entrance."
In the hours that led up to the storming of the compound in central Tripoli, the sound of the fighting was the most intense heard in the city since rebels arrived three days ago.
The sky was filled with the sound of heavy and light machine guns as well as mortars, with the overhead roar of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... jets that had been carrying intensive overflights though it was unclear if there were any air strikes.
Even two kilometers from the fighting, the almost constant whistle of falling bullets could be hear from the rooftops, as the city's mosques chanted "Allahu Akbar" (God is the greatest).
Rebels also said that around 93 percent of the capital had fallen into their hands, quoted by Al-Arabiya television.
Exultant rebel fighters packed in trucks and cars have since Sunday streamed across the capital of the oil-rich North African state, seizing control of Qadaffy's state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
network and Tripoli's seaside Green Square.
But the euphoria of their lightning entry into the heart of the capital, which sparked celebrations and predictions that Qadaffy's days are numbered, has given way to caution that the fighting is far from over.
U.S. President Barack B.O. Obama called for "an inclusive transition" in Libya, demanding that Qadaffy "explicitly" give up power and cautioned the rebels that their struggles were "not over yet."
French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet, who on Monday had declared "The regime has fallen, the turnaround is total", said on La Belle France Inter radio Tuesday: "In Libya the situation is not totally at an end, far from it."
The opposition's image took a knock when its claims that Qadaffy's son Seif al-Islam had been incarcerated were refuted by none other than the man himself, who appeared before cheering armed loyalists outside Bab al-Aziziya in the early hours of Tuesday.
"Tripoli is under our control. Everyone should rest assured. All is well in Tripoli," Seif told journalists at the compound, smiling broadly and flashing the V for victory sign.
"I am here to refute the lies," the 39-year-old said about reports of his arrest, and accused the West of waging a "technological and media war to cause chaos and terror in Libya."
Seif, who like his father is wanted by the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... (ICC) for crimes against humanity, claimed the cut-throats had suffered "heavy casualties" Monday when they launched their first attempt to storm the Bab al-Aziziya compound.
British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg insisted in London that the defiant appearance of Seif was "not the sign of some great comeback for the Qadaffy regime".
"He is not roaming freely through Tripoli. He and the remaining pro-Qadaffy forces are now cornered, they are making their last stand, and it's only a matter of time before they are finally defeated," Clegg said.
The opposition also suffered another setback when Mohammed Qadaffy, the leader's eldest son, beat feet from house arrest, according to the Libyan ambassador to Washington in an interview with CNN.
Outside of the capital, the rebels said they had cut off a column of pro-Qadaffy troops attempting to march on Tripoli from the city of Sirte, the leader's hometown.
According to a NATO official in Brussels, loyalist forces fired a Scud missile in the direction of the rebel-held western city of Misrata during Monday fighting.
The "surface-to-surface Scud" was launched "from the vicinity of Sirte," chief NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said.
It "landed in the coastal area of Misrata, most likely in the sea or on the shore," she said, adding "we are not aware of damage or casualties."
The mood around Tripoli's iconic Green Square, renamed "Martyrs Square" by the rebels, had been joyous on Sunday night, with fighters and their supporters dancing and waving the red, black and green flag of anti-regime forces.
But Tripoli residents have since become palpably nervous as the end game plays out.
The rebels are hesitant about how to secure the parts of Tripoli not already under their control: whether to advance through broad boulevards, where they could be vulnerable to sniper fire, or to fight through narrow back streets.
"The Qadaffy era is over," rebel chief Mustafa Abdul Jalil told a news conference in the anti-Qadaffy stronghold of Benghazi, eastern Libya.
But while thanking NATO for its military support, he conceded that not all of Tripoli was under rebel control and cautioned that "the real moment of victory is when Qadaffy is captured".
The whereabouts of the strongman are not known but the United States said it did not believe he has left Libya.
Qadaffy broadcast three defiant audio messages on Sunday, vowing he would never surrender and urging the people of Tripoli to "purge the capital". But he has not been seen in public for weeks as the rebels have crept ever closer.
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Meanwhile, not to be outdone by the Libyuhn Rebs + NATO NFZ, as per SIEGE OF TRIPOLI/GADDAFI COMPOUND = akin to 1945 SIEGE OF BERLIN, the HISTORY CHANNEL is showing repeats of the conspiracy to kill Hitler + end of WW2 in Germany = Europe, wid a few Roswellian UFOS thrown in.
[Tripoli Post] The rebel fighters trying to oust Libyan leader Muammar Al Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... from power after a 'reign' of almost 42 years, resumed their attack on the Al Qadaffy's compound at Bab Al-Azziziyah in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, Tuesday morning.
Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... is taking place with opposition forces concentrating their firepower on Al Qadaffy's compound, with the al-Mansoura district also the focus of fierce festivities between government forces and opposition fighters two days after the rebels marched into the capital prompting scenes of jubilation.
The regime's forces are reportedly fighting back using heavy weapons including mortars and shells fired in the direction of Green Square casting doubts on opposition claims that much of the city was under their control.
The conflict that is intensifying in Tripoli is leaving casualties and many maimed, with the latter facing a tough time in the only hospital in Tripoli still working. The hospital faces a shortage of doctors and the medics there, including the only surgeon on duty, have been complaining of "a shortage of everything." when it comes to facilities and medical supplies.
Robin Waudo from the International Committee of the Red Thingy in Tripoli, that has been bringing supplies to Tripoli for months, has been reported saying that there's only one clinic. "It has 40 beds, and all of the beds are taken," he said. Waudo told CNN that the IRCC knew "the fighting would come to Tripoli," but uncertainty over who controls the airports is hampering the flow of medical supplies.
In the meantime, the International Organisation for Migration, IOM said. That relief for foreign nationals trying to flee Tripoli was postponed when for the second day, a boat that can carry 300 people and that was scheduled to arrive at the capital Tuesday was delayed.
According to the organization, the boat left the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi on Monday, but the deteriorating security situation at Tripoli's port is causing delays,.
Battles have continued at various points and witnesses indicated that about 48 kilometres west of the city tracer fire, anti-aircraft guns and artillery were seen and heard around Zawiyah, a key city during the rebels' advance into Tripoli.
NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... confirmed Tuesday that it has been dropping leaflets in the Zawiyah area intended to warn residents to stay away from military activities. Other leaflets, in Arabic and French, were aimed at mercenaries fighting for the regime, encouraging them to give up the fight and to leave Libya.
In another development, a scud missile fired Monday evening from Al Qadaffy's hometown of Sirte landed in the sea near the rebel-held city of Misrata. NATO said it had no reports of damage or injuries, but called the attack a "direct threat to innocent people."
"Although the surface-to-surface missiles in Al Qadaffy's arsenal are highly inaccurate, and are not designed to hit a specific target, they are a weapon of terror," NATO said. "Their use against an urban or industrial area is utterly irresponsible," the alliance added.
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[Tripoli Post] The rebels' jubiliation after their entry into Muammar Al Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years... territory and the capture of around 80 percent of the Libyan capital, Tripoli gave way to disappointment late Monday night/early Tuesday morning when the Libyan leader's second son, Seif al-Islam, who the NTC had announced, and the International Criminal Curt confirmed as having been placed in long-term storage, turned up at the Tixos hotel in front of foreign journalists.
To see Seif, who has become as hated as his father during the six-month conflict back on the streets a free men, was a great shock for the rebels. To see him on TV footage on the international media boasting to foreign journalists there that his father's government was still "in control" was something nobody could have envisaged.
He was full of himself as he said the regime had lured the rebels into a trap. It raised significant questions about the credibility of rebel leaders. It was not clear whether Seif had been in rebel custody and beat feet, or was never held at all. His brother, Mohammed, who reportedly was on house arrest was also free, having beat feet on Monday.
Seif al-Islam showed up at the Hotel, in a convoy of armoured Land Cruisers. In brief comments he said his father and several of his sisters were safe in Tripoli, and that loyal troops had "broken the back" of the rebels who moved into the capital over the weekend.
He said news of his arrest had been a trick by the rebels, and that he had been travelling around Tripoli in his armoured convoy the entire time.
He went on to say that government forces had lured the rebels into a trap in the capital, and that Al Qadaffy loyalists "have broken the spines of those rats and those gangsters."
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the ICC's chief prosecutor, had said Sunday that he would seek Seif al-Islam Al Qadaffy's extradition following his capture. Asked about the warrant for his arrest, Seif al-Islam Al Qadaffy told news hounds, "To hell with the ICC."
There was no immediate explanation from the National Transitional Council, the rebel leadership that had announced their capture Sunday.
Seif's appearance baffled the rebels and the media as they soldiered on to try and capture the last remaining areas in Tripoli still in the regime's control, particularly around the Al Qadaffy compound at Bab al-Azziziyah.
The rebel fighters battling to oust the Libyan leader still did battle and resumed their fighting this morning trying to take out the Al Qadaffy snipers on rooftops in Tripoli who reportedly killed or maimed at least a dozen people. The attackers' aim and organization suggested the gunnies were experienced Al Qadaffy militiamen.
The rebels pulled down and burned green flags, hoisting in their place their tricoloured flag. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the regime's green flag still flew in parts of Tripoli as they are still doing in at least two major cities considered strongholds of Al Qadaffy's tribe, Sebha to the south and his Sirte on the coast roughly midway between Tripoli and Benghazi.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Tex and his new-found Indian friend were preparing a little surprise for the bandidos... NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... reported further air-strikes on the Bab al-Azziziyah compound, while the United States said late Monday that its warplanes had shot down a Scud missile fired from Sirte.
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while the United States said late Monday that its warplanes had shot down a Scud missile fired from Sirte.
Huh? Oh, it's the Tripoli Post: The Voice of the Resistance or something like that.
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Frankly, if I were one of these twits, I'd be sipping a cold one and enjoying a fembot in Switzerland or somewhere. What's the point of staying 'til the last shot?
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I don't think the Kadaffy family is welcome in Switzerland anymore. Not since they threatened jihad and to "abolish" the country. I hear Lake Victoria is nice this time of year. Bring plenty mosquito repellent.
Fresh fighting erupted in Tripoli on Tuesday hours after Moammar Gadhafi's son turned up free to thwart Libyan rebel claims he had been captured, a move that seems to have energized forces still loyal to the embattled regime. The Arab tradition of bribery is alive and well.
Rebels and pro-regime troops fought fierce street battles in several parts of the city, a day after opposition fighters swept into the capital with relative ease, claiming to have most of it under their control.
Seif al-Islam's sudden -- even surreal -- arrival at a Tripoli hotel where foreign journalists are staying threw the situation in the capital into confusion. The appearance of Gadhafi's son and former heir apparent underlined the potential for the longtime Libyan leader, whose whereabouts remain unknown, to strike back even as his grip on power seemed to be slipping fast.
Mohammed Kadhafi, a son of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, has escaped after having been arrested by rebels in Tripoli, a senior rebel source told AFP on Monday.
"Yes, it's truce, he has escaped," the source in the rebel capital of Benghazi, eastern Libya, said on condition of anonymity. Brilliant, boys, brilliant...
Mohammed Kadhafi, Kadhafi's eldest son, and brother Seif al-Islam, who was regarded as the veteran leader's intended successor, were arrested on Sunday as rebels seized control of large swathes of Tripoli.
"Mohammed and Seif al-Islam are under the control of our revolutionaries and are in a safe hands," rebel leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil told a press conference in Benghazi earlier on Monday.
On Sunday night, Al-Jazeera was broadcasting a telephone interview with Mohammed Kadhafi from his Tripoli home when it was overrun by rebels. Panicked as gunshots rang out, he was heard praying on the line.
He is regarded as a leading businessman rather than a political figure in Kadhafi's regime. Ah, a business-like thug...
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"rescue mission to pluck 300 foreign nationals from the Libyan capital has been delayed".Rebels?freedom fighters?revolutionaries?and foreign nationals?. I getting confused. Did I forget anybody? Oh! Muslim brotherhood?.
Due to his recent pancreatic cancer prognosis, the Scottish Parliament has overwhelming approved the granting of political refugee status to former Libyan strongman Momar Kadhafi.
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I think the Scots are rightfully terrified that if he is picked up by the Americans, they are going to find out about sweet oil deals, not just to Scotland itself, but to individual Scots politicians as well.
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not just to Scotland itself, but to individual Scots politicians as well.
BP. The British government decided it was “in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom” to make Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, eligible for return to Libya, leaked ministerial letters reveal.
Gordon BrownÂ’s government made the decision after discussions between Libya and BP over a multi-million-pound oil exploration deal had hit difficulties. These were resolved soon afterwards.
The letters were sent two years ago by Jack Straw, the justice secretary, to Kenny MacAskill, his counterpart in Scotland, who has been widely criticised for taking the formal decision to permit MegrahiÂ’s release.
The correspondence makes it plain that the key decision to include Megrahi in a deal with Libya to allow prisoners to return home was, in fact, taken in London for British national interests.
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And these are the people who were running the show. Forgive me, meet the the new Boss, same a the old Boss. And that's why the general population of the UK has been disarmed. This thieving and lying can get taken personally when ordinary folk feel excluded from access to such deals.
Myself, he would still be sitting, with the Libyans as we knew them coughing up his bed and board for every 50 yr life sentence he should have recieved. Would have been worth an extra penny/litre every time I fill up just thinking that. So, now I fill up, when I can, and hold my nose.
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Yeah, and the time to do away with Daffy was at the time of the Lockerbie bombing. They should have gone in then and done it right instead of just the limited bombing that they let Reagan do. Now it just seems like chickenshit. We might get rid of Daffy but we have no idea what's going to happen after he's gone. Just amazingly stupid.
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We might get rid of Daffy but we have no idea what's going to happen after he's gone. Anyone who has read a little history & done a bit of thinking has a pretty good idea of what will happen after Qadaffy exits - which makes the intervention even stupider.
Gaddafi oversaw the construction of hundreds of miles of tunnels and bomb proof bunkers that connect many of his compounds and key buildings.
Criss-crossing beneath Tripoli, Gaddafi and his trusted aides were able to move around the city undetected even from the air. A vast complex of tunnels stretches out under the desert and connects many of Libya's key towns and cities.
In unrelated news, the 9th Iranian Tunnelling Symposium is scheduled for November 2011.
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What, you think Daffy spent that whole 40 years playing with his fembot bodyguards?
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When they say tunnels, they probably mean serious tunnels. Qaddafi created the "Great Manmade River" project that is truly immense.
As great irony, the original design was by Brown & Root, subsidiary of Halliburton. So you know it is impressive.
Parts of the underground are so immense that there was concern that Libya and Egypt, a partner in the deal, could have a complete nuclear complex underground, that could create all stages of a nuclear program without detection.
The SECRET MOTIVE: why the UN declared war on Libya. DESTABILIZATION. They did NOT attack Gaddafi, They attacked AfricaÂ’s Fresh Water Supply.
“The West refuses to recognize that a small country, with a population no more than four million, can construct anything so large without borrowing a single cent from the international banks.”
It goes on to say future wars will be over water in the area.
From a couple of days ago...
ZAWIYAH, Libya — With his flipped-round baseball cap and "Just Do It" T-shirt, Tareg Gazel looks like any other 19 year old. But this teen's job is to use cunning and guile to find and kill Kadhafi regime snipers.
His mother is from Belfast, his father is Libyan and, as if drawn from the script of a Hollywood movie, he is now using what he learnt hunting game in the desert to liberate Zawiyah, his city that lies almost at the gates of Tripoli.
"We killed four last night, two the night before," Gazel told AFP as he waited with his rebel comrades under the protection of a motorway flyover, taking a rest and cleaning weapons before the next sniper report comes in. He is prepared to reveal some of the ruses that he and the eight-man team he heads use to find snipers around the sprawling city, but "not the new tricks."
"We hear from informants that there's a sniper somewhere, so we go to see what's happening, we stay several hours just to observe and then we do our tricks. At night the job is easier. We attach a light to a dog, and when it crosses the street, we see where the sniper's laser sight is coming from. That's how we got the last one. Or we run across the street ourselves to draw their fire. The most we've waited to get a sniper is eight hours. We're not (elite US Navy) SEALs or anything, we're just lucky."
Luck and the experiences gained from one of the favourite pre-revolution pastimes in the area. "Many of us around here are hunters, we're good with rifles," he said, boasting that "most of our kills are either to the head or to the heart."
Gazel says that most of their foes are foreign mercenaries as Kadhafi has to buy his fighters because of a lack of popular support for his over four-decade rule. "Two days ago we caught a Nigerian woman sniper, she was bloody brilliant," he said. "She's being held in a secret prison, along with the others we've captured. I don't know where she got her training, but she's very smart."
Gazel nevertheless has little pity for Kadhafi's fighters, who he says killed his uncle as he left the mosque after prayers. "They've even been firing mortars at the graveyard, because that's where we buried our martyrs," he said as a dead African pro-Kadhafi militia fighter is driven past in the back of a rebel pickup.
"I have a British passport but that doesn't mean anything here if they catch me," he says, declining to be photographed because "I still have relatives in prison".
Gazel says that once the fighting is over, he plans to continue his pre-revolutionary occupation of "just chilling", hopefully in the Caribbean."Of course we'll also go to Tripoli," he said. "Or we might not. There could be another agenda, but I can't talk about that." Wonder what he means by that?
Covert forces, private contractors and U.S. intelligence assets were thrown into the fight in an undercover campaign operating separately from the NATO command structure. Targeted bombings methodically took out Gadhafi's key communications facilities and weapons caches. And an increasing number of American hunter-killer drones provided round-the-clock surveillance as the rebels advanced.
Foreign military advisers on the ground were key to getting real-time intelligence to the rebels, helping them accurately concentrate their limited firepower on the enemy. One U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, said the Qatari military led the way, augmented later by French, Italian and British military advisers. This effort had a multiple purpose, not only assisting the rebels but monitoring their ranks and watching for any al-Qaida elements trying to infiltrate or influence the rebellion.
Bolstering the intelligence on the ground was an escalating surveillance and targeting campaign in the skies above. Armed U.S. Predator drones helped to clear a path for the rebels to advance.
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Covert forces, private contractors and U.S. intelligence assets
TRANSLATION: CIA and US State Department 'nation building' transition team. Jimmy Carter and USAID fly-away teams to follow. The hungry must be fed. We'll be out by 2029.
[Bangla Daily Star] Libyan rebels are negotiating with the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... (ICC) to arrange the handover of Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... 's son Saif al-Islam who was jugged late on Sunday, al Arabiya TV reported on Monday without naming a source. Why does the ICC have anything to say about this? Saif was snagged by the rebels. I'm sure the rebels know what to do.
The ICC in June issued arrest warrants for Qadaffy, his son Saif and Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi on charges of crimes against humanity after the UN Security Council referred the Libyan situation to the court in February.
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says he will contact Libyan rebels to urge them to hand over the son of Moammar Qadaffy, jugged during their dramatic thrust into Tripoli, and not take the law into their own hands.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo says it is "time for justice, not Dire Revenge™" in Libya.
Moreno-Ocampo spoke to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named early Monday, shortly after receiving confirmation that opposition forces had jugged Seif al-Islam Qadaffy, the one-time heir apparent to his father, who has been indicted on crimes against humanity charges.
Issuing arrest warrants for the suspects in June, a judge said evidence showed Moammar Qadaffy and his inner circle plotted a "state policy" to stamp out dissent "by any means -- including by the use of lethal force."
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[Emirates 24/7] Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... chief Nabil al-Arabi declared on Monday his "full solidarity" with the Libyan rebel government as its fighters closed in on Moamer Khadafi's Tripoli compound.
Arabi, in a statement expressed "his full solidarity with the ongoing efforts by the National Transitional Council" and "wished success for the council in leading a new era and preserving Libya's regional integrity and its illusory sovereignty and independence." After forty years of standing shoulder to shoulder with the Duck of Death, as the photo illustrates...
The pan-Arab Cairo-based organization call for a Libyan no-fly zone in March opened the way for NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... air strikes that tipped the balance in the rebels' favour.
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[Emirates 24/7] The Gulf state of Kuwait on Monday recognised the Libyan rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) as the "legitimate" representative of the Libyan people. That's appropriate, now that they control Tripoli.
An official source at the foreign ministry "renewed the support of the state of Kuwait to the NTC as the sole and legitimate representative of the Libyan people," a statement cited by the official KUNA news agency said.
Kuwait has maintained good relations with the Libyan rebels and granted NTC $180 million in urgent aid during a visit by NTC chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil in April but stopped short of fully recognising them. Should the worm have turned that would have left them holding the poopy end.
The foreign ministry official expressed hope that Libya will enjoy peace and security.
The move came as Libyan rebels seized control of most of Tripoli.
A group of Libyans in Kuwait Monday removed and burned the flag of Moamer Qadaffy ...whose instability has been an inspiration to dictators everywhere... regime at the embassy and then raised the rebels flag, as ambassador Mohammad al-Mubarak said he was operating under the NTC.
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[Emirates 24/7] Libya's rebel government envoy to the Cairo-based Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... said Monday that his country will not allow NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... bases in Libya after Moamer Qadaffy's ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years... ouster, official MENA news agency said. "Thanks a lot for your help. Now get the hell out."
"Libya is an Arab and Islamic nation before NATO and after NATO," he said, adding, "the Libyans revolted from the 1970s against Western bases and there will be no non-Libyan bases."
The head of Libya's rebel national council urged rebels on Monday to respect the law and promised fair trials for members of Muammar Kaddafi's government.
"I call on all Libyans to exercise self-restraint and to respect the property and lives of others and not to resort to taking the law into their own hands," Mustafa Abdel Jalil told a news conference in the eastern city of Benghazi aired by Al Jizz television.
He said the national council would favour foreign countries that had supported the rebellion. Except for military bases...
"We assure the international community that we are seeking to build solid ties based on mutual respect," he said, adding that countries would benefit from "special privileges" in relations with the oil-rich north African country.
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So now it starts: Sharia law, no NATO or others that helped. maybe the bombings should continue before the new 'owners' can get the place 'fixed up.'
What's the over/under on how long before OBumble starts his 'World Apology and Bowing Tour' sequel to go visit the New Libya?
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"We assure the international community that we are seeking to build solid ties based on mutual respect," he said, adding that countries would benefit from "special privileges" in relations with the oil-rich north African country.
Sounds like they're "open for business". Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...
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Personally, I view this very unsurprising announcement as very good news for the American tax payer. Arab gratitude, so predictable. Have the anti-Israel slogans begun to be braodcast yet? Please break out the AQ and Taliban training camp blueprints.
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"We assure the international community that we are seeking to build solid ties based on mutual respect," he said, adding that countries would benefit from "special privileges" in relations with the oil-rich north African country.
Western countries will have the special privilege of being among the first allowed to donate billions of dollars a year to a country with one of the highest per capita oil reserves in the world. McCain has spoken out in favor of large aid packages to help what he described as heroes. It's nice to know that the GOP has beaten Jimmy Carter at his own game, it is now able to help parties hostile to the US gain power without actually having the presidency in its grasp.
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Have the anti-Israel slogans begun to be braodcast yet?
Queerly enough, Besoeker, someone from the rebels contacted the head of the Libyan Jewish community in Britain, asking them to send candidates to run in the next election. Which has nothing to do with anti-Israel sloganeering, of course. Link
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One nice thing that Libya might actually do now is to allow more rights to the Berber ethnicity. A small de Arabization would be welcome and might lead to eventual secularization.
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CNN + FOX NEWS AM > Most News Anchors + Pert Panels agree that the Libyan Rebels are composed of highly impressionable young Muslim Males/Men wid COMPETING OR OPPOSING IDEOLOGIES + BELIEFS, + WHOM ARE UNITED ONLY VEE THEIR DESIRE FOR CHANGE IN LIBYA + GETTING RID OF THEIR COMMON ENEMY UNCLE MUAMMAR + REGIME - once Gaddafi is formally gone from power, this competition will likely resume + come to the forefront IWD HERETO UNCERTAIN OR SUBJECTIVE PEACEFUL OR VIOLENT CONSEQUENCES, ESPEC AS PER US-NATO + PRO-DEMOCRACY INTERESTS???
versus
* WAFF > THE END OF GADDAFI; THE BEGINNING OF A NEW TOUGHER CANADA.
"New Canada" Assertive = Strong Canada???
THE MACKENZIES ARE COMING, THE MACKENZIES ARE COMING [Ehhh]!
[An Nahar] The Libyan embassy in Damascus on Monday declared that it was siding with the rebel body the National Transitional Council, whose fighters have swept into Tripoli and are poised to overrun the capital. AWK-ward...!
"We, the ambassadors and members of the Libyan embassy in Damascus, announce our total support for the revolution of February 17 and declare our formal adherence to the National Transitional Council," it said in a statement. "Please don't kill us!"
"What is happening now in Libya is rewriting of history through a revolution led by the sacrifice of young Libyans," the statement said, adding that "history will not forgive those who will not participate" in this revolution. They're hoping that history will ignore what they were putting out last week...
The statement further said that the embassy was "committed to serve the Libyan people without exception and to faithfully serve its interests."
Syria itself is torn by a bloody uprising and Britain on Monday compared it with Libya, in a warning that President Bashar al-Assad could soon face the same fate as Gadhafi.
Heavy fighting was raging in many parts of Tripoli on Monday, including outside veteran Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's compound, after rebels swept through large swathes of the capital during the night.
The whereabouts of Gadhafi himself were unknown Monday but one of his sons, Seif al-Islam had been arrested while another, Mohammed Gadhafi was interviewed by Al-Jazeera television cowering in his house, afraid to leave.
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The new flag please, the new flag! Hurry will you, I have this press release to read!
[Al Jazeera] Muammar Qadaffy's ...who is seriously considering going into another line of work about now... eldest son, Mohammad, was also jugged by rebels on Sunday night. "Into the paddy wagon wit' yez, yer excellency!"
In an interview with Al Jizz after he surrendered, Mohammad expressed his "sadness" at the fighting in Libya. "I'm just so sad people are kicking us out of the catbird seat!"
The interview was interrupted by gunfire. "Duck! [BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!]"
"What's happening in Libya is very upsetting. The killing between brothers, between Mohammedans, is something that saddens me," he said, shortly before gunfire rang out in the background.
Abdul Jalil said that Qadaffy was unharmed, though there was no way to verify that claim. Mohammad did, however, conduct another interview on air with Al Jizz shortly after the gunfire. His whereabouts are currently unknown.
Mohammad was the chairman of Libya's main state-run telecommunications firm, but his role in his father's government was reportedly minimal, far smaller than Saif al-Islam's.
Qadaffy, Senussi escaped Tripoli?
Other former senior Qadaffy officials remain on the lam, including three of his seven sons.
The biggest question is Muammar Qadaffy himself, last heard in a brief audio recording on Sunday night. He called on Libya's tribes to March on the capital.
"How can you allow Tripoli to be burned?" he asked.
It is unclear whether Qadaffy is still in Tripoli, though that seems increasingly unlikely. Qadaffy, like Saif al-Islam, is wanted by the ICC.
Three other Qadaffy sons - Hannibal, Mutasim and Khamis - have not been located. Hannibal had little role in politics, but Khamis headed a feared army unit that took a leading role in suppressing protests. Mutasim was an army officer and a security adviser to his father.
The Al-Arabiya news network reported on Monday that Khamis was traveling to central Tripoli with soldiers loyal to him. That report could not be immediately confirmed.
Abdullah al-Senussi, Qadaffy's longtime intelligence chief and brother-in-law, also seems to have eluded the rebels. He was last seen at Tripoli's Rixos Hotel on Sunday, when he told foreign journalists that "Western intelligence" was "working alongside al-Qaeda to destroy Libya".
There are rumours in Arabic newspapers that Senussi decamped Tripoli, either to southern Libya or to the Tunisian town of Djerba, but those reports cannot be substantiated.
Senussi was the third Libyan official charged by the ICC in June. The court accused him of carrying out a campaign of murder, mass arrest and torture.
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[Al Jazeera] The head of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) has announced the end of the Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years... era, while sporadic fighting continued across the capital, Tripoli.
Fighting and shootouts erupted in parts of Tripoli on Monday after tanks left Bab al-Azizyah, Muammar Qadaffy's compound, to confront the rebel assault that gained control of much of the capital in a battle overnight.
Many of the streets in the centre of the city - where anti-government supporters had celebrated hours earlier - were abandoned as pockets of pro-Qadaffy resistance and the presence of snipers and artillery fire made the area dangerous.
Al Jizz's Zeina Khodr, who entered the city with rebel fighters who advanced overnight on Sunday, said the security situation in the city was "tenuous," despite there being celebrations in the streets.
"There are some Qadaffy forces still putting up a fight," our correspondent said.
"And rebels still have one last push to make towards Bab al-Azizyah," Khodr added, saying that it was unclear when this advance would take place.
Al Jizz has heard reports of sustained gunfire from inside Qadaffy's compound there. Opposition fighters also said pro-Qadaffy forces were fighting rebels in and around the area of al-Mansoura.
Regime forces also remained in control of the streets around the Rixos Hotel, where many Western journalists are based.
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[Yemen Post] With the Libyan regime quickly falling into the hands of revolution rebels, Sana'a witnessed tight security and checkpoints in every road in the capital.
Eyewitnesses in Aden, Ibb, Mukalla, Dhammar, Biatha, and Hajjah provinces also reported additional security presence is main roads of the provinces.
Eyewitnesses said that at least 60 tanks entered Sana'a over the last 24 hours, all entering the presidential palace.
Opposition loyalists in Yemen's major cities danced in the streets and chanted against the regime, promising its fall.
Government is on high alert and prepared in case Yemen's opposition and youth protesters escalate their efforts in demand for a regime fall.
A security bigshot in Sana'a said that troops have been given orders to react with force immediately if needed to ensure that no coup takes place in Yemen.
President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... has not returned to the country after escaping an liquidation attempt on his life on June 3rd and has been in Soddy Arabia since then seeking treatment. Saleh has been in rule in Yemen for 33 years.
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(KUNA) -- A terror suspect was appearing at the central criminal court of the Old Bailey here Monday accused of having instructions on how to make poison and a bomb, police said.
Asim Kauser, 25, is charged with four offences under the Terrorism Act in relation to material found on a computer pen drive.
He was charged with having records of information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism after being set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock at his home in Bardon Close, Bolton, northern England last June.
One of the charges relates to having "various instructions in how to make an improvised bomb".
Another relates to a recipe for the deadly poison ricin.
The offences are alleged to have been committed between January 2009 and June this year. No further details are available.
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A total of 11 armed suspects were killed in firefights between Mexican security forces and suspected drug traffickers in southern Zacatecas state Sunday and Monday, according to Mexican news accounts.
The gun battle began Sunday morning as Mexican Army units sealed off approaches to the city of Jalpa which sits astride Mexican Highway 54, and which is near Aguascalientes.
Reports say units of the Mexican 11th Military Zone focussed their operations in the Santa Cecilia colony and near a hospital, which was said to be under siege by the army.
Neither the Secretaria Defensa Nacional (SEDENA), the controlling agency for the Mexican Army nor the headquarters of the 11th Military Zone release details on the battle which began early Sunday morning.
Seven armed suspects were killed and four others were wounded. A Mexican soldier was also killed in the battle. The Mexican leftist weekly Proceso reported Monday that three Mexican soldiers were wounded in the encounter and were evacuated to a civilian hospital in Aguascalientes nearby. Four pickup trucks and weapons were seized after the battle ended.
Proceso also reported in a Monday night website posting that four armed suspects were killed in an apparent intergang firefight in Atolinga, Zacatecas just across the border from Jalisco state.
In an apparent separate gun battle Monday in the village of El Santiago in Jalpa municipality, two armed suspects and one soldier were killed. One suspect was detained.
The southern border area in Zacatecas has become a severe flashpoint in the Mexican War on drug as an alliance of cartels associated with the Sinaloa and Gulf Cartels have united to destroy Los Zetas. The area around southern Zacatecas was the focal point of a large Mexican federal counternarcotics offensive where several drug labs and plantations were destroyed. To read a Rantburg report on a recent gun battle between the Mexican Army, click here and follow the links which describe the counternarcotics offensive earlier in May.
Up until this summer Zacatecas was known as a reliable haven for Los Zetas, but that may be changing.
[Emirates 24/7] Two strong blasts tore through a supermarket in Russia's volatile Caucasus region of Dagestan, injuring 15 people including three children, regional police said on Monday.
The first blast went off late Sunday and maimed a sales clerk, the regional interior ministry said in a statement. The second struck when a Russian security team arrived on the scene.
The ministry said 15 people including 3 children were hospitalised. Four of them were in a serious condition, a police front man in Dagestan told AFP.
Six servicemen also received medical attention at the scene.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
The Caspian Sea region of Dagestan experiences almost daily shootings and bombings that officials blame on small-time Mister Bigs and rebels with links to Chechnya.
Fuelled by endemic poverty and corruption, the rebels are seeking to establish an independent Islamic state across the North Caucasus.
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[Bangla Daily Star] North Korea says it is seizing assets at a tourist site jointly operated with South Korea.
It has given South Koreans 72 hours to quit the resort at Mount Kumgang, which lies just inside North Korea. Something for Fredo to do if they can pry him outta Macau?
Officials said they were legally disposing of South Korean assets such as real estate, equipment and vehicles, considering them abandoned.
Abandoned, though the owners --or at least caretaker staff -- are still on-site. Cute.
Joint operations were suspended in 2008 after a South Korean tourist was rubbed out by a North Korean soldier.
The announcement came via the North's state news agency that as of Monday morning no materials or property could be taken from the South side of the resort, and all personnel should leave within 72 hours.
"We consider that the South has completely given up all rights on properties owned by South Korean companies and now start legal disposal of them," KCNA said in a statement. ...and then they shot Moe Jong Green in the eye.
North Korea has been threatening to seize South Korean assets at Mount Kumgang for months.
It recently invited South Korean representatives for talks on reopening the site, but both sides remain divided over how to deal with the fatal shooting of a South Korean tourist who had strayed into a military area, which led to the South suspending its activities there.
North Korea is keen to boost its economy, in the face of dwindling aid and reportedly severe food shortages inside the country.
Tens of thousands of tourists used to visit the Mount Kumgang site every year, paying in dollars, providing a significant source of hard currency for North Korea.
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HMMMM, HMMMMMM, I wonder iff this has to do wid the RUSSIAN DELEGATION now visiting North Korea???
KIMMIE = NORTH KOREA TRYING TO DO A "VIETNAM/CAM RANH BAY", i.e. set up an anti-China International EEZ-SEZ using SOKOR as cover???
* FYI WORLD MIL FORUM > SOUTH KOREA'S "ASIAN DAILY" BROKE THE NEWS: MASSIVE CHINESE PLA SECURITY FORCE NUMBERING BETWEEN 6000-10,000 TROOPS PROTECTS NORTH KOREA'S KIM JONG-IL.
OTHER REGIONAL NEWS ...
* TOPIX > US MULLED PULLING MARINE FORCES OUT OF JAPAN: MAHER, early in the post-3/11 Fukushima Nuclear/NucPlant Crisis according to former US DepState - Japan Desk Chief.
* TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > VARIOUS [old] = JAPAN WARNED IT MUST DECIDE ON FUTURE OF OKINAWA MARINE BASE.
ARTIC = American Official sacked for making alleged disparaging remarks agz Japan claims US MAY DROP PLAN TO REDUCE OKINAWA MIL PRESENCE + RELOC TO GUAM.
ARTIC =
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ION WAFF > VIETNAM HAS RECEIVED A SECOND RUSSIAN-MADE GUIDED-MISSLE WARSHIP [GEPARD-class].
FYI the design of France's brand-new GOWIND-class stealth warships reminds me of SIMILAR_DESIGNED OR LOOKING WORLD NAVAL WARSHIPS ENVISIONED IN OLD PERSONAL DREAMS/VISIONS OF MINE AS PER FUTURE TIME, ESPEC AS PER SHIP VISITS THEN TO A FUTURE GUAM.
[1960's ANGELINA JOLIE, NEW = "OLD" ST. FRANCIS SCHOOL + YONA, GUAM here].
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CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > {Eric Margolis] THE ERA OF CARRIERS IS ENDING.
* CMF THREAD POSTER = argued that "THE YANKEE IS BROKE..." - ALL THE US CAN AFFORD IS SEVEN [7] AIRCRAFT CARRIERS, ELEVEN OF SAME IS TOO $$$ COSTLY FOR THEM.
* SAME-THREAD CMF POSTERS ...
> claimed that 90% OF US INCOME TAX COLLECTED BY THE IRS IS FOR THE MILITARY BUDGET [mil spending]OF THE USA.
> Another CMF Poster claimed its actually 55%, not 90%, calculating that the USDOD received US$1.2+ Trilyuhn from TOTE FY2010 FED-COLLECTED TAX REVENUES OF US$2.16 TRIYUHN???
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* SAME > GLOBALRESEARCH = [Post-Cold War/USSR] RUSSIA IS MORE [militarily] VULNERABLE TO JAPAN THAN PREVIOUSLY BELIEVED, as per the now-Russian South Kuriles = former Japanese Northern Territories.
Post-Soviet, econ-troubled Nuclear Russia = similar to the Nuclear UK during its 1980's Falklands war agz Argentina where the UK MoD = Royal Navy was hard-pressed to gather potent conventional mil assets together to wage war = limited mil conflict overseas agz a dedicated, but militarily weaker or inferior, State opponent.
FORTUNATELY FOR RUSSIA ....
> ALTHOUGH JAPAN'S SDF HAS THE NUMBERS + HI-TECH CONVENTIONAL MIL ASSETS, CAPABILITIES TO [temporarily?]KICK RUSSIA'S ARSE OUT OF THE SOUTH KURILES, BY THE SAME TOKEN NIPPON DOES NOT HAVE THE STRATEGIC ANDOR TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO WIN A WAR AGZ RUSSIA.
> Despite Japan's anger at Russia's annexation = declaration of permanent sovereignty over its former Northern territories, THERE IS NO REAL OR IMMINENT THREAT/DANGER OF WAR BETWEEN JAPAN + RUSSIA OVER SAME.
[Dawn] Sardar Babak Hussain, the Minister for Education Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... was injured when his car overturned after coming under gunfire in Buner on Sunday evening. Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has an education minister. Who knew? They might even have a Polio Minister...
He was taken to a hospital in Swabi. "Into the ambulance wit' yez, yer excellency!"
Two guards of the minister were also injured, according to late-night report on TV channels. "We'll send the ambulance back for yez after we're done with his excellency!"
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[Dawn] Even the presence of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... could not stop the violence in Bloody Karachi as seven more people were killed in different areas of the city on Monday, DawnNews reported.
Four employees of the Bloody Karachi water board were gunned dead and another injured as unknown assailants targeted them in the Garden area.
Earlier today, two bodies were found dumped in PIB Colony and the graveyard of Landhi's Ismail Goth area.
A body was also recovered from the roof top of a building situated in the area of Gulshan-i-Iqbal Block six.
The dear departed was identified as Mehtab Khan by his identity card which was found in his pocket. He was a resident of a nearby area.
Police said that the incident could be the result of a personal enmity.
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[Dawn] About a dozen gunnies in Pakistain's southwestern district of Mastung attacked and set fire to some 19 trucks carrying fuel for NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... forces in Afghanistan, DawnNews reported.
There were no reported casualties.
The faceless myrmidons have frequently targeted NATO supply trucks over the past few years, but attacks have intensified since the killing of al Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden ... who can now be reached at RFD Boneyard... by US special forces in a secret raid in a Pak military town on May 2.
Five NATO trucks were set ablaze in the same region on Friday.
Routes through Pakistain were until recently bringing in 40 per cent of supplies for NATO forces, with another 40 per cent coming through Afghanistan's neighbours in the north and 20 per cent by air.
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They really don't like to be hit back, do they?
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The head of an emergency ward in a Gaza City hospital said Monday that Israeli forces were using new, more brutal weapons against residents of the Gaza Strip.
On Thursday, Israeli forces began a four-day bombarded the coastal enclave killing 14 Palestinians and wounding dozens more in a series of airstrikes and drone attacks.
Dr Ayman As-Sahbani said patients were admitted with horrific injuries and that some bodies delivered to Al-Shifa Hospital were so badly burned they were unrecognizable.
He said Israeli weapons made no distinction between women, children and the elderly, pointing out that a two-year-old toddler and a 13-year-old boy were among those killed in the latest escalation. Set the new Brutal Zionist Weapon™ for "elderly", sergeant! Follow up with four rounds of "toddler" and four rounds of "women"!
Yes, sir!
Two monks, two villagers and eight soldiers were wounded when a bomb exploded on Paknam Road in Pattani province on Tuesday morning.
The soldiers were escorting Buddhist monks returning to Lak Muang temple after collecting alms when a home-made bomb put inside a trash bin on the roadside was detonated.
Two monks, two villagers and four soldiers were slightly injured and four other soldiers were seriously wounded. The bomb victims were taken to the hospital.
[Straits Times] The Philippines on Monday offered Mohammedan rebels waging a decades-long insurgency the prospect of autonomy, but warned they must first lay down their arms and a peace pact was likely years away.
The offer was contained in the government's proposal for peace with the 12,000-strong Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) at the start of three days of talks in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur.
'This proposal presents the possibility of a more empowered, more workable and thus, more genuine autonomy of a Bangsamoro (Filipino Mohammedan) region,' the government said in a statement summarising its offer.
The government did not make public all the specific details, but hinted the area could expand and improve the existing Autonomous Region in Mohammedan Mindanao (ARMM), which groups five Mohammedan provinces in the country's troubled south.
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Let me guess.. the new constitution for the South would enshrine sharia law, offer no protections to Christians, and become a springboard for Islam in the Pacific.
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(KUNA) -- Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad issued a republican decree on Monday ordering the setup of a committee to oversee political parties affairs and it is to be presided by Interior Minister Major General Muhammad Ibrahim Al-Shaar.
The first article of the decree states that the committee is presided by the interior minister and its members are Justice Mohammad Rqayah as Deputy Chairman, counselor Ibrahim Mohammad Wajih Al-Maliki, Dr. Mohmoud Hasan, and counselor Ali Milhim.
The decree was issued following the interview on Syrian TV with Al-Assad last night, in which he discussed the current state of affairs and reforms.
In the interview, Al-Assad had revealed intent to issue new laws and decrees relating to political parties, elections, and local administration, which are due within a few days. He also expected parliamentary elections to take place in February 2012, with Syria having completed its legislative and electoral reforms by then.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Tolo News] At least 16 
[Emirates 24/7] A chemical oil tanker foiled a hijack attempt by pirates near the Omani port of Salalah on Sunday, a day after a tanker and crew were snatched from inside the port in front of the 
Qadaffy's
International Criminal Court
[Tripoli Post] The rebel fighters trying to oust Libyan leader Muammar Al 
Mohammed Kadhafi, a son of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, has escaped after having been arrested by rebels in Tripoli, a senior rebel source told AFP on Monday.
[Emirates 24/7] Libya's rebel government envoy to the Cairo-based 
North Korea
[Dawn] Sardar Babak Hussain, the Minister for Education 
Even the presence of Prime Minister 
