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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Afghanistan
U.S. defends unilateral capture or kill doctrine
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/18/2011 17:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Nine Afghans herding cattle killed by mine: police
[Dawn] Nine civilians including five children have been killed by a roadside mine as they herded cattle in northwest Afghanistan, police said Saturday.

The incident took place in Faryab province, which borders Turkmenistan, late Friday and again highlights the dangers civilians face in the ten-year war in Afghanistan.

Faryab police front man Sayed Massoud Yaqoobi confirmed details of the incident, adding: "Nine non-combatants were killed including five children and a man was maimed."

There are about 140,000 international troops in Afghanistan, mainly from the United States, combating a Taliban-led insurgency that started after the group was ousted from power by a US-led invasion.

But civilians are the biggest casualties of the war.

The United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
said in July that 1,462 non-combatants were killed by the Afghan conflict in the first half of this year, up 15 per cent on the same period last year.

It blamed 80 per cent of the deaths on jihad boys. Many deaths come as a result of improvised bombs (IEDs) and mines.

In the latest major attack in Afghanistan, gun-hung tough guys this week killed at least 15 people -- including 11 Afghan civilians of whom three were children -- in an attack which targeted the United States embassy in Kabul.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Egyptians paid to storm Israeli embassy in Cairo
Investigations into the storming of the Israeli embassy in Cairo revealed that young people may have been bribed into taking violent action that day, reported Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram on Sunday.

A source explained to Al Ahram that participants were assembled the day before the attack and taken by "luxury tourist buses" to eat a "lavish dinner." They were told they need to take revenge against Israel "for our children who were killed on the border."

According to the report, envelopes were handed out to each participant with money ranging from five to eleven thousand pounds,
$840 - $1850
and all agreed to gather the next day at 5 p.m. "in various locations such as the zoo and the field of Cairo University, [and] to go to the embassy and create chaos."
I don't know if it's truth or Pravda (official truth).
Which is better, that they arose in self-righteous indignation and hatred of the uppity juices, or that from a desire for a fancy dinner and half a years' salary they were willing to terrorize innocents who'd done them no wrong.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/18/2011 02:06 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nice of the Egytians to pay the louts for what they'd be glad to do for free.
Posted by: Barbara || 09/18/2011 9:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Hopefully, it's true. If a bribe becomes expected, very little spontaneous hooliganism will occur down the road...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/18/2011 9:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Why, its a model of SEIU astroturfing. Looks like they're picking up modern Western political practices well. /sarc off?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/18/2011 9:43 Comments || Top||

#4  I wonder if the organizers thought they wouldn't have to pay as much because half of them would die? Oops on the Isreali reaction!
Posted by: Charles || 09/18/2011 15:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Difficult economic times in Egypt and what looks like money in the wrong hands, maybe a bad turn of events. Libya could fund some of this and many others. Payoffs and corruption are a way of life there. The Arab world trickle down economics. Follow the money.
Posted by: Dale || 09/18/2011 19:13 Comments || Top||


Turkey Parachutes in Aid to Libya's Bani Walid
[An Nahar] Turkey Saturday was parachuting in 22 tons of humanitarian aid to the Libyan city of Bani Walid, one of the last holdouts of fallen leader Moammar Qadaffy's
...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years...
supporters, the prime minister's office said.

Two military cargo planes left Ankara on Saturday to bring food to around 10,000 people in Bani Walid in need of urgent help, the office said in a statement on its website.

As there is no airport in the city, the aid packages would be dropped down by parachute, it added.

The National Transitional Council, Libya's new rulers, said its fighters had to make a "tactical withdrawal" from Bani Walid on Friday night as a result of sniper fire after earlier entering the oasis town.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was on a visit to Arab Spring countries last week and he went to Tripoli on Friday and met with Libya's NTC leaders.

Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So Nato funds both ends of the conflict? Awesome.
Posted by: American Delight || 09/18/2011 1:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Our AID dollars to Pakistan find their way to the Taliban as well. Operation Fast & Furious, at the macro level. "Seed money" for the military industrial complex. Thanks to our CIA masters and the globalists, our only remaining industry.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/18/2011 1:32 Comments || Top||

#3  +More likely State Department than CIA...
Posted by: tipover || 09/18/2011 2:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Just a little thank you from Erdogan.
Posted by: Thatle Sinatra4062 || 09/18/2011 15:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Golly -- parachuted in? The martial abilities of those neo-Ottomans never fail to shock and awe.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/18/2011 18:24 Comments || Top||


Revolutionaries Try to Regroup After Setbacks in Bani Walid, Sirte
[Tripoli Post] The Libyan revolutionaries trying to take control of two of runaway leader Muammar Al Qadaffy's
...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years...
last three remaining strongholds were pushed back from both key Al Qadaffy bastions, Bani Walid and Sirte and even suffered severe losses, with about seven of the fighters killed and around 50 injured.

The had expected to be celebrating their triumphant capture Saturday morning, but despite escalating their offensives on Friday, they were pushed back.

However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
a day after the anti-Al Qadaffy fighters retreated from chaotic, fierce street fighting in the city, on they have been trying to regroup and are prepare for another assault against the diehard Al Qadaffy loyalists, knowing full well that in Sirte particularly, almost every house seems to be armed with snipers on their roofs.

The NTC fighters have reportedly entered Al Qadaffy's hometown, Sirte by convoys on Saturday.

At least 100 cars were seen entering Sirte as they try to take it, knowing fully well, that controlling it, and the other strategic mountain town of Bani Walid, 140 kilometres south of the capital, are vital to consolidate the grip of the post-revolutionary regime.

Friday pro-Al Qadaffy forces fired barrages of rockets and mortars to repel the assault by the Libyan revolutionaries and also held off an advance on the other town. Therefore, an attack that began Friday morning was petered out in disarray and frustration by the time the evening drew near.

According to the Misrata Military Council, during the fighting Friday, a brigade of fighters from Misrata wrested control of the Al-Gurdabia military base and a civilian airport near the western edge of Sirte.

Expected support from residents of Sirte did not materialise as loyalists fought house to house with an intensity that had not been anticipated. Reports indicate that almost every house in Sirte is armed and ready to fight the revolutionaries.

Al Jizz reported about "a propaganda campaign" by Al Qadaffy forces that seems to be working well for their camp. It is against the NTC fighters, with the residents seemingly scared of the revolutionaries.

According to Alm Hashi, a revolutionary fighter, one of Al Qadaffy's sons, Muatassim, the regime's national security adviser, may have been coordinating the fighting in Sirte. He said Muatassim's voice crackled on the radio with orders for troops loyal to his father.

In the other town, Bani Walid, Al Qadaffy snipers are using the roofs of Mosques and almost every house in Sirte to repel the rebels who in the end have also found out to their cost that Al Qadaffy's men have much heavier fighting equipment than they had imagined

The NTC fighters know that the two towns of Bani Walid and Sirte are still out of reach, and the fight to secure Libya's future is not yet over. So after turning back to reassemble five kilometres away from Sirte they prayed and packed their pick-up trucks with weapons ahead of another day of fighting on positions whose control is vital to consolidate the grip of the post-revolutionary regime.

The tough defence in these towns displayed the firepower and resolve of the Al Qadaffy loyalists and is a clear indicated that the country's new rulers may not easily break the back of regime holdouts.

Meanwhile,
...back at the sandwich shop, Caroline was experimenting with ingredients of increasing volatility...
from his hiding place, the whereabouts of which, like his master are not known, Al Qadaffy's front man, Moussa Ibrahim, told Syria-based Alrai TV channel about the revolutionaries' retret and again warned that pro-Al Qadaffy forces were gathering arms and equipment in preparation for what he said is a "long war".

He said: "The battle is far from over. We assure everybody that the Sirte and Bani Walid fronts are strong, despite the heavy, unbelievable and merciless 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...
bombardment on hospitals, families and schools."
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sounds like they could use a little air support, eh?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/18/2011 9:04 Comments || Top||


New Leaders Win United Nations Seat for Libya
[Tripoli Post] The United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
gave strong backing to Libya's former rebels Friday, handing their National Transitional Council the country's UN seat and lifting and modifying some sanctions imposed on the former Muammar Al Qadaffy
...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years...
regime. It was thus aproving a Libyan request to accredit envoys of the country's interim government as Tripoli's sole representatives at the world body.

The 193-nation general assembly approved the request with 114 votes in favour, 17 against and 15 abstentions. UN officials have said that Libyan UN ambassador Abdurrahman Shalgham is expected to retain the post as Tripoli's top diplomat at the United Nations.

The General Assembly's vote to accept the credentials of the National Transitional Council, gives its representative the right to speak at the United Nations. Libya's former deputy ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi, who earlier in the conflict defected the Al Qadaffy regime to back the rebels, addressed the Security Council hours later.

"Today is undoubtedly a decisive, historic day in the life of the Libyan people," Dabbashi said. "It is an indication that dictatorship has fallen, a period of terror, of denial of freedom, and of violation of human rights
...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you...
has now come to an end for the Libyan people."

"The fact that the National Transitional Council today takes Libya's seat at these United Nations indicates that a new page has been opened in history of the Libyan people - a page that has been marked by the blood of Libya's sons," he said.

Dabbashi spoke after the Security Council unanimously approved a resolution establishing a new UN mission in Libya in response to a request from the NTC for help in establishing the new government.

The resolution also unfreezes assets of two Libyan oil companies, lifts a ban on flights by Libyan aircraft and modifies an arms embargo to allow Libyan authorities now controlling the country to buy arms "intended solely for security or disarmament assistance."

Under the resolution, the no-fly zone imposed in March after Al Qadaffy launched his crackdown on regime opponents will remain in place but be kept under review.

The resolution lifts the asset freeze on the Libyan National Oil Corporation and Zueitina Oil Company and modifies the asset freeze on the Central Bank of Libya, the Libyan Foreign Bank, the Libyan Investment Authority and the Libyan Africa Investment Portfolio.

But the Security Council retained the asset freeze and travel ban against AL Qadaffy and key family members and regime supporters.

The resolution establishes a United Nations Support Mission in Libya for an initial period of three months with a mandate to assist the new government in restoring security and the rule of law, promoting national reconciliation and embarking on the process of writing a constitution and preparing for elections. The NTC did not request any UN peacekeeping troops.

Highlighting how things have changed since the 1980s, when US president Ronald Reagan dubbed Col Al Qadaffy the "mad dog of the Middle East," US ambassador Susan Rice congratulated Libya and vowed that Tripoli would have "a friend and partner in the United States."

"The Libyan people still have much more work to do, but they also have the full knowledge that the international community, including the United States, stands ready to help their transition towards democracy, prosperity, and the rule of law," she said in a statement.

Several Latin American countries, however, sharply criticised the decision to recognise delegates of the transitional Libyan government, with Venezuela's UN ambassador Jorge Valero saying that his country rejected the "illegitimate transitory authority imposed by foreign intervention" and any attempt to transform Libya into a "protectorate" of NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
or the security council.

Mr Valero also blamed NATO and the security council for failing to push for a cease-fire rather than a victory of the rebels over Col Al Qadaffy, some of whose forces continue to oppose the fighters of the new government in isolated areas around the oil-producing Opec member.

Delegates from Cuba, Bolivia and Nicaragua echoed Mr Valero's remarks.

Angola, speaking on behalf of southern African countries, had called for a delay of the vote to accredit Libya, but that motion was heavily defeated.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Nato's air strikes kill 354 in Sirte
[Emirates 24/7] Muammar Qadaffy's
...a reminder that a single man with an idea can screw up an entire nation...
front man told Rooters on Saturday that NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
air strikes on Sirte overnight had hit a residential building and a hotel, killing 354 people.

His claim could not immediately be verified as Sirte, Qadaffy's hometown, has been largely cut off from communication since the fall of Tripoli.

NATO comment was not immediately available.

Moussa Ibrahim, in a call from a satellite phone to Rooters office in Tunis, said: "NATO attacked the city of Sirte last night with more than 30 rockets directed at the city's main hotel and the Tamin building, which consists of more than 90 residential flats.

"The result is more than 354 dead and 89 still missing and almost 700 injured in one night."

Ibrahim said Qadaffy was personally directing loyalist fighters who are holding back provisional government forces at his remaining strongholds in Libya.

"He is leading all aspects of this struggle. He is talking to the people, he is lecturing, he is discussing, he is looking after all matters of the resistance," he said.

Ibrahim said Qadaffy was in Libya and confident of victory.

"We will be able to continue this fight and we have enough arms for months and months to come," he said.

"In the last 17 days more than 2,000 residents of the city of Sirte were killed in NATO air strikes," he said.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In the last 17 days more than 2,000 residents of the city of Sirte were killed in NATO air strikes

But, of course, we know he's lying. Peace & human rights loving Europeans would never do something like this. Only Zionists (or USA under republican administration Zionist influence) do things like this.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/18/2011 2:22 Comments || Top||


Gadhafi Forces in Fierce Counteroffensive in Bani Walid
[An Nahar] Forces loyal to Moammar Qadaffy
...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years...
fired rockets and scored casualties in a fierce counter-attack in the runaway ex-Libyan leader's stronghold of Bani Walid Saturday, an Agence La Belle France Presse correspondent said.

Ambulances rushed dead and maimed fighters as kabooms and gunfire thundered in the air, after the attack on a position of interim government fighters several kilometers from the city center.

"They swept the position after targeting us with Grad rockets
...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km....
," said National Transitional Council fighter Omar Ali Ramadan, who said he and others had managed to take cover at an abandoned house.

"At least seven rockets hit our position."

The AFP news hound saw at least three maimed people being carried in to a field hospital, one of whom subsequently died amid cries of Allahu Akbar (God is greatest).

He said ambulances were rushing to collect other casualties.

Bani Walid is 180 kilometers southeast of Tripoli, the Libyan capital.

Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Where is Peter OToole and Anthony Quayle when you need them. El Lawrence would have sorted this out quick time. Some of you may be able to share a little of the inside history of T.E.Lawrence.



Posted by: Dale || 09/18/2011 9:16 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Amid Saudi-Sponsored Ceasefire, Four Dead in Fresh Fighting in Yemen CapitalĀ 
Those Saudis sure are good at that ceasefire stuff.
[Yemen Post] Four people were killed and three others injured when the elite republican guard shelled some positions of tribal fighters loyal to Hashid sheikh Sadeq Al-Ahmer in Al-Hasaba district in downtown Yemen's capital late on Wednesday.
Sources quoted residents in the district, which was the scene of deadly battles between the tribal fighters and the army months ago, as saying that the elite republican guard heavily shelled some targets in Al-Hasaba including the house of sheikh Sadeq Al-Ahmer.

Ahmed President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower...
, the eldest son of President-for-Life Saleh
... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence...
who is convalescing in Soddy Arabia after a June liquidation attempt, is the commander of the elite republican guard.

Various weapons were used, with two rockets landing at the house killing two guards of Al-Ahmer and two civilians and injuring several others, one seriously, the website reported.

It also quoted a military source as saying that the rockets were fired from elite republican guard posts in Noqom Mountain east Sana'a and Asser district south Sana'a.

The military source said the tribal fighters loyal to sheikh Al-Ahmer did not respond to the attacks amid a tentative Saudi-sponsored ceasefire that ended the battles between both sides in June.

Sporadic battles have erupted since the ceasefire was reached after the fighters from both sides refused to leave their positions amid escalating protests seeking the ouster of the regime and trying military commanders including Saleh's son.

Hundreds of soldiers and rustics were killed and injured in the May-June battles. During the battles, rustics from Hashid tribes and their allies flooded into the capital to fight the army and take over public offices in Al-Hasaba.

Major kabooms were heard at night in Al-Hasaba and activists said a rocket landed near Sana'a University where the change square is located.

Tens of thousands of Yemeni people have been conducting a sit-in in the square to call for the ouster of the regime.

Separately, the army continued its operations in Arhab district on the outskirts of the capital Sana'a, conducting many air raids.

The forces have been fighting rustics in the district and nearby areas for months as the locals continue to resist the attempts of the elite republican guard to occupy lands and build camps within preparations for possible military collision between the pro and anti-regime forces.
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Six Students Wounded as Sanaa University Reopens
[An Nahar] Six students were maimed in festivities Saturday on the first day of the academic year between rival groups at Sanaa University, near the epicenter of ongoing protests, a hospital source said.

Two groups, divided between students who backed a resumption of classes and those who did not, came to blows, with stones and other projectiles also being used in the festivities, according to those involved and the medical official.

Shouting "No lessons, no teaching, before the ouster of the president (President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower...
)," hundreds of students marched through the university grounds, calling for a boycott of classes and trying to keep their classmates from going to their lessons, an Agence La Belle France Presse journalist said.

Hassan Kahlani, a teacher at the university, told AFP he had temporarily stopped his students from leaving the lecture hall they were in at the end of their class.

Only around 15 percent of students attended their classes on the first day of the academic year at Sanaa University, according to students.

Access to the university was controlled by military forces loyal to dissident General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, whose troops control Change Square, next to the university and where protesters have since February been calling for the departure of President-for-Life Saleh
... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence...

Tanks and armored vehicles were stationed at the entrance to the campus and armed civilians were also seen along the walls of the university, while the departments of arts and languages remained closed, students said.

Minister of Higher Education Saleh Ba-Sourah said he had met with General al-Ahmar on Saturday, and had asked him "not to involve students in the political crisis".

"If we continue to bar students from accessing lecture theatres, the state will have to close the university completely," the minister told AFP. "And the students will be the big losers."

Despite large protests that have been ongoing since January against his regime, Saleh has refused to give up power. He has been in Riyadh for the past three months, receiving treatment after being maimed in an attack.

Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I know that registering for classes can be rough, but...
Posted by: Pappy || 09/18/2011 14:21 Comments || Top||


Saudi: Qaida Suspects on Trial for Planned Anti-U.S. Attacks
[An Nahar] The trial of members of a suspected al-Qaeda cell charged with planning attacks against two U.S. military bases in Qatar opened in Riyadh on Saturday.

The cell, dismantled five years ago,
A different concept than our "Justice delayed is justice denied."
comprised 41 members -- including 38 Saudis, a Qatari, an Afghan and a Yemeni -- and was "the most important al-Qaeda" operation in Soddy Arabia, the attorney-general said.

It had "planned attacks in Qatari territory against the al-Udeid and as-Sailiyah U.S. bases," he added.

The As-Sailiyah air base and the al-Udeid camp served as launching pads for the U.S. military for an attack on Afghanistan in 2001 and on Iraq in 2003.

"The cell also had projects aimed at Kuwait," the attorney general said, reading the indictment. He said there was "coordination" between the group and al-Qaeda cells in Iraq and Syria to "ensure logistical support for their operations."

Nine of the 41 accused were present at the court Saturday and the judge gave them time to review the charges. The other defendants would appear later, he said.

In late June, 86 al-Qaeda suspects went on trial in a special Saudi security court on Sunday in connection with deadly attacks carried out in the kingdom.

The defendants face charges of belonging to al-Qaeda, of taking part in attacks on public buildings and residential compounds, and of smuggling and possession of weapons.

Thirteen of the groups are accused of participating in the May 2003 car boomings of three residential compounds that left 129 people dead or maimed, including women and kiddies, SPA said.

In April, a judicial source said a total of 5,080 terrorist suspects either faced trial or had already been tried before the special court which has come in for criticism from lawyers.

Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia


Caribbean-Latin America
Javier Sicilia gets a taste of Mexican terror -- UPDATED
For a map, click here
Proceso is calling it an attempted ambush. Also adding additional details about Sicilia's security detail.

Mexican peace activist Javier Sicilia and his entourage avoided an ambush Friday night as they travelled from Villahermosa, Tabasco to Coatzacoalcos, according to the Mexican leftist weekly Proceso.

Sicilia's bodyguard detail, comprising 12 Agencia Federal Investigaciones (AFI), Preventativa Federal Policia (PFP) and Morelos state police agents forced Sicilia's vehicle off the road at about 2014 hrs when one agent spotted a vehicle with masked men aboard, and initiated a security protocol.

According to the news item, the lights on the vehicles were doused and the agents dismounted to form a diamond shaped perimeter around Sicilia's vehicle, rifles and handguns drawn.

Sicilia is in the middle of a peace caravan touring southern Mexico to bring attention to the Mexican war on the cartels, now in its fifth year under president Felipe Calderon Hinojosa. The tour is in its eighth day.

Among those in his entourage were the unidentified director of the Centro Nacional de Comunicacion Social (CENCOS); Brisa Solis, a worker for CENCOS; Sicilia's friend, Isolda Osorio; an unidentified nephew of Sicilia's and Emilio Alvarez Icaza Longoria former director of CENCOS.

After 15 minutes, apparently sensing danger had passed, the entourage continued their trek to Coatzacoalcos, reaching the city by about 2200 hrs.

Sicilia's "peace caravan" has a total of 14 buses with more than 60 individuals including a press contingent.

Since the incident, security measure have been tightened especially after it was revealed agents suspected the caravan was being monitored by drug cartels using "hawks", which is a Mexican pejorative for lookouts.

Sicilia's armed security detail was not his idea, as he protested during a news conference Friday, but were rather provided by the Mexican federal government, probably at the order of President Calderon Hinojosa.

A federal security detail has been with Sicilia since April, 2011, it was reported Sunday.

Some elements of the security detail may have violated Guatemalan law when they accompanied Sicilia to Guatemala allegedly still armed.

Highway robbery and carjackings is very common in Mexico, and don't necessarily involve the drug cartels. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jamie Zapata was shot to death last February when they were fired on after they stopped at a fake military checkpoint.

The motive for the shooting at the time may have been a carjacking.
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#1  did his soiled trousers smell like roses?
Posted by: Frank G || 09/18/2011 22:07 Comments || Top||


Mexican Army units re-enter La Laguna
exclusive from RantburgFor a map, click here. For a map of Coahuila, click here

By Chris Covert

Mexican Army units have re-entered the La Laguna area of Coahuila Thursday following a brief absence of about two months, according to Mexican news accounts.

The announcement was made by Durango state governor Jorge Herrera Caldera who said that the security strategy planned by the federal government would be implemented once the troops are in place. The strategy includes joint patrols of Mexican Army, Policia Federal and Coahuila and Durango state police agents much like the security arrangement used in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon where Federal and state units are cross detached into small units which patrol city streets.

La Laguna is the name of the region which includes the twin cities of Torreon, Coahuila and Gomez Palacio, Durango.

The total number of military returning to La Laguna was not revealed in the announcement nor have local press ventured any estimates as to the size of the redeployment.

What is known that last May 1,500 Mexican Army troops were sent to Torreon along with a detachment of about 300 Policia Federal elements, possibly in response to news that the Gulf and Sinaloa cartels had formalized an alliance.
To read the Rantburg report on the original deployment of Mexican Army and Policia Federal troops in Torreon, Coahuila last May, click here
Reports also say that the Durango border with Zacatecas state was another area slated to receive reinforcements. Numerous gun battles between cartel groups and between those groups and security forces have taken place in eastern and southern Zacatecas and are raising security concerns for the La Laguna region as well.

Zacatecas has been considered to be a Los Zetas stronghold.

What has changed is the August Massacre of 53 individuals at the Casino Royale casino in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. Since the military been operating under what Mexican Secretaria Defensa Nacional General Guillermo Galvan Galvan has termed uncertainty, forces in the field have been involved in very few direct confrontations with criminal groups operating on Mexican highways. The likely cause of that is that those forces have been reset to a defensive and a reactive posture, deploying only after a security event has taken place.
The redeployment takes place weeks following a July 12th decision rendered by the Mexican Supreme Court which ordered district and state judges to end the routine practice of leaving jurisdiction for crimes committed by military personnel with a military prosecutor even if civilians are the victims.

The decision was heatedly opposed by senior Mexican military commanders, who threatened just after the the court decision was made to withdraw their troops or change their posture. Apparently those commanders have made good on those threats, although any withdrawal of forces had not been formally announced.

The security situation in northern Mexican states has improved dramatically with violent deaths down in Juarez, Chihuahua, La Laguna, Coahuila and Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.

What has changed is the August Massacre of 53 individuals at the Casino Royale casino in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. Since the military been operating under what Mexican Secretaria Defensa Nacional General Guillermo Galvan Galvan has termed uncertainty, forces in the field have been involved in very few direct confrontations with criminal groups operating on Mexican highways. The likely cause of that is that those forces have been reset to a defensive and a reactive posture, deploying only after a security event has taken place.

The Casino Royale massacre is a very good example. For several hours following the attack Mexican Army units did not appear on the scene, as they were possibly withdrawn to their bases back in July. It also appears that Policia Federal units, Mexico's paramilitary force has been undertaking additional security duties in the absence of military units in the field.
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The new deployment represents a significant change. Just prior to the September 15th decision by Mexican president Felipe Calderon to deploy troops to Torreon, Gseneral Galvan had been publicly calling for the national security law to be passed. Also, leftist peace activist Javier Siclia has recently threatened what he termed "civil resistance" should the new law be passed.

While no news in the Mexican national press has emerged that the new law was about to be passed just after the Casino Royale massacre, Jorge Carlos Ramirez Marin, president of the Board of the Chamber of Deputies said passing the law would be a priority.

The redeployment may well be a sign the Mexican Army and Marines are back in the fight against organized crime with the newest weapon, the national security law.
Posted by: badanov || 09/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  forces have been reset to a defensive and a reactive posture, deploying only after a security event has taken place

Think LAPD in the '92 riots.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/18/2011 17:14 Comments || Top||

#2  In other words get ready for a clusterfark.
Posted by: Charles || 09/18/2011 18:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Not really. The military made their point after the Royale attack.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/18/2011 19:08 Comments || Top||


Europe
"Norwegian" held over Danish cartoonist plot
[Emirates 24/7] Norwegian police have incarcerated a suspect who was preparing a deadly attack against a Danish cartoonist behind a controversial caricature of the Prophet Mohammed, a Norwegian newspaper reported Saturday.

The suspect, who is in his 30s, was jugged Tuesday after Norwegian intelligence discovered Kurt Westergaard was the target of an liquidation plot involving automatic weapons and explosives, according to the Dagbladet daily.

Westergaard revealed earlier this week that he had cut short a visit to Norway after police caught wind of a possible attack against him.

He had been scheduled to attend the launch in Oslo Tuesday of a children's book for which he provided the illustrations, but he cancelled and returned to Denmark on Monday night.

The 76-year-old has already been the victim of a murder attempt and numerous death threats after drawing the most controversial of the 12 cartoons of the Prophet that appeared in the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, depicting his turban with a lit fuse in it.

Westergaard, who lives with round-the-clock security, was attacked by an axe-wielding 29-year-old Somali man who broke into his home in January 2010. The attacker was later handed a 10-year jail sentence for attempted murder.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Europe

#1  The suspect, who is in his 30s

Something is missing

Posted by: gr(o)mgoru || 09/18/2011 5:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Since he's in Denmark, they will feed him pickled herring, unlike if he was confined in Norway and fed Lutefisk.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 09/18/2011 9:11 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Dylan Boyd pleads guilty in NC terror trial
Dylan Boyd was on his way to a shooting range two years ago when federal authorities arrested him - accusing him and seven others with being part of a terror group conspiring to wage jihad overseas.

On Wednesday, four days before the trial of three of the suspects is scheduled to begin, Boyd, 24, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting a conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists.

He faces up to 15 years in prison and three years of supervised probation. Sentencing is set for December in a case that also brought pleas in February from Dylan Boyd's brother, Zakariya, and their father, Daniel Patrick Boyd, 41, the accused ringleader of the group.

Daniel Boyd pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy to provide material support to terrorism between November 2006 and July 2009 and conspiracy to "murder, kidnap, maim and injure people in a foreign country." Zakariya pleaded guilty in June to conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. Neither will be sentenced until after the trial, which is projected to take nearly two months.

Daniel Boyd, described by his neighbors as a friendly drywall contractor and devout Muslim, is expected to be a key witness for the prosecution.

The plea this week provided a look at evidence that prosecutors plan to present next week in a trial that could offer insight into the use of FBI informants to build terrorism cases.

Prosecutor John Bowler said that federal investigators had gathered 800 hours of recordings, 750 hours of which might be used in trial. The government also collected email and other documents.

Dylan Boyd, according to prosecutors, can be heard on at least 40 of the government recordings. Prosecutors allege that Dylan Boyd, who was living at home with his father much of the time, can be heard instructing some of the accused on how to travel through Turkey and across the Black Sea to Chechnya to try to join the jihadi brigade.

Bowler alleged that Dylan Boyd also helped raise funds for a compound the group planned to build in Kosovo where food could be grown and weapons could be kept.

Prosecutors also said Dylan Boyd was with his father and brother when they met FBI agents in a bookstore. Though Dylan Boyd did not go inside the store he was armed, Bowler said.

While providing the judge facts to support his case against Dylan Boyd, Bowler described the house that the Boyd's lived in as one with an arsenal of weapons - guns in every room and gas masks in some.

Prosecutors accused the elder Boyd of recruiting his co-defendants to help him plan "violent jihad" attacks on government facilities and kill members of the U.S. military.

The indictment accused the defendants of training in military-style tactics and traveling to the Middle East and Kosovo hoping to kill, kidnap and maim in the name of jihad.

During a 2009 detention hearing, feds played audio tapes of Boyd talking in his home about protecting Muslims at all costs. The tape included long conversations about the struggle of Muslims, his disgust with the U.S. military, and martyrdom.

Defense attorneys for the three scheduled for trial next week oppose having the tapes admitted as evidence. The issue has not been decided.
This article starring:
Dylan Boyd
Posted by: ryuge || 09/18/2011 11:13 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  what a maaaarvelous family!

"meet my two boys - Dylan and Cooper Bob Mohammed...errrr...Zakariya"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/18/2011 11:59 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
US drone crashes in Pakistan, Taliban nab debris
A suspected U.S. drone crashed in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border and Taliban fighters have gotten hold of the precious debris, Pakistani intelligence officials said Sunday.

The unmanned aircraft crashed Saturday night near Jangara village in the South Waziristan tribal area, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. The village is located near the border with North Waziristan.

The officials said they learned of the crash by intercepting Taliban radio communications but don't know what caused it. Both North and South Waziristan are home to many Taliban fighters, though it is unclear whether they shot down the aircraft or if it crashed because of technical problems.
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/18/2011 10:22 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Coming soon to a Chinese military base near you!
Posted by: Spot || 09/18/2011 10:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Sneaky! Crashing a plane and tagging the debris.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/18/2011 10:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Yeah...this seems bad. Really, Really, Really, bad.
Posted by: Charles || 09/18/2011 15:18 Comments || Top||

#4  CNN says Paks got a hold of it after a 4 hour fight.
Posted by: Creregum Glolump8403 || 09/18/2011 15:33 Comments || Top||

#5  I don't know that I would have tagged the debris, but I'd certainly have another Predator orbiting the site with some Hellfires ready for the first group that approached the wreckage. And the second. And the third...
Posted by: Steve White || 09/18/2011 17:57 Comments || Top||


At least eight injured in north India blast: reports
[Dawn] At least 8 people were maimed when a crude bomb went kaboom! in a hospital in the northern Indian tourist city of Agra, the local media reported on Saturday, citing police officials.

The small blast took place at the reception area of the Jay Hospital, television channels said.

The kaboom comes a week after a bomb, hidden in a briefcase, went kaboom! outside New Delhi's High Court, killing 15 people. A Pak-linked beturbanned goon group has grabbed credit for that blast.
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Blast in Khyber; two injured
[Dawn] Two security officials were maimed in an kaboom that took place in the Khyber tribal region on Saturday, DawnNews reported.

The blast that targeted a security forces convoy took place in the agency's Landi Kotal bazaar.

Khyber is on the main NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
land supply route through Pakistain into Afghanistan, where almost 150,000 foreign forces are battling to reverse an escalating Taliban insurgency, now in its tenth year.

The district neighbours the northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, which is increasingly the target of Taliban and al Qaeda-linked kabooms.
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Seven militants killed in Kurram clash
[Dawn] Seven faceless myrmidons were killed and two others maimed when two groups clashed in Gawaki area of central Kurram Agency
...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
, while a soldier died and two others suffered injuries while they were destroying beturbanned goons` ammunition depot in Jamrud on Friday.

Sources said that in Gawaki area a clash between two beturbanned goon groups, each led by Quwat Khan and Mullah Tofan, left seven people dead and two others maimed. Both groups are said to have old rivalries.

The security forces had recently claimed they had cleared the Gawaki and other parts of central Kurram of beturbanned goons.

Meanwhile,
...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind...
officials said that the security forces conducted an operation in Chora village of Jamrud on Friday and destroyed a beturbanned goon hideout in the area. They said that the forces also recovered an ammunition depot and planted explosives to destroy it when the kaboom occurred, leaving one soldier dead and two others injured.

They said that the kaboom was so powerful that its sound was heard several kilometers away in Ghundi and other parts of Jamrud.

In Bara tehsil, a 12-year-old girl was critically injured when a mortar shell fired by security forces from Fort Salop fell on a house. In a similar incident, three women were maimed when a mortar shell fell on another house in Sipah area on the night between Thursday and Friday.
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JSQM chief sent to jail for 14 days
[Dawn] The chief of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz along with an aide was on Friday remanded in judicial custody for 14 days by a judicial magistrate in two cases of possessing illicit weapons.

The court also released another aide of JSQM chairman Bashir Qureshi on a personal bond.

Pakistain Rangers, Sindh, jugged the JSQM chief along with his two aides -- Shiraz Ahmed Subhani and Badruddin -- on Thursday near his Gulshan-i-Hadeed residence and claimed to have found unlicensed weapons in their possession.

The police brought the nationalist leader and other suspects in an armoured personnel carrier (APC) to district courts, Malir and produced
them before the court of Judicial Magistrate (Malir) Abdul Qayyum Syed on Friday.

The police submitted the remand papers and informed the court about the detention of the suspects and recovery of the weapons.

However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all...
the defence counsel submitted that the police had not produced the recovered weapons in court, which was the violation of Section 172 (dairy of proceedings in investigations) of the criminal procedure code.

Arguing that all the weapons found in the possession of the suspects were legal, the defence also produced some documents in court, which they claimed were the licences and permits of the weapons found in the custody of the suspects.

They prayed to the court to release the suspects under Section 63 (discharge of person apprehended) of the CrPC.

The court observed that it had no authority to release the JSQM chief and suspect Badruddin under the said section since heavy weapons including sub-machine guns were recovered from them.

The magistrate observed that it was a sessions trial and sent the JSQM chief and his one aide to prison on 14-day judicial remand.

The court released suspect Shiraz on a personal bond of Rs50,000, as according to the FIR only a pistol was found in his possession. The suspect was directed to appear in court on the next date.

The magistrate ordered the police to verify the documents produced by the defence lawyers and submit a report on Sept 20.

The police also claimed that one of the permits of an SMG shown by the defence was highly doubtful since the number on the permit was not matching with the figures printed on the weapon.

According to the prosecution, the JSQM chief along with his two aides were taken into custody during snap checking near his house by the paramilitary soldiers, who allegedly found illicit weapons in their possession. Later, weapons were also recovered from the residence of the
nationalist leader, it added.

Two cases (FIR Nos.256/11 & 258/11) were registered against Bashir Qureshi under Sections 13-D and 13-E of the Pakistain Arms
Ordinance, 1965 at the Steel Town cop shoppe.

The police also lodged two FIRs (255/11 & 257/11) against Shiraz and Badr under Section 13-D of the Arms Ordinance.

Score of JSQM workers were present on the court premises and rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud when the police produced Mr Qureshi in court for remand.

Following the remand proceedings, Mr Quershi told news hounds that he and his associates were carrying licensed weapons.

He alleged that the Rangers and police had failed to take any action against assassins and members of the extortion and land mafia, but were detaining innocent people in a so-called surgical operation.

He criticised the government and Interior Minister Rehman Malik
Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men.
for what he said providing shelter to criminals.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Southeast Asia
Fourth victim of triple bombing in southern Thailand dies
The latest victim of Friday evening's series of three bomb attacks in Narathiwat province succumbed to his injuries yesterday, bringing the total to four deaths and 74 injuries. Authorities sent two teams to hunt for the perpetrators along the Malaysian border, and suggested the attacks might have been in retaliation by a drug syndicate for a recent anti-narcotics operation.

Police continued to inspect the three bombing sites yesterday. They suspect the attackers comprised four teams, one to plant each bomb and a fourth to detonate them, possibly from a hotel room with a clear view of all three spots. Police were checking security cameras placed along the road for evidence of the suspects, who are believed to be Runda Kumpalan Kecil (RKK) sympathisers hired by drug syndicates in the area to carry out the attack in retaliation for a major drug bust.

There were 78 casualties in the three bomb attacks. Besides the three Malaysian tourists - including a 3-year-old boy - who died at the scene, a rescue worker later succumbed to his injuries. Forty of the 74 injured people remained hospitalised as of yesterday. Seven were in serious condition, some with broken limbs and some with burns to more than 50 per cent of their bodies.

Thai officials shared the view that the bombing of the commercial and tourist area was the work of insurgent sympathisers who had joined with illicit drug syndicates for the purposes of getting money, undermining state power, and intimidation. They said the attack was most likely in retaliation for a major drug bust in Sungai Kolok on Tuesday, as the authorities had found videos relating to the southern insurgency on a seized cell phone, along with a list of people thought to be involved in drug dealing and another list of names connected with oil-smuggling bribes. Two teams are hunting for the attackers, while security along the Thai-Malaysian border has been beefed up and immigration police put on alert.

Shaken residents said the attacks were the worst to have hit the district. Anchalee Udomsilpa said this was the worst incident since the unrest erupted in 2004. "I can still feel the shaking caused by the third bomb, which was followed by a blackout. I was so frightened; I didn't know where the bomb had gone off, only that it was near," she recalled.

In the neighbouring province of Pattani, security officials set up checkpoints around the clock to look for suspicious vehicles, as intelligence officials warned of possible further attacks in busy areas of Pattani town. Meanwhile, 29-year-old paramilitary volunteer ranger Anan Rattana, the sole survivor of Thursday's attack on his six-man team, was recovering from serious injuries and expected to be taken off a respirator today.
Also:
Malaysia warns against travel to southern Thailand
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israeli Spy Confesses to Providing Israel with Mughniyeh's Car Plate Number
[An Nahar] Syrian state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
broadcast on Saturday the confessions of an alleged Israeli spy who conspired to assassinate top Hizbullah commander Imad Mughniyeh.

He confessed that Mughniyeh was murdered a day after he gave Israel his car plate number.

The top Hizbullah official was assassinated 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...
on February 13, 2008.

The alleged Israeli spy Iyad Youssef Naim told the Syrian TV that he headed to Damascus twice, on Israeli orders, to locate any assembly of a political or international organization, but he wasn't able to reach any valuable information.

However,
there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened...
the Israeli side that he was in contact with urged him to pursue the issue and head to Damascus again, providing him with a street address. "But I didn't find any political gathering," Naim told the state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
"They meant (by political gathering) any center for Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, Hizbullah, or any other non-Syrian assembly," the spy explained.

He confessed that he "saw a man holding a newspaper on the street and two other people in a Korean car... but they contacted me again to check if there was any (Mitsubishi) Pajero car on the site."

Naim was born in 1976 and is a Paleostinian -- Jordanian national.

"I saw the car entering the street along with a Mercedes, so I gave them the Pajero plate number... and headed back to Latakia," the spy said.

He confirmed that his espionage mission took place on February 12, 2008, and he knew the next day that Mughniyeh was assassinated in the same car he had seen a day earlier.

Asked about the nature of the information that Israel wanted to obtain, he noted that it was related "to Latakia city and its demographic issues like the residents' sects and if there were any churches in the area, as well as issues related to Tartus and Latakia ports, ships numbers and most importantly the containers and the capacity of the port," Naim added.

He pointed out that he was forbidden from drinking alcohol, contacting women, and conducting any long conversations.

He as was also ordered to avoid contact with anyone working in a security institution.

Mughniyeh, linked to the kidnappings of western hostages in the 1980s, was killed in a car boom in Damascus in February 2008.

Hizbullah had repeatedly accused Israel of being behind his murder.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  vanity plate probably said something like

Im Mugh8
Posted by: Lord Garth || 09/18/2011 0:04 Comments || Top||


Kidnappers of Estonians Go on the Offensive as ISF Closes in
[An Nahar] Internal Security Forces chief Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi confirmed that the armed ambush of two ISF officers in the Bekaa Valley on Friday was made by collaborators of a member of the group that kidnapped the seven Estonian tourists in March.

In remarks to al-Joumhouria daily published Saturday, Rifi said Friday's confrontation between the ISF Intelligence Branch patrol and the members of the kidnapping gang at a bridge that connects Shtaura to Jlala was the second in less than a week.

Two officers were maimed in the ambush by the three gunnies driving a stolen Mercedes at dawn Friday. The vehicle was later in the day found set ablaze near Jeb Jenin.

Rifi said the gunnies who opened fire on the ISF patrol are collaborators with al-Hujairi who on Sunday clashed with security forces in Ersal. "We received information that he was badly maimed but his death is not confirmed."

"It seems that the security measures we have taken against the terrorist group have put it in a direct confrontation with us," Rifi said. "We look at (Friday's) attack as an attempt by this group to move from a defensive to an offensive position."

He warned that the ISF was closely monitoring the network and would do all it can to arrest its members and refer them to judicial authorities.

The Estonians were freed in July almost four months after gunnies kidnapped them as they entered the country on a bicycle tour from neighboring Syria.

High-ranking security forces confirmed to pan-Arab daily al-Hayat that the Intelligence Branch is seeking to arrest the remaining members of the network that kidnapped the tourists.

It had tossed in the calaboose 9 people a few days after the abduction and later another person.

More than 17 people are members of the "secret organization" that carried out the kidnapping, security sources told al-Liwaa newspaper.

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Syrian Security Forces Kill Two in Idlib
[An Nahar] Syrian security forces killed two people on Saturday as they conducted searches in the northwestern province of Idlib, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The victims, a man and a woman, were killed in the town of Khan Sheikhun, the British-based group told Agence La Belle France Presse by telephone.

Syrian state news agency SANA said one member of the security forces was killed and another maimed in an ambush by an "armed terrorist group" in the same town.

It also said five members of the security forces were killed in an ambush in the central city of Homs.

At least 22 people were killed across the country on Friday as thousands of people marched to demand the ouster of 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...

The United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
estimates that 2,600 people have been killed since the anti-regime protests broke out on March 15.

Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria



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