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Andy Devine one of my all time favorites. What a voice and smile. I thought that Joan Davis was Eve Arden for a second. Eve Arden was a pioneer. No slight intended for Joan Davis fans.
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Gromky your close. Batman was in the comics of that time. 10 cents. B westerns and western comics also.
Tarzan little books also. Interesting part of history.
Neve Campbell aka Sidney in "Scream (1,2,3,& 4)" aka Suzie Toller in "Wild Things" aka Bonnie in "The Craft" aka Julie Black in "54" aka Loretta 'Ry' Ryan in "The Company" aka Amy Post in "Three to Tango" Ellen Rash in "Drowning Mona" aka Sarah Cassidy in "Panic" aka Julie Pyrite in "The Glass Man" (age 39)
When the ISI needed a terror attack, kidnapping or assassination carried out, Haqqani was often used. Haqqani was reliable and effective and that was important for the generals running ISI. But this year, Haqqani has been under unprecedented attack by NATO forces. That means over 1,600 suspected Haqqani men (including 300 local leaders) have been arrested during over 500 raids this year. These operations killed or captured dozens of known Haqqani officials, often key people who were difficult to replace. Haqqani is being forced to risk its lucrative operations (and personnel) in eastern Afghanistan in order to carry out Pakistan ordered terror attacks in Kabul and elsewhere.
In the last few days, the Afghan government has arrested Hameedullah Akhondzada, described as the mastermind of the recent suicide bomb attack that killed Burhanuddin Rabbani (the former president of Afghanistan (1992-6) and head of the effort to negotiate a peace deal with the Taliban). The government claims to have proof that the attack was ordered by the Taliban leadership (headquartered in Quetta, Pakistan) and with the cooperation of the Pakistan ISI.
As part of the new approach to Pakistan, the U.S. has revealed that many deaths of American troops along the Afghan border were actually caused by Pakistani troops, not Taliban fighters. These details had been kept quiet for years, to maintain good relations with Pakistan. But now the Pakistani army and ISI are seen as out-of-control, so the gloves are off.
A senior Haqqani Network leader, Haji Mali Khan, was captured during an American raid in eastern Afghanistan. Khan is the uncle of the leader of the Haqqani Network, and was in charge of Haqqani operations on the Afghan side of the border.
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So, when is the US going to conduct a SOCOM takedown of these corrupt ISI generals?
NSA could probably determine which of them are the worst offenders, CIA could chart their activities, and then some other organization could arrange for them to have a nice fatal heart attack.
Eventually the light would dawn that this is a lot harder line of work than they'd signed on for.
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So, when is the US going to conduct a SOCOM takedown of these corrupt ISI generals?
The ISI is not separate from the Paki military. It is an integral part of it. The problem, and hence the solution, is much larger than Washington has til now acknowledged.
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Actually, the ISI bears more of a resemblance to the Waffen-SS or the GRU, than simply being part of the Army in Pakistan. It is the political commissar section designed to keep any regular Army general from going against the developed consensus inside the Paki military-industrial complex. What Eisenhower warned about here, Pakistan has in spades in reality: the military owns much of the most productive industries in the country, and can be counted on to NOT enforce the anti-feudal laws anywhere that the industrialists want it ignored.
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The impression I have is that an awful lot of Pakistan army officers -- I don't know about the enlisted, but I suspect the same -- do a rotation or several in the ISI as they work their way up the ladder. It is no more a separate organization than the Pentagon is separate from the DoD.
[Dawn] Afghanistan said on Sunday that the jacket wallah who assassinated Afghan peace negotiator Burhanuddin Rabbani ... the murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan... was a Pak national.
Tensions between the neighbours have been rising amid allegations from Afghan officials that Pakistain and its powerful ISI intelligence agency criminal masterminded Rabbani's liquidation and are seeking to destabilise Afghanistan.
An investigative delegation established by President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... said evidence and a confession provided by a man involved in Rabbani's killing on Sept. 20 had revealed that the bomber was from Chaman and the liquidation had been plotted in Quetta, both on the Pak side of the border.
"It proves that the liquidation of Professor Rabbani was hatched in Quetta and the man who carried out the suicide kaboom is a Pak national," the delegation, led by Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak, said in a statement issued by the presidential palace.
"The documents and evidence in hand, details of other accomplices and their phone numbers have been handed over to Pakistain to make arrests," it said.
Rabbani's killing derailed efforts to forge dialogue with the Taliban to end the 10-year war, and raised fears of a dangerous widening of Afghanistan's ethnic rifts.
The High Peace Council, which Rabbani headed, reiterated earlier comments by Karzai that negotiations should continue, but with Pakistain, rather than the Taliban.
"For the groups that are tired of conflict and want to end the killings and destruction inside the country, peace efforts must continue," the council said in a separate statement issued late on Sunday.
"But because of those who hide in Pakistain with no known address, who send killers (to Afghanistan), we must negotiate with Pakistain instead."
Hundreds of Afghans erupted into the streets of Kabul on Sunday to condemn recent shelling of border towns by Pakistain's army and accuse the ISI of involvement in Rabbani's killing.
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No surprise
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Well, look. Whenever some youngster of "middle eastern extraction" who just happens to hold a German, Swedish or Italian passport gets smoked in A-stan, the media rushes out and says that a [German, a Swede or an Italian] got smoked.
SO, it only seems fair to call any terrorist who is acting under pakiwaki imprimatur, or maybe is pakiwaki in his heart of hearts, a pakiwaki, eh?
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[An Nahar] Dozens of attackers suspected to belong to a gang of robbers raided a northern Nigerian village armed with guns and machetes, killing at least 18 and burning homes, a police source said Sunday.
A group of around 150 assailants attacked Ligydo, a remote farming and herding village in Zamfara state, on Saturday, killing 18 people and seriously wounding six others, a police brass hat told Agence La Belle France Presse on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.
"The gang of armed robbers moved door-to-door, shooting or hacking their victims to death... Eighteen people were killed and six others were seriously injured," the officer said.
The attackers who robbed the villagers of money and valuables set houses and vehicles on fire before fleeing, he said. Those killed included children, he said.
"From all indications, the attack was in reprisal for the extra-judicial killings of suspected armed robbers in the area in the past months by vigilante groups formed by villagers to end spates of robberies and cattle rustling in the area," said the officer.
Some of the suspected armed robbers who beat feet the earlier onslaught regrouped and engaged in reprisal attacks, according to the police officer.
"No arrest has been made but military and police personnel have been deployed to the area to forestall further attacks and be on the lookout for the attackers," the police officer said.
On August 10, a number of victims were killed in similar attacks by suspected armed robbers in attacks on two villages in the area.
Islamist sect Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or Big Louie... has been blamed for scores of attacks in Nigeria's north, but there was so far no indication of the group's involvement in Saturday's raid.
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All that oil money and they live in the effing Middle Ages (can't say Dark Ages -- that would not be PC).
As a hundred thousand people gather in the former West German capital to celebrate German reunification, police have arrested four men suspected of posing a terrorist threat
German authorities have tossed in the slammer four suspected Islamists believed to have plotted a "state-endangering act" ahead of festivities to celebrate German reunification.
Police announced Sunday that three men were tossed in the slammer near the western German city of Bonn, where around 100,000 were expected to take part in German Unity Day celebrations attended by both Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... and President Christian Wulff. A further suspect was taken in jug and later released in the state of Hesse.
Authorities had received information that the men, whom they described as being "from the Islamist scene," had illegally obtained weapons ahead of the events. But police found "no weapons or other dangerous objects" during their searches.
"There is neither evidence that the accused had links to terrorist groups nor that there were concrete preparations for an attack," said a front man for the Federal Prosecutions Office.
The agency, which handles domestic terrorist threats and has said it is tracking some 200 potential Islamist Death Eaters in Germany, did not see sufficient grounds for it to take over the investigation from the local police force.
Authorities also said they did not know of any concrete threats to the festivities, which are are set to continue through Monday October 3, the 21st anniversary of German reunification.
Prior to the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, police in Berlin tossed in the slammer two suspected terrorists, who are still being held for questioning.
[Dawn] Indian troops rubbed out four suspected faceless myrmidons after they crossed into Indian-administered Kashmire from the Pak side of the divided region, the army said Sunday.
The rebels were killed in the northern district of Kupwara, which borders the Line of Control -- the de facto border that splits Kashmire between India and Pakistain.
An army front man said gunnies opened fire on troops when ordered to surrender late on Saturday.
"In the retaliatory firing four faceless myrmidons were killed," he said.
India says it regularly intercepts beturbanned fascisti crossing into Indian Kashmire to fight New Delhi's rule of the Himalayan territory. Pakistain denies all Indian allegations that it helps the krazed killers.
India and Pakistain have fought two of their three wars over Mohammedan-majority Kashmire, which each country holds in part but claims in full.
The insurgency in Indian-held Kashmire has left more than 47,000 people dead since 1989, according to an official count. Wasn't it only a year or so ago they were claiming the corpse count was upwards of 90,000? So we can assume that 43,000 people got better?
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[Dawn] An official of Intelligence Bureau was rubbed out by unidentified motorcyclists here on Saturday, police said. "Now da witnesses is all dead!"
They said that Arshad Ghayas, assistant sub-inspector in Intelligence Bureau, had gone to Sheikh Jana area of the district in a jeep when two motorcyclists opened firing on him at Mohallah Ismailkhel. He died instantly. The attackers managed to escape after the incident. "But dat's alright. Dey got a little surprise waitin' for dem, back at da hideout!"
An FIR was registered against person or persons unknown in Kalu Khan cop shoppe.
Two weeks ago, Javed Khan, an official of the special branch police, was attacked by unidentified motorcyclists in front of his house in tehsil Chota Lahor. He had suffered serious injuries but survived the attack.
In Khyber Agency, two 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... containers were partially damaged when suspected Death Eaters targeted them at two different locations on the main Beautiful Downtown Peshawar-Torkham Highway on Saturday.
Officials said that first incident took place near Ali Masjid where unidentified myrmidons targeted a NATO oil tanker with a rocket launcher which caused partial damage to the vehicle.
In the other incident occurred on the Jamrud bypass, a time device fitted with the oil tanker went kaboom! with a big bang and caused leakage of thousands of litres of oil from the tanker.
In Jamrud, Khasadar Force seized huge quantity of kaboom at the Takhta Beg checkpost from a vehicle, coming from Shahkas area. The driver of the vehicle was also taken into custody.
In Bara tehsil, at least three stray mortar shells fell on a steal factory in Akkakhel area. The shells caused partial damage to the building of the factory. No body was, however, hurt in the attack. It could not be established as to who fired the mortar shells.
In Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central, security forces set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock 50 suspected persons during a search operation in Mandal area of Salarzai tehsil on Saturday.
Official sources said that security forces launched search operation against suspected Death Eaters in different villages of Mandal area. Fifty suspected persons were set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock from different areas for their alleged involvement in attacks on checkposts. They were shifted to agency headquarters Khar for interrogation.
The security forces also seized huge cache of arms during the search operation. The volunteers of Mandal area also participated in the search operation.
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[Dawn] Activists of the Sunni Tehrik (ST) took out a rally from Data Darbar to the Punjab Assembly to protest the conviction of Mumtaz Qadri for killing the then Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer in Rawalpindi on Jan 4 this year. The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) also held a rally from Mansoora to Nasser Bagh.
JI secretary-general Liaqat Baloch in a statement said: "Mr Taseer had himself invited death by issuing blasphemous statements and Qadri did not deserve death sentence in this case".
"I couldn't help myself, your honour. He was just... just...just uncovered meat!"
He said Mr Taseer had belittled the love of our people for the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) by holding a joint presser with a blasphemy convict woman and promising her clemency which sparked the religious sentiments of the accused and prompted him to take the extreme step.
Mr Baloch further said although the accused had made a confessional statement, the rulers should realise if the execution of the death sentence would help improve the situation or further deepen the religious sentiments of masses. "The execution of
the death sentence will not be an easy step," he warned.
On the other hand, PPP Punjab information secretary Dr Fakharuddin Chaudhry welcomed the verdict in a presser.
"Decision against Qadri will promote the religion and discourage the krazed killer elements," Mr Chaudhry said.
He said the religious parties which were pressurising the government after the verdict were in fact trying to impose their version of Islam. The PPP official said that Mr Taseer was a true Mohammedan and a liberal and progressive man.
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An bomb was found by police next to a kindergarten in Jaffa Monday morning. A Police bomb squad safely removed the device from the scene. A police front man said that the incident was criminally related.
JAKARTA - The Indonesian authorities said yesterday that they have captured one of their five most-wanted snuffies in connection with two suicide-kabooms this year.
The suspect, identified as Beni Asri, was tossed in the clink on Friday at his home in the town of Solok in West Sumatra, about 930km from the capital Jakarta, said police front man Anton Bachrul Alam.
Asri was brought to Jakarta to be questioned over a suicide kaboom on a church in the Central Java town of Solo on Sept 25 that injured at least 20 people.
"We have a week to investigate," Mr Alam said.
The 26-year-old is also one of five men wanted for allegedly plotting an April suicide kaboom that injured 30 coppers praying in a mosque in the West Java town of Cirebon.
Police suspect Asri has connections with members of a group founded by Abu Bakar Bashir ... Leader of the Indonesian Mujahedeen Council and proprietor of the al-Mukmin madrassah in Ngruki. The spriritual head of Jemaah Islamiya, which he denies exists. Bashir was jugged and then released in the wake of the 2002 Bali bombings, which he blamed on a conspiracy among the U.S., Israel, and Australia ... , 73, the spiritual leader behind the 2002 Bali bombings, who was recently nabbed for 15 years for planning attacks against foreigners and moderate Mohammedans, including President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Indonesia has been hit by a string of suicide kabooms blamed on the Al Qaeda-linked network Jemaah Islamiyah and its offshoots since 2002, when the Bali bombings killed 202 people.
Subsequent attacks targeting restaurants and hotels have been far less deadly, however, and the last occurred more than two years ago, thanks in large to a security crackdown. But bombings by solo "jihadis" targeting Christians, security officers and Islamic sects deemed blasphemous by hard-liners have continued.
In a sign of the government's struggle to contain militancy, the authorities have blocked 300 Internet sites this year suspected of promoting terrorism and hatred.
Critics say the President, who relies heavily on Islamic parties in Parliament, has remained largely silent as minorities have been attacked by hard-liners or seen their houses of worship torched or closed. Agencies
JAKARTA - The Indonesian authorities said yesterday that they have captured one of their five most-wanted militants in connection with two suicide-bomb attacks this year.
The suspect, identified as Beni Asri, was arrested on Friday at his home in the town of Solok in West Sumatra, about 930km from the capital Jakarta, said police spokesman Anton Bachrul Alam.
Asri was brought to Jakarta to be questioned over a suicide bomb attack on a church in the Central Java town of Solo on Sept 25 that injured at least 20 people.
"We have a week to investigate," Mr Alam said.
The 26-year-old is also one of five men wanted for allegedly plotting an April suicide bombing that injured 30 police officers praying in a mosque in the West Java town of Cirebon.
Police suspect Asri has connections with members of a group founded by Abu Bakar Bashir, 73, the spiritual leader behind the 2002 Bali bombings, who was recently jailed for 15 years for planning attacks against foreigners and moderate Muslims, including President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Indonesia has been hit by a string of suicide bombings blamed on the Al Qaeda-linked network Jemaah Islamiyah and its offshoots since 2002, when the Bali bombings killed 202 people.
Subsequent attacks targeting restaurants and hotels have been far less deadly, however, and the last occurred more than two years ago, thanks in large to a security crackdown. But bombings by solo "jihadis" targeting Christians, security officers and Islamic sects deemed blasphemous by hard-liners have continued.
In a sign of the government's struggle to contain militancy, the authorities have blocked 300 Internet sites this year suspected of promoting terrorism and hatred.
Critics say the President, who relies heavily on Islamic parties in Parliament, has remained largely silent as minorities have been attacked by hard-liners or seen their houses of worship torched or closed. Agencies
[An Nahar] A Lebanese army explosives expert defused a bomb found at the entrance of Ein el-Hellhole Paleostinian refugee camp near the southern city of Sidon on Sunday, the National News Agency reported. NNA said that the bomb was found along with tapes and a battery at al-Tahtani entrance of Taamir Ein el-Hellhole. The device was not set to explode. However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... the bomb-disposal expert immediately defused it and removed it from its location, the agency added.
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the bomb-disposal expert immediately defused it and removed it from its location...to use someplace else.
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In the 1980s my father fought the Lebanese. The army was mainly Maronite Christian (as today).
The maronites are evil - they are in league with the PLO. Arafat married one of them and made her convert.
People have to realize that the Christians are as bad as the muslims, that is why we expel them all. They both believe in false prophets and they both believe that jerusalem is theirs.
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My father was a shooting instructor for the Haganah, Israel4Jews, among other roles. We have photos of him in meetings with Golda Meir when she was running things, and I've seen his name on U.N. documents as the go-to guy for discussing scientific research in Israel. He told stories of instituting hard hats and steel-toed shoes for the Haifa dockworkers. He didn't tell stories of the other stuff.
So, bona fides established, let us move on. There is indeed a strong tradition of antisemitism among the Christians of Dar al Islam, plus the follow-on tradition of special pleading to their Muslim Ottoman overlords to turn their wrath on the Jews instead. This is true. Pope Benedict was not pleased when some of that venom came out at a recent conference in Rome -- it was written up in the Jerusalem Post at the time, and discussed here.
These days the Lebanese army contains a strong contingent of men from Hizb'allah, I've read, and dare not push the issue lest the generals find out exactly how strong. And the Maronites no longer run Lebanon. The smart ones have sent their children abroad, just as Arab Christians have been emigrating since the 1920s.
But did your father mention how very many Lebanese spied for Israel when he was there? Have you not noticed how many have been arrested recently as Israeli spies -- including at high levels in Hizb'allah and several Lebanese generals? And where do you think Israel got all they know about the worst bad guys in the West Bank and Gaza StrIp? Accused spies for Israel are shot in the streets there, but it beggars the imagination that all are false accusations. All this was reported in the Jerusalem Post, Ma'an News, the Daily Star and others, and discussed here.
Your personal religious faith is between you and God. It doesn't do to be rude about whatever helps others be better people, though. Lashon harah, and all that.
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So much history. Maronites are now all over the world. I would like to think they are still in the mountains. I spoke to a man whose father was Lebanese today. His dad was a leather shoe repairman in this country. Relatives say you can never go back. Lebanon was a jewel at one time. I believe that Egypt will now follow the same path.
I like what I have read of the Maronites. Simple life. They could grow things in the most difficult and harsh conditions. Then to survive.
[An Nahar] Syrian opposition movements meeting in Turkey said in a statement on Sunday they had formed a common front uniting all groups that oppose the regime 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 Syrian Council is open to all Syrians. It is an independent group personifying the illusory sovereignty of the Syrian people in their struggle for liberty," Gay Paree-based Burhan Ghalioun told news hounds.
"The council rejects any outside interference that undermines the illusory sovereignty of the Syrian people," he added.
Ghalioun, a La Belle France-based academic, had recently been designated leader of opposition group the National Transitional Council, which has Islamist and nationalist supporters.
The new opposition grouping announced on Sunday unites Syrian opposition movements across the political spectrum, and includes the Local Coordination Committees which groups activists on the ground, liberals, and the long-banned Moslem Brüderbund as well as Kurds and Assyrians.
Representatives of Syria's six-month-old protest movement and opposition had been meeting since Friday to forge a united front against Assad's regime which the U.N. says has killed at least 2,700 people since protests erupted in mid-March.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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As a hundred thousand people gather in the former West German capital to celebrate German reunification, police have arrested four men suspected of posing a terrorist threat
[Dawn] An official of Intelligence Bureau was 
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