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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Shelley Fabares aka Christine Armstrong in "Coach (TV Series 1989–1997)" aka Valerie in "Girl Happy (1965)" aka Mary Stone in "The Donna Reed Show (TV Series 1958–1966)" aka Dianne Carter in "Clambake (1967)" aka Cynthia Foxhugh in "Spinout (1966)" aka Suzy Parker in "Never Say Goodbye (1956)" aka Singer of Hit Record "Johnny Angel (1962)" (age 68)
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Julie Andrews...
A lovely woman blessed with some righteous pipes. My daughter and I achieved significant bonding action after having watched "The Sound of Music" hundreds of times together. The ex-spousal unit wasn't particularly into it. Imagine that.
Still bitter. Still trollin'. "Bugs"- Out.
[Bangla Daily Star] A jacket wallah on a cycle of violence killed seven coppers and two civilians in an attack in Afghanistan's southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province yesterday, an official said.
In a second attack in the province two hours later, a local intelligence official, two bodyguards and a civilian were killed in a mine kaboom, he said.
"The NDS (National Directorate of Security) deputy director of Nad Ali district, his two bodyguards and a civilian were killed today when a remote controlled mine planted by the enemy went kaboom! in Nad Ali district."
The Taliban grabbed credit for the second attack, while the first also bore the hallmarks of the hardline Islamist movement.
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[Dawn] Afghanistan's government said its security forces have killed nine armed Islamic fascistiand captured 23 suspects in a series of raids across the country.
An Interior Ministry statement issued Wednesday morning said the operations over the preceding 24 hours in eight different provinces also discovered caches of weapons, ammunition and explosives.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea... the country's Defence Ministry said a soldier was killed and four were maimed in festivities with Islamic fascistion Tuesday.
Fighting in much of the country appears to have decreased in recent weeks, after heavy snows blanketed much of the mountainous terrain in which the Taliban usually operate.
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Fighting in much of the country appears to have decreased in recent weeks, after heavy snows blanketed much of the mountainous terrain in which the Taliban usually operate.
Here is an idea, drop booby-trapped chemical hand warmers near Taliban hideouts. :')
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... militia have released photos on the Twitter website claiming to be a District Registrar of Persons and a District Officer who were kidnapped last week after a raid at the Administration Police camp, Wajir.
The local district registrar of persons, District Officer and two APs were reported missing during the attack that occurred on Wednesday last week.
The gunnies invaded Gerille town near the Kenya-Somalia border just before 7pm and bombed the Administration Police camp, according to a security source in Wajir.
North Eastern deputy Provincial Commissioner Wenslas Ongayo said the gunnies attacked the AP line with hand held grenades.
"They raided the centre at about 6.45pm as locals thronged the mosque and other centres for evening prayers while the registration officers were distributing IDs," said Mr Ongayo.
Last week, media reports quoted the gunnies warning that they would continue to raid towns inside Kenyan territory and carry out killings and abductions.
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[An Nahar] Ethiopia said Wednesday that five tourists killed in an attack blamed on gunnies in the northeast were all European, and that two other foreigners in the group had been kidnapped.
The government confirmed the attack, first reported by state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
late on Tuesday, and blamed gunnies backed by its arch-foe neighbor Eritrea.
"Terrorist groups trained and armed by the Eritrean government crossed the border and attacked them and the assailants have gone back," government front man Bereket Simon told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"They killed five, maimed two and kidnapped four, out of which two foreigners, one police and one driver," Bereket Simon said.
Eritrea vehemently denied involvement in the attack.
Simon earlier said those killed were a German, a Belgian, an Italian, a Hungarian and an Austrian. He did not give the nationalities of those maimed or kidnapped.
State television said the maimed had been taken to hospital by government forces in the region.
The attack occurred Monday in the remote Afar region near Ethiopia's border with Eritrea. The group was visiting the Erta Ale volcanic site.
A German foreign ministry official said they were probing reports that German nationals could have been victims of the attack.
"Reports of an attack on tourist group with German citizens in Ethiopia are being followed up. The German foreign ministry and the German embassy are working with determination to clarify the matter and the fate of the German citizens," the officials said on phone from Berlin.
The official said the tourists were travelling in the same group.
The Afar region, an inhospitable scrubland and desert with shallow salty lakes and chains of volcanoes, is reputed to be one of the hottest places on Earth. It also known for hominid fossil finds.
Addis Ababa routinely accuses Eritrea of supporting rebels fighting the Ethiopian regime, charges that Eritrea denies.
"It has become the modus operandi of the Ethiopian government to blame Eritrea for anything happening inside Ethiopia," Asmara's representative to the African Union, ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Girma Asmerom said. "Eritrea has never supported and will never support such an incident."
The rival Horn of African countries fought a bitter territorial war between 1998 and 2000 and are still deeply at odds over their border.
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There are a lot of volcanoes those tourists could visit in much, much safer parts of the world.
Radioactive material has been stolen from a nuclear power station on EgyptÂ’s Mediterranean coast that was the site of violent protests last week, state-run Al Ahram newspaper reported on Thursday.
Oh goody...
A safe containing radioactive material at the Dabaa nuclear power plant was seized while another safe containing radioactive material was broken open and part of its contents taken, the newspaper said.
"Abdul, look, we can use this glass rod as a night light!"
"Shaddup and let's get out of here, Mahmoud. This place gives me the willies!"
The government has alerted security authorities and asked that specialised teams help in the search for the stolen material, Al Ahram reported.
More than a dozen people were wounded last week when military police tried to disperse hundreds of Egyptian protesters demanding the relocation of the Dabaa plant, which is still under construction.
Misguided Egyptian Greenpeace volunteers or Muslim Brotherhood cats-paws?
Plant staff have refused to go to the site because of the deterioration in the security situation there, al-Ahram said.
About 500 Egyptians rallied in front of the plant last week to demand that the project be terminated, with some saying they had lost their land on the plantÂ’s site. Soldiers and the protesters hurled stones at each other and exchanged gunfire after the protesters demolished a wall surrounding the site, a security source and witnesses said.
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Won't be hard to find, look for fresh graves, With a Geiger counter.
Or Glow in the dark Baddies.
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perhaps the Jooooos should make a promise:
if any radioactive shit comes over in a mortar/rocket? More will come back. Seriously
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Why is there radioactive material on-site for a power plant still under construction?
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They might want to pass on the idea of launching Cobalt 60 tipped rockets, since much of the time they can't even hit Israel with rockets launched from Gaza.
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I'm no expert on things like this but I have to wonder if the IAEA or some other body has some kind of a standard requirement for the posting of guards at nuke sites. Did the thieves walk right past the guards, did the guards help the thieves or were there no guards at all? Not even a single, solitary, lonely rent-a-cop?
A dirty bomb is hard to do right. Too much explosive and the radiation is diluted. Too little explosive and nobody notices. You also need enough quantity of radioactive material. A few grams isn't enough.
Redneck Jim probably has it about right.
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My bet is Iridium 192 with a short 73 day half life. Still not something you want to carrying around in your pocket unless you are already one of the Pharoah's eunnuch.
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What a lovely session of Rantburg University! Thank you all. :-)
[An Nahar] Malian troops and Tuareg fighters clashed Wednesday in Aguelhok in northeastern Mali, a day after rebels attempted to seize another nearby town, witnesses said.
"Since 5:00 am (05:00 GMT) this morning an exchange of fire between a group of Tuareg rebels and the Malian army has been heard in Aguelhok. Heavy weapons fire has been heard near the military camp," a prominent resident in the town said.
On Tuesday fighting lasted several hours as rebels battled to seize control of Menaka, south of Aguelhok, which is not far from the Niger border.
Army helicopters bombed rebel positions, forcing them to withdraw to a forested area near the town.
"On the assailants' side, six vehicles were destroyed, several people died or were maimed, several assailants were taken prisoner; on the Malian side there is one dead," a government statement said.
It added that the assailants "included forces that returned from Libya and comprised elements known as the Azawad National Liberation Movement (MNLA)."
Hundreds of armed Malian Tuareg recently returned from Libya where they fought alongside troops of ousted leader Muammar Qadaffy ... one of those little rainstorms from the Arab Spring... Their return to the region has raised fears over greater instability in the troubled desert region already plagued by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
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[Yemen Post] Yemen Prime Minister Mohmmad Salem Basindiwa has called the outgoing President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... to swiftly leave and give the newly-formed consensus government an opportunity to perform its duties without impediments.
In comments to Al-Khaleej, an Emirate newspaper, he affirmed that Yemen has long suffered of political conflicts, stressing that it is time to end crises and move in the right way.
He affirmed that Al-Qaeda stormed Rada'a, some 150 southeast of the capital, due to facilities presented by some security officials loyal to Saleh.
"Saleh's regime provided Al-Qaeda with a fertile ground to grow and expand," he stated."Saleh used to use Al-Qaeda to blackmail and intimidate the oil-rich neighboring GCC states, the United States and other western countries.
"Yemen's stability, security and addressing the deteriorating economy and low living standards would eradicate terrorism and all other Yemen's impasses" he added.
Basindiwa said following the conclusion of a Gulf trip that Yemen needs a lot of funds for rebuilding the country, achieving prosperity, and eradicating poverty, unemployment and terrorism.
For his part, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Elihu B. Washburne ... said Tuesday that the U.S. regrets that Yemen's president has not complied with agreements to leave the country and allow elections for a successor.
News Agency that Dare Not be Named quoted a Yemeni top ruling party official as saying that Saleh met with high-level security officials this week and decided to ask parliament to delay the elections until May 22.
Such procedure would be a violation of the U.S.-backed agreement the president and the main Yemeni opposition parties signed in Riyadh in November.
The Yemeni Foreign Minster Abubakr al-Qirbi had told Alarabya TV that Yemen unrest might lead to the delay of presidential elections which are scheduled to be held on February 21 under the GCC-brokered power transfer deal.
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[Yemen Post] Tribal chieftains in the southeast province of Al-Baytha, some 260km southeast of the Yemeni capital of Sana'a, gave on Wednesday 24 hours for al-Qaeda snuffies to leave their town of Rada.
Earlier the day, local tribal dignitaries accused outgoing President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... of conniving with the faceless myrmidons and letting Rada falls into their control, as the army looked on snuffies with simple weapons take control of an entire town.
The snuffies took control of al-Baytaha's main town of Rada on Monday, with the army looking on.
Pressed form international community, Saleh signed a peace deal which would see him out of power in less than a month. But he is well-known for his adept political maneuvers and his ability to play tribes off each other as long as it's in his favor.
Apparently, Saleh still believes he could somehow cling to power by playing his old-worn tricks.
Yemen has been hit by a year of popular protests demanding an end for the 33-rule of veteran Saleh, leaving hundreds dead and others injured.
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[An Nahar] The intelligence chief of Yemen's main southern city of Aden has beat feet an liquidation bid by unidentified gunnies, a security official said on Wednesday.
"Unknown gunnies opened fire on Aden's intelligence chief, General Ghazi Ahmed Ali, as he was returning from work late on Tuesday, wounding two of his lover companions" who were hospitalized, the official said.
It was the third such attempt to kill Ali.
In October, al-Qaeda grabbed credit of one of the attempts in a statement issued from southeastern Shebwa province, one of its strongholds in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and its local affiliates, the Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law), have taken advantage of a year of deadly protests against President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... to bolster their presence in Shebwa and nearby Marib.
Abyan province in the south has meanwhile been the main target of al-Qaeda's growing strength, with gun-hung tough guys seizing the scenic provincial capital Zinjibar in May and several other towns since.
In a significant advance by the Death Eaters towards the capital on Sunday, al-Qaeda gun-hung tough guys swept into the town of Rada, 130 kilometers southeast of Sanaa, and overran it within hours.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Foster Dulles ... on Tuesday described the unrest in Yemen as a "major concern."
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Bangladesh's army has stopped a plot to bring down the government of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by a group of former and active officers, according to a military spokesman. Brigadier General Muhammad Masud Razzaq said, "Specific information has been unearthed that some officers in military service have been involved in the conspiracy to topple the system of democratic governance."
He added that the officers had been identified. Some had been detained and would be presented before a military court, he said without any further details.
Pakistan plans to re-open supply routes to NATO forces in Afghanistan, but will impose tariffs, said a senior security official. He said the fees were meant to both express continued anger over the November 26 attack and raise funds for the state to fight homegrown Taliban terrorists militants. A date for reopening the supply routes was not given.
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yeh, ya can't steal materials unless you you claim to be allowing materials though. And of course you can charge tarriffs before they get highjacked. Good plan. And those bilateral agreements to allow free access as part of the price for getting military support - well, I quess we can forget those minor inconvienient truths. Nice business plan. Why on earth the US continues to fund these guys hurts the head.
[Dawn] Annoyed with the silence of the government and others over the US drone intrusions, gun-totting rustics took things in their hands on Tuesday and fired at the drones that appeared over North Wazoo Agency.
Local people said that more than six unmanned planes were seen flying at low altitude over Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... , Razmak, Datakhel, Mirali, Shawal and other areas of North Waziristan throughout the day.Angry rustics in some areas started heavy firing on the drones.
Witnesses said that rustics used Kalashnikov rifles and heavy machineguns to shoot down the intruding unmanned planes.
According to reports, drones also flew over Azam Warsak area of the adjacent South Waziristan Agency.
The government had shown strong reaction to NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... attack on Salala post in Mohmand ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... Agency in November last, warning the foreign forces stationed in Afghanistan of a tit-for-tat response.
The attack by NATO forces had left 26 officers and soldiers dead.
According to reports the armed forces had upgraded their air defence system along the Afghan border to thwart violation of the country`s airspace. However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... residents of Miranshah, the administrative headquarters of North Waziristan Agency, said that despite heavy presence of security forces in the region drones continued to hover over the area and fire missiles.
`The US drones have not only continued sorties but also resumed missile attacks in North Waziristan, but the government has adopted complete silence over the strikes,` they said.
Two missile attacks had been carried out in the area and nine suspected snuffies had been killed since January 11.
Infuriated tribal people said that like halting supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan, the government should also take serious measures to stop drone attacks.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... tribal people experienced a daylong curfew in several areas on Tuesday as all offices, educational institutions and bazaars remained closed. Markets in Miranshah, Mirali and others parts of the agency were closed because of the curfew.
Miranshah, Mirali, Dosali, Razmak, Datakhel and other areas remained under curfew from 6:30am to 5pm owing to movement of army convoys. Business outlets, schools and government offices were closed. The curfew brought life to a standstill in the area and even patients were not allowed to visit hospitals.
Officials said that troops had stopped movement in the volatile region owing to torrential rains and snowfall in some areas.
Political administration has made announcements that main roads would remain closed to traffic.
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We should go to Hobby Hut or whatever & get a bunch of little RC planes & set 'em loose buzzing over Wazoo towns - the locals can have great fun trying to shoot them down, kind of like throwing baseballs at milk cans at the county fair.
'IDF Team' hackers warn they will "disable stock market, gov't, economic, security sites" if attacks against Israelis continue; anti-Israel hackers say they published details of additional 7,000 Israeli credit cards. One of these days the World will wake up and discover that every computer using Arabic or Farsi as the default language has been wiped clean.
[Dawn] An Israeli aircraft and tank strike killed two Paleostinians close to the border fence in the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-controlled Gazoo Strip on Wednesday, medical officials said.
Residents of the north Gazoo town of Beit Hanoun said Israeli planes and tanks had fired into the area.
An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed the attack and an army statement said: "Aircraft and armored corps soldiers targeted a terrorist squad that was planting an bomb near the security fence in the northern Gazoo Strip."
The statement said it was the second such attempt in 2012 by Paleostinian gun-hung tough guys to plant a bomb in an area of the border where the Israeli military regularly patrols. Israel has declared the frontier area a no-go zone for Gazoo residents.
Paleostinian medical officials said one man was killed at the scene and a second man later died at hospital of his wounds.
No Paleostinian cut-thoat group claimed the men as members.
It was the first deadly military strike in the Gazoo Strip since Dec. 30, when an Israeli aircraft killed the leader of an al Qaeda-inspired faction.
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[An Nahar] The Moslem Brüderbund has rejected an Iranian proposal to play a leading role in Syria's government in exchange for Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... staying in power, one of its leaders told Al-Hayat newspaper.
Iranian intermediaries proposed that the Brotherhood "lead a government (in Syria) on condition we give up our demand to replace Bashir al-Assad," the group's deputy secretary, Mohammed Farouq Tayfour, told the London-based daily.
"It is the responsibility of the international community to protect civilians and establish security corridors," as French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe stated, said Tayfour.
"We must ask the 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... to publish a report and transfer it to the (U.N.) Security Council," added the Islamist leader, who was speaking from his office in Istanbul.
Tayfour, who is also a member of the Syrian National Council, an opposition umbrella group, dismissed reports the uprising against Assad's regime is turning more radical.
He accused the regime of "pushing (the revolt) towards militarization and sectarianism."
"The regime has primary responsibility for what is going on in Syria. The Syrian revolution is peaceful; demonstrators insist on the non-sectarian aspect" of their action, he added.
"The people ... will continue to demonstrate no matter the intensity of the repression, and act at the regional and international level to obtain an intervention aiming to protect civilians one way or the other."
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Geez, that's like Nazis promising communists that they would be nice to them if they just swear loyalty to Hitler and allow the Nazis to take charge.
[An Nahar] Beijing on Wednesday defended the 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... 's widely criticized observer mission in Syria, as the U.N. Security Cocil struggled to agree on a resolution on Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... ' crackdown on dissent.
China, a permanent veto-wielding member of the Security Cocil, urged both sides to cooperate with the vaporous Arab League, saying the security situation in Syria had improved since it began its mission there.
The Arab League mission has been criticized for failing to end violence in Syria where the ited Nations says the regime's crackdown on protests has cost more than 5,400 lives since March.
"Since the Arab League observer mission began, the violence in Syria has not completely ended, but the security situation of major areas has improved, which shows the mission is effective," said Chinese foreign ministry front man Liu Weimin.
"The Chinese side calls on all parties in Syria to fully cooperate with the Arab league in its mediation efforts. The Chinese side supports the settlement of the Syrian issue within the framework of the Arab league."
China made the comments as fellow Security Cocil member Russia said it would reject any use of sanctions or deployment of troops over the rest in Syria.
China and Russia last year vetoed a Security Cocil resolution condemning the crackdown -- saying it would be used as an excuse to carry out regime change -- in a move condemned by Western governments.
Days later, Beijing urged Damascus to speed up the implementation of reforms, veering away from its longstanding policy of non-interference in the cotry's affairs.
U.N. diplomats said experts from the 15 members of the Security Cocil held prolonged talks on Tuesday on a proposed Russian resolution on Syria without getting closer to U.N. action on the bloodshed.
Western nations say blame for the violence should not be attributed equally to the Syrian government and opposition, as demanded by Russia.
The United States, La Belle France and Germany said before the talks that the current Russian text was acceptable.
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I never knew Chinese to be that much into grading on a curve.
[An Nahar] Syria's state-owned media on Wednesday accused Qatar of arming and financing opponents of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... 's regime.
Qatar's call to send Arab troops to the country "falls within the framework of the negative role played by Qatar since the start of this crisis... through the financing of gangs," the Tishrin newspaper charged.
The Gulf state "can help Syria get out of its crisis... by stopping its financing of armed (groups) and the trafficking of weapons" to thugs, wrote the daily.
Qatar's emir, Sheikh Hamad Ben Khalifa al-Thani, said in an interview aired at the weekend that he backs sending Arab troops to Syria, where the regime has been trying to crush a democracy protest movement with brutal force for the past 10 months.
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... Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi said the idea could come up for discussion at the next meeting of the pan-Arab body at its Cairo headquarters on Saturday and Sunday.
The Arab bloc is expected to discuss the future of its widely criticized observer mission to Syria, where the United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale... says the regime's crackdown on protests has cost more than 5,400 lives since March.
Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... routinely blames the violence in Syria on "gangs" and "terrorists" backed by foreign powers pursuing an agenda of regime-change in the country.
Tishrin also accused Qatar of blocking any solution to the crisis in order to "ramp up international pressure" on Damascus.
The daily also accused Qatar of "manipulating information" on Syria through its satellite television channel al-Jazeera.
The accusations come one day after Damascus flatly rejected Qatar's proposal to send troops to Syria.
"Syria rejects the statements of officials of Qatar on sending Arab troops to worsen the crisis... and pave the way for foreign intervention," the foreign ministry said.
"The Syrian people refuse any foreign intervention in any name. They will oppose any attempt to undermine the illusory sovereignty of Syria and the integrity of its territory," the ministry added.
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Arab against Arab.
I like it.
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Well, "Pencilneck" is certainly an expert in arming terrorists rebels in neighboring countries.
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[An Nahar] Syrian security forces on Wednesday killed thirteen people across the country, "including two army deserters, two women and a man who died under torture," activists said.
Nine people were killed in the central opposition bastion Homs, two in the restive countryside around Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... , one in the northwestern province of Idlib and another in the northern province of Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... , the Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on ground, said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said security forces and pro-regime militias killed two civilians in Idlib province, adding that a soldier died during festivities with army defectors in the same region.
The United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... says that 5,400 people have been killed by forces loyal to Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... regime since protests erupted in March.
Damascus routinely blames the violence in Syria on "gangs" and "terrorists" backed by foreign powers pursuing an agenda of regime change.
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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
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