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Good Morning
Posted by: badanov || 07/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Birthday Gam Shot

Despina Vandi[Greek Singer][Discography](age 44)



2nd Amendment Design


Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 07/22/2013 1:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Dang it, whens Fred/Bad going to take a break. I want some Angie Harmon to grace the front page of the Rantburg D-S&T-P. No slight intended to Ms. Farrell
Posted by: OldSpook || 07/22/2013 3:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Old Spook: what? Marilyn Monroe didn't do it for you a couple weeks ago?

O.K., I give up! No more 'bloids from me.

:-(


Sorry, had been drinking. Irritable, hurt feelings. Please disregard.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder || 07/22/2013 6:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Noooooo! Don't stop, Scooter -- I like your take on things.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2013 7:17 Comments || Top||

#5  I've often wondered if Angie Harmon (or any of the other frequent covers) reads Rantburg - and if so what she thinks about the Rantburg D-S&T-P...

And no, don't stop :)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/22/2013 11:06 Comments || Top||

#6  You're doing fine, Scooter! It is a well known fact that certain elements here at the 'burg have an unnatural obsession with Miss Harmon.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/22/2013 11:06 Comments || Top||

#7  Despina is displaying her right to Bear and/or Bare Arms
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 07/22/2013 11:12 Comments || Top||

#8  I've often wondered if Angie Harmon (or any of the other frequent covers) reads Rantburg - and if so what she thinks about the Rantburg D-S&T-P...

Who knows, but at least one ex-pat British medical student who ran a fairly decent sized Miami based blog found us thru our Joan Blondel obsession and made a few kindly remarks about our eccentrics. :)
Posted by: Shipman || 07/22/2013 14:46 Comments || Top||

#9  Cookiez r gud
Posted by: badanov || 07/22/2013 19:55 Comments || Top||

#10  Not asking to stop, I was asking for more, if ya notice. "Add to". Greedy bastard that I am.
Posted by: OldSpook || 07/22/2013 21:19 Comments || Top||

#11  Sometimes too much is not enough.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/22/2013 22:51 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Six Killed In Militant Attacks In Egypt's Sinai
[Jpost] Ten bad turban attacks scattered across Sinai have fatal results.

Six Egyptians were killed and 11 others maimed in several attacks by faceless myrmidons in the Sinai peninsula near Egypt's borders with Israel and the Paleostinian Gazoo strip, medical sources said on Monday.

Two civilians, two army officers and two coppers were killed in at least 10 attacks in the province's main northern cities of Rafah and El-Arish overnight against cop shoppes and security and army checkpoints, according to the sources.

The latest violence there was the worst so far this month in terms of the number of attacks and victims in a single day.

The lawless North Sinai region is a base for hardline Islamists who in the last two years have stepped up their attacks on security forces, exploiting a vacuum following the 2011 uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
The violence spiked after the army's overthrow of elected Islamist president Mohamed Morsi on July 3. Militants have since attacked several security checkpoints and other targets almost daily, killing at least 20 people.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Salafists


Al Qaeda Sinai commander was Bin Laden's physician
Debka so:
For more than two and a half years, Dr. Ramzi Mowafi, once Osama bin Laden's personal physician, has led the most dangerous terrorist group in Sinai, Ansar al Jihad in the Sinai Peninsula, DEBKAfile's counterterrorism sources reveal. A charismatic figure and able operational commander with good connections across the jihadist world, Mowafi has gathered around this group a legion of 7,000 to 9,000 armed men, a hodgepodge of Bedouin Salafists, Palestinian Hamas and Jihad operatives, Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood adherents and Sudanese and Yemeni radicals in search of jihad.

It is the Mowafi legion which is responsible for the series of deadly attacks on Egyptian military and security targets in Sinai and missile attacks on Israel.

Its deadliest operation was the multiple strike of Aug. 5, 2012, which left 16 Egyptian commandoes dead at their base in Rafah close to the Gazan and Israeli borders. The terrorists then seized their Egyptian victims' armored vehicles and heavy weapons and used them to slam into the Kerem Shalom border crossing into Israel. One vehicle made it through and reached an IDF command base before a military helicopter destroyed it. That was the only time al Qaeda had attempted and almost managed to attack an Israeli military target.

They were concerned to keep under their hats the identity of the mastermind of the multiple strike after discovering him to be Dr. Ramzi Mowafi, a relative of the Egyptian intelligence chief Gen. Murad Mowafi, then an important contact of Israeli high defense and military officials in the maintenance of border security.
Israeli officials made light of the incident, referring to "global jihadists" as responsible for the near miss. They were concerned to keep under their hats the identity of the mastermind of the multiple strike after discovering him to be Dr. Ramzi Mowafi, a relative of the Egyptian intelligence chief Gen. Murad Mowafi, then an important contact of Israeli high defense and military officials in the maintenance of border security.

The then President Mohamed Morsi sacked the intelligence chief straight after the attack and replaced him with a Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer.

For now, DEBKAfile's military sources report that Dr. Mowafi is organizing a large group of terrorists for another attempt to breach the border for a major attack in Israel. Incoming intelligence about his plans and movements has kept the IDF on high alert for the past two weeks along the borders with Egypt and the Gaza Strip.

Only after the Musllm Brotherhood was overthrown on July 3 were Egyptian military sources willing to name Dr. Mowafi as the al Qaeda mastermind who designed and administered the complex underground route smuggling weapons from al Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood suppliers in Libya to Egyptian destinations, including Sinai, as well as the Gaza Strip.

Those sources also admit now that the Palestinian Hamas and its military arm are his allies and abet him in running that supply route.

Dr. Mowafi joined Osama bin Laden's service 23 years ago. Our counterterrorism experts disclose that he was spotted by al Qaeda agents during a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1990, whereupon they moved to the Pakistani town of Peshawar. The Egyptian soon displayed talents over and above his medical training and was given a responsible position with the team developing explosive devices and chemical weapons.

Egyptian intelligence now believes that Mowafi may have planted a dense thicket of roadside bombs along the roads of Sinai to impede the advance of the Egyptian army mounting a large-scale offensive on al Qaeda lairs. According to our military sources, Egyptian security does not rule out the possibility that the Egyptian terrorist chief has armed his followers with chemical weapons imported from Libya or manufactured in local laboratories.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  Department of High Concepts:

I was Bin Laden's Psychiatrist & lover friend Companion.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/22/2013 17:34 Comments || Top||

#2  "Joined ... 23 years ago" > And once again, os off by a decade or more.

INTEL nowadays must like being gluttons for punishment = mistakes.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/22/2013 19:37 Comments || Top||


Gunfire at north Sinai police station: Eyewitnesses
[Al Ahram] Unknown gunnies opened fire Sunday night at a cop shoppe in Al-Arish city in North Sinai, eyewitnesses told Ahram Arabic news website.

Police exchanged fire with armed assailants who were reportedly hiding behind nearby buildings.

Separately, a shooting incident was reported near a bank in the coastal city, spreading panic amongst residents. Assailants fired at an armoured vehicle guarding the bank as military helicopters hovered overhead.

There are unconfirmed reports of a solider being killed in the attack, according to Ahram.

Egypt's deserted Sinai Peninsula has been plagued by a political and security vacuum since the 2011 revolution that toppled long-time autocrat Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...

The lawless province has seen an upsurge of violence since the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi early in July, with almost daily attacks by Islamist Death Eaters on security checkpoints.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Pro-Morsi march heads to military intelligence headquarters
[Al Ahram] The main stage at Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque, where supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi have been holding a sit-in for several weeks, announced late on Sunday that a march had left the demonstration heading to the headquarters of Egypt's military intelligence.

Speakers called on demonstrators to join the march to the Nasr City military building in protest at what they describe as a military coup against Morsi.

Morsi's ouster on 3 July following mass nationwide protests against him was part of a military-imposed roadmap, which also saw the Shura Council dissolved and the 2012 constitution frozen.

Earlier in the day, peaceful marches from Rabaa headed to various embassies in Cairo, including the US mission, to press for the reinstatement of Morsi.

Two marches were staged to protest the killing of at least three women at a pro-Morsi protest in the city of Mansoura on Friday.

Thousands of Morsi's Islamist backers have been taking to the streets across the country since his ouster to demand his reinstatement.

The area around Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque in Cairo's Nasr City has been the site of a pro-Morsi sit-in since 28 June.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Qaida Officials Killed in Algeria Ambush
[An Nahar] At least two of four Islamists killed by security forces in a raid southeast of Algeria's capital were members of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), press reports said Sunday.

The four were aboard a vehicle ambushed in the town of Sour El-Ghozlane some 100 kilometers (60 miles) southeast of Algiers, reported Le Soir d'Algerie, citing reliable security sources.

The ambush took place overnight Friday-Saturday.

Two senior AQIM members were among the dead, Bourihane Rabah, alias Ayad Abou Abderrahmane, and Lafi Lakhdar, alias Aboulwahid Touhami, the paper and Liberte both reported.

Liberte, also citing security sources, said the two others were jacket wallahs heading on a mission for Tebessa near the border with Tunisia.

Weapons seized in the ambush included three Kalashnikov assault rifles and an automatic pistol. A large sum of cash was also found.

In the 1990s Algeria witnessed a decade of fighting between troops and Islamist fighters in which some 200,000 people were killed, according to official estimates.

There has been a drop of violence in recent years, although groups affiliated with AQIM are active in the northern Kabylie region, in the east and in areas near Algiers, usually targeting security forces.

The deadliest attack took place in January this year when 37 foreign and Algerian hostages were killed in festivities with Islamist snuffies who had seized a gas complex in the desert.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Arabia
Qaida Suspected as Iranian Diplomat Seized in Yemen
[An Nahar] Gunmen suspected of being members of al-Qaeda kidnapped an Iranian diplomat in broad daylight on Sunday in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, police said.

"An Iranian diplomat was kidnapped on Sunday in Sanaa by gunnies," a Yemeni security source told Agence La Belle France Presse, adding that the envoy was "taken to an unknown destination."

Police said a search was under way to try to locate the man who was snatched in the street near the embassy in the southern Hadda district of the city.

In Tehran, foreign ministry front man Abbas Araqchi told the ISNA news agency that "one of the administrative staff members of the Iranian Embassy
...You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy!...
in Yemen has been kidnapped by an unknown group."

"This person is Iranian," Araqchi confirmed, naming him as Nour-Ahmad Nikbakht.

Iranian media said Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi had telephoned his Yemeni counterpart Abu Bakr al-Kurbi to say Tehran "condemned this inhumane act and urged the Yemen government to take serious action to release the diplomat".

The reports also said that Sanaa's charge d'affaires was summoned to the foreign ministry in Tehran to hear "serious concerns regarding the fate of its diplomat".

It was the first time an Iranian is known to be the victim of a kidnapping in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia

#1  administrative staff member = Quds Honcho?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/22/2013 9:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Aren't there still a few 'Quaida' folks safely ensconced in Iran?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/22/2013 21:09 Comments || Top||


Bahrain: 3 arrested in connection to bombing
Bahrain authorities have arrested three suspects in connection with a bombing last week outside a mosque near the royal residences. Bahrain’s Interior Ministry said on Sunday that the three suspects were brought before a public prosecutor, but no other details were immediately given. No one was injured in Wednesday’s blast.

The blast pointed to a widening campaign by more militant factions in the opposition. The bombing has been denounced by the main Shia opposition groups. But it suggests a growing presence of hard-line networks that have previously carried out bomb attacks on security forces.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
France: 20 Cars Burned In Wake Of Veil Incident
[Ynet] As violence in Gay Paree suburb enters second day, 20 cars are set ablaze. Saturday hundreds attacked cop shoppe west of Gay Paree after arrest of man whose wife was ticketed for wearing face veil

Some 20 cars have been torched and four people placed in durance vile
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
in a second night of violence in suburbs west of Gay Paree.

The night before, about 250 people clashed with police in the nearby town of Trappes in apparent protest over the enforcement of La Belle France's ban on Islamic face veils. Interior Minister Manuel Valls said police presence will be reinforced in the area until calm returns.

La Belle France's interior minister said Sunday that the incidents overnight targeted the town of Elancourt. Police union official said on BFM television that about 50 assailants were involved, some firing weapons and a gasoline bomb at police.

About 250 people hurling projectiles clashed with police firing tear gas west of Gay Paree, in apparent protest over enforcement of La Belle France's ban on Islamic face veils Saturday. Five people were maimed and six detained in the violence, authorities said Saturday.

The interior minister urged calm and dialogue, insisting on both the need for public order and respect for La Belle France's Mohammedans. The incident in the town of Trappes on Friday night reflected sporadic tensions between police upholding La Belle France's strict policies of secularism and those who accuse authorities of discriminating against La Belle France's No. 2 religion.

A few garbage dumpsters in the area were torched and a bus shelter shattered in the Trappes unrest. Spent tear gas capsules lay on the road Saturday near the cop shoppe at the center of the violence.

A 14-year-old boy suffered a serious eye injury in the violence, from a projectile of unknown provenance, Prosecutor Vincent Lesclous told news hounds. Four coppers were maimed and six people were detained in the violence, said an official with the regional police administration.

The violence came after a gathering of about 200-250 people to protest the arrest of a man whose wife was ticketed Thursday for wearing a face veil. The husband tried to strangle an officer who was doing the ticketing, the prosecutor said.

La Belle France has barred face veils since 2011. Proponents of the ban -- which enjoyed wide public support across the political spectrum -- argue the veil oppresses women and contradicts La Belle France's principles of secularism, which are enshrined in the constitution. In addition to small fines or citizenship classes for women wearing veils, the law includes a hefty 30,000 euro ($39,370) fine for anyone who forces a woman to wear one.

The law affects only a very small proportion of La Belle France's millions of Mohammedans who wear the niqab, with a slit for the eyes, or the burqa, with a mesh screen for the eyes. But some Mohammedan groups argue the law stigmatizes moderate Mohammedans, too. La Belle France also bans headscarves in schools and public buildings.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But some Mohammedan groups argue the law stigmatizes moderate Mohammedans, too.

Yes, in much the same way that German laws against the display of swastikas stigmatize moderate Nazis.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/22/2013 0:33 Comments || Top||

#2  That's no way to celebrate Chris Froome winning the Tour de France...
Posted by: Raj || 07/22/2013 1:23 Comments || Top||

#3  If you're a militant cyclist, it is.
Posted by: Pappy || 07/22/2013 11:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Converting from metric to US, that is 10.125 cars.

You mean, a cyclist of violence?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/22/2013 11:53 Comments || Top||

#5  To your room, swksvolFF. Twice.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2013 13:46 Comments || Top||

#6  Well, at least they found something that a French car is good for
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 07/22/2013 18:06 Comments || Top||

#7  Lest we fergit, TOPIX > UNDER THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, THE US HAS BECOME FRANCE, proudly surrendering wid glee-n-glam since ...???

Iff true, the bigger question is how long until the ACLU + DemoLeft + aligned vote for Legal Sharia in Amerika before they rant-n-vote agz it.

Ot was that simultaneously???

D *** NGED AM FRITTERS!

WHAT THE ACLU, ETC. HAS DONE FOR SPECIAL INETRESTS + ALTERNATE AGENDUMS, IT CAN MOST CERTAINLY DO FOR SHARIA + FUTURE ISLAMERIKA.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/22/2013 23:32 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Two ANP workers killed in Karachi blast
KARACHI: At least two activists of the Awami National Party (ANP) were reportedly killed while several others were injured in a late-night explosion outside the party’s office in the Landhi area of Karachi. Police said that the blast in the Gulshan-e-Buner area of Landhi also damaged a number of shops near the political party’s office.

Armed motorcyclists resorted to indiscriminate firing and later hurled a cracker, injuring several people. The injured were rushed to the hospital, where doctors confirmed the death of Afroze Khan and Hamil Khan.

Following the incident, an extra contingent of law enforcers, along with members of the Bomb Disposal Squad, rushed to the blast site and cordoned off the area.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Jordan court rejects bail for Abu Qatada
[Iran Press TV] A military court in Jordan has rejected a bail application by Cleric Abu Qatada who faces multiple terror charges, his lawyer says.

"The state security court today refused to release Abu Qatada on bail," his lawyer Taysir Diab said on Sunday.

On July 7, Abu Qatada, 53, was charged with "conspiracy to carry out terrorist acts" in Jordan. The charges were brought against him just hours after he was deported from Britannia, after a decade-long battle over his extradition.

The Paleostinian-born holy man however has pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
"The court gave no reason for its decision. I will meet with Abu Qatada on Wednesday to look into the issue and decide future steps," Diab added.

The holy man is currently staying at the Muwaqqar prison.

In May, Qatada accepted to return to Jordan voluntarily after the country's government ratified the Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters with Britannia, ensuring a fair trial for him.

He was sentenced to death in absentia back in 1999 for attempting to carry out terror attacks, including at a US school in the Jordanian capital, Amman.

However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
the sentence was commuted to life in prison with hard labor. In 2000, again he was sentenced to 15-year jail term.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Southeast Asia
Five violent attacks in southern Thailand during Ramadan ceasefire
Violence continues in southern Thailand with five incidents reported today despite the Ramadan ceasefire agreed to in Kuala Lumpur last June.

Matsaki Kanet, a village official from the Katong area in Yala province, was wounded when he was shot at noon in the first incident yesterday.

Meanwhile, in the second incident in Narathiwat province, a man named Sufian Mamat was killed in a gun battle when Thai security forces surrounded his house. Sufian was a member of the Rundak Kumpulan Kecil (RKK) who set off a bomb which injured two soldiers.

Narathiwat assistant police chief Police Colonel Manas Krismat said, a man known as Hamdi Mahamamalee, was shot and wounded in the third incident. He also reported another incident at 6.50pm, Asmadi Tuwaenya died and his wife Ilham Kuma was injured after they were shot. Manas also said in another incident, Asmadi Tuwaenya was killed and his wife Ilham Kuma was wounded after they were also shot.

The last incident was reported in the evening when Asri Chekmam was killed after being shot as well.

The Ramadan Peace Initiative, from July 10 to Aug 18, was agreed to during a meeting of the Joint Work Group of the Peace Dialogue Process held in Kuala Lumpur.
Posted by: ryuge || 07/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria army, foreign-backed militants fight inside, near Aleppo
[Iran Press TV] Syrian army forces and foreign-backed Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
gunnies are engaged in festivities inside and near the country's northern city of Aleppo.

Reports say the army and gunnies are fighting near the Aleppo International Airport.

Syrian sources also say the gunnies have attempted to infiltrate Aleppo's al-Rashedin neighborhood, before being repelled by army forces.

The festivities come as the foreign-backed opposition in Syria says its gunnies have killed an officer of the elite Republican Guard in Aleppo.

On July 19, the Syrian army gained full control of Aleppo's al-Rashedin. Army units also killed a large number of hard boyz near al-Ashrafieh, al-Sheikh Maksoud and al-Khalidieh districts and destroyed large caches of weapons and ammunitions used by the krazed killers.

Earlier in the week, Syrian forces confiscated weapons belonging to gunnies in Latakia Province. The weapons included sniper rifles, automatic weapons, ammunition and communication devices.

Syria has been experiencing deadly unrest since 2011. Many people including large numbers of security and army personnel have been killed in the violence, which has forced millions of others to flee their homes.

On July 16, the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic said around 5,000 people are dying every month as a result of the turmoil in Syria.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  As per DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS + OTHER, it looks like Assad + Boyz don't view the Battle for Aleppo to be as strategic or decisive as the Battle for Homs???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/22/2013 23:35 Comments || Top||



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Mon 2013-07-22
  Qaida Suspected as Iranian Diplomat Seized in Yemen
Sun 2013-07-21
  At Least 32 Killed In Baghdad Car Bombings
Fri 2013-07-19
  Suspect in Justice Baqar case dies
Thu 2013-07-18
  Kurds expel cannibals jihadists from flashpoint Syrian town
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  AQAP: Arabian Al Qaeda's Number Two Confirmed Dead
Tue 2013-07-16
  Egypt prosecutor orders arrest of Brotherhood figures
Mon 2013-07-15
  Former Jamaat-e-Islami chief found guilty of war crimes
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  B/Haram: Shekau denies ceasefire
Sat 2013-07-13
  Security operatives raid Boko Haram's den in Sokoto
Fri 2013-07-12
  Report: Al-Qaeda Killed Free Syrian Army Commander
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  Boko Haram Confirms Ceasefire Agreement
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  Boko Haram: Borno ANPP in disarray after JTF arrests chairman
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  Massive car bomb rocks Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut
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  51 dead, 435 hurt in clashes near pro-Morsi sit-in

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