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So I go to my allergist yesterday in Scottsdale. The receptionist is a motorboat design and she is dressed for it. One look at her and I get to laughing. GolfBravo USMC, this is your fault, you should come with a warning! That damn Evinrude song played in my heard all day!
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[Tolo News] In a shootout with Afghan cops in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province on Thursday night, 16 Taliban fighters were killed and 13 others were maimed.
Toryalai Zeerak, the Marjah District Police Chief in Helmand, said the Taliban members were killed last night when they attempted to attack three Afghan security check posts.
An Afghan Local Police (ALP) officer also lost his life.
"16 Taliban members were killed and 13 others were maimed, and the ammunition of these Taliban fighters was seized by the Afghan cops and only one local police officer was killed in the incident," Zeerak said
According to Helmand Police, Taliban attacks have increased lately. With elections in April, it would seem the Taliban's spring offensive may start sooner this year.
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injured is good. Killed is better
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Security agents are on high alert after intelligence reports indicated that Al-Shabaab militants were planning attacks in Kenya and other African countries with their soldiers to Somalia. Information from Kenyan intelligence agencies and the 2014 US Global Threat Assessment report indicate that government buildings and other installations could be targeted. Also targeted are Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Uganda because of those countries' troop contributions to the African Union peace-keeping force in Somalia.
Mr David Kimaiyo, the Inspector-General of Police, Thursday said that security had been beefed up in the areas identified as potential targets.
"We have our intelligence reports and have enhanced security across the country for some time now. It is not as a result of the warning issued on Wednesday," he said.
Mr Kimaiyo insisted that the beefing up of security was not as a result of the latest reports. A joint team made up of officers drawn from the National Intelligence Service (NIS), Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) and the Criminal Intelligence Unit (CIU) have covertly been operating over the past few days in the places identified as terrorist risks.
On Wednesday last week, a team of 20 officers from the General Service Unit's Recce Squad was deployed at a shopping mall as a precautionary measure.
One embassy in the outskirts of the city centre also wrote to the police requesting enhanced security. In its letter, the embassy said it feared that some of its interests in the Horn of Africa and in East Africa could be targeted by terrorists. Said part of the letter: "This Embassy received warning that the terrorists group Al-Shabaab is preparing an armed terrorist attack... The Embassy therefore requests the relevant Kenyan authorities to immediately strengthen and enhance the security of the embassy's compound."
Information from the police indicate that terrorists could be planning two simultaneous attacks.
Already, airports, especially Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, have introduced tougher security measures which require that all vehicles be stopped and searched at entry points while the occupants should alight for frisking.
Among the new rules is a requirement that all airline passengers arrive at the airport an hour before the recommended reporting time to ensure they have sufficient time for the security checks. The security standard was raised a level higher two weeks after a small explosion at the airport which was blamed on security lapse.
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The European Union Naval Force warship FS Siroco on Wednesday transferred five suspected Somali pirates to the Seychelles, where they will be prosecuted for acts of Piracy in the Indian Ocean.
On Saturday 18 January, the French vessel FS Siroco, in cooperation with a Japanese maritime patrol aircraft and a helicopter from the vessel JS Samidare in support of the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF/CTF 151) anti-piracy task group, freed the crew of an Indian Dhow that was believed to have been used by the five suspected pirates as a mother-ship in the attack on an oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden a day earlier. Private security on board repelled the attack, which was the first recorded incidence of Somali piracy in 2014.
The EU Naval Force said its personnel were able to gather a significant amount of evidence to prosecute the pirates. On that basis, the Republic of the Seychelles has accepted the transfer of the suspected pirates with the intention to prosecute them.
The EU, including through the EU Naval Force (Navfor), has developed a successful partnership with the Republic of Seychelles in the fight against piracy. The transfer agreement signed in December 2009 has up to date allowed for 47 (including WednesdayÂ’s five) suspected pirates to be transferred. With 33 pirates now prosecuted, the Seychelles play a leading role in achieving a legal finish against pirates in the region, the EU Navfor said.
Maciej Popowski, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service, and current Chairman of the international Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS), said: “We thank the Government of Seychelles for their continued collaboration which shows the quality of our relations and their very active role in fighting piracy in the Indian Ocean.”
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[Ynet] Paleostinian news agency Ma'an reported an "unprecedented" bombing in the Sinai peninsula city of Sheikh Zayed by the Egyptian air force.
Marshal (?) Sisi and his Mamluks are nit messing around as they continue the fight to retake control of the country they consider to be theirs.
The report said that the bombing was meant to attack turbans convening, as well as being in response to the interception of an Egyptian helicopter last week. There were about 60 rockets used in the attack, no statement has been released in regards to casualties.
Egyptian military officials say the number of suspected faceless myrmidons killed by Arclight airstrikes in the Sinai Peninsula has risen to 13.
The officials say Apache helicopters fired missiles at houses used as hideouts and gathering points for the suspected Death Eaters. The kabooms resounded for miles and smoke rose in the sky from the targeted villages. Officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.
#7
In fashion reminiscent of Itchy and Scratchy,
The Marshal is putting to use his Apaches.
If you want to stir shit in Abdel Fattah's Sinai,
Pucker up, buttercup -- kiss bye-bye to your hiney.
Sure, Jawn will be fretting and tutting, "For shame!
This endangers my phony-ass peace process game!"
But if he keeps on finding and blowing 'em down,
Then al-Sisi looks like the new sherif in town.
[Bangla Daily Star] Three alleged robbers were killed in a "shootout" between their cohorts and police in Mithapukur upazila of Rangpur early yesterday.
Four coppers were also injured in the incident.
The dead are Jahangir Hossain alias Anwar Hossain, 38, of Shariatpur, Ripon Miah, 35, of Mymensingh and Ahmed Ali Abir, 35, of Shariatpur district.
Moazzem Hossain, officer-in-charge of Mithapukur Police Station said a gang of six robbers looted Tk 1.19 lakh from Shathibari Filling Station on Dhaka-Rangpur highway in the early hours.
Informed by the filling station staff around 5:00am, police chased the robbers' private car. Sensing danger, the criminals shot at the law enforcers, forcing them to fire back which triggered an hour-long shootout, the OC said.
At one point, the robbers stopped at Boldipukur and attacked police with sharp weapons, he added.
Sub-Inspector Sirajul Islam, Assistant Sub-Inspector Sumon Parvez and constables Abdul Hamid and Ziarul Islam were maimed during the attack.
Jahangir was struck down in his prime and Ripon departed this vale of tears at Mithapukur Upazila Health Complex soon after the incident.
Critically injured Ahmed Ali died at Rangpur Medical College Hospital around 1:30pm.
Police incarcerated Please don't kill me! the rest of the gang members -- Rony Mian, 32 of Shariatpur, Azad Rahman, 35, of Gazipur and Forhad Hossain, 36, of Madaripur district.
Abdur Razzak, superintendent of police (SP) in Rangpur, said, the arrested confessed that they were members of an inter-district robber gang.
Police recovered a foreign made pistol, three bullets, a number of sharp weapons, the private car and the looted money from the spot.
Two cases were lodged in this connection with Mithapukur Police Station, the SP added.
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Suspected Al Qaeda terrorists militants killed 15 Yemeni soldiers on Friday when they attacked a military checkpoint in the city of Shibam in the southeastern province of Hadramawt, a security source told AFP.
“Unknown terrorists armed men suspected to be from Al Qaeda attacked an army checkpoint in Shibam, killing 15 soldiers and wounding several others,” the official said. He added there were also casualties among the terrorists attackers, but “they were able to withdraw with their dead and wounded”.
He said that “Al Qaeda took advantage of tension in Hadramawt province to carry out this cowardly attack”.
The province has also been hit by protests against the central government since December after the army killed a tribal chief, Said Ben Habrish, and his bodyguards.
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[DAWN] A kaboom on Friday killed at least three paramilitary soldiers and maimed four others in Pakistain's restive southwestern province of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , officials said.
The roadside kaboom hit a patrol vehicle in the Jahoo area of remote Awaran district, a stronghold of rebels that was hit by a major earthquake in September last year.
"At least three soldiers were martyred and four others were maimed, two of them seriously when a bomb planted by miscreants went kaboom! on a roadside," front man of Frontier Corps Abdul Wasay told news agency AFP.
An FC spokesperson told DawnNews that the security convoy was traveling from Wadh area to Bela when it struck a remote controlled bomb planted on the roadside, killing three personnel and wounding four others.
He said that following the blast, Death Eaters who had taken positions in nearby mountains opened fire on the security personnel. Security forces resorted to retaliatory gunfire.
Local intelligence officials confirmed the bombing and casualties.
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[DAWN] At least three people were maimed, including a policeman, during three separate hand-grenade attacks in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... on Friday, DawnNews reported.
A hand-grenade attack was foiled on its own near the city's Sohrab Goth area. Two suspected miscreants attacked a police mobile van with a hand-grenade which went kaboom! inside their own vehicle, leaving them injured.
The suspects were taken into custody and shifted to a hospital.
According to a police source, one policeman was also injured in the attack whereas the two injured suspects were being investigated.
Separately, unidentified motorcyclists lobbed a hand-grenade on the vehicle of a non-governmental organization's (NGO) general secretary Noor Muhammad in the city's Metroville area.
The car was severely damaged, however, no loss of life was reported in the incident.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... a hand-grenade went kaboom! in the hands of a policeman in Karachi's Sohrab Goth area during inspection of weapons recovered sometime ago.
Since past few days Karachi witnessed a series of cracker and hand grenade attacks mostly targeting the security forces.
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[Ynet] IAF launches retaliation attack on Gazoo in wake of rocket fire, targeting 'terror activity site and a weapon manufacturing facility,' wounding four in latest round of escalation in south
Israeli fighter jets attacked the Gazoo Strip on Friday morning in response to rocket fire on Israel Thursday, targeting an arms warehouse and rocket launch site, and injuring four Paleostinians.
Sources on both sides confirmed the attack, which came hours after a rocket fired from the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-run Paleostinian enclave hit the Jewish state. According to the IDF Spokesperson Unit direct hits were confirmed, and "the terror organization Hamas is responsible."
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon confirmed reports that the IAF struck three direct Hamas targets in the Gazoo Strip early Friday morning: "We will not tolerate rocket fire on Israel," he said.
"The IDF and other security forces will continue to chase after those who shoot at Israel or try to execute terror attacks, and they will not hesitate to attack those attempting to do so."
Paleostinian security sources said two strikes targeted training sites of Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's armed wing, in Beit Lahiya in northern Gazoo were hit.
In two additional air strikes at sites west of southern Gazoo city Rafah two Paleostinians were maimed, the sources said.
The attack came a short while after a rocket fired from Gazoo hit in an open area in the Sdot Negev Regional Council, causing no damage or injuries. Residents reported to hearing blasts.
A statement from the Israeli military said that in response to the rocket, its aircraft targeted "a terror activity site and a weapon manufacturing facility in the northern Gazoo strip and a weapon storage facility" in southern Gazoo.
Tensions have recently risen in and around Gazoo after a year of relative calm, with six Paleostinians and an Israeli killed since December 20 and Death Eater rocket fire sparking retaliatory air strikes.
Last week, at least one rocket hit an open area in the Eshkol Regional Council and two rockets hit open areas near Eilat. No injuries or damage were reported
On January 22, the IDF killed two Paleostinians, one of them identified by Israel as a Death Eater from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine ... Paleostinian Marxist movement, founded in 1967. It is considered a terrorist organization by more than 30 countries including the U.S., European Union, Australia, Canada, and Antarctica. The PFLP's stated goal is the establishment of a socialist State in Paleostine. They pioneered armed aircraft hijackings in the late 60s and early 70s... who the army said was behind recent rocket attacks.
Hamas recently confirmed it had deployed forces in Gazoo to "preserve the truce" with Israel, brokered by Egypt, which ended the last major confrontation in November 2012.
While Hamas does not routinely launch projectiles at Israel, but the State holds the Islamist terror group that seized power in Gazoo in 2007 responsible for any such attacks, as it is the ad hoc sovereign of the enclave.
170,000 rockets
On Wednesday, Military Intelligence Chief Brigadier General Aviv Kochavi said that despite a drop in the number of missiles and rockets threatening Israel, their level of precision has drastically risen.
"Some 170,000 rockets and missiles are threatening the State of Israel from all regions. Up until recently, the number was much greater and it has decreased, but it will go up again.
[Ynet] Paleostinian sources reported that 15 people sustained injuries in festivities with IDF troops at the Jalazun refugee camp near Ramallah. Reportedly, Israeli defense forces used crowd dispersal measures.
[Ynet] Two young Palestinians sustained injuries as a result of IDF gunfire at an East Jerusalem checkpoint, the Palestinian news agency Maan reported.
Golly! What d'you suppose the lads did to trigger that response?
[Ynet] Official sources in the Gazoo Strip have reported that a Paleostinian man who approached the border fence with Israel east of Beit Lahiya was shot by an IDF force.
He sustained a leg wound and was evacuated to a hospital in the northern part of Gazoo.
An antipodean dramaturge, an
Amateur podiatric surgeon,
Setting Titus Andronicus
For a chest of harmonicas,
Stitched her scripts upside down,
Wiped her hands on her gown,
And hopped down to the pub for a luncheon
(with her stump she was rolling a puncheon).
A tantric yogi, she liked rum,
And drank it balanced on her thumb.
You see, of course, she couldn't stand --
I only heard this secondhand --
And 'cause she drank it upside down,
She plugged her nose or she would drown.
The cast always thought it queer
That she didn't eat pigfeet with beer.
Islamist militants in the southern Philippines have vowed to crush a massive government offensive aimed at breaking the resistance of a breakaway faction of the country's largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) currently negotiating with Manila.
Abu Misry Mama, "Abu Misery Mama"?
a spokesman for the group called Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), said the government offensive only brought misery for thousands of civilians who fled the military assault in the provinces of North Cotabato and Maguindanao. He said, "The only losers here are the civilians who are affected by the government offensive in North Cotabato and Maguindanao."
The 6th Infantry Division, which is on the forefront of the military offensive, said as many as 40 militants were killed since the assault began on January 27, a day after Philippine peace negotiators and the MILF signed the last of the four annexes that would pave the way for an expanded Muslim autonomous region in Mindanao.
Col. Dickson Hermoso, citing intelligence reports, insisted that at least 40 militants had been killed and that many more were injured in the government offensive, an allegation strongly denied by Mama.
"Hermoso is a propagandist and liar, and I tell you that all he said was a lie. We have no casualties, although seven BIFF are slightly wounded in the fighting," Mama said, adding they destroyed at least three armored personnel carriers and a battle tank in the clashes.
Hermoso also said that the BIFF harbors foreign terrorists and had been attacking military and civilian targets in Mindanao, but Mama just laughed off the military report. He said, "I also heard the news and Hermoso is saying that we have foreign terrorists in our ranks, but the BIFF does not need any foreign fighters, we can fight on our own and defend ourselves and the Muslims in Mindanao. This is all propaganda of the military."
Hermoso said the BIFF has targeted civilians and were behind the series of bombings, killings and extortion. He said BIFF leaders are facing many criminal charges and so were their members.
Miriam Ferrer, head of the Philippine peace panel, said over the last 9 months, BIFF militants repeatedly harassed troops and terrorized local communities. They planted roadside bombs, shot at soldiers, took school teachers as hostages, and in one instance, even beheaded a civilian captive. She said, "The ongoing military operations are geared at degrading the BIFF's capability to continue to cause harm to the government forces, civilians and the peace process."
Ferrer said the government and the MILF have taken necessary steps to ensure the operations will not spill over to involve MILF militants or cause unnecessary or prolonged hardship to civilians. She said the MILF is assisting in the operations by helping the government contain the movements of the BIFF.
[An Nahar] Unknown gunnies shot a resident of the Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... district of Jabal Mohsen on Friday evening, in an assault that is likely linked to the wave of sectarianly motivated attacks that has rocked the city in recent months.
"Omran Suleiman was shot in the legs on al-Mallouleh road in Tripoli," OTV reported.
But LBCI television said the shooting occurred in the Tripoli neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh.
It added that Suleiman "hails from Jabal Mohsen and was rushed to a hospital in Zgharta" for treatment.
More than 22 attacks have targeted Jabal Mohsen residents in several areas of Tripoli in recent months.
On Tuesday, two men were assaulted after their car entered Jabal Mohsen, a day after a resident of the neighborhood was stabbed and beaten up in nearby al-Qobbeh.
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[An Nahar] Lebanese troops exchanged fire with unidentified Syrian gunnies near the country's border with Syria Friday, a security source said, after two-cross border incidents in the area.
There were no casualties in the shootout, which came after at least one was killed by shelling from Syria and a deadly rebel attack against Syrian forces launched from inside Leb.
"Lebanese army forces exchanged fire with gunnies near an army checkpoint in an area near the town of Wadi Khaled," the security source said.
He added that the gunnies, believed to be Syrian, had escaped afterwards.
The fighting came after a barrage of shells fired from Syria hit the Akkar border city, killing a Syrian man and wounding three other people.
Nearby, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels had launched an attack from Lebanese territory against two villages near the Syrian town of Tal kalakh.
The Britannia-based group said five fighters, including soldiers, border guards and pro-regime militiamen, were killed.
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[An Nahar] Syrian opposition fighters launched from Lebanese territories an attack on Friday against two Alawite towns in Syria's Homs province, killing at least 5 people.
"At least five Syrians were killed in an attack by the fighting Islamic brigades on the border towns of Bahlouniyeh and al-Ghaida," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
"Among the dead were soldiers, border guards and national defense forces," it added.
The Observatory noted these towns, which are situated in the countryside of the Tal Kalakh village, are inhabited by members of the Alawite sect.
Intense festivities took place on Friday afternoon between the Syrian army, supported by national defense forces, and the Islamic brigades' fighting forces in the surroundings of al-Hosn and al-Zara villages in Tal Kalakh, according to the same source.
"Obtained information said Syrian forces took over the surroundings of the medieval al-Zara tower and that many people were killed in the battles."
One man was reportedly killed and several others were maimed as northern Lebanese towns came under attack earlier on Friday.
And on Thursday evening, heavy gunfire was heard in several towns in the northern city of Akkar as a result of the ongoing festivities.
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[An Nahar] A security document is making the rounds that a Syrian jacket wallah driving an explosives-laden Kia is plotting to target a high-ranking personality in the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... or in the capital Beirut.
According to the same document, gunnies are plotting to detonate a booby-trapped black Honda near the residence of the well-known political personality in Tripoli.
The last official to be killed in a string of liquidations that have rocked Leb in the past years was ex-Finance Minister Mohammed Shatah, who was also al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... movement leader Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. 's advisor.
Shatah, 62, died in a boom-mobile blast in downtown Beirut on December 27.
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Need to open a trailer park on the road from Benghazi to Tripoli and name it Beirut City.
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I liked the part about their neighbors in the Mosque back home in Baddington on Drip swearing byd Mohammed's steaming testicles they never knew or like the guys and the neighbors around the Mosque refusing to talk about it.
Not only very basically dead ( PBUH ) but also disowned. Send in the next monkeyboy stupid towelhead.
Sytia is doing a great job. The numbers keep going up. And Kerry is going Jig-a-jig around in his chair and Hillary realizes she was clueless. The US is a real zinger with its Leadership.
Do you ever get the impression that the US is run by Clarabelle walking a herds of squirrels on a leash ?
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I dunno, the visual of Clarabell with squirrels is unique, altho Bammy, Pelosi, and Biden would fit right into that same graphic...... ( but is would be harder to discern the squirrels for m the nuts in those instances)
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Security agents are on high alert after intelligence reports indicated that Al-Shabaab militants were planning attacks in Kenya and other African countries with their soldiers to Somalia. Information from Kenyan intelligence agencies and the 2014 US Global Threat Assessment report indicate that government buildings and other installations could be targeted. Also targeted are Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Uganda because of those countries' troop contributions to the African Union peace-keeping force in Somalia.
The European Union Naval Force warship FS Siroco on Wednesday transferred five suspected Somali pirates to the Seychelles, where they will be prosecuted for acts of Piracy in the Indian Ocean.
Suspected Al Qaeda 
Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine
[Ynet] Paleostinian sources reported that 15 people sustained injuries in 
[An Nahar] Unknown 
[An Nahar] A security document is making the rounds that a Syrian 
