Chunky Texas Deputy Constable Made Deputy Motorboat Her Bossom
A former Texas deputy constable will receive $567,000 after a jury found he was sexually harassed by his female superior. Galveston County Constable Pam Matranga was accused by her ex-employee, James Gist, of committing various sexually suggestive actions and making numerous inappropriate comments during her time as his boss, according to the Daily Mail.
According to reports, Ms. MatrangaÂ’s language around the office included words such as "Canooki," "Duck taco" and encouraging Gist to attend "chunky chick night" to watch her dance at a local nightclub.
In one instance, Gist says Matranga put her shirt over his head, forcing him to “motorboat” her breasts in the middle of the office.
During the evidence discovery portion of the trial, Matranga admitted that she had “motorboated” some of her employees in the past, but not Gist.
Matranga would also frequently break wind around the office and rub her genitals, according to court documents.
Gist claimed in court the situation became so abusive that he was forced to quit his job and file a lawsuit.
According to reports, the jury sided with Gist and awarded him $567,000 in damages.
"Judge, You know everything in Texas is bigger, I almost DROWNED!"
[DAWN] A group of Afghan Taliban snuffies forced their way into a guesthouse used by foreigners in an upscale residential part of the capital Kabul on Friday, police said.
A gunbattle erupted and military convoys were dispatched to secure the area.
The Afghan capital is on high alert and the atmosphere is nervous ahead of next week's presidential election which the Taliban have vowed to disrupt.
"A jacket wallah detonated his car loaded with explosives in front of a guesthouse used by foreign and Afghan citizens and now a number of suicide bombers are apparently inside," said Hashmat Stanikzai, a front man for Kabul's police chief.
"A shootout is under way. There are no reports of possible casualties."
The nationalities and number of foreigners inside the building were not immediately clear.
Rooters television footage showed Afghan forces sealing off the street in the south of the capital and military convoys rushing to secure the area.
AP adds: Taliban front man Zabiullah Mujahid said snuffies attacked a ''guest house of foreigners and a church of foreigners.''
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It's over, according to the Daily Mail, which has lots of photos. Final toll: Four Talib snuffies dead, and one little afghan boy. All the hostages and other foreigners freed.
The Daily Mail did not say anything about a church.
[Ynet] An Al-Qaeda-inspired group based in the Egyptian Sinai threatened Thursday to attack contractors and workers involved in the construction of a security wall at a town in the restive peninsula.
The Ansar Beit al-Maqdis (Partisans of Jerusalem) group has claimed most of the deadliest attacks in Egypt since the military ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... in July, saying they were in Dire Revenge™ for a crackdown on his supporters that left hundreds dead.
[MAGHAREBIA] Tunisian National Guard members on Thursday (March 27th) enjugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! a terror suspect in Kasserine governorate, Tunisie Numerique reported. The Thala man is accused of providing logistical support to Jebel Chaambi terrorists.
In other security news, a home-made bomb was discovered at a Sufi festival in Souk Lahad. The Sidi Hamed festival opened Thursday in the Kebili town.
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[Libya Herald] Gunmen tried to kill a member of the Saiqa brigade this morning. Mustafa Assaid was shot in the hand and leg in a drive-by shooting in Benghazi's Al-Sabri district. He is now recovering after surgery in hospital.
Later, after Friday prayers, gunnies tried to kill Khaled Al-Urfi, a member of military intelligence. He had gone to Hawari cemetery to visit the grave of a friend and had first prayed in the cemetery mosque. The gunnies started shooting as he was heading to the grave. He ran back to the mosque for safety.
Yesterday, another member of military intelligence visiting a grave in the same cemetery was repeatedly stabbed in an attack by a gang.
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[Al Ahram] A leader of a controversial pro-Islamist militia blamed for several violent incidents in Tunisia has been nabbed ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... for 14 months for inciting violence and for verbal attacks, a judicial source said Friday.
"The court in Tunis sentenced Imed Dghij to eight months for inciting violence and six months for attacking others on social networks," the source told AFP.
Dghij, a senior figure with the League for the Protection of the Revolution (LPR), was incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... at the end of February, after threatening the Tunisian authorities in a video posted on the Internet.
"We will not give ourselves up. We will win, and we will die only after we've finished with you, is that clear?" said Dghij, who heads the league's branch in Kram, a suburb of the capital.
"Shedding the blood of the security forces" was a legitimate act, he added.
Formed in the aftermath of the January 2011 uprising, supposedly to safeguard the revolution, the LPR has been repeatedly accused of resorting to violence to intimidate its critics, and is seen by many as a ruthless militia with links to the main Islamist party Ennahda.
Its members are suspected of lynching a member of secular party Nidaa Tounes in the southern city of Tataouine in 2012, and of attacking the headquarters of the main UGTT workers union later that year
Since then, the UGTT and opponents of Ennahda, which was forced to hand power to a interim administration of independents in January to end a major political crisis, have demanded the dissolution of the different sections of the LPR.
Following the appointment of Mehdi Jomaa's new technocratic government, the judiciary has launched several inquiries into these groups, despite the opposition of Ennahda, which remains Tunisia's largest political party.
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[Al Ahram] The ministry of interior issued a statement saying four people were killed in festivities between supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... and security forces in Ain Shams in east Cairo on Friday.
Morsi supporters in several areas around the country took part in demonstrations by Islamists opposing the recent decision of former Field Marshal Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to run in the upcoming presidential elections.
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[PUNCHNG] The Special Forces have jugged Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! 31 fighters of the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Sect who were attempting to flee the country through Taraba State and Gumti in Adamawa State into Cameroon.
The Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade, said in an electronic mail on Thursday that one of those arrested was a mercenary claiming to be a citizen of Chad and Burkinafaso.
Olukolade also said that 11 forces of Evil were also killed during shootouts with troops in the border communities.
He said that the Death Eaters who were involved in the encounter with the Special Forces were trapped and were forced out of their hideout by hunger.
According for the Defence front man, the Special Forces arrested some of the forces of Evil who left one of the camps in the forest took the coppers to similar camps in the area.
He said that the Special Forces killed seven of the forces of Evil during a fierce shootout in one of the camps.
He added that four other forces of Evil were killed in another battle with troops at Gombi.
Olukolade said that several categories of high calibre weapons, several Improvised Explosive Devices and over 70 cycle of violences were recovered from the forces of Evil in the operations.
He said, "A group of Death Eaters attempting to escape into Cameroon through Taraba and Gumti in Adamawa State have come under heavy fire from troops on patrol of the area in the ongoing counter-terrorism campaign.
"The Death Eaters who had been trapped as a result of the ongoing offensive by the troops along the borders were given out when some of them could no longer bear the hunger in their make-shift camps in the forest.
"Those who were apprehended led troops to their hideouts where fierce fighting ensued.
"Seven Death Eaters died, while a large number of Improvised Explosive Devices and rifles were recovered including over 70 cycle of violences.
"Similar encounter in Gombi also led to the death of four other terrorists."
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[CSMONITOR] On March 14 fighting broke out in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, including at the Giwa Barracks -- the main military headquarters in Borno.
"Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... " claims it secured the release of two thousand detainees during the siege on the barracks. Abubakar Shekau has now released two new videos to claim responsibility for the attack.
Mr. Shekau, the successor to Mohammed Yusuf who was killed by the police in 2009, is a leader of "Boko Haram," the Islamist insurgency in northern Nigeria. As reports of the videos makes their way into the Nigerian press, they raise many questions.
The Daily Trust, a leading newspaper published in the north, reports that the attackers had camera men who captured the Giwa Barracks raid on film in great detail.
The video apparently shows no resistance from the Nigerian security forces, but it also notes some 500 dead bodies were found in the aftermath of the fighting, though no casualties are shown in the video itself.
Whether the dead were killed by the security services, Boko Haram, or by both is an open question.
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Can reading too much make you naughty?
Shekau's specialized literati
Know only one book,
But that's all it took
To convince them to kill everybody!
[The Peninsula] Two al Qaeda snuffies and a Yemeni soldier were killed on Friday in a raid by security forces on a residential building in the southern city of Dalea, local officials said.
The security forces seized a large quanitity of weapons, the officials said without elaborating.
There have been a succession of violent incidents in recent months in Dalea, a stronghold for separatists demanding restoration of the former socialist state of South Yemen, which merged with the North in 1990.
Dalea province has seen regular but small-scale festivities between gunnies and government troops since late December, when a shell fired by Yemeni soldiers hit a funeral attended by separatists, killing 15 people, including children.
Tackling lawlessness in Yemen, an impoverished Arabian Peninsula state bordering the world's biggest oil exporter Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , is an international priority.
The United States views Yemen as a front line in its struggle against al Qaeda.
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Ten individuals identified as members of a Los Zetas kidnapping gang were shot to death in Veracruz state in a raid involving state police and Mexican Army regulars, according to Mexican news reports.
A news account which appeared in the online edition of Proceso news magazine said that a security group including army and Veracruz state Ministerial Police raided a safe house in Perote municipality.
Several citizen's complaints had been filed about kidnappings and murders in the area as well as mass graves containing kidnap victims.
The raid took place in a village called El Sabinal. Security forces seized ten rifles, ammunition, weapons magazines and tactical gear. Among the dead was one female. One unidentified state police agent was wounded.
The raid comes just one week after the Governor of Veracruz, Javier Duarte confidently told the media that murders and kidnapping in the state had been reduced to zero because of the efforts of Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com.
[Boston Globe] Lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev asserted Friday that his older brother and alleged accomplice had been encouraged by the FBI to be an informant and to report on the Chechen and Muslim community, according to court records. You can only get away for six months? Hey, no problem.
“We seek this information based on our belief that these contacts were among the precipitating events for Tamerlan’s actions during the week of April 15, 2013, and thus material to the defense case in mitigation,” the lawyers said in their court filing.
“We base this on information from our client’s family and other sources that the FBI made more than one visit to talk with Anzor [his father], Zubeidat [his mother] and Tamerlan, questioned Tamerlan about his Internet searches, and asked him to be an informant, reporting on the Chechen and Muslim community. Hey, we gotcha here on these anarchist boom making sites, sure you don't want to help us out ?
“We do not suggest that these contacts are to be blamed and have no evidence to suggest that they were improper, but rather view them as an important part of the story of Tamerlan’s decline. Since Tamerlan is dead, the government is the source of corroboration that these visits did in fact occur and of what was said during them.”
The lawyers suggested that Tamerlan Tsarnaev could have misinterpreted his interactions with the FBI as pressure from the agency, and that they could have “increased his paranoia and distress.” Or he could have interpreted his interaction correctly, smiled and taken the dough for travel, and terrorism seed money.
The defense wants to investigate those factors as it seeks to portray Tamerlan as a dominating family figure who may have pushed the younger Dzhokhar to take part in the April 15 bombings last year. Tamerlan was killed days after the bombings in a confrontation with police in Watertown.
The lawyersÂ’ allegation, based on conversations with family members and other sources, was made in a 23-page court filing Friday in which the lawyers sought a court order forcing prosecutors to turn over more evidence in the case. But, but, but aren't prosecutors required by law to provide evidence ?
Specifically, they want additional evidence about TamerlanÂ’s radical views, which would be useful in the lawyersÂ’ defense against the death penalty. Lawyers argued that, now that prosecutors have declared they will seek capital punishment, Dzhokar should be allowed to present evidence of mitigating factors that would tilt a jury against the death penalty. Yep, dead and quiet like the other ones. That's what we wants.
Those factors include evidence about his age at the time of the bombings, which was 19, his lack of criminal history, and the possible influence of others, specifically a radical older brother, court records said.
“The underlying data concerning the brothers’ activities, state of mind, and respective trajectories is critical,” the defense said. “Evidence that shows Tamerlan to have had a substantially longer and deeper engagement than his younger brother with extremist and violent ideology is mitigating for the light that it sheds on their relative culpability.” "Underlying data" might indicate the Tsarnaev's were no strangers to the Bureau or US intelligence.
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I'm getting a bunch of question marks in nave diamonds throughout this and other articles. Anyone know what it means? Or is it just my computer? :-(
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It is not your computer. The symbols are emedded in the Html page source.
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�"We do not suggest that these contacts are to be blamed and have no evidence to suggest that they were improper, but rather view them as an important part of the story of Tamerlan's decline. Since Tamerlan is dead, the government is the source of corroboration that these visits did in fact occur and of what was said during them.�"<br />
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FWIW, my current browser's default encoding setting displays those characters as uppercase A circumflex. Switching encoding to 'Unicode' displays the diamonds Barbara's seeing. Switching encoding to 'Hebrew' (random choice) makes everything copastetic. Heh.
[An Nahar] Three suspected rebels disguised in army uniforms hijacked a taxi in Indian Kashmire on Friday and killed three people before being rubbed out by security forces, police said.
The attack was the deadliest in months by suspected bully boyz fighting Indian rule in the disputed Himalayan territory and came just ahead of India's general elections in which Kashmiris are slated to vote.
The rebels seized the shared passenger taxi early Friday morning near the international border with Pakistain in the south of the scenic territory, police said.
The dead included the driver of the vehicle hijacked by the gunnies near Dayalchak, 340 kilometers (211 miles) from Kashmire's main city Srinagar. A passenger and a soldier also bit the dust.
The gunnies dressed up in army uniforms fired at the jeep used as a shared taxi to ferry people between towns and then hijacked it, killing the passenger on the spot.
They abandoned the vehicle near an Indian army artillery unit a few miles away.
Security forces intercepted the gunnies, triggering a three-hour firefight that ended with the deaths of the suspected rebels and one of the soldiers.
"All three bully boyz were killed. Their bodies were recovered as well as that of the driver," inspector general of police, Rajesh Kumar, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Kumar said the gunnies have not yet been identified and no krazed killer group has so far grabbed credit for the attack.
It was not immediately clear if the gunnies killed the taxi driver or whether he died in the exchange of fire with soldiers, police said.
About a dozen rebel groups have been fighting security forces in Indian-administered Kashmire since 1989 for independence or merger of the territory with Pakistain.
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They abandoned the vehicle near an Indian army artillery unit a few miles away.
[DAWN] An attack on noted columnist and TV anchor Raza Rumi led to the unfortunate death of his driver Mustafa on Friday evening.
Raza Ahmed, popularly known as Raza Rumi, was injured in an attack along with his guard and driver near Raja Market.
According to TV reports, Rumi escaped with a minor injury and managed to shift his guard and driver to the hospital at death's door.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... his driver departed this vale of tears. The guard's condition is also said to be critical.
Rumi said he was distraught over his driver's killing, whom he described as "innocent" and a breadwinner for 10 other family members.
"God has saved me. I just heard the... bullets when we took a turn near Raja Market and put my head down," he told AFP, adding his bodyguard leapt to save him.
"Extremists want no counter narrative in the state that is why they are attacking alternative voices."
Amnesia Amnesty International's Pakistain researcher Mustafa Qadri said: "Raza's case is a sad reminder of the threats faced by journalists like him who are promoting human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... and understanding in Pakistain.
"Amnesia Amnesty International has documented at least three cases of journalists killed this year as a direct result of their work, with scores of others, like Raza, narrowly escaping," he told AFP.
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[DAWN] Armed snuffies torched a 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... oil tanker and killed its driver in 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... 's Dhadar area on Friday, levies official said.
A levies official, who requested anonymity since he was not authorised to speak to the media, told Dawn.com that snuffies shot up the oil tanker in Bypass area of Dhadar.
He said driver of the tanker was killed and one of his lover companions was injured in the attack. The snuffies escaped unhurt from the spot, he added.
The levies official said that the tanker caught fire soon after the firing. "Roaring flames of fire could be seen from quite far away," he said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
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Someone should take a hint from WWII merchant raiders. Disguise several fighting vehicles as fuel tankers. When the hard boys show up, open the gun ports and let them have it.
[An Nahar] Ongoing festivities between anti-government fighters and soldiers near a krazed killer-held city on Storied Baghdad's doorstep have killed at least three people and maimed dozens more, officials said Friday.
The latest unrest erupted Thursday night in Anbar province, a mostly desert region in western Iraq along the Syrian border, where security forces have failed for months to evict snuffies from key territory.
Army forces began shelling the region of Zoba, which lies just south of Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... local officials said, sparking festivities with krazed killers.
At least three people were killed and 53 maimed in the shelling and firefights, according to three medical sources.
"There were festivities and shelling against Zoba from yesterday (Thursday) evening until today, and it is still going on," said Faisal Essawi, an official working in Amriyat al-Fallujah, the nearest town.
"We have been told that snuffies control army positions, and there have also been many victims -- killed and maimed."
Another local official, who did not want to be named, confirmed that gunnies had captured army positions in Zoba after the military began shelling.
Anti-government fighters seized Fallujah and parts of Anbar lovely provincial capital Ramadi in early January.
Since then, security forces have managed to wrest back control of most of Ramadi, but a stalemate has persisted in Fallujah.
The military has periodically shelled the city, as well as surrounding areas, in what it says are strikes against krazed killer strongholds, but local residents and medics say civilians have been among the casualties.
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[Ynet] Two men identified by reconnaissance force crossing the border in Golan Heights killed by IDF fire.
Two suspects, at least one identified as armed, were killed Friday night near the security barrier in the Golan Heights. The IDF said they were attempting to sabotage the operational infrastructure on the border: "In response, the IDF attacked the suspects."
The suspects were identified crossing the border around 10:30 pm by a reconnaissance force of the Golani division. Relying on lessons learned in recent incidents -- and more stringent rules of engagement -- an arrest procedure was not attempted.
The IDF used precision fire to hit the two suspects.
Recent weeks have seen a number of incidents on Israel's borders in the north, both with Leb and Syria.
Two weeks ago, in the worst of the incidents, two officers and two paratroopers were maimed, one at death's door, from an improvised bomb placed on Israeli territory -- beyond the Golan Heights security barrier.
The IDF retaliated with artillery fire and precision missiles on Syrian army bases, as the Assad regime was held responsible for the act of terrorism.
Several days before the incident, a powerful explosive detonated near an IDF force near the Shebaa Farms, while the soldiers were on a routine patrol of the area. The force, which included a number of reconnaissance vehicles, was rocked by the explosive, though fortunately no one was hurt.
The jeep was damaged and three soldiers were evacuated to Ziv Medical Center in Safed to rule out any blast injuries. The IDF explored the possibility the incident was a kidnapping attempt, but the theory was rejected.
[An Nahar] An Internal Security Forces member was killed 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... on Friday, in the second such attack on armed forces in two days, the state-run National News Agency reported, as the army started pursuing suspected perpetrators.
NNA said Butros al-Bayaa was in his Range Rover when gunnies opened fire on him in the area of al-Qobbeh at around 5:30 am.
Al-Bayaa died after he was shot in the head, it said.
His vehicle also fell in the nearby Abou Ali river, the agency added.
On Thursday, a soldier was killed in a drive-by shooting in Tripoli, the military said.
The army said in a communique that two masked men riding a cycle of violence killed Fadi al-Jubaili, an army warrant officer, at around 6:15 am after opening fire on him in the area of Boulevard.
Al-Jubaili was heading to work when he was killed, it added.
Later on Friday, security sources told LBCI TV "it is likely that the group that assassinated Warrant Officer Jbeili was also behind murdering the policeman al-Bayeh and it is part of an myrmidon organization."
"The security plan for Tripoli will contribute to eradicating the myrmidon groups, which seem to have taken a decision to confront the Lebanese armed forces," the sources added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats grabbed his rosco... army units carried out raids in the Tripoli area of Abi Samra and enjugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! a Syrian man, according to NNA.
"Bags and boxes were confiscated from the house of Syrian national Ahmed Orabi in the al-Rawwas building near al-Nour School in Tripoli," LBCI said.
Earlier, al-Jadeed TV said the army deployed in force on al-Haram Street in Abi Samra and dozens of military vehicles were stationed in the neighboring areas.
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[The Peninsula] Syrian air defence systems have "harassed" Turkish F-16 fighter jets patrolling their own airspace by repeatedly putting them under "radar lock", suggesting they were about to be fired at, the Turkish military said yesterday.
The incident, which took place on Wednesday, comes only days after Turkey downed a Syrian warplane that Ankara said had violated its airspace, in an area where Syrian rebels have been battling Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... 's forces.
Syria condemned what it called a "blatant aggression" and said the jet had been pursuing rebel fighters inside Syria. It said the pilot had managed to eject.
"Defence systems deployed in Syria have harassed our F-16 fighter jets ... by putting them under a radar lock for a total of two minutes and 20 seconds," the military said in a statement, adding that there had been 14 separate instances.
It also said two Turkish jets had been scrambled on Wednesday to intercept a Syrian warplane as it approached the border. The warplane turned around only 1.4 nautical miles short of the Tu rkish border at Yayladagi, it said.
More than 140,000 people have been killed in Syria's conflict, while 2.5 million refugees have fled to neighbouring countries and millions more need humanitarian aid.
Assad's forces have already lost control of most border crossings with Turkey during the three-year civil war, but have held on to Kasab, gateway to the coastal province of Latakia, which has remained an Assad stronghold.
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Nice of the Syrians to provide so much data about their radars. Should help to refine the electronic countermeasure (ECM).
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Al Ahram] The ministry of interior issued a statement saying four people were killed in 
Ten individuals identified as members of a Los Zetas kidnapping gang were shot to death in Veracruz state in a raid involving state police and Mexican Army regulars, according to Mexican news reports.
[An Nahar] An Internal Security Forces member was killed in the northern city of 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
