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Can you assign the other box the secondary IP address assigned to your url as a fail over box as long as you can replicate from he primary every few minutes? Then if the new box drops, old reliable immediately kicks in. And if you want to flip the switch and old reliable doesn't assume web server, you flip the switch back until a fix is in place for the secondary.
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The problem hasn't been with the web server failing. If you had telnet on your computer last night and you executed: telnet rantburg.com 80 it would have indicated a connection, which means the apache web server was working as advertised.
The problem appears to be a processor scheduling issue.
This last time the server went down, 20 minutes ago, we were able to restart the db server with a tiny problem in semaphores, which was resolved.
As far as I can tell we are good until the morning.
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You are using shared memory semaphores?
If so and you are using them up first play with changing the amount of allocated semaphore space.
If that doesn't do it recompile the kernel allocating more shared memory.
In Linux/Unix open active file handles, pipes, semaphores etc need shared memory.
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Isn't it interesting that all our simple, conservative, war mongering, dumb, uneducated asses actually know something about complex communication systems. Almost makes you want to doubt that guns+love of country+honor+code+god doesn't = troglodyte as the libs say....guess I have to re-take the "check your privilege" class that I failed miserably...
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actually maybe I am uneducated..remove doesn't from the equation...my logic has failed me...at least I qualify for an East Anglia Climate Scientist position..
[AnNahar] A suspect wanted over the deadliest-ever attack in Nigeria's capital -- a blast blamed on 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... Islamists -- has been tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in Sudan, a source close to the case said Thursday.
Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche was detained on Tuesday as he tried to get a visa from the Turkish embassy in central Khartoum, the source told Agence La Belle France Presse, requesting anonymity.
"There wasn't any resistance" to the arrest, said the source, who added that the suspect was still in Sudan on Thursday.
Seventy-one people were killed and 124 were maimed in the April 15 bomb kaboom at a packed Abuja bus station.
President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... blamed Boko Haram, much of whose previous violence had been in the country's northeast.
Nigerian officials earlier said Ogwuche was the subject of a "Red Notice" from Interpol. Red Notices are typically issued for wanted persons with a view to their extradition.
Ogwuche arrived in Khartoum late last year to study Arabic at the International University of Africa, but visited Nigeria earlier this year, the source added.
Boko Haram is currently holding hostage more than 200 schoolgirls that it kidnapped, an act that has sparked global outrage.
In the early 1990s, Sudan became a notorious refuge for Death Eater Islamists, including now-dead al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who is no longer with us, and won't be again... who was based in Sudan from 1991 to 1996.
Although the United States continues to designate Sudan as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, one of only four in the world, a 2013 U.S. State Department report said the country "is generally responsive to international community concerns about counter-terrorism efforts."
It said Sudan's vast, mostly unmonitored borders with Libya, Chad, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Æthiopia, and Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... have, however, hampered counter-terrorism efforts.
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Sudan's vast, mostly unmonitored borders with Libya, Chad, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Ćthiopia, and Eritrea
Several Al-Shabaab terrorist insurgents attacked government military bases on the outskirts of Mogadishu last night, which resulted in a full-scale battle to erupt between the Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist group Al-Shabaab and troops of the Somali Federal Government.
A minimum of 4 of the government troops were killed and a further 5 or 6 left wounded with severe injuries after a several of the terrorist fighters assailed the military base at Arbacow territory in Eelasha Biyaha, on the periphery of Mogadishu.
Witnesses described the fight as intense and said gunshots were continuously been fired from an AK-47 weapon. They added that at least 2 mortar shells were thrown at the base before the fighting began.
Somali Federal Government spokesperson or officials are yet to comment on the latest skirmish involving government troops and the terrorists. The Al-Shabaab Islamist militants have also not publicized the number of losses they sustained.
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Witnesses described the fight as intense and said gunshots were continuously been fired from an AK-47 weapon.
According to news reports from Dharkeynley in Benadir region, indicate that several mortar shells that were broadly flung last night destroyed a number of homes resulting in rigorous fatalities. The Somali government troops and Al-Shabaab insurgents also had a skirmish in the district last night.
The Dharkeynley district administration has not spoken out about the barrage of shells or specified the precise numbers of casualties and losses.
At least 10 further mortar shells were thrown at a checkpoints in Wadajir district including the âEx-Kontroolâ checkpoint in which government troops were killed, as many as 4.
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Rank malpractice of indirect fire
May yield outcomes decidedly dire.
Patients, only abide
Mortarboard certified
Mortarmen when you come under fire.
[AnNahar] Gunmen killed a moderate Moslemholy man and two soldiers in Libya's second city Benghazi Thursday as violence showed no let-up in the cradle of the 2011 uprising.
Sheikh Mansur Abdelkarim al-Baraassi, who was well known for his opposition to the hardline Islamists who are a powerful force in the eastern city, was bumped off as he left a central mosque, medical and security sources said.
The two soldiers from the special forces were rubbed out as they left their barracks.
It was in Benghazi that the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... -backed rebellion which toppled and killed veteran leader Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens... began.
But the city has since been plagued by violence that has killed dozens of members of the security forces, judges and foreigners.
Four soldiers died in separate attacks in the city on Sunday.
Libya's central government has struggled to assert its control over the vast, mostly desert country, which is awash with heavy weapons and effectively ruled by a patchwork of former rebel militias.
In March, the authorities acknowledged for the first time the existence of "terrorist groups" in Libya, particularly in Benghazi but also elsewhere in the east.
In Ajdabiya, 160 kilometers (100 miles) southwest of Benghazi, a bomb detonated outside a courthouse on Thursday causing extensive damage to the building but no casualties, a security source said.
[AnNahar] Nearly ten people, most of them civilians, died when rival militias clashed earlier this week in the center of the strife-torn Central African Republic, a source in the African peacekeeping force said Thursday. Ummm... "Nearly ten" is "nine." Maybe "eight." Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... the body of 26-year-old French photojournalist Camille Lepage, who was rubbed out during an assignment in the country, left the capital Bangui on a French-bound cargo plane following tributes to her at a French military base, an Agence La Belle France Presse news hound said.
The source in the African force Misca said the festivities erupted Wednesday near Dekoa between the mainly Christian "anti-balaka" force and the Seleka, a former rebel group who are mainly Moslem.
"We lament the deaths of nearly 10 people and many maimed, most of them civilians," the source said.
Following the festivities, ex-Seleka members carried out reprisal attacks in villages between Dekoa and Kaga Bandoro, the source said, adding some villagers were rubbed out or maimed while looting took place.
In the mainly Christian town of Boda, in the south of the country, an armed man shot and killed a 12-year-old Moslem girl on Wednesday while also shooting and wounding a six-year-old girl and a baby, police said.
Police said the shooting occurred while a government delegation sought to mediate between Moslems and Christians who have been locked in sectarian violence that left nearly 100 dead at the end of January.
Lepage's body was due to arrive in Gay Paree around 0500 GMT on Friday and a diplomatic source said an autopsy will be carried out afterward.
Central Africa's Prime Minister Andre Nzapayeke, officers from the international peacekeeping forces and journalists paid their last respects to her during a ceremony Thursday at the French military base in Bangui.
Lepage's body was recovered by French peacekeeping troops on Tuesday evening. She had been on an assignment with members of the "anti-balaka" earlier in the week when they were ambushed by fighters linked to rival militia groups.
At least ten fighters died in the ensuing battle in the village of Gallo in the west of the former French colony.
French authorities on Wednesday opened a judicial investigation into the journalist's death while the U.N. Security Council condemned the killing and urged the Central African government to ensure that those responsible are brought to justice.
Deeply impoverished Central Africa has been gripped by crisis since the Seleka alliance seized power in a March 2013 coup led by Michael Djotodia.
Splinter groups of Seleka rebels went rogue, embarking on a campaign of killing, raping and looting.
The abuses prompted members of the Christian majority to form vigilante "anti-balaka" groups, unleashing a wave of tit-for-tat killings that has left thousands dead and close to a million displaced.
Djotodia, now in exile in Benin, was replaced as president by interim leader Samba Panza in January after failing to stop the bloodshed.
[AnNahar] Yemeni warplanes on Thursday targeted al-Qaeda positions in the southern province of Shabwa, causing "huge losses," as part of an offensive launched in late April, a military front man said.
The front man, quoted by official news agency Saba, said the raids on al-Qaeda turbans inflicted "huge losses in human life and armaments."
The warplanes struck al-Qaeda positions in Azzan, Jul al-Rida and al-Saeed, south of the town of Ataq, and residents fled the region, a military source told Agence La Belle France Presse.
On Wednesday, suspected al-Qaeda gunnies launched deadly counter-attacks on two army positions in Jul al-Rida and Azzan, which the military said it retook from turbans a week ago.
The army says it has inflicted heavy losses on Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), seen by the U.S. as the network's deadliest franchise, since it launched its offensive on April 29.
The campaign is focused on Shabwa and Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... , another southern province.
AQAP took advantage of a 2011 uprising that forced veteran 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... from power to seize large swathes of southern and eastern Yemen.
The army recaptured several major towns in 2012 but has struggled to reassert control in rural areas.
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Daimler-Benz DB 601 powered Dorniers. Nice pic.
Three police officers were killed and seven others wounded in a shootout in Russian republic of Dagestan.
Dagestan's Interior Ministry says that unknown armed individuals opened fire, possibly with machine guns, at a police patrol in Dagestan's central district of Gunib on May 15.
The territory is currently cordoned off by security forces. Police are searching for the gunmen in a forested area near the village of Sogratl.
[DAWN] GHALANAI: Unknown miscreants blew up a government primary school for boys in Kung area of Khwezai tehsil of Mohmand Agency ... 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 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... , officials said on Thursday.
Sources said that some miscreants had planted an bomb at the building of government primary school for boys in Kung, which went kaboom! with a bang and completely destroyed the building. No loss of life was reported. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the school record was damaged.
Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Bert was realizing to his horror that he'd had only one bottle for one message, and he'd forgotten to include a return address... members of peace committee exchanged fire with unknown miscreants. Officials of the political administration told Dawn that after the incident security forces conducted a search operation in the area and tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! two persons.
Acting education officer of Mohmand Agency Sardar Hussain said that Safi was the worst-hit area in the region where over 50 schools had been destroyed. He said that 14 of these schools had been rebuilt while work on the remaining schools was in progress.
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: Police say a bomb attached to a cycle of violence has went kaboom! outside a restaurant near the capital, Islamabad, wounding at least 15 people.
Police officer Abdul Majeed says the bomb went kaboom! late Thursday in Rawalpindi, a garrison city near Islamabad.
Majeed says rescuers transported all the victims to a nearby government hospital.
Majeed declined to say who could be behind the attack.
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[AnNahar] A kidnapped Iraqi businessman has been released but his captors kidnapped his relative after he failed to pay the ransom in full, the state-run National News Agency reported on Thursday.
Wael al-Jabouri was set free near the town of Hawsh al-Nabi in the eastern Baalbek district after his relative paid the abductors $50,000, NNA said.
But the assailants took the man hostage pending the payment of the entire ransom, it added.
The agency did not specify the amount of the ransom that the kidnappers had demanded.
Al-Jabouri was kidnapped on May 4 in the area of Dohat Aramoun.
Al-Jabouri, who owns residential buildings in the area, was kidnapped after the assailants claimed they wanted to buy an apartment.
[AnNahar] Militants in north Iraq seized a vehicle transporting five off-duty army officers and killed them on Thursday, security and medical officials said.
The officers, who varied in rank between lieutenant and major, were on their way to their unit which is part of the force battling anti-government fighters in the western province of Anbar, a police major and a doctor said.
[AnNahar] Israeli troops shot and fatally maimed two Paleostinians during a Nakba day demonstration near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday, medics and security sources said.
Security and medical sources told Agence La Belle France Presse that Musaab Nuwarah, 20, and Mohammed Udeh, 17, died in a Ramallah hospital.
They were both shot in the chest by Israeli border police during a demonstration on the anniversary of the Nakba, or "catastrophe" that befell the Paleostinians when Israel was created in 1948.
About 150 people demanding the release of thousands of Paleostinians held by Israel protested near Ofer prison.
At the Qalandiya checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah, protestors set fire to tires and hurled stones at border police who responded with "riot dispersal means," an army front man told Agence La Belle France Presse, using the term usually applied to the use of rubber bullets or tear gas.
In the Gazoo Strip, hundreds of people, some carrying Paleostinian flags or banners calling for refugees to be allowed to return to their former homes, marched near the Erez crossing with Israel.
In the West Bank, rallies were held in the cities of Nablus and Hebron.
In Ramallah, where Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... has his headquarters, people on the streets stood in silence for 66 seconds while sirens wailed.
"On this 66th anniversary of the Nakba we hope that this year will be the one in which our long suffering ends," Abbas said in a speech broadcast on Paleostinian TV and radio on Wednesday evening.
"It is time to put an end to the longest occupation in modern history and time for Israel's leaders to understand that there is no other homeland for the Paleostinians but Paleostine," he said.
After nearly nine months of fruitless U.S.-sponsored peace talks, Israel suspended its participation in negotiations last month when Abbas' Paleostine Liberation Organization announced a unity deal with the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,turbans who run the Gazoo Strip.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had also insisted the Paleostinians explicitly recognize Israel as a Jewish state, a demand rejected by Abbas.
"Paleostine has recognized Israel's right to exist since 1988," Paleostinian chief peace negotiator Saeb Erakat wrote in a commentary published Thursday in left-leaning Israeli daily Haaretz.
"We are not asking for Hebrew not to be an official language or Jewish holidays not to be official holidays. The character of Israel is not for us to define," he wrote.
In 1948, more than 760,000 Paleostinians -- now estimated to number more than five million with their descendants -- fled or were driven out of their homes.
Around 160,000 stayed behind and became Israeli citizens. They and their descendants currently number about 1.4 million people, or some 20 percent of Israel's population.
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The Mohominids' foreskin prehensile
Once allowed them to grasp a utensil.
They could copy and paste
With their hands at great haste
And dictate the Koran with a pencil.
Palestinian security forces were concerned Friday morning over the likelihood of violent riots after two teens died Thursday during Nakba Day demonstrations outside Ofer prison near Ramallah, Israel Radio reported.
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"On this 66th anniversary of the Nakba we hope that this year will be the one in which our long suffering ends," Abbas said in a speech broadcast on Paleostinian TV and radio on Wednesday evening.
Israel isn't:
1. going away
2. allowing five million potential terrorist back in
The "long suffering" could be ended at any point by Abbas but at the cost of losing the honorific "ineffectual".
[Ynet] Paleostinians claim the two were killed from live fire, while Israeli police front man denies live fire was used to disperse crowds.
Real or Paliwood? For that matter, have the Palestinian dead once again risen to walk, unmarked, among the living? Photos and video at the link to help you make your own decision, dear Reader.
Two Paleostinians were killed Thursday from IDF fire in a West Bank clash that erupted after Paleostinians marked Nakba Day, prompting a Paleostinian warning of a halt in security coordination with the Jewish state.
"The Paleostinian leadership cannot remain idle in the face of Israel's violations, the latest of which was the killing of the two young Paleostinians," Paleostinian security front man Adnan al-Damiri told AFP.
Dr. Samir Saliba, the head of the hospital's emergency department, confirmed both deaths.
A Paleostinian source at the hospital who spoke to Ynet said the two were killed from live fire. According to him, one of them was DOA, while the other, who arrived at death's door, died in surgery.
"And all this prompts the leadership to seriously consider a halt to security coordination with the Israeli side," he said.
Paleostinian medical officials said Muhammad Abu Thahr, 22, and Nadim Nuwara, 17, were both shot in the chest outside Israel's Ofer Prison near Ramallah. Three Paleostinians were maimed, one seriously.
The festivities erupted near a West Bank army checkpoint after some 200 protesters calling for the release of Paleostinians detained without trial set fire to tires and hurled stones at border police, marking the 66th anniversary of the "Nakba," meaning catastrophe, when many Paleostinians fled or were expelled from their towns and villages during the 1948 Independence War.
Mostly fled,with the promise from the five Arab armies and the Mufti of Jerusalem that they would get the Jews' possessions and property as booty when they came back after the conquest. They're still waiting.
Condemning the killings, Amnesia Amnesty International said Israeli forces had used "excessive, including lethal, force in response to rock-throwing protesters who could not have posed a threat to the lives of the soldiers and coppers in or near the fortified military camp."
Of course they did. It's F8 on the AI keyboard.
Police front man Micky Rosenfeld said Border Police broke up "disturbances," but did not use live fire.
The IDF said security forces attempted to disperse the demonstration with "riot dispersal means and rubber bullets."
"Reports regarding Paleostinian casualties are currently being reviewed," it said in a statement.
"The use of live bullets on protesters is a dangerous escalation by (Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu's turban government which aims to drag the region into a new cycle of violence," Wasel Abu Youssef, a senior Paleostinian official, told Rooters.
Netanyahu said earlier the Paleostinian commemoration was part of "endless propaganda" against Israel. The country would continue to build itself and its "united capital Jerusalem", and push ahead with a new law declaring Israel a Jewish state.
Malaysian police have arrested a South Asian terror suspect believed to be linked to plans to attack foreign consulates in India.
A police statement said the arrest took place on Wednesday near Kuala Lumpur, but gave no details about the suspect. It said the police had been monitoring the suspect since last December and that the person was involved in plans to attack consulates in Chennai and Bangalore.
The statement added that the information had been given to Indian authorities, who arrested three other suspects in Chennai on April 29.
It was unclear whether the suspect would be extradited or held in Malaysia.
The arrest brings the number of suspected terrorists detained in Malaysia since late last month to 13. One of them is an East African Islamist militant wanted by Interpol and another 11 are Malaysians with alleged links to networks abroad.
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India is Malaysias largest trading partner among countries of the South, excluding ASEAN and
China. Similarly, Malaysia has emerged as Indias second largest trading partner in the ASEAN after Singapore. Source
A senior police officer fought off at least six members of the communist New People's Army (NPA) who attacked him while returning home in Zamboanga del Sur province in Mindanao. Senior Inspector Joseph Ortega said, "Senior Police Officer 4 (Eleazar) Carcallas is a brave policeman who managed to fight off his attackers."
Ortega said Carcallas was walking home in the town of Tigbao on Wednesday morning when the six NPA militants apparently waiting for him in front of a store opened fire upon him. Although he was initially injured, Carcallas retaliated with his service firearm until his colleagues who were alerted by the sound of gunfire came to his rescue.
This was not the first time that Tigbao has been attacked by NPA militants, the first being in April 2012 when they raided a police station and fled with assorted firearms and other equipment.
[AnNahar] A man who hails from the Bekaa border town of Arsal was kidnapped Wednesday while on his way to the city of Baalbek, state-run National News Agency reported.
"Unknown individuals kidnapped Arsal resident Mohammed Shehadeh al-Hujeiri from his pickup truck as he was moving from the town to the popular market in the city of Baalbek," NNA said.
The captors then telephoned his family and asked for a $100,000 ransom, the agency added.
Kidnap operations are common in the northern Bekaa region but the development comes amid an unprecedented security plan that the army has been implementing in the area since several weeks.
Troops have managed to arrest runaways wanted over kidnap and theft operations as well as others involved in car kabooms.
[AnNahar] Army troops raided on Thursday afternoon neighborhoods in the Northern Metn region, and succeeded in the arrest of several men for suspecting their involvement in drug dealing.
"After obtaining information about the presence of drug trafficking networks in the Sid al-Bauchrieh area, an army force raided a residential compound in the neighborhood," the Army Command said in a released communique.
Several people were tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in the raid over suspicion of their involvement in drug trafficking operations, the statement announced.
"Weapons, military ammunition and a quantity of different types of drugs were also seized in the military operation," it added.
"The arrested suspects along with the seized weapons were referred to the relevant authority."
Also in al-Metn, the army raided areas in Jdeideh and Zoaitriyeh neighborhoods in al-Fanar region in search for runaways, reported LBCI television.
[AnNahar] The head of the "largest car robbery gangs" in the Bekaa was locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! on Wednesday at midnight, as security forces and army troops continue implementing a security plan in the region and the North.
"As part of the security plan implemented by Internal Security Forces in the Bekaa and after investigation and monitoring, the Bekaa Police Department managed to ambush and arrest the head of the largest car robbery gangs," the ISF announced in a released communique.
The runaway was detained right after he stole a Hyundai car in the Bekaa town of Doures, the statement detailed.
The detainee was identified as Lebanese national T.A., 28, and he has 31 judicial warrants against him on charges of armed car robberies and thievery.
Security forces seized the Toyota car he was driving, which turned out to have been stolen from Nouhad D. in the Dekwaneh area in Northern Metn in late January 2014, according to the statement.
"Drugs, three cell phones and stolen identification cards were also seized in the detainee's possession," it added.
And in the eastern Bekaa Valley, State Security has arrested a member of a gang that forges documents, including passports and visas, the state-run National News Agency reported on Thursday.
NNA identified the suspect with his initials as A.G., saying he was arrested in the city of Zahle on Monday.
The gang specializes in forging identity cards, passports, driving licenses and visas, it said.
State Security is searching for the rest of the network's members, who have arrest warrants issued against them, the agency added.
Meanwhile in Beirut's southern suburbs, an army force arrested Mahdi Sobhi al-Siblani for opening fire repeatedly, and detained Nabil Imad Makkouk for possessing and smuggling illegal substance.
"Others were also detained for driving wanted cars," the military institution said in a statement.
Earlier this month, the General Security Department arrested 49 Syrians and Paleostinians at the Rafik Hariri International Airport for trying to flee with forged documents.
A unit from the department handed them over to the Syrian authorities the next day.
General Security warned Arabs and foreigners, especially Syrian and Paleostinian refugees, against violating residency laws and attempting to travel with forged documents.
[AnNahar] A boom-mobile killed at least 43 civilians and maimed dozens on the Syrian side of the Bab al-Salama border crossing with Turkey on Thursday, a monitoring group said.
Women and children were among the dead in the blast in an area used as a car park, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, updating an earlier toll of 29.
Gruesome photographs posted online by activists showed shocked men standing over charred, blackened bodies, some missing limbs.
A video of the scene posted on YouTube showed smoke rising from the tangled remains of a blown-up car and luggage lying abandoned amid the chaos.
The area around the crossing has been targeted by boom-mobiles before.
In February, a blast on the Syrian side killed six people and maimed 45.
The Syrian side of the crossing is under the control of Salafist tough guys who have been battling jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... since early January.
Other border crossings between Turkey and Syria have also been targeted, including the Bab al-Hawa post in the northwest, where two jacket wallahs killed 16 people in January.
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[Ynet] More than 40 people, many of them civilians, were killed by air strikes across northern Syria, a monitoring group said Thursday.
More than three years into a revolt against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... , rebels are struggling to counter government warplanes which routinely bomb military and civilian targets.
On Wednesday, 15 people were killed, including three from an emergency medical team, during five air raids in Atarib in the northern Aleppo province, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said early Thursday.
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Of course there are dead folks. Don't you know there's a war on?
[Ynet] Two London Times journalists covering the Syrian civil war were kidnapped by a "rebel gang" and one of them was shot before members of an anti-extremist rebel group intervened and secured their release, the Times reported on Thursday.
Reporter Anthony Loyd was shot twice in the leg while being held captive and photographer Jack Hill suffered a severe beating after trying to escape, it said.
The two, who had spent several days covering the restive city of Aleppo for the Times, were released on Wednesday after local commanders of the group Islamic Front intervened. They later crossed into Turkey, the paper said.
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.
Goodluck Jonathan
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Three police officers were killed and seven others wounded in a shootout in Russian republic of Dagestan. 
Mohmand Agency
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: Police say a bomb attached to a 
[AnNahar] A kidnapped Iraqi businessman has been released but his captors 
Malaysian police have arrested a South Asian terror suspect believed to be linked to plans to attack foreign consulates in India. 
[AnNahar] Army troops raided on Thursday afternoon neighborhoods in the Northern Metn region, and succeeded in the arrest of several men for suspecting their involvement in drug dealing.
[AnNahar] The head of the "largest car robbery gangs" in the Bekaa was 
