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Rio Grande, Cabanatuan, Santa Tomas, Momote Airstrip.
Every situation was different and each situation was handled exactly right. You will not read anywhere certain key details that helped insure the success of the raids. So this is a Rantburg exclusive.
To protect the US from foreign nationals coming into the US illegally during a time of much world turmoil, this division setup and manned machine gun nests along the Rio Grand River.
When World War II did broke out this division was sent to the South Pacific, to help destroy the Japanese Imperial Army. Three documented raids behind Japanese enemy lines in the Philippines were executed by this division. My father was on every one of these raids. Along with other lethal operations that have never been reported. These three raids General Douglas MacArthur personally met with this division either before or in the case of Momote Airstrip the day of the capture, to encourage or explain how important it was to achieve and hold the objective.
1000 men took Momote Airstrip, surrounded by 4000 fanatical enemy and held it against wave after wave of night time bonzai attacks.
250 men went 30 miles behind enemy lines to rescue 500 POWs before they could be executed at Cabanatuan and returned them to the front lines taking out up to 1000 enemy at or on the way out from the camp. Contrary to documentaries the Japanese guards at the two gates were not shot, they were taken out quietly by Filipino bolos, the Americans were inside the gates before the rest of the Japanese in the camp knew what was going on. If you were a Japanese, you were hit before you knew what hit you.
The division carried out a lightening raid 100 miles behind enemy lines into the University of Santo Tomas to prevent the execution of 2000 prisoners by the Japanese army.
In another operation it took only 20 minutes to destroy 10,000 Japanese reinforcements coming off of 3 troop transports in a harbor by harbor guns always manned by Japanese, but this time had been quietly captured by the division, which sank the transports as anchors were dropped.
The WWII operations were the best plans they could come up with to insure as many people as possible came home alive and of course live in freedom. It was not easy. He came home after the war was over with bullet wounds, phosphorous shell wounds, bayonet wounds, malaria, and teeth ground down all the way to the gums from the stress of three years of service. But never skipped a beat in living a good life or never refereed to his service unless asked.
In Honor of the WWII First Cavalry Division of Texas.
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Great posting, wr! That was something to learn! To all Rantburgers, wishing each and every one of you a meaningful Memorial Day.
My dad showed me a picture of a bunch of Marines, exhausted both physically and mentally after a long, intense firefight. Here is that picture.
The Marine with the helmet on the right, at the same level as the man without a helmet in front of him is Paul Mello, the dad of one of my friends. He said that most of the men in the back of that truck were killed 9 to 10 months later in Peleliu. They never had a chance to live full lives. We owe them a great debt.
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Cape Gloucester was/is a nasty place. Falling trees were just another deadly hazard, the greenest of hells.
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Yes we do Paul, always live life, to the fullest. Never forgetting that they paid for it, for us.
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The flags pictured above are Japanese national flags called "Hinomaru" [referred to as 'Meat Balls' by GI's] with the inscriptions of many friends' and relatives' names with their prayers. It was customary to present a flag with prayer inscriptions as a send off charm for a soldier during WWII before he deployed for the war.
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The compliments would have him smile. He passed away at 82. At 80 he finally decided to have phosphorus removed from his back that was always bothering him.
At Santo Tomas several hundred American troops held the university for 3 days surrounded by 20,000 Japanese by making a lot of noise with their artillery to discourage an attack until the main US force entered Manila. The tactic was to fire the artillery briefly to allow the enemy to get a reading on their position, re-position, let the enemy artillery hammer the just vacated old position, identify where the enemy artillery was firing from and smash that particular enemy artillery unit from the new American position. The enemy never charged the university because the Japanese could never hit the US artillery unit and knew an assault would be useless while that unit was in action.
At Cabanatuan the Japanese guards at the gates that were looking up at the sky at a circling US airplane that was to distract the guards and allow the US troops to crawl across a large open terrain without be detected and to quietly kill each guard looking up at the US plane.
These raids by the division were successful through the implementation of deception and being prepared to do what the enemy did not expect the American forces to do and were not prepared to answer.
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wr, wasn't that the subject of the movie "The Great Raid"?
As I recall, the movie was withheld for release for a while because it might offend the Japanese, showing them murdering POWs.
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I have that movie and, as I recall, at the beginning it showed the Imperial Japanese forcing prisoners into a pit, filling it with gasoline and then igniting it. That was shown as the motivation behind the raid.
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The trailer for the movie has some true parts to it. There were 2 prisoners who died during the raid. My father said one American prisoner saw Americans as they started coming through the gates and died of a heart attack on the spot. He was too excited for his emaciated condition.
Prisoners were executed during the years before the raid frequently and for various reasons. They were in bad shape when rescued which made them too weak to escape and were easy to manage by the guards The surviving female American nurses who were POWs at Santo Tomas University were a precious treasure to the troops to protect. Some of the American nurses were brutally treated and killed, the rest were taken prisoner during the fall of the Philippines. The American troops and Filipino guerrillas who assisted in liberating the prison camps were not hesitant to eliminate the Japanese guards quickly and mercilessly.
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1st Team. I did a rotation there, but my heart will always be with the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, The Dragoons. All us old Cav troopers will meet at Fiddler's Green.
At least two people have been killed after two blasts struck a busy restaurant in downtown Djibouti, police said. The blasts at La Chaumiere restaurant, popular with Western tourists, wounded 11 other people according to Reuters news agency.
"It's a criminal act. We have two people dead and 11 wounded. It was grenades," Colonel Omar Hassan, head of police in Djibouti city, told Reuters.
The French foreign ministry confirmed that several of its nationals were slightly wounded in the attack, and the Netherlands' De Telegraaf reported that six Dutch soldiers who had been taking part in an anti-piracy mission were also lightly wounded.
Djibouti has the United States' only military base in Africa, where drones are operated from. Earlier this month the US signed a $63m a year 10-year lease for the base knowns as Camp Lemonnier. The tiny East African country has also contributed troops to the African Union Mission in Somalia.
The former French colony's port is also used by foreign navies protecting the Gulf of Aden's shipping lanes, some of the busiest in the world, from Somali pirates.
In a statement on Twitter, Djibouti's Finance Minister Ilyas M. Dawaleh said the country must "remain united in the face of such barbaric acts".
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[An Nahar] Tunisian authorities have placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! suspected Islamist turbans from Libya and Tunisia who were allegedly plotting attacks against tourist and industrial sites, Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou said Sunday.
The suspects had infiltrated Tunisia from Libya "and their targets were tourism and industrial zones," the minister told local radio stations.
"They were arrested, and mines, boom belts and explosives were seized," Ben Jeddou said.
An interior ministry front man said 16 suspects were arrested in the southern town of Ben Guerdane near the mostly non-existent border with Libya, with three of them detained early on Sunday.
Since late 2012, security forces have been battling dozens of turbans hiding out in the remote Mount Chaambi region, near the Algerian border, where eight soldiers were killed in an ambush last July.
Authorities say the turbans are linked to al-Qaeda.
But jihadists have not claimed the attacks that have rocked Tunisia since the 2011 uprising, including two foiled suicide kabooms in October targeting tourist sites.
Last year, more than 20 security personnel were killed in what the government says were "terrorism-related incidents." Two opposition politicians were also assassinated in separate attacks that plunged the country into crisis.
Last month, Tunis designated Mount Chaambi and neighboring mountain districts a closed military zone, and warned of the growing threat posed by "terrorist organizations" based there.
Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa insisted Sunday that the authorities are capable of "undermining the plans" of gangs, but warned that battling jihadists would lead to as "heavy human losses as anywhere else in the world."
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Egyptian militant group Ansar Beit Al Maqdis denied Sunday that its leader has been killed, after security sources said the group's commander Shadi al-Menei had been shot dead in an ambush.
The group also denied Menei was its leader, in a statement published on militant Internet forums accompanied by a picture of him reading a report about his "death" on a laptop. The picture could not be immediately authenticated.
Ansar Beit Al Maqdis, based in the Sinai Peninsula, has spearheaded attacks that have killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers since July 2013 when the army ousted president Mohammed Mursi.
"As the military suffers losses in its ranks, it claims illusory great victories," the statement said. "They announced that they killed Shadi Al Menei and that he was the emir (leader) of the group. He was neither killed nor was the emir."
It said in the statement the authorities have not even identified its leader, who the group said "is safe".
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[Ynet] A suspected member of an al-Qaeda-inspired group has been killed by his own roadside kaboom in the country's restive Sinai Peninsula, security officials in Egypt said Sunday.
According to officials, the bully boy's father lost an arm in the blast Saturday. Both men are members of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, which has been blamed for some of the bloodiest attacks in Egypt in recent years. Their assaults increased dramatically after the overthrow of the 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... last July.
Papa was just trying to provide his son with a salable skill, useful wherever life might take him. Sadly, it did.
He could have taught sonny boy to be an auto mechanic...
There are more jobs for bomb makers in that part of the world.
The officials said the two were trying to plant the bomb on a road frequently used by the army. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to brief journalists.
[Ynet] Tunisia's Ministry of Defense says two soldiers were killed and four others maimed by a blast on a mountain near the border with Algeria.
Defense front man Taoufik Rahmouni said the soldiers' armored vehicle hit a mine, instantly killing one man and wounding the others. One of the maimed later died of his injuries.
[An Nahar] Yemen's military and al-Qaeda suspects who fled an army offensive in the south clashed in a district near the capital Sunday, killing six troops and three jihadists, security and tribal sources said.
And two overnight drone strikes targeted al-Qaeda suspects in Wasl, a village in Arhab, 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Sanaa, tribal sources in the area said.
The United States is the only country operating drones over Yemen, but U.S. officials rarely acknowledge the covert program.
Militants fled the drone strikes to a village in the same area, Ozer, where Yemeni troops launched a ground attack, according to the sources.
A security official said Yemeni anti-terrorism forces killed three al-Qaeda turbans and tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! four others.
The tribal sources told Agence La Belle France Presse that six members of Yemen's special forces also died in the fighting.
Troops arrested 12 al-Qaeda suspects -- eight Saudis and four Yemenis, according to the sources.
The army has sealed off Arhab, they added.
The sources said the suspects had fought in late 2011 in Syria, where foreign turbans have joined an armed revolt against the regime.
The turbans returned to Yemen and were in al-Qaeda's southern bastions of 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... before an army offensive launched on April 29 drove them out to Arhab, they said.
The army says it inflicted heavy losses on al-Qaeda in the offensive.
But analysts say the gains may have been the result of a tactical retreat by al-Qaeda in coordination with powerful tribes.
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Ali Abu-Mukhammad, the Avar theologian chosen early this year to succeed Doku Umarov as Caucasus Emirate leader, has released a 40-minute video clip in which he warns that the terrorists insurgents are preparing to inflict "crushing blows" on the enemy. Abu-Mukhammad uses the question-and-answer format previously favored by Umarov to convey the insurgency's position. The questions are posed by a speaker off-camera.
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As of this AM, the Net has Artics ascribing a "Somalia" style outcome or final model for the Ukraine-Crimea Crisis, as opposed to earlier "Finland" + "Yugoslavia" outcomes or models.
Two Jewish men were assaulted Saturday night outside a synagogue in CrĂŠteil, a Paris suburb. According to Paris police, the two men, who are brothers, were attacked by two other men, one of whom fled on foot and the other on a bicycle.
The two men, who were reportedly beaten with brass knuckles, suffered multiple contusions and were hospitalized and listed in serious but not life-threatening condition.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, who noted the victims were âof the Jewish faith,â condemned the attack with âutmost severityâ on Sunday.
On Saturday night, hours after a deadly shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels which claimed four lives, including those of two Israeli tourists, Cazeneuve announced that he had instructed authorities to strengthen security at Jewish sites throughout France. Cazeneuve pledged that French authorities would work to fight racism and anti-Semitism and said that police would do their best to apprehend the perpetrators.
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[DAWN] Two kabooms near an Imambargah ...since Pakistain is very religiously correct™, Shia Moslems can't call their houses of worship 'mosques,' which are reserved for Sunnis. It's not clear if imambargahs are used for explosives storage like mosques are... near Qasba chowk in Orangi town area killed one child and maimed nine persons, according to police sources.
Police sources said that a seven-year-old child died in the blasts whereas several others were among the nine maimed.
Fear and panic gripped the area after the blasts.
Eyewitnesses said that unidentified persons lobbed two crackers near the Imambargah and fled from the scene.
Other witnesses said that the second blast was more intensive as compared to the first kaboom indicating that it might have carried out using a planted device.
Rescue and emergency teams reached the blast site.
Rescue teams shifted the victims to hospitals for treatment.
Security personnel cordoned off the area as a probe into the incident went underway.
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[DAWN] QUETTA: At least eight levies personnel were killed and one levies personnel was injured on Sunday when unidentified gunnies open fired at a checkpost near Wadh tehsil on the Quetta-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... Highway.
Gunmen stormed Johar tribal police post Sunday in southwestern Pakistain.
The attack took place in Wadh area 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... 's Khuzdar district, where turbans have launched previous attacks, said Baroz Khan, a senior government official.
Officers manning the post returned fire and pushed the gunnies back toward nearby mountains, Khan said.
Reinforcements from the paramilitary Frontier Corps later reached the post, some 300 kilometers south of Quetta, the lovely provincial capital, he said.
Security and rescue teams immediately reached the site of the incident and shifted the injured to Khuzdar Civil Hospital.
Secretary Home and Tribal Affairs Balochistan, Akbar Hussain Durrani claimed that the area has been cordoned off as a search operation is underway.
No group has grabbed credit for the attack, but suspicion immediately fell on Baloch nationalist groups who have grabbed credit for such attacks in the past.
For over a decade, Balochistan has been the scene of a low-intensity insurgency by some nationalist groups demanding autonomy or a greater share from mineral and gas resources being extracted from the impoverished province.
It is also believed to be home to many Afghan Taliban members.
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[DAWN] GHALANAI/LANDI KOTAL: Eight security personnel, nine gunnies and a peace committee volunteer were killed in roadside blasts and festivities in Mohmand, Khyber and Bajaur agencies on Saturday.
Six security personnel were killed and three others injured when an bomb planted along the roadside went off in Pandyali 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... Continued on Page 49
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[DAWN] MIRAMSHAH: Security officials claimed on Saturday that five top Death Eater leaders, one of them an Uzbek national, were killed in an air assault on suspected positions in North Wazoo Agency.
Sources said the 'commanders' were eliminated in an air strike on Wednesday. The Uzbek national was identified as Abu Ahmad and the others as Qanooni, Sabir, Gilam and Jihad Yaar. Sabir was said to be a trainer of jacket wallahs.
The official claim, however, could not be verified from independent sources because the media has no access to the volatile area.
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[DAWN] The two explosions in the capital city early Saturday were described as a warning from militant outfits against the military operation in North Waziristan.
A senior police official on the condition of anonymity told Dawn that the explosions were carried out to create panic and terrorise the citizens. "It was a warning from the militants affiliated with terrorist outfits," he added.
"The terrorists wanted to warn the government to get ready for more brutal acts of terrorism in the city against the killing in North Waziristan by security forces," the official said, adding warning in such a way was never given in the past.
Besides, evidence collected from one of the blast sites showed that it was a booby trap which was never used in the capital before.
"It is difficult to defuse a booby trap as it goes off when someone touches it."
The official said the modus operandi used in carrying out the two blasts suggested that they were prepared by a same group.
One person was killed and another injured in one of the blasts.
In both the incidents, improvise explosive devices carrying low density materials weighing one to two kilogrammes were used, the police said, adding there were no pellets, ball bearings or shrapnels attached with the IED.
The bombs exploded at Super Market and G-9 Markaz at round 2:15am and 3:40am respectively.
The first blast took place in a parking area in the Super Market in which a man was killed and another injured.
The police said the watchman of a jewellery shop found an abandoned shopper in the parking lot. When the watchman touched the shopper with his foot, the device concealed inside it went off ripping his leg part.
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[DAWN] Three bullet-riddled bodies were found in an isolated area near the Malir river, close to Quaidabad, on Saturday a few hours after the police had spotted the bodies of two friends -- associated with different political parties -- lying in an abandoned Suzuki pickup in Surjani Town, officials said.
An official at the Khuldabad post of Shah Latif cop shoppe said the bodies of two young men were found at an isolated place near a farmhouse, close to the Malir river.
"Both men in their middle or late 20s were hit by multiple bullets fired from a very close range," said sub-inspector Muhammad Raza, the official in charge of the Khuldabad post of the Shah Latif cop shoppe. "They were wearing shalwar kameez. Nothing was found in their possession which could have led to their identification. The bodies have been moved to the Edhi morgue after medico-legal formalities at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for want of identification."
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[DAWN] At least four persons were maimed in a stampede in a cinema when a CNG cylinder went kaboom! here on Friday night.
A police official said that a CNG cylinder, fitted in a car of Pashto artist, Nadia Khan, parked on the cinema premises, went kaboom!, causing people, watching a show inside the building, to rush out, which resulted into injuries to four persons.
He said that two cars, belonging to artists Nadia Khan and Arbaz Khan, and some cycle of violences were damaged in the incident. He added that the injured persons, Naimat Khan, Mohammad Khaliq, Haider and Inamullah, residents of Mingora, were shifted to Saidu Sharif hospital for treatment.
The police official said that after the blast the cars caught fire, which was extinguished by fire brigade staff after an hour long struggle.
Sources said that the blast was not an act of terrorism, however, they began investigations.
Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called the chief of staff and complained that the artillery was keeping him awake... bomb disposal squad personnel on Saturday defused a mortar shell at Amankot area of Mingora city. The mortar shell was recovered from a nullah during its cleaning, which was later on defused by BDU personnel. Police sources said that the mortar shell was dropped by unknown persons, probably during the period of unrest in the area.
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Philippine troops captured an Abu Sayyaf miliant after a chase in Zamboanga del Norte on Thursday. Security forces arrested Najer Ajilol, who faces kidnapping for ransom charges. Ajijol had tried to get past a checkpoint and engaged police and soldiers in a chase and shootout in Sitio Mambong in Barangay Candiz. He was injured and taken to a hospital.
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Cut his head off, send it back to Basilan in a trash bag.
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Deadly attacks in Pattani and Narathiwat provinces on Saturday night prompted Thailand's navy to impose maximum security measures at all military installations and airports in the region. A navy patrol ship was the target of one of the attacks.
Bomb explosions and shootings happened in 15 locations in Pattani's Muang district and at least three parts of Narathiwat's Rueso district early Saturday evening. The Public Health Ministry said the attacks left three people dead and 73 injured. The Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) put the injury toll at 61.
The attacks began about 7:30 p.m., and shots were heard in some locations until almost midnight. Targets of the attacks included a gasoline station, five convenience stores, a fish market, utility poles, a mobile phone signal tower, and a navy patrol ship. The attacks caused a blackout across the entire municipality of Pattani on Saturday night.
Navy chief Narong Pipattanasai yesterday ordered the highest level of security alert at military installations and airports after Tor 229 was damaged by one of the blasts in Pattani. The patrol boat was hit by an unidentified explosive device while anchored at a pier on the Pattani River. The blast tore a large hole in the side of the vessel and slightly wounded three officers. This was the first attack on a navy vessel since the southern insurgency broke out in 2004.
ISOC spokesman Pol Banpote Poolpien tied the attacks to the political upheaval in Bangkok. But 4th Army commander Walit Rojanaphakdi dismissed any connection between the attacks and the abrupt change in leadership at the Southern Border Provinces Administration Center (SPBAC).
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But 4th Army commander Walit Rojanaphakdi dismissed any connection between the attacks and the abrupt change in leadership at the Southern Border Provinces Administration Center (SPBAC).
[An Nahar] At least 10 people were killed in a car kaboom Sunday targeting a regime-held area of the city of Homs in central Syria, the province's governor told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"Ten people were killed and 22 maimed in a car kaboom on a collective taxi stand in Zahraa," a district inhabited by Alawites, the Shiite sect of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... , said Talal al-Barazi.
Barazi had earlier reported a toll of eight, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights gave a corpse count of 12.
A second boom-mobilewent kaboom! in another district of the city, wounding three people but without causing more deaths, said Barazi.
Homs has seen some of the worst violence in Syria's more than three-year-old civil war.
For almost two years, anti-regime fighters and local residents were trapped in a suffocating army siege of the Old City in the heart of Homs.
They were evacuated earlier this month under an unprecedented deal involving a major rebel coalition and Iran, a strong backer of the regime.
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[An Nahar] Islamist holy man Omar Bakri was enjugged Please don't kill me! on Sunday in the Mount Leb region of Aley, reported the National News Agency.
It said that the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau arrested the holy man in his residence, located in al-Basateen Street, at dawn on Sunday.
The apartment is owned by a man identified as Hamad Abou Latif.
Bakri is wanted by the army and security forces for his connection to the festivities that have taken place in recent years between the neighborhoods of Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh 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... .
The army and security forces had adopted in recent months a security plan in Tripoli in order to crackdown on the various perpetrators linked to the unrest.
It resulted in the arrested of several suspects, including some of Bakri's associates.
Tensions between Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh go back decades but have been exacerbated by the war in Syria, where Alawite Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... faces Sunni rebels seeking to topple him.
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[Beirut Daily Star] A boom-mobile struck a pro-government neighborhood in the central Syrian city of Homs on Sunday, killing at least 10 people, setting cars on fire and sending thick plumes of black smoke into the sky, activists and a government official said.
The blast in the Zahra district, which is predominantly inhabited by Alawites and Christians, sent tremors through Homs, where rebels and the government have struck two cease-fire deals this month that have restored at least a semblance of peace to the shattered city. The provincial governor, Talal Barazzi, said the attack targeted such reconciliation efforts in Homs.
An official in the Homs governor's office said 10 people were killed in the kaboom Sunday and more than 40 were maimed. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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At least two people have been killed after two blasts struck a busy restaurant in downtown Djibouti, police said. The blasts at La Chaumiere restaurant, popular with Western tourists, wounded 11 other people according to Reuters news agency.
Ali Abu-Mukhammad, the Avar theologian chosen early this year to succeed Doku Umarov as Caucasus Emirate leader, has released a 40-minute video clip in which he warns that the 
[DAWN] GHALANAI/LANDI KOTAL: Eight security personnel, nine 
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[DAWN] Three bullet-riddled bodies were found in an isolated area near the Malir river, close to Quaidabad, on Saturday a few hours after the police had spotted the bodies of two friends -- associated with different political parties -- lying in an abandoned Suzuki pickup in Surjani Town, officials said.
Deadly attacks in Pattani and Narathiwat provinces on Saturday night prompted Thailand's navy to impose maximum security measures at all military installations and airports in the region. A navy patrol ship was the target of one of the attacks.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
