Violence in Mexico has been on the rise in recent months as fragmented criminal organizations clash around the country, competing with Mexican authorities and one another for control of illegal enterprises.
Data released by the Mexican government reveals that homicides, perhaps the most visible aspect of the country's violence, reached an ugly milestone in July.
The 2,073 killings recorded that month were the most of any month since the President Enrique Peña Nieto entered office in December 2012, and it was the first time the country exceeded 2,000 homicides in a month since August 2011.
2011 was the bloodiest year in the six-year term of Felipe Calderon, Peña Nieto's predecessor who launched a heavily militarized crackdown on narco mobs and criminal organizations throughout the country.
The previous high in monthly homicides registered under Peña Nieto was 1,895, recorded in May.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed that the leader of ISIS-affiliated 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... , Abubakar Shekau ... the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fire by the Caliph and refused to step down ... , was injured in an Arclight airstrike conducted by the country’s airforce.
"We learned that in an Arclight airstrike by the Nigeria air force he was maimed," Buhari said in a statement on Sunday from the Kenyan capital Nairobi, where he is attending a development conference.
He also went on to claim that the Lions of Islam were in a bad position.
"Indeed their top hierarchy and lower cadre have a problem," Buhari said, adding, "They are not holding any territory and they have split into small groups attacking soft targets."
Last week Nigeria’s military said Shekau was maimed in an Arclight airstrike but released no further evidence or statement on his condition.
PressTV reported that according to ISIS-linked media, Abu Musab al-Barnawi, a former front man for Boko Haram, has replaced Shekau, who had been in charge since 2009. It was not clear why the change has taken place.
Shekau later released an audio message saying, "People should know we are still around," apparently defying ISIS and the decision to oust him.
Barnawi claimed his group remains "a force to be reckoned with," adding that the fight would go on against West African countries.
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[ ] Dead
[ ] Mostly dead
[ [ Dead last week
[ ] Dead next week
[x] An unexpected e-mail from Nigeria arrives....
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemen’s Houthi-run governing council said on Sunday it was ready to restart peace talks with the country’s exiled government provided a Saudi-led coalition stopped attacking and besieging Houthi-held territories.
UN-sponsored negotiations to end 18 months of fighting in the impoverished country on 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... ’s southern border collapsed earlier this month and the dominant Iran-allied Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... movement there resumed shelling attacks into the kingdom.
At its weekly meeting at Sanaa’s presidential palace, the council said that its willingness to restart peace talks was contingent on the "total cessation of the aggression and lifting of the unjust siege on the Yemeni people."
In talks in Jeddah this week, US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said the conflict had gone on too long and needed to end.
He said the Iran-backed Houthi militia group must cease shelling across the border with Saudi Arabia, pull back from the capital Sanaa, cede their weapons and enter into a unity government with their domestic foes.
Yemen’s internationally recognized government, based in Saudi Arabia, has made similar demands but insisted that the Houthis fulfill all those measures before any new government was formed. However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... Kerry suggested they could move ahead in parallel.
The exiled government suggested in a statement carried by the Saba news agency that it was prepared to consider the ideas outlined by Kerry.
It said: "The government is prepared to deal positively with any peaceful solutions ... including an initial welcoming of the ideas resulting from the meeting in Jeddah that included the foreign secretaries of the US, the United Kingdom and Gulf states."
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"Hudna! Re-Arm!"
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Al Arabiya News English, Dubai
Saturday, 27 August 2016
The Houthis militias in Yemen have refused to surrender their ballistic missiles in an implicit rejection of the initiative put forward by US Secretary of State, John Kerry, two days ago in Jeddah, according to Anatolia news agency.
According to the statement, the Houthis pledged to carry on with the will to fight, and to retain the necessary capacity and capabilities as he promised to redouble his efforts at all levels in order to achieve that.
Kerry's initiative called to form a national unity government with the participation of the militias, their withdrawal from Sanaa, and handing their heavy weapons. The Houthis did not comment on Kerry’s initiative.
This includes weapons and ballistic missiles, which he described Kerry's threat to Saudi Arabia and the region as well as the United States.
Houthi attempt to lay Taiz under siege
The Yemeni army has made a series of advances with the assistance of the UN-backed Saudi-led coalition forces, army spokesman Brigadier General Samir Haj has said.
But he added that Houthi militias had launched a strong attack on Mount Han off the western entrance to Taiz in an attempt to regain control.
He said Houthi militias and the ousted Ali Saleh were deploying more heavy weaponry around Taiz province in an attempt to lay the city under siege.
In recent days, government forces in Yemen’s third largest city unleashed a major military offensive to push rebel forces out of Taiz and put an end to the more than a year of siege which has brought its occupants to the brink of starvation.
The mountain is located in the western entrance of the city that overlooks a vital road that links it to the port city of Aden.
Earlier this year in March, residents enjoyed a brief respite from the Al Houthi-imposed siege when government forces liberated the western side of the city and opened up the road to Aden.
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The Houthis militias in Yemen have refused to surrender their ballistic missiles in an implicit rejection of the initiative put forward by US Secretary of State, John Kerry, two days ago in Jeddah, according to Anatolia news agency.
This Putz gets slapped around by everyone from Putin to Houthis. I'm beginning to think he likes it
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[Dhaka Tribune] A case has been filed with Narayanganj Sadar Model cop shoppe on Sunday over killing of three snuffies in Narayanganj raid yesterday.
Officer-in-charge of the cop shoppe Asaduzzaman filed the case under Anti Terrorism Act 2009 as amended in 2013 accusing deceased Lion of Islam Tamim Chowdhury and two unidentified Lion of Islams, including several other unidentified persons, said Faruk Hossain, additional police super of the District Special Branch.
Two other killed snuffies will be included in the case as identified accused after the Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit discloses their identities.
Earlier, Narayanganj District Police Super Moinul Haque said landlord Nur Uddin Dewan was shown locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! for not providing the police with the tenants’s information.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Police have identified Jessore native Kazi Fazle Rabbi and Dhaka's Dhanmondi resident Tausif Hossain as the two bully boyz who were killed along with suspected Gulshan attack criminal mastermind Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury during Saturday's raid in Narayanganj.
The chief of DMP’s Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit, Monirul Islam, confirmed the names to the Dhaka Tribune.
"We found a national identity card in Rabbi’s pocket that helped us in identifying him," Monirul said.
"Jessore police had made an anti-militancy poster that contained the pictures and names of some bully boyz from the district. His [Rabbi’s] name is also there in the poster.
"We think the other myrmidon is Nibras Islam’s friend Tausif Hossain, but we are not a hundred percent sure," the CTTC unit chief said.
On the other hand, one of the doctors who carried out autopsies on the three myrmidons, said all of them had bullet wounds on their heads and bodies.
Dr Sohel Mahmud, an assistant professor at the forensic department of Dhaka Medical College, said a three-member team carried out the post-mortem examination of the men who were still unidentified to them.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... the person who the media identified as Tamim had a single bullet wound to the head, he said.
The other two men also had bullet exit wounds to their heads and bodies, as well as having bomb splinters embedded in their bodies, Dr Mahmud said.
Blood, hair and tissue samples from the myrmidons’ bodies have been sent to a chemical laboratory in Mohakhali, he added.
The other two members of the autopsy board were Dr Prodip Bishwas and Dr Kabir Chowdhury.
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"We found a national identity card in Rabbi’s pocket that helped us in identifying him," Monirul said.
[Dhaka Tribune] A family has identified one of the bully boyz killed in Narayanganj raid as their son Kazi Fazle Rabbi.
Kazi Habibullah, a retired principal of a school in Jessore, identified his son Rabbi on Sunday morning.
He said: "I know my son was killed yesterday [Saturday]. You can report about it, I have no problem but why isn’t the government catching those who made my son bad boy?"
Regarding Rabbi’s body, he said: "I will obviously collect my son’s body."
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ok i will bite!!!
It was the Juice all along!!!! They have wicked holy mans!!!!
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[Dhaka Tribune] Tausif Hossain, one of the holy warriors killed in Saturday’s Narayanganj raid, had a quite privileged background, just like some other holy warriors so far killed in Gulshan siege, Kallyanpur raid and from the RAB’s suspect list.
"He was very quiet, polite boy and I’ve never seen him misbehaving with anyone. I’ve neither seen him hanging out with anyone nor anyone from the similar age-group ever visited him," that’s how Nannu Miah, a caretaker of the apartment building where Tausif’s family lives in Dhaka’s upscale Dhanmondi area, describes the dead krazed killer to the Dhaka Tribune.
Tausif, according to Nannu, had gone missing since February. Confirming the timeline. Nur-e-Azam Mia, officer-in-charge of the Dhanmondi Model cop shoppe, told the Dhaka Tribune that Tausif’s father Dr Ajmal Hossain filed a general diary (GD) with the cop shoppe on February 5, two days after his lone son had gone missing.
During the drive, police found two binoculars, few jihadi books and other essentials at the Narayanganj house Dhaka Tribune/Collected
During the drive, police found two binoculars, few jihadi books and other essentials at the Narayanganj house Dhaka Tribune/Collected
Connected with Gulshan, Sholakia, and Kallyanpur krazed killers?
The Holey Artisan attackers ‐ Nibras Islam, Rohan Imtiaz, and Meer Saameh Mubasser; Sholakia attacker Abeer Rahman; and Shazad Rouf Arko, the krazed killer who was killed during Kallyanpur raid last month went missing around the same time.
Like Nibras Islam, one of the five young attackers who was killed after a 12-hour siege on July 2 at the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka’s Gulshan area, Tausif had also attended the Kuala Lumpur campus of Australia’s prestigious Monash University, the head of the Dhaka police counter-terrorism unit Monirul Islam informed news hounds on Sunday morning.
Quoting Malaysian police, Rooters reported last month that at least two of the holy warriors behind the posh eatery attack had attended Monash, although they did not name them. The holy warriors singled out non-Moslems and foreigners in the attack, killing Italians, Japanese, an American and an Indian.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... Tausif’s name was not quite unfamiliar to the law enforcement agencies even before the RAB list had surfaced. Back in February, one 23-year-old Ahmed Shammur Raihan, jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! by Shahbagh police in connection with a case for allegedly being involved in subversive activities, named Tausif as one of his known associates.
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[Dhaka Tribune] One of the turbans killed during Saturday’s Narayanganj raid, Tausif Hossain, was friends with one of the Gulshan attackers, Nibras Islam, and both men bravely ran away from home on the same day ‐ February 3 this year, police confirm.
Tausif, who completed his O Level and A Level from Maple Leaf International School, was reportedly a student at a Malaysian university, similar to Nibras.
The last time Tausif spoke to his parents at their Dhanmondi home, he told them that he was going out for lunch with his friends including Nibras, said Dhanmondi cop shoppe Officer-in-Charge Nur-e-Azam Mia.
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[Dhaka Tribune] The Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty handed down to a member of banned murderous Moslem outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) for carrying out a suicide kaboom that killed two judges in Jhalakathi in 2005.
A five-member Appellate Division panel headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha gave the verdict, rejecting the review plea filed by Asadul Islam on Sunday morning.
Senior assistant judges Jagannath Pandey and Sohel Ahmed were killed in the suicide kaboom on November 14, 2005.
The Appellate Division had upheld death sentence of seven JMB leaders, including its chief Abdur Rahman, second-in-command Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai and Asadul, in the case.
The death sentences of all the turbans but Asadul were executed in 2007. Asadul was jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! the same year and has remained in jail. He filed the review petition against the apex court verdict this year.
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That woman is frog-in-a-box mental.
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her counterpart here merely awaits her coronation
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Germany is like Germany because it is filled with Germans, or more precisely, people with German culture.
The Arab world is a mess because it is filled with Arabs, again more precisely, people with Arab culture.
In the best case, adding more Arab culture will make Germany more like the Arab world, an outcome that, to my narrow prejudiced mind, hardly seems desirable.
In the worst case, the two incompatible cultures will react exothermically and give you all the things you see in the news and more This seems even less desirable. I am puzzled why the Germans would do this.
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I just had a thought: maybe Merkel is a secret national socialist --- because importing Muslims is, IMO, the surest way to restore German sentiment for the Reich?
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I thought 1939-45 taught a good number of Germans to ditch the blind obedience to orders by higher authorities trait. She better get a clue before someone calls Claus von Stauffenberg to the courtesy phone.
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Refuse Muslims and expel those who are already in your midst, or perish. That is your choice.
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One wonders. In her youth Merkel joined the German Democratic Republic's Free German Youth (FDJ). Following university, at the Academy of Sciences she was a member of the FDJ district board and secretary for "Agitprop." Merkel herself has claimed she was their Secretary for Culture. Following the unification of Germany, and through a series of fortuitous events she acheived her present status. Like I say, one wonders.
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Seems elections are no longer about the populace choosing their leaders, but rather the other way around. Now, it's how the leaders choose a new populace.
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If they couldn't get along with Jews how the hell are they gonna get along with Arabs?
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We can't refuse them, otherwise we'd look like Trump!
- Frau Merkel
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Merkel baffles me. The fact that she hasn't been tossed on her ear baffles me even more. I was married to a German for a decade and I know they are filled with guilt but this is suicidal levels that will lead to the end of Germany or another genocide as the crazy nationalists gain control in response to the suicide.
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We're no better here. As a society we can't call Islamaniacs out for what they are. We are all going to politely die if we don't get the guts to speak up about the basics of behavior, and what ideologies tend to adhere to those basics and which ones don't.
[RFE/RL] Turkey has extradited five Macedonians for attempting to join Daesh.
Macedonia's Interior Ministry said on August 27 that the five were nabbed by Turkish police, in collaboration with their Macedonian counterparts, two weeks ago in Istanbul. The five were aged between 18 and 24 years old.
The ministry said several other people were also captured in the raid in Istanbul. It added that those who were extradited were charged by Macedonian authorities and remain in custody.
Over the past year, Macedonia has sentenced 11 people attempting to join Daesh and has charged seven others.
Macedonian authorities said 25 of its citizens have been killed fighting with Daesh militants in Syria or Iraq and estimate that another 50 are still fighting there.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Erdogan has sworn at the "Unity, Solidarity, and Brotherhood" rally held in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s southeastern Gaziantep province on Sunday that he will eradicate all forms of terrorism from its border with Syria. He was referring to ISIS and the Kurdish YPG who are aligned with the Kurdistan Workers Party of Turkey that Ankara recognises as a terrorist group.
He continued that Turkey is "ready and determined" to rid the borders of gunnies and that "our operations against terrorist organizations will continue until the end."
"If necessary, we will not hesitate to take responsibility in other regions," without specifying which regions.
Although Turkey’s Euphrates Shield operation is only meant to extend on the western side of the Euphrates river, Kurdish sources have suggest that Ankara is preparing to attack Kobani on the east side of the river.
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even Erdogan's fan boys will start losing faith in him after he keeps making these kinds of 'final victory' statements and terrorism in Turkey keeps happening
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Since Turkey itself, being a Muslim country, is full of potential terrorists...
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History might point to Turkey as a festering pustule of malignant ooze. The specifics of the malignancy are at long-last being recognized. The 'Sick Man' yes, but not of Europe.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said he was pressing members of the UN Security Council, including Russia, to condemn the Syrian regime following a report that found Syrian government troops used chemical weapons.
"I see no reason that could be given, or any arguments that could be made, for not condemning the use of chemical weapons," he said, when asked if Russia would support the resolution.
A joint investigation by the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... and the global chemical weapons watchdog OPCW found that Syrian government troops were responsible for two toxic gas attacks and ISIS turbans used sulfur mustard gas.
The inquiry found there was sufficient information to conclude that Syrian Arab Air Force helicopters dropped devices that then released toxic substances in Talmenes on April 21, 2014 and Sarmin on March 16, 2015, both in Idlib province. Both cases involved the use of chlorine.
On Saturday, Ayrault said the UN report represented a chance to push Russia to accept a resolution condemning the Syrian regime and resume political negotiations.
Russia said on Thursday it was prepared to work with the United States on a response to the UN report.
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"Be careful what you say. Be careful what you wear. Be careful what you believe.
In an era when truth is becoming treason, it is unlikely to surprise anyone to learn that the Obama administration is pushing to crack down on complaints of racism, sexism, and belief of traditional gender roles.
Earlier this month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) pursued a workplace complaint filed by one employee claiming that another employee wearing a cap displaying the Gadsden Flag ("Don't Tread On Me") was creating a 'hostile work environment.'
As reported by Eugene Volokh in the Washington Post, a man filed a formal complaint with the EEOC in January of this year alleging that a co-worker's wearing of a cap with a Gadsden Flag "subjected him to discrimination on the basis of race (African American).'
The unnamed complainant reported that 'he found the cap to be racially offensive to African Americans because the flag was designed by Christopher Gadsden, a 'slave trader & owner of slaves.'"
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There will be no slow motion or still life of Uncle Sam strolling through DC in a Red, White and Blue liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving for just the proper occasion.
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You will have to begin by removing control of immigration from Latinos. Only them are allowed to immigrate, legally or not...Euros and canadians are watched like by eagles, despite bringing billions...be late a week and they are jailed then barred for life while tens of millions of illegal mexicans are drawing welfare checks their whole life!
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemen’s Houthi-run governing council said on Sunday it was ready to restart peace talks with the country’s exiled government provided a Saudi-led coalition stopped attacking and besieging Houthi-held territories.
[Dhaka Tribune] A family has identified one of the 
[Dhaka Tribune] Tausif Hossain, one of the 
[Dhaka Tribune] One of the 
[ALMASDARNEWS] Erdogan has sworn at the "Unity, Solidarity, and Brotherhood" rally held in 
"Be careful what you say. Be careful what you wear. Be careful what you believe.
