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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Laetitia Casta aka Léa Delmas in "La Bicyclette Bleue" aka Thérèse in "Les âmes fortes" aka The naiad in "Nymphea" aka Catherine in "Nés en 68" aka Salomé in "Visage" (age 33)
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The Sun has a slightly different version featuring armed security guards firing warning shots and a crew that sounds like they responded pretty well.
This version makes it sound like "Golden Girls Fight Somali Pirates".
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I noticed in the article that his wound did not respond to the on board antibiotics. Sepsis was the infection. Normal bacteria but could the bullets have been tainted on purpose. Just curious.
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What's with this warning shots thing? A bunch of guys in a small boat are sitting ducks for a trained marksman. If you miss, you call it a warning shot.
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could the bullets have been tainted on purpose.
No, Dale, Somalia has plenty of nasty germs without even having to do it on purpose. And the ship likely didn't carry a full arsenal of antibiotics either.
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What happened with the German towels?
Neatly folded and stacked in the proper place to one side before commencing the assault, I imagine, European Conservative. Just because a fight is in the offing is no reason for untidiness... nor to waste perfectly good towels. ;-)
[Tolo News] More than 400 Taliban fighters attacked on Afghan police checks posts in eastern Nuristan province on Tuesday, local officials said.
Gen. Shams-ur-Rahman Zahid, police chief of Nuristan province told TOLOnews that more than four hundred Taliban fighters including Paks have attacked on Wama district at 10:00 am local time and festivities still continue.
Three Afghan coppers have been maimed, two hard boyz were killed and five others were hurt in the festivities, he added.
Now that they're well on their way to half of the staff knowing their letters and numbers, is it time to add weekly range time to the training?
Mr Zahid said that they contacted the central government to help them, but the government has not yet deployed more troops to the province.
There are few NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... or Afghan soldiers in mountainous Nuristan, near the Pakistain border.
Taliban fighters have previously attacked on districts in the province and captured some of the districts for some weeks.
Taliban had warned that they would start spring offensives and target government buildings, Afghan police check posts and foreign forces in the country.
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ION DAILY TIMES.PK > TALK OR FACE BIN LADEN FATE, KABUL WARNS MILITANTS. Afghan VEEP Mohammed Khalili.
[Iran Press TV] Talibs say they have launched a missile attack on the biggest US-led military base in the troubled western Afghanistan.
According to a Taliban front man, the gun-hung tough guys shelled a military airport in Shindand town in Herat Province, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Qari Yousef Ahmadi said the attack has inflicted heavy casualties and damage on foreign troops. Taliban also claim that they have inflicted heavy casualties on Afghan troops.
The Taliban front man also claimed that an official with Afghanistan transportation ministry has been killed in the attack.
However, The essential However... Afghan military and government officials are yet to confirm the incident.
"Did they? We were washing our dainties, and didn't notice. The Afghans had a writing lesson -- it's wonderful how hard they work on that -- and they notice nothing else when they're concentrating. But I'll ask around, somebody must have noticed something."
This comes after armed Talibs targeted several government buildings and instillations in Afghan city of Kandahar. More than two dozen people were killed in the assaults.
Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. It smelled phony... beturbanned goon attacks and bomb kabooms have also killed at least three US-led soldiers in the ongoing war in the country's troubled south over the past 24 hours.
So far this year nearly 170 foreign soldiers, most of them American, have been killed in Afghanistan.
Our gratitude to them all, for stepping forward to keep us safe. How many Taliban types have been killed?
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[The Nation (Nairobi)] Five people, including three minors, are being held by anti-terror police over suspected links to the al Shabaab militia group.
Officers from the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit said the suspects were intercepted in Lamu on their to Somalia and substances used to manufacture explosives impounded.
Police accuse the five of taking part in a training to join the Somalia-based insurgency group.
The suspects, including Yemen and Syrian nationals, whose passports indicate they are businessmen, have been in the country for the last six months.
Jihadi tourists, whose main purpose is paying for the privilege of being cannon fodder.
According to a senior ATPU officer, the group has been training in two mosques in Mombasa and South Coast.
"We received information about the group and conducted an operation where we caught up with them on the Mombasa-Lamu highway," the officer said.
Among materials allegedly seized from the group include several pictures of people wearing al Shabaab outfits.
Among those incarcerated are Mr Aziz Abdulrazul a Yemen national who police say has been masquerading as a dentist and Mr Abdo Almohamad Mohamad a Syrian. The minors incarcerated are students in secondary schools in Coast.
The group was yesterday afternoon flown to Nairobi for further interrogation. According to sources, a group of youths has already left the country to Somalia to join al Shabaab.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hoedown Bob finally got to dance with Sally... the Kenya Mohammedan National Advisory Council (Kemnac) has said the recruitment of youths into al Shabaab was more widespread than thought.
Reacting to a special report on terrorism in yesterday's Daily Nation, council chairman Sheikh Juma Ngao accused some of his colleagues of politicising the issue.
Two weeks ago, Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya (CIPK) treasurer Sheikh Hassan Omar listed three mosques in Coast as responsible for the recruitment of youth to the terror group.
"If the government is to investigate the issue, it should not only focus on the mentioned mosques but trace the problem back to 2005 when Somalia's Transitional Federal Government president Sheikh Shariff Ahmed was hosted in Nairobi many times by Mombasa-based preachers," Sheikh Ngao said.
However, The journalistic equivalent of the teenager's whateverHowever... Sheikh Omar challenged anyone with evidence of any holy man's involvement in the recruitment to produce it.
"We as CIPK have never met Sheikh Shariff nor do we support the war in Somalia in any way be it in support of or against the government," he said.
Sheikh Omar added that the decision to call for government intervention was reached after the council met over 100 other holy mans and religious scholars in Mombasa to discuss the role of the mosques in the recruitment.
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[The Nation (Nairobi)] Security officials at Mogadishu airport prevented more than 40 Somali politicians from leaving the country, officials told AFP Tuesday.
"Security officials at immigration stopped us from travelling after they received a letter from the interior ministry. This was an embarrassment," one of the politicians, Awad Ahmed Asharo, told news hounds.
The politicians had been due to travel to Nairobi on Monday night to attend a workshop.
Sources said the travel ban could be connected to an ongoing row between President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and parliament speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan.
"Most of the politicians who were prevented from travelling are pro-speaker and I think the incident has links with the country's political crisis," a security official at the airport told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Divisions within Somalia's transitional institutions, which were set up in Kenya in 2004 and whose mandates were due to expire in August 2011, are growing deeper.
Both parliament and the government have unilaterally prolonged their mandates and Sharif has said this would result in an automatic extension of his term in office.
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[Emirates 24/7] More than 80 people have been killed in festivities between rebels, civilians and police in southern Sudan in the latest violence in the oil-producing region that will become independent in July, the army said on Tuesday.
Southerners overwhelmingly voted to secede in a January referendum, promised in a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war with the north fought over religion, ethnicity, ideology and oil.
Analysts warn that the underdeveloped south, roughly the size of La Belle France, could become a failed state and destabilise the whole region if security deteriorates further.
A rebel militia raided a cattle camp in Warrap state, leading to the death of 82 people including 34 civilians on Sunday, soutern army (SPLA) front man Philip Aguer told Rooters.
"We (SPLA) forced this militia out of Unity state on the 6th and 7th (of May). They crossed into Warrap state and attacked a cattle camp and killed 34 civilians and maimed 45. Later, civilians and police chased the militia into an ambush and killed 48 of them," Aguer said.
The casualty figures could not be independently confirmed but a front man for a rebel militia said fighting had been going on in the region. He said he could give no casualty figure because a different rebel group had been involved.
Clashes betwen the army and rebels or tribes have broken out in all but one of the south's ten states this year, killing more than 1,000 people, according to the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... and official figures.
Southern leaders have accused Khartoum of backing the rebels to disrupt the region and keep control of its oil.
Khartoum has dismissed the accusation, as have militia leaders who say they are rebelling against what they say is an autocratic government in the south.
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[Maghrebia] A repentant terrorist was found murdered Sunday (May 8th) in downtown Dellys, Tout sur l'Algerie reported. After his surrender under Algeria's 2005 Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation, the 35-year-old victim co-operated with security services in their anti-terror fight in the province. The incident marks the second killing of a corpse-littered Boumerdes civilian in just two days, On Friday, journalist Rabah Nezzar, 45, was slain by Orcs and similar vermin in Balarouche, a small town located between Baghlia and Oued Aissa.
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[Asia One] EGYPT'S former tourism minister Zoheir Garranah was sent to prison for five years for squandering public funds, a judicial source said on Tuesday.
A criminal court issued the prison sentence and a fine after finding Garranah guilty of handing out tourism licences illegally, the source said.
Garranah was one of many former officials investigated for corruption after the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... on Feb. 11 in a popular uprising.
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[Emirates 24/7] Jets screamed in low over Tripoli early Tuesday, carrying out a series of strikes in quick succession, after witnesses reported two others near state media offices a few hours before.
Eight kabooms were heard in the capital Tripoli as jets carried out unusually heavy bombardment over roughly three hours.
Four kabooms rocked the Libyan capital shortly after 2:00 am (0000 GMT) on Tuesday, shaking the windows of a hotel housing journalists.
They were quickly followed by two more blasts.
Late Monday, witnesses reported two kabooms in the capital as jets flew overhead, adding that smoke was rising from a site near the offices of Libyan television and state news agency JANA.
The blasts came after NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said time was running out for Libyan leader Moamer Gadhafi, who "should realise sooner rather than later that there's no future for him or his regime."
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Tightening the screws on media. That's pretty aggressive, for NATO. Curious to see how this will pan out.
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#4 Bobby that is curious. They will cling to the smallest bit of information to support their interests but attack those who appose with the smallest bit of information.
[Dawn] Egyptian authorities have placed in durance vile the "criminal mastermind" behind the sectarian violence in Cairo that killed 12 people, the cabinet said.
Muslim Brotherhooder, Salafist, or ordinary Muslim citizen taking advantage of lax law enforcement?
"The interior ministry has placed in durance vile the criminal mastermind behind the festivities between Mohammedans and Christians in Imbaba," the cabinet said on its Facebook page late on Monday, without identifying the person.
The authorities also jugged another 14 people in connection with the deadly festivities, it said, bringing the total number of arrests to 205.
Around 1,000 Copts continued a sit-in in front of the state television headquarters for a third straight day on Tuesday to protest against sectarian violence and to demand protection.
Some pitching tents, others keeping warm under blankets, the protesters have vowed not to leave until their demands are met.
Fierce festivities broke out Saturday between Christians and Mohammedans in northwest Cairo's working-class district of Imbaba which also left scores injured and a church ablaze.
Six Mohammedans and four Christians were among the 12 dead, while two bodies were not identified.
The two groups clashed after Mohammedans attacked the Coptic church of Saint Mena in Imbaba to free a Christian woman they alleged was being held against her will because she wanted to convert to Islam.
The military council governing Egypt since a popular uprising toppled president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... admitted that the latest flare-ups in the country represent a "counter-revolution" by old regime diehards aimed at sowing chaos.
Copts, who account for up to 10 percent of the country's 80 million people, complain of discrimination and have been the targets of fairly regular sectarian attacks.
Claims that Christian women who converted to Islam were kidnapped and held in churches or monasteries have soured relations between the two communities for months.
As have claims that Christian women have been kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam.
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[Emirates 24/7] Rebels fighting to oust Gadhafi drove his forces back from around the rebel-held western city Misrata and were poised to make another thrust.
After heavy festivities, the rebels controlled a stretch of coastal road west of Misrata, Libya's third city which Gadhafi's forces have laid siege to for more than two months, forcing thousands to flee.
In all, the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... said Monday that nearly 750,000 people have decamped Libya since Gadhafi's forces launched an offensive against anti-government demonstrators.
The Red Thingy meanwhile said it has delivered a shipment of humanitarian aid to Misrata amid concerns Gadhafi's forces may have dropped mines into the harbour from helicopters bearing the Red Thingy emblem.
And the International Organisation for Migration said it had growing accounts from refugees arriving in Italia indicating an overloaded boat carrying up to 600 people capsized off the Libyan coast on Friday.
On the battlefront, the rebels forced Gadhafi's troops about 15 kilometres (10 miles) from Misrata on Monday, advancing to Dafnia and ready to move on Zliten, the next major town on the road to Tripoli, an AFP correspondent said.
Ahmad Hassan, a rebel front man in Misrata, said the cut-throats had also "liberated" areas south and east of the city, killing many Gadhafi troops and seizing a large amount of weapons.
Eighteen rebels and civilians were maimed.
The report could not be immediately verified.
NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... said Monday that its warplanes hit targets and three buildings "hosting active shooters" in the vicinity of Misrata.
It also hit 26 ammunition depots and 16 "vehicle storages" near Hun, eight military vehicles near Brega, two military operational facilities near Tripoli and four ammunition dumps near Zintan.
Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... 70 representatives from 25 Libyan cities that have remained under the control of Gadhafi's regime, including Tripoli, pledged allegiance to the rebellion in Abu Dhabi on Monday.
"As we continue our support for the 17th February uprising and, in defiance of the regime's claims, we announce unequivocally our allegiance to and trust in the National Transitional Council (NTC)," they said in a statement.
Anti-regime sentiment is also alive and well only 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Tripoli in Zawiya, which has been under the control of Gadhafi's forces for the past month.
"Gadhafi is a dictator," said one Zawiya shopkeeper who spoke on condition of anonymity, adding he thought that out of the population of the town "95 per cent are against the regime."
Another shopkeeper reported that festivities between rebels and regime forces had lasted for four hours overnight between Sunday and Monday.
Because people are afraid, he said, many say they support the Gadhafi regime, but "in reality, 90 per cent are against the regime."
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...since Gadhafi's forces launched an offensive against anti-government demonstrators.
Yep, saw a few of them boyz demonstrating how to use RPG's the other day
[Iran Press TV] At least 15 people have been reportedly killed after the Yemeni government launched an Arclight airstrike against tribes near the capital city of Sana'a.
The attack took place on Tuesday after rustics tried to prevent regime forces from moving towards the south, Press TV reported.
The forces were heading to the cities of Ma'rib and Hadhramaut, as part of the government's efforts to quell opposition protests.
Earlier on Tuesday, festivities between regime forces and protesters injured at least 20 people.
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... thousands of protesters staged a rally in the western city of Hudaydah on Tuesday to call for the immediate ouster of Yemeni President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh. ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... has been in power since 1978, with several opposition members arguing that his long-promised reforms have not materialized.
Hundreds of protesters have been killed since opposition rallies began in February, according to local reports.
There are concerns that intermittent skirmishes between anti-government demonstrators and forces loyal to Saleh could eventually spiral out of control and trigger a large-scale violence.
Some 40 percent of Yemen's population lives on less than USD 2 a day, and one third is wrestling with chronic hunger.
Some 31.5 percent of the population is "food insecure," and around 12 percent are "severely food insecure," the United Nations ...an organization whose definition of human rights is interesting, to say the least... said.
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[Yemen Post] A massive demonstration was held in Yemen's province of Saada on Monday to reject dialogue, warn of manipulating the popular uprising, and condemn the crackdown on the antigovernment protests.
The demonstrations also carried banners reading: no to initiatives that never meet the demands of the people as the GCC head today said that the GCC power transition initiative was the best solution to the Yemeni crisis.
In their statement after walking in the streets, the protesters urged to bear sense of responsibility towards the challenges facing the popular uprising and also urged patience and holding on to face any desperate attempts to thwart the revolution.
"There should not more talks with the regime which is continuing killing the citizens in various provinces. The time of dialogue has gone and the peaceful revolution has started; hence the regime should respond to the voice of the people," the statement said.
The demonstration coincided with massive protests in Ibb, Dhale and Shabwa provinces in which the people called for an immediate ouster of Saleh and opening trials for him and officials in his government over crimes including the murdering of the antigovernment protesters.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed Sheikh Farid, a leader of banned Harkatul Jihad Al Islami (HuJI), Founded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on the west. on a five-day remand in a case filed for kaboom on a Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) rally in 2001.
Metropolitan Magistrate Keshab Roy Chowdhury passed the order after Inspector of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Mrinal Kanti Saha, also the Investigation Officer (IO) of the case, produced him before the court with a 10-day remand prayer.
He was produced before it on completion of his four-day remand in connection with the August 21 grenade attack case on an Awami League rally in 2004.
Farid was shown nabbed in the case on April 28 for his allege involvement with the incident.
In the remand prayer, the IO mentioned that another HuJI leader Abu Zandal in a statement given on October 10, 2010 Farid was involved with the kabooms that took place on January 20, 2001.
So, he needs to be remanded to gather name, addresses and seize evidences of the other attackers.
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ION TOPIX > [Ex-PAK Commando]ILLYAS KASHMIRI EMERGES AS DARK HORSE TO TAKEOVER FROM OSAMA BIN LADEN AS AL-QAEDA LEADER.
HMMMMM, HMMMMM, + despite AYMAN ZAWAHIRI having the backing of AQIM, AQI, + AQAP/AQIY???
I totally missed the discovery of the graves April 13th.
The four youths kidnapped allegedly by Juarez municipal police officers were laid to rest Sunday, according to Mexican press reports.
Juan Carlos Chavira, 28, Dante Castillo, 25, Raul Navarro, 29, and Felix Vizcarra, 22 were buried by members of their families after their bodies were released by Chihuahua state forensic teams following their positive identification. All but Vizcarra were employees of Nextel, who was a car salesman.
The four were found in a shallow grave near Casas Grandes, Chihuahua April 13th. They were abducted, witnesses say, by Juarez municipal police agents identified as members of Juarez's elite police Delta group. March 26th.
Reports have not detailed how the four men died.
Three Juarez police officers, Francisco Campos Dominguez, Eugenio de Los Santos and Leonardo Ivan Loya Hernandez, were ordered into preventative detention for six months a few days after the kidnapping.
Two of the three were reportedly elements of newly appointed Juarez police chief Julian Leyzaola Perez's security team.
A new law imposing a life sentence for kidnapping was passed late last year as part of Chihuahua governor Cesar Duarte's crackdown on crime in the state. For details and background on the abduction of the four youths, click here and here.
A total of 21 individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence in northern Mexican, which included four people shot to death in Guadalupe, Chihuahua.
An unidentified man was shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Saturday. The victim was riding a motorcycle near the intersection of calles 27th and Urueta when an armed suspect aboard an SUV fired on him. Several 9mm spent shell casings were found at the scene.
Four men were killed in a prison brawl in Achilles Serdan, Chihuahua Saturday. Sergio Gomez Gomez, 49, Guillermo Fontes Almanza. 34, Luis Eduardo Rivera Medina and Miguel Angel Sarduño died in what is described as an armed brawl in the Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO) near Chihuahua city. The prison just the previous Friday came under Mexican Federal control.
One unidentified woman was shot to death and another woman was shot, but is not expected to survive her wounds Mother's Day in Chihuahua, Chihuahua. The victims were were on Calle Vicente Suarez in the Division del Norte colony when an armed suspect aboard a pickup truck shot them.
Four unidentified individuals were shot to death Monday morning in Guadalupe, Chihuahua. Two of the victims were found on Calle Emiliano Zapata near Plaza de Armadas, while two others were found in a residence on calle Pablo Gomez.
A man was shot to death Tuesday in Juarez. The victim was driving his Ford Tempo with his mother and sister near the intersection of calles Fortin de la Soledad and Oaxaca in the Morelos I colony. An armed suspect shot the victim as he attempted to flee the scene. The report said the victim's father was murdered in the same manner a year go only yards from today's scene.
A man was stabbed to death and beheaded in Caborca, Sonora Monday. Juan Cruz Mendoza, 34, was stabbed just after he arrived at his residence in the ejido La Primavera. His head was found in Pino Suarez.
Three individuals were murdered in two separate events in Torreon, Coahuila, according to the Mexican news daily El Sol de la Laguna.
Antonio Duran Hernandez, 55 and Exan Fernando Romän Delgado, 24, were shot at a residence in the Nueva Aurora colony Friday night. Romän Delgado died while receiving medical attention while Durän Hernandez died at the scene. A total of 50 AK-47 and 10 9mm spent shell casings were found at he scene.
Cristian Flores Ibarra, 25, was found shot to death and beheaded near the intersection of Calzada Colon and Calle Delicias.
A Juarez funeral home employee was shot to death Tuesday. Octavio De Santiago Ramirez was at a flower shop near the intersection of Avenida de las Torres and Bulevar Zaragoza when he was shot.
Two unidentified men were shot to death in Juarez Tuesday evening. The victims were in a residence hear the intersection of calles Portal del Sauce and Manuel Pazos in the Carlos Chavira colony when they were shot by armed suspects using AK-47 assault rifles.
[Emirates 24/7] Mexican marines patrolling a lake along the border with Texas discovered a narco gang camp on an island, provoking a gunbattle that left 13 people dead, the navy said Monday.
Investigators in a different northern state reported finding 11 decapitated bodies and exhumed 22 remains from mass grave sites where they have found 179 dead people since last month.
One marine and 12 suspected gunnies of the Zetas narco mob were killed in the battle Sunday on Falcon Lake in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, the navy said in a statement.
The navy said the gunnies opened fire first when the marines discovered the camp, which the gang is believed to have used as a launching point for smuggling marijuana into Texas by speedboat. Marines seized more than 20 guns after the shootout, including several assault rifles.
Falcon Lake, a dammed section of the Rio Grande, is where US citizen David Hartley was presumably chased and bumped off by pirates Sept. 30. His body has not been found and Mexican Sherlocks have reported no leads in the case.
His wife, Tiffany Hartley, told authorities she and her husband were using personal watercraft on Falcon Lake when they were approached by pirates who shot and killed her husband. The couple, who lived in nearby McAllen, Texas, at the time, were returning to Texas after photographing a historic church on the Mexican side of the lake, Hartley said.
Mexican officials called off a search for David Hartley on Oct. 14, but the case remains open.
The search was hampered when authorities received threats, presumably from the Zetas. The Tamaulipas state police commander and chief investigator of the Hartley case, Rolando Flores, was killed while the search was under way, his decapitated head delivered in a suitcase to a local Mexican army post.
Mexican authorities say they don't know whether Flores' killing was related to the Hartley case because he had been in charge of several investigations.
The Zetas are locked in a fierce turf battle with the Gulf cartel that has turned much of Tamaulipas state into a virtual war zone. Last month, security forces discovered more than 40 clandestine graves containing 183 bodies. Many of the victims had apparently been pulled off passenger buses by Zetas gunnies trying to recruit them.
A similar discovery was made last month in the northern state of Durango, another narco mob battleground. Soldiers unearthed 22 more bodies -- among them three women and 14 men -- from mass graves in the capital of Durango city over the weekend, bringing the rapidly mounting toll to 179, according to statements Monday from the Durango state attorney general's office.
The Mexican army will continue excavating at a mass grave site Tuesday.
President Felipe Calderon's security front man, Alejandro Poire, said Monday that "the finds were a result of a capture made by federal forces."
Poire said investigations into the mass grave sites revealed that the motives of the Durango killings were different than in Tamaulipas, but he did not explain or give any specifics.
Besides mass grave sites, there is public display of drug violence in the vast, mountainous state. The decapitated bodies of 11 men were found Monday in two places in Durango, the state attorney general's office said.
Agents first discovered six decapitated men across from a middle school in the capital, which is also named Durango. Investigators then found five decapitated men on a highway that connects Durango to the Pacific resort of Mazatlan. The heads lay next to the bodies.
The attorney general's office has not identified the bodies or the motives for the killings.
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[ITAR/Tass] The special operation in Nalchik in which four gunnies were destroyed, helped prevent a series of terrorist attacks at transport facilities, a representative of the information center of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAK) told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.
The NAK said a bomb-making laboratory had been found in the apartment where beturbanned goons had holed up, as well as a Nalchik map with designated transport facilities they apparently intended to hit.
Four gunnies were killed in the operation. Reports said Astemir Mamishev, 22, was among the destroyed krazed killers. He had been wanted for the murders of Kabardino-Balkaria's Mohammedan department leader Anas Pshikhachev in December 2010, three KB residents, who were healers in November 2010 - January 20111, personnel of the Federal Penitentiary System and the republic's Interior Ministry - in November 2010, the commercial director of Elbrus Region CableWays, attempted murders of law-enforcement officers, arson of the Sahara recreation center in Nalchik, and setting off a homemade bomb in November 2010, in which civilians were maimed and the spreading of Death Eater leaflets," the NAK representative said.
The second krazed killer was identified as Ruslan Fedyanovich, a gunman suspected of involvement in five serious crimes.
"During debris-clearing, police found one assault rifle, three pistols, several grenades and a lab that was used to produced homemade bombs. One bomb massing up to eight kilograms was primed and ready for use. There was a considerable amount of parts for homemade bombs and activation mechanisms," according to the NAK.
The police have not sustained any casualties during the operation, it added.
The NAK underlined that "thanks to well-coordinated actions by agents of the Federal Security Service ... the successor to the KGB... and police, it was possible to not only neutralized the hardened bandidos, but also prevent the new acts of terror and attacks they had been planning."
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[Asia One] A SUICIDE bomber killed one policeman and maimed another in an attack in Russia's volatile North Caucasus where security forces also killed at least three thugs, officials said on Tuesday.
The bomber went kaboom!" during a routine document check in the city of Makhachkala in Dagestan, said a front man for the regional police.
"They came up to check his documents and he detonated the explosives," the front man told AFP.
The attack took place near a restaurant and local police headquarters in the regional centre Makhachkala in Dagestan, which has experienced some of the deadliest violence in Russia's mostly Mohammedan southern periphery, the front man added, declining to provide further details.
In a separate incident, police and FSB security services clashed with gunnies in the nearby region of Kabardino-Balkaria killing at least three of them, regional Sherlocks said.
The thugs, who were holed up in a residental building in the regional centre Nalchik, opened fire on authorities after they were ordered to lay down arms, the Sherlocks said in a statement.
The National Anti-Terror Committee said residents of the high rise had to be evacuated for the duration of the special operation and no-one was hurt.
Attacks on officials in Kabardino-Balkaria, which is famed for its ski resorts, have been recently on the rise as the Caucasus violence spreads beyond the hotbed of the unrest in Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia.
Last December, Anas Pshikhachev, Kabardino-Balkaria's top mufti, was attacked by two assailants near Nalchik and died of his wounds on the spot.
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[Ennahar] French police conducted an operation Tuesday in Islamist circles, arresting seven people in the Gay Paree region, including an Indian, suspected of having been in combat zones on the borders of Afghanistan and Pakistain or have considered doing so.
The "primary target" is the Indian national intercepted when he had just arrived from Algeria, and described by a source close to the investigation as having "links with Pakistain." The nature of these links has not been specified.
The six other arrests have taken place in Gay Paree in particular, Stains and Garges-les-Gonesse, in suburban north-east and north of the capital.
These seven people should be interviewed in police custody that can be extended to four days, according to terrorism.
According to sources familiar with the matter, this dragnet is related to an investigation into jihadist, following the arrest of two Frenchies in Pakistain in January. Some placed in durance vile are suspected of having made trips to the Pakistain-Afghanistan area.
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described by a source close to the investigation as having "links with Pakistain."
Hmmm, Navy SEALs just carried off a big pile of jihadi data from Pakistain. Coincidence? I have heard the French security services can be ruthlessly efficient.
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Wehell, the UK'S WEAK ECONOMY + SCOTTISH SEPARATISM + IRELAND'S WORSENING DEBT CRISIS = FRANCE IS THE PROVERBIAL "LINE IN THE SAND" IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL FOR EURO-DEFENSE AGZ RADICAL ISLAM'S JIHAD-TERROR.
[Arab News] A German-Syrian dual national who has admitted belonging to Al-Qaeda has been convicted of membership in a terrorist group and given a prison sentence of four years and nine months. The Frankfurt state court also found Monday that Rami Makanesi trained at an Al-Qaeda paramilitary camp in Pakistain's lawless border region.
Judge Thomas Sagebiel said the defendant cooperated fully with Sherlocks - opening the way for a plea deal under which prosecutors and the defense agreed to a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
The 25-year-old was nabbed in Pakistain in June 2010. He was extradited two months later. Prosecutors said Makanesi was planning to return to Germany to raise funds for Al-Qaeda and also be in place for terrorist operations if needed.
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[Dawn] An kaboom outside the district court in northwest Pakistain on Tuesday killed a female police constable and at least one other person, an official said.
The constable and a civilian were killed and several others were maimed in the morning blast, southeast of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, said Liaqat Ali Khan, a regional police chief.
Preliminary reports indicate that a homemade bomb was planted at a police checkpoint situated at an entrance to the court where women are scanned and searched.
Khan said he suspected that Death Eaters targeted the court.
"It's definitely a terrorist attack and they chose the court because many of their accomplices are brought here to be convicted," Khan said.
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[Emirates 24/7] A US drone strike targeting a vehicle killed four bully boyz in Pakistain's tribal belt on Tuesday, local officials said, the second such operation since the killing of the late Osama bin Laden. ... who is currently taking a long nap in the dirt... urm... water...
A security official said the drones fired two missiles into South Wazoo, one of seven districts in Pakistain's semi-autonomous tribal belt on the Afghan border that Washington has called an Al-Qaeda headquarters.
Another official said the missiles fell near Angoor Adda village.
"Two missiles were fired on a vehicle at about 4:15 pm (1115 GMT) and four bully boyz were killed," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The identity of the bully boyz was not immediately known.
On Monday, hundreds of Taliban rallied in Wana, the main town of South Waziristan, vowing to avenge bin Laden's death after US Navy SEALs shot him dead last week in the Pak town of Abbottabad near Islamabad.
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Eight suspects have been arrested in connection with Saturday's bomb attack at a football match in Pattani province which killed four policemen and injured 13 others.
A combined security force yesterday raided four locations in Narathiwat province and detained the eight suspects and seized five motorcycles which had been modified, apparantly for use in the bomb attack.
Three of the suspects were identified as aides of Marozo Chantharawadi, a key figure of the Runda Kumpulan Kecil insurgent group.
The arrested suspects were Zulkifli Jide, 25, Marozo's driver, and Mahamad-amin Sadara, 53, an informant to Marozo. The other person was Azae Piya, 39, who worked as a food delivery man for Mr Marozo.
On Saturday, an bomb exploded during a football match between local police officers as the players walked on to the field. Four officers were killed instantly and 13 others injured.
In Yala province, two policemen and two civilians were wounded in a double bomb attack at a roadside stand.
The second explosion went off at 11:05 a.m. yesterday while a police team inspected an area near an earlier explosion reported at about 10 a.m. The first explosion occurred about 200 meters away from the pavilion where the second bomb was set off.
[Straits Times] PHILIPPINE police have dug up two bodies while investigating other alleged murders by members of a powerful clan being tried for the country's worst political massacre, the justice secretary said on Tuesday.
Good lord, they're digging up bodies all over the world this week. Mexico, Uganda, now the Philippines... what's going on?
Leila de Lima said the bodies might be those of missing supporters of a rival politician, who vanished in 2003 in Maguindanao, a poor southern province that the clan controlled for a decade.
'One of the skeletal remains was placed inside a sack and the body was apparently chopped, while the other one was outside the sack,' Ms de Lima told news hounds.
Clan patriarch Andal Ampatuan Snr, his son and namesake, and four other relatives have been tossed in the calaboose and charged with murder over the November 23 2009 massacre of 57 people, 32 of whom were journalists.
An informant led police to a secret gravesite where the two bodies were found on a Maguindanao hillock last weekend, Ms de Lima said.
The Ampatuans ruled Maguindanao province for a decade under the patronage of former president Gloria Arroyo, who rights monitors said allowed the clan to run a large private army as a proxy force against Mohammedan rebels.
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[Al Jazeera] The European Union has placed sanctions on 13 Syrian officials, including President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... brother and a wealthy and influential cousin, as the government continued its violent crackdown on protests and reportedly sent tanks into towns near the flashpoint city of Deraa.
The package of sanctions, announced on Tuesday, is aimed at pressuring Assad to halt violence against anti-government demonstrations that broke out in March. It targets various heads of security and intelligence agencies in the country and includes asset freezes, travel bans, and an arms embargo.
Maher al-Assad, the president's brother, commands the Republican Guard and is considered the second most powerful man in the country. The EU sanctions described him as the "principal overseer of violence against demonstrators."
EU governments decided not to target President Assad himself, and diplomats said punitive measures would be introduced gradually.
But Assad, who is grappling with the most serious challenge to his 11-year rule, could face EU sanctions soon, they said.
The failure to put him on the list underlined splits within the union over the effectiveness of such actions. Sources said Germany and Spain opposed adding the president, overriding strong support from La Belle France and others.
Rami Makhlouf, the president's cousin and the owner of Syria's largest mobile phone company, Syriatel, was also placed on the sanctions list. Makhlouf also owns several large construction and oil firms.
Makhlouf "bankrolls the regime, allowing violence against demonstrators," the EU's official journal said. The United States placed him under sanctions in 2008 due to corruption allegations.
The EU sanctions also target Mohammad Ibrahim Al-Chaar, the interior minister, Ali Mamlouk, the head of the General Intelligence Service, and Abd al-Fatah Qudsiyeh, who runs military intelligence.
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[Asia One] SYRIAN activists called countrywide protests on Tuesday in solidarity with thousands of anti-regime activists rounded up by the security forces, setting the scene for another round of bloody festivities.
The call by the Syrian Revolution 2011, an Internet-based opposition group, comes as the European Union listed the younger brother of President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... among 13 Syrian officials facing sanctions for their involvement in violently repressing pro-democracy demonstrations that first erupted March 15.
"Demonstrations will continue every day," said the Syrian Revolution 2011 Facebook page, which has been a motor of the protests.
It called for "a Tuesday of solidarity with prisoners of conscience held in the jails of the criminal Syrian regime."
Street demonstrations are persistently dispersed with violence by the security forces, who also make mass arrests, according to rights activists, who say more than 600 people have been killed and 8,000 incarcerated or gone missing in the eight-week crackdown.
In the latest security force bid to crush the anti-regime protest movement, troops went house to house in the coastal city of Banias on Monday, rounding up thousands of men, activists said.
Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said water, electricity and telephone lines were cut off in Banias, on Syria's northwest Mediterranean coast.
"Thousands of men, including youths, have been rounded up by the army and security forces... to be interrogated and they are being beaten. More than 400 are still being held," he said.
Abdul Rahman told AFP "residents hoped that the army would arrest regime supporters who have terrorised Banias but instead the army nabbed unarmed residents."
Among those jugged were protest leaders and doctors at a hospital which was encircled by the military, according to the Syrian Observatory.
Several protesters were also nabbed Monday night in the city centre of Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... where some 200 rallied calling for "lifting the siege" imposed on several cities and "an end to the shootings," the Syrian Observatory said.
The military said six soldiers, including three officers, were killed in festivities Sunday as the army pursued "armed terrorist groups" in Banias, Homs and the countryside around the southern town of Daraa - three protest hubs.
Tanks rumbled into several districts of the central industrial city of Homs and deployed along the corniche in Banias overnight Saturday-Sunday, activists sa id. "Banias is cut off from the outside world," one activist said.
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As per TOPIX, HEZBOLLAH LEADER NASRALLAH has repor claimed that Iran's Supreme Leader that AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI has declared the anti-ASSAD protestors in Syria to be "ENEMIES OF GOD" which allows or mandates both the IRGC + Hezbollah to oppose = defeat them by any means neccasry includ ARMED OR VIOLENT COMBAT???
IIUC ARTIC = KHAMENEI has indir approved UNILATERAL IRANIAN ARMED INTERVENTION IN SYRIA???
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